What Goes Around Comes Around
Chapter 1
I woke up in a typical alley, the ground
was damp to the touch, trash everywhere, and it didn’t
particularly have the best smell. There was a searing pain in my
left arm and my body ached all over. Where am I and what the
hell did I get myself into? I thought to myself. I slowly
stood up, gasped in pain, and sorely walked out of the alley into
the street-lamp lit street lined with town houses. It was still
dark even though the lamps were on and no cars were on the road.
I looked to my right, more houses, but to the left I saw the main
road with an occasional car going by. That’s most
likely the best way to go I told myself. I started walking
down the broken concrete sidewalk and turned to the left when I
reached the main road. Looking up and down the street I noticed a
neon sign, so naturally, like any 17 year old teenage boy, I
walked towards it. Once I got closer and closer to the sign, I
noticed it was one of those “Open” signs, but it must
have been pretty old because the “N” was burned out.
The “open” sign belonged to an old looking diner, but
since it was the only place open this late at night, I went in.
When I walked in there was a middle aged man sitting at the
counter drinking a coffee, a woman washing a table, and a man
smoking in the corner. The booths were all ripped up so I decided
to sit at the counter on one of the bar stools. I sat down, still
aching, and felt my pocket which would usually contain my phone,
but this time it didn’t. I brushed the dark brown hair out
of my eyes, leaned both hands on my face and
sighed.
“Your arm is bleeding bad, boy.
Looks like you’ve got a big scratch there.” explained
the middle aged man.
I moved the hands off my face, put them
on the counter, and then looked at my arm. He was right, it was
bleeding badly.
“I’ve noticed.” I lied,
I hadn’t noticed until he said it, but that would explain
why it hurt so bad. The man took a napkin from the stack of them
beside him, and handed a few to me.
“Here,” He said
“It’ll help wipe away the blood, boy.” I took
the napkins and started rubbing away the blood with
them.
“My name’s Aaron.” I
explained while wiping away the blood.
“Well, bo- I mean Aaron, you look
pretty beat up, what happened to you?” The man
asked.
“I don’t know.” I said.
I didn’t even know where I was, the only thing I knew was
that I was in an old diner talking to the man, in a strange
city.
“Well Aaron, here.” He said
as he handed me about 3 dollars worth of
quarters.
“Thanks?” I said confused,
while crumpling up the napkins in my hand.
“There’s a payphone two
blocks down to the left,” He explained “I thought you
could call someone to pick you up or something.” Well that
would help considering I lost my phone
somewhere.
“Thanks.” I said
as I got up, walked to the door, and threw away the napkins in
the trash can next to the door. I walked out, still hurting, and
started to follow the man’s
directions.
(Sorry its short, I just wanted to see if people would actually
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