The Last Egg

Well I re-wrote my story, hopefully it makes more sense now. If not tell me. haha.

The Last Egg

 

 

There's nothing but a log, a log a big brown log but I know it's him. He's inside of it. I know it! My axe cuts right through the log a he's not there. Now I'm holding an axe with a log split in half in front of me, but it's not. The half on my right is melting away into the ground, just simply seeping away. The other one though. It's exploding little by little on its surface. Then it just burns and then pretty soon it's gone except for a blue egg lying on the ground on top of the ashes. I walk towards it and pick it up. It fits comfortably in my palm. I peer closer at it and see that it has veins. I'm afraid I might make it bleed so I swallow it. It goes down smooth. Suddenly I'm surrounded by logs. All of them are him and none of them. I want to pick up my axe and find him in one of them but I know that all I'll find is more eggs, eggs I can't do anything with until they hatch. Instead I float, simply cross my legs, lean back and float, waiting. I'm not quite sure what for but I'm waiting. I think I float for a really long time. Sometimes I'm so high I sleep on clouds, others I actually think I'm anti-floating, what ever that is.

 

 I hear myself mumble as I talk myself awake. I slowly drifted into conciseness, and my body follows bit by bit, first my arms then my chest finally my legs. I grumble a grudge full scratchy greeting to the day. I turn over and face up leaving any trace of un-conciseness behind. 'I can't believe I didn't give him that note.' First thought of the day, 'why is this important to me?' came the automatic second question. My question is never answered but always asked.

 

 

I rolled over off my bed and flung my leg to the ground then the next, but too bad I didn't feel it. Face meets floor. I can't help but laugh at how ridiculous I am. "She took it like a champ!" I think. I wonder if anyone else has this hard of time getting up.  I'm way too tired to do anything so instead I just lay down letting my body re-adjust to this new position among the pile of clothes and odd trinkets. "You'd think I'd actually take the time to clean this room sometime." I think to myself. I laugh. "Me, clean? Hah! Not my job." I lay among the abyss of my floor and fight sleep all over again.

 

My back was just floating above the blades of grass barely grazing them. Then I came down with a thud. I hit hard; it hurt and knocked the breath right out of me, not to mention an egg. It landed on my chest. It was heavy and red; it wasn't like the one I found. I picked it up and held it above me and examined it. This one had veins too but I wanted to make this bleed. I wanted to kill it. It had been an egg for too long so I cracked the egg over my face, and then there was nothing. It was empty but the shell cut my fingers and when I dropped them and they burnt me. I couldn't help but cry. It hurt but only because I was sad. I wasn't quite sure why but I just wanted to cry. I was so disappointed there was nothing inside my egg. I just wish there was something.

 

"Ow" I yelped aloud as I rolled onto a thumb tack. I was awake now. I stood up and pulled out my drawer. "Something other than black" I thought to myself. I pull out black pants and throw them on my bed and dig for jeans. No luck so I settle with baggy black pants and a white tight sweater/sweatshirt thing.

It was only 6:30 and I had 10 minutes to kill so I went downstairs and laid on the couch, it’s so comfy. Maria will make me up when she calls me. Secure in my assumption I fall asleep again.

 

"It's too hot Max! I can't breathe, please fly!" I said. I was surrounded by fire. There was no one around but I was still crying out for Max. The fire was getting closer. All of the logs were burning away.  There was so much screaming. How could I even breathe?! It was birds, there were screaming with me, so angry. "I'm sorry!" I cried then I collapsed and fell to my knees. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." I hunched over and let my face smother into the grass. "Please" I managed to gasp. "I'm sorry…"

 

The phone in my pocket rang.

 

"Hello?" I said.

 

"Hey, I'm here." Maria said.

 

"Ayight." I hung up and walked outside, got into the car and left for school. Parking was horrible. Max pulled up in his brown truck beside us. I laughed at him. His hood was smoking and his tail pipe was leaking. That’s not supposed to happen.  I got out of the car and said hello to him. He just smiled and tried to hide his face. He was obviously embarrassed about his tuck.

 

“So when are you going to get a new truck?” I asked.

 

“I’m not. I’m going to use the engine and replace it on another truck.”

 

“It doesn’t look like your engine works.”

 

“It does, you just have to know how to work it.” He said offended. I laughed and walked away. School goes really slow when you’re not allowed to sleep. Finally 7^th period comes and it’s a teacher I can ignore.  

My gym teachers trying to teach, I'm trying to sleep.

 

"How dare you!"

"S**t!"

"I can't believe you!"

"I thought you were my friend!"

The blackness covers me, at least I think it does, I'm not about to open my eyes to find out.

Then there’s a ringing

 

The bell rudely interrupted me from my dream, although with how things were going I’m glad to be rescued.  Finally its 9^th period and my last class. A guy in a red shirt comes in and sits beside me.

 

"Hey" he said.

 

"Hi Max." I said. Chemisty is the most bring subject I have ever been forced to take in this place. Not to mention anyone who talks about science just can’t get excited about it so their voices all sound the same. Droning on about something no one cares about. I can’t help but slip back into the abyss of my dream land. A place much more fitting for someone of the likes of me. A place of a adventure where rules are broken, the few that exist and a place where nothing has to make sense.

 

I opened my eye despite the taunting words I heard. Then the taunting stops. There's just a log. That’s all I see. He's in there, I know he is but I'm still too weak to free him so instead I sit beside the log and lay down beside it, the broken eggs on top now so I watched it change from red to blue. I touch it. It's still hot. I looked inside and see a pebble. Pebbles don't belong in egg so I put it in my pocket.

 

"Hey, wake up we've got a minute left." Max poked my side and I glared at him sleepily as I was torn into consciences again. Then I smiled and stretched my arms.

 

"What are you doing today?" I asked him.

 

"Why?"

 

"I wanted to see if you wanted to chill." I waited fro the normal 'I'm busy'.

 

"Yeah, sure." He said.

 

"Okay, I'll meet you at you locker?"

 

"Yeah."

 

The bell rang, my heart was racing. He always made an excuse not to chill when ever I asked him. I don’t know why I kept asking him but I figured eventually he’d say yes, and look here, he did. He was leaning against his locker when I walked up to him.

 

"Let's go" he said and we walked out to his car.

 

"So what are we doin'?"I asked him.

 

"Playing a game." He said coyly. He looked at me and smiled. It sent shivers down my spine. He started the car and peeled out of the parking lot.

 

"Whoa, what's your rush?" I asked. I was nervous but I trusted him and let the excitement take hold.

 

"I already told you, I want to play a game."

 

"What game?"

 

"My game." He said. I sighed; he wasn't going to give me a straight answer. He jetted out into the highway. We were driving a good 10 minutes before he took a left into a dirt road. The sign said "Do Not Enter" and the chain fence was broke, we obviously weren't supposed to be there. I sat up and looked around and we drove into a field which was surrounded by woods. He shut the car off at the edge of the woods and booked at me. "Ready to play?" I backed against the door.

 

"I don't know, what's the game?" He leaned in closer and I started searching for the handle but then I locked the doors by accident. He reached under my seat and pulled out a case. I unlock the door. "What's that?" He unzipped the case and flipped the top over.

 

"A paint ball gun!!" there was two in his lap.

 

"No way!" I should. I'm so excited. I grab a gun, it's loaded. "Let's go!" we both jump out of the car and take off into the woods. The grass is so tall I can barely see over it. I automatically go to the tallest tree I can find. It's so quite. I look out into the field and scan for him. The grass isn't moving. I don't see him. I adjust my seat; there was a stick in my rump.

 

I reached up to the branch above me then I crushed it. Yolk fell onto my head. I stood up and looked at the next. The small fetuses of baby birds are crushed under the blue shell. My hands are covered in blood and I want to puke. I do.

 

"Oh my god!! What the f**k?!" I heard from below. I look about 20 feet below me to see Max jumping around. I threw up on his shoe.

 

"I'm sorry!" I called down. I look back over and look at the broken next again. The blue eggs looked like they had veins. I felt bad that I hurt them then there was the red egg. It was hatched. I reached inside my pocked and grabbed my lucky pebble. I put it inside of the red shell then I wiped my hand off.

 

"I'm sorry Max!" I said. I climbed down the tree halfway and looked down. Max was gone. I looked around and I couldn't see him. I sat on the branch nervous. I pulled out my gun in front of me and started scanning.

 

I heard 3 soft pops then a split second later felt them in my back. On to my shoulder, on to my spine and the other shoulder. I fell forward and attempted to grab a branch but only fell straight down to the ground. It knocked the wind out of me and then I blacked out.

 

The sunflower was so tall. It was the tallest on and it was red. It looked like it had veins in its stalk. I walked through the fields just floating along, actually I was floating and I was okay with that. I finally reached the flower and I grabbed a hold.

 

Max was above me, typical cliché damsel in distress scene. "I'm fine" I say. "It wasn't even a flesh wound" He held up his hand which was covered in blood and gave me a look. "Where's that from?"

 

"Don't worry about it, come one." He picked me up, another damsel in distress scene I thought.

 

"I can walk" I argued.

 

"No you can't" he said. I looked myself over and every, we actually I couldn't see myself because he covered me in his swear shirt. Once he put me in the car I remembered his gun.

 

"Oh no your gun!" I opened up the door and fell flat on my face. I don't know why it didn't hurt sooner but on my god did it hurt! I screamed and cried. I looked back and saw my leg. It was broken and bleeding. Max rushed over, and fell over. I laughed through my tears. His face was covered with mud and he was all dirty. I couldn't stop laughing. Here I am with a broken leg and he falls. I laughed so hard that my stomach hut and I was crying so hard. I was such a mess. He finally goes to ..me and helped me back into the car. Too bad he was laughing too.

 

I'm not quite sure why it was so funny, but it was. I was hunched over, out of breath laughing and crying but I didn't want to stop because laughing took away the pain. Max was laughing but then he stopped and the mood changed.

 

"Shut up!" he whispered harshly. He words scared me so I froze. I looked up and there was a shiny metal fence in front of us. It wasn't there before. I looked around nervously. The was when I felt my head go. I was suddenly so light headed I thought I was floating. I grabbed a hold of Maxes arm and fell, which way I'm not sure but I fell.

 

The sunflower stalk was warm in my hand. I grabbed it with the other and looked up the flower was way above me so I just floated up to it. I gently lie down across the flower and let if cover me. It felt like what sunflower looks like it should feel like. It was soft and hard at the same time. Completely comfortable and best of all it was my favorite color; red.

 

I suppose that you want to hear that I woke up in a hospital bed or under the lights with aliens surrounding me but I didn’t. I never woke up. I stayed in my flower and just lay there, content in my dream world. I always thought that when you died that this place wouldn’t exist anymore. That you would go to heaven or hell but I guess you just get trapped in your dreams. Its quite a fitting end I suppose, and it just feels right. I don’t know what happened to max or who was at the field. All I know for sure Is that here I lay, sleeping on a sunflower, in a world of dreams.

 

 

Author's Note

this is based off a dream