The Shot
The rattle started at 6:45 am , the bang bang hurt my earlobes . I stretched a couple of times , my feet were freezing cold , even though I was wearing the most comfortable and cozy pajamas . I moved my hand and clicked the button so my alarm would stop making such a rattle . Gently and as a zombie , I rose from my bed and headed to the bathroom . As always , I checked the time and date on my Iphone . It marked 6:53 am Thursday February 3rd , 2036 . What had happened ? At first , I thought my sister had played a joke with me and changed the time and date of my phone . I shouted my sister ’ s name , “ Ana ! Ana ! This isn ’ t funny .” But as I shouted her name , my parents told me she did not live at home anymore . My eyes were wide open and I started to have an anxiety attack . My hands kept sweating and my head started to hurt . There were just tons of possibilities I could not stop overthinking the situation . Where was she living ? How old was I ?
Meanwhile , my parents looked at me shocked , they thought was drunk . Their confused and worried eyes made me want to cry . Before I could even try to control my emotions , I was already crying , screaming and crying again about what had happened for the last twenty years .
My mom was super confused and kept rubbing her hands , she kept telling me that last night I had dinner with her and we had talked about my future life plans . But I knew that wasn ’ t not possible . I remembered going to the hospital last night to get a flu shot against the flu . And now I was just crying twenty years later . The more I tried to think about and solve the situation , the more scared I got .
It was time to go out to the street . I had to get out of those four walls that trapped me . There had to be answers somewhere else . Plus , some fresh air will help my headache . As I managed to change clothes to the most fashionable outfit possible , I walked out of my house , and towards the mall , the place where I used to spend most of my afternoons .
At the mall everybody looked at me as if I was a different creature ; clearly I was out of style the fashion trend . My favorite stores : Forever21 , Abercrombie , and Hollister were now unpopular boutiques that had the entire store on sale before closing the market . As I walked my way through the pathways I knew existed I found myself on a world that was unknown . Nor the people , nor the food , nor the technologies matched what I had lived . Everything seemed unknown , even the way people communicated .
The mall had clearly been a terrible idea , at least as a first way to discover what revolved around me . Therefore , I decided that in order to be able to live in this new life , I had to find what caused this entire situation . Find the problems that had made me not progress in my life .
As I returned home , I grabbed my phone , looked at the screen once again at the date and realized I had a missed called from Robert . Quickly , I grabbed the phone and returned his call ; I had no idea of who he was , but at least it was a chance for discovering who I was . He told me we had been dating for the last couple of weeks , but I did not know . I told him about the situation and he was very pissed because he thought I was lying . I cried all night wishing everything had been a very realistic dream , yet I woke up finding out that I had 16 of 33