Frozen:chapter five (446 hits)
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Submitted by spacemonkey (View user info) at 2004-04-07 12:22:15 EDT
Chapter one: http://www.ubersite.com/m/28609
Chapter two: http://www.ubersite.com/m/28908
Chapter three: http://www.ubersite.com/m/29079
Chapter four: http://www.ubersite.com/m/29474
Some of you might think that I'm crazy.
After all, here I am, barreling down the road in a car of unknown origin.
I have no idea where we are going. And I say we, because the driver of this car is summer. Except now she's changed her name to lexus.
"Neither of those are my real name." lexus tells me.
Next she says, "It's not important that you call me anything at all."
I should be at work.
My communication log told me I needed to clean glass doors at six-thirty.
I don't even really know what time it is.
Some of you might think of this situation as definitely insane.
She would say you weren't thinking at all.
Not just you, anyone.
I ask, "were are we going?" and think why did I do this.
She looks over at me, and then looks back to her driving.
She tells me that she's saving me.
"Some people are more ready than others. You can tell after a while."
She changes lanes and tells me that everything is changing.
"There are no constants. You can see it sometimes. People age, trees grow, cars rust..."
I want to tell her hello. Where are we going? What is going on? What time is it? What is your name now?
I want to ask, but I don't. She would probably tell me it wasn't important.
She's pulling into a parking lot and she says, "we're a lot like parking lots you know."
I don't know and thankfully she explains further.
"Nothing is constant. Everything is changing. We are all made up of different parts. Your hair grows and falls out, you loose your teeth, get new ones, then loose them again."
"Even your cells." She says, as a car pulls out of a spot in front of us, "Your cells are constantly dying and being reborn. There isn't much of the original you left."
We pull into the newly vacant parking spot.
"Just like cars in the parking lot, so are the cells in our body."
I tell her that doesn't make sense. What about the pavement itself I ask.
She shuts the car off and says, "Let's go."
She tells me her name is Hey You now.
We walk into the mall and I say, hey you stereotypical woman. Hey you taking me shopping to save me. Hey thank you, but I want to buy stuff. I should never have left work, and I need to get back. Hey are you listening?
She tells me to be saved, you have to do the things you hate the most.
"The problem," she says, we walk by a popular clothing store, "is yourself."
She stops and looks at some people, shopping for trendy new clothes.
"Most people can see buying things as an expression of love right? But who do we buy for the most? Even when we are giving we are looking for something in return."
We walk a bit more, then enter into a large electronic chain store.
Passing buy a display of Televisions, she says, "everyone thinks they're the star of their own show. We all grow up thinking that can do anything we see." She says, "Most of us watch too much TV."
No shit I say. Are you making this up as you go along? Who the hell are you?
I'm a little ashamed I blew up like that, but everything was starting to get to me. I should be at work. What I am doing is crazy. I don't want to be here.
The problem is, I have no where else to go.
Despite how strange this maybe, it sure beats the hell out of a life long day.
So, I apologize. She tells me it doesn't matter.
I ask her what time it is.
"Time to leave."
So we leave.
User Reviews
Submitted by GreaterThanBest (user info) at 2004-04-08 11:41:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
still going
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2004-04-08 11:29:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
uhuh.
Submitted by iamhewhoisnot (user info) at 2004-04-07 14:06:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
waiting for an escalation or climax
Submitted by shitfuck (user info) at 2004-04-07 13:52:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
WTF? Yous suck
Submitted by AlwaysAnEagle (user info) at 2004-04-07 13:04:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
This is excellent. I'm just now taking time to read it through.
I'm glad you dropped the opening of each chapter with "You shouldn't want to be reading this," etc.