Let's Get Lost

As the sun crept down and ate everything in it's path...

I awoke with a shooting pain,it was my arm,a familiar throbbing sharp sensation that feels like your arm is on fire and every muscle and tendon is screaming all at once, l started shaking it to get the blood flowing when l adjusted my blurry eyes and realised l did not recognise the room l was in. confused my head hit the pillow and a sweet scent hit my nose life a slap in the face.
My mind drifted back to last night, l vaguely remembered a girl but the thumping in my head and the horrible taste in my mouth told me l drank more than l should have.
I jumped up and looked around the room, it was a cheap hotel room.The walls were stained yellow from years of cigarette smoke.
my clothes were strewn on the floor and there was a condom packet on the side of the bed.
What the hell happened? Going out on a bender was a regular occurance for me and waking up next to strange women even more so, still l was racking my brain thinking back to the night but for some reason l couldn’t remember anything, just patches of darkness and shaowdy figures clouding my mind.
I went into the bathroom and splashed water on my face and attempted to freshen up,l looked at my watch ‘8.32’.
Damn, l was supposed to be at work in 25 mins.
I threw my clothes on and jumped out the door.
I soon realised where l was and managed to grab a taxi, l still felt hungover and my suit smelt like a tobbaco factory.
The taxi pulled up outside a huge steel building with men and women in suits rushing about, l had worked here for 5 years , a nameless office inputting data for 8 hours a day, l had become numb to it all. Days of hellish work and nights of drinking and sleeping around,it was a futile existence but l felt like that was all l had, the dreams and hopes I had at 21 were long gone.
I bailed out of the taxi and got in the elevator to the 6th floor where l worked, l figured l could slip into my office unoticed and try and work my hangover off.
I managed to get in my office and get my computer started, l looked out the window the sun was beaming and the birds were chirping, l’d looked out the window a million times but never had noticed the sky before, it looked different, a million colours dazzling and blending into one and
shining directly into my soul.
Still casting my mind back to last night it was just a blur, l vaguley remembered meeting some girl but after that l cant remember anything.strange.must have been something in the tequilla.
About an hour in to my working day, l felt an itching on my back,l attempted to scratch it with my pen but it wouldn’t go away, over the next 2 hours the itching became worse and worse,it felt like someone was prodding me with a knitting needle, l kept scratching and scratching and suddenty felt these 2 little lumps appear under my shoulderblades.
I suddently felt very sick, ‘what was wrong with me’ l ran to the bathroom and pulled off my shirt, l turnedd to the mirror and l could see my skin bulging and tearing,it felt like thousands of needles were sticking in my back, blood started to trickle out and and the skin started to tear and all of a sudden these 2 little leg type protusions appared on my back, l was very scared l ddint know what to do so l wiped up the blood and l put my shirt back on and went back to my office. my head was pounding sweat was dripping from my forehead and l was shaking, l didnt know what to do, a thousand terible thoughts wizzed through my head about what was happening to me.
The itiching continued and l could hear the seams of my shirt rippng, they were getting bigger, my head was spinning , the flourescent lights in my office were making me dizzy,l ran back to the bathroom and ripped off my shirt. The legs had grown into what l could only describe as wings,
Now l was really freaking out.l had to get outside, l ran down the fire escape so no one could see me and ran onto the street, l stopped and just looked around, l didn’t know what to do or where to go, just then l noticed an attractive girl walking on the other side af the street and it just hit me, everything from the night before came flooding back,the club, the girl,talking about how much my life was meaningless and how she said she could help me.
l flew into a blind panic 'She must have done this! ' I ran across the street narrowingly missing getting hit by 2 or 3 cars and junped in front of her,l grabbed here and started shaking her.
‘what have you done to me’ l yelled.. l have fucking wings growing out of my back,what the hells have you done to me’!
Just then she just looked at me and everything around me stopped. Her eyes shone a dazzling brilliant blue that nearly blinded me,'l have set you free'
and she turned and carried on walking,l just stood there trying to process it all, just then the sun seemed to rise up over the buildings and shine on me, everything around me went into slow motion and a strange sense of calmness came over me,
Just then my back started twitching, l felt myself being slwoly lifetd up, the wings in my bag had no grown huhe and were flapping, l was being lifted up and up past my work builiding and over the street, everything looked so small and insignificant. The sun shone blindingly and everything seemes to grow in colour,every sound and thought was blocked out and l could feel myself flying faster and faster,the sun grew brigher and brighter and the landscape slowly became smaller and smaller until there was nothing left.l closed my eyes and felt everything wash over me.