Chapter 2 - 1
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I continued my walks and decided to ignore everything about the night stalker, maybe it was just a coincidence or I just heard wrong. Not long after, I arrived in front of the place I was going to, the Dandelion Inn, a small inn in the suburbs of New York. The inn has several floors and looks quite old. I went inside and looked around, there was only a small ticket window and a narrow lobby with only a few tables and chairs with no one inside the lobby. I went straight to the small booth to find the receptionist which was located beside the main door, inside the booth there was a man who was sitting alone while looking at the television.
"Hello, my name is Aaron Whiteheart, I've booked lodging here for the next two weeks," I said while showing the proof of order on my cellphone screen. The counter keeper caught a glimpse and soon he gave him a key with a hanger indicating the room number.
“This is the key to your room, number 35 on the third floor, you can take the stairs over there or take the elevator. The elevator's number 3 button is a bit broken, maybe you have to press it a few times to get to the third floor. " The male receptionist explained.
I moved away from the counter after saying thanks and chose to use the stairs to go up to the third floor. There were no room boys or other officers who could be seen along the corridor which was not too big, there were no other residents who were seen either and everything seemed lonely even though the corridor was quite bright. I walks up the stairs which were wide enough to the third floor, it takes a little bit long time for me to reach my room on the third floor because I walked casually even though it didn't make me tired at all. Arriving on the third floor, I saw a directional marker pasted on the corridor wall indicating that rooms number 30 to 36 to the right, I follow the direction to turned to the right and saw a fairly young man and woman who had just come out of the room, they looked very intimate and even had time to do french kiss in the corridor without paying attention to the people around him.
I walked past them, the man was still kissing the woman who was leaning against the wall in the neck, I pretended not to be bothered by their actions but the woman looked at me with a face full of lust and even stuck her tongue out at me. I immediately looked away from the woman because I didn't want to get into a fuss if the man knew that she was teasing me. I kept walking and found room no. 35, a difference of 2 rooms from the couple's location, I opened the lock and took a glimpse at them and they were still doing the same thing, even more. The man put his hand into her short skirt while continuing to fondle her, while the woman still looking in my direction and tease me again by playing with his tongue.
I rushed into the room, why do I have to look at them again? I'm a little regretful of my actions just now.
I closed the door and locked it, the room was neat even though it was not big and the bed only fit one person, there was a table complete with a chair beside the bed. On the wall there was a thin flat-screen TV which was quite small and an air conditioner, I looked to all corners to find the TV remote and the AC remote before finding them in the desk drawer. Immediately I pressed the TV remote and the AC in sequence and made the TV turn on with the news channel inside and the AC was also on blowing cool air from it. I put the bag on the bed and lay down on the bed, which was quite soft, to comfort myself. I tried changing some of the existing channels to find something interesting, just to kill time. I stopped in the channel no. 147 which reports about the increasing number of deaths due to anemia or lack of blood in the last two months throughout the USA with a total of more than 1000 confirmed cases, I frowned, quite strange in my opinion. There were no more channels that caught my attention, but I still left the TV on and unconsciously fell asleep.
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I wake up from sleep and open my eyes slowly, why do I now see the trees? And my body seemed to swing and in someone's arms. Where am I? Why can't I move my hands or feet? What happened exactly? Before all the questions were answered I heard someone screaming.
"Carmen, hurry and go, get the kid away from here." It was the voice of a man screaming at a young and beautiful woman who turned out to be holding me, it seems that this woman's name is Carmen, why can I be in her arms? And why does it feel like I'm so small?
"No, let's run together." Carmen doesn't want to move from where she was standing, she insists to stay with the man.
"Just go, there is no time, they will catch up with us soon, I will hold them here." I heard the man was still urging Carmen to leave immediately as if he was ready to die.
What's going on? What are they really afraid of? In the middle of their conversation suddenly appeared a large flying figure, it was like a bat but its size was enormous, in the size of an adult, its wings were very wide, its nails were large and sharp, its face was very ugly, just like a bat.
The bat-like figure flew up and started to dive, wait a minute, isn't it heading on my way? Damn, I can't move at all? I saw the bat getting closer, am I going to die here? I closed my eyes waiting for the creature's sharp claws to rip my body, but after a while, nothing happened?
What happened? Why I'm not dying? I opened my eyes slowly, it turns out that the man used his sword to hold the creature's sharp claws from hitting me.
"Listen, Carmen, you have to get our kid right away, at least he has to survive, I won't be able to withstand the attacks of several of these creatures at once, hurry up and go, I love you, Carmen, I love that kid too." The man looked dashing, he fought the creature with bravery while talking to Carmen.
"I love you too Kieran. You're right, at least our child should survive. Hold on dear, I will come back to help you." Carmen replied to that man named Kieran and now I know if Carmen is Kieran's wife.
But why I still can't move, I want to help them, I'm sure that I'm strong enough.
Once again I felt my body swaying in Carmen's arms, I slowly begin to understand that I am a baby who is being held by this woman named Carmen.
Then why do I have to see this picture? Am I dreaming? Yes, I must be dreaming, wasn't I supposed to be sleeping at the inn? No way I would suddenly moved into the forest if this wasn't a dream.
I feel a little relieved now, it's unique to wake up in a dream like this even though I can't do anything.
Wait, now Carmen takes me into a small cabin in the middle of the forest? What was she doing? Why did she put my body in the hut? What was she holding in her hand? Questions after questions kept raising in my mind.
"I'm sorry my son, your father and mother will not be able on your side to accompany you until you grow up, but remember this dear, we will always love you, we will always in your heart." Carmen cries and kisses my forehead. Why did Carmen suddenly crying and kissing my forehead? Does she want to go back to Kieran, her husband's place? Isn't that suicide? Even though this is just a dream but why do I feel so sad? Ah, I wanted to talk to her but I still can't even move or speak.
I saw Carmen walk out of the hut and close it's door, a moment later it sounded like she was casting some kind of spell in a language that I didn't understand. Suddenly there was a very bright white light emitting from outside the hut, it was so dazzling that I could barely see anything but a bright white. Slowly the light began to fade and my vision began to return even though it was still vague, I rubbed my eyes so I could see again, wait a minute, I can move now? Slowly I could see fully and the first thing I saw was the white light from the LED lamp that sticks to the ceiling, I returned to the inn room.
So, it was all a dream, I release a heavy breath. Even though only a dream, but it looks very real and I still feel sadness in my heart.
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