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Chapter 9 - Chapter 9 - An Unpleasant Nightmare

"Kid, what are you doing there!", a masculine voice said from behind. The voice sounded utterly familiar, I felt like I had heard it a long time ago. I slowly turned my head to see a man in his early 40s, standing behind me.

 "You are Benjamin!", He exclaimed with joy, and tears almost falling from his eyes, he was so filled with happiness that one would think he just found gold lying on the ground.

I was still silently weeping as I looked at him in a confused manner.

"Of course, you don't remember me, that's all right just come over here, look how messed up you are, you must be hungry", The man concluded while helping me up to my feet, I was still speechless but he didn't care, he just kept smiling and talking to me as he led me to some where I think was his house.

We reached a trench-like street which appeared to be abandoned, the street was filled with uncompleted buildings, and broken-down vehicles.

"Do you like soup?", the man asked me with a bright smile. I had to give him a reply, if not it would break my heart even more.

"Ye…. Yes", I summoned strength to say.

"Great, because I got a lot of them", He said. In the street there was a particular house that was almost completed, and that was the house he lived in, He led me to one of the rooms where a mat was presented,

"You can sleep here", he slowly dropped me on the mat and said. I wanted to thank him for everything he had done for me up till down, but I had used up all my strength, so I fell unconscious.

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I slowly opened my eyes and stood up to find myself in a prison, the prison was illuminated by a small dime candle that had almost went off. The prison made me feel depressed and lonely. The more time I spent in there the stronger my strange urge to commit suicide grew, I couldn't stand it anymore, so I did what I do best, I ran. I ran straight out of the prison somehow and found myself in a dark gloomy street, my life flashed before my eyes, and all the scenes of my worst days played before my eyes.

I saw my mother, killed before me by my father, I saw how hard my life was after that and I felt all the pain that had took me years to overcome. I screamed for the nightmare to end, but it just kept repeating itself, until everything just stopped. It was like time had FROZE, when I opened my eyes, when I opened my eyes, I felt comforted and I felt loved once again, then the warm smile of my brother appeared out of nowhere, it felt like I had found peace amidst the raging storm, but before I could fully grasp the feeling, I was pulled into another session of torment as I watched how James and harper where taken into police custody, I saw everyone I had looked down upon and how they smiled at my suffering, it was all happening all at once which was incredibly overwhelming. The nightmare went on and on until I had a devastating headache.

"Benjamin you have experienced a lot, only I can give you peace", A loud voice roared from the abyss.

"Benjamin!!", The voice roared.

"Benjamin", the old man said, it turned out; I had been awake for a while.

 

Then was that a daydream?", I thought silently. It can't be. Can it?

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