I am an ordinary person with no amazing dreams nor goals. I live to live and for no other reason. I was put onto this earth at the year of 1993, the day of September 20th, on the exact time of 3:33 am, i am of a mere 17 nothing to be feared. I am left handed in every way possible. I write, i cut, i slice, and i read left to right. I also pitch left handed which i am quite good at now a day. Im always seem to be slightly taller then everyone else and look out of place with my odd silver colored hair. Not very muscular but atleast not fat with a small face with no imperfections... that i know of. Well this is all i can say about me I need to tell you what happened that faithful day of December 18th 2009.
For the time being you may call me Odd Thomas as everyone else does, the name is also my favorite charachtor when i was a child. Of course he was from that list of books i wasn't supposed to read but that made all the more thrilling. Well March 18th. Its a very simple story and me not being a writer you cant expect much of me.
It was a sunny day, very hot for our little island in the middle of the Pacific. I woke up to a bright sun shining in from a window that i dont remember leaving open. It shone down on the bedside table where nothing stood but a lamp an alarm clock, and strangely enough, a piece of dark blue, almost black paper, folded into a small square tucked into itself as to be a perfect square, and stay a perfect square. I had not remembered seeing it there before, nor did i ever let anyone into my room, ever. Slowly almost as if by moving i would set off a bomb i sat up on the bed and picked up the small square. Upon feeling the paper it felt like silk. Smooth to the touch not a blemish anywhere on its soft surface. I was slightly suspicious that a paper of that material could just find its way here on its own without any help. So, slowly i opened it and read.
Dear Mr.X,
I am here forth inviting you to the parable which is to be told. The date is today at 5:00 pm in your closet. We oh so dearly hope that you will be able to come.
~Cheshire Child
That was all it said. A simple invitation with a place and time. I was curious though about what it meant when it said my closet. I couldn't help but sneak a peak into it. There was nothing there but a few empty hangers and the few suits i do own. The time on the clock said 9:00 am so i went into the living room and sat down on the couch flipping on the tv. He didn't have to work today so he could do what he wanted until 5:00 pm where he would look into the closet again.
I awoke suddenly an alarm blaring off from... somewhere. He stood up and was staggering around the room not knowing where he was going. Eyes shut face pinched he walked slowly, drunkenly into his room without knowing it. Thats when the loud noise stopped. He held my face down for a few more seconds then he looked up. He was standing in front of the closet looking at the door. I The watch said 5:00 pm exactly. The door opened upon my touch slowly creaking its way apart. There, where everything else was there was now a staircase leading to nowhere but down, so i went down.
The only light illuminating were torches running down the stairs lighting small orbs of light leaving me in small specks of darkness as i went down farther. A loud clink was the only thing heard my feet falling down hard on the steps.
The bottom of the stairs led to a bright white room. I was attacked by the white streaming light that seamed to bounce off the glowing walls. Inside the room there was about 9 other people there and when I spun around there was 10 staircases leading into the room with one of the four walls a completely blank wall.. I walked up to the first person i saw and tapped her on the shoulder. "Hello, um what is this?" i asked questioningly. She just shrugged her shoulder looking me over up and down. I was an odd specatacle to anyone, with my silver hair and red eyes the seemed to move at every switch of light. Thats when it happened.
A blinding light forced upon the earth from an uncanny place somewhere in the universe. Screams erupted from every which way possible. A scream like an animal in pain, dying, breathing its last breath. A scream lasting longer then any possible lungs should be able to produce. I was down on my knees his mind invaded by visions of blood and pain forced onto him from nowhere.
The light and screams finally ended in a soft and slow way. Fading away slowly. When I opened my eyes i almost screamed out in horror. In front of me where 9 dead bodies. Eyes black almost bulging out. Under their sockets blood flowed down like rivers falling down to their chins dripping onto there chests. In front of him was the girl he had talked to. Her hair was short only falling to her shoulders. Her eyes were an unusual purple color contrasting with her brown skin looking almost like chocolate. She wore a simple shirt and jeans with a blue rain drop necklace around her neck. A simple person alike all.
When i looked up all the other bodies were the same. But when I stood up there was no more stairs except the one behind me of which i came and the one in front where there was simply a blank wall. When i looked back down there was no more bodies on the ground. Just simply a square of glowing red fabric. When i picked it up and unfolded it i read it aloud the silence in the room slightly scaring me
Dear Mr.X,
Congratulations you have been chosen, your choices are to step forward and take a path that sane men have gone in and come out insane. You also have the choice to go back the way that you have come, but be warned, we will have to go through this process again and every time there is not always a person to come out alive. So if you say no at least 9 more people will die and it will be on you. But of course it is your choice for you to decide not I.
~Cheshire Child
That was the choice i was left with. The name still hung in the air with an eerie echo that resinated from every corner of the room coming back at me in a repetition of the words I had just spoke. My choice was to take on who knows what in front of me. I looked forward but all i could see was the first few steps of the stairs then a wall of almost solid darkness. I had that choice. To go and maybe die. Or maybe go back and let more people die. This was my choice. So i stepped forward and was enveloped into the darkness.
( sorry ava, guess who you are. )
