I found myself on the bottom of the cup. In the very corner of the round space. I felt exactly as you do being forgotten at the unnoticed shield somewhere in between the books and old newspapers, where no one cares about you. Moreover, where you’ve just been forgotten long back and never been remembered or even noticed anymore.
It was this specific blind place on the shelf, where we keep things in a hurry or rushed ignorance and then never see again unless really meant to. It’s been so long I was not even sure who did it to me. But it doesn’t really matter anyway, it was not an act of evil, but what hurts so much more - innocent indifference.
Sinking and hugging my knees somewhere next to the new life started to appear in this poor cup, even the cave paintings were there from the black tea drunken what felt like centuries ago. This place was not even good enough to die. Cold, dirty and disgusting, but it suited the situation perfectly well.
I couldn’t think straight, couldn’t focus on looking for the resque. That place it’s not something someone had ever been to before. At least that’s exactly the thoughts being planted in my head at the moment. I wanted to cry and I cried, silently asking why do I have to go through all this, what did I do to be so down, to feel so much lost, forgotten, disliked, left and miserable.
I wished that time I could finish it, but I had no enough courage, neither power to cut myself off this desperate existence. Time stopped or it passed fast, but in this case it didn’t really matter, I stopped noticing anything other than my anguish. But after I stopped resisting it came so overwhelming and filling, it brought me up and threw me down, where I laid unless all the memories and sensations were gone.
I resseracted, still not clean and clear enough, still hurt and damaged, but already being able to see, to notice my breath, to stand up. The sound reached my ears. After going deep in the dust of yourself you expect to hear the singing of the phoenix to bring you back, but that was simply the clinking of the keyboard. A little bit louder than usual, but without a doubt that was it. As it got me curious I knew the show is not over yet. As much as I wanted to die a moment of eternity ago, I wanted to know what’s going on outside of this buble now.
Suddenly it appeared that the cup wasn’t this deep, but I got to jump high. Tried and fell. Felt powerless, got angry, jumped too strong, kicked myself, relaxed, got angry, ran, jumped, stretched. I got furious with the speed, I forgot to stop and think, threw myself there, exhausted, after a while the intention was too strong to keep up with it, unless I was waisted.
I resseracted or only woke up again. Nothing changed except the peace. I could still hear the clicking, but I didn’t care this much, I got tired of being excited, got tired of being upset, but still not tired of being. Good enough. That time I made only one jump, I held the edge of the cup and pulled myself up, keeping the balance with the feet. Monkey nature was delighted.
The sound was coming from the huge room, looking exactly the same as the one I used to live in, but better organized, very clean and full of light as during the most sunny summer days. I climbed a little more to sit on the edge, the sound and even the smell were so familiar. I was afraid I knew what I’m gonna see when I turned my head and I was terrified to do that.
I felt this terrible urge to do that though, which is as pleasant as painful and doesn’t leave you a choice, so, holding a breath, I looked there.
That hair was my hair, those arms had exactly the same length as mine, but maybe multiplied by 100 or 88, or what is the magic number? From the back she looked exactly like me, I couldn’t explain how, but I could bet on anything. Though there was something, in fact so much of this something different. Unusually straighten posture with a casual grace I could have only tried to imagine. And the hair was brighter, softer and longer. I thought I am going mad.
- Who are you?, - suddenly I’ve heard my own voice sounding much more offended and demanding than I ever wished for.
She turned immediately but slowly and with the delightful leisure, her eyes were raying with the laughter, admiration and calmness. We were staring at each other for a few seconds or minutes or maybe hours.
- That’s quite a question, - she smiled at me at last.
- But why didn’t you help me?
- Because you’ve done it perfectly well on your own and if fact....but we will hold on to it for a while, I am really glad you made it and never doubted you will.
- So you admit you knew I was there?, - I kinda started to get angry, but the intensity was so much less than I used to, I had to stop and try harder, but....
- Just let it, you don’t really wanna go there. Not right now, - her face didn’t change a shadow in its shining serenity. Suddenly I caught myself drawn to her face, my face.... the face I learned to hate, but I couldn’t reject loving it right there, something was perfectly on its place, it was just like looking at the flower when you open your eyes enough to see the pattern in which the cells are dancing creating perfect shapes, colours and combinations.
- Why not? - the words made a twist together with the voice, drilling a pleasant hole in my head. All the questions were sinking there and I kept making an effort to hold them on, to stop them from disappearing, so much I wanted to say, to ask, to scream, even to cry....
- Ah, really? You’re so dramatic, aren’t you? One of the reasons I love you so much, she smiled in my 32, so shining, so annoyingly content.
- That’s what you tell everyone? Or do you always find a different set of words?
- Everyone..... in this case, there is no one else here for you to compare. Will it really matter then?
- But I know they exist, maybe out of here, somewhere. I know, I’ve seen...
- What if out of here doesn’t exist as well? Maybe, it’s all just your mind trip.
- But I coud have never imagined you.
- You have a disturbing tendency to underestimate your imagination. - she kept observing me, evaluating unemotionally, picking up the words from the diffused space around.
- But I could never underestimate yours.
- If you say so, - and there again she was smiling with every sell of the space, but I planned our conversation in a different manner and you kinda ruined the eternity of preparation....
- And, before you even complete the idea of bringing up the excuses, I love it!
My teeth made a clicking sound from a sudden drop as I was about to argue. I smiled instead and it felt close.
- I would love to know your default plan.
- I thought I would be answering some of the questions, but the previous estimation didn’t take the middle development into consideration and it appeared to be you have already passed certain levels. Then better. Are you ready to see?
- You’re just about to choose.