Awakenings_(2)

Awakenings

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Tahir stepped onto the sidewalk as he started his walk to work. His head was pounding from all the drinking he had done last night. The neighbor’s dog was in rare form barking his fucking little head off. Damnit you little mutt shit the hell up my head feels like it is going to explode. Just as suddenly, as quick as it started, the dog was quiet. Looking back the dog was laying down acting almost afraid of him.

Damn that’s weird, that little shit was never quiet when he went by. Continuing on he was about half way to work when a car ran off the road straight at him. Almost in a panic he put his hand out on instinct and screamed “No STOP!” closing his eyes his head was pounding harder when he heard the crushing and crunching of metal but no pain from the car having hit him. Tentatively he opened his opened his eyes, then they opened even wider, the front of the car was crushed almost as if a giant had squeezed it, stopping it cold.

Tahir just stood there in shock as the driver jumped out of his car and ran to him asking if he was alright. All he knew at that moment was that his head hurt and he just wanted to be alone. There was a whoosh amd he was on a hill overlooking the city. What the hell?! he knew where he was, it was a camping ground he had visited last year, at least 20 miles from where he was. Damnit his head was hurting but the quiet here was so good. He just hoped that the people that had seen him there didn’t remember that they had seen him.
“Ah fuck I just want to go home I’ll call in but how to get home?”
Suddenly there was another whoosh and he was at home in his bedroom. Ok this was starting to get weird.

Laying down he grabbed the phone and called work he knew they would probably fire him, he didn’t see why, since he felt he was important to them so as he dialed he hoped that they didn’t and would tell him that they wanted to be careful and be back soon, as he was important to them. Tahir’s mouth dropped agape what the hell? They had never shown the concern for him that they just had.

Thinking back he couldn’t seem to remember the party last night, going there yes, walking in yes, but that was the last thing he remembered after he had taken that first drink that his doctor friend had handed him. Turning on the t.v. he decided to watch the news,
“Our top story this am, a driver sustained major damage to his car today when he ran off the road uptown. Though no one was hurt and no pedestrians were nearby, the extent of the damage is an oddity as the driver hit nothing solid and sustained any injuries either.”
“I was driving along when I lost control, I thought I was going to kill someone when I ran over the sidewalk, but thank god that noone was walking there at that time.”

Tahir’s mouth dropped agape again for the second time in just 10 minutes. What the hell was going on? I was there, huh? He remembered that he had wanted noone to remember that he had been there but it had just been an idle thought. Then of course, there was the fact that he had disappeared in the first place and ended up at the park he had visited last year. This day was getting stranger and stranger. Watching t.v. for an hour his head finally down to a dull ache he fell asleep. The dream he had was the strangest of all, in it he was at the party after taking a drink he had passed out and had been taken to the back of the doctor’s house.

Once they were there the doctor had undressed him and did a full examination of him and then bathed his entire body in a strange light.