The Virus In The Air

Inside The Building

"Are you all right baby?", asked Bella her daughter. "Come here", said Bella to Boy and tightly hugged both and kissed them on their forehead.

"Thank you, so much guys! Thanks", elated Bella. Few people were standing around them and gazing. Bella was happy that her children were safe and with her. Bella now needed to find her friend, Arthur, and it all happened in a moment when she saw her friend right in front of her.

"Bella! Is this you?" asked Dr Arthur with a delightful face. "Are you okay?"

"Hi, Arthur", smiled Bella. "Yeah, I am okay. How are you? Good?"

"Yes, I'm good. Come with me. I have something to show you."

Bella followed Arthur. She saw many people in different rooms playing with their kids, feeding them, teaching, and some talking to newborn babies making weird sounds and gestures. They all were happy and trying to be funny with the babies. Like everything was normal or maybe they were pretending to be normal. Every corner of the building and room smelled sweet and fresh. The building was coloured white inside and every room of it was spacious and coloured colourful. It had two floors. It took a while before they finally reached a room that was empty except for a few chairs, a desk, two beautiful black and white paintings on the wall and a small red umbrella tingling on the other side of the wall written 'Alien' on it.

"Feeling like home again", said Bella looking around. "It's been a very long time for us."

"So, how did you get here", asked Arthur.

"Underground"

"Underground?"

"It was an old storeroom. It was very down to the ground. My husband bought the house before he went to Idaho. Though I came to know about it later, he bought that house intensely knowing it has a storeroom underground. I think he was aware of this that it was all coming", described Bella while being upset in her voice. "But he never told me instead kept telling me to stay under the ground for a while and that a while took about two months."

"And did you make it here by car?"

"What else could I have done?" sighed Bella. "We ran out of food and since the last call with you, the network was not working too."

Bella gazed at things around her then, after she had nothing more to say about. Her eyes then met with something and asked, "What's that umbrella and why it's tagged with the name Alien on it?"

"That's what I wanted to show you. We found it near a boy named Harley."

"But it doesn't make any sense that you kept this, I mean it's an ordinary umbrella, right? Why did you hang it there like it's so precious? Just an umbrella, huh."

"I know. But, would you let me speak? Harley was not an ordinary body", said Arthur while walking toward the wall and Bella followed him. "So, basically, Harley, whose DNA was like no other that we have ever encountered in our life. Even though it took some days to uncover the secrets, we finally came to know about it. And if you were here, you would have seen with your own eyes how strange he looked all the time. His big head and strange eyes like those of a drunkard."

"Was he alive when you found him?" asked Bella showing no interest in his appearance.

"His condition was too bad but he survived for a good time", said Arthur while making himself comfortable on the chair. "Harley possessed a rare genetic mutation that had never been observed before but this mutation had granted him an extraordinary ability- the power to see glimpses of the future.

"That sounds absurd! It's impossible!", cried Bella in astonishment.

"Well, is it not that every impossible had a starting and it could be the one and it will then sound possible."