stoned | Hyunlix

01

"c'mon mummmm . I wanna see that painting" 16yr old felix whined pointing to a painting of a goldfinch which was further down the hall of the gallery .

"You go see it . I wanna see that one first" Felix's mother said pointing to another painting of a woman as she walked away leaving her son there .

"Ugh-" felix grunted as he watched his mum go .

Felix ran up the the goldfinch bird painting excitedly .

He loved that painting it was so beautiful he could look at it for hours .

Felix and his mum both love art and they often visited that art gallery together when they had time .

Felix and his mother lived in Australia . His father left them and moved back to Korea when he was 5 .

They were at the gallery this time because Felix was accused of smoking and his mother was called to school .

Felix's mother trusted him . She knew he wouldn't get into smoking or anything of that sort so she wasn't mad at him .

Instead she suggested they'd go visit the art gallery before going to school because they had time .

Felix stood there admiring that painting , when someone passed by him , catching his attention, the man was walking in the direction where his mother just went .

The man wore black , he had a suspicious looking bag in his hand , an he looked nervous for some reason .

Felix found something odd about that man .  Something dark

The man soon got out of sight as he walked away , making felix go back to looking at the painting of the goldfinch .

But he still couldn't get his mind around the presence of that man that Just walked by .

Felix stood there shifting his weight to each leg and wriggling his hands in his pockets to shake the feeling.

Felix then noticed something on the painting he didn't notice before .

He got closer to the painting standing on his toes to get a better look when-

it happened in a second.

Felix couldn't feel his legs , he looked around him , squinting through the dust and smoke .

He was on the floor , people were screaming but it sounded so muffled .

All felix could hear was his heart pulsating rapidly in his ears and a high pitched shilling .

Felix choked and coughed on the smoke .

He could feel blood trickling down his face .

Everything ached .

It happened so fast .

"MUMM!!" felix yelled as he tried to pick himself off the floor .

Once he was on his feet he ran over the scattered bits of concrete all over the place , tripping over some .

He saw some people with their faces blown off .

Some people half alive .

Some people dead .

Children crying .

But he couldn't care less .

He had to find his mother .

"MUMM!!" felix yelled his voice sounding muffled to himself, tears filling up his eyes , afraid of what he was gonna face as he ran in the direction him mother was .