The Collision
It was a day like any other, men coming home to their wives, others getting stuck in traffic, couples honeymooning and giving into labor. The beggers begging, the finders, finding, and the rich stuffing themselves fat and not sharing with the poor, and pets getting tossed out onto the street, meanwhile rescued by others with a warmer heart. It was a typical day in the life, it was so typical that little girls in highschool were wearing their hearts on their sleeve and getting their hearts broken by player boys, and the nice boys getting their hearts broken by the same girls who would rather be with the bad boys. It was a vicious cycle of employment and then people running to get unemployment checks, others applying social security, others losing their virginity, others going on grocery runs. In fact, it was too vicious a cycle that everything was too normal and it all happened again and again, so many divorce lawyers out there making enough money to ensure that no one had a happy ending and way too many priests and judges to ensure that everyone had a marriage to be divorced from. It was so normal that it was even terrifying how monotonous everything had become, how asleep everyone really was, I mean, what else are people supposed to do but grow up, get jobs, fall in love, marry, have kids, and repeat? It may be monotony, but it's the most precious form of monotony if lived day by day, second to second, if truly savored by the minute like your most desired and favorite dish, but today was different. Today was the day for the earth to mourn for something would soon happen, that would destroy everything beautiful that anyone has ever known. It would destroy that vicious cycle that we all live for and love. It would even try to destroy the hope for existence. That night the universe must have been filled with greed or anger or something beyond explainable, for it decided to punish them all.
"Look Daddy! Look!" A little five year old boy with ruffled up dark brown hair and little boy bangs over his bright, wide eyes looked up and pointed at the sky.
His father was unattentive.
"Daddy!! Daddy look, you're going to miss it!"
"Charlie, I'm talking on the phone!!" His father was flustered with frustration and didn't pay him any attention, instead scolded him.
"I know Daddy but-!" The little boy whined and grew saddened. It seemed as though his father always did this to him.
Meanwhile up among the stars was a soul trapped inside of one of them. She grew close to look through the glass and flames but she didn't burn. All she could see was the eternal dark night of outerspace and be astonished by the light of the stars, and not just the stars but of the sun, the planets, and the mother star. She always looked at the earth from afar with desire, it was a desire so deep. It was an eternal longing and a never ending cease to her wondering thoughts, suddenly she touched the edge of the glass of the star wherein she was eternally trapped and she pushed against it with gentleness once, twice, a bit harder this time. It didn't budge. With the third budge, she threw the whole weight of her sorrow and sadness and screamed, "I wish there was something more!"
Precisely her star went shooting out of control, spinning out of the constellation and then it froze, in a space much farther apart than the other stars, "No, oh no!" She whispered to herself gasping. "No, no, no, no, no!!" She gasped.
She was stuck, outside of the constellation. Suddenly all of the floating asteroids and rocks began to shift out of place and a loud sound was heard as a very strange space craft entered into the Milky Way.
It stormed through and crashed into the Mother Star, and shifted all of the other stars that were a part of her constellation out of place. The winds were exceeding and gravity was no more potent and all of the planets begin to shift out of place and fall into the depths of the darkness, so did all of the stars except for their constellation and her star for it was still near by.
The little boy resumed to look at the sky. "Daddy...what's that?" Now his voice sounded very scared.
"I know that there's no tow truck that's going to come at this hour but I can't be out here in the middle of nowhere with my kid! It's dark, and there's no bathroom and no food, I don't understand why you can't just get off of your lazy ass and come get us. It's not for me. It's for Charlie, you're the boy's f*****g mother!" His father screamed.
Suddenly earth felt a sudden drop, and his father looked up at the sky and everything began to shake, suddenly he and the car and his little boy began to float up into the air slowly as earth was falling eternally into nothingness and out of its orbit.
"Dad-!!" Charlie uttered out slow, a bit scared.
"Charlie!!!" His father reached for him but he was too far and they just kept getting more and more distant.
"Daddy!!!" He screamed, "...I can't breathe!"
"Try to hold your breath." His father began to panic, he could barely breathe himself. He felt really sick to the stomach now. Suddenly all of the stars collided into the Mother Star and formed a huge explosion and fell into the earth so hard that everything shook.
In another part of the world there was a guy on top of his girl kissing her in the car, in the passengers seat when suddenly the car went flying up into the sky. "What the f**k!? We're being abducted!!"
"I didn't even believe in alien invasions!!" She began to freak.
"Neither did I!!" He screamed. "What do we do!? What do we do!?"
"I don't know!?"
Trailers were flying around, trees that pulled out of the ground, pieces of house that pulled away from them, some rooves, puppies, people, animals, shopping carts, things that reached the final layers of the atmosphere were burning and disentigrating.
Suddenly as the stars collided in one began to fall to the earth, a loud sound was heard and a splendor of light, her star fell too, but it fell all by itself. There were two explosions. One was small, but the Mother Star's explosion was huge. It made a huge dent in the earth and broke the ground. The space craft restored gravity and the freakishly low temperatures began to rise. Oxygen was starting to be restored and everything and everyone was falling really fast out of the sky.
Charlie was almost lifeless and turning blue. His eyes were closing. He could barely speak and was mostly disoriented by now.
"Charlie, Charlie, can you breathe!?"
Suddenly the loud explosion cut open the earth and split it and where the mother star fell and created a large hole in the ground, flooded with water which came out of very deep from below the ground, and it filled every crack from the earth quake. He could no more speak.
Charlie finally fell to the ground and on top of him fell the car crushing his organs. His father fell too, dead, crushing his craneum at the same time as getting a stick stuck through his abdomen upon his impact with the ground, and just like that, the bodies were multiplied.
The vehicle came crashing down again, it fell on its side and turned over upside down, flipping over several times. The boy closing his eyes tight, holding on for dear life. When the spinning finally stop he felt the loud thud of a body falling on his window. He opened his eyes and jumped when he saw the dead dog against his drivers window. When he looked through the front glass he saw all the dead bodies and all of the fallen degree and junk. Then he looked at his girl immediately, "Monica! Monica, Monica, Monica!!" He began to scream and he grabbed her neck and face gently and began to sob hard. She was dead, out cold. She had no pulse and her body was freezing cold.