The news anchor's voice continued to crack, "a lethal
virus has been released in Las Vegas. At
the moment we know of four stages. The
final outcome looks to be one of the worst outbreak of any disease we’ve seen
in history.” The news anchor tried remain in an emotionless glare at the camera
while the live news show was transitioning into commercials but the cameraman
could see their mouth quivering the slightest bit. When the cameraman finally announced that the
show was now showing commercials, the young man who looked to be in his early
30’s broke down and ran to the bathroom.
He locked himself into a stall, turned around with his back to the door
and slowly slid down the stall to the tile floors. He softly muttered things like ‘What am I
going to do?’ and ‘Why is this happening?’
Just as he started to sob, he heard the door to the bathroom open to
allow someone in and close behind them. “Ben,
Benjamin, is that you?” the male voice spoke out softly as to follow the crying
man’s tone. Benjamin realizes that it
had been his coworker who he had somewhat of a friendship with who had entered,
so he decided to come out of the stall and face his friend. As soon as he sees the state he is in he
quickly grabs Benjamin, and hugs him tightly “We are going to get through this,
buddy.’ The man said while hugging the sobbing boy to him. If any other member of the newscast were to
enter they would have been turned uncomfortable about the two boys hugging so passionately
in the middle of the bathroom, but he didn’t even care what they thought
because right now Benjamin had more to worry about than coworkers.
Exactly 300 words. :D
