Déjà Vu

• Ella Eads, Grade 8
• Short Story
• 2015

The hooded figure raises his arm towards me. That is when I notice the silver object in his hand, it is a gun I realise. I stare at the person for a split second while feelings of déjà vu circle my mind and then bang! The sound of a million screams curls through the air and a single golden bullet soars through the air, rippling into my chest. I scream. Trying to grab at that last thread of hope inside of me to stay alive, only to be disappointed when I find none.



I am surrounded by a certain emptiness that leaves a hollow feeling inside of me. Not a splinter of light shines into this place. Where am I? I realise I have stood still as a statue and attempt to take a step forward into the unknown. My foot lands on something solid, I am unaware if it is the ground. I close my eyes and it does not change the scene, it is still black with my eyelids shut. I open my eyes and notice a small shadow of something. How can there be a shadow in a pitch-black room? That’s when my anxiety kicks in. I sit down on the floor, which seems to just be flat and I put my arms around my legs and my head down on my knees. I start to cry. Not just a few tears running silently down my face, but a stream of flowing tears. I don’t know why I cry, but I know that I feel better when I do. When I open my eyes, I am no longer surrounded by darkness; instead I am sitting on a field of green grass with the blue, cloudy sky above my head. I lie down in the thick green grass and look up to the sky, which is full of clouds. After gazing at the clouds for a few minutes, I realise people are like clouds. We change shape and size. We are pictured as one thing for a minute, then something else the next. We have our moments of disappearance and moments of complete. That's all everyone wants in life, to be complete and whole. I shut my eyes and feel as if I’m weightless and say to myself out loud ‘I am complete.'



I open my eyes again and see a hooded figure raising his arm towards me. That is when I notice the silver object in his hand, it is a gun I realise. I stare at the person for a split second while feelings of déjà vu circle my mind and then bang!