It had seemed like such a regular day before it happened. Dan and I had been hanging out in our dorm and watching a horror movie. He would pick up some popcorn, shove it in his mouth and then cuddle into me. It was quite adorably of him and I held him tight, keeping a comfort for the movie.
The alien in the movie managed to weave into the ventilation shaft and had begun to silently and suddenly attack the random main characters. Dan jumped and hugged me tightly whenever anything popped out, and I couldn't help but chuckle at him. I leaned down and kissed him fiercely, his oral actions bringing jolts down low below my belt. I smiled down at him and we turned our attention to the TV.
A woman on the screen walked through a dark hallway, looking for the alien, and the quiet music built the tension. It was obvious that she was going to be killed at any second, and I waited for the moment so that I'd be able to comfort Dan when he'd scream.
The woman turned a corner- this was it. Alien spit dripped down on her shoulder, she turned around and-
The room went black and Dan squealed in terror.
"Calm down, Dan." I almost laughed. "It's just a power outage. No aliens in the real world." I comforted. He calmed down. After a minute, my eyes adjusted to the darkness and I could see much better.
"Why it the power out?" Dan asked, slightly confused. The wasn't a storm or anything going on, it was just a random black out.
"Hell if I know." I responded. "I'll go see if a fuse blew or something." I slid his legs off mine and got up, stretching a little before starting to walk toward the door. Before I could reach the handle, however, A small light illuminated from behind me, flickering abnormally in a bluish tint across the room.
I turned around to see a small glowing blue smudge on the wall. The thing looked like a tiny sideways puddle. I turned to Dan, making sure I wasn't hallucinating.
"Can you see that?" I asked. He only looked up at me, slightly confused.
"See what? Is there something on the wall?" He responded. Well that confirmed it. A hallucination. I went to touch it to make sure, Maybe Dan was just being an ass.
The thing exploded to a giant rippling puddle across the wall, shifting colors across the spectrum. Dan screamed.
"W-What the hell is that!" He stuttered, looking at the puddle-thing. So now he saw it. I didn't take my eyes off the thing as I spoke to Dan, my voice surprisingly calm. Why wasn't I scared?
"I don't know." Was all I could figure to answer, but I knew even a small answer would help the trembling man on the couch.
The puddle thing was pulling on me. It felt like there was gravity coming from it or something. Dan's voice came from behind me.
"What should we do?" The question was fairly valid, and I didn't have an answer.
The puddle thing... It seemed safe- I don't know why, and it was calling me. It wanted me to go through it...
"We should go through it, Dan." I assured, not exactly confident, but making sure I sounded like I was. He gulped and stared at the puddle.
"Are you sure? It looks kind of dangerous." I stared at the thing- a portal maybe? This was a once in a lifetime chance, now that I thought about it. It could bring us to a new world, a new dimension, even going to Germany or something would be fun. But we would travel by this portal. it was worth the risk, and there was no way I was going to let Dan miss out on this too.
"I'm positive." I assured. There would be no other chance, none like this.
"Okay.." Dan said trustingly as he got up and walked over to me, grabbing my hand.
"On three." I ordered. I didn't want us to go through separately and end up two different places. "One." And god forbid I was stuck somewhere with out him. "Two" Especially because he'd probably die if left alone to fend for himself. "Three!"
We ran for the portal and jumped through, falling quite a few feet down once we passed through.
I hit the ground and my vision blurred, and before I could tell what had happened, everything went black.