The sound of a falling water droplet woke me up.
"..........Where am i........"
Everything was pitch black as if you were looking into a dark, black void.
I heard it again, the sound of dropping water it sounded like a poorly closed faucet. but I paid it no intention As I was trying to remember what happened
"Ahh, I remember now.....I was in that garbage dump, then I saw that beggar that I wanted to save, but he pushed me in the incinerator"
I hear the water dropping....this time clearer than before
"I never helped anybody; I was scared to do so and it made me despise myself, and when I finally charge up enough courage to help somebody.....I die incinerated....with garbage"
the water droplets fall faster now with each time clearer than before; it started to annoy me
".......was I that disgusting........"
"...If I just didn't help that guy like I did with others before him. if only I didn't go to that garbage dump. if only that heart of mine didn't ache every time I didn't help someone in need"
".......I could've been alive, not that I really loved it or anything, but my life had many good things that I didn't really appreciate it"
now the water dropping water became louder and louder and faster as if someone was slowly opening the faucet as I slowly realize that even though I can't feel my body I can still talk and feel regret.
"DO YOU WISH TO LIVE, MATT?" A clash of different sounds echoed all around me.
"Wait! Who is there! I CANT SEE ANYTHING DAMN IT!" I screamed back at the echo
"DO YOU WISH YOU HAVE NEVER HAD THAT WEAK HEART OF YOURS, MATT?" The Echo asked me
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".....yes.....I wish I didn't have a human heart, I want to live" I replied desperately to that weird sinister echo
"WELL, MATT, I GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANT!" it replied
And just like that, I was capable of opening my eyes and looking around. I was in a very deep pit with a poor stream of sunlight, naked but I had all my limbs and no burn marks which made me think that what a happened with that echo was a dream.
I started climbing the pit trying to grab anything to push me up to the point that I, sometimes, had to push my fingers and legs inside the pit's wet and sticky walls. I fell a couple of times from varying heights which was supposed to hurt but I didn't feel anything.I screamed for help but it doesn't look like someone was near a garbage dump, if I was still there anyway.
I didn't have a choice but to climb. I climbed for a couple of times again but I failed, then the thought that this was much of a workout that my heart should ache struck me and I checked my heartbeats which didn't look like there were any. I didn't even feel surprised or shocked; I didn't even feel anything. it was like I was really dead but not. Was what happened with that echo real or not. Am I alive or not.
all of that was more of a reason to get me working on coming out of this pit as soon as possible!
I started climbing and I was so close to falling but I punished the wall with my hand so hard it stuck in, even though I am not that strong, and I started climbing again.
As I reached the top the, sun became more visible until I finally reached the top.
okay, I wasn't in a garbage dump. I was nowhere to be described as a garbage dump! this was a place stricken by an apocalypse of some sort! debris of demolished buildings, limbs of people and decayed corpses were everywhere, and dark smoke was coming out of burning buildings.
I walked with the pit behind me and grabbed worn out clothes of a dead body, decayed to the point that u can't see anything but a black skull and some remains of bones, I wore the clothes just in case I meet somebody in this mess.
I don't know what happened, maybe a great war or something, it just seems like I was in that pit for far too long.
I couldn't recognize a thing around me; I was so curious about what happened, this amount of dead people varying in age from young children to old men and women is not normal. surprisingly, I just continued walking as if the corpses were just some sort of rocks
I walked until I saw a destroyed building that I recognized; it was my house, where my family lives or, to be more precise, lived, was totally annihilated.
and again, I didn't feel a bit sad.
I took a deep breath of which made me realize that I was not breathing until now and I continued walking to where my school is.
I came across a small store where I picked a newspaper with the date of (2117/09/23) I know I was in the pit for a long time but I never thought that it would be as long as a hundred year because I am sure it was 2017 when I went to that FUCKING GARBAGE DUMP! that said, the headline of the newspaper which was 'PROFESSOR ZAYLOF FINDS AN ANGEL THAT COULD SAVE HUMANITY FROM THE VICIOUS DEMONS' left a stronger reaction of ' WHAT THE FUCK?! ' on my face.