Nentarli [COMPLETE]

~ Four ~

It was late afternoon when I woke up, Emy was still fast asleep next to me. I decided not to wake her and went to get dressed. I made my way downstairs to make us something to eat, it felt like ages since I'd last eaten. My head was swimming with the events of the previous night. Was it real? Did I dream the whole thing?

I couldn't tell whether I was happy or sad about it either, maybe it did happen but it wasn't real. Perhaps Mr Park was a very troubled man with a remarkable lizard toy, because the other alternative was too ridiculous to consider to be true. I decided to wait and see what the day brought as I finished making our food, just then I heard Emy moving upstairs and I took the food up to her.

When I got up there, she was in her room getting dressed. "Your room or mine?" I shouted to her, clinking the plates together.

"Yours! I'll be in in a second, I can't find my blue cardigan."

"It's folded in the bottom of your wardrobe, I put it there a few days ago after I washed it."

I walked into my room to the sound of her shouting, "Aha, thanks!" and set the plates on the bed. Emy came in a few seconds later in her cardigan and jeans, sitting next to me on the bed and taking her plate.

"So," I started as I placed chicken and rice onto my fork, "How did you sleep after last night?"

I tested her, just in case it had all been a strange dream of mine.

"Okay I guess but did I get really drunk because I had a stupidly weird dream about you, and Mr Park, and-" she stopped when she saw me shaking my head, "What?"

"That wasn't a dream because if it was, we had the same one..."

We both looked down at our plates, stunned that it really happened. We ate the rest of our food in silence, just trying to grasp it.

"Do you believe him then?" Emy asked when we took our plates down to the kitchen and washed up.

"I don't know, I think I'd like to and a lot of it does make sense," I passed her a plate to dry. "But it's just so outrageous and unbelievable," I continued, emptying the bowl and drying my hands.

"I agree, he could be losing his mind and like we've said before, he could be great at observational guesses... also that could have been a breathing, lifelike lizard toy."

She was echoing all of my earlier thoughts.

"Still, I think we should wait and see what happens today because we didn't imagine those guys and Mr Park or 'Merkell'," she snorted, "now that is one bizarro name," she laughed loudly.

I couldn't help but join in, I didn't mean to but it was nice to laugh it off for a brief moment. It felt like we should be more serious in discussing the possibilities, but everything was so outrageously silly.

"Yeah anyway, as I was saying, Merkell," she smiled widely. "Has never tried to harm us or even been nasty in any way, shape or form. We should try to give him the benefit of the doubt, for now."

"I agree but no laughing at his name, okay?" I smiled at her and she reluctantly agreed.

I wandered off into the living room to sit down, she followed and plonked down next to me.

"I won't laugh but it is... different, I wonder where he thought it up," she grinned and I rolled my eyes.

She grabbed the remote, clearly looking for a distraction.

"Let's see what normal, boring rubbish is on today... imagine thinking up a world that doesn't have TV."

She chuckled and was just about to turn it on when someone knocked on the front door. We looked quickly at each other, after the night we'd had, we were more nervous than usual about answering it.