[merylsilverburg]

Okay, the title is a bit misleading. It's not really a "story" but it's something like that. I discovered a bunch of old floppy discs and decided to look through them and I found a few assignments I had to do for high school. This was one of them. For my English class in 2003, we were supposed to write a short story where we write from the perspective from an object's point of view.
I read it and thought it didn't sound so bad (better than what I can write now, believe me) although I don't write as well as other people here; but I decided to post it just for fun. *note: please excuse the horrible wording and long sentences and whatnot...my grammar wasn't that great back then, hehe*

-Teardrop-

I opened my eyes from my deep sleep only to see total darkness. Thinking it was still dark or early morning, I looked for my alarm clock next to me. But, I couldn't see it. I tried to look at my surroundings, but I was only able to see pitch black emptiness. I became confused immediately; this is not the environment that I'm used to. I tried to turn my head, but I couldn't feel it. Using my eyes to look around, I could only see a small opening below me, which made me think I was in a cave of some sort. Occasionally, I felt myself moving near the entrance, but as soon as I got there, the opening would shut off and I would return to my previous position. The opening would also reappear. Trying to reason if I was indeed in a cave and why I would be in one to begin with, I tried to move my arms and legs, but failed since it seemed I didn't have any. That's when I began to panic.

"What is this?! Where am I?!" I tried to move, tried to do anything to get myself to the bright opening. But I was immobile. Recalling what happened to me last, I remember speaking with my parents, doing my work, and then going to bed. Everything was a normal day yesterday. So, what's happening now?

"Help! Someone help!" I called out. Since there was no echo, the possibility that I was in a cave was banished immediately.

Just then, a surge of emotions flooded through me. I felt sorrow, anguish, anger...a sense of helplessness. It lasted only for a brief moment and as soon as those feelings went away, I felt myself expanding and moving toward the entrance. I still couldn't feel anything as I passed through the bright light. I was only happy that I was free from the darkness. However, as I passed through, I felt myself falling. I tried to hold onto anything that came my way, but the wall next to me was smooth and I didn't have any arms. After a few moments of panicking, I realized that I wasn't falling but instead...rolling. Somehow, I was gradually rolling next to the wall and making my way to the edge which ended abruptly, with nothing below except a brown surface which seemed a few feet away. In a desperate attempt to prevent myself from rolling off the edge, I opened my mouth and tried to bite the wall with my teeth. But, it was impossible. I couldn't bite into anything and I felt myself slip away and begin to fall onto the massive hard surface beneath me. As I went down, I closed my eyes and screamed.

I opened my eyes and felt a throbbing pain through my whole body. Still immobile, I looked up. It appeared I was laying on my back, so I looked to both sides of me. I saw a small flat clear dome to my right and the same shape to my left, only even smaller. I kept staring at the one to my right, trying to see if it was alive or an object. After a few minutes, I figured it was an item, since it hadn't moved once, so I focused my thoughts to recognizing what sort of object it was. The dome looked familiar; an object of everyday life it seemed.

"Maybe it's a ball...? Or is it glass?" The thinking put a tremendous strain on my head and made the pain in my body even worse, so I decided to rest and figure it out later. Unable to fight off the feeling of drowsiness, my eyelids slowly started to close and just as I was about to fall asleep, the object's shape appeared in my mind. I eyes flew over to the shape to my right and I realized it was not a ball or even glass...but a droplet of water. A large droplet of water. I couldn't understand why it was there or how a drop of water could be so huge.

Just as I looked up, I saw a dark shadow come over me and it started to drizzle. But the drops seemed too large to be rain. They were almost the size of meteors. So, what are they?

I saw one falling on me and I began to scream but the minute it touched me, I felt myself meld with it and increase. The feeling was soothing and the pain in my back seemed to disappear gradually. The drops continued to fall and though I was relieved about the pain, I became frightened as more and more drops kept falling. Telling myself to calm down, I focused my attention on the shadow, which seemed to be the cause of these tremendous drops of water. I looked up and identified what seemed to be....a face?

Yes, indeed, it was a face. The eyes were squeezed shut, the eyebrows were arched upward, the mouth was slightly opened which revealed gritting teeth. I inhaled sharply as I realized the face was sobbing and the large droplets were actually tears.

One by one, the tears kept falling over me and I slowly mixed with them. And that's when I realized what my fate will be the minute I evaporated into thin air...



That's it.