The Sphere

Chapter 11

"He is such a coward!" Kelly shouts at the top of her lungs. She is still on her knees chained down to the roof of a building that rose under her when John sprouted the city up. Only now she is alone because John teleported himself away.

    Kelly squirms and tries pulling herself free from her chains. The metal presses into her meat turning her skin red and raw. She finally gives up and stares at the ground. "Great. I'm going to die here. On a roof in a freaking SIMULATED CITY!" Kelly bounces on her knees as high as the chains will let her go before slamming her back to the stone roof. "I hate you John! I want you to know that I. HATE. YOU!" She screams again. Each time she lets out a shout she tugs on the chains which dig deeper and deeper into her flesh now causing her wrists and ankles to bleed.

    "Oh deary. Were you addressing me young lady?" John's voice booms loud and echos throughout the city. Kelly looks up to see his face completely covering the sky.

    "What... John what are you doing?" She shouts up to him

    "I'm beating you Kelly. I couldn't do it before but now I can, and I shall." He says smugly. "Oh and it just doesn't seem fair to have you all chained up and such. Because then it's just too easy. You'll sit there, cry about it-"

    "I would never let myself cry over you." She snaps.

    "Oh Kelly. Prideful as always. Anyway as I was saying before you so rudely interrupted me. It just wouldn't be fun to watch you die sitting still. It'd be better in like an action packed horror movie kind of way."

    "Again I ask. What are you doing." Kelly says impatiently.

    "AND AGAIN I SAY I AM FREAKING DEFEATING YOU, PUTTING AN END TO YOU?? WINNING? I'M WINNING KELLY DON'T YOU LISTEN?" John screams and his booming voice is so loud is rings extra long in Kelly's ear drums. But due to her being chained down she has to endure the sound.

    She cringes, then when the ringing in her ears finally stops she stares back up at John. His face is red and sweaty. There is spit hanging on his lip from when he screamed and his glasses are half off his face. He slowly closes his eyes, takes a deep breath, wipes his lip and adjusts his glasses.

"I guess it's only right that I show you my intentions before you get bored of me huh?" John says with his eyes still closed. His face suddenly fades from the sky leaving it a scarlet red. Then the chains binding Kelly to the ground suddenly disintegrate and she struggles to stand up as her ankles fight with her the entire way.

"All these riddles are really annoying John." Kelly mutters through gritted teeth. "Why don't you just kill me already." As she finished talking to herself, she looked around the rooftop and saw only one door. She decides to first look out from her current location. As she walked toward the edge of the rooftop she realized the city was completely unfamiliar. She figured John didn't have the creativity or time to come up with the exact design for a completely new city. So she figured he either told the sphere to place us in some city around the world. Maybe New York, or Chicago. Or maybe he told it to generate something completely random. In that case she would have no way to Google her way out of this. "Google!" she shouts out loud. Her words echo loudly bouncing off the walls of the building around her. "So the city is deserted. Oh you forgot to put people in it too imbecile? Of course you did." She shook her head and rubbed her pockets. "I still have my phone! I can call..." Her words stopped short as she remembered nothing she could possibly say right now would make sense to anyone that's not experiencing it. So she put her phone away, and looked back out at the city.

The vastness of it gave her chills because she was genuinely clueless as to where to go or what in the world to do next. She thought of the events that had unfolded. Everything so fast, from sitting in her living room, wondering just what she was doing with her life, to breaking up with her best friends in almost less than an hour. What made it worse, was that it wasn't even a story she could tell because it was simply too unbelievable. Especially if she didn't get that ball back from John.

So with that thought, she turned on her heels and headed for the door on the rooftop.