the ride home And Other Short Stories

planet tv

The day was normal. Like everyday. Woke up and went to school. I did maths, english, german, mechatronics and sport. As usual for a tuesday. The next day was normal. So was the day after that. Nothing odd ever happened to me. It always happened to emily. She was always in some mess wether it be an odd situation at school or held up during an armed robbery over the weekend. Everything exciting happened to her.

I had been part of a few of theese. Last week she had started a rumour that alys was dating evan. This spread and evan was being made fun of. The next day emily had to talk him down from a building he was going to jump from while it was on fire. I was there for support and the one who was told the rumour first along with two others.  I didnt tell anyone.

I started to notice that less and less of the exciting stuff happened while i was arround. And after a while me and emily stopped talking to me.

I had just done sport. It was now lunch. I had just finnished when a note fell on my lap. I looked arround. Everyone was sat down. I looked at it again and read it."we need to talk now. Sport cupbord." I was shocked. Not many people knew i existed let allone liked me. I thsught it was a joke untill i looked at the cupbord. A head peeking out. I ran over.

There in thr center if the cupbord,behind a stack of pappers, stood dom. He was someone i knew,though not verry well. We just stood there for a while. Neither of us spoke. I was about to leave when he cut in. "That was scripted," he said slowly, "this is all scripted." I looked at him "what do you mean" i asked walking back to him. He pointed at the stack of pappers. There was a tag in the stack. It said today. I opened the stack to there. It read" emily eats lunch while aliesha is told about the show by don in the sport closet. The door is then mystiriously locked." I looked at dom, then the door. I went to open it. Locked. "Dont bother. This is scripted" he said. I tryed to kick down the door."we're stuck here for an hour." He said. I slumped against the door. Ten minuts passed. I decided to read more of the stack."after 15 minuts dom and aliesha kiss" i looked at dom and stepped away. We talked for the next 2 minuts. I had moved closer to him. Then suddenly out of nowhere"i love you aliesha". I looked at dom. He looked at me. 14 minuts passed. Still nothing. Then he pulled me in. And kissed me. I looked at my watch. It had been 15 minuts exactly. I enjoyed every moment of it. He let me go. We staired at each other. I moved away. And read the script, i decided it was a script, again. "The door unlocks and ecerything continues as normal." I scanned through. Nowhere does it say that i tell emily. I close it and realise why."emily's world" i read the end."emily reserects everyone and the world returns to normal." I read out loud. " we all die just for the tv show." The door clicks. I rush out and find emily. I tell her everything. For the first few days she dosent believe me. But as i start predicting the oddyties of the day she contemplates it.

Im her friend again and round her house. We talk all night. She seems distant somehow. Then she tells me what she is going to do."suicide" i gasp. She nods and shows me her draw. 3 paracetamal packs. She grabbed them and popped all the pills out. I tried to grab them. She swallowed them before i could get them. I reached for my phone. She hit me. I fell unconcius.

A few minuts later i woke up. She was limp. I spoke to her"you ok" i said "thank you" she whispered and then silence. She died. And i didnt stop her. All lights went out. 3 men ran into the room. New lights came on. The sky filled with screens. One man was angry"thats it... shows ruined" he said. I looked at him."oh," he said "you should not have known that" at that he pulled a gun and shot me right vetween the eyes. The darkness returned.