6. The Mysterious Home

'I can't seem to breathe... about... the end of the world...'

'...'

Why...? Why was there something...?

Why do I get the feeling that something was very unwell by my own heart? Why... was there a case that I heard a sudden whisper in my head saying about some case of the end of the world at... stake? The end of the world... What could that be about, yet my heart was unsure as to why it was sad and fragile inside alone. What's wrong with me, deep within my heart? Why does my heart seem so sad about something strange within... a far distant like... future unknown within the dark? At least, while my eyes are blackout in eyes close. What is this?

Silence.

Just muted silence within the atmosphere...

'...'

'What is this exactly?' I grunted in thought as I regain composure, getting up slowly. 'What is this exactly that I heard a question through... time itself? Time... What could be the case about "time"? What could time tell me... and what lies ahead for me... by fate? But why... must fate be at talk for my case? Why must I go about something with fate... and a fill in the blank that seems not yet discovered by trace?'

I opened my eyes, but still... it was like a second unknown like black still. I was not surprised at this as I stared straightly at the realm of darkness before me. I narrowed my eyes and scratched my head in loss. I was puzzled upon the realm that clouded like... for I felt like something deep down was missing within. Was it a puzzle? Something to solve and a mystery to unfold?

"I couldn't deny there was a case that could be that..." I mumbled alone, flashing the torchlight slowly upward. "...unknown, but I knew something was strange and a missing question within..."

I was going to leave sooner, but then...

...A light flashed fast paced before my eyes and by seconds...

... an eye was seen by light.

"Ugh!" I shielded my arm against the glow before my face. "What the heck...! I can't see a thing...!"

'Ugh... It's very bright in my eyes! How could I see a thing from that eerily glow?'

"Er..."

The glow started making a loud vibration that crashed to my ears. Darn it! I can't seem to clamp my hands to block my hearing, not with the flashlight in my hand and the charted map! I can't stand that...! That sound! It's getting worst to my ears! I can't resist and prevent the sound any further...

I was struggling through its high pitch volume as it continues and I was going at knees, forcing myself to close my eyelids tightly firm. The feeling of the flashlight at hand was starting to slip in sweat. It's getting difficult to manage and I can't hold onto it anymore... It was numbing my fingers from grasping hold of the flashlight as it was deafening its ring throughout the atmosphere like gas realm.

'Darn it... I would lose my hearing from its sound. The ringing... How could it stop? How could it stop and...!'

I kneeled my legs, tightening my whole body with my ears blocked together in effort. 'It's getting difficult to stand more of this... I didn't want the light to blind me... and yet, how long could I manage to fight the...?! Damn! Darn it, that sound... I'm not sure how much I can withstand and prevent myself from listening its twinkle... It's enforcing me hard to...! I can't manage to gain my composure and focus while its whitening before my sight. I feel like I'll...!'

...

"...?"

Huh? What the...? I paused, letting go of the map and light in slippery wet palms. I lowered downward my sweater sleeve arm in caution with a narrow scowl upon its clouded like mist. I checked my hand to the left and scanned my hand carefully. 'Did I get a cut? Well, hopefully, I...'

I pressed my palm to each finger in check, pressuring it in tight squeeze. I then hissed a little when I caught the source. My pinky, the smallest and thinnest finger has received one, but hopefully... I'll... mend my sting like tip. I stood up, revealing my sight back to focus upon the less solar like air, replacing it back to the black again.

I blinked as I analyzed it in lost wonder. 'Gee, and I thought it'll last longer... and I'll suffer through it a lot. I thought it was going to drown me, and it was going to last, but... just when I thought it'll last... the ringing in my earlobes... unexpectantly stopped in a pause... but with a case, it didn't matter. It stopped like I wish.'

I walked upfront slowly in loss. I wonder if it was... something within the flash. To what, I am not sure that sincerely. To whatever it was exactly, it caused a bad vibration deafly against my ears... and I felt like I... I paused from my thought like trail... as my eyes blanked out in a zone out. Why do I... get the feeling that I... received something unknown to my...? Um... I slowly took an action to raise my hand to gently touch a spot that was hidden within the upper part close to my hair. I tapped it softly, bit my lip, and hissed in agony that I was small in pain. 'It feels like there was something burnt fried up to my head, but why though... is that so? Did I... developed a certain... question mark unknown because of... the light... itself?'

My head felt like it fizzed unknown from having to developed... Yet, to how it was marked in, it seems so a plain mystery why... Why do I get the feeling I know it in advance... at least, how I got it from the logic of itself? I felt like... I traced the floor in order to have it transferred its star particles upon my forehead, but doing the puzzle was not a plain ordinary case from what... I've done alone. I'm not sure as to simplify or explain the matter how it was so, but I felt that deep down in my own heart that there was an answer that was in a realm difference... black unknown inside my own head... while I was... blanked out on feet.

Yet, was it a vision unknown? A sort of unknown realm... dream like state? It was fast forward and puzzling... for it was in speed to know what... just happened earlier in five seconds.

Did I blackout, and yet, also... solved a puzzle question that was extremely fast paced?

It's like I experience something that was film reeled... Yet, come to think of it, was it really that I entered through... a dimension that send me to a place that was not predicted to be? It wasn't expectant about the flash, yet I can't disregard the fact that a dark surface in the depths of my mind was the first that registered my thoughts alone. I knew I must have done something, but to what, was quick and fast lane forward in a close. I'm trying to remember how it goes, but it was too soon and fast forward like speed.

I closed my eyes and breathed hard. What happened in the memory earlier in seconds as to where I was, was unknown and yet, it seems easy explanatory how I got its marking... Yet do I know the marking alone? If I recall slowly, maybe I know how it goes.

I felt like I zoned at first, but then...

I realized, I wasn't alone afterwards...

-o-

'What? It's them again... But why...?'

"We can't help it, but why are you so blanked out alone like that?"

"Huh?" I then... opened my eyes... to a man unknown front. That was what happened earlier that was sped fast. "Who are...? Oh."

I brought myself into a mute. Wasn't the same guy I met earlier before I was gone away from them?

He spoke at me, saying in a hoarse and grave tone. "Pardon me, but are you alright? You seem output. Why so?"

"I um..." I was lost in words. Why do I get the feeling my thoughts are organized through time itself?

'It figures... The book must have...'

There was an echo thought alone that wasn't saying... I was lost anymore.

I place my hand to my forehead, feeling to stay muter at this. There was something with my talk... but... Was I actually trying to think well as I wonder to journal through this? Ah, that's right... Earlier, I couldn't say about a sad little story I know about a rectangle black unknown. It was visualized in thought... but I was not pleased it did not want me to say what it was.

'It must have scrambled me, my head in time alone in thought...' I riddled within the inside of the journal that laughs at this. 'What am I? A laughingstock? Shit it! Whatever...'

It was not nice as to why I was scrambled in thought alone in my beginnings already, but I was not saying I will not remember this after it'll be solved through the case help of time. I was frustrated through time alone, and I don't deny something was offline about me, as well as my talk alone. How can this be that I was going to be mad at this... later on in the future?

"Hello... You okay?" I looked up at his face again, the man in stylish like clothes. I wasn't sure what to define how stylish it is though... and plus, I was not sure his name yet.

I scratched the side of my head in conundrum. I was little still fried alone in thought and wanted to focus all the same. 'Besides, I didn't want to get rude about a person's talk after all. Does he know, and even...?'

I switch my attention to another that approached towards me, a girl in question in glasses. She seems rather new to meet, but I'm trying to organize my head still about my talk alone. She immediately spoke out, "So, who's he?"

"Umm..." I gave out in a mutter, lost in wonder as to who she is as well. 'I'm not sure about who is she by name though as well next to him still. Will I know about who they are in time after all? Who are they and are they friends, already knowing each other?'

"So, what's you? Do you have a name? Um... Sir?" She spoke slowly, must be wondering if I'm okay... maybe though. "Who are you? You okay? You seem lost... alone. Why though... is it that so?"

'Please answer us...' They said in unknown talk like it echoed what they thought.

I blinked at this statement. Could it be themselves... at least, their talk in thought was the source? It was not surprising, and it wasn't phasing me, not even a little.

'I wonder if they do the same... like I,' I analyzed carefully and slowly, lost in thought as to who they are still. 'If only I know what's their name... soon... maybe for now, I shouldn't ask... for maybe it might be rude. I know my name, but will I know in check why when I'm developed more at birth? Do I know what's wrong in my thought alone? I'm not messed up that much, but I'm just struggling and in time to try remembering my life in the future. But to where was my future, it's unknown alone, but... I'll find out sometime, if I know if I'll ever know the answer as to where in the timeline later after this.'

"Gee, you seem less offline in time..." She said slowly, scowling hard. "Why were you exactly? Pardon me, but you... seem scared about your life."

I narrowed my eyes in a scowl as well. 'What the...? What would she know about my timeline as I zoned out for hell? Am I in peril again... like I thought in dread and in fear? Will I think in time if it's the worst premonition I ever sensed alone forevermore? I can't deny this was not meant to be when I sensed that as I was sad at this. Not this...'

"Hey, don't zone out. Are you okay?" She spoke urgently. "You seem harassed."

My inside couldn't take it anymore as in time I spoke this sadly unknown like I'll recall this in an unknown question typing to register as to why and what happened to my head like I was solved. 'They didn't want me to hide... anymore, maybe... Do they?'

'Can't deny this though...' I thought in my head to add in a close.

They shook their head at this, and they know I shouldn't hide at all and never take it back. But why must it be sadly that way later to me in life when I get older?

"Hey, don't fret... You know, I thought so alone you were not talking why if you... exist as well. But please, it's not us that talked that... Okay?"

I couldn't help, but nod at this in agreement... for I could tell it was truly a sad, meant to be in honesty.

'The girl was right at this,' I thought miserably. 'This cannot be good... as to why I'm a victim. No fair.'

They begin to sniffle like they know better that it was too late about something small in time. I was not pleased at this, and I was in utter disappointment as to why it was futile and hopeless about... the tragedy at will that was enforced by the life itself.

"Please... Don't tell," they in stated inside their hearts. "Don't tell why we did so. It's not fair, we know."

They couldn't help but cry unknown... and it wasn't saying it was what was thought from me. I wasn't sure if it was in disappointment, but I was total in devastation and in horror about my own life. I wanted to cry slowly, for I knew was in immortal danger from the start unknown and it was not fair after all.

In short terms, our talk was offline as we cannot say everything was well, and in fast pace, we were rather offish in the beginning already.

And so... It was one second, we said in quick discussion, and perhaps short...

"Don't cry... We're sorry. Okay?" She assured sadly to me. It might be something I might not forget once... the book released it completely in the future in the end. "Okay, here... See you, okay? In time?"

They add this to sniffle again. For the knew it was the finale end in future time as to why I was less what I used to be. I couldn't deny it was already so.

In quick flash, I made a symbol by trace to dot small to middle in the center and circled to tap the tip of my converse sneaker to enclose arcs of two to create an...

-o-

"...an eye symbol."

"I remember... but I knew it was fast," I mumbled to myself, but regain my focus upon the black that now shows the match like symbol that seems reflected out upfront of me. I paced towards the eye that symbolled bright before my eyes. "Hey... What is this? Is that what I think? The puzzle about the black?"

'Could this be something after all? A hint?'

The moment I spoke about this was even a twist that was not going to be forgettable in my memories maybe straightly when in time I wonder this... entrance alone. This was the introduction about a home that was not saying until sometime I was not in future. It was expecting in time when so, was sad soon found out note. At least, from the echoes and what was sense through the air like realm in black as I entered pass through the door that was mysterious. I couldn't talk why about it to them until next time, is what the door stated the moment I touched on first time. It couldn't tell me why... but I rather in disappoint and sadden at this news, but... unknown a little outside a sense heart however if that was the check I found out why I cannot on first sign. I was rather sad to be alone, but... to discover something new was not saying my heart was getting miserable for long... at least, in short for now. I was rather lost in wonder about things that were inside the first part in the entrance of a room, is what advanced registered by thoughts on my own... for I cannot deny it was a question to explore what this is.

"I can't believe what this is," I raised my flashlight to scan the room of its arcs and... its less dusted like... curtained objects. "I wonder why... if someone knows why... I was..." I paused from looking... for I saw a question blink in purple. Was that a vision of someone unknown? "What was that?" I gave out... when... I saw the flash from a question the projected from my Millennium Eye.

I even blinked at lost what was the symbol I'll know and what was heard unknown in a question timeline in whispers although it was faint as well. The whispers were representing that it was lost unknown and not labeled in time, but I knew it was something like that in immediate advance. I couldn't say no or deny this about what was heard in my ears alone and I can't help that I'm always that result anyway.

'I must be used to being alone already in the start, but what am I if I feel lonely? Maybe because my heart broke in two already at birth and not a good start for a beginning, like I thought and said in note alone on journal page. It's not like I never knew my talk though for I was careful and always caution to my words... Maybe... not everything said I was that at change later on but only got older in time.'

As I swing my way from left to right after thinking and unknown speaking about my reflects in the journal in a pause, I searched high and low in pickup with the use of my flashlight in hand, once again to scan carefully in exploration in awe.

"It seems interesting to explore unknown about these objects and the room itself... and I wonder what they were, yet I wish... I will be well."

There was then a great thump sound in the echo of the room... at least, a side like entrance like other beside the first... I was in. I shined the light towards the next door of it, another mystery like question within the wall on the left.

I realized this was not the only one.

"To how much is the exploration to this was still a puzzlement to me, but to why, I never thought so... but I cannot help my heart, but to wonder how far it goes."

This was when I came for the stoplight for you alone and the sign that you reach the end of the chapter and... to be continued until another time. See you.

[To be continued...]