Alone

The boy sits alone on his bed in his room, knees to his chest silent in the dead of night until everything begins to warp. His head begins to pulsate, vision flowing in and out throughout the known spectrum of colour. Hands clenching fistfuls of his dark brown hair, eyes shaking erratically trying to find sense in a situation lacking thereof. Until suddenly, silence…With no warning things seemed to stabilise a sense of norm helped to calm his heart. However, things weren't normal "this is my room" he thought, however things are twisted and distorted almost dream like. Colours are wrong, placements are wrong, sizes are wrong everything is just wrong. Slowly he gets off his bed. "What's going on?" he said to himself, brain struggling to process the masses of information flooding into itself. "This is where you belong, come find me!" said a distorted unsettling voice devoid of any obvious form of gender. Frozen in place the boy accidently loses his footing stumbling backward onto "his bed", in shock of the voice that came from nowhere which seemed close yet far, silent but loud, come from nowhere but seemed everywhere.

Looking deep into himself, he pulled out the courage to reply to the ominous voice "who're you? Where are you? I want to go back home!" he shouted. Silence once again befell the room. Until suddenly the voice once again came from nowhere, yet again like before everywhere at the same time. "Who am I? I'm you of course, where am I? Everywhere of course, home? This is your home." The boy sitting wildly on his bed, absolutely confused by the reply having more questions than answers thought to himself "what could it mean?". Suddenly "his" bedroom door if you could even call it that began to open slowly. Pure darkness leaking out of its contents, devoid of any form of light. Still in a state of confusion however, determined to get out of wherever he was the boy braced himself and stepped into the door. Engulfed in pitch black darkness.

Step by step, the boy plunged deeper into the darkness with no clear direction in sight just the darkness he had previously braced himself for. He continues onward, every step sounding quieter than the last. On and on he went strangely feeling like he knew where to go as if drawn in by an unseen force. Suddenly through the darkness a thin line of light appeared horizontally. The line then curved and twisted into the sinister smile that resembled that of a Cheshire cat. It then revealed more of itself from the dark shroud it hid by, it was in fact a smile decorated with pointed teeth lined up neatly row by row filling in the gaps of the prior row. A perfect sinister smile.

Then that same voice as earlier spoke through the mouth of sorts, "Welcome to Ex Nihilo, a world created out of nothing where nothing truly exists, but also does. You may also refer to it as NIL". The boy stood there once again stunned and confused as to what was going on. "Ex Nihilo? Nil? What are you talking about? When will this end? I don't understand." Expressed the boy, the "mouth" then spoke again once more "Enter my mouth it will lead you to where you seek all will be revealed in Ex Nihilo. My mouth can be used as a door of sorts linking our worlds, which you can use to transport to NIL.

"The boy lost in his thoughts going over what it is exactly he should do was still, motionless thinking of every possible solution he could to get out of this but the conclusion he reached was. None absolutely nothing, accept for to trust in whatever it was he has been conversing with this whole time. He decided that he did not trust whatever this being was but, he didn't really have much options in his current situation. And that if he did follow through then maybe just maybe, what it said was true that it would lead him to where he wanted to go as well as answer his questions. "I can go home, I can get out of here" he thought to himself. "Ok, I will go along with you to NIL or whatever it was I just want to get out of here" the boy pleaded. The "mouths" expression for a second loosened as if surprised it then reverted to its typical Cheshire smile even higher than before, which wasn't thought possible." Hehehe I knew you would make the right choice ______ you won't regret it, a dark and wonderful world awaits filled with the macabre, this will be so much fun". Gleefully expressed the voice as if struggling to contain its excitement. "Ok…what was it you called me? I didn't quite hear" said the boy. "Never mind that, hop into my mouth it's about time we departed" it said.

"Whatever cant be that big a deal, lets just get this over with" the boy thought to himself. The mouth in the darkness opened wide, sharp teeth from the top and bottom rows getting further apart until a sudden stop." Now get in, do mind my teeth if you don't want to hurt yourself, I can't say what could happen if you ended up hurting yourself". "That definitely makes me feel better, not!" thought the boy as he carefully stepped into the pitch black void it called a mouth. Snap! The sound of the jaws behind him closing instantly almost as if impatient. "What have I got myself into now? Have I just walked into this things stomach willingly, is this it?" the boy frantically thought to himself in the pitch-black space. "Worry not, next stop Ex Nihilo!!!!" the voice said but this time as if coming from the boy's head instead. The boy then slowly as the voice continued to mumble to him seemed to slip away as if he was falling asleep, until there was nothing.

"Welcome home ______I know you will love it just like before"