With a yell I scramble back from the shadowy outline that has just materialized behind me only to realize that I am in the middle of nowhere, where should I run to? So instead I stand up and study the individual that just appeared behind me.
I'm not going to say that I wasn't surprised when I realized "Hey you're that horse that shows up every night in my dreams!" She chuckles and replies "Yes that we are." A little off put by the referring to herself (I think it was a her…) as we but I continue to study her, she stood at my height able to look me directly in my eyes, she was a dark blue color with a black spot on her flank. She had a black necklace with a white crecent moon in the middle that matched the tattoo on her flank, she wore a tiara that had her horn sticking out (A unicorn cool!) but by far the most interesting thing was her mane and tail, they were like a slice of the night sky had been taken directly out of the sky and attached to her and even stranger was the fact that it was billowing slightly almost as if it was perminently stuck in a light breeze.
She walked a little farther out of the shadows and her white eyes turned into a very pretty greenish blue color. When she stopped in front of me I finally asked "Why do you torment me every night in that dream?" She gave me a strange look "We do not torment thou that is ludicrous!" Ok yeah old timey accent confirmed, "Thou must be referring to the simulation it is a fancy spell that we use to test thou." Yep just getting more confusing by the second and that accent doesn't help, so I just stared blankly and give her a "What?" look. She just sighs and looks me dead in the eye and says "Our time is up we must go but know this, thou art more important than thou knows stay strong Jay" and with that she begins to fade out of existence. I shout "Wait, I don't get it what is this about! Why am I important!? What are you?" but she was gone.
With a shake I shoot up and look around to find… my room how quaint. I groan and wonder why now of all times was a good time to go insane I mean I am only halfway through high school and my brain just decides to go off the deep end. I jump when I hear *BZZZT*BZZZT* stupid alarm I smack it and say don't you start talking back to me to. Great now I get to go to the O so great concept of high school. I roll out of bed and throw on my shorts and T-shirt before clomping down the stairs and start the morning routine of eating some random breakfast item and slowly coming alive to face the crappy version of school that the gov't seems to think is so effective.
I grab my keys and wallet before saying my goodbyes to my parents (Iz isn't awake yet) and heading out to my car. I drive off to make the one stop of the school day, at my friend's house. His name is Nick I am not going to lie he is quite weird, he is about 5'11" he has curly brown hair and dresses like he gives no shits about what you think, which is kind of true as far as school goes. He is an avid gamer and lives and breathes for the reason that there will be videogames at the end of the day. I'm not sure how this adds up to what it does but he is kind of a ladies man while at the same time he doesn't even try to be, this pisses me off to no avail but I digress.
I pull up to his house and honk, he stumbles out of his house looking like he just woke up, which he probably just did. "Sup bitch" he says when he gets in," Not much dickhead." I reply we both grin and I tear off down the street on our way to the hellhole we call school.
When we get there we both walk up to the school, but I stop before we go in, I take a deep breath worrying I'm going to have a breakdown in the middle of the school. Nick looks at me kind of funny and says "You ok? You've been acting kind of weird lately." I turn to him and say "What are you a doctor?" he just grunts in reply and we go inside. After we get our junk thrown in our lockers, making rude jokes the entire way, we stop in the cafeteria and sit down where One of my other friends, Sage, (Yes it's a girl) pulls up a chair takes one look at us and says"Sup, dudes" we both look at her with a strange look and she kind of squirms under our gazes but is saved by the bell ringing.
I'm just going to skip over the majority of the day as it is high school and it is dam boring and I could drone on and on about all my grviences about it but that would be a different story all together. So, I will jump forward to the only interesting part of the day that made my blood boil.
It was during lunch when I heard the clattering of a tray being knocked out of someone's hands and I turned to find Josh, the school bully and meathead, laughing at a freshman who has obviously done something to piss him off. I walk over and join the slowly growing crowd around the two boys and hear "Are you sure you don't want to help me with my homework freshie?" the kid on the ground just shakes his head not wanting to speak for fear of crying. Josh just shakes his head "Pathetic" he says and delivers a thundering kick to the kid's stomach, I notice Nick has joined the crowd and looks at me and I nod. I walk up to Josh "Hey calm down." Josh, now hyped up on the rush of bullying just yells "You want to be next big man!?" I just stare him down and say "I wouldn't." he takes this as a challenge and comes at me looking to deliver a punch similar to the one that downed the freshie only to find that I wasn't there as I had already sidestepped not wanting to get in trouble I just push him down and say "Stay down I don't feel like getting suspended." And walk away.
On the ride home Nick again asks me if I'm ok, but I just nod my head and turn the music up louder "I hate felling like this, I'm so tired of trying to fight this…" The rest of the ride is silent except for the music "I don't want to sleep, I don't want to dream!" when we get to his house he sighs and says "See ya later dumbass." "Later bitch" and off I went back to my house.
Later…
*Thwack* I hit the bag with a jab *Thwack*Thwack* jab cross, I see the freshie down on the ground and with a shout I deliver a crashing roundhouse that slams the bag to the floor. I sigh and pick up the bag and set it straight again, someone clears their throat and I turn to see my mom behind me "Something you want to talk about?" she says. "No." I reply continuing to drill some punches into the bag "You sure?" she says. "Yes." I know my vocabulary is enormous right? "Well if you do I will be making dinner." With that she walked off to do just that leaving Izzi behind. Izzi just stood there and gave me a look "What?" I said "You're hiding something, I'm going to find out what." And with that she walks off to do just that. I sigh, she is too smart for her own good. I turn and finish my drills my heart not really in it anymore.
A little bit later I finish up and go upstairs passing by my mom who is making dinner, enchiladas, and go up another set of stairs before stripping off my clothes and getting in the shower. I let out yet another sigh as the hot water works the knots out of my muscles… hey if I'm not in an insane asylum yet the day went better than I expected. With a rueful smile I get out and turn the water off before toweling off throwing some clothes on and heading downstairs already smelling the enchiladas awaiting.
Half of a very filling hour later I say my goodnights and go up to my room and boot up the trusty laptop I have. I go through the various emails I have and do some web surfing before settling on some YouTube. Sometime later I feel my eyes start to close and I fight it off, but it is a losing battle and after I fight it off for a short period before it finally claims me.
I become aware of myself again and find myself aware once again in that limbo in the night sky and even though I have seen it before I have to admit it is still captivating. This time I am not so surprised when I hear someone behind me say "Welcome back." I turn and find the other horse that had been tormenting me in my sleep, she was slightly bigger than the previous night's one but was relatively the same except the color pattern. She was white and had a rainbow mane and tail the tattoo on her flank was a sun hmm, "I guess you are the opposite of last night." I remark, she just smiles and gives a chuckle "That I am, but I do not have time to make small talk, you will have to make your choice soon." She says her voice motherly and regal in contrast to her horse body. I just give her the now standard "What?" look and she just shakes her head and smiles "You will find out when you wake." She says in that soft voice, I just continue to give that confused look and she just stares at me before turning away and walking away shaking me into action "Wait!" I shout she just keeps walking "What, do you mean by when I wake!" I yell but she just keeps walking, I try to give chase but it seems like I am moving through corn syrup, and with a flash of light she's is gone "Great." Surprisingly I don't jolt awake right after she leaves and while this is great and all it sets my teeth on edge as it seems that I am trapped in the clutches of sleep now instead of it avoiding me.
Quickly enough I am shook out of my stupor by a shudder within the dreamscape, it repeats before I feel something I would call it someone walking over my grave and it worries me even more, but soon enough the dream shakes itself apart but not before I hear her words again "You will have to make your choice." I shoot awake in my bed gasping for air, my eyes shoot around the room scanning for danger. Once sure the room was safe I relaxed and settled in ready to return to the clutches of sleep I get that same feeling, that walking over my grave feeling, and I shudder and just as I do a scream pierces the eerie calm of the house, it was Izzi.
Well another week another chapter I will keep it up if anyone can name the song I will put you in the intro and you get to add your own character to the story, but anyway what do you think? Am I doing good or not? I need feedback I feel like I'm doing it right but I am not sure. Also sorry for any errors as I am finishing this on the ride home from a football game so it might be a little rough as it is quite bumpy. I am thinking of making this a Bi-Weekly thing as I am working on other stories so don't be surprised if it takes a while for the next for reading see you when I see you -TNB