Thursday, December 4, 2008

Denial part 1

The morning hue and the scent of dew had Puppy dreaming while awake. It looked real good, it looked real normal – it looked like earth for goodness sake.

He took a deep breath but somehow the air didn’t stay in his lungs as long as it normally did. It was as if it was losing weight and substance.

Slap!

“Put some pants on man. You’ll freeze to death, har-har” said a gruff male voice from behind. Puppy was shocked by the sight of a smiling half-naked man standing behind him – a man with the wrong equation to that half exposed.

“Yeah I’ll freeze,” Puppy repeated, not sure exactly what it was he was supposed to say to this half-naked man. And what could you say to the half-naked man? There was no real way of dicing up the previous night in to remarkable, decipherable points. That seemed ridiculous. Yet, there was no way to push his ideas or bring up anything but last night. Stalling for words, Puppy smiled and began to walk away.

“Where you going Puppy?” the half-naked man asked.

“I’m outta here. I don’t think I can take anymore,” Puppy answered, his pants hanging around his ankles and his head pounding a million songs in his head. He was not quite over the previous night’s toxicity and stumbling on the driveway he made way for the ground.

“Take care man,” the half-naked man said waving his hand.

Lying on his belly, Puppy looked on the open road from the end of the driveway. Everything looked too far away and his spirit wavered. He then heard the half-naked man’s voice pipe up: “Oh and Puppy, Rabbit wanted to let you know that she was coming back to pick you up, seeing as how it was more than likely you had no idea where you are.”

That was right. Puppy had no idea where he was. He saw the tangerine sun rising above the smoky sky and felt the reality of things way heavy upon his heart. Of course, he thought, the orange-glowing twisting house. Was it all a dream – a nightmare? What did he say the night before?

He felt his stomach churn. It could have been a hangover but that was not it. He thought maybe this was how Kratos felt at the beginning of God of War. The god’s had turned their back on him. Rabbit had turned her back on him. The name Rabbit also helped bring back the reality of Earth’s imminent demise. Six days left. That was all humans had. Well, there were also the animals but…

“Did she tell you when she expected to be coming back?” Puppy asked.

“No, man, but she told me to call her when your jellybean started colouring, so I called her when your jellybean turned red.”

Puppy sat down on the grass in front of the house and asked the half-naked man whether or not there was a coffee to be had. The half-naked man smiled and said that was something he could do and returned the grey derelict house to get a coffee for Puppy. What had happened to the orange glow?

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