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Expect the Unexpecting

Little Black Book

By Jon MakariosPublished 5 years ago 6 min read
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Prelude

There once was a tall man, He did not fit in most cars. He looked down on most all people, although he always treated people how they treated him. His name is Ryan and he is called, "a deity". Being a deity did not change his life one bit. He's worked, He's gone to college, He's done everything to his best capability.

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Once upon a time Ryan was on his way to work when he saw a big black and white cow in the road and he called out, "So and SO your COW is in the ROAD again!!" He then heard someone he didn't know tell the cow to get outta the road and come along home. The cow walked across the road and moved down the mountainside as he pulled forward and continued his way. While driving the speed limit a cop car pulled him over, he asked the officer why he was pulled over and the officer said he was speeding. Then Ryan created an accountability whereas he thought clearly how fast he was going and told the officer I was actually going the speed limit. The officer then pulled out a little black book and tried to give it to Ryan. Ryan looked at it and looked at the officer, "what is this now?" he asked. The officer then unclipped his gun and said, "You have one choice ahead of you, you can either take this book or take everything I am currently in possesion of." Ryan's eyes widened slightly because he's always been able to tell if people are lying and the cop spoke true. "Everything you are in possesion of? How would I then Drive two cars?" The cop grinned like a true fool, real toothy. Tossed the book past Ryan onto the passenger seat and said,"You are a true one, this will make your day". Before the cop could walk away Ryan asked,"Why unclip your gun?", with some sadness in his eye the cop said, "I am a shooter, this gun means more to me then anything else I have here and I would gift it to you first before anything else."

As the cop pulled away Ryan glanced at the book and thought to read through it. He checked his watch and remembered he had to get to work so he put the book in his glove box and drove to work. On his way to work he accelerated way past the speed limit in front of a different cop car and he heard the cop mutter aloud, "he is safe from us now." After hearing that Ryan slowed down and made it into work early. At work there was only one other person who is his friend/brother named Jon/I, and Jon did not infact work here. Ryan goes to his desk and starts writing all his information for the company out, time logs, manifests, random boring stuff. Jon is a short one at 5 foot 3 inches and Ryan can always hear him walking around. Ryan sets his pen down and feels the work. Then he relizes that I am no longer here, although I did not walk out. Just then a hand was waving nearby a wall and this made Ryan jump in total surprise. All is silent and this actually surprised myself. I then walk through what appears to be nothing and am standing nearby. "Hey, What's up man?" Ryan looks at me sideways. I shake my head and say,"If you continue to do that, your brain will fall out." Ryan replies, "No it's with me completely." Ryan stands up, walks over to Jon and presses his palm against Jon's chest. Jon is then pushed backwards a bit. "Don't you want to know what is going on?" I ask him. Ryan attempts to think his question to Jon and then Jon moves his fingers in some unknowable movements. Then a force invisible, thick and with noise passes through both of us. "That is not possible", Ryan exclaimed. I lick my lips in thought. "Someone gave you something, I don't know what it is, we are suppose to be figuring it out." Ryan then goes back to his chair, sits down and wipes his eyes. "Don't you want to know why no one is at your work? I don't even know what you do here lol!" Ryan picks up his pen and continues to work. I walk over to him and take the pen, He glances down at me. Then pulls out another since there is about 30+ on his desk. "you ever heard of Rick and Morty?", Jon shakes his head after asking the question and sits on the floor. "I have a ridiculous number of jobs, Today my job was to teleport infront of you then take you on a journey." "So you don't always know what you are going to do?" My lips curl at his question. "I only do things that I know I am able to do." Ryan sees Jon looking very thoughtful then I say, "It's not about what you know, It's about who I trust."

Ryan stands and says, "alright." With a nod of his head he then begins to walk back to his car through the building. I follow behind and ask, "what the heck do you do here?" Without turning around he says aloud,"I answer peoples questions." "OH, Let me guess, You are the smartest person at your work?" He then turned to me at his passenger side door and looks straight down at me. "You are half right, I am infact the smartest man in my works company." I start laughing hilariously, while he pulls the book out of his car. I say to him, "Did I ever tell you I am a scientist." He hands me the book and says, "no you have not. Do you actually not remember what I have heard and have not heard you say." I sit on the hood of his car, because I have never done that before. Tears rolling down my face. "I actually do remember the conversations I have had with you, but there is a great many things I forgot in the past." I open the book and see what the first page says. Whomever reads these words will lay claim to all of which that you find herein. I look at the second page. This book is. I look to the third page and it says, "we know how holy you are, although only the spirit nearby may read herein." I then flipped to the last page in the book. When I flipped through the book and on the last page it's like words within concepts within encryptions. On the bottom of the last page it says in plaintext, with thus comes total a sum of 143,528,857 of revenue. I show this to Ryan and ask him what he sees. "There is nothing there, there is words here though." He points to where I see a lot of blackness and not many words. "What's it say?" I ask. He replies, "It wouldn't be right if I told you." I deadpan, "What do you mean?" He smiles then subtily, "This is the end of the book not the begining." That day we found 1003 dollars. He decided he didn't need to work there again, although if they had questions for him he had answers. Some of the money we put into healthcare charities, as well as other places that care about the health and safety of human beings. To this day we haven't found all the money. Times change, land moves, people move things, houses crop up where land use to be.

I will always remember his surprise to see my hand because I was looking in through the window behind him at the same time. It's the little things that sometimes matter the most.

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About the Creator

Jon Makarios

Philosophy, Geography, Arithmetic, Chemistry, Romance, Adventure, Science, Thought Process, Quantum, Time & Dimensions, History, Culture, Survey. I am a 30 year old straight man. Comedy and Music rule my world. Equations inspire me. -Taoist

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