Day Fourteen!
I remember the summer when I was seven. I would pretend I was a scientist that created super heroes and my cousin Hal... would pretend to be a 5 star general.
Fast forward 20 years.
I was like every mad scientist you see in a black and white movie...
Except I wasn't working on anything more sinister than a 22nd Century weight loss pill.
I tested it on the usual subjects. The white mice.
Then one day I looked in the mirror and I decided I was ready....ready to be thin....
Thin at all costs...
But I wasn't really ready to pay.
I remember Day Number one...I loss 5 pounds.
By day number 5 I could fit into a dress I hadn't wore since high school.
It was on day 8 they came to my door.
The guys they send in those bad sci-fi movies. The guys in the dark suits and dark glasses and I saw more men with guns surrounding the house. So I knew it was too late to run but then why would the government want a weight loss pill?
On day 9...The President, The Surgeon General and 14 army brass I didn't know came to me about a branch of government only about 1400 people knew existed. And I really don't remember what they said. Only that every other word was "war." I only remember that they wanted my pill to help them "kill" the "enemy." They wanted me to produce more pills to help "ensure our safety and the safety of the troops."
Yes I clearly remember the words "kill" and "war" and "soldiers" being used over and over again. And the last thing they said was "We want you to stay on here a few days while you think about it Dr. Marsh.
By day 11. I had had 2 full days with out losing weight but my pigment was now going through subtle changes and by day 11. I woke up, a transparent scientist in clothes that literally wore themselves. After disrobing I walked around my new "home" and by now the words "kill" and "detain indefinitely" were being used along with "Dr. Marsh."
By day 11 if Dr. Marsh had not been invisible, I would have found a way to make myself such.
Some how on day 11 I was able to destroy my blood samples except for those I took with me. Somehow naked and scared, but determined I found my way out of that facility.
It's day 13 and my face is only visible to the human eye a few hours during the day and not at all at night. Still the government has that face on every TV screen I come across. Calling me every thing from a terrorist to a rouge spy.
According to the notes I still remember. The pill has a lasting effect of 14 days. By day 14 I will either be forever visible or forever un-visible or ...if I am only mildly cursed some combination of the two but what I ever I am by day 14. Is what I will be until I can safely have access to another lab.
On Day 14 I will still be on the run. I will still be no fan of war. And I will still think it the height of treason to hand over my discovery to a bunch of men who play war with young men, like my cousin Hal did the summer of 82 when Hal was seven. They speak of killing and death just like Hal did as he played in the summer when school was out.
But today is only day 13 and while visible I must run from a government that I cannot seem to escape or make peace with. Ironic isn't it. Since high school I have been smart enough to operate an atom smasher. But because I was 200 plus pounds I thought no one noticed me and I wanted no one to see me. Now I know that the government was watching me all the time and now that I am slimmer, even invisible....I am still praying that nobody see me...at least before I see them.
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