Malik sat in his seat in the plane staring out the window as the aeroplane softly cruises through the orange clouds. His mind was somewhere else as he was reminiscing the day he lost both his parents in a fatal accident. He had survived the accident himself but he never forgave himself as he saw it as his fault. But now he was traveling to California to meet his new parents. As it turns out, his father had written a will where he entrusted Malik's custody in his brother’s, Malik's uncle named Graft, hands. There was mixed feelings in Malik as he had never traveled to America before and also, he was not so familiar with his uncle’s family.
Graft noticed Malik's lack of enthusiasm and gets concerned.
“Hey, are you okay?” Graft said to Malik.
“Yeah,” Malik replied and took out his phone. “I was just thinking about how my life changed.”
“Don’t worry, we’ll be there for you. Have some rest as this will be a long flight.”
Malik put on his headphone and stood up. “I can go to the bathroom, right?”
“Yes,” a flight attendant who was giving out drinks to passengers replied.
Malik then walked to the back of 5he plane, letting his mind gather his sweet memories from the past and his friends he left in Kenya. He was afraid of America as he was not so articulate in English and also he was a complete introvert. He entered the toilet and stared down the bowl wondering where all the excrement goes. He has adhd. After a few seconds of deep thinking, he remembered what he went there for and quickly unzipped his pants and let out a long stream of pee as loud beats of trap music caressed his eardrums. He was nearly finished when suddenly, the plane shook making him loose balance and spill a little pee on his shoes.
“ugh, fuckin hell!” he muttered under his breath and took a tissue paper to wipe it. When suddenly lights went off leaving the bulb dim and flickering. There was black vines growing all over the walls and the floor was wet with thick black fluid. Malik panicked and ran out of the toilet but was left speechless by what he saw before him.
All the passengers were dead and their bodies were covered with black vines and the black fluid. The plane had a thick repulsive stench making breathing unbearable. Malik was frozen by fear as he watched the otherworldly horrific scene before him.
The plane’s door busted out of its hinge and went flying through the air, damaging an engine in the process. Then the plane started to plummet throwing Malik against the seats almost out the hole in the wall of the plane. Malik looked out a window and saw the vines forming itself on the plane’s wing and subsequently crashing it to smithereens. Then the plane started to roll midair as it plunged towards the ground in very high speed. The impending doom was accentuated by the stormy weather outside. Forks of blue lightning covered the whole sky.

© Nura Bishar