Just a day

• If you've ever had one of those days that just couldn't get any worse this  Is one of those stories. It starts out in a dingy little town in Colorado where everybody knows everybody there's nothing to do and boredoms inescapable. The person having that worst day ever is named David. David is a young man average everything; high, weight, and intellect. He doesn't have a lot going for him which is pretty much par for the course in this town. Having just had one of those days he's on his way home from school which his mom forgot to pack him lunch for, pick him up from. Beyond all that he was belittled in front of the whole school at a pep assembly for cheering  At a non 'cheerible' moment. All the way walking home that's all he could do was go over his day Thinking of everything that went wrong the time he tripped in front of his crush, The guys that laughed out at him after he did, and falling up the stairs trying to get to second period. Not to mention the previously mentioned 'what he saw as atrocities' happenings of the day.  Falling deeper and deeper into his own thought process something finally breaks him out of it. A flittering glint in his eye draws all his attention away from the horrible day. He walks over to see what it was that so abruptly  pulled him out of his self loathing.  What he found would  end up changing his life and in so changing the world around him. It was  A locket round in shape with the tree half of it dead half of it living. It had a small simple note inside that said wish for what you want to change give it a picture to give it a name. Finding it more curious than ominous in his  current state of mind. He threw it in his pocket and continued his walk home. For the rest of the walk home that's all they could think about is what he would want to change. If it was the things that happened at school today the issues with his mother or, if he should think of something bigger think outside of himself. By the time he got home he decided what he wanted to change.So he cut a picture out of a magazine of the planet, and decided that if he could change something that's what needed at most. That would help everybody including himself. So upon doing that he started to visualize what he wanted to change. Things like global warming, hunger, war and societal standards both monetary and social.  Instantly his bad day had melted away like it never happened also he felt it would never again after what he wished for. He went about the rest of his day-and-night has normal. Not even thinking of his bad day or the wish that he had made. As is tradition he and  His mother watched the news with over breakfast.  As traditionhe and his mother watchedthenewsoverbreakfast. All the reports had to do with all of his wishes that at this point he didn't even really remember wishing.  Not just that but he wasn't the only one that wouldn't remember. It was as if there was a global mandela effect.  So David went on about his day. He had a great day at school with all his friends. Just a normal day, only everybody was a little bit happier.  Everything just  seemed to be perfect.  Little did David know that the magic that was held in that locket 'just like a locket' had two sides, as depicted as the tree that was half dead half bloomed. He would soon find out, as at that very moment his mother was entering his room to get his laundry and tidy up a little bit. David being a little bit  messy, this happened often. After his mother was done she went down to the laundry room and filled the machine with all of his clothes.Not knowing the locket was in the pair of jeans he had worn yesterday. She started the machine and walked away. As the washing machine went through its cycles and inadvertently had opened the locket and washed the picture away, with it the dreams and beautiful things that he  that David had wished for the world. And with his wishes being washed away so were the changes of the day. Except for one little thing one little design flaw in the lockets nature as  seen on the image of the front with the tree.  At the bottom of the tree there laid a single  bloom or atleast the  remnants of one, as it seemed to be shriveled.  As the whole world 'over a short period mere monthths' returned right back to where it had started before his wishes. A type of panic  ensued along with it' one like never seen before.  The world changing so fast and all of our mistakes returned. The world was doomed.

• Although unlike the rest of the world David was able to retain his memories. This time he knew and remembered the wish that he had made, the wish that was washed away.  All the forgotten chaos that was left to him alone.  David's one wish turned out to be His darkest secret. One only he would have to endure.

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