Nightmare

CHAPTER 10

"You did it." I turned to Raze when he suddenly spoke at the same time releasing my hand that he had been holding.

"I did what?" I asked him in surprise. I don’t understand what happened earlier. When I opened my eyes, we were in somewhere else. Did we teleport suddenly? Did a shooting star come by and hear what I said?

"Lucid dreaming." he replied which made me even more surprised.

My eyes literally widened. I can't believe I was lucid dreaming. I know what's lucid dreaming means. It is a kind of dream where you can control the things that happen in your dream. But still I don't understand how did it happened.

"How did that happen ?" I asked in curiosity

"It happened when you became aware that you were just dreaming. Now that you know that everything that happened here was just your dream, you can now have a lucid dream. You can control the things that can happen here because this is your dream." he answered.

"You mean I can do everything I want?" I asked again.

"No." he answered. I gave him an 'i dont understand look' because I really don't understand him. What's his point? ."When you control almost everything here, you will experience sleep paralysis outside which will cause you to not wake up even more. So as long as you can, have lucid dreams only when needed, not when you just want it." he explained.

I raised an eyebrow at him, annoyed by the tone of his words. He always seems angry when explaining.

"We only have 5 hours left before morning, we need to get back to your house." He broke the silence then began to walk. I also followed him.

"Great. I can have a lucid dream so we can go there easily." I said as I continued to chase him, he was walking too fast.

He suddenly stopped walking then faced me and I almost collided with him, damn it. "I told you to use it if it's needed." he said stubbornly.

"So what are we going to do? Don't tell me we're going to walk back to our house?" I told him. I really feel disgusted at him seriously. I looked around where we were. I'm not familiar with this place but I'm sure it's still part of Hell City. "I don't even know which part of the City we were in right now." I added.

"Why are you saying so much? You're making so much noise. Just do what I say." he said rudely then walked again.

I made a face at him while following him, he's really annoying. His attitude is really arghh !! If he is the one I can be in this whole night, I will die in exasperation.

I don’t know how many minutes we walked, no one spoke to the two of us. I stopped walking and looked at the department store we passed. I stared into it. I also felt him stop walking.

I was gripped in my stomach when I felt it boil. s**t I'm hungry. I turned to Raze and I was shocked when he was already looking at me.

"Let's go get some foods first." he said then entered the department store first.

After we went inside I went straight to the food area. I didn't hesitate to take some chips and then ate them. I'm so damn hungry. I looked at Raze when he just keep on looking at the chips he was going through, he was reading something behind it. I'm sure he’s reading the nutrition facts of those foods.

He is too strict in his life. Even though we are on the brink of death, he is still thinking about his health. I continued eating when I noticed he had moved to the other section of the food area.

I want to laugh at the thought that it is also possible for someone to be hungry even if they are just in a dream. But I don't think I have the courage to laugh because of what's happening here. I know all of this is just a dream, but I'm still nervous that I might not wake up.

I stopped eating when I heard a crack in the adjacent section of the food area. I'm sure it wasn't Raze because he went to the other section. I tightened my grip on the food I was carrying and then slowly peeked in the direction of the noise.

It's annoying to think that there seems to be no end to what's going on here, wherever we go they are following you. There is really no safe place here. Every place is in danger.

But when I looked at my face I suddenly felt something hard hit my face causing me to fall. I immediately hold my forehead because it hurt so much that it felt like it was going to break. I felt something dripping on my forehead so I touched it, I'm bleeding. s**t.

I opened my eyes but my vision was spinning. There was a man standing in front of me. I didn't recognize him because my vision was blurred due to the force of his slap on my face. I closed my eyes again just in case when I opened them again I could see him properly. But nothing has changed, part of his face is still blurred and dark.

I slowly moved my body and crawled but suddenly he pulled my hair and dragged me as if he was just pulling a dog.

I'm hurt by what he's doing but I don't seem to have the strength to fight because my head is aching so bad. I tried to hold my hand on the hard objects that were going to pass so that he wouldn't pull me completely but because he was so strong I couldn't do it.

"What the heck! Let go of me you jerk!" I shouted as he continued to pull me. I feel like I can go bald for what he's doing, damn it.

I only think of one person at this time. Where the heck is he?

I forced myself to close my eyes, i need to do lucid dreaming. He said I would only do that when necessary.

I could feel the pain all over my body as this man kept dragging me out of the department store. I tried to hold my hand on the door but he still managed to pull me.

My vision was darkened with extreme dizziness.

I closed my eyes and tried to control what was happening around.

I need to get out of this hell.

I closed my eyes for a few minutes but nothing changed around me.

I'm still here.

Someone's keep on dragging me.

What's the meaning of this? Why am I still here?

Don't tell me lucid dreaming doesn't work this time?

What the heck. Why doesn't that work?

What happened ?

There are a lot of questions in my mind. I thought I can have lucid dreams? But why is this? Why am I still here?

I could feel the heaviness of my eyelids until I completely lost consciousness.