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John Ranston
Please don't mention the similarties to Donnie Darko, I realise that the plot lines are quite alike, but when I wrote this, I had never heard of the movie.
John Ranston
April 3rd 2006
Another god damn day at school. This school needs a new paintjob, The walls are puke green, Maybe they used to be a nice color but over the years, I guess the walls just got disgusting.
This 3 floor brick school, is 1 of the smallest, of the city. You can walk down the hall, and know everyones name as you walk down. You also hear, "hey John", " whats up John?" as you walk down the small unclean hall way. You know everything about everyone, theres Tammy Morales, she was beaten by her father. There's Tony liunchi, his girlfriend cheated on him and dumped him.
This school is kind of like a small community, you can't keep any secrets to yourself, everyone knows about them within the next day. I'm now sitting here in english class, and I'm watching the clock tick the minutes, and the hours, and now I'm seconds of way to going home. When I get home, my mom always asks me the same question. "How was you're day?" I say " Bad" she asks "Why?" I answer " because I went to school." The bell finally rings, I rush to my locker to grab my bag, and I quickly head towards The bus. The bus then leaves the school, freedom at last. I get off at my stop, and I start walking towards my house, thinking about my daily questionaire my mother gives me.
I turn on the street that my house is situated on, but as I walk towards my house, its quite evident to me, that my house is now reduced to ashes. Four blood red trucks stationed infront of where my house used to be, with 10 or 20 courageous heroes in yellow are running around. I couldn't quite count how many they were, so I just made an estimate. I continue walking towards the burnt wreckage, as I move closer I see the damage more and more, my once white house is now completely incinerated.
It's now black, and its in crumbles on the ground.I get up to the trucks, an obvious fire chief comes up to me, and says, " you can't stick round here kid, go home" I respond. " I live here." he says " Oh so you John Ranston?" " Yeah I am." " O.k. John I got some bad news for you son, You're mom, she didn't make it out in time." " Where is she, I wanna see her" " They brought her down to the morgue, I'm really sorry."
I walk away from him and walk towards the wreckage, tears are filling up my eyes. The fire is now completly out, but my house is a complete disaster, there's nothing left of it, except for ashes. All the memories I had, all gone up in ashes. I walk over whats left of the wall, I start to walk through the wreck.
through my water filled eyes, I can see something glowing. I am instantly attracted to it, I walk towards it, with pure curiosity, and as I get closer, shear terror starts taking over. I get to about 5 feet of it, stretch my neck out to see it better, I take 3 more steps, I reach down and tap the dust off this glowing object. It's just a piece of half burnt wood. I pick it up, inspecting it all over, trying to figure out why it has an awkward glow, all of sudden, the calcinated wood, re-catches on fire, to then burn out again, and be back to its normal state.
It looks like fire never ravaged this piece of wood, It looks like someone just bought it out of the store. Complete terror has taken over now, I look around, and everything has a black pigmentation to it, and the firemen look frozen. I let go of the piece of wood, and it stays in the same place, as if I still had it in my hands. This piece of wood is now levitating in front of my own eyes. I can't take my eyes off of it.
The piece of wood suddenly explodes in front of me, without a piece of splintered wood going in any direction. I walk back to where, The wood once was, no trace of the glowing 2x4. A few moments later, I hear a very distorted voice calling to me " John, John." " Who's there?" I exclaim. " the world is at peril, it will end in 9 days." as soon as I hear that, the light reaches me again, the firefighters are moving and conversing, I look down at my watch and not a second has passed.
A firefighter comes for me in the wreck, I have this dumb-found look on my face. The firefighter puts his arm aruond me and says " come on let's find you a place for the night." They brought me to my aunt Websters house, she was short, skinny blonde hair blue eyes, she must of been the highschool sweetheart when she went to school.
I walk in and she says " John its so good to see you. You haven't changed abit, still got the short brown hair, you still look to be 6 foot, you havent even gained a pound, you're as beautiful as ever." " thanks aunty, you look good you're self." " So I here you might be staying here awhile." " Yeah I have no where else to go for now." I spent the night there, pondering why the voice, reached out to him and not someone else.
april 4th 2006 ( 9 days remain)
I wake up to the smell of my aunt making pancakes, its such a nice and sweet aroma. It's almost orgasmic, I love that smell, it makes me forget about my problems, and makes me remember the wonderful things in life. I walk downstairs, my aunt slaving away over the hot oven.
My aunt doesn't have any kids, but shes always loved being a mother type figure, and since I'm staying with her for a while, I'm sure she must be rejoiced in a way. I ate her delicious pancakes, we were very quiet that morning, I took my bag, and went out the door, " have a nice day at school john." " I'll try." I reach my bus stop, and wait until the bus arrives. I get on the bus, and we pick up kids along the way, to finally reach our destiny, the teenage confinement, which is also called school. I go to my locker, drop my bag off, and walk to my first period class.
I watch kids faces when I walk in the class, a look of sympathy on all they're faces, I sat alone at my table in the corner. About 15 minutes, into the class and the principal walks in. " Alright, everyone listen up, We have a new student here, so treat her nicely, her name is Jena Maddison, come on in Jena." this beautiful girl walks in, she's the absolute most beautiful girl I've ever seen, as if she was a direct descendant from heaven. The teacher says. " Go sit wherever you want Jena." she doesn't say a word, she starts walking, the other guys seem to have seen the same thing as me. She starts walking right towards me, she gets up to my table. " is this seat taken?" " ummm, no go right ahead." she walks around the table, deposits her books on the table, pulls out the chair and sits down.
I was kinda mad, but rejoiced at the same time, I wanted to be alone today, but I'm happy that such a beautiful girl decided to come and sit beside me. She seemed to be very shy, very reserved. She was about 5'5, beautiful blue eyes, brownish hair, you could be mesmerized by her beauty for hours at a time. We ended up talking more then listening to what was going on in class. We spent the rest of the day together, Suprisingly we have the same exact schedule, what are the odds.
Before getting on the bus, I ran to my locker as usual, I walk outside, and I decide, my aunts house is not that far so I'll just walk there. So I walked out the school yard, and I saw Jena abit further ahead, I ran to her.
When I got to her, I was out of breath " Hey." I said " Hey" Jena responded " I didn't know you walked home" "well I didn't know you did either John." " So, ummm, You wanna walk home together?" " Yeah." " O.k." I think I really like this girl, I know I haven't known her for a long time, but there's something about her that, I'm just attracted 2. We walked all the way to her house, " alright well this is where I live, so I'll see you tomorrow." She took a step off the sidewalk. " Wait." She turned around and said " Yeah?" " I was wondering... well you know I know we haven't known each other long.... and.. I was wondering... well if you wanted.. you don't have to say yes... but umm... I was thinking... maybe sometime, we could like... do something together." A little smirk grew on her face. " Sure, we could do something together sometime." she turned once again, and took another step off the side walk. " Wait, I mean like go out with me." I know what you meant, and the answer is still the same, its yes I will."
she turned around again, and walked towards her house. She turned again when she got on her yard, and said " Bye see you tomorrow." " Bye" I walked home feeling kind of dumb, with the way I approached how I asked her out, but she said yes, so it couldn't have been that bad. As I continued walking home, I crossed a little stream, with a waterfall. I stopped and looked at it, something was off about it. I stared at it, trying to figure out what was wrong with it. I looked closer and I noticed, the water was going up the waterfall, and not down like it is suppose 2, and the water is going up stream.
I couldn't figure out why, I noticed someone is now beside me, I look and its some creature, I don't know what it is, It's got great big red eyes, the body of a human, but it has wings, and I heard the voice again " The cycle of the universe is disrupted, all is wrong with the world." The voice was coming from the thing beside me. " Who are you?" and before I even finished my sentence, he had vanished. Later that night I ate supper, I went up to bed, only to awaken by the voice " wake up John, John Wake up. Go to Mrs. Andrews barn."
April 5th 2006 (8 days remain)
I awoke this morning, with no pancake aroma. I walk downstairs only to see my aunt glued to the t.v. screen. I heard " Late last night, Someone came here to Mrs. Andrews barn, slaughtered the cows with this knife, and then procedeed, to setting the barn on fire. In one of the cows, the words, " I have lost all control" was carved. The police has no leads into this, and they will have a news conference later today." I reached down into the fridge, got the milk carton out and said " I can't believe anyone could do anything so terrible." " yeah and no one saw him either, look they flipped the tractor, I guess they were more then 1."
April 7th 2006 (6 days remain)
I'm here at school, at my locker with Jena before our first class, This whole dating thing usually is really hard, but with Jena it's really easy. They changed her schedule abit, so she's only in 2 of my classes now. The voice hasn't talked to me since, He appeared beside me, I guess it has stopped, or I was just hallucinating or something. the bell rings, I kiss Jena " I'll see you after class." she walked away from me to go to her first period class.
I reach into my locker to get my books. I close my locker and start walking down the moldy green hall. At the end of the hall I see something funny, looks like a huge set of wings, I walk nearer, and I see its the voice. " Go to the bathroom, and unearth the mystery." I ignore it, and go to class. I'm talking with my best friend Josh, He's asking me how far I've been with Jena. he gets up and asks " Mrs. Porter, may I go to the bathroom?" " Go ahead Josh." Josh walked out of the class, so I waited for him to get back.
It has now been 15 minutes and Josh still isn't back I go and ask the teacher if I can go look for him, she told me I can.
So I walk into the bathroom, to find blood leaking on the floor, its dripping off the walls, I open the stall where it seems to be centered. I have the grim discovery of finding Josh, sitting there without a head. I notice blood is dripping from the ceiling, I look up and on the ceiling it says in blood " forgive me for killing a friend." I walked back to class, and told the teacher bout my grim discovery, she ran down to the principals office, where they dialed 911.
At lunch time I sat with Jena, I really love her, I want to get married to her some day. She kept asking me how I was, She was worried because my best friend was killed. When school was over I walked her home again, like I have been since the first day I met her. Before she crossed the street she said " Don't you ever wish, that you could back and make everything right again?" she kissed me and crossed the street. I pondered about what she said for a bit.
I got to the stream, and looked into it again, the water is running fine this time. All seems to be well here, but at the bottom something catches my eyes, I look closer, and it says " sorry for making you kill you're own best friend."
April 10th 2006 (3 days remain)
The school has been shut down for a few days for investigation. It seems whenever the voice communicates with me, something terrible happens. The police are saying that Josh's head was ripped off, and no weapon was used. I couldn't of done that, like the voice said I did, you would need tremendous strength to be able to do that. I have been waking up in weird places the last few nights, like last night I woke up at the foot of trembous mountain.
I don't know how I get there, I just wake up there. Tonight I'm sleeping at Jena's her parents are leaving town for the week. I have been spending the days with her since they closed the school. I love her sooo much.
April 11th 2006 ( 2 days remain)
I woke up beside Jena this morning, what a great feeling it is, to wake up and immediatly see the one you love beside you. I walked down stairs, and went into her fridge, there was smoke that came out of it when I opened the door, the milk carton was burnt. When I look at the way it was burnt it said something on each side.
I put all the words together and it said " My name is Patrick." I dropped the carton to the floor as soon as i read that, and the milk carton vanished, I looked back into the fridge, and another milk carton was there, un-opened, brand new. I went into the living room, Patrick was sitting there, it was obvious to me, that he was wearing a mask, "why are you wearing that stupid mask?" " Why shouldn't I?" "Take it off."
Patrick reached over and took off the mask, he was greatly disfigure, but I could still tell the details in his face, he had tire marks across his face, it seems as if someone rolled over his face with a car, he must of been really good looking before the tire marks. " What do you want with me?" " I'm sorry." " Answer me." " I really didn't mean to." He got up and vanished. Jena came downstairs " Who were you talking to?" " No one, here let me make you some eggs."
April 12th 2006 ( 2 hours remain)
Tonight me and Jena have decided to go take a walk, we are walking hand in hand, we can hear a car motor in the distance. " I love you" Jena looks at me and says " I love you too."
all of a sudden, out of no where, a man with a mask, bumped into Jena, and Jena fell hit her head on a rock, and she plunged into the lake. The man takes off his mask, It's Patrick. He says " Oh my god, I'm so sorry." I understood, what I had to do right there.
I pushed Patrick into the road, Patrick fell onto his back, the car that was in the distance was now right there, and it ran over Patrick. Patrick was now laying there motionless, and not an air bubble was coming from the Lake. I ran to the lake, pulled Jena out, I carried her in my arms all the way back to where my house used to be. I dropped Jena down on the ground, beside where I hand found the glowing Wood, I reached down exactly where The glowing wood was.
I found a completly unburnt 2x4 there, I took out my Lighter. And set it on fire. As soon as I did that, everything seemed to be like a re-winding video, I saw myself pushing Patrick again, ripping Joshes head off, killing the cows, flipping the tractor, me standing in the same exact spot when the house first caught on fire, me going to school that day.
April 3rd 2006
"John you're gonna miss the bus." " I'm not feeling good today mom, I think I should just stay home today." " Okay but you are going to school tomorrow." " Yes mom I will."
April 4th 2006
The principal said this on the announcement the next morning " Yesterday, John Ranston, his house caught on fire, The house is finished, John saves his mother, but by doing so, he sacrificed himself, John was a great student, and he will be missed by his friends, his family, and by everyone at the staff of the school." Jena turns to Josh and says " Who was John?" " He was the best guy you could ever meet, I'm sure you would love him." " Yeah I think I would of loved him."
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