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There’s something creepy down there, something’s not right. What? Yeah, a gigantic fucking, I don’t know – weird octopus or something. I saw its eyes staring right at me, like it wanted to eat me or something. Alright, a giant fish that was going to eat you. Now, man up and let’s go get the gear. No fucking way. Really? You’re going to make me go back in there myself? You know I can’t have my dad find out about this.” I have to go back in and get the rental gear. Oh, no way man. You can’t go back in there by yourself. We’ll pay for the gear. Your dad’s cool, what’s the big deal? I don’t want anything from my dad. God Giselle, you’re the only teenager who rebels by trying to do everything right. You agreed to this so I think your …show more content…

I waved my hand to turn, and I looked straight into the abyss, and could see nothing but the blackest black. Two giant eyes pierced it’s glare down to my soul. And I saw everything. This was no longer Einstein's universe; this was something else, an unimaginable enormity within a Plank length. A brane colliding with another, putting every God ever imagined to shame. I was barely a muon to the entire visible universe; a muons lifetime, gone before it even exists. I knew at that moment where I was in time and space on the universe’s scale. I had an awareness so profound of everything I had ever experienced, all at once. Simultaneously anything I ever wondered about became crystalline clear. I knew why I wore flowery shirts, I knew why I liked physics, I knew why certain people bothered me, and how I became a loner. I could see the weather system from above now, and the earth floating in space, orbiting the sun that just went out. I understood the ocean again and was one within its world currents. All shapes made sense, every electric-blue circle pulsating to break itself free. Every parabola I had ever seen, dancing like magic carpets, in various shades of magenta and maroon. Squares and rectangles zooming back and forth so fast I thought I was inside an atom. I knew why I spoke a certain way, and when I use certain inflections; I could name each teacher, friend, actress, or stranger those inflections came from. The universe made sense, it was beautiful. Every

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