Oneirophobia

Chapter 7

Peter stood up and walked slowly towards his desk where he had his 'AirCo', so now non-supernatural computers are called 'AirCo' as in air computers, they work the same way as the 'AM', so when Peter clicked on a green button that's built into his desk a blue floating screen popped in the air and there was no keyboard, all you had to do is touching the screen and dragging files and stuff, while Peter was doing some work on his 'AirCo' I decided to give myself a tour around his lab, he had a big glass closet that's built into the white walls and beside it there was a button that looked like a swirling arrow, curiosity dragged me and I eventually pressed on the button, the glass closet turned facing me to appear numerous trophies and medals, I was dragged by an unusual golden trophy at the top shelf, it was shaped like a 3D cloud as I wanted to reach it to have a closer look Peter's rough voice behind me freaked me out.

"Who gave you permission to look through me stuff."

I accidentally dropped the trophy and it split into half.

I never saw Peter this mad before, his black eyes widened with a sharp glare at the broken trophy, I bit my lip in fear and I wanted to step back but Peter roughly wrapped his hand around the back of my neck and forced me to stare at the broken pieces.

"LOOK WHAT YOU DID!" Peter exclaimed.

"I.... I...am."

Peter didn't let me finish, he pressed on my neck even harder.

"I don't want to hear any apologizes, just look at it, happy now? This was the only trophy that I treasured, the only thing left in this life that I actually cared about, GET OUT!"

"Peter I'm sorry please let go you are hurting me." I said with a painful tone.

Well of course Peter didn't seem to care that he was hurting me but a minute later he pushed me telling me to get out, I was embarrassed, my cheeks were red, I looked at him one more time and apologized then, left the room. I walked down the halls heading back to my room, The mechanical doors of my room slammed after I got in, thoughts were racing in my mind I was only making it worse between me and Peter, I shook that subject out of my mind then, grabbed the book I took a week ago 'Keys' and started flipping the pages looking for pictures, there was only one picture and it was a strange looking key, I sat on the edge of the circled window and started reading.

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Am lost, all I can see are keys, there is no way out, day after day. I am starting to lose my mind, I don't feel sane anymore.

These memories, visions, nightmares, keys, are starting to make me go mad, I feel lifeless and the worst of all I have no idea, is it day? Is it night? Have I been here days? Or weeks?

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I got lost in pages, the novel was beyond fantastic but unfortunately someone who was knocking the door of my room interrupted me.

I took a blank paper from my white desk and put it where I stopped reading.

"Am I going to knock all day or what?" Someone yelled on the other side of the door, I could tell it was May's voice but when I opened the door I was sadly surprised, May was here but with company.

They picked the wrong time to come, I wanted to complete the novel so badly but I had to deal with my GUESTS.

May stepped into my room introducing me to the same chubby girl that I yelled on the other day. I looked right into her bright green eyes and gave her a sad smile "Do you remember me?" I said hesitatingly.

"How can I forget you? Look you don't have to worry about what happened the other day, I understand you. Hard times are never easy."

May raised an eyebrow looking at the two of us "You guys know each other?"