I swing my legs off the bed and onto the FUCK!! Cat screeches. I'm sorry 12:37, that's what I named my cat, 12:37. She showed up at my door at 12:37am, I heard scratching so I opened and in the came. I didn't even bother to chase her out, I could use the company.
As I walk to the bathroom, :37 trailing behind me, I'm. Thinking about the day I have planned. It takes 40 seconds. I start at myself in the mirror, toothbrush, and toothpaste in hand..and I space out. I can't account for those 53 seconds, but where ever I was at it was great. Wash my face, 1 minute 3 seconds. Grab and put on my pants and shirt..right where I left them, dining room table..why?;:47 seconds. Pour milk into bowl:37, dump some Kat Treats on the floor..she won't eat them out of the bowl..and I'm out the door with my keys..where the fuck are my keys. That's right, I left them in the ignition. Open my car door, close my car door. Out if the corner of my eye, I see my next-door neighbor. Don't look, doo...fuck it, I look. And there they are, right where they are supposed to be. But only I can see them, numbers..7889400. it's how much time she had left to live..her Death Clock.
That number was 8 months ago. It's lower, but I stopped looking above her head and started looking at her breast like she wanted me to. For some strange reason, it counts down in minutes. Don't know why, and I don't know where I got 'Talent' from either. But it couldn't have come at a better time too. Someone is stealing people's Death Minutes. Say you have 73 million minutes until your death. That's 15 years or so. Then all of a sudden, you just don't wake up one morning. You will never know you don't wake up because you're dead. But I have questions. How are they stealing them and why? I mean the apparent reason to prolong life, but why. All this thinking has taken my mind off of the drive to my college. I'm here. Now I know why I was dreading this day. I think I have a suspect..and he is in my class.
5 minutes and 44 seconds from Student Parking to my class. There's Sam AKA 704. She's hot, too hot and she knows I like her. She had me standing there for 7 minutes and 4 seconds stumbling all over myself trying to ask her out...and she tells me no and walks away. Hi Tina, 5 Flat. 5 minutes it took her to eat a banana, I relive that every waking day of my life in my head. I've named people by minutes and seconds. It's easier for me that way. Some would say, to use the name they are born with, but not me. It's all about numbers.
As I turned the corner in the school's hallway, I hear him before I see him. My first response was to lower my head, staring at the floor. Why? Because I wear my emotions on my face and he would know...if he is the one who is stealing people's time, he will know I am on to him., This Him, is Kevin, I won't give Kevin a number because it changes from day to day. My first time meeting him, I named him 12 noon. He was walking down the hall towards me, and I was hearing theme music for a gunfight in my head, Then he just stood there, staring at me... and me asking with my eyes, what? It was like he was waiting for me to draw my 6 shooters, hence 12 noon. As I walked by him that first meeting, I glanced at his number. The next day I saw him, they were extremely high. I marked it off as I read his time differently by mistake. I was distracted. But over the following months, his numbers rose, fell, and rose again and again. Then one afternoon as I was getting out of my car to go into my home, 3 guys in dark suits were walking towards me. I turned to walk up the pathway before them, but I heard their footsteps behind me. The first thing I notice...they had no time over there heads, there was an Infinity sign.
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