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Part 3 (final)

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Mister chestnut-hair-dude cocked his head at me with a small shake with his head.
I felt like a little kid who tried to tie her shoelaces and always and stubbornly made it the wrong way.
“Fine then. “ He said and glanced away. “I’ll show you where Charlie is…”
My face brightened. “Really?”
He nodded.
I smiled wider.
“Really, really?”
“Yes, really.”

Le gasp!
Bed, sofa, TV, microwave, computer, carpet, toilet…

Oh bliss!

I giggled happily before I threw myself at him, hugging him.
He smelled like my vacuum-cleaner.
“Oh I love you!”

Him, that is, not the vacuum-cleaner.

He gave me a slightly confused and shaky smile in return, like he wasn’t sure if he should be flattered or terrified.
Vee clicked with his tongue and rolled his eyes annoyed.
“Oh don’t worry, she says that to everyone.”
“No I don’t!”
“Shut up.”

The whatshisname-with the hair- motioned us to follow as he walked over to a small door not far from where we stood.
It was a small door. I mean really small. I’m talking Alice-in-wonderland-sized-small-door if you know what I mean.
He pointed at it. “In there…”
He made a happy little chuckle that made me think of some old cartoon show from the 30s.

Uuumm…

I kneeled down and pushed the up the tiny door with one finger. I tried to peek inside.

Nothing. Only darkness.

I glanced up at Vee. He just shrugged.
I scowled and was about to look over to the man with my best you’re-crazy-thinking-a-house-would-fit-in-there-kind of look.
But to my utterly and horrible rage; he wasn’t looking.
In fact, he wasn’t even there at all.
I stood up, steaming.
“Where did he go now?”
Vee shrugged.
“Did he just ditch us?”
Another shrug.
“The bastard!”
Vee flashed me a grin. “We could always try and get to the roof and look for Charlie from there…” he said, pointing at the stairs that apparently lead to the upper floor.

Oh more stairs…wondrous!

Still I thought it was a pretty good idea, so I followed him up. These stairs however, did not lead any higher than to the roof. And they were no hard to climb this time either.
Seconds later we were standing on the roof of the building.
I remember that I was wondering why we didn’t get sucked away….With the stars and the dark of space, surrounding us once again.
Well at least we had a floor under our feet and we didn’t rotate uncontrollably.
Vee handed me some binoculars, and no, I have no idea where he got them from.
Doesn’t really matter anyway.
I took it and held it up against my eyes.
I felt like I was on a ship.

Hey ho and a bottle of rum…

Nothing…nothing…
Nothing except stars…. But then my eyes suddenly fixed on one of the stars. I quickly realized that it was a falling one.
Or a comet more likely…whatever…same thing…
I narrowed my eyes and used a small button on the binoculars to zoom in.
I zoomed in more. It was like I was getting closer to the falling star as I zoomed in.

Zooming…closer…zooming…zooming…

“Careful!” I heard Vee say before the star suddenly…exploded.
Like a glass hitting the floor, it splintered into a million of small, small glittering little pieces. And it flew right towards us, until it finally hit us in the face. (Yes, even though it was so far away)
I dropped the binoculars to the floor with a loud ‘clang’ and coughed as the star-dust hit my face.
(And somewhere around here, I must’ve woken up, because I remember staring at the roof in my room, coughing. I could still feel the star splinters in my throat.)
I kicked away the binoculars and watched as they flied upwards and started to float away slowly.
Suddenly mister chestnut-whatshisface showed up again beside me. He had a terrified look on his face.
Vee scoffed at him. “You just love to disappear and then suddenly show up and look all…”
He gestured towards him, trying to find word but the man cut him off.
“We must leave! Now!”
I blinked confused. “What? Why?” I was getting sort of anxious by his pale face and widened eyes.
“I thought he was dead but noooo!” he rambled, ignoring me.
Vee wrinkled his eyebrows irritated. “Who?”
He just shifted his eyes nervously.
I looked up to the sky and noticed how all the stars all of a sudden started to move towards each other.
Vee and I stared at the stars as they slowly collided, creating one big star.
One…smaller star…light…lamp...wait…roof?
I looked down again and we were now standing in a large dark room.
And then I heard it. A loud moaning...
Confused I looked up again, and with a loud gasp both Vee and I took a step backwards.

Five young people were floating in the air above us, forming a circle, faces down and eyes closed.
Beneath their faces there were five mirrors. One to each of them.
“What the hell is going ON!” I demanded to know. My voice bounced against the cold walls.

One of the persons above suddenly screamed.
Our heads tilted backwards in surprise, staring up at them. One of the floating people stared wide eyed on the mirror. He started to shake his head violently and clench his teeth.
My lips parted in chock.
He was…aging.

Mmmkay… aawkwaard
Two steps backwards…

Wrinkles appeared on his face pretty rapidly and his cheeks and eyes seemed to sink in to his skull. Soon he looked like a living skeleton.
Slowly the rest started to open their eyes. I panicked and jumped up, trying to reach the mirrors so I could smash them to the floor. But they were too high.

Damn… there goes another chance to save the day…

“Don’t look in the mirrors!” I shouted at them.
Too late.
Soon they were all wrinkly elders...
They flailed with their arms and legs helplessly, as they were hanging in the air. Anything to get away.
“Coffee..!! Must…drink…coffee!!!” one of them hissed out.

Oh no! …Coffee?
I thought
They’re really getting older! Isn’t there ANY hope…?

“Bingo!! I WANT TO PLAY BINGOOO!!”

Okay they’re beyond all hope.

The room changed again. I took a step closer to Vee as everything, except for us two, started to fade to a dark-grey blur.


“I still haven’t found Charlie…” I whispered as I stared at the surroundings changing.
“I still don’t have my playstation…” He whispered back.
“Pff… is that all you miss?”
“No.”

Mmkay…short and simple statement… If I knew him right, that meant he didn’t want to develop that.

Stars floated by.
Planets
Comets
UFOs
Trees
Wait…
Cows…?
Vee tipped his head to the side watching it curiously.
“Can you hear that?”
“Hear what?”
“The music?”

And I listened.

I woke up at 11.30 am when the cat jumped up on my bed.

And somewhere in the back of my mind,
I could hear the lingering solo of an electric guitar.

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