Gone

Authors Note:  Hey there, Chapters are going to be slow due to IRL things like school, etc.

Chapter One: Same Stuff Different Day - Thirteen years later

In the middle of my little memory train of a dream I began to hear an annoying buzzing noise but ignored it. The noise continues which forces me to wake up. I open my eyes and I clean the sleep out of them so I can clearly see what’s making that noise. I look and I notice that it was my alarm clock making the buzzing noise so I turn it off.

“Same stuff different day” I tell myself reminding me that school life is nothing but a wash, rinse, repeat cycle.

I got up and shambled towards the bathroom but Fluttershy was in it already with the sink on so it told me that she had already taken a shower. “Hey!” I had yelled “Hurry up!” the sink had turned off all of a sudden.

“I’m not done yet…If…umm…that’s okay with you.”  She had quickly replied

I sigh, “Oh, ok sorry.” I turn around walk back to my room to pick out what I should wear.

Looking through my closet I notice a pair of jeans I haven’t worn yet “Huh? Why didn’t I wear these yet?”  I take those and a blue and black striped hoodie.

I’m putting on my pants when my phone tells me I have a new message from someone. I pick it up to see that there was no message “Frickin phone service”  I get up and I walk towards the bathroom door hoping Fluttershy is still not in there.

What’s taking so long?

             I knock on the door and it slightly opens which makes me wonder how in the heck did she do that?

She’s like a ninja or something

I did what I needed to do, went back into my room to get my hoodie and I ran downstairs to eat breakfast when I notice that Fluttershy had beat me there already eating cereal. She then notices me as I open the fridge for the milk. I grab the milk, some frosted flakes, and a bowl. I sit down and I start eating when Fluttershy tells me “Morning.”

“Hey.” I reply in a somber mood not really wanting to talk. “What’s the matter? You barely act like this.” Fluttershy had said causing me to stop chewing and swallow. “It’s just that it’s the same thing we go through over and over. Wake, Learn, Work, repeat. We haven’t really did something fun in three years!” Fluttershy begins to look a bit frightened. “Look I’m sorry, it’s just…” I sigh. “I really wish we could do something enjoyable for once in forever.”

After two minutes of silence I put my bowl in the sink and then I head upstairs to put up completed homework into my book bag and my phone in my pocket. I’m heading downstairs where Fluttershy would wait for me but she wasn’t there like usual.

Where did she go?

“Fluttershy?” I call out for her. “I-I’m over here.” I look up to see her peak out of her room. “Oh, no rush.”My phone suddenly vibrates in my pocket so I pull it out to check it and there was yet again an empty text from someone with no name. It just gets me puzzled every time and sort of freaked out a bit like someone is stalking me. Who is this no-name and why is he/she or it sending me these empty texts? Unless it’s some jerk from high school found my number through something.

What a loser, stalking someone

I put my phone back in my pocket as I noticed Fluttershy coming downstairs slowly “What’s the problem” I asked. “Oh, it’s…umm…nothing really.” It seemed legit to me but I knew that she was trying to hide something. But what would she hide from me? Probably nothing and I should stop worrying. “Ready?” I ask her. “Yeah I guess.” She had shyly replied. Fluttershy technically lived up to the *Shy* part in her name. As we elevated in grades she would never talk to anyone or even raise her hand in class. Although it seemed as a benefit since she always gets straight A’s I’m the only she would really talk to.

It seems like it’s not my problem but I think I should help her make new friends.

I put my little…more like important goal in the back of my head as we walk out the front door. Outside it seemed kind of chilly and there was thick fog surrounding everything giving us only a four foot view of what is in front of us. “Man, I can’t even see my hands!” I said jokingly but Fluttershy didn’t get it saying “I can see mine so why can’t you see yours?” Her reply supported why I should help her make friends or maybe even get her a boyfriend. But I should stay out of her business about that.

“Hey Fluttershy?”  I look at her. “Yes Sikanto?” I try to think how I can start a conversation with her about making new friends. “When we get to school you want to try and make friends?” “No, why?”  “Come on Fluttershy, You need friends now and I don’t want you to be lonely.” I get worried for her reply. “Why are you talking to me about this Sikanto? I…umm…Really don’t like talking about this.” Her reply makes me start to feel a bit down on myself.

She’s right, who am I to judge her quickly like that. Arrgh damn it! I just made her feel sorry for herself. She can just be herself, but still I hate to see her alone. I’m confused and angry with myself. I just need to snap out of it.

“Oh, we’re here.” We had arrived at the school but something was wrong here. The entire front entrance is completely empty and nobody was around.“W-Where is everybody Sikanto? I-I’m getting scared.” Fluttershy begins to hide behind me and latches her arm around my waist. “I’m sort of spooked as well but I bet we can find at least someone or something.” I slowly crept up the steps with Fluttershy behind me, in full alert my mind begins to be filled with questions.

Where is everybody? Why is the school empty? Was there a sudden day off or was there a change of plans?

But a word floated around singing a song of hatred and despair. A word I have not felt since thirteen years ago. That word was none other than……Emptiness.