Friday Barnes: After all this time

What a Merry Time

If you go to the 3rd window on the third floor to the left of the elevator entrance in the Royal Palace of Norway, on the 5th of October, right where I am right now at this precise moment at these precise coordinates or instructions in time, you would be looking out a tall stained glass window. You would look out and see a distorted picture of a girl and a boy holding hands silently, looking out onto the ocean. That's what you see. 

Then you would see them turn to each other, look in the other's eyes and smile. They would then turn around and walk back towards the palace, gather their belongings and wake up their friend; Melanie and catch an Uber to the airport. Two hours later if you were still in that exact same place, looking still, out that window, you would see a plane take off. The plane that had Melanie, Ian and Friday.

Friday, Ian and Melanie were back in their apartment. After all this time, here they are, back where they started. Truth be told, this isn't the soppy happy ending that most of you were rooting for. And, there are no such things as endings if you think about it, as long as the human race lives there is no end to a story. One story leads to another, this is how it works, one story leads to another. Where a book physically stops and ends doesn't mean that it starts at the start of the book and ends at the end of the book. There are always more stories, there is always more.

That's when the phone rang in the kitchen.

Melanie: Hello?

A gravelly voice answered the greeting with great haste.

Caller: Who am I speaking to?

Melanie: Melanie Pelly.

Caller: Well, thank goodness

Melanie: why?

Caller: You see, there's something you can do for me.

Melanie: I don't know what your talking about.

Caller: I think you do, don't tell me you've forgotten after all this time.

Melanie: I'm not interested.

Caller: I think you are, you just don't know it yet.

Melanie: I think I do.

Caller: Well, if you ever need to request my presence you already know where to find me. See you soon.

The line cut short with a beep. Melanie hesitated and put the phone back on the receiver and went to get her coat...