SUPER-POWERKET

"STOP 🛑 RIGHT THERE!! YOU--YOU CAN'T GO ANY FURTHER...,” said the shady
man.I was perplexed at the sight. What on earth would happen if I entered the
supermarket. I was familiar with the dearth of happiness and the feeling of
hopelessness I saw in his eyes.
 
I remember I had it with me, the lavish house with a wonderful neighbour living in the
middle of the woods, the town was my whole life, I belonged there and I believed in
forever. I loved my parents who would do everything to see their kid happy. We were
having a grand birthday celebration at our it was just about to start. My parents were
doing some last-minute preparation in fixing up the house. I was in my room getting
my hair ready looking at the mirror exactly then my focus shifted from myself to the
view of the window where I looked with my eyes wide open. It was the view of the
sea of fire I was startled and thought I was hallucinating. I turned back to get a real
view and noticed that the woods. The woods were catching up fire. "FIRE" I shouted
at the top of my voice. My parents came running and said -"HURRY come and get in
the car. We don't have much time." We hurriedly drove through most of the woods
just about to reach the main road and   right then in the middle of the road the light
just came in and flashed on our lives so bright that everything got burnt. The whole
car was on fire, the sirens of fire fighters overlapped the rushes of the burning trees.
What would they fight now that the damage was already done? The fire ran wild and
by morning everything had turned into ashes but the fire went on for months burning
the whole town down. The news read " 30 homes burnt down;500 lives blazed into
flames in California."
We had this great life planned out ahead of us and it turned into ashes with a blink of
an eye. Just like that I became a homeless orphan. Loss of my own life stopped
bothering me all at once because the life I was supposed to have had already been
lost. 
 
So here I was in a supermarket looking for a job, still grieving with the loss I knew it
wasn't that easy but I had to take control. before I said anything the owner read my
mind and offered me a cleaning lady’s job, I was shocked but without a second
thought took the offer. Two weeks went by, and while I was cleaning the store, I
came across a really shiny stick as I held it and my surroundings turned into a forest,
I dropped the stick and I was in the supermarket, I picked up again and I was in the
forest again “is this some kind of magic wand? Or am I in a dreamland?”

Then suddenly, the stick started to glow out of nowhere. Woosh!! I felt something hit
me square. I looked at myself, everything was normal. The shelves were lined up the
same but then I could hear drops hitting the sink drip drop. The strangest part was
the nearest sink was in the café beside the supermarket. “the day is so bright!!”, “my
maid is so lazy”, “the chocolate seems tasty” these weird non- relating phrases
crossed my mind. It was like my brain became a train station. I could hear any and
all fleeting thoughts of people around me. Well, me being me. I fainted.
“he is so young, how did the old man select him, can he cook?” I could hear all these
but my eyes were glued shut. When I squired my eyes open, I saw 3 pairs of eyes
staring right at me. I started blinking my eyes so fast, hoping all this could be a
dream and I would wake up soon. Sadly, it wasn’t a dream in fact far from one. I
could recognise the supermarket’s manager, the cleaning lady and another man I
couldn’t recognise.
The lady sweetly asked me, if I could hear people’s thoughts. I told her everything I
experienced with the stick. She then patiently explained that some people face
extreme pain in their life. I nodded and told her my theory “people say, god give
people the only pain that they can endure, but he overestimates us sometimes.” The
other man’s eyes shone at my words clearly impressed. Wouldn’t hurt to say I felt a
little proud. But yeah, back to the point. They lady said they were all like me, all of
them have experienced some or the other form of extreme pain. They also have
these zippys. The manager said they called this power zippys. They said they would
teach me how to control them.
I was beyond enraged thinking this was all a sick joke they played on me. I started
accusing them of trying to cheat me. If was so funny now that I remember that. How
the universe plays with our choices and fate if hilarious. The thing we do today can
lead to our butts being on fire tomorrow. Back to the main story. Then the lady said
they all help people so that they can prevent anyone else suffering from pain in the
future. I asked her how? She looked at me said…
Now if you ask me what it was, well it’s for me to know and for you to find out .😉