The Best of Both Lives, a
story written by Tarana and me. :D For an overview of the story,
please check the link below.
Here’s the first chapter of our
story, feel free to share it with your friends and don’t forget to leave us a
comment, it will be greatly appreciated. :D ;)
The Best of Both Lives - Chapter
1: A New Discovery
Chapter 1: A New Discovery
It was a quiet Sunday, and John
was feeling rather tired from a long hard day of doing… absolutely nothing. It's
exhausting not doing anything, especially for John who tends to over work
himself. Speaking of work, John was forced to go on holiday with his
colleagues, well, his research team from the University; they all had been
working on multiple devices and technical products, in hopes of one day
creating a device, that would take them to any place they would like to go. His
mind was swirling with ideas for his next project, but he was told not to pick
one tool or he would be suspended; So he was trying his best to relax and enjoy
the summer breeze coming from his bedroom window.
John decided to walk to his
porch, before him a sandy beach. “Perfect!” John thought. He sat down on the
swing he had by the door and in a few moments he began to drift off to
sleep. He woke up when he heard his
name being called: “John.” He looked around, but he couldn’t see anyone.
“John.” He heard once more.
John got up from the swing and
tried to look around, but the sun was too strong and it hurt his eyes. He then
covered his face a bit with his hands in order to block out the sun as much as
possible from stinging his eyes, while he tried, once more, to look
around. John then saw what seemed to be
a figure of a woman, walking towards him.
This was strange. “How can
someone appear out of nowhere?” he thought out loud. John was now feeling a
strong urge in the pit of his stomach, a yearning for this woman, a woman which
he never met before, but now he wanted to reach out and hold her in his arms.
The woman then, suddenly vanished. He blinked several times, thinking that it
may actually be his tired eyes playing tricks on him. He rubbed them and looked
in front of him to see Greg, one of his colleagues, staring at him at a close
range.
“Jheeze!” John yelped with a startle reaction. “Couldn’t you have
given me a warning or something? Having you appearing out of nowhere, I really
thought, for a moment, you were this beautiful woman…” Greg laughed.
“I’m offended that you don’t
think of me as beautiful.” Greg said with a small teasing pout. John looked at
him with a look of ‘In your dreams buddy’.
“You know what I mean.” John
said as he started to get up and head back into the hotel room. Greg followed
him.
“No, I really don’t.” Greg
replied with a big fat grin.
Greg was the jokester of the
team. He was the one that would make people laugh, smile and even cheer them
up, just by a few words. He is that sort of person, after all. John adored Greg
for his humour and character. He was indeed a very witty person. The thought of
Greg getting along with Liam, his complete opposite, was beyond John’s mind.
The two get along so well that they seem inseparable. Even John couldn’t get in
the way of their friendship, and he didn’t want to either.
“Guys!” Liam said appearing
suddenly behind them. They stopped walking towards the hotel room and turned
around to look at him.
“Wow, what happened to you?”
John said looking at Liam who seemed he was going to burst any moment, because
of how red his face looked. Liam was bent with his hands over his knees, trying
to catch his breath. He was breathing heavily. Greg tossed him a bottle of
water.
“Thanks.” Liam said after
drinking half of it.
“Now, are you going to tell
us…?” John started.
“You guys will not believe what
I just saw!” Liam said.
John and Greg exchanged a look.
“Why don’t you show us?” John
suggested.
Liam took them to a secluded area of the beach, not too far from
their hotel room.
“Wow! Is this for real?” Greg
said with his eyes widened and his jaw nearly dropping.
“How’s this possible?” John said,
a surprised look on his face.
A few moments later, the three of them, were back in their hotel
room. In the middle of the room, they were staring at this device that was now
placed on the floor, in front of them.
“This is exactly like I imagined
it to be!” John said.
End of chapter 1
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