dark dream

"Louise pause the game and eat some food, you've been playing games all day!" a man says from a grey-tiled kitchen with old wooden cupboards.

"I can't pause it's not one of those games, ill be done in a minute papa!" I respond to the man slightly annoyed while rushing to finish the match I was playing.

"fine but once you're off, you're off for the night!" he said with an annoyed tone.

"Oi, that's not fair!" I yelled.

"Not fair my ass! if it's not fair go get a job!" he yelled back.

I sigh as I set the controller down not caring about the game anymore. "I've been trying for a while now, no one wants a girl with no work experience. even janitors turned me away." I said disappointedly.

papa sighs as he walks out of the kitchen, "sorry, I know you've been trying. just keep doing your best." he says softly.

I lean forward off the grey and red couch turning off the cube-like game station. "what's for dinner?" I ask while looking at him.

"Leftovers, we have ribeye from Christmas, and some frozen pizza in the freezer, or roast beef with pepper jack for those sandwiches you like," he responded.

"Cool, ill have a sandwich," I stand up and walk across the living room carpet as I enter the kitchen, the grey cracked tiles showing their age. I look around the kitchen at the old creaking cupboards and the dirty counters covered with dishes and to-go boxes with a sigh. "should I also clean the kitchen papa?"

He looks around the old kitchen with a grimace. "no, not tonight ill do it."

"ill clean it in the morning if you don't clean it tonight" I respond with a knowing look.

he sighs giving in, "fine if you're going to clean the kitchen then also clean the living room."

I smile at his response, "understood, it's about time this place gets cleaned." I lean down covering my face with my shirt as I open the fridge releasing the stench of rotting food so I can grab what I need for my sandwich, I quickly grab it and close the fridge before looking over at papa.

he looks back at me with dead eyes and a sigh, "yea, yea I know ill clean out the fridge too."

"thank you, papa," I walk over to the old cupboards and grab the bread making myself a sandwich. once done I take it back to the living room to enjoy it, making sure papa sees that I actually ate something today and didn't just say I did. "are you going to eat papa?" I asked concerned.

"ill eat later I'm not hungry," he says avoiding eye contact

I sigh, "please take care of yourself, papa."

"I will don't worry," he says laughing lightly.

"Worrying is all I can do with you, papa."

"your one to talk you rarely leave your room and have no friends!" he yelled before quickly changing his tone to a soft one. "I'm sorry, I know you're trying your best... I just don't want you to be alone like me." he gets up from his chair in the living room and walk over to the couch where I eat, he placed his hand on my head rubbing it as he leans down and kisses my forehead. "it's getting late I'm going to bed."

I watch as he walks down the hall to his room, I sigh once I hear his door close. 'he forgot to eat again' I thought. I get up from the couch and go to the kitchen to quickly make another sandwich, this time for papa.

once I finished I carry the food to his room knocking on his door, after a few moments I open his door to see he was dead asleep like a rock.

with a sigh, I place the plate with a cover over it on his bedside table and pull the blanket over his body so he doesn't catch a cold before leaving the room turning off the light as I close the door.

'goodnight papa.' i thought. I walk back down the hall stopping at an old dark brown door opening it and walking into my room.

"sigh, looks like I have lots to clean in the morning, early to bed early to rise as the saying goes." I fall onto the bed landing on my back, I pull the thin ragged blanket over my body and I soon fall asleep in the hard yet comfy bed.

"..."

"huh?" I open my tired eyes to see nothing but blurry darkness, my body feels heavy yet weightless as I'm unable to move or think properly.

"wa$* $% #&%# !* &^!#"

in my tired state, I couldn't make out the voice I was hearing. "who's there?" I groggily ask feeling light-headed just from speaking.

"WAKE UP CHILD OF DARK! NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR SLUMBER! AWAKEN AND FIND YOUR PURPOSE!

*system initializing-0.0% estimation of installation... unknown... host force slumber activated...

those were the last words I heard before a sudden weight pulls on me making me fall into the pits of this dark beautiful world.

as I fall I see many things, shapes, and sounds, the most beautiful music, the loud sounds of metal on metal, the sounds of monsters, the sound of war, then silence.

after a bit of silence, I see shapes in the darkness, even though it doesn't get brighter or darker it gets easier to see, with this new sight I see hundreds if not thousands of falling beings like me, some human, some monstrous, but they all seem to be unable to move, only able to fall.

as we fall in silence a dark solid darkness is seen far below us, seeing the ground wakes me up completely out of my dream of beauty and I start to panic thinking I'm going to die.

I crash into the solid darkness and feel my body break, shatter, and flatten on its surface as I fall through it. I slowly continue to sink as I look up seeing my destroyed body.

'is this death?' i thought looking at the faint glow on my current misty form as I sink deeper into the darkness. "No! No! not like this!" I panic again as I sink into the darkness, my eyes losing the ability to see until there is nothing.

the glow from my misty body fades till I feel excruciating pain as tendrils that seem to come from the darkness itself drove into my body changing it. I scream and cry trying to escape before the pain becomes too much, I pass out from the pain.

*initialization-0.1%*