The Letter

After being indecisive for a while,

*ring*

It's my second alarm telling me to go to work. Yet, I can't! I have to get to the bottom of this. I called in a favor for one of my friend, Kevin. I told him to help me cover my shift, and that I'd owe him one. Once I dealt with it, I crouched on the floor of the room. Just then, I heard a door opening and mom yelled out, "I'm off to work!" and the door slammed shut once more. That startled me.

After a few second, I looked at the floor of my room.

In the room, at one of the wooden planks, you could see a tiny gap that's just enough for a hand. If you put your hand in and lift it up, the wooden plank can be taken off, and there lies the letter I didn't want to read for so long.

I took it out, and finally opened the letter.

"If you read this, then I'm probably dead. I know that this will sound ridiculous to you but I must warn you Dear. I know I've been slightly shady in regards to my work, but it's time to tell you the truth. I am a scientist employed by some very powerful people. They made us design this 'bookmark' with a special one-of-a-kind world-changing material.

At first, the experiments were failures but one day, it managed to succeed. I was then forcefully nominated to enter one of the most popular series in the world, "Naruto" to grab a certain artifact. They put a bookmark on a page, put it under a pillow, and forced me to sleep. Luckily for me, the system was not created by our design and it came along with the material. Meaning, it was outside our control. I was not strong nor brave enough to perform well in that world, and on my dying breath, the system offered me the option to send a letter along with the bookmark. I couldn't think of anyone but you Dear. I am sorry that I can't be there with you. I am sorry I can't take care of Rai with you. Remember that promise we had 2 years ago? I'm sorry I can't do that with you either. Please know that I love you both and that I'll always be there with you two in heart.

Please, make sure you throw that bookmark, for it is a very dangerous thing. Love you both. Grow up well Rai!

Till Death do us apart,

Peter S."

'What. Does that mean, he never left us? Dad never left us?' a complexed feeling overwhelmed me.

My head started spiralling, it was too much for me, huh, why am I falling...

....

*RINGGG*

Wha? Who's calling me... Ugh my head.

I slowly woke up and notice the phone beside me, and I received a call from Mom.

"Hi Honey, I won't be able to cook dinner today, please don't wait up tonight, it seems that a work-related document wasn't done properly, and we have to fix it by tomorrow. I might stay at the office till midnight. Do buy or cook something for yourself. Love you!" Once she said that; she hung up immediately before I managed to say anything. Work must be really busy.

I looked over at the letter once more to reconfirm its existence. A wave of emotion boiled up within me. I felt anger towards these "powerful men". Sad at the fact my Dad passed away with no justice. and Happy. Happy that he didn't abandon us after all. However, the largest emotion I felt was regret. I regret not reading this earlier. Regretted not believing in him, and regret never calling him dad afterwards.

After a moment of silent, I looked over at the bookmark

So, everything was real. This bookmark has the power to make the story come to life, and it looked like you could indeed take out items from the story to make it a reality. Then I thought back to my Spongebob adventure. Then why did only Spongebob's burger appeared in reality? Why didn't Sandy's air-suit be materialised too?

There were far too many speculations, maybe the size was too large, maybe I didn't do a condition, I didn't know. However, there was one thing I know for sure.

My Dad did wrote in this letter to throw the bookmark away, but I have a better idea... why don't I instead, get revenge using this bookmark.