The Bag - The Skewered Apple
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Jason followed the girl's arm as the train was leaving and saw the poster. He got up and went to the edge of the platform.
"The Skewered Apple," he murmured under his breath and he knew that it was familiar to him, but how? He turned to speak to the girl again but she had gone. He rushed over to where she had been only moments ago and looked around the platform but she had vanished. Jason was starting to worry that he was losing his mind.
He must have looked a mad figure because in his peripheral vision, he saw the guard that he'd waved to earlier, walking towards him. Jason needed to get a better look at that poster and hoped that it would jog some memory but the guard moved more quickly the closer he got to the edge.
The notebook! In an epiphany, Jason realised where he had seen the apple motif before and walking slowly over to the bench, he sat down and nonchalantly reached into the bag. Pulling out the notebook, he found the page he'd been looking at.
"Who are you?" he said out loud but quietly. The guard was still watching -from a respectful distance - but watching nonetheless.
Jason was weirded out. The bag was real; he pressed on it with his hands, sniffed its leathery smell; it was a tangible object. The girl though. Was she real? He felt like she was as real as him but she had definitely been getting what? Faint? Like she was being rubbed out? What did that mean?
Whatever it meant, his senses were telling him that she needed him for something; that this wasn't all an accident; that she'd reached out to him from wherever for a reason.
He made a decision. He would go to "The Skewered Apple". Getting out his phone he searched for it. Close Street. He knew it. Was it the bar from that night? A chill went through him. He felt his guts lift with anticipation.
It said that it didn't open until 6pm. He didn't think he could go to work. What was he going to do until then?
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So what does he do with his day? Examine the bag? Go to Close Street anyway? Talk to the guard? Google "The Skewered Apple", see if any dodgy things have happened there?
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