People are starting to go to bed, it's almost 10:00, but I've had so much sugar from grabbing from plates as I go, I've joined the sugar rush crowd, but unlike them, I know there will be an inevitable sugar crash so instead of jumping in place for half an hour, I eat some healthy food to counteract the sugar. I follow the path of worn out people to a beautiful table with cakes and pies and cream all over it. There is an untouched little blue cake near the end of the table. I pick it up and take a huge bite. It is so good!
I look down at it. It is chocolate cake with almost an inch of frosting over it. I eat the whole thing, and have the ultimate sugar rush. They set off fireworks in bright colors and I run all over as cake chunks get stuck in my hair. I push my face into a pie, and clean it off with napkins, then I'm running, and the whole world is in slow motion, then the word goes into strange hues. The world spins, and then it's almost normal. I can hear, but now the world is speeding up, and I can't keep up, before I know it, I'm the one in slow motion, running slower and slower. I lose track of what I'm doing and end up puking over the side of a boat, next to other people puking over the side of the boat, next to people throwing up at the sight of barf.
When I'm over the whole, 'show everyone what you ate earlier while feeding the fishes' I apparently didn't learn from my mistake. I eat more cake, and fall onto the wreckage that had once been a large layered cake. I finally stood to go to bed, when they started the fireworks again. Gold and green and red in the sky.
"Happy new year!" someone yelled. It was echoed by others and there was a lot of noise. I laid down on the grass as fireworks exploded above me, I was surrounded by proof that we can and will make it out of here. We are going to make it. That makes it worth it. Every minute, every second, just perfect.
I fell asleep to the sound of distant fireworks, happy chatter, the sloshing of the waves, and the delightful feeling that I am safe, and always will be, as long as I am here. I closed my eyes knowing I will open them again, and for once, I wasn't scared of the royals. Just for once, I felt I was holding the cards, and this could be anyone's game.
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An Inch Of Infinity (Short Version)
ActionIn the near future the entire world is conquered by a group of people known as Royalties, or the Royals for short. They declared war on the planet. If you were not with them, you were against them. by the end of the 21st century the world was utter...
