The Bridge

Life in Heaven

  Monsters! Monsters everywhere! They look so pale and disgusting. I didn't want to have anything to do with them, so I ran. I ran as fast as I could. However, they started following me. They were chasing me! I didn't know where the path I ran led, but I knew that I just had to keep running. No! I will not die! Not today! It felt like I've been running for hours. What the hell are these things?! Suddenly, I tripped over a corpse. When I fell, I saw the face of the corpse. Oh shit! It was—
  "James!" I hear as my mother slaps me hard on the cheek, " What the hell was that? You were screaming like crazy!" she adds with a worried look on her face. "Nothing, Mom. Just another bad dream." I tell her with a smile on my face. "I'm going to do my chores now. I'll see you later, Mom!"
  "At least take a shower first," she screams as I run away. This was life in Heaven. The only known place with survivors from that terrible war a century ago. In here, there are two rules. The first rule is to do your job and you will be rewarded. The second one is that if you break the peace of Heaven, you will be sent beyond the bridge to live on earth—a barren wasteland filled with radiation from nuclear weapons.
   In here, there are two classes—the upper and the lower classes. The upper classes are the rich folk who have any relation to the Saviors—the founders of Heaven. The lower classes are the people who have to work hard to get food on their plate.
    I went out to do my daily routine like I always do until a rock hits my head and I fall to the ground. "*Sigh*, you don't have to be that aggressive every morning, Ronny." I say with a sarcastic smirk. " Of course I do. That's was best friends are for!" Ronny says with a smile on his face. I've known Ronny my whole life. He is one of the most outgoing, chill, and compassionate people once ever known. He loves adventure, but he hates doing absolutely nothing. While we're talking, the tower bells suddenly start ringing. "Well, let's see what the bridge has in store for us today." Ronny says as we both run to the bridge itself. Bells ringing can either mean two things. First, and the more frequent reason, is that the bridge is being set down again. The other and much scarier reason is that the Castle is under some sort of huge problem. Fortunately, the latter was the reason today. "Looks like it's another poor soul," a civilian says. In here, if you break any one of the rules, no matter how small you might think your crime is, you get exiled into the remains of earth. Suddenly, a speaker was turned on, and a voice was heard, saying, "Michael Hughes, you have been charged with breaking rule number one because of disrupting the peace of your mother by talking back to her when she ordered you to get water from the well. Do you confirm this?" The man looked calm and steady. He wasn't scared at all. "Fuck you," he says with a smile in his face. The the bridge guards escorted him out of Heaven and into the bridge where he was going to be sent to the barren wasteland known as earth. "Hey, maybe I should report you for throwing a rock at my head, Ron" I said sarcastically. "If you do that, then I'll report that other thing," Ronny replies with a smirk. "You got me this time," I tell him. "The other thing, huh. Well, no matter what, I will finish the other thing," I tell myself. This was my life and, hopefully, the start of something much more for mankind.