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When God Fell to Sleep! A Short Sci-Fi Story by Anahita
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*Happiness is not something found in science labs or even the heaven. Happiness is when we unlock closed doors and create something extraordinary.*
On a clear starry night, a black hole was about to open its gateway to a timeless tick. The universe was at its quietest moment ever. God was sleep and didn’t know that one of his naughtiest children was about to find his way out of the eternity.
There was a gate and the key to open it was locked in the infinity of repeated mirrors.
“What is behind there?” Jack remembered asking his father.
“Nothingness,” He replied.
“What is nothingness?”
“Absolute void, my son.”
“Can I see it?”
“No.”
“Can I go there?
“No. It is forbidden.”
“Why?”
“Because of time.”
“Time?”
“Yes, my son. Time is a weapon. It will kill you.”
“Kill me. Then what happens.”
“Nothingness.”
“I want the key to there dad,” Jack said.
God smiled: “That gate is not an exit. It is an entrance.”
“You mean we can’t go outside?”
“No, because we are already outside living in infinity”
“Show me a way to there dad,” Jack begged his father.
“You see those two mountains in the distance facing each other my child?” God said in doubt.
“Yes….”
“They are made of mirrors…,” He continued.
“Yes…,” Jack said impatiently.
“The key to the gate is between them. Nobody can unlock the gate without that key.” God knew deep inside that Jack also would not be able to get the key.
But Jack did. When everybody was lost in the fake reflections, Jack reached the mountains and found millions of virtual keys floating in space. But which one was real? Jack covered the mountains and there it was, one key to his freedom.
Jack instantly was on Earth and soon he figured out that he was invisible within human world. Jack decided then to be a human!
Soon he met a lonely girl, called Lily. A small built, shy research fellow at the Central University, Lily seemed to live in her physics lab.
“Can I …..help …..?” Lily asked while shaking from the shock.
“Hello! My name is Jack.”
“How…. I mean how… did….”
“This is not the first time I pass the locked doors,” Jack smiled and looked into Lily’s eyes.
Lily looked down and blushed. Jack entered Lily’s world.
“Do you love me?”
“Of course I do,” Jack replied knowing it was very important for an Earthling woman to be loved.
“My mum always said that, somewhere out there in that starry sky, there is a star for you,” Lily whispered to Jack’s ears,” I became a cosmologist to find my star, never knowing that mine was actually so near to me,” she continued.
“Where you thought your star was?” Jack replied with his fake human voice.
“The universe is so vast. You never know, you could be living beyond time,” Lily joked.
One hot summer, when Jack and Lily were kissing each other under the umbrella of a starry night in the rose garden, Lily started to cry.
“Why you are crying?” Jack wanted to know.
“I am so lonely, even with you, even in my rose garden, even with all these stars twinkling their smiley little faces at me,” Lily murmured.
Instantly Jack realised that he never saw Lily so unhappy. With his absolute knowledge Jack was still a child of God and therefore lacking a sense… sense of feelings. Jack knew that he had to cry and he had to laugh, but he was just a player on Earth, nothing more.
“I long for a child,” Lily said all of a sudden.
“I don’t understand,” Jack said in shock, but Lily was already asleep.
“Father… Help me if you can hear me, I want to live on Earth with Lily. She is mine and I am hers. But why? Why you do not let me? Why?” Jack found himself pondering around between the rose bushes and jasmine trees, not feeling what Lily always described as sweet smell of jasmines and soft petals of red roses. For Jack the garden was a frozen photo.
“Why did you leave me?” God answered.
“Because I hate closed doors,” Jack howled.
“You are behind one now….” God smiled in his absolute calmness, “find your way out.”
When the first rays of sunshine sparkled over an early morning dew of a distant rose bud, Jack knew he found his key. He picked a jasmine flower and rushed towards the glittering rose. Jack poured his invisible blood over the jasmine petals.
And there it was, a spark went from Jack’s finger to his heart and he felt butterflies in his stomach. Something started to beat inside his chest. His face started to warm up and before his eyes the whole garden was on a sudden bloom with jasmine petals snowing over the fiery roses. Jack inhaled the air. There was something there he never experienced before; the sweet scent of jasmines! For the first time he felt the rose’s soft velvety skin, when he kissed it.
“I am human,” he screamed from happiness, as he tasted the salty tear on his warm lips.
Over at the gateway to Jack’s world, a black hole disappeared forever. God was sleep again and did not see Jack unlocking the gate to Lily’s eternal happiness.