Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26475800-20150720053415

Déjà vu: 1 a : the illusion of remembering scenes and events when experienced for the first time

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary.

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I’ve been here before, I know I have. That same woman was in front of my, ordering the same thing at the same time. The smell is the same, although all coffee houses smell the same. The temperature is the same as well as humidity. But I can only remember things as they happen. What will happen next I cannot recall for some reason. But I know, without a doubt that I have been here before at the same time, with the same people. All of us doing the same thing.

I just got to the counter, at this point I already knew my server’s name was Wendy. “I would like a large mocha and a sausage, egg and cheese, please.” I smile at her and say at the same time as her, “I’m sorry, we’re out of sausage.” She looks at me funny, but her strange gaze doesn’t affect me, I knew it was coming. What does get me a little unsettled is that I know something is about to happen, something bad, I just can’t remember what. I change my order to something I knew they have in stock, bacon.

As I wait at the end of the counter I keep looking around the room. Something is about to happen, something I need to remember before it does. It doesn’t matter how hard I try I cannot seem to put my finger on what it is. I know the woman in the pink shirt is about to spill her coffee on herself a moment before she does. The man in the corner will pocket a handful of napkins when he thinks no one is looking.

Oh, now I remember. But it’s too late, as soon as I remember the gunman he starts spraying his bullets in the coffee shop. One hits Wendy, three hit the wall and one gets me in the chest. As my vision fades I only regret I didn’t remember sooner.

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I’ve been here before, I know I have. That same woman was in front of my, ordering the same thing at the same time. The smell is the same, although all coffee houses smell the same. The temperature is the same as well as humidity. But I can only remember things as they happen. What will happen next I cannot recall for some reason. But I know, without a doubt that I have been here before at the same time, with the same people. All of us doing the same thing. 