Flicker Fade Gone
noticing him.
By; Carljoe Javier
A seven year old boy with his father is walking
along the street. All stores were brightly lighted,
except for one store that was dark black and has
blinking and flashing lights. Bombs, shots of a
pistol, booms and pops is heard as they pass by.
They went to the store.
The store were full of boys, playing arcades. His
father brought him a chair where he can stand to
reach the keyboard. His father plays space invaders,
but he died quickly. His father put in a new quarter,
but he died again, then another set of game. On his
last game, the coin slot jammed. So, his father went
to the store keeper.
The storekeeper wore a nylon necklace and keys
hanging on it. The storekeeper take the necklace off
and put the key into the hole and fix, the machine
started up again. He could still remember the
machine and what he felt when the game started.
The man controls all the games, power and pleasure
to his hand or on that necklace with keys. The only
thing he couldn’t remember was what the man
looked like.
Then that night, the boy used to dream of
disappearing. He's facing the mirror and trying to
disappear. First, he used to stare at his reflection at
the mirror, and then he imagine that his reflection
disappear. That he was no longer there. But his
mother caught him staring at the mirror.
His mother asked him why he's staring at the mirror
and when he try to explain that he wanted to
disappear, he was brought him by ear and his
mother commanded him to forget that foolishness.
His parents sent him out of the house to play with
the neighborhood’s kids. But he never play with
them because they were loud, rowdy, and rough,
and pushed him away to the ground and made fun
of his hoody.
They bump him or just leave him ahead of his
house. The boy just waits for his mother to work
some chores for him to grab the mirror without
Then his father brought him to the arcade again
where he found the world that he was destined to
inhabit. He play again, the gun's shot has the
rhythm: bang, bang, bang, reload.
While he was playing, the machine brought him to
the other places, other world where he can be
another person, and made him different people. As
he watched the light of the shots from the gun and
feel himself slowly fading into the screen. He
always play arcade in few years. He zoned out
himself from his parent’s sermon. His parents went
abroad. He push himself away from the real world.
He drop school and used to work to an arcade, as a
storekeeper, in the shop near the mall.
The boy used not be anyone in this world because
he knew that there's another world for him, a world
that he is awesome and important. For a few years,
he lost himself in the arcade. The only thing that he
brings himself back to the real world is the
occasional letters, calls, and packages from his
parents from abroad. Until he met a girl.
She always went to the arcade every Sunday with
his two brothers. They played different games in the
arcade. She is an ordinary costumer. He hadn’t seen
her as more than arcade visitor until he saw her one
day. Wearing a dress that made the boy remembers
the pink dress of the princess in the games: Donkey
Kong and Super Mario Bros.
For him, the girl is the Princess Toadstool that
always needs his help and always thank him for
rescuing and saving her from the enemies. The girl
brought the boy back to the real world. He always
remember the face of the girl.
One Friday, the girl comes to the arcade with her
friends wearing school uniform. The girls in
mustard colored dress and the boys in blue pants.
He remember the days when he was studying and
attending classes and when they only attend
periodical examinations, he's playing arcade before
going home.
He was back in the reality when he saw the girl
holding one boy's arm. He saw his Princess
Toadstool with a villain and he waited his chance
for him to attack and destroy the castle of the man.
The wait was'nt long, because the boy, started to
call the girl as a stupid, a waste of time, and a
mistake to hang out with.
The storekeeper, put him outside the arcade. He
grabbed him in the collar and led him out of the
arcade and handed him over the guard. He used to
take the girl into the back room where she could sit
down.
He doesn't know what to say so he didn't say
anything to the boy and used to stay with him until
her friends came to get her. As she was leaving, she
thank him and the boy told that he notice her every
Sunday. She smiled and flattered. Then he said that
he'd see her Sunday, and she smiled and left.
After that day, he didn’t play any games. He waited
for Sunday where she would come in. And he
watched her as they come in with her brothers. Her
brothers moved from game to game and she
followed them. When the machine they are playing
malfunctions, she called him.
He put the key to the hole and twist it. He twisted
the key again so that the boy can have a free credit.
When he got to the machine where he left the girl
and her brothers, they were gone. He felt
disappointed.
Then the girl's brother came up to him and said that
his sister was calling him. So he went over the
racing game because he saw the girl sitting to it. He
fixed the machine and smiled, and the girl smiled
back to him.
He waited her to recognized what happen on Friday,
what he'd done for her. She just gave him a blank
smile and thanks him for fixing the machine. After
that, he felt so down and alone. He thought that no
one bothered to notice him. He felt that it is just
because of the key on his necklace.
People just call him to fix the machine. People only
approach him when they need a turn of the key. But
in the game, he was awesome, and he felt important.
He waited for the time that he was alone. He turns
the key to machine and started the game. He
watched himself fading away, disappearing. And
when he saw that the game was started, he used to
play. Every time he play, he doesn’t feel blank.
When he's playing the arcade, he couldn’t feel
useless anymore.
Then one morning, the guard found a gun hanging
to its arcade machine and a copy of master key was
stuck to the machine's slot. The guard thought that
the employee from the night shift just forgot it so he
returned it to the owner of the arcade. The owner
asked the guard if he notice the late shifter and the
guard said that he didn’t.
They don’t remember and recognize the boy who
works to the arcade in the past few years. The
owner thought that the boy will not show up for
work so find a new guy. After a week, they needed
to replace one of the machines, that machine has a
key that stuck on it slot and it started the game and
never stops.
The gun's shot has the rhythm: bang, bang, bang,
reload.
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