Status: ongoing (updates every Saturday @ 5pm uk time)
Jeremiah is the last person Dee should be friends with - after all, he broke her best friend's heart. But when both of them get entangled in a strange extraterrestrial experience, they're forced...
So, where are these people taken to? And what happens to them afterwards? And why are some people let go off, like me, Jeremiah and Agatha?
I rest my back on the shelf behind me. I've always had some sort of belief in this whole thing since the beginning but, I've never really been one to dig deeper into things. I've always been one to not pay attention to crises I see on the news and just pretend that it's not happening. It's pretty much worked for me until now.
Because now, it's happened to me. It would've been easy for me to forget about it if Jeremiah hadn't been there with me and experienced it too. I would've just chucked everything up into a dream.
So, maybe Jeremiah and I will develop some sort of ability? Maybe my senses are gonna open up and I'm gonna be good at math all of a sudden? That'd be really cool though. It'd be cool to turn my C's into A's, so I'd look a little good on my college applications.
I decide to send a text to Mike.
Dee: So do you think I'll get some special ability too?
Mike T: Seems likely
Dee: Oooh what do you think I'll get?
Mike T: A better dress sense?
Dee: I hate you 😡 and my dress sense is just fine!
Mike T: 😁
Mike T: You know I'm just playing
Mike T: Who knows what ability you're gonna get
Dee: But its also possible that I wouldn't get any
Dee: You said it yourself, only a few people have claimed to have developed special abilities like this
Mike T: Yeah but a researcher said that he believes a lot of other madmen has developed these abilities but they're unaware of them
Mike T: He'd make more findings on this but, it's a rather controversial topic so he can't really do much
Mike T: Most people are shitting on madmen who say this
Mike T: But I believe it's true
Mike T: you just gotta pay more attention to yourself. If you notice anything strange with you, note it down. These "abilities" are always diverse so don't look out for what other people already got
Mike T: Just be aware of how you feel
Dee: Thats like, deep dude 🧘🏽♀️
Mike T: gotta go though. We'll talk later. Mr. Norman's giving me the stink eye
I snort, about to send a message back but I freeze when I realise something. My eyes are itchy all of a sudden and tears are developing, my chest is tight, there's a lump in my throat. It's like I'm about to cry. But, why? I know this feeling though, I've felt it many times but, I've always been able to keep my emotions in. As I said before, I'm not a crier. But right now, tears are actually clouding my vision and when I blink, they roll down my cheeks.
But it doesn't end there, more tears start forming, the tightness in my chest grow, and now, I'm full on crying. I can't stop the tears from falling. I sit still, not even knowing what to do. I'm very confused about what's happening to me right now. Why am I crying all of a sudden? Why do I feel so bad right now?
My mind goes straight to that heaviness I felt the whole of yesterday and how foreign it felt and then I realise, even though I'm full on crying, it feels the same way that heaviness felt. It feels like a foreign feeling, a foreign emotion. Like I'm not really the one crying even though I am. I don't really know how to explain it but the feeling's distinct.
I hear someone's footsteps coming close to the aisle I'm at and I quickly move to clean up my tears. I use the back of my arm to wipe them away, feeling it's an hopeless cause because new ones are still forming.
The person reaches the entrance of my aisle and I sigh. I don't want anyone seeing me like this. I look up, wanting to tell the person to give me some privacy but I pause when I see it's Jeremiah standing there.
But...he isn't just standing there.
He's crying.
His eyes are puffy, cheeks tear stained and his chest is heaving.
Before I can say anything, he moves away. I'd go after him but, I'm frozen in my spot because,
Jeremiah's crying.
I'm also crying.
We both experienced a strange phenomenon Wednesday evening. And now we're both crying at the same time.
This isn't a coincidence no matter how much I try to make it seem that way.
Then I remember Mike's words.
you just gotta pay more attention to yourself. If you notice anything strange with you, note it down.
And this definitely qualifies as strange.
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