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You're right, I get it
It all makes sense, you're the perfect person
Well last night I was watching "The 6th Day" with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and I was like.. "Hmm, this is a pretty interesting topic that their covering" So I opened up my Word Processor and began to type. I got about a page or something before I decided I didn't want what I had. Then I looked over and saw my "Catcher and the Rye" Book from my English class, and got another idea. I combined the two into about 6 pages of what I have now, and I'm liking it so far.
It's my first 1st Person Narrative Story that I've ever written, so it's probably not that good to anyone other than myself, and it takes place in the future where Human Cloning has finally been mastered, just like in "The 6th Day". I'm not going to completely copy the movie, just use it as a basis for my story. I'd post what I've got, but it's quite a lot, so for those who do read these, you don't need to read it all less you really want to, you don't even have to read it at all if you don't want to.
I'm using some of the pics from my Photobucket Account for the Characters, cause I hadn't found this really awesome site that I have now that I can use to Randomly Generate Character Names, Races, everything you could possibly think of, it has a Generator for it. Seventh Sanctum
So I'll link the Pics that I'm using so you can see what the Characters look like.
Hope you like it.
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 Alright, listen up.The names Blake Garrett and I’ve got something that I need to get out in the open. Something happened to me a few days ago and as a result of it… I got placed into this place, this… mental facility. So… if you’ll take the time to listen to my little story, I’d be more than happy to tell at least one person it.
Alright, here’s the deal, I’m sure you know the time period that it is, but in case you failed that class in school, I’ll give you a little update. It’s the year 2024, Wednesday, May 8th. On Thursday, May 1st this all happened. You see, our Scientists have finally discovered the way to successfully clone Humans, was a pretty awesome discovery in my opinion, but of course, there were also those… Religious folk, who claim that God created man to live and die and that what we were doing was disgracing God. Yeah, I believe in God, but I also believe that he gave us the knowledge to comprehend life or death, that he gave us the ability to decide what we want to do, not just leave it all up to him. I’m sure he’d like us to do what he wants us to do and all, but sometimes, disobeying makes you happier.
Anyways, yes, I worked for the Company that discovered this, though I didn’t quite like the whole idea of it, wouldn’t have it done to myself. I was one of the top Scientists too, I’m sure they had a good reason for cloning me anyways despite me telling them I didn’t want it to be done, like I said earlier, sometimes disobeying is something people enjoy doing. I’ll begin back on the 1st of May, when we finally created a successful, living Human Clone that didn’t die within the first few minutes of breathing Oxygen. I’m sure you’ll enjoy.
May 1st , 2024
The sound of my alarm clock woke me up that morning, as it did every morning. Man, I hated waking up in the morning so much, the whole alarm clock thing annoyed the hell out of me, the sound of it just made me angry, I couldn’t even stand hearing it in commercials on the T.V or the Radio, that’s how much I hated it. I had it set to go off at 7:00 am, which gave me about an hour and a half to shower, eat, get dressed, all those morning things you do before work or School.
Living in the scientific future which we do, has its ups and its downs, more ups than downs, but still had its downs. As the alarm clock went off it triggered other machines I had set to happen when I hit the snooze of off button, which included the blinds in my all window bedroom to fly up to the ceiling, letting every ounce of light possible in on me. Wasn’t too pleased at that, but knowing myself, I had to do this to get myself out of bed so I’d be at work on time. Snooze button keeps the alarm off for about 5 minutes, which gave me enough time to realize I had to get up, cause after those 5 minutes it buzzed again which forced me out of bed, cause I knew I wouldn’t get back to sleep with the blinds open. So I climbed out of bed and stretched a little as the window directly in front of me tinted and a series of smaller windows appeared on it, displaying my emails and appointments I needed to make today. I never had a single morning when I didn’t have 5 to 10 emails to read while I ate, I couldn’t believe I had become someone so important, never dreamed of it.
Turning away from the window sized monitor, the smaller windows disappeared into the light that it was letting through and became a window again. I moved out of my bedroom and was glad as I was overtaken by a bit of darkness, I think the only room in my entire apartment with more than 2 windows was my bedroom, don’t know why I chose that room to sleep in, guess I knew I’d need the sunlight to get me up on time. Clapping my hands, the few windows in the kitchen lit up and let the sunlight into the room allowing me to see what I was doing. Once I forgot to open the blinds and tripped over a chair, almost cracked my head open off the corner of the counter, so I installed rounded edges rather than square ones, lot safer and a lot less harmful if I do hit one.
I made myself the usual meal: Eggs, Bacon, Toast, and Orange Juice… well… I didn’t actually make it, I pressed a few buttons on my stove and it made it for me, all I had to do was crack the egg and put it into the frying pan, it did the rest. As I’m sure you can tell, I’m letting you in on some of the ups and downs of our age. Sitting down at the table I decided I’d read my emails now while I ate, which I normally did anyways, gave me something to think about before getting into the office an hour from now. One of them was from a co-worker of mine Leanna Dunn. She was about my age and God how I loved her. No, I haven’t told her yet, I know I should, but I’m too nervous to. Anyways, me and her have been working together since the beginning of both our careers, we went to the same High School and College, took the same classes, so know each other rather well. This was the first time I’d ever received an email from her in the morning, so I was kind of shocked and surprised when I realized I had one from her. It was titled “No Subject” so I was even more anxious to find out what it was about. Clicking it with my finger while I drank my Orange Juice with my other hand, the screen shrank leaving behind only the message she had sent me. She started all her emails the same, least to me I think. She had a little heart typed out using the less than and 3 keys “<3” after her name. I found it cute. Anyways, she was emailing me this from the office, which meant she was already there, which shocked me cause normally I was there first. She said that it was an emergency and that I should get there right away. Below that she described what had happened, apparently, my boss had been shot, and I was one of the main suspects, along with her and many of the other workers there. I finished my Juice and my food and quickly ran back into my window filled bedroom to get dressed. If it was an emergency, my shower could wait.
As I waited in the elevator to get to the Garage of the Apartment Complex I lived in, my mind ran over what could have happened. The only logical thing I could think of was that one of those Religious Folk I told you about earlier that broken into the Office and shot him. I don’t know why any of the Scientists would have shot him, or why one of those Religious Folk shot him either, not like we had progressed in our studies and tests, at this point at least, so I was really worried. As the doors opened, I took out my car keys and pushed the red button, which turned the car on and pulled it out of my parking spot, made it a lot easier to find your car. As I neared it the drivers door opened and I climbed in as the door closed behind me. In the center of the dashboard, there was yet another monitor, everything these days has Monitors. I placed my thumb on the screen where it asked me to, cause that’s the security features they had. When you bought a new car, it’s memory was blank, except for how to get places. So you were required to give a DNA Sample which could have been a fingerprint, sample of urine or saliva, which gave the Car’s Computer memory of who to let use it. Apparently it was fail proof, yet cars were still getting stolen and broken into.
After it recognized my thumb print, the screen changed, showing me my most recent routes I had taken around the City, one of which being to the Office, pushing that button, the other options faded into the background and a estimated time it would take to get there would appear. After accepting that’s where I wanted to go, the car pulled out of the Garage and began to drive itself down the street towards my selected destination. What I find weird is, if they made cars able to drive themselves, then why did they still make everyone get their licence at 16 years of age. Well they didn’t force you to get it, but you couldn’t sit in a car that drove itself without one. I pushed another button on the screen which turned on the cars CD Player. I had a huge collection of CD’s in the trunk which the player read from there, and played up here. I sat back in my chair and listened to my music as the car drove me the rest of the way.
As I neared the Office, I decided to brush my teeth and comb my hair, as I was probably going to be dealing with Police Officers, and I didn’t want to look like I hadn’t slept at all, making me even more of a Suspect than I already was, so I opened the glove box which was right in front of the passenger seat next to me, pulled out a portable toothbrush and a small bottle of toothpaste. Applying it to my brush, I began to brush my teeth with one hand, and used the rear view mirror to comb my hair with my other hand. When I was done, I rolled down the window and spit out the window into the pond that I was driving passed. Placing the stuff back into the glove box and then turned off Auto-Drive. Taking hold of the wheel I steered it the rest of the way, why? I don’t know, made me feel normal I guess.
I walked up the main steps, after parking my car, to the office and opened the door. There were Police Cars scattered all over the area. They had the Parking Lot blocked off with yellow police tape, but after showing my ID to the guard standing at the entrance he pulled the tape up and let me into the lot to park. Once I was in the office I made my way straight up to the main lobby room, hoping that I’d run into someone to show me where to go. As soon as I opened the lobby doors I had a gun pointed to my face. “Woah!” I said as I shot my hands into the air, staring at the barrel of the gun that was almost drilled into the center of my eyes.
“That’s Blake, Officer” said Leanna, saving my a** once again. The Officer that was pointing his gun in my face turned to her, then looked back at me before lowering his gun. I looked over at her and smiled a bit, but she didn’t smile back. I was just trying to thank her for not letting me get killed. Another Officer walked over to me and took me into my bosses Office where the body was. All I could do was stare at the white sheet on the floor covering the corpse. My bosses name was Don Owens.
His wife, Annette Owens,  was kneeling over his body crying like mad. I stood there in the doorway of his office looking at her, it was terrible. There was an Officer kneeling beside her, rubbing her back. When she noticed that I entered she stood up and wrapped her arms around me. She was still crying. Me and Don had been friends for a while, I
hadn’t gone to school with him, but the two of us quickly became friends when I started working for him. So I had gotten to know his family. I wrapped my arms around her in return and held onto her as she cried into my shoulder. The Officer that was with her stood up and walked over to me. “So you don’t know anything about this?” she asked as she pulled out a pencil and a small notepad. I looked at her with shock, I couldn’t believe this was even happening, why would anyone want to kill Don?
“No, I don’t, I just got the email this morning” I answered, I really didn’t know anything about this, but she wouldn’t have it. Just because I worked here I was automatically a prime suspect to this murder. She nodded her head, but I could see it in her eyes that she wasn’t accepting that as my answer. “I swear, Don has nothing that I could possibly want, so I wouldn’t have any reason to want him dead” I added, not sure if I should have though. I kept Annette in my arms, letting her soak the shoulder of my shirt while I continued to talk to the Officer.
“Well Annette here claims that out of all his employee’s, you and him were the closest” she stated, which I already knew, but still didn’t give me any reason to want him dead.
“Yes that’s true” I complied. This wasn’t going to get anywhere, I could tell already. She’d keep asking the same questions over and over again and I’d keep giving the same answers. She walked over and pried Annette away from me and handed her to the Officer that had shown me to the Office before she took me out.
“Alright, you can tell me now. Annette doesn’t have to hear” she said. Man, she wasn’t going to let me out of this. I was innocent, I already told her, but she was certain I was the one who shot him.
“Hear what? I already told you everything” I said, I wasn’t going to give her any satisfaction. She let out a sigh and then turned and left, leaving me standing in the hallway. I too sighed and then turned and headed back to the Lobby. Leanna was sitting on one of the couches, just staring at the ceiling. I walked over and sat down next to her. “I wonder who would have done this” I said as I looked at the ceiling too. Out of the corner of my eye I saw her nod her head.
“Seems they’re convinced that one of us did it” she stated. I nodded.
“I think they want me to confess, or something. That Officer that was with Annette seemed convinced that I had done it, because of my relationship with his family” I stated as I let out a sigh and looked down at the floor again.
“You two were like best friends, why would you kill him?” she asked, though it wasn’t as if she was pointing the blame at me, she was more agreeing with me. I nodded in agreement.
“That’s what I told them, but they didn’t believe me” I said. It had gotten way out of hand now. I had been sleeping as I’ve already told you, I didn’t even know anything of the sort was about to happen. I watched some Officers walk around the building, looking for clues that would hopefully point them away from myself, but they found nothing. The female Officer walked over to me again and stood in front of me.
“Mr. Garrett, I’m going to need you to come with me for a few minutes” she ordered and then turned around to head back in the direction she had come in. I looked up at her as she said this and sighed. Following behind her, she took me to an empty room, only thing that occupied it was a machine of some sort. I hadn’t seen anything like it before, must have been some top secret police computer thing. She flicked a switch on the side, typed something into the keyboard and then instructed me to place my thumb on the small scanner. I stared at it for a moment, till she told me again and I did so. Placing my thumb on the scanner, it flashed red, stuck a pin into my skin so fast that I didn’t even feel it, and took a sample of blood. “Alright, next I’m going to need a scan of your retina’s” she said as she typed something else into the keyboard which seemed to have make the computer rebuild itself so that it was shaped like a face mask. Placing my chin where she told me to, two small circular discs flipped up and covered my eyes. “Don’t blink… 1, 2, 3” she counted and then a very bright blue light flashed into my eyes. I kind of fell backwards from the light which had blinded me for a few moments.
“Does it really need to be that bright?” I asked sarcastically as I stood up and brushed myself off. She nodded and then took a small disc out of the front of the computer, took out the pen she had been using before and wrote my name on the front of it before slipping it into a case and putting it in a briefcase.
“Alright, you’re all done. Tell Leanna to come in. You can head back to your working quarters too, I’m sure you’ve still got some work to get done” she said as she showed me out of the room. Man, this wasn’t turning out to be a good day. I walked back to the lobby to find Leanna still sitting on the couch.
“Hey, they want you in the Cell Room 2 for some DNA scan thing” I said as I walked over to her and looked down at her.
“I sure hope they leave soon, I wasn’t planning on doing a lot of work today” she said as she took my hand that I offered to help her up and used me to stand up.
“Why not?” I asked as she smiled at me.
“I just don’t feel all that up to working today, don’t know why” she said as she walked around me towards the room I had just come from.
“Well I’ll be upstairs in our Working Area, see you there” I called back to her before she entered the room. She nodded towards me then disappeared into the room. I sighed again.
I sat at my desk for a few minutes before Leanna showed up at the door. I wasn’t really paying much attention, but she had something in her hand. As she walked passed me, I looked up at her and noticed that she had a two cups of Coffee and a Doughnut for me. “You’re too kind Leanna” I said as I took my Coffee and Doughnut from her and placed them on my desk. She smiled and took a seat next to me at her desk.
“Well I just thought that after all this, we both could use a little relaxing meal” she said as she popped the cap on her cup and began to drink it. I nodded and drank a bit of mine as well. “The last of the Cops are left, except for the Guards in the Parking Lot” she said as she took a bite of her beagle.
“What about Don’s body?” I asked.
“Paramedics were pulling in when I was leaving, they must have taken him to the Hospital for further analysis or something” she said as she booted up her computer and watched the loading bar stretch itself across the monitor in front of her. My computer was already on, so I continued typing what I had been working on already. “Oh, did you hear that Don finally made progress on the cloning?” she asked as she typed in her account name and password to get onto her computer. I stared at my monitor for a minute. He had? Why didn’t he tell me?
“No, I wasn’t aware that he had. What did he discover?” I asked.
“Well he didn’t really discover anything, he actually managed to make a living Human Clone” she answered. My eyes widened.
“What!? Of who?” I asked, I was really anxious to find out about this now. She looked up at me.
“He cloned himself, it lived and breathed for about an hour, or so he said” she stated as she looked back at her monitor. “I didn’t see it, apparently it fell down the stairs and broke its neck” she said with a small laugh. I stared at her.
“Wow… that’s got to suck” I said with a small laugh as well. She smiled a bit and drank more of her coffee. “How did you find out about this?” I asked, if anyone I should have been the one that found out first.
“He called me this morning, he had stayed at the office all night trying to figure out why our previous attempts had failed” she answered. “About 3 in the morning or something. He seemed really excited about it, wanted me to come and see it for myself right away” she continued. I leaned back in my chair, took a few bites of my doughnut and listened. “So I got up, got dressed and got here as fast as I could, but… when I got here, I found him lying dead in a pool of blood in his office, bullet holes all across his chest” she said, tears building in the corner of her eyes. I saw this and sat my doughnut down and wheeled my chair over to her. Wrapping my arms around her I held her head against my chest.
“It’s alright” I said as she grabbed onto my sleeves and cried into my shirt. I was apparently a good crying post.
“I just don’t know why anyone would want to kill him, he hadn’t done anything wrong” she said, mumbled up by deep breaths and tears. I nodded my head and rested my head against hers. I wish I could have told her who did it, and why they did it, but I didn’t know either.
We spent the rest of the day just sitting in our office on our computers. Talking about whatever we found interesting enough to talk about. When lunch rolled around, I treated her to whatever she wanted to eat, as she had bought me a second breakfast I felt I owed her something. So we went down the street to The Phoenix which was the restaurant of her choice. She liked really spicy food, and that’s what this place specialized in, as I’m sure you can tell from the name. I think I spent over 100$ there, maybe even a lot more. She was like a vacuum, and of course she must have planned it. It was the ‘All You Can Eat’ Buffet Day, so the money I did spend was on entry and for the drinks that we went through. After about an hour of just straight eating and drinking till she was full. I was full way before she even looked it. I basically sat there the whole time watching her run up to the counters with an empty plate and come back with a full one. It was quite amusing actually, just spending this much time with her, and not doing anything work related. She seemed to be enjoying herself too. After she was full, I placed the final amount of money in the center of the table and then we left.
The day continued on, and the two of us got very bored of sitting around. With Don dead, we didn’t have any work to do. Neither of us knew what he had done to make this Clone of his live… till it tripped and killed itself… so we couldn’t continue on from where he left off this morning. I spent the remaining hours at work playing Solitaire on my computer while she slept on the couch on the opposite wall. Having been awake since 3 in the morning she must have been rather tired. I kept looking over at her, every now and then, and I’m sure you know why I was too. She was so beautiful when she was asleep. I sucked at Solitaire, I really did. I never won a single game, not even the one I was playing at that very moment. I didn’t even like Solitaire, it was just the only game on the computers that we had. I could have probably found a site to play some online flash games or something, but I was too tired myself to want to do that.
It was now about 7:00 p.m. and I was ready to go home. Normally we didn’t get off till about 8:30, but seeing as we didn’t have a boss to tell us what to do, we could have left whenever we felt like it. After all, we were the only two people in the entire building other than maybe the cops outside or the janitors. I turned off my computer and quietly moved over to Leanna. “Hey” I said quietly to her as I sat down at her feet. I don’t think she heard me, so I said it again a little louder. She heard that one. Wasn’t a scream, just a louder whisper.
“Hmm, what?” she asked in a tired voice. I smiled, even that voice was cute.
“It’s 7:05” I said as I looked at my watch. “You want a drive home?” I asked her. She smiled at me and nodded.
“Yes, thank you” she answered and then sat up. I got off the couch and helped her up and out of the building to my car. She didn’t own a car, she normally took a cab or the train home. I had her home address built into my cars computer too, mainly because sometimes when we had a project that we needed to get done, I’d go to her place, or she’d come to mine and we’d work on it after work so that it would be done on time for the next day. I told my car where to go and then turned to look at her. She was already falling asleep again.
“That tired?” I asked with a small smile on my face. She nodded with a small smile. “Alright, well I’ll wake you when we get there. Got a good 15 minutes, so get some more rest” I said before I turned to face the road ahead of me again. I wanted to listen to some music, but I knew she didn’t like the music I listened to and she was trying to sleep. After about 15 minutes or so, give or take a few as we hit some traffic getting off the highway, we arrived at her house. I gave her a little nudge on the shoulder, but that didn’t wake her up. She looked too peaceful to want to wake up. I parked the car in her driveway and then got out and walked around to her side. Opening her door, I unbuckled her seatbelt and lifted her into my arms. The only way I can describe how I carried her, would be like it was our honey moon, or we had just gotten married or something. I held her out in front of me, one arm under her neck, the other under her knee’s. When I reached her front door, I planted my knee against the wall and rested her on that while I used my one hand to push her thumb onto the scanner. When it recognized that it was her, the door unlocked and opened for me. The lights in the hallway slowly dimmed into existence. They gave just enough light that you could see where you were going. Guess she had them set to that so that she didn’t get blinded when she came home at night.
I think she must have woken up at this point, because I hadn’t really done anything to wake her up, but she leaned up and wrapped her arms around my neck and kissed me on the lips. I was kind of shocked at this, that she would kiss me out of the blue.
“Thank you Blake, you’ve been really great” she said as she leaned her head on my shoulder. I smiled a bit before I placed her on her bed. She held onto my arm though, and pulled me onto her bed with her. My heart began to race, I didn’t know what was going to happen now. She snuggled against me and continued to kiss me. I wanted to stop her, she was tired and I didn’t know if this was her, or just her tiredness making her do this, but I had dreamt of this for a long time now, I didn’t want to stop her.
I’m sure you know where it led to though, cause I’m not going that into detail about it, you guys really don’t need to know what happened. I will say that the next thing I knew we were both naked laying in her bed. She was hugging my arm pretty tightly, which was cutting the circulation off so I was loosing feeling pretty quickly. I turned to her and gave her one final kiss on the cheek before I pulled the sheet up and fell asleep for the rest of the night.
So a disastrous day turned out alright in the end. I just wish I could say the same for the rest of the week that followed.
So right, so wrong
Let's all live in your imaginary life
 Dark Shadow Ninja2 · Thu May 08, 2008 @ 07:51pm · 0 Comments |
