Reality is Immortality

Are you sure?

DANS POV

My phone rings. I dart up as I hear the noise, and blindly reach over to grab my phone from the desk. It wasn't there. I flop off my bed, my comforter tightening around me as I attempt to grab my phone off out from under the bed. I pick it up.

"He-Hello?" I say, trying to regain my voice.

"Dan? Dan!"

"Yeah...?"

It was Hunter. That's when it hit me. What's happening? Wait- this was all just a dream?

"I'm so glad to hear your voice!" -H

"Uhm..." -D

"Oh, Ellie's home! Here one sec, I gotta tell her you're okay I'll call you back." -H

"Uh-Okay-wait what do you mean tell her I'm-" -D

The line cut off. I just sit there for a moment...confused.

"Dan!" I hear Phil's voice scream from the other side of the thin wall.

"Dan, are you awake?"

"Yeah! I would have been either way!"

"Haha sorry! Come on! Time to watch anime!"

I'm wearing the same clothes as yesterday so I plop out of bed and drag my body into the kitchen. Phil was standing there eating my cereal. He looks up at me innocently, cereal dribbling from his mouth.

"Phil!" I say unbelievably staring at him. Even though this isn't the first time.

"Sorry!" He says, cereal dropping out of his mouth as he speaks.

"You were sleeping in longer than usual, and there's no milk. So I had to move to plan B."

"No Milk?" I say starting to get nervous from my "dream".

"Yeah," Phil says cheerfully. "I sent you out to get some yesterday but you didn't come home with it, you got it right?"

"Uhm..." I trailed off.

"You left and forgot to get milk didn't you?" Phil said, like this happens a lot, because it does.

"Uhh yeah. I guess I did."

"Well you didn't look up from your phone when you were leaving, to busy texting, what did you do when you left? I crashed editing a video so I didn't see or hear you come home."

"Uhh not sure, I-I can't remember."

"Dan, you didn't get hammered did you?"

"No! No of course not. I- I'll be right back."

I scurry into the bathroom to check my cheek, it didn't feel like it was throbbing. I look in the mirror and smooth my hand across my cheek under my fringe. Perfectly unwounded. My stomach isn't aching, but I am hungry. I walk into the kitchen thinking. If I really did get wounded I would feel it. My phone dropped and cracked, but it's here in perfect condition. If I ended up on my bed, in the same clothes as yesterday maybe I did get hammered. I can't remember anything.

"You okay Dan?" Phil says, sitting on the couch watching, anime without me.

"Yeah, I'm fine."

"Okay, hurry up! I started watching it without you."

"Cool, I'm gonna go get breakfast, I'll watch what I can from the kitchen."

I wobble into the kitchen, I start to add up the facts. Then I hear my phone ring from the bedroom. I quickly run and grab my phone to see it's Hunter calling me back.

"Hey Dan, sorry I had to tell Ellie you were okay."

"That's okay, wait, what do you mean tell her I was okay?

"Well after last night I want sure..."

"Wait, what happened last night?"

"Well, we were texting and then you called me while panting... saying something but I couldn't understand. Haha you were probably so hammered that you don't even remember being chased by the cops!"

"Hammered? That's where I went last night? I thought I went to get milk?"

"You did but Phil just texted me you forgot cause you went to grab a drink-but it was a little too strong."

"Oh... But wait, I got chased by the cops?"

"I don't know what happened, all I know is that you called me panting and asking for help then got cut off..."

"Oh, sorry I don't remember exactly what happened. I remember calling you, sort of...but I don't remember exactly what happened after that.. I honestly don't remember what's real or what's fake anymore..."

"Wait - What do you mean, Dan?"

"I'm sorry - I'm just so confused... Do you and Ellie mind coming over so I can explain in person? This is just getting way to confusing over the phone."

"Yeah sure, we'll be right over. Just take a minute to relax."

"Okay, yeah."

The line ended and I softly set my phone down on the counter.

"Phil!?"

"Yeah?"

"Hunter and Ellie are coming over. We have to talk about last night."

"Okay, that's fine. When? Right now?"

"Yeah. We need to settle some things out."

"Okay." Phil responds. Clearly not knowing exactly what we're going to talk about.

So we sat on the couch, watching anime and waiting for the girls to arrive. So we can figure out just what happened last night.