"I am Natay"

I was conscious, even in my dreams, I could see everything without a problem.

I know it's a dream, always has been, seeing a kid walking, overtime that kid became a boy and at last became a teenager who is closer to being an Adult, I know the road he is walking, I have walked down on it every day for the last 2 years in my reality, yet it feels alien to me, every time I walk on this road in my delusions. This dream... I have seen it dozens of times since I turned 17 yet every time I see it, I feel like it's different than before, I don't...I can't understand it at all.....Ahh, it's funny how I can hear my thoughts while looking at my back from afar.

As I was looking at that teenager I realized something was truly different than before, the sky which had always been the blue sky of the morning was now filled with crimson red, I could hear the scream of crows something which isn't normal nowadays but that body was still walking ahead without looking at that terrifying crimson sky or the land... "The Land! When did it? When did it get engulfed with flames? With these black flames!".

Maybe because of not understanding anything, I felt more scared than I usually would or maybe it was because I couldn't control my own emotions in my dreams, I kept on going behind my own back, and I was confused "How am I walking? I can't feel my legs nor I can see my very own body, it's as if I am just eyes that are supposed to follow my back.

After a while, I realized I was close to the institute where I study for my college entrances, I knew this time dream was about to end, there was nothing after this, it has always been like that, I was relieved to know that this dream is about to end as always but from afar I heard cries, cries of a kid, He shouldn't be more than 1 year old by his looks yet he was engulfed with flames, his hand, and head were in flame, his eyes were enough to tell me how much he is suffering by every passing moment. I wanted to help but I couldn't, at last I tried to speak to my own self.

I screamed "Can you come and help this kid? He is seriously suffering a lot", I had no idea why I didn't call out for my own name but luckily he turned back, I was relieved that he could save him but when I looked at his face, all I saw was a grin, a sinful grin which made me uncomfortable as well and I stopped looking at him just to see skeletons of human beings.

As I looked away from him, he shortened the distance between us in just a moment, almost as if he was never that far from me, after looking at how frightened I was he said "I could help him but what would you do for me?

At this point, I knew I would wake up but I still asked "What is it? Where am I? Why is it happening? How can I even think of something like this in my dreams? Is it really just a dream?"

I was finally awake, my hands were sweaty so were my clothes, as I woke up I checked my phone to see the time and it was just 6:33 am which was impressive for someone like me, as I finished panicking I went to have a walk but deliberately avoided the route which ends up to my Institute with buying few other things as well. I came back and put them in the refrigerator and then I went to wake up my sister who works in a normal software company to cook something for our family.

"Oi, Alon, just wake up already, it's about to be 9 am" while trying to find a metal song on her phone, but I suddenly heard her questioning me.

"It's about to be 9? Why did you not wake me up? Come and help me make the Breakfast"

"And what would I get for helping you with it? Go and do it yourself or I will tell our Mother about it"

"As if you could do that, it's about to be 9, and if you don't help no way we can be done before 9:30." upon hearing it, I realized she still believes that it's about to be 9 but in truth it's not even 8 properly, well I guess I could play along for some time.

"Ugh, ok I would help you but only if you drop me at my institute today" Maybe it was because I was still scared of that dream that I didn't want to go there alone.

"Nuh uh, go by yourself, your institute is in a different direction from my company, YOU WANT ME TO BE LATE??", upon realizing it, I wanted to tell her that I lied about the time but I was getting more and more scared to see her getting more frustrated and I ended up shutting my mouth for the good.

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"Why are you spacing out for? Ughhhh Anyways go and wake them up, they need to eat as well or.....Did they already make breakfast themselves and leave?", after saying this, I could see her being depressed and her posture getting more and more worse.

"I am going to wake up them, they were sleeping just 40 minutes ago, you do the dining", I left to bring my parents for breakfast but soon I stopped and screamed from the stairs "Make Tea too" with a joyful expression. I might not be able to see her expression but I know for sure that she has seen the time by now and seriously wants to kill me, well where's the fun if I don't have such people in my life?

After a while, I brought my parents with me to the dining table and my sister started to attack me with some foreign language which I assumed to be French, but I am always been bad with my guesses so it would be German for sure while I started to serve them tea then my sister told our father to give me some sort of punishment and everyone waited to hear his decision.

I could see her grin from the place while I was being pretty nonchalant about this whole thing, at last, our father was about to give his judgment. As both my mother and sister were eagerly waiting for his judgment I knew what would be the answer for it. After looking at everyone he closed his eyes and after making everyone wait, all he did was to sip for tea again.

While waiting to hear anything, he sipped again. While looking at my sister's frustration, he sipped again. And after a while, he said, "Well I am leaving". I could see my sister's blank expression of confusion, of course, she didn't know about our father's new habits because she wasn't with us in college.

"Anyways sis looks like no one likes you enough to care about ANYTHING you say haha", I laughed at her face and went to get ready to go to my institute.

I asked my father to drop me off at my institute and he agreed to it. I asked my father to drop me off before I got to my institute as the car we were in was quite expensive and I didn't want to get called "filthy rich" or anything like that and he agreed to it.

At last, I was back on the route "Well, now I will just have to ask someone to drop me off close to my home" As I walked down the road, I saw a child....a child as old as the one in my dreams which made me really uncomfortable but he was full of brightness and I sat down and played with him for a bit since I was indeed quite early.

After I reached there I had my eyes rolled to find someone important, as my friend saw it he said "Sucks to be you, she isn't here yet" while sighing.

"I wasn't looking at anyone in general you know, there are a lot of girls who are pretty so whatever you meant was straight up wrong, I was giving glances to everyone", of course, it was a lie but I am quite a con man so I believed it would work to some extend to my surprise, he did accept it quite easily.

Our Classes start at 9:30 and we still had 3 minutes before the classes would start, everything was fine till now, until, I heard a voice which wasn't very audible to my ears. As I rolled my eyes again, I found myself alone in that room, I was scared but more than I was scared of that dream.

"What happened to others? And why are you doing this? All of my fears were surfacing on my face yet I had some courage to speak and ask that voice back.

"Well, they are my captives as of this moment, and the reason I am doing this? Maybe because you are interesting to me or maybe I want something from you, whatever you believe would become the answer, isn't this thrilling?" his laughs were sending chills to my bones but I had an intuition that he didn't want to harm me just yet,

"Okay, whatever you say, I will agree with it, how about that? So please, can we talk about this?" I had this small leap of hope that he would talk to me no matter what, upon finishing my words, I could see an existence with beautiful features appear before me.

"I love how cooperative you are, I am Karav Rein", he started twisting his neck a little which might be quite an eyesore for girls.

"It's nice to meet you, Natay"