Chapter Two Reality Altered

The next few days were normal, normal than my whole life. Maybe it was the silence before the storm. I was on my way to the class, something happened that made me to fall. I stood up and saw the students looking at me like a complete weirdo. Of course I was a weirdo, but that look was like they don't even know who I was. I walked to the class and sat. Jim, one of classmate came to me and asked "Hey, new guy" in an unusually polite way.

He was never like this before. Once he punched me in my face and I had to lie with Sam that I fell down. Everyone looked at me in the same way. I thought that I was dreaming for a while. I ran back to Sam. The café was having a great business that day. It wasn't a weekend and yet there many people than usual weekends. I walked to him and he was looking like one of the guys in class. "Jake, what happened?" he asked. For a moment I thought even Sam forgot about me. "Nothing" I said "Everyone in the class was pretending like I was a new student" there.

"What do you expect kid, you just joined the university" he said. Now, I was really freaking out. My face turned to all sort of colors. Has my reality changed? I ran back to my room. I sat on my bed thinking of everything that just happened. "Jake" someone called me. I turned around and saw my parents standing at the door. "What is happening?" I asked. "Your reality Jake" they said "It's altering" and walked to me. "What do you mean by its altering?" I asked. "The Nightmare Jake" they said. I was freaking out for a while and now, my Nightmare bullshit. "What do you mean by my nightmare?" I asked. "It's becoming your reality Jake" they said. The one thing I feared is about to come true and I was listening to my dream. Crazy things are really going on. But I realized that I was not dreaming this time. They came like a projection in my head. Sam came back and my projection's vanished into the thin air. "What has happened to you Jake?" he asked.

"Sam I was hiding something from you" I said. "I knew it" he shouted annoyingly. I was wondering what he would say. "You are into drugs, aren't you" he said. So I understood one thing. No matter the reality, Sam always suspects me that I've been into drugs. Great, at least one thing he would never change. I said him about what is happening to me. He sat down on his chair. "So you saw Juneau, you say" he said like he had some bad memories there. "My brother was an archeologist" he began "He had to go to Juneau for an expedition. He came back home earlier than he was supposed to. He started to have all weird shit going in his head" he said, walking towards the window.

"So what happened to him?" I asked. "He died" he said "I found you standing in the rain while I was returning back from funeral" and began to cry. I tried to soothe him. Someone knocked the door. I felt something is going to happen. Went and peeped through the keyhole. Some men were standing and holding gun in a man's pocket. Something like this happened before. I ran back to Sam and looked at him. "What's the matter kid?" he asked as he came out of his past. "Sam" I spoke out "Is there any fucking way out of this apartment?" looking for exits. "Language kid" he said "We are living here for the past ten years and you are asking me" to make fun of me. "I just said that reality has been altered, so you know about this place more than I do" I shouted. The men outside started to bang harder. "Who is banging the door Jake?" he asked making his way to the front door. "Men with guns" I said "You want to open it, be my guest" making fun of him, a tit for a tat. "There are rusty stairs from the balcony" he said. Well rusty stairs are better than death. We ran to it. The sky started to rumble. "It's going to rain�� Sam said. "Great, have you forgot to take out the laundry?" I asked. He saw at me with an aggravated look. It was seven in the evening and the city was glimmering with lights.

We ran to a police station. Sam knew someone there. I felt something again. We walked inside and Sam asked for Officer White. "He was supposed to be a doctor, right" I said. "You said that reality's being messed up" he said. Officer White came walking to us. "Hey Mr. White" I yelled. "It's Officer White, kid" he said. He looked at us like we were strangers. "Sam, are thinking the thing that I was thinking about" I asked. "Only one way to find" he said. Sam was about to say something and officer white interrupted him saying "Pardon me, but do you I know you guys?" he asked. I gave a sharp look at Sam. Sam kept a sorry face and said "William White, I am your friend" and White was not yet convinced. "Tell me something that only you would know" he said. Sam started to say some things that everyone knew about him. White was not yet convinced. "You are homosexual" Sam said. "Excuse me" White said as he gave a hard blow on Sam's face. The next minute, we were in a cell. Sam woke after a few minutes. "You should've kept quiet" I said.

"How would I know that reality's being messed up again?" he asked. I got a brilliant doubt. How come Sam was still not affected by altering? As I was thinking the lights went out. I saw my mom and dad. "When will these altering's stop?" I asked. "When you come close to the stone" they answered and vanished. The cops shouted as if they are being beaten up. A cop came and unlocked our cell, and said "Get out and get some help" running in the other direction. We ran to the exit. It was snowing outside. "It was supposed to rain right" Sam asked. "It was" I said as the alarm in the station went out ringing. Minute's later task force came and brought out the cops beaten up. We walked out of there. It was too cold to be outside so we ran to café.

"So where should we go?" Sam asked. "Juneau" I said.