The Unseen-Part Two

Day 107

Cal and Mr Chimp spent the rest of the afternoon together, Cal explaining why he felt invisible to the world and Mr Chimp nodding his understanding. After running down the list of injustices he had endured in his fourteen years on earth Mr Chimp raised a finger to pause the narration.

"May I make a suggestion?"

Cal looked annoyed at the interruption. "Sure. What is it?"

"If I could arrange for you to be, uhm, not invisible but unseen by anyone. I mean truly unseen. Would you be interested?" asked Mr Chimp. "I could make it so you could go almost anywhere and no one would see you. You could hear what your parents and others really think about you. You could be a master spy, discover other peoples secrets. Learn their deepest, darkest desires. I bet they'd pay attention to you then."

"And how, exactly, do I accomplish all this?"

"Well, you've heard of two way mirrors? A person looks in one side and sees himself. But look at the other side and it's like looking through a tinted window. You can see them but they can't see you. Get it?" Mr Chimps lips broke into a sly toothy grin. "Just think of the possibilities."

"I could see and hear everything?"

"Everything." The grin reached all the way up to the imps eyes.

"I could watch television all night long? I could watch an R rated movie?"

"Yes,yes, yes, if there's a mirror in the room," said Mr Chimp. "You could do all that but so much more. Think bigger. You could find out secrets. Secrets that someone doesn't want anyone else to know about. Something they would pay anything, DO anything, to keep secret."

The temptation to spy on people and then make them pay was appealing. Everyone would notice him once he knew their dirty little secrets. Then they pay attention if they didn't want their secret spread around.

"So anyplace that has a mirror, I could see and hear what's happening on the other side?"

Again the mischievous imp nodded his head, his black eyes shining in anticipation of what came next.

"What do I have to do?" Mr Chimp bowed deeply and his hat tumbled to the floor. There inside was a scroll. He quickly picked up the hat and placed it back on his head.

"Ah yes, here we are. Just sign here at the bottom line."

"What's this?" asked Cal.

"Just a formality. An agreement between friends absolving me of any responsibilities should something go wrong."

Cal began to look uneasy. He had seen this in the movies and it never turned out good. He was getting that queasy feeling in his gut again. Suddenly he heard a far away voice screaming at Cal to run. Now. And keep on running until he got home. He looked around but there was no one else there. Just Mr Chimp with the funny purple and orange jester hat, overly toothy grin and those haunting black eyes. Cal kept looking at the eyes. Mesmerized. Like two mirrors, he could see his reflection. Was it Cal's reflection? Or someone else?

The Unseen part 3 tomorrow.

Until tomorrow,

Ken