Jeremy!
Multiverse of Destiny: Chapter 66
The tired young woman gobbles down the last couple of slices of cold pizza. It is Friday, she thinks. It’s not as if I start looking for a job today that I’d have any luck. I lost my job yesterday, she bemoans. These thoughts echo through her mind, defeating any resolve to go on the job hunt. She is tired, anyway, due to a poor night’s sleep.
Anne grabs the empty pizza box from the counter and tries stuffing it into an overflowing garbage can.
Arghhhh. And now I have to take out the stinky, smelly garbage!
She pulls the large white plastic bag out of the trash can and ties up the drawstrings. Opening up her apartment door, she trudges down the stairs to the alley. As she flings the garbage into the dumpster, someone across the street catches her out of the corner of her eye. Someone familiar to her starts to cross the street. She looks closer as the man notices her.
He waves. It’s Jeremy, who she graduated with from college. He’d helped her when she fainted on stage!
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What’s he doing here? She ponders, waving back to him.
Anne lives in an old apartment building close to downtown Phoenix. The building had some hints of Spanish Mission-style architecture. At one time the building had been very nice, but with poor upkeep, it’d fallen into disrepair. She and Jenica are fine with their place. It is clean and comfortable, and larger than the average downtown apartment. If she takes out the screen and leans out of the living room windowsill in just the right spot she can see one of the Salt River canals, the waters shining like diamonds as it flows westward. There are apartment buildings and businesses in the surrounding area.
The street is bustling with cars driving past and people walking wherever they need to go. And today, as she stands in the alley by her dumpster, her acquaintance from college, Jeremy is walking across the street to talk to her.
“Hey!” he says as he ambles across the street. But his greeting is cut short as a retrofitted school bus speeds toward him, seemingly unaware that the young man is in its path. The old school bus is bright and multi-colored, with swirls of rainbows, flowers, and peace symbols.
“Jeremy!” Anne screams, pointing at the bus as it careens toward him.
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