Thursday, August 20, 2009

Star Force Gemini 2 Chapter 2.1

김재민 is standing with a pole in his hand, waiting to vault over the raised bar. He closes his eyes and charges. As he sprints towards the suspended bar, the world around him blurs into one grey image. He slams the pole into the ground and launches himself into the air.
"To infinite, and beyond!" He screams as he twirls over the bar. He lands on the mat and a crowd of people run to talk to him.
"Ben, you just set the state record for highest jump. What're you gonna do now?" A boy from the school news paper asks him.
"I'm going to Lotte World!" He chuckles. He walks off of the mat, The Cougar runs beside him.
"Ben, why won't you join the actual track and field team? We could use someone with your...talents." She says.
"Sorry, lady. Mom says I have to focus on clarinet and becoming a doctor, no time for spots." He walks off with a huge grin, heading towards campus. He spryly jolts up the mile of steps and is walking between the classrooms in a blink of an eye. He weaves in and out of crowds of people as he makes his way to his next class.
"안녕하세요, 김재민." A voice says behind him, he turns and sees Ha-Neul.
"안녕하세요!" He replies with a smile.
"우리는 얘기해야한다." She said.
"Oh, okay then." 김재민 said. "Did you want to talk here or...?"
"Come with me!" She demanded and took him by the arm.

In another part of the school **SuPeRfUcKiNgStAr** walks out to the parking lot. She's not listening to A.T.T.I.C. Radio so she's unaware that DJ Macete is playing "Dead Dogs Two" by cLOUDDEAD, but instead she's listening to "Lovebug" by The Jonas Brothers on her itouch, and it makes her happy. As she slowly walks across the crowded parking lot towards the bus stop, she notices that the sun looks strangely different today.
She makes her way on the bus, the rhythmic sway almost rocks her to sleep. Despite her inability to show affection, externally; she's weeping on the inside. She misses [Jestro], and all of the others from the SFG Crew. She misses the adventures they went on, even if she was only there for a fraction of them, they were still memories that would warm her bluffly cold heart. She cries on the inside and realizes she's come to her stop.
She briskly jumps off the bus and heads into her work, CVC. She hurries inside because she is in dire need of the restroom.

In another part of the city 김재민 and Ha-Neul walk into The Marjorie Oleary Memorial Cemetery.
"What the hell are we doing here?" 김재민 asks.
"Shut up." Ha-Neul says in a tone that hurts 김재민's feeling. "Just keep walking."
He does. He makes his way to a torn up grave with the name "Ryan Derrick Romero" 1989-2006: "There is no spoon."
김재민 smiles at the quote, obviously a last request by [Jestro] himself. That was the one phrase that could capture just how he conceived the world.
"Why did you take me here? I came here three months ago when he was buried." 김재민 said. Ha-Neul motioned with her head. 김재민 looked to his left and saw Shattered Sword curled up in a ball.
"What the hell happened!?" He screamed running to his side.
"It...it was..." Shattered Sword was a mess, bruises all over his face, both arms shattered. "...it was like something out of a nightmare." 김재민 looked down at Shattered Sword, confused.
"I don't...I don't understand."
"He's come back." Shattered Sword said as his eyes closed and he fell to the ground...asleep.
"What the hell is he talking about, Ha-Neul!?" 김재민 said standing up.
"Ryan has come back from the grave." She said with a hardened expression on her face.
"Is this some kind of joke!?" He screamed, furious.
"Look at my father!" She screamed. "Does that look like a joke to you!?" She put her head down and started crying. 김재민 let out a long sigh.
"Like something out of a nightmare...What the hell does that mean!?" 김재민 screamed.
"I don't know, that's why I brought you here. You have to find him and appease his angry soul." She said.
"Me!? But why me? He liked you, not me." 김재민 said.
"...We both know I'm not the one he likes anymore." She said walking over to her father.
"Damn, this shit fucking sucks." 김재민 said walking out of the cemetary. He walks back to school to grab his clarinet.

C41212105 leaves for work.
Ω is still asleep.
**SuPeRfUcKiNgStAr** clocks in.
Hours pass.
The sun sets.

김재민 walks down the street from school, he gets a call, he looks at it. It says 'Grindelwald'.
"Yeah?" He says.
"Benjia! When are you coming home?" She asks him.
"I dunno." He replies.
"Well, you need to hurry I am having lesson and need you for having watch your sister."
"Mom, Julie's fifteen. She can watch herself!"
"Well, hurry home anyway!" Then she hung up.
"What a bitch." 김재민 said to himself. A few brown/orange leaves blow past him in the autumn wind. He continues to walk calmly and quietly down the sidewalk. 김재민 walks past the CVC that **SuPeRfUcKiNgStAr** works at and doesn't even bother looking inside. She on the other hand, sees him as he walks past the automatic doors. She's instantly stricken with heart ache, being reminded that [Sir_Jestro] is dead. A single tear escapes from her left eye and rolls down her cheek.
"Are you okay? You're crying." The customer asks her.
"Yeah, I'm fine." She says and lets out a big exhale. "Fifteen oh, seven is your change. Have a nice day." The customer takes his change and his girlfriend's tampons and heads out of the store. He makes his way through the parking lot and is almost hit by a gun metal grey BMW.
"Watch it!" He screams to the driver. "Ass." Then he continues to his car.
"Sorry, I didn't see you there!" C41212105 shouts from out of the window, and keeps driving; out of the parking lot.
He pulls onto the road and heads for the freeway but just as he's about to merge onto it, he's cut off by an RX7 and misses the on ramp.
"WTF, Ω!?" He screams, but knows Ω can't hear him. He does, however, see that Ω has flipped him the bird.
"Fucking rich piece of shit." Ω says, with a half smoked broken cigarette pressed between his lips. He's drunk and drowsy and swerving in between lanes. Its just when he's about to fall asleep and really destroy all the cars on the freeway that he sees something, nay, someone jump onto a car a few lanes over from him and springs off, landing on an overhead bridge some thirty feet above them. Ω slams his foot on the brakes and skids to a stop.
"Hello?"
"김재민!" Ω screams. "I think I just saw [Jestro] rape a car on the freeway!"
"Really?"
"Fuck yeah, dude!" Ω is panicking.
"Calm down, Ω." 김재민 says. "I believe you."
"You do?"
"Yeah." 김재민 says. "Because was just standing at [Jestro]'s grave...and he wasn't in it."


-Sir Jestro

2 comments:

김재민 said...

Dude. Epic. I liked the transition of characters.

C41212105 said...

i felt cheated while reading the ending to that chapter.