Fiction

Five Minute Feels Like Eternity

When you’re waiting for your dream to come true

Image by boris rager from Pixabay (cropped and edited)

Six minutes to go to midnight — to my sweet sixteenth birthday. Will Ana finally notice me?

Oh, hell. I have been in love with Ana since kindergarten. She is beautiful, magical, and mysterious.

Tick, tock, the wall clock ticks. “Only five minutes to go,” it whispers into the silence — then I will meet the stranger who left a note in my locker.

“I’ll take you to places you’ve never been to at midnight, Joey. I can’t wait to meet you.”

I’m so excited… Who is it?

It’s Ana. It could only be her, I’m sure of that.

The wall clock announces midnight with a deafening tick-tock.

I hold my breath… waiting… Will she knock on my bedroom’s ground floor window?

A buzzing sound comes from the whirling wall clock as it dissolves in fog. A beautiful girl steps through the wall.

“Hi Joey, I’m your fairy godmother.”