The Strangest Day

Your name is Josh McLaggin. You are a 27 year old man. You have black hair, blue eyes, and light skin. You live in an apartment with your girlfriend. you work as a doctor in the local hospital. You wake up in the morning to find your out of eggs. You leave and note on the fridge explaining where you had gone to your girlfriend. You grab your coat and hat, for it is late november and cold outside. You step outside, feeling the cool breeze hit your face. you walk a mile or so to the local farmers market. You go inside and buy the eggs. you are in a good mood. in fact, your so happy you whisle as you walk back home, carton of eggs in hand. Suddenly, out of nowhere, two men step in front of your path.

"Come with us," two burly men in grey suits say, grabbing you by the arm and handcuffing you. "You know what you did." But you have no idea.

As far as you know, you have never done wrong. You pasted medical school with straight A's, and you were once a speeker for the BlackLivesMatters movement.

You cry out as they shove you into the back of a black sedan. You stutter as you try and tell them they have the wrong man. The two men laughed as they also climbed into the car. One started up the car while the other turned to look at you. He shot you a grin, and you couldn't help but notice thay he had many missing teeth.

` "Oh no," snickered the man. "Your him." You try and argue, but the man turns around and doesn't listen. The car starts moving, and much faster thn the speed limit. You open the car door, ready to jump. Both men looked back at you with crazy smiles. But you couldn't bring yourself too. you shut the door, more angry than before. They drive you for another 20 minutes, and you start to worry. Are these men cops? Are they kidnappers? They did't seem like cops, and he didn't have much of anything to spare if they were kidnappers.

Finally, after what seemed like hours, you arrive at a small, wooden house, far out from town. You remember driving by it once, but that is it. Yet when they push you in the house you already know whats going to be inside. a small kitchen to the left, and dinning room to the right, and a stair case in the middle. They shove you up the stair case and into a room with a bed, a lamp, and a small decks with a pen and paper. By know you are sure they are kidnappers, and you start writing on a piece of paper who you are, how you look, and whats happening to you. You hear one of the kidnappers coming back up the stairs. you quickly scribble the final words on it and throw it out the window, hoping someone one day may find it. . . . The door opens and the man with the missing teeth enters the room and smiles.

"Look out the window, Josh." You have no idea how they know your name, but by the way this day has been going you honestly don't care.

Slowly, you poke your head out the window. below you are three big dogs, each ripping your note into shreds. You look back at the man, who now was grinning more than ever.

"Hope you 'enjoy' your stay here." He said, laughing as he lefted the room. You walk to the door and try and open it; it was locked. You lie down on the bed, pondering what to do. Then you feel it. An uncomfortable spot on the bed. You examin the spot closer. You realized something is under the mattress, and you start tearing of the sheets. Once the sheets were off, you lifted the mattress and toss it over the bed. under the mattress was hundreds, maybe even thousands of dollars. You pick up a handful of cash. suddenly, the door is broken. You look back to see a swat team enter the room. Your were relieved to see the cops here, but it was short lived. You realized there guns are pointed at you.

"Down on the ground. now!" Shouts a cop. You have no choice but to follow his orders. Next thing you know, your in a cop car heading for prison. You try and explain what happend, but no one listens to you. You were sentenced 7 years in prison for a crime you didn't commit. After the sentence, you try and get life back to normal. The hospital wouldn't take you back, so you started working as a fry cooker in McDonalds. You lived in a joint rent room with a bunch of strangers. After a year of that, you become a manager of a swim club. with finally enough money to buy a house, you get a downtown cookie cutter and you start a family. You have two kids, a boy and a girl. The boy would become a computer expert annd the girl would become the Mayor of Chicago. They would both be millionaires. Your wife was a bussiness owner. You could finally have a happy life. 5 years after getting out of prison (You are 33.)You wake upon morning to find that your pancake mix is out. You make your way to your SUV and drive to the local supermarket. You buy the pancake mix, plus a couple of mints. You pop a mint into your mouth as you get back in your car. Your a few blocks from your house when a red light stops you. As you listen to the music playing the the radio, a black seden drives up in the lane next to yours. You look over your shoulder and see the two men in grey suits, both smiling at you and waving. a numbing tingle slowly goes your spine. Your scared for your life. you race home and call the cops on the men. the cops responded to the call but never caught the two men. You sit down and eat your pancakes, a frown on your face. your wife goes up to you and says

"Josh, are you ok? you look pale." You stare into her eyes, more scared then ever the men in suits were outside, waiting for him.

"No, Martha, no i'm not."