Day 5: Fireworks
The noises show no sign of stopping. A banging that reverberates through my body, mimicking the rhythm of my rapidly beating heart.
It hurts. A weight against my chest, as though something has been fired at me, but I look around the crowds, at my brother, at his friends, and see only smiles light up by reds and yellows and greens.
“I don’t like it.” I whisper to Mathew beside me. It was his idea to bring me here. We always spent fireworks day together and I wanted to stay home and roast marshmallows, but he was a teenager now so had to hang out with his friends. His friends who mostly ignored me.
“Give it a few minutes.”
“Can I hold your hand?”
“No.” He hisses and I try not to tear up as the noises pound again in my head.
But something rests itself on my shoulder. A comforting presence. I turn to my brother, but he is now feet away, as though embarrassed to be beside me.
No, it’s not Mathew’s hand.
I turn to find one of my brother’s friends smiling down at me.
“I didn’t like them either when I was your age”
And suddenly the banging in my chest, the pounding in my head fades as everything inside me quietens.
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This is loosely based on two things.
The first, is that fireworks always make me feel as if I'm under attack, and when I was a child I always imagined that was what was happening. I used to pretend I was The Doctor (from Doctor Who) and in the middle of a grand adventure where it was up to me to save the day from the big loud booming noises that I was sure where aliens.
The second, is that, just like my short story "Beneath the Mask," it is actually based on a few characters from something....longer I'm writing. It's 313 pages and I'm very excited for people to read it. I am still unsure about whether its weird or not to write fanfiction of your own characters, but I hope not because I really like this story.
This was Day 5 of my NaNoWriMo project where I am writing a new short story every day in November! Originally all of these were posted to instagram, but the 300 word limit was a little confining so I've come here to post everything I've written and a little bit more!
It hurts. A weight against my chest, as though something has been fired at me, but I look around the crowds, at my brother, at his friends, and see only smiles light up by reds and yellows and greens.
“I don’t like it.” I whisper to Mathew beside me. It was his idea to bring me here. We always spent fireworks day together and I wanted to stay home and roast marshmallows, but he was a teenager now so had to hang out with his friends. His friends who mostly ignored me.
“Give it a few minutes.”
“Can I hold your hand?”
“No.” He hisses and I try not to tear up as the noises pound again in my head.
But something rests itself on my shoulder. A comforting presence. I turn to my brother, but he is now feet away, as though embarrassed to be beside me.
No, it’s not Mathew’s hand.
I turn to find one of my brother’s friends smiling down at me.
“I didn’t like them either when I was your age”
And suddenly the banging in my chest, the pounding in my head fades as everything inside me quietens.
////
This is loosely based on two things.
The first, is that fireworks always make me feel as if I'm under attack, and when I was a child I always imagined that was what was happening. I used to pretend I was The Doctor (from Doctor Who) and in the middle of a grand adventure where it was up to me to save the day from the big loud booming noises that I was sure where aliens.
The second, is that, just like my short story "Beneath the Mask," it is actually based on a few characters from something....longer I'm writing. It's 313 pages and I'm very excited for people to read it. I am still unsure about whether its weird or not to write fanfiction of your own characters, but I hope not because I really like this story.
This was Day 5 of my NaNoWriMo project where I am writing a new short story every day in November! Originally all of these were posted to instagram, but the 300 word limit was a little confining so I've come here to post everything I've written and a little bit more!
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