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- [ Angel ] [ By The GNN ]
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- "ANGEL"
- by THE GNN/DualCrew(?)-Shining(?)/uXu
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- This is it, he thought. He balanced at the edge of the rail to his
- balcony, staring at the hard black wet asphalt fifty storeys down. His mind
- was made up; this was it. Slowly, his body leaned backwards then forwards,
- soon he would close his eyes and drop. Even though it was in the middle of
- the night, the street below was crowded with cars, their headlights and
- growling engines made the night less lonely.
- He did not want to die alone, he pondered. Then he felt the chilly, wet
- breeze against his chin as he fell.
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- Someone tapped on his shoulder. He did not turn around. He did not even
- say a word. He just sat there, in front of his typewriter. A blank paper
- revealed that he had not done any work this day either.
- "Jones?" the familiar and horrible female voice said behind him.
- He looked at the blank paper. His hands rested in his lap. He had been
- sitting like that the whole afternoon in his small office.
- "(For Christ sake), Jones!" the voice repeated.
- "Yeah?" he mumbled without turning around.
- The secretary leaned over his shoulder and placed an envelope on his
- desk. It had his name neatly printed on the front. He did not move.
- "I don't know about your problems, Jones." the secretary said. "But
- this..."
- She hesitated. Jones knew that she had taken her round red glasses off.
- She always did that after a while of hopeless conversation with him. He
- felt her sour breath against his head.
- "This," she continued. "Is... it. Our great leader at this charming
- institution have decided to sack a mutual friend of ours. However, I do
- not know him that well, and I really, oh really, wonder if you really
- know him at all nowadays."
- She left and slammed the door shut behind him. He let his eyes wander
- over the neatly typed letter inside the envelope even though he already knew
- that he was fired and forgotten.
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- Jones opened his eyes and quickly realized that he was far from dead.
- Joy was not at all suitable at this moment, he thought, and forced his mind
- to become depressed again.
- Then he looked around.
- He was on his balcony, had he fallen in the wrong direction? No, he
- concluded. He was over one hundred percent sure that he had fallen forward.
- He was not an idiot.
- But this was not his balcony. It was however a similar one, all of them
- did tend to look the same in his building. He got to his feet, feeling
- dizzy and confused for a few seconds. He had landed on a thick striped
- mattress, one that was awfully dirty and revolting. He looked over the edge.
- Incredible, he must have fallen quite a bit - the street was only around
- twenty feet down. From this height the cars made a terrible noise.
- He wondered how he had gotten to this particular balcony. A strong wind
- perhaps?
- To jump yet another time was out of the question. The chances of dying
- had radically decreased. So he decided to enter the apartment.
- The door to the balcony was open, so he had no problem of getting inside.
- It was completely dark, but he knew that he was in someone's bedroom (the
- apartments were all alike too). He could not hear anyone snore or breathe
- from the place where the bed ought to be. He headed for the door. It
- was not hard to find.
- A man sat on a chair beside a table in the kitchen as he entered. Jones
- did not recognize the individual. He was short, bald and wore a stained
- tank-top. A naked light bulb in the ceiling spread a hard light over the
- little man. He sat like a loser, face filled with sadness, and he held a
- little revolver in his right hand. The barrel pointed at the floor.
- "Hey you!" Jones shouted from the door.
- The man made a little shriek and turned to Jones. "Who the... hell...
- are you?" he asked while his eyes turned bigger and bigger.
- "I'm from the top floor. Just passing by, or something."
- The man opened his mouth and did not close it until Jones told him to
- do so, since it looked so incredible ridiculous.
- "Ridiculous..." the man muttered. "True, I am ridiculous."
- "What are you up to?" Jones asked.
- The man explained: he had also lost his job today. Now he was going to
- use the only bullet he owned to kill himself with his little gun. Jones
- said that he knew how the man felt, but the man just waved with his free
- hand and sneered. "You know nothing," the man said.
- Jones felt annoyed. Who was this man that dared to question his feelings?
- Jones had actually jumped, failed big time - but anyway! This man had not
- even shot himself yet. How could he claim that he knew about misery then?
- "Listen to me," Jones said. "I know everything there is to know about
- failure. In my case, we are talking about Mister Failure Supreme, all
- categories considered, with cheese on top. But never mind..."
- The man pushed a chair in Jones direction with his foot. Jones still
- stood by the door to the bedroom. He walked to the chair and sat down. The
- man offered him a Kent cigarette, but Jones kindly refused it.
- "What's your name?" Jones asked.
- The man just stared at the wall in front of him.
- "You name?" Jones repeated, this time almost screaming.
- "Uh, name, uh, mine? Uh?"
- "Yes, you do have a name I guess? Or were you born without one?"
- "Michael... Michael Glover."
- "Nathan Jones. Pleased to meet you."
- The man exhaled a cloud of white smoke and sighed. "Nathan..."
- "Yes, my name is Nathan. Do you need to repeat it twenty times before
- get it into your tight little mind? I have this gift you know, I can
- see when people are utterly stupid."
- The man suddenly came to life. "What the hell are you telling me?"
- "I can see when people are... idiots."
- "What the hell are you saying? Are you insinuating, in my own home,
- that I am ... stupid? Is that what you are saying? You stumble into my
- home to... insult me?!"
- Jones laughed and quoted with a dark voice: "You schtumble into mah
- home to.. inschult moi!"
- The man raised a finger but Jones were quicker: "I am not holding a
- gun in my hand. I am not on my way to kill myself. You are! Who's the
- sad clown in this room if I may ask?"
- Silence. He seems to get the point, Jones thought. They said nothing
- for a while. Their eyes did not leave each others. The man had a surprised
- look in his face, Jones remained serious.
- "Yes..." the man said. "Yes..."
- "A man may be a king for a day and a fool for a lifetime. So what? Those
- who try to kill themselves, however, will not even be king for a single
- minute. They are the (Jones emphasized 'the') complete losers. Trust me on
- this one, I have a... certain education."
- The man placed the gun on the table. Then he began to cry. "Why... who
- are you?"
- "As I said, Nathan Jones. Professional loser, like you."
- The man wiped away a tear. "You're not a loser, Nathan, you're an angel.
- A dark angel from heaven!" (Jones suddenly noticed that he still wore his
- black suit, he had not taken it off when he came home from his ex-work
- this day). "I truly believe that you have saved me."
- "Perhaps," Jones answered with a low voice. Then he quickly reached for
- the gun and fired the last bullet into his mouth.
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