4 SQUARE

The handful of circular, white disks stared up at Kyu.  He popped the lexapro with a grimace.  You’re worthless.  

He sat parked in a car.  To his right, Alex was sitting, looking nervous.  They said goodbye and she began walking up the driveway.  She hesitated a step, then spun and skipped back to the open passenger window.  “If you want to kiss me sometime I would happily do that.”  Off she darted.

Kyu’s face twisted as she grew distant.  He screamed.  Suddenly a long  coil of rope was in his hands.  He whipped it out the window and it sailed like an arrow, hitting Alex and lassoing her around the center, tightening between ribs.  

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Alex’s body bowed with her momentum against the rope like a sail full of wind before reversing and slamming to the ground.  

Kyu stepped out of the car.  “Stop your damn running around.  I can’t trust you when you’re constantly flying off.  How could I possibly give myself to you?”  He began to hoist the rope, hand over hand, reeling Alex’s squirming and clawing body across the concrete.  “Now you’re mine.”  

At that moment, ensconcing swirls of light overlapped her form in a glowing egg, and a thin buzzing was heard.  Kyu fell back, stunned by the piercing rays. As the luminosity dissolved, Alex had vanished. A hummingbird flew out from the pile of rope.

[Reader, go immediately to 6-Square.]

The hummingbird moved like a piece of rainbow above the black road.  

Kyu put his face in his hands and wept.  

[Reader, navigate slowly to 6-Square.]