Last Night at the Last Chance Diner
Copyright© 2014 by Number 7
Chapter 17
The Last Day
11:59:59 p.m.
Time.
There's never enough of it when you need it the most.
It seems to pass in eons when you are eager to get on with things.
Carl fidgeted. Even though he wanted to comfort poor, sick Beauregard, he held back. Knowing something great was about to happen was not as much fun when he had no idea of what it was that was going to happen. The nervous energy began to get the best of him, but for the first time in his life, he was able to hold back the demons that ran wild in his mind.
Carl never knew the demons were actual Demons, but this night he won out over them, and they stayed back, out of sight though never out of hearing. He heard but chose to ignore their shrieks of outrage at his denial. For a lifetime, these demons had owned Carl. For this moment, he overpowered them.
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