Do You See Me? (476 hits)
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Submitted by JWLMAR10 (View user info) at 2004-04-11 23:23:09 EDT
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==3:37 PM==
Calvin Williams began his fifteen minute walk home from school. He walked fast, but he wasn't sure why. His house always scared him for some reason. Then again, almost everything scared Calvin. He was always a little guy. That early high-school growth spurt never seemed to make it to Calvin who, at 15, stood only four feet and nine inches tall. His father was a violent alcoholic who used to beat the tar out of Calvin on a near daily basis until he disappeared one day when Calvin was only seven years old.
Calvin's mother can best be described as a very tired woman. She works two jobs so that she can support herself and Calvin, but she has also grown distant from her only son. Whenever she is at home Calvin is always in the basement building things with his tools. She no longer bothers to determine what he spends his time building since he won't tell her and she can't ever figure out what any of the strange objects are used for. She believes that Calvin has entered a phase in life that all kids go through. Calvin's isolation is just him trying to set out on his own and find his identity.
Calvin knew isolation all too well. At his last school he was expelled for threatening to kill three students who had made school a living hell for him for years. The three boys had cornered him one day on his way home from school and tackled him. They then proceeded to get a piece of dog feces on a stick and smear it all over his face. For the next three days, Calvin scribbled death threats all over his note books directed at the three boys, but he never intended anyone to see them. One student happened to notice Calvin's violent notes and told the three bullies about them who later told a school official. In the end, Calvin was expelled and had to find a new school. The three bullies got nothing.
His new school wasn't much different from his old school. He actually liked it better because he could walk instead of riding the bus where he often had bad experiences growing up. He still had no friends but he wasn't concerned with making friends. He was content being the loner, the guy that everyone said was weird. He really didn't care, he had other things on his mind.
On his way home a car pulled up to Calvin and stopped. Three people hopped out of the car and Calvin knew immediately that it was the three bullies who had always given him a hard time.
The leader of the three, a burly guy named Mike Spitz who was rumored to be a meth head was usually the only one of the three to speak. He walked up to Calvin and grabbed him by the throat. He lifted him in the air for a second and then brought Calvin down to the ground hard.
Mike Spitz spoke in the most threatening voice a high-school kid could muster when he spoke to Calvin.
"The school read your little notes, you stupid fuck! You said I was a fucking druggie in that shit!"
"I'm sorry, please let me go," Calvin squeezed out through his constricted throat.
"The school searched my locker!" Mark screamed at Calvin. "I got expelled!"
At this point Mark reached into his pocket and pulled out a switchblade. With the push of a button, the blade was exposed and was pressed to Calvin's neck.
"I should kill you right here you fuckin' freak."
"Uhh, Mark we should get out of here," one of his cronies said quietly.
"Shut the fuck up!" Mark yelled back.
"Nah man, there's some old bitch looking at us through that window."
Mark looked up at the house and saw the frightened woman trying to see what was happening.
"Shit. Come on. Let's go." Mark said as he finally let go of Calvin's neck. "But I'm not finished with you, you little bitch. You are a dead man, and I am serious about that."
With that said, the three bullies got in their car and sped down the street. The old woman opened her front door and yelled to see if Calvin was alright, but as soon as she started to speak Calvin quickly gathered his things and ran. He ran the rest of the way home at a full sprint and retreated to the basement as he always did when he got home from school. He began to build.
==4:21 PM==
"Do You See Me?"
"Yes, I see you," replied Calvin timidly as he stared at the strange creature crouching in the basement closet.
"Good. Have you finished building the inter-dimensional transporter?" the creature asked as it's eyes grew to two inches in diameter.
"No, not yet. Those three bastards are messing with me again. I think they are going to kill me. I'm scared. I am really, really scared."
The demonic creature poked it's head out of the closet and stared hard at Calvin.
"You little weakling. You are scared of everything. You know that once you finish that machine I can enter your dimension and kill those bastards. I can rip their fucking heads off."
The creature reached it's bony hand out of the closet and made a ripping motion with it's hands, it's large eyes lighting up in the process.
Calvin turned away from the strange creature and thought for a moment. When he turned back around he said this:
"I don't think I want to live in this world anymore. I want to see what your world is like. It must be better than this place."
The creature stared at Calvin intensely. "You cannot come back once you enter my world. It is much different and you will not be able to get used to it for some time. More importantly, you will have no way back to the world you are currently in unless you finish that machine."
Calvin looked at the ceiling as the tears welled-up in his eyes. He spoke through sobs. "I don't want to live in this world anymore. I was never meant for this place. My life has been nothing but pain and it is time to get out. I will try a life in any other dimension than this one, just get me out of here."
The creature stared at Calvin and pondered the implications of this. After a moment it spoke.
"Well, I can't stop you from doing something if your mind is set on it. Are you absolutely sure that you are ready for this?"
"Yes, absolutely," Calvin replied with a sudden calmness.
"Then lean into this closet" said the creature.
Calvin leaned into the closet and the creature pulled out a strange machine from a shadow. He placed the machine on Calvin's head and with it's bony fingers it turned a small dial. All of a sudden Calvin felt a bolt of energy in his brain and he collapsed to his knees.
==6:12 PM==
Calvin's mother returned from work and collapsed into a chair. She listened for a moment and couldn't hear Calvin working with his tools in the basement. She almost always heard her son down there building things when she got home from her first job, so she thought something was strange.
She walked into the kitchen and pulled out two TV dinners and set them on the counter to thaw. She walked to the basement door and opened it yelling, "Calvin are you down there?"
When there was no answer she started descending the stairs. She saw the mess of wood and metal and tools that were strewn all over the basement. This kind of mess was normal for Calvin. She looked to the left and gasped.
Calvin was lying half in the basement closet, half out of the closet. He had a nail gun in his right hand and a nail sticking out from his forehead. His face and the floor were both covered in blood. To everyone that saw the scene, it was clear that Calvin had killed himself.
Nobody knew exactly why it happened. The three thugs always assumed that they caused Calvin to kill himself. Mike Spitz was happy about it. He was actually planning on murdering Calvin anyway. Mike got into a lot of trouble with the law after this when he stabbed a man three times and left him for dead behind a movie theater. He hanged himself a few weeks into his thirty year sentence. The two other thugs were so stunned after the event that they both did time in a mental institution where they claimed they were being haunted by strange creatures.
The End.
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Submitted by jwlmar10 (user info) at 2005-05-11 03:01:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
it was from ubermadness. the reviews didnt carry over
Submitted by Feijuada (user info) at 2005-05-08 19:15:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Hahaha, this had NO ratings! Sympathy +2.