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How Would You Know that I Put the Invisible on Your Desk?

Diperbarui: 25 Juni 2015   19:26

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She didn't know, how would she know? There's nothing there, only a pile of books, some used papers, a table clock and some old pens. She was enjoying his boring life as an elementary school teacher, making some tests for her students, checking those papers, and giving them back to the students. What a life was that? Then, after that, she would go home, had some lunch, took a nap for a while, and the got up, washed the dishes, and then went out to a diner and sat alone there staring at her smartphone. Finishing her dinner, she went back home, walked alone down the dark night street. She didn't afraid, maybe she didn't feel anything. A group of punks messing around a geek in an alley couldn't draw her attention.  She kept walking, eyes down, and it didn't matter because she knew the road very well. She kept walking, and she didn't know. How would she know?

And she went to bed. There was no test today, so she didn't have to correct anything. She went to bed earlier that night. She laid on the bed, trying to close her eyes. Ten minutes, twenty minutes, half an hour, one hour, one and a half hours, but she was just laying awake there. She closed her eyes but she was awake. So, what good did it do? Going to bed earlier but didn't fall asleep. But, she didn't know. How would she know?

Someone came. No sound, no scent, nothing. The shape of human walked slowly, getting closer inch per inch. There was nobody in the office, and it's already dark. The man entered the office quietly, and walked soundlessly to the right back corner of the room, and there was her working desk. The man took something out of his small case, and it was a flower, a blue tulip, her favorite. That was it, he didn't do anything else but putting that blue tulip right in her desk; no note, no letter, nothing. Just like the way he came in, he sneaked out the office, soundless.

The alarm clock on the small desk next to her bed was shouting so loud. She could barely open her pretty eyes, but she had to. She pulled up her body, forced it to wake. Another day of routine, she said to herself. She walked like a zombie to the bathroom, where she started to pour the warm water all over her. It might help, she thought. The warm water helped her to gather her consciousness, and finally she felt a little bit fresher than before. She dressed, put slight make up on her face, and a final touch of the lip gloss. She put her stiletto on, and walked to the school.

She was almost late, so when she got there, other teachers had been there already. The school was almost full of students, and they were scattered all over the place. She took a seat on her desk, and a strange feeling came into her sense. There were something around, she just didn't know what it was. Of course she didn't. How would she know? She kept looking, her eyes scanned the room, the desk, even the floor. There was nothing unusual, everything was just in the same place where they belonged.

How would she know that the blue tulip was no longer blue? How would she know that there was a man came every night to her office, just to put a blue tulip on her desk? The blue tulip was no longer blue, the color had vanished. She didn't know, she didn't want to know...

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