The Strange Town
By Jayna Tenney
What a boring day. People are going about their daily grind,
shopping, playing the same old games, yatta yatta yatta. I wish
something would happen today. I walk past the same old
buiildings, walk on the same old streets, do the same old things
until I saw a girl frantically searching around the ground,
searching for something important, I assume. I walk over to
her and ask what she's missing.
"I-I lost my necklace," she says with a shaky voice. I look
around the area a bit before she said she already looked
around here. I sighed before I turned to ask its appearance.
This is gonna be a looooong day, I thought. "It's a turquoise
necklace... the stone is in the shape of a heart. Um, could you
look by the pier for it?" the girl asked me. Her face was
pleading for help. Whatever this necklace meant to her, it was
clearly more important than pretty much everything. I know the
feeling...
As I made my way to the pier, old memories resurface. They
were fond ones, such happy, bright things...but, I don't want to
remember what they show me. Not now. Not until she comes
back.
Then, I noticed a man following another. The man was
completely gray. And I don't mean his hair was gray or his
clothes, but even his skin and eyes. The man that he was
following was a battered young man, a scar or two on his face
and dry, wrinkly hands. He was holding something...I wasn't
sure what it was. Maybe the necklace the girl lost perhaps.
Another girl walked up to him, she was young as well. I believed
she moved to town when...I was about to ask the man, before
he and the girl changed, and he and the girl weren't human...at
all.
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