CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
PROLOGUE
Johnny likes it on buses. They are meeting places, he tells himself. All kinds of different people come together on buses. Someday he'll meet someone on a bus. His future wife. The person who will "discover" him and his "talent". He doesn't actually know what that talent is yet, but he knows he has one.
He walks slowly down the aisle, looking at everyone as he does, not even trying to disguise the fact that he is. He sees a small, cute girl. He can't tell her age. Teenager? Probably. Too young for Johnny. Or maybe not. Maybe an impresonable teenager is what he needs. For some reason he thinks of a cat he used to have as a child, a cat that followed him around everywhere...he loved that cat.
He stops and looks right into the teenage girl's eyes. "You remind me of a cat I used to know," he says. He stays in front of her long enough to see the look of confusion on her face, but walks on before she can say anything.
He goes to the back of the bus and takes his seat. The back is the best place to sit, he decides. He can see everything from there. Everyone. He's in control at the back of the bus.
Johnny likes it on buses. They are meeting places, he tells himself. All kinds of different people come together on buses. Someday he'll meet someone on a bus. His future wife. The person who will "discover" him and his "talent". He doesn't actually know what that talent is yet, but he knows he has one.
He walks slowly down the aisle, looking at everyone as he does, not even trying to disguise the fact that he is. He sees a small, cute girl. He can't tell her age. Teenager? Probably. Too young for Johnny. Or maybe not. Maybe an impresonable teenager is what he needs. For some reason he thinks of a cat he used to have as a child, a cat that followed him around everywhere...he loved that cat.
He stops and looks right into the teenage girl's eyes. "You remind me of a cat I used to know," he says. He stays in front of her long enough to see the look of confusion on her face, but walks on before she can say anything.
He goes to the back of the bus and takes his seat. The back is the best place to sit, he decides. He can see everything from there. Everyone. He's in control at the back of the bus.