|One Call Away| Tomboo

Eighteen

(Just jamming out to From Under The Cork Tree by Fall Out Boy in my grandma's basement. Highly recommend the album)

Tommy pov

"Sorry, I did what?"

And then the officer left the room, leaving me by myself. What an explanation I must say so myself.

.............

Okay, what the hell you can let me out now!

Soon after, a officer walks in and releases my hands from the table. He guides me down a bunch of really long hallways until he goes to a stop. He opens one of the thick glass doors and pushes me in, quickly locking it.

"Wait wait, you dont know what to doing. I didn't do anything!"

But before I could say more, he was gone, leaving me alone in the cold room. I couldn't help it- I cried, and cried and cried.

Why am I here? I don't remember doing anything

Most of that night was a blurr, all I could remember was the salty tears running down my cheeks and my tear stained shirt. I once got so tired that I was falling asleep standing up. I walked to the bed in the small room and layed down. Just as I was about to fall asleep, I felt the feeling of sand inbetween my fingers.

I immediately sat up, looking around. I was at the beach, as the sand was more than obvious.

"Um hello?" Someone said from above me.

I instantly look up to see some sort of angel? Demon? It was something. I stand up and start to run away from whatever I was looking at. Before I got far, they grabbed my arm and pulled me back to where they were.

"Tom, wait."

"Y-you know my name?"

"Yes, I need to talk to you."

That's when I get a closer look at him. He is wearing some green cape thing and a mask, the mask has a big XD on it that looks carved from a sword. He is like glowing which is kinda weird.

"Um about what?"

He moved his hands in some random way and the ground stared to dissappear from below us. I started to panic and run away again.

He grabs my arm and pulls me back into the circle.

"Just trust me Tom"

Then everything goes black. 

"Tom? Tom? Wake up!" I lightly feel someone shaking me.

"See XD, I told you not to bring him to Hell! You don't know what could ever happen to him." I hear a voice say

"Listen Lelah, I know what I'm doing and he isn't dead, he would be if I didn't bring him here."

"Whatever, he better not be dead." Then, the unknown voice walks off.

"Tom, raise your arm if you hear this."

I slowly raise my arm.

"Okay, you can open your goddamn eyes, for Christ's sake, we thought you were dead!"

My eyes open and I'm in a..... conference room? Whatever, did they say Hell?

"Did you say Hell?"

"Yeah...... but the good kind."

"Oh um okay? Can I ask why?"

"Okay, but first we need to talk.

Have you been having weird dreams and when you go to sleep in them you wake up in real life?"

"Yes I have."

"There not dreams Tommy." He puts his hands on my shoulders.

"A guy named Dream used to live here. He is autchally my brother. Someone recently paid him some money, I mean millions, to kinda mess up your life. How this happens is when you fall alseep, you slip into a opposite universe in another person's body. Then, that person takes over yours."

"How can I believe that?"

"You woke up from a 'nap' and apparently you committed a bunch of crimes and your roommate almost died. How can you explain that?"

"Your saying I can't fall asleep?"

"Yes, or you might get stuck in the other place for months on end. Can you imagine what Dream would've done in your world by then?"

My eyes fill with tears again. I start to sob and i fall into the floor. The guy supposedly named XD hugs me and I cry into his sholder.

I don't know how long I've been crying but I'm just so confused. When? How?

"Hey hey listen Tom. You have three options to deal with this.

1. You can just deal with this and just live a normal two lives. The problem is that Dream can stop this at any time and you would get stuck in one of the universes.
2. You die
3. You stay here with me and we make you one of us and stop the universe things from happening. The only problem is that you would be a different person until then. And you cant sleep. Like ever until this is done and you would be one of us forever.

So, what do you want to do?"

"Um, can I think about it for a bit?"

"Yeah, but the cops are looking for you, so don't take too long." He smiled and for the first time in a while i felt safe again.