A new world

"Wake up" , I felt a hand poking lightly at my cheeks. Annoyed I smacked it away. "Five more minutes". "No", the other person demanded," you have to get up now! Otherwise we'll be caught for sure." Caught? By whom? My mother? I don't think so. She doesn't even care what's going on in my bedroom, so I hardly doubt that she'll be storming in. My eyes twitched when I turned around. Was my bed always that hard? "You leave me no other choice" Yeah yeah, go on, tell mommy about my misbehavior. I don't care.

Suddenly I shrieked. Someone was trying to lift me up. I abruptly opened my eyes and was ready to punch when my fist froze midair. The face of a little boy, not older than ten, greeted me. The kid wore nothing but dirty rags, and with eyes closed, his face was slowly turning red. "What are you doing?", I blurted out, confusion written all over my face. "Trying...to...lift....you", the child huffed under short breaths. After a short while the boy gave up and plopped on to the wooden floor. "You're too heavy", he exclaimed with a sigh," Seriously, aren't the girls your age supposed to be light as a feather? Then why is it so hard to pick you up?" Too dumbfounded, I couldn't react. Girls? My age? Are you blind, little one? Do you perhaps need glasses? Does this big brother need to buy you some? Before I could even say anything, loud, metallic steps were heard from outside. Instantly the black haired boy stood up on his skinny little legs and cursed in a vulgar language. "They already found us" All of a sudden he grabbed my arm and threw a cloth over my head. "Cover your head.", he said "We"ll try to sneak out from behind" When he saw that the person was still standing still and doing nothing except watching him blankly, he clicked with his tongue." Why do I have to do everything? I'm not your older brother" Although he said that, his actions were different. He took the cloth and wrapped my head with it. Now seeing him up close, I noticed that the ten-year-old was bigger than I was. How is that possible? I'm eight years older than him. The boy grabbed my tiny arm (since when were they so tiny?) and told me with sign to be quiet. Then he silently opened the door, so that it made no creaking sounds. I was curious and peaked out from behind his back. Beyond it was a big room with many round tables made out of clean glasses and fancy lights decoration. There was a lot of commotion. From the people there I guessed that it was some kind of these forbidden places. The women there had even less on than the boy, just some strings to cover their beauty spots and all of the men were mostly ugly and fat geezers. Apart from some. They were like diamonds surrounded by dirt. They stood at the entrance and seemed to be guarding it for some reason. "Crap. They've already secured the whole area." They? "Come" he pulled me in another direction. A last glance at those young men I noticed that they had a particular symbol on their armor. It seemed familiar.

We made it out safely. Apparently that funhouse had a secret path that leads to the town nearby. And apparently the boy knew about this. Out of breath from running all the way through, I stopped to take a break. Why are we running? "Are you alright?", two hazel brown pupils looked at me worryingly. Of course not. First I don't know where I am or how I even got here. I don't even know why we were running.

I nodded. The boy let out a relieved sigh. "Do you want to drink something? I think there was a well not too far from here", I was indeed thirsty, so I agreed. The well was really old fashioned. There was a little bucket tied to a rope. The boy fetched some water out and offered it to me. Thankful I took it. But as soon as my gaze wandered at the water's surface my body got stiff. Long brown hair sticked out of the grey cloth and skin as white as porcelain was being reflected in the water. But the most extraordinary thing were those two ruby jewellery eyes that were staring at my soul. That reflection clearly showed a little girl. But this is impossible. The last time I checked I was still a male human being. When did that happen? Oh no, a sudden thought crossed my mind, don't tell me it's like something in these novels my sister used to read. Where the protagonist migrates into another world. Ugh, I want to curse everything.