Thomas "Immortally" Dumbstruck

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THE GREAT BIG SHOCKER2

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Thomas was an ordinary man and he liked it that way. He lived in a cozy apartment, had a comfortable job as a salesman and could basically afford to keep a ride, wear good cloths and eat good food. That was enough; he was more than happy with it.4

But The Life of Thomas Ahamd-Ullah Parvani Joody-Lee Khan (His mom was European Christian, his father a Pathan from Pakistan but his maternal grandfather was a Jew from Israel and his paternal grandmother was from China.) changed dramatically on the day 27th November 2001.5

It was Thomas’s birthday, but he was too content with life to notice that it was his birthday. He had no family, most of them died in Africa. (How they got there is a long story and I won’t tell it.) Thomas didn’t have any friends, as he was happy by himself and as far as he could remember he was never involved with a girl, unless you count time he sexually abused a cow, (It’s a short story but you probably don’t want to hear it.) so he received no greetings. Thomas got up as usual, got ready for office as usual, ate breakfast as usual and got in his car as usual.6

It was when he entered his office that he noticed a change, all the lights were turned off. He tried to find the switchboard in the darkness but now that he thought about it, he had never seen where it was.7

There was a huge shout “Surprise!” And the lights magically came back.8

He saw all of his coworkers around a cake with a big ‘40’ on it.9

“Wow! Whose Birthday it is?” Asked Thomas excitedly,10

An uncomfortable silence followed. Then Rachael gave an unconvincing laugh “Nice one Thomas!”11

Everyone followed, though they knew Thomas wasn’t that good an actor to be faking it. So the Party started drinks were distributed, Thomas still wasn’t sure whose birthday it was…Wait I forgot to introduce Rachel! Rachel was the general manager of the showroom Thomas worked in; in short she was his boss. She was 28 years old blonde with a curvy figure and a cute smile and for reason know only to herself (Because I never got a chance to ask her.) she was madly in love with a 6’4 tall guy, who had a huge beard and was wearing black glasses, blue shirt, green tie and brown coat (If you still haven’t guessed, she was in love with Thomas.)12

After sometime when it came the time to cut the cake and when Thomas was given a knife, it was then that he realized that it was his birthday. It struck him like lighting, not the fact that he had forgotten his birthday, he didn’t remember, remembering his birthday for as far as he could remember. (Should I say that again?) Not it was the ‘40’ candle that struck him. As far as he could remember (there we go again,) his last birthday party was when he turned 9! 9 to 40! Outrageous!13

He let out a huge scream! “NO WAY!” and ran towards the stairs, for the next 15 minute he kept running uninsanely (He is not mad!) while yelling on top of his voice. Finally a couple of his colleagues caught him, smashed his head to the wall so that he became unconscious and settled in on one of the beds on display. (Didn’t I mention it was a furniture showroom, looks like I didn’t!)14

When he regained consciousness, he found himself on a bed in the showroom. (Well it’s new happening to him, isn’t it,) The ‘40’ Image came back to his mind, but he didn’t run like a non-lunatic (Remember he’s not mad) this time, (Well, It was his first choice but his limbs were completely tied so that he wasn’t able to move,)15

He started to think. No one from his family had ever reached the 41 mark! Life was short, he had wasted so much. His second initial thought was to make a list of things he wanted to do before he died, things like16

1. Take out the trash17

2. Wash his baggers18

3. Buy his own personal cow19

4. Etc etc20

No ,there wasn’t enough time to do everything! Time! Time! That was it, he needed more time! But how! How! The solution came to him, he needed to live more, there was only one way! He must become Immortal! IMMORTAL!21

By now most of his colleagues had made a circle around his bed. They looked a little scared.22

“I quit!” Said Thomas unexpectedly,23

“Why ?” Inquired Rachel,24

“Well it’s complicated!”25

“Come on Thomas, you just need rest, how about you take a day off tomorrow?”26

“No, there’s no time” *THUD!!!*27

Thomas fell on the floor as he had tried to get off while his limbs were still tied.28

“I must leave now, my friends. This must be done! Right Now,”29

“Um……by right now, I mean as soon as someone unties me,” he added,30

So Thomas was untied and he went to the bank to take out all the money and then to the library to find myths and legends on how to become immortal, he knew what he had to do, okay perhaps he didn’t, but he knew he must become immortal! One way or the other!31

~A dark path lies in front of him! And he is ready to walk on it as soon as someone would find him his shoes~32