At Hyderabad Write Club, we were given a prompt to re-imagine the world with an object missing.
Hi I’m Thanos.
Not the one from Marvel comics. I’m real one with the real glove. Only that I can make things disappear.
I’ve never used it though. Nothing appeared that problematic for me to be that villainous. Until today.
I have a girlfriend. She is a childhood friend of mine but I never paid attention to her then. She had a running nose, wore braces and her friends were hotter. But when I met her last month, she was very attractive. We started to date.
But man, I’m fed up with my her pony tail. She is so beautiful with hair left free. But she ties this weird pony tail that makes her look like a mare. I’m going to kiss her tonight for the first time. And I want to kiss only if she’s with hair left free. So I snapped my fingers today.
Snap - oops my trousers slipped. They’ve lost elasticity. I quickly tied it around my waist with my shoe laces.
Well, so There are no rubber bands in the world, in the present and in the past. Only I knew that this thing ever existed.
I reserved a table at one of the most romantic places for our date night today. I’m waiting for her, to see her without a ponytail. And there she is.
Wow, there she is in a red saree with her hair all left free. That’s an angel walking towards me. Yes, my gloves worked. This is the moment when I wanted to kiss. I can’t wait.
I gave a shy smile unable to hide my admiration towards her. She smiled back.
Chiiii
What happened to her teeth line. This is like Andhra’s roads. No order and alignment.
“What the hell is wrong with your teeth?” I asked.
“What’s wrong?” She wondered looking at herself in the selfie mirror.
“Your teeth. Why are they so.. c.. crooked!”
“Shut-up Thanu. They’ve always been like that!” She placed her phone back in her bag, and is applying her lipstick.
“Always?” I told myself. “Did I not observe it in previous dates? That can’t be true!”
I continued to glance at teeth every now and then. No doubt, they are terrible. I’m sure it wasn’t “Always”
We finished our dinner and walked outside the restaurant. The street was romantic. And… wait… she seems to be walking closer to me than before. God, she wants to kiss me today? No way. That teethline still haunts me. I don’t know what all archaeological evidences of food can be found in her teeth grooves. I can’t kiss her this way. This has to be fixed. I have to do this gently.
I nerved up and asked her that we should see a dentist. She got angry and but agreed eventually. So we went to one next day.
The dentist had a look and suggested that she should use braces to get them corrected. I was relieved a bit. The dentist asked which material would we choose for the brace? “Whatever works the quickest!” I said. “Well”.. she thought a bit and then said.. “you should go for gold. That works the best”
Gold!! Is she gone mad? Who uses gold for braces. My card was swiped before I came to senses.
Now I have to wait for a month before we kiss.
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