Burning Sensation

CHAP LII

EMILY'S POV

I feel like I'm floating.
Dangerously but swiftly in a comfort zone where everything feels blissful.
Where am I?

What is happening to me?
I don't feel anything, it's like all I have is a head and I can't feel my other body parts but at the same time, it's fine.
Because I feel fine.

What is wrong with me?
I kick all my beings and suddenly my eyes open and I'm in a peripheral of a garden. I feel even hungry, so I kick my feet and they move. Looking down at myself I realize I'm in a beautiful white dress.

It has a crew neck and long sleeves, it's tight on my body and it makes a river at my feet but it's very comfortable and its cloth feels delicate and smooth. I have never worn such an amazing dress before.

However regardless of that, I run it into the trees peel off different fruits, and walk down to sit on the grass to enjoy the food.

"Wow, these fruits taste like heaven." Suddenly, I'm eating like I haven't been eating for days. Or maybe I haven't. I'm so focused on tasting what I'm eating that I don't realize I have company or when I did.

It's when The Old Man. I don't even know if it's an old man. I'm getting the feeling that whoever made a sound is an Old Man. I don't even know why I feel like that.

"Hello, there," He is glimmering.
If I say glimmering, I mean the kind of glimmers of the sun that eyes can't withstand. I put my bent arm around my eyes and ask. "Hey, who are you?" I look him over but all his being is glimmering. Where am I?

"I see you have made yourself comfortable?" His voice is somehow like a wave. It's clear but I don't know, I can distinguish it. I don't even know how. It's so strong, so firm, and holds so much warmth.

I clear my throat before replying.
"I'm sorry for stealing fruits. I—" Now how do I say this? "I don't know where am I and I felt so hungry. Is this your garden?"

"It's yours too, child. Don't feel like a stranger, feel at home." I can detest a smile in his voice but I frown at what he says. This is home. No, this is not my home.

"Why are you denying it, do you want to go back?"
The Old Man asks me.

I thought about it and without technically answering his question, I wondered for a moment to go back where?

Oh to Alpha! My home.
I love Alpha, I love that man and he doesn't know it. And he has to know it.

Oh my God, I have found love.
I found love in that world that hurt me, I should go back to tell him and then come back.

Yes, I should go back and tell him that he managed to burn the cold wall that I used as a shield with his sensation and that I fell for him.

He has to know, I can tell him and then say bye to my mother and friends and then come back.

"No dear it doesn't work like that, you either stay and stay or you go back."

"Can you read mind?" This time I voiced it out and The Man laughed.

"I can, then what is it going to be?" I sit there torn between the unknown.

This place is beautiful, dare say magical, everything is glowing and I'm in the most beautiful dress that I have ever worn my whole life. I don't want to go back, I would like to live here with Alpha and our families.
"Can't I just bring my people with me?"

"No, child. Your people is me and I'm here for you. You look over there," I turn to glance at where he is pointing and I see another peripheral world. Though it's not like mine, it is dark, loud, and looks very very dirty and chaotic compared to where I am.