LITTLE PROJECT
353 Words
The sun is already up.He draws his curtains and switches off his lights.The vision board looks better when it is dark.Jude stands on his bed and takes it out of the ceiling and places it on his reading table.The little lights he has placed on the edges are beginning to flicker.He needs new batteries soon.He steps back to look at it carefully.The little house he has placed in the middle needs some repainting.He thinks again about replacing the ocean and then votes against it. Maybe old is gold. The cut out of a car is still in shape and two lions by the big oak tree are perfect.He smiles. The only thing missing is a desert and an oasis.
"What should I call this?" Jude thinks as he looks on at each cutting, sitting in their rightful place.
"Kalas"
Jude falls back to his bed in shock.Something or someone had spoken.He frantically looks under his bed, behind his curtains and in his closet.Nothing there, nothing out of place.
"Kalas"
The sound is louder now. His eyes meets the vision board.He approaches slowly,not believing what he had heard.
Does the vision board have life?
He is afraid to hold it .All of a sudden, his homely cut outs that had been his dream look strange.He is struggling to understand what is happening.He is closer now.On a more penetrative look, nothing seems out of place. He sighs in relief and thinks maybe he is just hearing sounds.
"Kalas"
The vision board falls down .Wind opens the window in jerk and one of the curtains falls.He screams rushing to close the window.
"Everything okay?" His mother shouts from her room.
"Yes,mum.Sorry for that."He says, lifting up the vision board. He is now terrified and lost. Is the vision board speaking to him or is he running mad?
He picks it up and places it on the ceiling again giving it one look and leaving his room to go gather thoughts on what had just happened.
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