The Dream

Chapter 17

Wow. Brian. That was my dad's name. My real dad. To get information on my parents it took all of us sitting as hostages? Well then that at least cleared one name.
So what was my mom's name? And where are they? Couldn't Gary just get over with it? He was hesitating a little too much and I had a small feeling somewhere that this tale wasn't going to turn out with a nice little happy ending. Something happened to my parents and I had to find out what. I couldn't believe that I was living with the people who knew my parents the whole time. I mean come on?! What was with all the secrets anyway? I suddenly remembered Aaron had been silent the whole time. I turned around to see him and my face went pale.

Aaron's POV
So here I was sitting and just looking back and forth at all these people who were ridiculously acting like small kids. I mean couldn't me and Alexis have heard this story like years ago? And here they were telling this as we were sitting as hostages. Wouldn't a normal person think of a way to get out of here instead of telling bedtime stories to each other?

Oh don't get me wrong now! I definitely want to hear what that man had to say as much as everyone else in the room but honestly? I'd rather find myself out of this horrifying situation than to be sitting and passing time like some toddler. I was surprised that Alexis was buying into all this crap especially after everyone had been lying to her and vaguely expected her to help me get outta here. Of course. I couldnt blame her and her curiosity, it was natural human tendency after all..but I wanted to get out of here alive and in one piece. By the look of everyone here I didn't see that happening anytime soon.

So well....naturally..I started formulating a plan..and I suddenly saw Alexis turn around and look beyond me and go pale. Like what happened? Has she never seen my face before?

"Alexis? You okay?" I finally spoke ever since I was held hostage and I slowly turned myself to see if I could see what she was looking at.  I'm guessing my face went pale at that exact time..cuz well....it wasn't a "what" but a "who", 

Alexis' mom was like a couple of feet away from me!

Great! Am I hallucinating now? Or am I dreaming again?  Why? Out of all the people who were on this Earth..why was I the one to face this torment? 

"This has got to be one sick joke! Can I please wake up from my dream now??"

"Aaron...you are not in a dream. This is real..." Said Alexis softly. Of course! It had to be real. How am I supposed to know if this was real? I mean I was practically living in two different worlds! One...In these weird dreams where Alexis' voice would be a mystery and then her parents started showing up...and two..in my perfect school life where everything was going great..until I ended up as a hostage in here for some wonderfully stupid thing my parents did. Was I a mistake? Is that why I'm here? 

I turned around one more time like a dumb idiot to see another lady next to her..and surprise surprise! She looked too familiar. Please don't tell me she's my mom...god please don't! I can't take all this now! Not when I want to get out of here!

These ladies obviously just got out of their "coma state" and were just staring at all of us wide-eyed. Back and forth..and well...I guess everyone else was doing that since the room grew really silent....only to hear good ol' Elizabeth's voice booming into the speakers over us. 

Great! How freaking long was she listening to us? Couldn't she just leave us alone for a while so that we could process all this chaos and let our human brains work properly?

Nope! She apparently had other plans with us and unless we found a way to get out of here..I was pretty sure I was going to start hallucinating things that didn't even exist. There was just too much of drama unravelling before me that every time I took a step forward to calm myself down..Something or the other had to push me two steps behind. 

So now I seem to be seeing my mother right before my eyes. My mother who I did not see all these years right before my eyes in a room where there was no way out. Is she even my mother? I started feeling dizzy from that awful spray that left us unconscious for quite the time. 

No, no Aaron! Snap out of it kid! You have got to focus here and make sure you survive your way out of this. A tiny voice at the back of my head told me. Wonderful! Now  I was talking to myself. Could this possibly get any worse?

I wanted to move and signal to Alexis to help me form a plan to get out of here since I could care any more on anything else right now...but I seemed to be paralyzed and stuck as if a time machine was going by and showing me blank old memories which had to be replaced by my parents. 

So now my curiosity finally gets over me and I was stuck desperately wanting to know what was going on more than ever.