I’ve always asked myself whether there is a life without our Life Lines.
Mom keeps saying „No there won’t be any life without the Life Lines.“
Dad keeps saying that he’s unsure and don’t know what to say about that. But you can see in his eyes, that there is an answer. Like he already knows what would happen if you had not those Life Lines.
We are given our Life Lines when we’re born. It looks like a snowball. Those you can shake and it can let it snow. Its inside is black and it seems like you have a massive wall holding the energy back that’s inside. I’ve heard about people who had broken theirs. They died because they couldn’t handle the energy. Inside those massive black walls there’s a like a ball that’s in a blue or in a bright blue. It depends on how old you are. The older you get the darker gets the blue and I’ve never seen a ball with another color. Brown lines are decorating the blue ball. There are also sprinkles on it which stand for people you’re near.
I was holding my Life Line while I kept asking myself if I could handle the energy. And if it’s for real or just a lie that were told to scare the community.
Our community is among all the things that other planets are developing. We do time traveling, which is only for the government to stop wars or something, or we have morphing, so you can be with your best friend forever together or what ever. I laughed slightly about this thought.
You know, our community is highly intelligent and if you’re not, you can’t be someone. It’s kind of scary to think about losing in a position where you just CAN’T loose.
Can I loose something if I try to let the energy spread out? Would it slow me down? Would it make me faster, more intelligent or happier? Is this what I really want?
„Yes.“ I whisper while I still glare on my Life Lines.
They changed immediately and I jumped back letting it fall on my bed right in front of me. My hands were shaking. Am I ready for this energy?
It just changed!
I’ve never heard about this.
My hands stopped shaking as I heard a noise. A little more like knocking but not too loud that anyone besides me could hear it. Maybe it was only for me? Because I knew it came from my Life Lines.
I stood right in front of it and watched it very close. Maybe too close because I wasn’t in reality anymore. It seemed like I was on my Life Lines.
I was holding my Life Line as I stood in my Life Line. It was beautiful. I had never expected that this beauty would be within this little thing. There were rivers and trees and even a squirrel. Then I saw a guy. First I was like „oh yeah a guy“, then I was like „wait what?“
I was holding my Life Lines in my left hand as I walked towards him. His brown hair was a little longer and fell over his ears. I could see his hands moving like there was some imaginary thing right in front of him.
„Who are you?“, I asked because there was no other question I could ask in this moment.
He turned and I froze in time, moving and everything that existed in this moment. Why was I frozen? His eyes looked nosy at me. They met mine and I wasn’t froze anymore. I inhaled and exhaled long enough to take my time to think about what just happened. I noticed that I have seen my Life Lines and I was curious if he knows he’s on my Life Line right now.
I didn’t even know this was all true before he told me.
„I’m your fear,“ he answered shortly and grinned a little.
„Why are you here then? I’m not scared right now.“
I tried to stay calm but my heart was beating faster and faster every breath I took. He noticed that and smiled.
„You are, I can tell. But I’m not here to give you fear, I’m here to take it away from you,“ he explained without any emotion so I should probably take him serious.
I was too nervous to take him serious. I mean I’m on my Life Lines and I don’t even know how that happens. I’m talking to my ‚fear‘ which is kinda hot to admit this at this point. But I can’t take him serious right now.
„Sorry, are you standing on my Life Lines saying to me I have to let go my fears?“ I asked him harshly. He just nodded.
„And are you sure you want to talk to me? I mean, are you on the right Life Line? You should check out my best friend’s one, she is so scared of everything,“ I laughed a little at the end and I felt uncomfortable.
„I already talked to her. She said she would stop being so anxious, that she doesn’t need me. So I left,“ he said clearly in a manly voice. His muscles tensed as he speak.
„Okay,“ I just said not sure what else to say.
„Do you want to loose your fears?“
„I…I don’t know if that’s even possible,“ I said to him but kept asking myself in my head. „And what do I have to do for it? What’s the price?“
„You have to destroy your Life Lines,“ he said, pointing out at my Life Lines in my left hand.
I looked down at them, not sure about what to do right now. I just had thought about destroying my Life Lines and then I was here and my ‚fear‘ was here too and I didn’t know what to do so I gave my Life Lines to him.
He starred at me without any acceptance. Then his eyes soften.
„Are you sure, you want t have your Life Lines in my hands?“, he asked me with a tone in his voice that make me shake again, like I was falling back into the stadium frozen.
I nodded slightly and saw away.
He made me look at his face with his free hand and smiled.
„Really?“, he asked again and I nodded again.
„Okay. Let the choice be made my you. This is your choice.“
His voice suddenly grow louder and it felt like he was not standing in front of me but above me. I felt little but I sort of trusted him.
As he noticed I was not scared at all he smiled again and his voice thin out to his normal voice.
„I knew you were the right one,“ he said to me holding up my Life Lines.
„Wait. What? The right one? For what?“ I asked louder and louder and faster and faster.
„For this,“ he said. Then he smashed my Life Lines onto the ground where it split into thousand pieces. A shock wave came across us and we stumbled backwards.
This was the energy. I knew it. But I didn’t die this day.
„No you’re not dying. Your life just started,“ he said and hold out one hand for me.
I grabbed it and felt the warmth in his body. the energy running through our bodies matching perfectly together. His eyes smiled even when his mouth didn’t. I felt the happiness he spread out to let me forget my fears.
He was right: My life just started.
And I was right too: My dad knew that, because he has saw something like this before. Whether in his dreams, heard it from another friend or experienced it himself.
All I wanted to know back then was what we’re going to do on my Life Lines.
„We’re escaping from them and you’ll live in a community where it is okay to loose. You won’t have any expectations when you come there because you’ll be happy for everything that will happen to you. Even when it’s a dog that’s pissing on your shoes.“ He laughed.
„But promise me something,“ his voice just became soft.
„What?“ I whisper.
„Remember me,“ he said, kissed me on my forehead and was gone the other second.
Everything brightened around me and I got lost in brightness, being happy about everything. Especially the kiss he gave me.
„I will.“
