Double Shot - Noen Eubanks

~Start~

<<Listen here Eleonore, you're gonna be under heaven's protection until you'll say you're ready, got it? >>

I nod.

<<So, this it you, you are an only child, your parents died in an car crash, you're from California and that's where you went to school and now you moved to Georgia, you live alone, ok? >>

I nod again memorizing every information.

<<You're gonna keep your wings but you can't show them so you can hide them in your back, you can say the truth about you to the people you actually trust but I wouldn't if I were you... I'm warning you, the world down there changed a lot from when you were alive>>

<<I know sir, I observed the world from here all this centuries>>

<<Being here is the easy part, going down it's harder.

I nod giving Him a smile.

<<Good, are you ready for your second shot? >>

He says getting closer.

<<Yes>>

He lays a hand on my forehead and I close my eyes, when I open them I'm in an apartment, it's all so...weird.

I mean...i studied the evolution of the earth so I know what are the things around me but it just so weird actually being here.

I take the phone from the table in front of me and I scroll on it looking at the apps that they call social media.

Then I see a list of thing I should do:

Buy food from the supermarket
Buy clothes from the mall
Use a Uber to get to the mall and supermarket
Take the wallet and use the money in it to pay for food and clothes

Ok...uh...Uber? What was that? The car right?

I see the app in my phone so I just order one and I get out of the apartment locking the door.

I see my car and I get in.

<<Good morning sir>>

I say smiling, he looks at me weird.

<<Hello, where shall I take you>>

<<May you please take me to the mall?>>

He nods still confused and starts the car, after ten minutes we're in front of a very large building, I pay him and get out of the car waving at him then entering the mall.

There are a lot, like a very lot of people.

I kind of follow two girls until I see a shop with some clothes that caught my eye and I get in being immediately approached by a smiling girl.

<<Hello, how can I help you? >>

<<Uhm..hello, I'm Eleonore>>

I say as I bow to her, she looks at me giggling.

<<I'm Michelle, but everyone calls me Miky, do you have a nickname? >>

I look at her confused.

<<A...nickname? >>

<<Yeah, like, a short version of your name that friends call you by>>

<<Oh, actually I'm new around here and I don't have a lot of friend not I did in California>>

<<Oh, then...your family? >>

<<My parents are dead and I don't have siblings>>

<<I'm sorry to hear that, I'll be your friend, and from now on you'll be Nora>>

<<I like it>>

I say smiling to her.

<<So, if you're new you're here to buy some new clothes right? New town new dresser huh? I'll help you out>>

She sais pulling me by my wrist into a direction, I have a flashhback about my father and I quickly pull away.

She looks at me confused.

<<Sorry, I saw some clothes there that I like, you coming? >>

She smiles nodding and we go in the opposite direction.