Writer's Journal #5
Prompt: Take a character that appears one way but they act differently
Waah... Waah... the sounds of a crying child can be heard as Stephen walks down the street, he stops for a moment kneeling next to the child. "Hey there buddy what's wrong?" the child sniffles and then points to a balloon stuck in a tree they cannot grab. "Oh I see, you lost your balloon in the tree, did you? Well, don't worry I'll just grab that for you" Stephen assures the child, as he stands up to reach for the dangling string of the balloon. After retrieving the lost balloon Stephen returns it to the child. "Thanks mister you're the best!" replies the child as they wipe tears from their eyes. Stephen just smiles, ruffles the kid's hair a bit, and continues on his way.
Stephen walks up the street for a while taking in all of the beauty in the natural world. Listening to the trees whistling in the wind, the birds chirping in their nests as they prepare for their young ones to take flight. He continues walking for a moment, when, suddenly Stephen notices a dog happily trotting away, and he smiles to himself...That's when he heard it...*KAPLOOSH*...Scanning his surroundings Stephen notices the dog is missing, and there are ripples on a nearby pond. Rushing over to the pond Stephen notices the dog in the pond but they don't appear to be swimming. they seem to be flailing about but something seems to have snagged on the dog preventing it from swimming back to the surface. Not taking time to think Stephen jumps right into the pond. He swims down to the depths of the dog and notices the dogs paw has been caught in some sort of vine that seems to be pulling them down. The dog appears to be struggling but to no avail and is quickly losing energy. Stephen grabs hold of the dogs paw to free them so it can swim up. Gripping on to one part of the vine, Stephen with all his might pulls it apart. With no time to waste he does so with the other side. He's freed the dog but they continue to sink...The dog has passed out...Stephen swims to catch up with the sinking canine and grabs hold. Taking the dog in his arms Stephen begins to kick and ascend back to the surface. *PLOSH* the surface of the water breaks. Stephen puts the dog on shore and then lifts himself out. Stephen takes a moment..."WHY THE HELL WAS THAT POND SO DEEP". Another moment passes and Stephen notices the dog isn't moving. They must need cpr. Stephen not sure if he knows how to perform cpr on a dog does what he can. But, this essentially is just attempting to do chest compressions and hopes he won't harm the dog. After a few minutes the dog coughs and water comes spilling out. The dog begins to happily bark and lick Stephen. "Astro where are you?" Stephen hears a voice calling out. The dogs ears perk up and trotts off. "ASTRO!... Why're you so wet?... I told you to stay out of that weirdly deep pond." They say without disapointment as though they expected this behavior from Astro. Stephen lays back for a moment before continuing on his commute.
Eventually after a few more minutes of walking up the street Stephen reaches his destination. A building that towers into the heavens, there are no distinguishing symbols or signs on the building to let someone know what it's for, just sheer glass panels reaching up into the heavens. Stephen enters "Sandra can you get me a replacement suit and get this one I'm wearing to the cleaners." Stephen asks in a level tone. "Of course sir right away" Shandra responds quickly moving over to a closet and reaching in for a new and freshly clean suit, this seems to be routine for them. She hands the suit to Stephen "Thank you Sandra, is everyone here for the meeting?" Stephen inquires "Yes, everyone arrived a moment ago" Sandra replies with a satisfied smirk. "Good" Having changed Stephen turns to the doors to the meeting room. Stephen enters a large room with nine other people in it. As he enters any chatter there was comes to a halt, they all turn to look at Stephen. Stephen makes his way over to his seat. Stephen turning to the rest of the gathered croud ponders "So...now, how are we going to take over the world?"
