Flash of Danger

Submitted into Contest #30 in response to: Write a story about a character experiencing déjà vu.... view prompt

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Harry a sheetrocker from Rockland Massachusetts was sitting in a bar. He was on his 5th naty daddy that night. When a man walked in he seen before but not here in his dream maybe remembering the scene happening very familiar to what was happening then.. He kind of shrugged it off because he was a little tipsy and figured he was imagining things. So he continued to have about 4 more naty daddies. He later drove home drunk because that is what you do when you are from Rockland Massachusetts. The next day he got up for work went to dunks and started his day. As he was on the pipe staging he had another flash like he had been there before. It was very similar to the scene at the bar last night. He told the boys he needed to take a break and get some water. They all called him a pussy and he told them to go fuck themselves cause that's what you do when you from Rockland. Harry asked Guy if he ever had a flashback from doing acid? He explained how he kept having these flashes like he was already there and it was happening again and he didn't know if it was from doing to much acid when he was a kid. Guy said that he hasn't had a flash back but he one time he had too many four locos and his mother was yelling at him telling him he was piece of shit but she had died 3 years ago. Harry said that sounds fucked up man, maybe I'm just not drinking enough water. Harry went back to work and finished out the day pounded down a few nips and headed home. He was in rough shape so he just ordered a cheese pizza watched shameless and went to bed. The next morning as he was getting ready for work he remembered he still had a little coke from Saturday night in his sweatpants. He railed a few lines got his dunks and went to work. The day went by pretty normal he was happy and decided to do the rest of his coke before he went home. When he opened the door to his house his cat mittens jumped out at him like it was trying to escape from something. He spent 2 hours running around the yard trying to bring mittens back inside. He eventually gave up and just put food on the deck hoping she would come to him. That night he heard a noise and went to see if mittens was on the deck. He started feeling weird like this happened before all over again. He called for mittens like he had felt he had before. As she ran up to his stairs a coyote jumped the fence and snatched her up and ran off. Harry was stunned all he could say was what the fuck. Stupid fucking cat had to run outside. Harry went back inside took some tylenol PM and went to bed. He continued his routine till pay day comes and says hes taking the weekend off to the boss. That weekend he went the bar had his usual amount of naty daddies and drove home on his way home he started to feel that flash of being here before again. He looked around to see what else he remembered happening. He looked to his left and swerved little to the right. This alerted the police that were right behind him. The blues came on and Harry thought for certain he was fucked. They asked him for his license and registration he complied and waited patiently for them to get back to him. Luckily he had a jar of peanutbutter under the seat to kill the beer breath before the police got to the window. They let him go home. Harry lucked out went home and passed out. The next morning he got up and realized how lucky he was so he went to the store and played mega millions and Powerball. He was driving away from the store and he started to have another one of his flashes of being here before he was kind of dumb and never heard of deja vu. He was scared and thought something else weird was going to happen. Just then Ricky a local crack head jumped in front of his car. His head smashed off the windshield and was bleeding everywhere. Harry just screamed what the fuck over and over again.Ricky laid in the street mangled unconscious and bleeding. Harry called 911. He then explained to the police what happened the officers took his information and let him go. That night Harry woke to a knock at his door. When he went to the door no one was there. He started getting the deja vu feeling again and ran back to his bed and tried to go to sleep. He couldn't sleep because of the anxiety he was feeling. He had some vodka in the kitchen and he went downstairs to drink to calm himself down. After he finished the bottle he checked the time and went back upstairs to bed. The next morning he got up like normal and was heading out and saw that mittens head was on his porch. He was really freaked out now and didn't know what to think. He hurried to his car and headed to dunks. He saw Guy at dunks and Guy had mentioned he heard about Ricky yesterday. So Guy offered to do some coke later that night with harry when he got to the bar. That night they both got blasted on naty daddies and cocaine a little adderall too. Harry headed home after a good night of partying as he pulled into his driveway he had that deja vu feeling all over again. He waited in his car for 15 minutes. He figured he was just being paranoid from the coke. As soon as he gets out of his car a huge branch fell out of a tree landing on his head and killing him. 

February 25, 2020 00:38

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