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Fuji-Jufi t1_iukgroi wrote

I exit the bar, after another night of endless free drinks, in an attempt to cure my crippling loneliness. I stumble towards the nearest hotel and push the doors open.

“Move.” I demand to everyone in front of me.

one by one they all step out of the way

When I get to the front desk, I demand the master suit free of charge. As per usual, I am given what I want.

I wander to the elevator and make my way up to the room. When I get to the room, I unlock it with the key and go slump on the bed.

For as long as I can remember, everyone has done everything I said. At first it was all you could imagine. I demanded power and riches from people, but then I realized those were useless since I already got whatever I wanted. Then I did everything I ever wanted through my demands. Which surprisingly in a world of infinite activities, got boring as well. After a few decades, I lost my vanity and started ending the world's problems such as world hunger and homelessness. By forcing billions to be selfless.

The world started to advance at unprecedented rates, and inequality was abolished. However, I am alone in the knowledge of what I can do and the world I have created. I have everything I’ve always wanted and done everything I could want. Now I just wander the streets aimlessly and alone drinking the boredom away. I slowly close my eyes, and drift to sleep.

I wake up a little while later and puke my guts out on the bathroom floor. Passing out on the toilet. When I awake next, I look at my watch and it is only 3:30 A.M., I decide to get up and head out for some coffee to cure my hangover.

I stumble down the street and arrive at a local 24-hour bar. I walk inside and order a coffee, taking a seat at a corner table.

A few minutes later, a woman I’ve never seen before comes in.

“Hey, can I get a black coffee” she says to the bar tender.

After receiving her coffee she walks up to my table

“hey this is my favorite spot” she says softly, pointing at the window seat across from mine.

before I can even answer she says again “Mind if I sit there?”

I shot back an annoyed look “look I’m not in the mood, go away, and pick a new favorite spot.”

She smiles and chuckles, before sliding into the seat across from me “No, thanks.”

My eyes go wide, and I nearly choke on my coffee… what?? What did she just say? No?! My ears rang from confusion, no one had ever said those words to me before.

I start to speak when immediately she interrupts me.

Part 1 ✌🏻😜

The Voice That Blinds Him [Parts 1+2]

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Fuji-Jufi t1_iun8qae wrote

"Are you always this rude" She jests.

I continue sitting across from her, mouth agape, unsure of what to do. Should I be angry? Or upset? Scared that she shrugged off my request like it was nothing more than an annoying fly on the wall? What do people feel when they are told no? It feels so foreign; rejection, defiance, and all associated feelings I had long forgotten. No, rather, I had never known them. Hearing those words, seeing her noncompliance, no matter how small i-it was so... real. Perhaps, the first real thing I had ever felt or witnessed, certainly the first novel thing in what feels like forever.

"Hello?" She waves her hand in front of my silent, motionless body, that is staring at her.

"I think I broke him." She says turning to the bartender and laughing softly. The bartender laughs in kind and continues wiping up the counter.

I still have not moved, because despite sensing what's going on around me; I am completely unable to process it. Suddenly, a smile involuntarily flutters across my face and I chuckle. Thinking about it now, I can't remember the last time I smiled. Let alone what it was that made me smile.

"You're a strange one aren't you." she says her eyes tracing the smile that had just formed across my lips. As I continue to sit their in utter shock and silence.

"Well, I guess we have that in common." She says, as she slowly turns to look out the window.

intrigued, I look out the large, partly smudge, glass window beside me just as she did. Only to be shocked again. I see now why it's her favorite spot, as I suddenly realize how long it’s been since I've stopped and looked at things; to enjoy their beauty and simplicity. The beauty in their simplicity. Luckily, it seems, I wasn't quite incapable of that yet. Still, I've sat here a thousand times and never once stopped to appreciate it.

It was a quiet alley, and a peaceful one at that, looking into a long street. It was raining slightly, and the traffic lights shimmer off the street in a beautiful display. Red, green, yellow. Such a simplistic pattern, yet so mesmerizing all the same. Despite the hour, there were still a few passer-Byers, dressed in raincoats, each adorned with black umbrellas. The buildings across the street are far from modern, but feel nostalgic. Almost like I've been here before- Honestly, now that I think about it, everything about this feels so familiar.

"Hey-" I finally managed to say breathlessly, not realizing I had been holding it in all this time. But when I turned, the seat across from me lay empty, all that remained was a cup of black coffee. Still steaming hot, and seemingly untouched.

Part two as promised u/thecheesyB 🙌🏻! Thanks for all the support thus far, let me know if y'all want a part 3!

The Voice That Blinds Him [Part 1+2]

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Seabass9975 OP t1_iundoxw wrote

I’d take a part 3.

Glad the prompt inspired you so much.

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Fuji-Jufi t1_iune8ap wrote

Great, I’ll get on it ☺️! It was a great prompt 😉

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PresentationOk1717 t1_iuo42vr wrote

Hey, how's the next part coming along? I'd really like to keep reading this story ☺️

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Fuji-Jufi t1_iuobuzo wrote

Just put it up, hopefully it meets your expectations! 🙌🏻☺️

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Fuji-Jufi t1_iuobp0z wrote

I stare at the empty seat across from me, stunned for yet a third time in mere minutes. She’s gone. The first real thing in my life, and I don’t even know if she was real at all. When? I thought. When did I become so reliant on others to blindly follow my will, that I myself had gone blind with complacency. Letting life slowly pass me by. Content in drinking away my sorrows. No. No more. I jumped out of my seat.

“Bartender!!” I squealed

“That woman, where did she go?”

“She just left.” He replied in a calm robotic demeanor. Good, I thought, she was real after all.

“Which way did she-“ I catch myself. This was the problem wasn’t it. Right here. I had stopped living life and had started letting others live it for me. They were my eyes and ears. My willing full puppets to string along in anyway I saw fit. No never-mind that, This is no time to question the past! The woman, where did she go? I turned my attention back to the bartender.

“Bartender, which way did she head out?” I hastily said again, this time firm in my resolve. He pointed out the side door, and I ran out after her.

The rain has picked up and from under the bars awning, I can see only a few feet in front of me. Damn it. Which way should I go?

Suddenly, I see a figure heading down the side-road, running perpendicular to the window we just sat at. I run after them.

“Hey wait! Waiitttt!” I yelled, as I run across traffic towards the side-road.

“You there, Stoppp.” I yelled again, to no avail, they kept going. It must be her, anyone else would listen, right?

I ran fast. As fast as my legs could carry me, but when I catch up, I stand alone at a dead end. Not a trace of the person I had just seen. Damn it, where could she have gone? I slither back to the hotel in defeat. Upon arrival, I head to my room and lay down on the bed.

I lie awake, my mind uneasy from the day's events. That woman who was she? I was missing something, had I been there before? she said it was her favorite spot, but I’d never seen her there before. Have I? Ughhh, what was it?

The next day, I head back to the bar.

“Bartender, let me see your security tapes. All of them” I say pointing to the camera behind the bar. He obliges and brings me to a room behind the counter, I sit down and start scrolling through the tapes.

"Leave me." I say to the bartender, who promptly leaves, shutting the door behind him. I start with the moment I met the woman and scroll backwards determined to find her.

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The Voice That Blinds Him [Part 3+4]

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hahegdyshgwgd t1_iup3jhz wrote

im so hooked on to this story

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Fuji-Jufi t1_iup7ika wrote

Thanks for the Support! I made a subreddit to continue it! Unfortunately, I probably won’t get done today, but I’m working on Part 4!

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