Singapur

Chapter 5

"Katharine, Katharine WACH AUSF"

Oh crappppp no nope I do not want to open my eyes nope nope that is a very bad move. Come on voice can't you still see I am still dreaminggggg I thought as I tried to be as casually as possible scrunch my head into a tiny ball. As far as I am concerned I might as well be dreaming and the voice in front of me might as well be a by-product of tinnitus...

"Katharine, Katharine Bitte öffne deine Augen." The voice says a lot more pressingly now

Hey there whoever the heck you are you should know you gotta do a lot more than that to get me to react. I mean not me me but you know the me in this world which is also me wait what the heck , arghhhh I can't take this anymore.

"Please miss just leave me alone I need some alone time," I say, the desperation in my voice combined the fact I was clutching my head possibly due to a very bad headache making very easily discernable to any sane person that I did not want to be disturb.

But no instead long pause follows before I hear the soft rustling of her skirt against the grass beneath and her warm breath against my ear.

"Entschuldigung, Katharine, das wird dir nicht gefallen"

wait wait wait what do you mean I am not gonna like this...

piak. I hear the soft sound of a strong set of hand making contact with my skin before seconds later the pain of my face being slapped finally registered to my brain and the left side of my face felt like it was on FIRE.

As I was rolling around in the grass trying my hardest to put out the excruciating pain, my eye muscles subconsciously relaxed and my eyes flipped wide open to the sight of the most out of the world scenery I've seen in my life and I mean it.

All around me lay an endless field of grass stretching as far as the eyes could see only occasionally being disrupted here and there by a booth or two and one big ass dome over the horizon.

While I sat there admiring the amount of space that laid around me, my eyes , finally finishing it's setup procedure, drew my attention to what appears to be a blimp (and yes blimp not pimp search Hindenburg) floating leisurely in the distance. Displayed proudly on it were the words ( in german of course) "World expo 2020, jewel of the east"  flashing intermittently from time to time. And of course, being the genius I am, I inferred it to be the reason for this whole spectacle.

But blimp aside, all around me lay or at least flew strange and oddly antique contraptions. As my eyes darted from one contraption to another, my mouth stood ever agape at the sheer variety and straight-up convention-defying properties of them.

For one I am pretty damn sure that a rocket doesn't move paralleL to the ground or fly that low I mean aren't rocket like dangeRouS? Like hello nuclear rocket?? But nope apparently in this world everyone has collectively agreed the sight of imminent doom should be met with gush and awe though to be fair if I saw a rocket moving parallel I probably would too.....

This whole fanfare however still didn't help to solve any pressing questions I had. On the contrary, it added onto to an ever-growing list of highly pertinent questions like why is everyone speaking German or why am I wearing a dress or when cAN I GET BACK?! ARGHHHH

"Sie gaffen nicht Katharine?  Wir müssen den Rest der Klasse einholen?" the girl inquisitively ask as she shifts herself parallel to my line of sight no doubt rather curious as to why I was staring so hard at , presumably to her, mild oddities.

"Ummm sorry was just having a nice nap haha."

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH

I looked up totally expecting her to smile absolutely convinced at my shoddy speech only to be unfortunately greeted by a very confused girl