Beyond (Luke Hemmings Fanfic)

Chapter 3

That night my plans are pretty clear: I have to stay up and see what else the poster will do. It won't be that bad, I'll just go on YouTube until I absolutely can't stay awake any longer, wait for Melody's ritual which is calling me in the late hours, and listen to music quietly. It'll be a piece of cake.

By 1 o'clock though my plans have already started to crumble. I went on my phone from 12 am to 1 am and somehow woke up to my light breathing and my phone laying face first on my chest, I must have taken a little cat nap. I'm usually a night owl just like my parents but with the lack of sleep I got the night before, and the hard day's work all catching up to me I can't stay awake for much longer. And I shouldn't.

"Wow," I laugh in the darkness realizing how insane this all is. I'm planning on staying up all night, loosing precious hours of sleep, just because I want to see if my "magical" poster will do anything? I'm psychotic! Maybe today my ipod was just experiencing some difficulties and wouldn't react with the volume. Probably no sound was being produced from the poster, just like the other night. I bought the poster from Amazon not a magician's house! There are always some kind of logicl explanations in every situation, rather it be in movies or real life. Besides horror movies, those never have explanations just scary endings that make you afraid of the dark all night.

I should just go to bed and pretend all of this never happened. So that's what I plan to do, taking one last look at my phone to make sure Mel didn't call while I was sleeping or anything. Nope. So I lay my head on my pillow and try to wash away any rash thoughts that come into my brain, and five minutes later I'm fast asleep.

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At about 3:40 I wake up with a stinging sensation in my bladder. I run to the bathroom with a body full of pee and return minutes later with a cup of water in my hands, and feeling as refreshed as ever and tired may I add. But when I walk into my room I'm no longer drowsy, sleepiness has escaped my eyes and a new feeling has replaced it. Is it fear or pure wonder? My cup of water slowly droops out of my hand and falls all over my carpet, little drops of h2o coming back up and landing on my bare legs. It's summer so naturally I'm going to be wearing high pajama shorts.

I have other problems though then my soaked carpet. Looking over on the opposite wall that faces my bed I see a spotlight that blinds all of my posters and spills along the floor as well. I just stand there like I did this evening, too dumbstruck to scream or move or leap in joy because I have no idea what's going on. But the light is somehow inviting, I feel like Aurora in Sleeping Beauty when she had to prick her finger on the needle of the spinning wheel even if she didn't want to. I'm now like her, under a trance and curious to see what lays inside the poster that has been fooling me.

So I carefully walk over my empty cup and tip toe to the poster, not sure if the light will slice my skin if I touch it. I'm an idiot, of course it won't harm me it's a fricken light. But I'm still a little weary as I approach it. I crawl quickly to my bed going through the light once and figuring out it does nothing but brings your room to life. I look inside it and all I see is the magnified picture of 5 Seconds of Summer still lifeless and not moving.

"What the heck?" I whisper as I bring my head closer to the lit up poster. My hands shake as I cautiously lift one up to touch the poster, but I don't end up touching anything.

"Oh!" I gasp, the other hand flies up to cover my mouth as I look at my disappeared arm. It's dipping inside the poster with nothing on the other side but air and little sprinkles of something hitting my hand. When I take it out to examine, the whole half of my arm is shining like gold and shimmering with some sort of sparkles. All too quickly though it fades away, but I remain staring at it. I must be dreaming.

Just to make sure this isn't just another berserk fantasy of mine, I slowly slide my hand into the light once more eager to find out what's on the other side. Deeper and deeper it goes in, until I readjust myself closer to the wall and feel something pulling at me. Suddenly I am thrusted into the light, falling faster and lower into some sort of vortex of the color wheel. All the colors of the rainbow fly past me and engulf me with everchanging beauty. All I see isvyellow, then red, then orange. I scream as loud as I can and look for something to grab onto to let me out of this gaping hole, I'm no Alice flying down a rabbit hole. There is nothing to hold onto, so I wrap my arms tightly around my body and try to remain as calm and serene as I can be. I'm dreaming, this is all just something that has been hiding in the back of my head for awhile that has finally came out.