121 Won’t I get pregnant? (2/2)
Annabelle began describing her dreams. ”I see a future where humanity encounters a fossil fuel shortage, causing prices to rise to astronomical highs. In the absence of advanced alternative energy tech, a world war ignites due to competition for the remaining scarce resources.
At the same time, global warming causes sea levels to rise, flooding coastal cities across the globe and decimating the populace. A series of environmental disasters then follow, devastating the Earth. To survive, the human race compacts itself in futuristic cities, forming a distinct social system of classes where the poor work as livestock…
Eventually, humanity consumes Earths remaining resources and has to set its sights on other planets. The human race then spreads to nearby solar systems, eating one after another like locusts. This greed-induced consumption and destruction perpetuate until another intergalactic war breaks out. This time, it decimates all sides until only humanitys seeds remain, living underground on the original Earth. They remain there for many centuries while the planet heals itself, until one day they emerge…
They find that there are many humans above but their technological and cultural levels have reverted to times of antiquity… So, the wise humans begin to educate them…and turn them into their livestock…
This cycle of civilizational growth and decay continues for many eras, beating down Mother Earth further with each cycle, until the day the sun explodes and returns everything to nothingness…”
Ben gawked at Annabelle. What did I just hear?
He didnt have any comforting words in this scenario…but he tried blurting something out anyway. ”Dont worry, I wont let that happen to Mother Earth…Im…a milf hunter?”
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He was lucky that Annabelle was still too entranced in her vision to realize that what he said was even more absurd than her story… ”This future is inevitable… Humanity cant change… ” She turned to him, gazing into his eyes. ”Thats why Im surprised to have found you”
”Why?”
She looked out the window, up at the night sky. ”I always thought of people as petty, simple creatures, the vast majority living as mindless fools, inconsiderate of their effects on the environment and each other. Every year on my birthday, I wished for humanitys destruction”
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Ben gulped. She brought up humanitys destruction again… I thought she was kidding the first time at the art gallery, but now… Then, he made a dangerous connection. Wasnt Hitler also an art student?!?
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He realized an uncomfortable possibility. Am I holding Hitlers hand right now? Did I just f*ck The Fourth Reich?!?
Ben narrowed his eyes. Was this karma for using that earlier failed Hitler opener?
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Annabelle squeezed his hand. ”Before meeting you, I thought people were only good at stepping on each others heads.”
”I know what you mean.” Ben nodded. I cant let her see my Black Leg Technique
Looking into his eyes again, she smiled. ”When you came alongI realized that people can connect to one another It makes me curious about what other things in this world Im unaware of Thats why…Im happy I met you….”
Seeing this beautys genuine smile, Ben felt a tinge of an unknown sensation in his chest…but wasnt sure how to put it into words. So, he spoke from the heart. ”I ate some spicy food and have heartburn…”
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As he went to check her medicine cabinet for an antacid, Ben couldnt help feeling he had a new sense of responsibility for Annabellethe girl whose v.i.r.g.i.nity he took. I cant let her go astray or shell become a world-ending psychopath