When Utopia Falls by Kody Boye

Author:Kody Boye
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kody Boye

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My best friend leaves in the early hours of the evening, during which time the tendrils change color, darkness falls upon the city, and my hopes for the future cannot be distinguished from my anxieties in the present.

You just have to remember, I think.

“You’re doing it for them,” I whisper, and turn my gaze to the city.

There are few people wandering about at this hour of the evening. Most appear to be returning home from their businesses, or from friends’ homes, or from restaurants. Guided by the light of the God Above, they make their way from the city center to the various streets that divide the city, offering me but a semblance of normalcy that no longer exists in my life.

To think, I wonder, what my life would have been like were I not chosen.

Would I have become a doctor? Would I be interning at Trinity Hospital? Would I, for lack of a better phrase, be normal?

I don’t know; and that, above all else, is what frightens me. Because the more I think about it, and the more I ruminate on what has happened, the more I wonder if this is how it was supposed to be.

Was I destined to be this way? Was I always meant to be the catalyst for change? And if so: was my father always meant to die?

A tear slips from my eye as I consider this fact.

I wish you could see me now, I think.

Would he be proud? I wonder. Thankful? Scared? Or would he simply wish for me to do what I felt was the right thing?

Unfortunately, there’s no way to tell what my father would think, because he’s gone.

Forever.

Frowning, I turn my back to the city—only to find a message flashing in red along the wall.

It is from none other than Mister Albright.

“Computer,” I say. “Read the message from Jim Albright.”

“I’m scheduling a meeting for tomorrow afternoon,” the computer reads, “to prepare you for the forum that will address your plans to expand. Be ready.”

That is all the computer says before it goes silent.

And though a part of me wishes that I had not heard it, I know for a fact that I needed that warning.

I crawl into bed with the knowledge that my world is about to change once more—and this time, possibly for the worst.

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