Bad Dilemma - Stanford Pines

001 - The tale she couldn't hear

Chapter 1: The tale she couldn't hear.

The first thing I noticed when I woke up in the middle of the night, was that my point of view was quite... different. 

For a second, I genuinely thought that I was dreaming; a trick my mind did after not sleeping after 3 days in a row and how much caffeine I drank before.

But I remember I woke up.

And surely, I never watched my room from above.

Then, I tried to grab my blanket, but it was too far down for me to reach easily. My limbs felt so much lighter, the air couldn't fill my lungs, no matter how much I wanted to inhale like I was floating...

Well, maybe because I was.

A certain strong and striking blue light entered through my opened window. The blinds marking and splashing line shadows all over the floor and letting me see my room even in the dark.

Then, I panicked.

A delayed reaction, I know. But let's keep in mind that I was supposed to be sleeping on my bed without the floating factor and only going higher and higher... and not the good kind. This felt somehow so real despite how insane must sound, looking at my room from above; even the top of my closet that I haven't seen in years.

My chest began to move up and down and my hands became suddenly cold, as my back touched the roof made of wood.

— What's going on?! —

I asked to myself, looking around as I tried to pathetically go down, but it wasn't possible.

An infinite force was pulling me up and my heart was pounding too fast to even react and I could only try to find a way to this situation, but it was none. "A ghost" my mind said, and I wanted to kick myself after that thought because I never believed in ghosts in my life, not even as a child.

I looked around and said that everything that wasn't bolted to the floor, like my closet or bed, was floating with me too. I could see the water forming a ball outside of the glass I left a week ago, reflecting the blue light that only seemed to get more and more radiant.

The blue light became impossible to look directly, and I covered my eyes... Then, I felt something familiar: The way my organs got suspended and I could feel like my lungs were about to explode, like I was on a roller coaster.

Darkness.

Before I could know what this could mean, whatever was pulling me up suddenly dropped me.

Violently, I fell at the edge of my bed and then to the floor, hitting my knee hard, it even cracked, whining and I knew it would leave a bruise that could last a lot of time and then finally, I was on the floor, covering my head with my arms as the objects that were floating around dropped too... And for a strange reason, I have a katana collection; luckily, they ended up at the other side of the room, far from me.

The glasses, clothes, books, pencils... everything fell at the same time with a loud noise.

So, I was there, laying down on the floor, feeling like the air in my lungs was extracted completely and of course, scared.

What the hell just happened?

I sat and looked that my room became a mess, however, my first instinct was to get up and walk to the window, limping painfully. That light, it had to do something to what just happened.

But when I opened the blinds... It was dark.

I could only see the beautiful sight of Gravity Falls's mountains dripping right in front of my eyes, normally. 

My hands were still very cold from what just happened, but nothing outside showed me that the phenomenon didn't happen only in my room; the trees weren't moving at all, drowned in darkness and honestly, it was an unsettling view.

I took a thousand deep breaths, trying to comprehend what had just happened and after 2 hours, checking outside and wrapping for my dear life the blinds in case I began to float again, adjusting my eyes to the dark so I can see at least a subtle blue light... nothing.

Even when it didn't happen again that night, I couldn't sleep. Any tiredness that could exist in my body, after 3 days of sleep deprivation disappeared, filling the void with fear and uncertainty.