The Gap Between The Worlds (English Version)

1-The Dawn of a New Stage

When I open my eyes the first thing I see are several roots hanging from the ceiling, it's been a while since I cut them, I'll have to do it again very soon.

I got up somewhat disoriented while throwing some cans and bottles of beer on the floor, I went to a bucket full of water that I had outside my room and washed my face. I looked at myself in the mirror that was in front of the bucket.

Ahhh I had a horrible face, anyone who saw me would think that life has hit me more than twice, I urgently needed a haircut, I thought to myself, I laughed a little at my own sarcasm, as if it still existed some beauty salon.

After that I took a shirt and put it on my shoulder, I walked towards the window, carefully opened a small space and looked out of the window between its curtains to look at the street.

I saw the same thing as always, abandoned cars wrapped in a lot of weeds, the streets were quite cracked and there were almost no traces of the asphalt, only green plants were visible everywhere. Not seeing anything strange, I opened the door carefully without making much noise, and went up to the terrace or rather to a poorly made mini house.

After going up to the terrace I very carefully covered the entrance.

I think one day I will have to fix this place, although I don't have the materials to do it, the last bags of cement and planks were only enough for what I had now.

I had made an improvised construction on the terrace that covered everything, it was a kind of house, I only left two holes, one in the roof big enough to see the sky but not to get out, and another in the wall that gave a small view onto the street.

This way it is more profitable to keep watch without exposing myself to danger, although in reality the hole in the ceiling was bigger because I liked to look at the sky rather than keep watch.

While I was lost in thought, I grabbed a bottle of beer that I had left the night before near the rocking chair, sat in it, and then lay back and looked at the clear sky.

It's beautiful, very beautiful.

That's what I wanted to think, but inside I know that it's not like that anymore, nor will it be, it stopped being like that a long time ago... It's been 10 years since the sky stopped being like before...

After being lost in my thoughts for a long time, the alarm clock rang, it was time to leave.

I got up from my chair, went up to a small bench that was nearby and covered the hole in the ceiling, then I looked out the window to confirm that there was nothing suspicious and then I covered it as well, I went down to my apartment and began to prepare everything to leave.

Since I wasn't going to be back for a while, I started making sure everything was locked and hidden, in case someone broke in for x or y reason, I prepared the necessary things in my backpack, supplies like bandages, some flashbang grenades. . . , an explosive, food, a knife, a metal stick that I found a long time ago, and a gun that didn't have many bullets.

I really didn't have much but it would be worse if I had nothing. I looked for the most comfortable clothes I had and prepared a replacement, although over the years little by little all my clothes have been worn out. I tried to loot some houses before in the past. but I got distracted looking for food at that time.

And going out isn't very safe these days... After making sure I had what I needed and everything was okay, I went out and closed the door, put some herbs on the door that surrounded this building, it's not a big building of many floors. It was simply an apartment on the fifth floor.

I wanted it to look abandoned, I think it fulfills that image well, as I was going down the stairs I realized that nature had started to come up the stairs, it had been locked up for a while, about 6 months I would say, so it is natural that this has happened.