THE LORD OF THE BOYS

Chapter 17 - JUST A DREAM?

Liam was asleep in his bed. His alarm clock went off and he woke up feeling like he wanted to sleep longer but it was time to get up for school. If he didn't get up soon his mother would call him and then she would come into the room and get him up if he didn't get up himself. He started to get out of bed and then it hit him, how come he was back home and not with the Lord of the boys? The last he remembered was being sent to the wall for 2000 years.

Confused he made his way downstairs and there was his mother in the kitchen making breakfast

''Morning honey'' she said and hugged him

''Mum, I thought I died in a plane crash?'' Liam said ''I was in a different place, this weird place with a lord who forced me to worship him''

''What on earth are you talking about?'' his mother asked him

''Well didn't I go to Spain with Jake and Ryan and, on the way, the plane crashed and we all died?''

''No, you're not going to Spain until next month remember? Look Liam love I know you're scared of flying and you probably had a bad dream about it but just relax. You know that plane crashes are rare love''

''Yeah but what about your cancer?''

''My what?'' his mother was looking alarmed now ''I do not have cancer love''

''But mum I thought you did''

Liam started to cry ''What happened to me? I was in this horrible place and they told me you were going to get cancer''

His mother hugged him

''Look Liam honey I think you must have had a bad dream'' she told him ''I don't have cancer and you didn't die in a plane crash''

''Was it really a dream? It felt so real mum, so vivid'' 

''Well you wouldn't be here now if it was real would you?''

''No, i guess not''

''And I assure you I do not have cancer...well at least I think and hope not anyway''

Liam left for school and went to Ryan's house to meet him they always walked to school together

''I had the weirdest, most freaky dream last night'' he told Ryan ''and you and Jake were both in it too. It was terrifying''

''Ooh tell me about it, I am curious now'' Ryan said

Liam told him all about it

Ryan laughed ''Man that's one crazy dream!'' he said   

''You didn't have the same dream, did you? It felt like the three of us were in it together, it felt so real''

Ryan shook his head ''sorry man, you are on you're own on this one. Well unless Jake had the dream too but I doubt it''

Liam felt weird as they walked along. It was a sunny day and he could hear the birds singing, he could see the beautiful sky and feel the breeze n his face. This was the sort of sunny summer day that made people happy to be alive, but Liam felt strange. He felt detached from it like it was a dream and he wasn't really there. It felt surreal. 

''Is this real?'' he said as they walked ''I feel strange here''

And then Liam fainted on the pavement

Liam woke up in a hospital bed. Ryan and his mother were standing there with the doctor

''You passed out in the street. we're all rather worried about you'' the doctor told him