(Sarah)
I slowly drifted into a void of nothingness and a voice shocked me awake.
“Telekinesis, the production of motion on objects with no physical contact or interaction.”
The only feeling I had was pure unbearable pain.
The first and only thought that I was able to process, was the absolute pain that accompanied me. Aswell a loud buzzing feeling between my ears that formed itself into words. Like a freezing cold scalpel, it went through my brain and cut it into pieces for inspection and rearrangement.
“Telekinesis, the production of motion on objects with no physical contact or interaction.”
Pain, absolute unimaginable pain. The buzzing pain wreaked havoc on my body? Body? Where was my body? As I tried to feel around I realized I felt nothing. Absolutely nothing.
‘How is that possible? I had legs and arms and everything else I was supposed to right? Then why couldn’t I feel anything?’
Fear struck me as I tied to move my non-existent head I felt increasingly worried and terrified I reached around hopelessly as I couldn’t feel anything. I couldn’t see or feel anything. Bone-chilling terror waved through me as I was unable to do anything as the vestiges of the buzzing voice lingered in me slowly the pulsing pain in my being started to die down. All I could sense was pure pitch black, an endless void and all-encompassing darkness. No floors, no ceilings, just nothing….
Shockingly I realized I could sense something. It was the buzzing of the voice lingering in the back of my head. It didn’t help calm me down.
The buzzing of my torturer's voice.
What will happ-
The voice spoke again pain wreaked across me, the voice sounded as if multiple pitches of buzzing came together into an orchestra and were trying to communicate with you and it somehow formed words.
“Do you acknowledge?”
The pain was the only feeling I got while the voice was communicating. The part that was still me was in absolute disabling pain as I tried to scream ineffectually. Slowly the buzzing let up letting me form thoughts. Every second the voice talked it was agonizing mind blinding pain.
‘YES! Please stop the pain!’ Barely conscious I formulated a response.
Like cold water it washed over me, everything was silent the voice’s loud buzzing like a switch turned off. It was deafeningly silent….
As seconds or eternities pass I realized the only company I had was the voice, the void became even darker around me. As seconds or eternities passed, nothing moved and the void become even darker.
The buzzing had stopped, and the voice was silent.
As I Re-orientated myself I opened my non-existent eyes and tried to adjust to the pitch-black void. I was terrified beyond belief as my last memories before this hell hit me.
I was pointing to a guy in a yellow t-shirt as everything started to spin the world was slowly swallowed into darkness from the edges of my vision. As I turned my head towards Ms Sophia I saw her staring back at me holding her hand up to her chin deep in thought looking back at me. I felt my legs giving out and then my perspective fell, the last vestiges of my vision was Ms Sophia rushing toward me, she was screaming something I keep wondering what it might be….
Within the deafening silence, I was panicking. Reliving my last memories.
‘Where am I?!’ ‘What is happening to me?’ ‘What was that voice?’
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‘I know I was last in biology class doing a presentation so how am I here now in this void, and what was that weird voice talking to me? It said something about telekinesis.’
What was happening to me? I don’t know, I was afraid to ask the voice the pain was completely unbearable. What was that voice? It sounded otherworldly, did I get abducted by aliens?
I don’t know how much time had passed it might have been hours, days it might be even seconds that have passed.
What was happening, I was in a black void with no escape. Well, what a great existential terror to occupy me. What was that weird buzzing voice?
It was saying something about Telekinesis. Did Aliens abduct me to lecture me about telekinesis? Well better than listening to Ms Sophie’s biology lecture. Wait a second I was thinking about telekinesis before passing out right? Yes, I was is that related somehow? I wonder.
Now how could I get out of here and back to my normal life? I really don’t want to be stuck in this void any longer I was already barely keeping it together with occupying myself with these questions and banter.
Seemingly with no other options, I tried probing the voice ‘Hello can you hear me?’
I waited and nothing happened. Did it abandon me here? The thought made worry grow in me. Hurriedly I said ‘Let me out I don’t want to stuck here!’
Was I stuck here? Forever alone in pitch a black void with no escape?
I tried asking the voice again ‘Please let me out I don’t want to be stuck in here!’
Like deja-vu I felt the buzzing of the voice come back in waves stronger and stronger before all I could think about was the voice again. The buzzing slowly turned into words and said
“Acknowledged”
What? the next moment I feelt myself losing consciousness dark seeping into my vision which makes no sense… How could…. dark..ness…..take…over….my….visio-
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Just as suddenly I woke up in a bed in a hospital. I took a look around and see that there was a blonde lump to my left there was also something warm holding my left hand. Wondering what it might be I lifted my hand up and it was the blonde lump’s hand.
Inspecting the blonde lump it turned out it was my mom, she was wearing a short skirt with a black jacket and white blouse she was quite good looking I would’ve said above average she was about 165cm tall. Her hair was tied up into a ponytail. I could see her face was covered with ruined mascara all over her face, and a wave of guilt passed through me about what my mother must have gone through.
My mother was probably worrying the life out of herself for me, I lightly shook her warm hand that seemed to rouse her, she immediately stared at me and for a second didn’t seem to realize that I was waking her.
The second she realized I was awake she hug tackled me as we almost fell out of the bed.
In the hug of my mother, all the memories from my dream came back to me, I started hyperventilating and freaking out. I was in a full panic attack. My mom seemed to realize this and started to caress my back with her hands “shhh it’s alright I’m here Sarah.” she lightly said into my shoulder.
“What happened?” I asked after managing to calm down a little bit.
“You collapsed in class,” Mom said, processing what she said slowly things started falling into place. I collapsed in class and then was transported to that void.
Still, I couldn’t understand what that dream was about. What that weird voice was telling me about telekinesis? I never had dreams so that was really disturbing for me, I heard about sleep paralysis before but it didn’t seem to match. I thought so at least.
Mom squeezing me harder threw me out of my thoughts, I probably won't tell mom about my dream I don’t want to worry her even more. As if collapsing wasn’t worrying enough.
After we both calmed down we were able to manage to call the nurses.
The nurses were quite shocked as well that I was awake just a day after falling unconscious they thought I was in a deep coma as well.
The nurses in light red called Doctor Mckenzie to check on me. I was wondering how he might have looked when a doctor dressed in dark red doctors overalls stepped inside holding a notepad and a pen and scribbling something down. He was intimidatingly tall almost hitting 2 meters with broad shoulders, if he wasn’t wearing his doctor overalls I wouldn’t guess he was a doctor he was built more like a bodybuilder.
“Quite the fast recovery, congratulations Ms Peyton.” He said in between his incessant scribbling.
My mother lightly thanked the doctor and after a few more tests that the Doctor did on me, I was discharged and could head home.
Mom hailed a light blue taxi and we managed to make it home without anything happening.
Our house was an average family house with a light blue roof like all the houses around ours. The walls were an average grey colour and the only different colour were the entrances which were all white like our front door and garage.
The front door had a homely garden with a few red and yellow flowers in it. We had a small concrete path leading up to our white door, inside our home after the white door was a hallway with a small entrance area to store our coats, shoes and keys. Leading out of the hallway to the right was a stairway to the first floor.
The ground floor had a living room, kitchen, dining room, and bathroom where we had our washing machines for our clothes. On the first floor, there were 3 rooms one for me, one for my mom and another was for my dad.
As we made it inside our house mom said “Sarah you are taking off the week.”
Shocked I said “What?! No, I want to go to university”
“No, not after what happened I don’t want to lose you as well.” said seriously mom.
That shuts me up I stared at her guiltily, I must have really scared her to act this way.
“Fiiine,” I said in defeat.
It will be a pain to catch up with the lectures. At least I will have more time to binge-watch a series. It was one of my guilty pleasures. Thinking about it it might be a good idea to take some time off I still need to process what happened in my dream. If it even was a dream.
“I’m going to my room!” I said to mom throwing a smile her way.
She looked at me and lightly nodded and went off to do mom things.
I walked up the stairs to my room opening the door my room greeted me. My room wasn’t that impressive it had the bare minimum I like the way a nice and tidy room feels with no messes. I had a white wardrobe, with everything neatly tucked into their respective place. a nicely made bed with a white frame, light blue covers and a white blanket with some white pillows lazily put on it.
I had a study desk with writing supplies and some neatly tucked-away drawers.
I decided I had enough adventure today and went into my bed quickly changing into my pyjamas and hoping I wouldn’t be thrust into that nightmare again I feel asleep.