CHAPTER 2

It has been a week since that stone is kept hidden in my cupboard below the stack of my old clothes a place mom does not touch . The stone was not problem but those new guys in college they were they have managed to get me alone twice and have asked if anything was bothering me both times I lied but I could see they knew I was lying but they did not push me further into questioning .The first day itself they came to me for asking the way to principle's office . I was saved by Allison as she took them herself to Principle's office .

The next time , it was gym class how they ended up in my class's paired class I don't know but it is suspicious I belive they somehow got into those class for me .But I remained calm and composed and very normal infront of them as they should not suspect me of anything guilty .

I was living my normal life and now after sometime I forgot about the the dream and stone both, also the guys .

My life was almost back to normal ,but it was my mistake as after two days there came a circular in class which said that there is a new carnival opening near our school and the school had won free tickets and they would be going to carnival this Sunday.

This sent a chill through my spine as the dream came flooding back into my mind .It was horrible enough to have stone and the guys on my back but to have the dream come true it was another level of fright but still this trip was to be attended for writing an report and an essay on this trip for social science and english professors .

I was seriously hoping the time would stop and the Sunday would never come (it was first time I hated Sundays ) but as anticipated it did come and now I was on school bus going to circus Jimmy with me while Allison ,stacy and drake on the back seat with our backpacks on our lap the whole time I kept thinking about the stone and dream and guys who were in the bus in front of me .

The time seems to slower down as I slipped past the gate and I stared at the board the name had changed It was "House of Laughter " now . it seemed obscure as well as very unreal .My inner self felt it to be a mere lie as if the real name of place was hidden behind it ,But logic says the dream was an unreal one and I am thinking too much over nothing .

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It seemed to me as the time slipped it was growing slower and slower ,it was either I was slow or everything around me was slow.

Everything seems to be in slow motion and even speech is muzzled up .Then a hand comes on to my shoulder and spins me around so fast that the bag swings in a threatening manner .

when I turn I see a guy probably my age 21 or 23 looking at me,he has brown hair, hazel blue eyes a crooked nose and he was tall and chestnut skinned and he was wearing robes of crimson colour with gold boarders .He gestured for me to follow him I go after him against my will as my legs force me to go .

I tried to restrain myself from following him but all my efforts are in vain . He takes me through the backdoor of the carnival and towards the vast fields of flower to up high in the forest behind the carnival .

We keep on moving in the woods for a long time and then he looks if somebody had followed them or not and then says " I shouldn't have bought you here like this but I had to there was not a chance you could have come with me here after you the stone ,would you??"

"No I wouldn't " I replied to him he seemed to be waiting for me get the conversation forward but my mind was dizzy .

when I didn't say anything so he said "Now you must have a lot of questions in your mind but I must tell you that it's not a great time for explanations or friendships but for action who I am or what I want will have to wait but concerning fact now is did you have a dream a few days ago about this carnival ???"He asked in end with a eyebrow which struggled to leave its place from his head .

I just nodded to this .

"Very well now,you have to listen carefully now you should go back to where you were standing and you have to change one of the events from the dream you saw "

"Why?? "I asked

"That doesn't matter just do it otherwise all of the people you came with will die ,remember what is the name of this place "

THE HALL OF DEAD I thought was the name in my dream I was for sometime lost in my thought when the guy just turned around and left while vanished he left a card behind .

Name KALGEO KARNEY

Age 26 years

.... everything was quiet for some minutes I couldn't belive that the guy was me,he had some resemblance with me but his clothes and his fashion were doubtful.

As I tried to understand the series of events that took place just now the more impossible and unreal they looked .I decided to deal with this later now I had to turn back and find my friends first and turned and started to go towards the carnival.