Short+story+-+Hugo+and+James

Wiki-spaces Story Middle-aged woman, warehouse, mobile The woman woke up; vision blurred, confused and on the cold cement floor with no idea where she was. She was slipping in and out of consciousness, but her thoughts were slowly coming back to her. Suddenly, she became more alert, sat up and took in her surroundings. Realising she was half-naked, alone and in a warehouse, her instincts kicked in with only one answer; run. She sprinted the entire length of the empty dull space, banging on the walls once reaching the end. She broke out in to a cold sweat as there were no doors, no objects, just her and a big empty mass of space with seemingly no way out. She screamed at the top of her lungs, but the only response was the ever-distant echo that rang through the warehouse. Its walls seemed to eat up her cries for help. Her emotions got the better of her and she collapsed to the ground with a solid thud.

Upon awakening she was blinded by a ray of light coming through a hole in the ceiling. It was a beautiful day outside and it represented the hope that she would get out of this seemingly impossible situation. She began to get up off the ground when she saw a sparkle of light in the distance. She was puzzled as to what it could be. This was her way out. She ran as fast as she could to see what it was. When she got there she kneeled down, dusted the object off and flipped it over. It was a mobile phone. The sparkle was the light reflecting off of the screen. She attempted to ring the police, but the phone was locked. It required a 4 digit passcode. She tried the obvious “0000” and “1234”, but none seemed to unlock the phone. She sat there desperately trying to unlock the phone for hours until she fell asleep.

When she woke up for the third time, she instantly realised the task at hand and began where she left off; wildly typing in passcodes. It was driving her in to insanity. She must have tried thousands of codes by now; she was beginning to get dehydrated and she knew that this was a near impossible task. The minutes passed away which turned to hours passing away and after another full 2 days of trying to unlock the phone, she began to shut down due to her deep starvation and lack of water. Before passing out for the last time, she focussed her whole world to the mobile phone. This was her last try. After a few attempts, she was relieved to see the words, “phone unlocked”. The adrenaline kicked in. She mustered up her last once of energy to press the vital three keys. One zero was followed by another until she had finally dialled the all-important police contact number. She pressed “call”. There was a slight pause before a sudden click was followed by a massive explosion. The whole warehouse was rapidly engulfed in flames and she was turned to ash in an instant. It was a bomb!