By GlitnirGebo
Chapter 1 – The beginning
'My passion and desire
Is like no other.
While they long for loveAnd life,
I do not
I can not.
How do they like such things?
My love is strong.
And my love is?
It is a death...
Murder.'
I shake the voice from my head as I snap out of my daydream. What had I been doing? That's right! I had been eating my dinner. I look down at the table to see an empty plate. Odd. I guess I must have somehow finished eating while I off deep in my mind. Either that or I have an invisible rodent problem...
Invisible rats! HA! Snap out of it! I get up and dump my plate in the sink. I wonder what's on 't there anything good on anymore? Oh well, I guess I'll just go to sleep.
I don't even bother going to my room, I just fall asleep on the couch. There's no one else here so I don't see any reason not to laze around like this. I don't even know why I bother tidying up sometimes. Oh, well... I think as I yawn. I never noticed how tired I really was.
'That's right...go to sleep...'
I bolt straight as I hear the voice and look around. Strange. I must have been imagining things. I lay back down...I'm all alone in my bedroom.
'Yes, that's right! You're all alone...'
Wait a minute! My bedroom! This isn't where I fell asleep! I sit up again. I'm not even wearing the same clothes I fell asleep in! I'm wearing Pajama's! I don't wear Pajama's! I sleep where and in what I fall in! If this is some joke...!
'Hush! Go back to sleep...'
My eyelids start to get heavy again. Maybe I should put a lock on my door...I think as sleep claims me again.
-I look around the corner of a building. I am following someone, but I must not let him know...so I keep well hidden. I creep forward to the corner of another building so I don't loose sight of my victim. He stops walking just down the path, so I creep forward to get closer. It would be hard to complete my task at such a far distance. I creep even closer, this time pulling my dagger out. I am now standing just behind the man. I hear something rustle behind me. Unfortunately so does the man I'm tracking. He turns around...just to find the path empty. He turns back around and starts to move down the path again, this time at a faster pace. I wipe the sweat off of my brow. Although not from heat, Egypt can get pretty cold at night, but because I was almost spotted. But I'm not going to let that stop me! I look around the corner. He is almost at the end of the pathway. Little does he know, that is not the only path he's traveling that is about to end. His life is about to fall off the end of its path, with a little help of my dagger of course...I stop hiding behind corners, instead I walk out onto the path, staying into the shadow. My pace is slightly faster then the mans so I can catch up to him. I raise my dagger. I am only a step away from his back when he turns around. That doesn't stop me. I bring my dagger down and...-
I open my eyes and rub the back of my head where it hit the floor. I had fallen out of bed. The sunlight shines into my room through my open window. Why the hell are the curtains open?! That's it! I've had enough! I decide not to go outside today. I have no reason to anyway. I get up and slam my window closed.
'Well, we are a little bit grumpy today aren't we?'Ok, I know that voice can't have come from outside, I just shut the only window in the room...That means that the idiot who is trying to play jokes on me must be inside somewhere...but where?
'Closer then you think...'They do sound close. I look around my room as if I'm playing hide-and-go-seek with a friend. These games they're playing are getting childish...I think to myself.
'Childish! I'm offended! No child could come up with a plan as brilliant as mine!'
How the hell did they know what I was thinking? 'What plan?' I ask the air. 'Show yourself!' I'm finally fed up with this joke. I'm not going to let whoever it is get away with this!
'Now, now! If I told you my plan that would be cheating! And as for not letting me get away with this...what are you going to do? Stab me?'
My dream! How the hell did they know about that?! And if I didn't know better I'd swear that voice was just in my head...
'He finally found me! At last!''I'm not crazy!' I yell at the air. 'So you can't be just a disembodied voice in my head!'
'You are right. You are not crazy. I believe the correct term is 'insane', and you are also right about me not being just a voice in your head...'
I sigh, thankful that they've finally admitted that they're a real person.
'I'm throughout your whole body, you are me, I am you...and if you are not 'insane' then how come you are talking to the air?...'
I hear the insult in the voice. 'NO!' I scream and run out of the room. I search the whole house, looking for the source of the voice. I spend all day opening and closing cupboards, moving and re-arranging the little furniture I have, all the while the voice continues it's taunting...
'Poor little Malik,
Had a problem voice.
Poor little Malik,
Didn't have a choice...'
The voice continued its song...
'Poor little Malik,
He didn't want to eat.
Poor little Malik,
This voice had him beat...'
I just tried to ignore it. The voice cackled at me...It mocked me...
'I'm not crazy, I'm not crazy! Hee, Hee, Hee! You are crazy my poor little Malik!'
'No I'm not!' I once again find myself screaming at the air...
'No I'm not! No I'm not!''Stop that! I've had enough of this! Show yourself now!' I don't think I can take much more of this...
'Stop that! Poor little Malik...you really are insane...'
'No I'm not! And do you say that I'm talking to the air because I'm not! I'm talking to you, you bastard!' My patience for this intruder of my mind has run out.
'I know you are not talking to the air...you are talking to yourself. You said so yourself. You said you were talking to me, remember? I am you...you are me...'
'Stop saying that!'
'It's true, you know it is...remember that 'dream'? It was actually a memory. My memory, your memory...'
They know about the dream...that's impossible! Maybe I am going crazy... I slowly walk back to my bedroom and sit down on my bed.
'That's right...you are insane... Now sleep...'
I slowly lay down. My eyes are once again getting heavy. I fall into a deep sleep...but not deep enough to stop the dream...
Author's Notes: Chapters like this are the result of me being left on my own. Anyway, please review and let me know what you think of the story so far.