Time Pass

Section A

Aleen, they like to stare at the sky in the park, dozing off thinking about rain, though it almost never rains where they live. It's always dry and barren. They see the world's personalities through colors. They themselves feel a dark midnight blue. Their family are mostly warm colors, though it's hard for them to explain their way of thinking to others because colors are meant for sight, not thought. It was getting dark. They got up and started the long walk home. They always thought it was creepy at night and that someone might take them while walking, so to prevent this, they would make a really goofy or ugly face, so no one would want them. Sometimes, they feel like somethings change when nothing has at all, but small stuff, like the position of a bush or a wall mural, though it's always nothing. They forget stuff a lot and sometimes forget to put on their socks and end up in sweaty sneakers all day. They always pause to think, which is the most attractive kid in class, but they don't think any of them are that good-looking.

They are finally home, looking through the window. Seeing the Christmas tree set up, it hasn't been decorated yet. They pull out their keys and open the front door, then the screen door, quickly closing it, making sure their cat, which is waiting at the door, isn't gonna run out. They grab a cup of instant noodles and pour some water set to boil before they left in it as they wait for it to cook, they turn on the TV and watch a random game show on the pre-set channel. They grabbed the ramen off the table and started eating. They burnt their tongue but continued anyway. They sat eating, but not really paying attention to the show but more to the way they were eating or the way they were sitting they were worried they looked to chubby or to skinny or that they ate to quick or to slow.

On a full stomach, they tossed themselves into the bedroom and onto the bed. They turned over, staring at the ceiling, then the mirror beside them they looked at all the pimples and acne they had and sighed they didn't like their face, they looked at their body and pulled at the bit of belly showing through the bottom of their shirt, they didn't like their stomach, they looked at their arms covered in scars they had picked at for hours, they didn't like them either, they looked at their legs, skinny and thin, they didn't like them either, they didn't like their body one bit, they sighed again and turned over. The mirror began to swirl in patterns resembling different things, tossing at turning in a liquid like fashion as scorching metal does. They hadn't noticed yet. They turned over, and it froze dead in it's tracks, nothing but a plain mirror, they fell asleep.