After I finished the laundry, the creepy camera came back, and my mom said “Hi honey! I see that you’ve finished the laundry, and your TV remote batteries are in the garage!”

“GARAGE?” “Yes, the garage! Why do you sound so surprised?”

“I thought you didn’t like the garage in our house.” “That is the exact reason I put them there. I knew you would never look in the garage.” “Ugh, let me just get the batteries and let me watch the TV in peace.”

When I looked in the garage, the batteries weren’t there. I was confused, my mom said that the batteries would be in the garage, so I went and asked my creepy camera, and my mom started laughing so much.

“Haha!"

The whole battery thing was fake! It was all to get you to do your chores! I have all of your batteries in the back of the car!” I got so angry I kicked and punched the camera. It turns out that I shouldn’t have done that, because it’s made out of solid steel, really thick steel.

I don’t think anything can break that. The only thing that broke was my hands and feet.

What should I do now? Just sit there and do nothing? I tried to find any form of technology, but there wasn’t any. I figured I’d just sleep in my bed until they came. That was my best idea, sleeping. When I went onto my bed I fell asleep before my head hit the pillow. I was so tired.

That night while I was sleeping, I suddenly heard a door open and some talking. It was my mom and dad! I immediately went downstairs to punish my mom because she hid every item of technology in the house and lied about the battery thing.

I said “Mom! What is this?! You hid everything, why?” “ You needed to sleep, which is why I did this. And I did actually put a phone under your bed pillow!” “What? All this time there was a phone in the house?”

“Yeah, of course, but don’t be sad, because we got a surprise for you!” “What surprise?” “Well, it won’t be a surprise if we tell you ;). You’ll have to see for yourself.”

“Can I see right now?” “No honey, it's your Christmas present.” “B-but that’s like 16 days away!” “Me and your father are always early birds!” Now what? When I was sleeping today, I heard some barking in our neighbor’s backyard. Our neighbor had a dog named Flesher, and it’s a very angry Rottweiler.

I guess it’s known in our neighborhood because of its really loud barking. Today the dog was really disturbed about something but I’m not really sure, is it some kinda food that we ate? Well, I did eat some chicken drumsticks though, but I don’t think the dog would be that interested in eating some chicken drumsticks.

I’m not a big chicken eater either, I always disliked chicken because they inject some weird chemical into it to grow big and taste good.

There’s this thing called country chicken, and chicken directly from the farm with no chemicals at all! One time I ate it and it tasted like heaven, yes I know I’m a pretty weird person.

When the dog’s barking stopped, I heard some kinda snake noise, “sssss….” which was really creepy. Suddenly I saw a big fat snake slither into my room!!! Luckily I’m a snake expert, and I could easily identify any snake, and the snake wasn’t venomous.

This is great, because I really don’t need a snake biting me while I’m trying to sleep! Wait… is this the surprise that my parents talked about? Well if it is, it’s the best surprise ever! But still, I’m not sure, it could be some snake that ran away from its home.

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I guess I have to keep it in a container until the morning, but how could I catch it? I’m just a snake expert, I mean I’m just good at identifying snakes not catching them! I could actually lure it with some meat though. But where could I find some meat? Believe it or not, I’ve never eaten any other meat than chicken.

Yes, it’s true I’ve never eaten any meat other than chicken, and I don’t even like chicken. Anyways, the house is stripped of meat, which means there's no meat in the house. So, I had no idea on how to catch it. Maybe I could just outrun it and trap it.

Actually yeah, that’s my only option right now, but I’ve seen lots of documentaries on people trying to catch a snake but have failed. You see, snakes are very smart, they have the brains and brawn, but no size. I guess the creator of the universe didn’t want to have snakes too big, otherwise they’d kill us all.

I had to sacrifice my cookie jar to capture the snake, so I took out all of my favorite cookies, Chocolate Chip, Sugar, Oatmeal Raisin, Caramel Delights and Nuts, I have a lot of favorites but anyway, I didn’t want to hurt the snake, but I had to.

I started off by just holding the snake with my foot, the snake hissed and hissed in pain. “Just a sec buddy!” After I captured it in my cookie jar, which is pretty disgusting, I checked the time to see what time it was. It was 6:30 am! Ugh, now what? I spent all my time going and capturing that mysterious snake. I thought I should try to sleep and wake up at 1:00 pm or something, so I did, and I woke up at 1:13 pm to find that the snake escaped!

Luckily my new camera with wheels recorded everything it saw, so I asked it, “Where did the snake go on April 5th, 2024 at midnight?”

“ Your snake used its ice breath and broke through your cookie jar and escaped. Then it used its teleportation powers and went to someplace I don't know. So sad.” said my camera. Suddenly I felt a shake in the earth, the earth was so shaky I slipped and fell to the ground.

Suddenly I saw my surroundings being taken over by a pitch black wall, and it was heading towards me. I braced myself for the black wall coming in to kill me. After the black wall took over me, I saw this loading sign saying, ready to be taken off. And then suddenly I got out of a cell, and on top of it said, welcome to the real world! There was a person walking and I asked him, where am I? “Oh, you're in the real world!”

“wait what? Real world?” “Yes. The real world.” “B-but how?” “Ever since you were born you’ve been living in a simulation of the world in 2024.” “Why?” “Because today our earth is destroyed by climate change. Our lands are going back to the deep ocean because of the North and South poles melting. People have found a pastime, being in the past.” “Oh,” I said. “So basically I was in a really realistic simulation all my life.

“Uh, yeah that sums it up pretty well.” “Well, what I’m I supposed to do now?” “You can go outside of the building and explore our world.” “Ok, see ya!” As soon as I stepped out of the building I saw one huge mega city!

They even had ice cream as big as a skyscraper! I have no idea why they did that but hey, if you're smart enough to make a simulation that looks just like real life, I guess you can also make very big ice cream. I don’t know when people will finish eating that!

I was really hungry and I really needed to sleep, so I decided to go to a hotel.

Luckily there was a good hotel right next to me. I opened the door and found this person playing some video games. It seems that people are still addicted to video games. “Uh hello?” I said. He didn’t even notice one bit. Wow, they’re this addicted. “Hello? Hello? Hello?”

“Hey dude… ya need something?” “Yes, I need a room.” “Do you want a… room with the ice cream skyscraper view?” “I guess.” “Cool, the price is 400 thousand dollars.” “400 THOUSAND DOLLARS?” “Uh yeah, dummy. This is the cheapest price you’ll find around here.”

Wow, the prices increased over lots and lots of years. “Uh hey, how about a 100% discount? I don’t have any money with me.” “Yeah sure, like I’ll ever give you a 100% discount.” I guess I need to earn some money. Suddenly I got an idea, since this guy is charging so much money for the hotel room, I could work for him and cash in! “Hey, can I actually work for you?” I said eagerly. “Hmm, let me think about this, ok sure, but if you follow the rules.” “How much is my income?”

I said even more eagerly. “1,000 a minute.” “Oh my god! That's a lot of money!” “What!? That’s one of the lowest salaries a person can get.” “That's enough for me at least.” “Wow, what a great worker! You’re one of my favorite workers!” “Gee… Thanks, I better get cleaning!”

When I went into the laundry room to do the laundry, I saw the biggest pile of dirty laundry you’ve and I've ever seen! Suddenly, the pile of big dirty laundry tipped over and it was falling fast on me! I didn’t know what to do, so I curled up in a ball shape and braced for impact!