Bride.exe | JAYHOON [Hiatus]

1.2: CRUEL FATE

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Jay had been sitting on the chair crossed-legged for the last 15 minutes, eyebrows twisted in deep thought. The curly-haired brown woman sitting in front of him pushed her glasses and tapped her finger on a blank paper. Jay was thinking about what he'd been hearing and seeing these days non-stop. The mechanical voice he had heard in his dream has been haunting him for the past week and he's been seeing those laser screens floating in the air every now and then, telling him about tasks. Everything seemed fake, like a dream. But was it though?

That's the answer he was looking for, from this woman, with whom he has a friendship of five years and who's been his personal therapist for the last three years. He left his work in the office and ran to her when things got irritating and unbearable, hoping that she might help him figure it out. But what the young woman told him wasn't to his liking at all.

"What do you mean by I'm having Auditory Hallucination?" Jay crossed his arms, sending her a death glare.

"Jay, if you're confused about what it is then it's a type of hallucination where you hear or see things, that don't exist in real life. Such as the things you described a moment ago," She sounded as rational and professional as possible.

Jay stared at her, mouth agape. Her logic wasn't irrelevant, nor did she refuse to believe him. But at some point, she did try to make it sound fake.

On Earth, there are many things that stay unknown, such as paranormal creatures. Nobody can see them but still believe that they exist. In Jay's case, he wasn't seeing ghosts, nor did he encounter any of those paranormal activities happening from the stories he had heard. His case was completely different.

"What you told me, you said that one night you suddenly got a weird dream, as if you're getting inside a game," Jane crossed her fingers on the table in a serious manner. "And after that day you brushed it off and did regular things. But on the third day, you suddenly start seeing those game windows popping up from nowhere and floating in the air. Not only that but you've been hearing a woman's voice talking to you about your game tasks. Is that it? Nothing else happened, right?"

"Yes."

Jane leaned back on her chair and inhaled deeply. Jay gulped heavily and furrowed his eyebrows in full concentration. Anything she'd say, he has to believe it somehow. There's no other person that could help him at the moment. "The only reasonable explanation for your incidences is Hallucinations. The things you said don't make sense in real-life situations."

Jay kept quiet for a while then asked, "And what could be the reason for...these hallucinations?"

Jane meekly smiled, "The lack of your daily activities. Like, what you usually do."

"What... I usually do?"

Jay leaned back in confusion. He didn't want to think about it, not at all. He was tired of thinking. But somewhere in his brain, the thoughts kept swirling like bees. He began to recall what he usually does every day. Fearing that forgetting one single detail will make Jane start a ruckus.

"Yup! From last year, you've been following one strict schedule," Jane said showing Jay her index finger. Jay looked deeply at the finger then turned his gaze back to her.

"And that is...waking up at sharp 6, doing your morning routine with a cup of coffee that consists of one and a half tablespoons of sugar, working out till 7:30, staying at your office (from 9 am-6 pm), oh and you get yourself two cups of black coffee in between those hours, you come back around 6:20- 6:30 pm, and the free time you get; you play games on your computer. And then you go to sleep around sharp 12:30 every night. You've hardly had any human interactions besides your office hours."