Short story "A smack of realization from the world"

Isiah hart

A smack of realization from the world

I stood there, at the bus stop shivering with the frightening thought of being all alone in this miserable world. That I might wake up one day and notice that all the people I once knew... Suddenly disappeared. We discuss the world and it's endless evolution that led to this age in history. The clock ticks by with each passing regret, tick-tock tick-tock tick-tock.
The end is near, all isn't how it seemed. As the hours progressed faster and faster, the closer my fear got. Later on, my fear had unexpectedly become my difference between the illusion of what's real and what's fantasy.

I walk home after an endless day of learning what i already know almost as if i'm stuck on repeat day after day. After walking through the door and taking a quick glimpse at what difference my existence has made. Silence…
I walk up the lonely stairs and walk into what had once been my room but is now empty.
I walk back downstairs to try to feel the presence of my parents, but to no avail.
“Hello?” I yell, then wait to hear another voice in the house respond, Still nothing.

Suddenly, I see my grandmother rocking in her chair, crying. I walk to her very slowly as to not upset her any more in any possible way.
“Grandma? What’s wrong?” I ask as I look at her.
No answer.
“Grandma what’s wrong? Why are you crying?” suddenly she responds not to me, but to the man sitting next to her that is wearing a large black hood.
“Is she really gone? Is my granddaughter really gone?”
I look at her confused “What are you talking about grandma? I’m right here.”
Suddenly the hooded-man looks up at me and says “I’m sorry, but she can’t hear you.”
I looked at the man with a worried expression “What do you mean?”
The hooded-man replies in a serious tone “I mean you’re dead, she can’t hear you or see you.”-
My thoughts immediately begin to race with questions as i suddenly begin to fade away “What’s happening?!”
“I’ll see you once you arrive in your afterlife.” Was the last sentence the man uttered as i disappeared. I then begin to smile as i realize that I will not be alone soon and i won’t have to live in that horrible life that i was given.