The half-forgotten
Other half of my short life
In short story form

 
This My Father's Kingdom
11-23-1997

I was at my OLD house, and Jim was out on the front yard shooting baskets with an old basketball rim and a really tiny, flat ball. He wasn't shooting from the driveway, either. Rather, the rim was set up in the smaller part of the yard, newly paved and everything. I went over there and shot a bit. More people came, and more people shot baskets with these flat, tiny balls. Some conversation, but just bragging I think. I couldn't hang with these guys, though, cuz they were all big and I didn't weigh enough. Sometimes I could fall back and dodge and be fast and shit, but not often enough...

...So I decided to head inside the house, where apparently this huge party was going on. Some guy was blocking the door. I supposedly knew him, but he wouldn't let me by...in jest perhaps. I kept bumping him in the chest in an attempt to kinda dislodge him to get by, but again, he was bigger than me and I couldn't. Finally he just let me by.

Inside were tons of people, all sitting in this huge deformed circle...more like a deformed oval, actually. It was dark, with candlelight coming from some mysterious source. The oval was interrupted by a table that people were sitting at, so I sat down at the end of it. There was music playing...lame rave shit...really repetitive techno-type stuff. Everyone there looked like they were really, really bored, in a trance. The room was huge, with high ceilings, too. I put my hand on the shoulder of this girl to my right...she didn't seem to mind. I just sat there, thinking of how they should play some other music. The girl next to me put her head down on the table, kinda nudging up to me. I slumped over as well, kinda resting. I removed my hand from her shoulder.

I turned around and saw Loi walk in. I was suddenly glad I took my hand off that other girl's shoulder. A couple people in the oval moved to make room, and she and I took our place. She was sitting on my left, and she started stroking my arm with hers in some strange way I can't explain. I moved my arm around to her left side and drew her near (in the dream, it was supposed to be Loi, but now that I think of it, she looked like Angela), and she cuddled up with me. I commented on the music, saying how everyone was so bored, etc.

A policeman entered and headed for the corner of the room. He drew back an orange-colored poster, or part of the wall, or something, to reveal a hole. Everyone gasped in shock, and the policeman left. I got this sudden creepy sensation. A moment later, an abnormally white freako, clad mostly in black (like the band "Kiss" now that I think of it, style-wise) stepped out. I stood, raising Loi up with me, who was still in my arms. "Come with me," I said as we kinda started to side-step to the right, towards the wall, when the guy pointed a lead pipe at us and said, "Everybody SIT down." Some other people had stood, also, but they sat down. We did, too. A few more people crawled out of the hole.

Then the next thing I knew, he and Loi were struggling together on the ground, violently, and I wasn't doing a damned thing about it. I didn't think he would actually hurt her, but when he suddenly leaped off, I went to where she was and saw that he'd slashed the ball of her foot. I was furious. I thought one of them was coming for me, and I got ready to fight them, but instead they lunged for the person on my right. I whipped around, saw some Kiss-like chick, and pounded her in the face. The fight was a total blur. Indeed I think I went into a lucid dream state at this point and just declared myself victorious, because noone was left. I knew, however, that one Kiss-chick was hiding under a table. I flipped the table over and a few people helped me dig a few knives into her chest. I looked over at Loi. She was unconscious...comatose. I found this strange device...like a guillotine turned on its side, with a crank. I turned the crank and the guillotine opened, releasing her soul, and she became conscious again. I hugged her in relief.

Then I had a flashback. I was running over rolling, grassy, fields by the ocean. People were working about with cows, linens, foodstuffs, and other peasant-like things. There was a little girl I was playing with, and we would chase each other around the land, but I would never catch her. I ran back over a bridge and into a castle (located at the same place as this room/house).

Then Loi ran out of the building. I chased her outside. It was the exact same scene as in my flashback. She ducked around some people, but I saw where she was going and decided to head her off. I almost had her, but she juked me out, jumping over some rocks to the other side of a hill. I went to cut her off again, and she pulled the same kind of shit. Finally I got ahead of her and dove, landing on the top of the tallest hill around. I could see the castle in the distance, and the ocean was behind me. All around was just grassy hills, and she was a little ways down the hill to my left. She stopped and said, "I need you to be with me." I started to cry, or at least choked up, and replied, "I need you, too. I need your wisdom and the wisdom of your children to come, so that no harm will ever befall this my father's kingdom."

posted by Phlegm at 11/24/2003