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Lucas had had the nightmare again. The Porky statue had bared down on him as he was stuck by his leg to a branch in the ground. He had woken up again, just as the bright light and a voice had whizzed across his line of sight.

Strange things had been happening lately. In those very silent moments of life, he swore he could hear somebody whispering in the back of his mind. That was not the only thing. Even now, as he stared across the kitchen table at his friend Ness, he wondered, why am I here, and when did I become friends with him?

"Alright," Ness said, as he finished his cereal. "I thought about it last night. Yes, I will teach you how to drive."

When did I ask him to teach me how to drive? Better yet… "You can drive?" Lucas said.

"Of course I can. I passed my test last week, remember?" Lucas did not. "I think you're right. I ought to teach you since I keep having to taxi you around everywhere. Plus, if you had your own car you'd be able to find a job, so you can contribute to this household."

"Wait, what?"

Ness got off his char and put his cap on. "We better go before the morning traffic gets busy. It'll be easier for you if we start while the roads are quiet."

Lucas got into the passenger seat of a car he did not know in a town he did not recognise. Why was he living here? It did not make any sense. Ness pulled in at the gas station and got out of the car. Was he even old enough to drive? Lucas sighed, gazing out of the car window.

An ugly engine blared as a motorbike pulled in to the gas station. A dastardly looking man with a yellow hat, big nose and a zig-zaggy moustache got off the vehicle. Lucas yelped. He had seen that man before—he was sure of it. He was taken from the present moment, to a vision where the man looked down on him with a dark cannon. The man fired an arrow-shaped beam at him. Lucas squeezed his eyes tight as the man's laughter rang around his head. "Focus, Lucas. Focus." He opened his eyes, back in the present moment as he watched the man drive off without paying for his gas. Lucas narrowed his eyes. He climbed over to the other side of the car and sped off after the man with the yellow hat.

Ness rushed out of the station as he watched Lucas speed off in his car, into the woods.