All I wanted was a glass of water

Chapter 4: Welcome to Doh Land©

Heor woke up - only to check back his phone and go back to sleep.

Guess old habits don't go away even when you're in a magical land.

Feeling hungry, he finally opened his eyes. But then fell asleep once again while debating whether to get out of bed.

He was asleep now; adrift in dreams. 

"That lazy bugaboo has been sleeping for 3 days now. He opened his eyes once too but then went back to sleep. Forget chief, my hammer would like to talk to him first", said a feminine voice.

A familiar voice replied, "You do that and you can wave your golden star goodbye"

"Fine, but I won't be keeping guard on him from now on", the feminine voice sighed.

"I don't mind doing that", said another feminine voice.

Heor opened his eyes. Mostly because he thought he heard the notification tune of his phone.He was dissappointed to see there wasn't any notification but he did see Cocmi with two other children who were barely 11-12 years old talking to each other in front of his bed. Trying to get up to get a better view, he said, "Okay, so that wasn't a dream"

"What wasn't a dream?" the unknown boy asked.

"Ohh," Heor said after realizing the girly voice was a guy's, "I thought you were a girl"

"Grrr", replied the guy drooping into an angry frown. 

Who the hell actually says out grr when angry?

Resisting the urge to say that out loud, Heor finally focused on where he was. "Erm, so where am I? What happened", Heor asked, looking at the girl who hadn't uttered a word until now.

She ran away from the room."Wha-"Just then the guy with the feminine voice left the room...only after giving Heor a stinkeye...or his rendition of a stinkeye. As he turned to leave, Heor saw that he was carrying a blow up toy hammer on his back. Heor resisted the urge to laugh out loud.

I'm making friends

"Okay really what's going on? I was trying to get water. I don't remember anything after tha-"

"HEOOOOORRR", Cocmi shouted almost as soon as he heard the last line. He ran up to Heor and hugged him, "You are fine. I'm so glad. You won't believe what happened. I was attacked by a meaanie wolfh and you saved me from him. You got a boo boo in the process. But I remember, before falling you pinky promised you'd save my village. Oh also the wolfhh took all your money"

There's the weird fake way of talking again

"A. No. Pretty sure you were the one who hit me. B. I wouldn't have done that even if I had blown a bag of coke into my nose using a leaf blower. C. Please give me my money back before i call your mom. And D. And most importantly, WHY THE HELL ARE YOU CUDDLING ME?!?!", Heor said as he pushed Cocmi out of the bed. The fact that Cocmi was still just in his diapers didn't help to make the cuddling less weird.

"Wait, you weren't supposed to know that I lied until Act 2"

"Act 2?"

"Yeah, we were supposed to become amazing friends by the end of Act 1. And then b-"

"Amazing friends? Oh god is that why you were cuddling with me?!"

"Oh my dygrees, what am I doing?! They are so going to be anglee!!"

Argggh that fake forced inconsistent acce-

"Wait who are the Dygrees?"

"YOU DON'T KNOW WHO DYGREES AL'?", Cocmi burst out laughing.

Are, you twat, are. Mental Note - Never have kids.

"There al the people who live above us. They al the ones who told me that by Act 2, you'd find out the lie and get angry."

Well I am angry right now if that's any consolation.

"Never mind. I shall return your money from the meanie wol-", Cocmi continued.

"From your wallet", the words were on Heors lips but he was unable to say them out.

Damn I'm thirsty

"Wateeer"

"What? We don't have that. Dygrees have banned it. We do have a Chocolate Deluxe Swirl® here. Do you want that?"

"What?! Whyy-", Heor suddenly become more aware of how dry his throat was, "Can't believe I'm saying this, but no. I can't have dairy. Doctors orders. Don't you have anything else?"

"We do have other stuff. But I'm sorry all of them have moomoo's milk in them"

Oh right. I completely forgot that I'm at an unknown place. 

"Where the hell am I?"

"Ah I thought you'd never ask", Cocmi smiled and pulled back the curtains "Behold, the Doh Land®!"

It took some time for Heor's eyes to adjust to the sudden surge of light. 

Is that a huge castle? Why does it look soo...flat?

Heor got up to his feet and walked towards the window. His head hurt a little each time he took a step. On reaching, what he saw was something that could've easily been in a fantasy novel. A white castle stood some distance from where he was. Even from distance it was apparent that the castle was huge. It had multiple towers rising from within the borders. Surrounding the castle, were hundreds of huts. The streets were filled with colorful dots. Heor focused closely and realized that they people. He could imagine the busy sound that he'd have heard had the windows not been so close. 

But, the whole picture was lively.,.unrealisticly lively, the colors seemed brighter, many huts were giving out smoke, the people in their colorful clothing moved around joyfully, and there was glitter in the air. Like Cocmi, even all this seemed off.He gazed back at the castle and swayed sideways to confirm that indeed it looked 2 dimensional.

"Seems like Disney land"

"OMG MENTIONING IT IS BANNED TOO! YOU CANT S-"

Heor didn't even care to ask why.

"Well, I have woken up at worse places before", Heor said as he searched his hands for needle marks.

Damn. No holes. So maybe I'm still high and all this is a dream.

"Don't you have anything else to drink that is not dairy?"

"I'm afraid not"

No water. No games. No Glir. No pizza. Weird place.

Okay, so not perfect. Totally not perfect.

And so he said the second set of words that shouldn't be uttered.

"How much worse can this get"

"You know its sad you can't have dairy. I was gonna give an unlimited supply of that drink for free"

"NOOOOOOOOOOO-"

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Author's Note - Had written this chapter weeks ago. The only  thing that was remaining was the descriptions. I'd always put off writing and work on some other project just because of that. 

Anyway, if you're reading this then please do share your thoughts on how this is going. I'd love to hear your opinion.

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