Chapter six

"What are you doing? Simple instruction, don't think. It was just a rule. One rule. What have you done?!" Rylee kept on ranting and yelling at me but what did I do? I should be the one getting mad here.

"What did I do?!" I said through gritted teeth. With her are Sean and Landon and another dark in complexion girl. She's got dark brown hair, chestnut brown eyes and she's dressed like some spy with her women black suit. She carried a bag pack.

All our hairs were floating up and Landon's hair looks like snakes sticking out of his head with sharp teeth.

"Why did you go back! You have no idea what you just did." Rylee continued.

"Okay, calm down Rylee, deep breath." The other girl interfered. She tried calming Rylee down and she obeyed and breathed deeply.

"I don't understand, I won the contest to get a better dream."

"And we gave you one." She said like she was forcing the words not to come out but a higher authority said otherwise.

"It was too short. For months now, nightmares like him." I pointed to Landon but specifically, to his snake-like hair. "Are my only companion, you finally give me a beautiful dream but you made short?"

"We would have given you another one later!"

"Well I wanted to be with my father, I wanted to apologize and confess even though it's just in my dreams and you didn't give me the chance."

"You are impossible." She admitted. I seriously don't understand what's the deal here.

"Ok Rylee, calm down. We won't get anywhere like this." The girl tried calming her again. "She knows nothing and I think it's better we explain."

"No, we can't."

It was like the whole world will end if she told me anything with the way she refused.

"Explain what?" things like this, gets me curious.

"Listen, we need her full cooperation with us so we have to and besides, there's nothing to fear because when she wakes up, it will be like it was all a dream." She ignored me.

"Yeah, if she wakes up," Rylee mumbled but it was loud and clear enough for all of us to hear. But what does she mean by that? They got explaining to do.

"She will wake up Rylee." Sean finally spoke. Both him and Landon watched us, arms crossed. Actually, only Landon. His voice was sexy but I wanted him to speak again but I need to focus. They're keeping something from me.

"Okay Karen, listen carefully. This could cost you your life and us, dream agency." The girl finally turned to me.

"What?"

"Karen, I will keep this short. Am Lauren, am a nightmare. Both me and Landon." She began. "You see, the nightmees are the ones that make nightmares, while Rylee and Sean, they're in the sweet dreams department and they're called dreamees. We have been for years making the dreams of everyone, it's our job."

"She knows that." Rylee interfered.

"Just let me speak with her without your interference!" Lauren spat distastefully. Then she continued.

"So you must have been informed that we hold this contest once in every five years, right?" I nodded. Am surprisingly very obedient to her. She seems like she has lots of authority and is very wise. And also, old.

My instincts tell me to obey her but my instincts also told me to involve the cops and that just ended great!

"You know why the contest has that rule?"

"No."

"It's because we don't want what happened to Patricia Hicks to repeat itself." Rylee interrupted again. Is this payback?

"Why, what happened to my grandaunt?" I ignored her and asked Lauren instead. She seems more calm and mature and I think I'll be getting a reasonable reply from her instead. "I heard she died in her sleep when she was 17." I don't know what but realization dawn on me. "My age."

"Yes, she didn't just die like that, she was stuck in her sleep."

"She did not follow the rule," Rylee added. "Actually, she was a headache." She mumbled.

They all sighed.

"Patricia Hicks, almost burn to death. Her whole body was disfigured and she had a terrible life and had bad memories in school, neighborhood, everywhere. She became our regular consumer for a week and then it was time to invite people to come over to the dream agency. We gave them all beautiful dreams, she was beautiful again but she didn't want to leave. She refused our help and said throughout the night, she'll have that dream, and then she pushed us away but what she didn't know..., what we all didn't know was that that dream will take her, her whole life." Lauren concluded. I was speechless. So that's what happened to her. Terrible.

"So ever since then, we made that rule, and the contest and gave only one person that chance so we can monitor them, to make sure it will never happen again." Rylee was calmer now, it wasn't like she wanted to kill me before. "We hid all the evidence behind that inner room you wanted to get in. It can't happen again."

"Or else...." Landon finally said something. Why are both of them quiet?

"Or else what?" My curiosity is always high.

"The agency gets sued or We get fired and you don't want to know what happens to whoever gets fired."

"I want to know, what happens?" Bullshit. But being curious about that is normal right?

"Actually, no one knows because they are never heard of again," Landon answered me.

"And am not curious to know why so please, do cooperate." Rylee was back in her paranoid state again.

Okay, let me do some review here. When I refused to let go of my dream, it means I'll end up like a grandaunt, Patricia?

My eyes shifted to Landon's floating hair who's also looking at me, keenly.

Um... What's this place anyways?

"Okay. But first, tell me why we're here. What's this place?"