ALONE

Bad Dreams

I take a couple minutes before going to the door.

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I start to count my steps as I walk. I count my fourteenth step as I reach the door. I pull my hand out of my pocket and knock.

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I hear Josh moan a very heavy sigh as he walks to the door. The porch light turns on and the door opens. "What do you want kid?" I stared at him. He's so skinny, his cheek bones are define and I can see the bones in his hands. His facial hair has stubbled itself onto his face; his hair's a mess and he reeks on booze.

"I came over because I wanted to check on you sir."

"I don't need checking up. Everyone knows how I'm doing. Shitty. My fucking son killed himself."

"Well sir I have a belief that he didn't do it, I think someone framed it to look like it. But I wanted to call my mom if that's okay with you, got to check in with her and my phone died. I was near by so I came here."

"Yeah yeah yeah. Come on in. You should know where the phone is." I walk in and head towards the kitchen. This is an old house. Not in bad shape but it's dark and they have antiques in this house most kids don't know exist. I yell toward his direction "I hope you don't mind but I need to use the restroom", He just moans and I see his hand wave at me. The bathroom is down a hallway with Jay's room right by it. So I shut the bathroom door and silently go into his room. I start at his dresser, right by the door. I rummage through all the drawers and the only thing not supposed to be there is an old pocket knife. So I turn towards the desk on the other side of his room by his bed. There's a laptop.

I open the laptop and there's a passkey. "Thank God he was my best friend" I mumbled to myself. I start typing in his most used passwords. JayKindler23

ERROR

"Fuck." JaysDed23

ERROR

"Damnit Jay".. So I start to think and then I got it. Sometimes when he didn't want me to get in something he'd make a joke about the password being 'password' so I typed it in and it works. "You're such an asshole" I chuckle quietly. I start to go through his emails. Nothing. Facebook. Nothing begin to look at his pictures, twitter, Instagram, literally anything I could see and find yet, nothing. Maybe I am just crazy. I couldn't believe I was going through my dead friends stuff. Till a notification dings on. It was to a website. The Hidden Wiki. It's a site through the dark web. I start to look at the history and I couldn't make up half the sites I saw. It was Dark... So I emailed everything to myself. Logged out of his computer and quietly opened his door and as I opened the bathroom door I shut Jays. I tell Josh thank you and try to leave.

"Hey kid, what'd you mean when you said it wasn't him who made the choice." He gave me a weird look. He's got suspicion I did it and I wouldn't blame him, we were always together.

"I just feel like Jay wasn't the type of person who would do something like that. He never got angry, he would solve problems, not just for himself but for everyone. Everyone loved your son Josh."

He looked at me with a quirky smile and said "I knew it was you, y'all were lovers weren't you. You turned him gay and that's what got him killed. You and the rest of your kind are just lying to yourselves, God didn't make anyone who like they own type. It's a disease that be gone soon." He turn back in his chair and started to watch TV. He's always been a nasty old man. But he's alone now, which is a lot better than most would think. He would say nasty things to Jay and hit him. I would have to go to the hospital every month with him because his dad was not fit for being a person with people 'lower than him', as he would say. I keep thinking to myself as I get home. When I reach it I go straight to my room and go for my laptop.

I printed everything out and called D. Grey as soon as possible so I can figure this out. He doesn't pick up. I ring him again. No answer. I wait till morning just in case if he's asleep or doing work. So I hide the papers under my mattress and try to sleep. A half hour goes by and I finally get to sleep.

I open my eyes, It's quiet, sun's up but there are no sounds. 'My mom probably decided to get some more rest after what's been happening' I thought to myself. So I get up and go to her room, she's not there. So I start to wonder if she's at the store. It's just weird to me because she usually tells me where she is going if she leaves. I don't think to much about it. So I run down to the kitchen and make myself a bowl of cereal. As I finish I get a text from Jay to meet me at the lake. I didn't know he can text me? This morning is just weird. I get dressed and I go outside. It's gone. Everything is gone. the neighbors houses. The trees are head, there is a plane in my front yard and there is no one in sight. I start to worry, things are bad. Then my phone rings. It's the detective. Then I wake up. Oh my god. It was just a dream. I answer my phone and tell the detective about all the things I found.

"Meet me at the lake where you went the other night. We'll meet at 2:00AM." I get confused. As I was going to ask how he knew I went to the lake he hangs up. I don't know what's going on anymore.