Hold on, dear reader
This episode will be a flashback.
The mall is a wonderful place, special
Magic lives here, it's easy to get lost
Adventure is not seeked sometimes
It comes to one
Uninvited
Wirt and Gregory went to the mall that Saturday, both had their stuff to do.
Wirt wanted to give a tape player to Sarah. After he escaped the unknown, he started dating a girl named Sarah, a long time crush of his, a lovely smart girl that he was in love with, she wasn't his girlfriend yet, but Wirt had hopes for the future. Even if they hang out a lot together and Sarah was fond of the tapes Wirt had, she didn't own a tape player, and Wirt, finding himself inspired this week, decided to go to the mall to buy her one Tape Player, he also liked to go to the home depot store and see the interior design books in the bookstore, but those were pleasant side effects of his main goal.
The mall was a special place indeed, filled with different aromas, worlds and beautiful products and food, Wirt, though shy by nature, loved malls, he liked stores in general, so having a place with lots of stores in one place was ideal!
His brother Gregory loved to go out to the mall as well!
That day, Greg was bored, but not only that, he had a list of materials he had to buy for the arts and crafts time next week in school. This Saturday was busy for his parents, as they were organizing the house to receive some special guests, relatives coming from anothe state, they were also visiting some other relatives in the other side of town, so they couldn't assist Greg at this moment. Knowing Wirt had plans of going to the mall soon, they said they'd give a ride to the boys there, so they could do their stuff, and later in the day they'd come to get them and bring them back home. That sounded like a good plan for both. Wirt's dad gave them one of his credit cards.
"Here's for extra expenses, don't spend too much and please take care of it, I'm trusting you Wirt."
"No problems Dad, I'll take care of it".
Saying bye to the parents, Wirt and Greg went inside the mall, looking forward to fulfill their desires. Wirt was wearing a light blue social shirt, a tie and a sweater, with regular blue pants that would leave part of his socks visible. Greg was wearing a long sleeves, it was green and it had a smiling cake in it. They would first go see Wirt's stuff, and then would do Greg's.
Things seemed fine as they entered, there wasn't much of a crowd in the mall, and even if Greg was hiperactive and eager to explore, he also knew was best for him to stay alongside Wirt, specially because he didn't want to get lost. As they walked looking for Wirt's store though, Greg felt the urge to go to the Bathroom.
"Wirt... I have to go do number 1"
"Number 1? Okay then, but why didn't you do it back at home?"
"I wasn't wanting to do back then, can we hurry? Pleasee"
"Okay, okay, we just have to look for a bathroom, hold on Greg"
They changed their focus as Greg, slowly but surely, felt his urge to go to the bathroom grow. Unfortunately there was no bathroom to be found, and for a while they walked and walked and nothing came by. Greg was getting desperate and Wirt very concerned, until Wirt saw a plaque indicating a bathroom and almost screamed of joy!
"Yes! We're closer now, Greg, just hold on a little further and then we'll resume our chores!"
They soon entered the corridor that at first looked like any place in the mall, the walls were white and there was columns of steel, Wirt could see emergency exits, the ceiling was plain and with lights on, overall things were clean as a hospital, until they reached a second door, on the way to the bathroom, and they opened it, not even thinking about it, not even realizing the enviroment around him changed, the corridor was now with a beautiful white wall made of carved wood, classical style, the floor was carpet now, and the ceiling was decorated with small and beautiful chandeliers.
Soon Greg reached the bathroom, and rushed to it, as Wirt also entered the bathroom to wait for his brother, even if this bathroom sounded a bit different from the rest of the mall, nothing really brought the suspition of either of them to any point. Later on, Greg finished his job and washed his hands, Wirt didn't go to do anything but being on the bathroom he also washed his hands, and when they both got out, they finally realized something was off.
They were on a dining room! The dining room was fancy, plenty of crafted tables, chairs, abajours on the tables, porcelain dishes, chandeliers, flowers, it seemed like the Titanic dining room, but even bigger, there were shelves with more dishes, suddenly a waitress came to receive them there.
"Good evening gentlemen, you both are very early for the dinner, but can I acomodate you both at your respective seats?"
"No... thank you... we're not supposed to be here..."
"I see, call me if you need anything" Said the waitress, who then went to somewhere else.
"Greg, where, are we?"
"I don't know, it doesnt sound like the mall, does it?"
"No, it doesn't... well, we should get back to the mall... but where should we go?"
They kept on walking on the dining room, even the waitress now was nowhere to be found, and as they kept on walking, they reached another corridor, this one was covered by brown panneling, and there were windows everywhere, the corridor was long and it had a very weird smell to it, the brothers were now perplexed and worried, so none said a word. As they kept on walking they reached yet another place, this was filled with couches of different sizes, all art nouveau, as it was the whole room, there were people there laughing and breathing through a weird device shaped like a huge gas can. None Wirt or Gregory wanted to speak to those men, some looked like they worked on the mall, others look like tourists, but both were laughing hysterically, and quickly realized Wirt that they were laughing because of the gas. It was a very dangerous place, that one, he knew both him and Greg get to get out of there before they were noticed, so they reached another corridor, similar to the last one they were in, and kept on walking away from the lunatics. They walked and walked, unsure of what to do, of where they were now, of why did this whole thing happened! They walked and walked, and soon the corridor got larger and larger, and it appeared to have not a beggining nor an end.
The lights were on so the path was clear, but there was no way for Wirt, let alone small Gregory, to know what part of the building was this one.
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