Other World Bartender

Who is a bartender?

Someone who works at a bar you may say. True, some may say he's one who mixes drinks, also true. Some may say he's a friend who can be trusted, some may say he's one who you can open up towards without being judged. Also true. But who is a bartender. Truth be told, no one knows. He's all that has been mentioned above and he's none of the above. He's just a person who knows how drinks are made. That's who I was.

A Bartender.

"MMMMM. Who opened the curtains?" I complain." Close them dude."

No answer and no actions. Did my room mate open the curtains and run off again? Whatever, I'm not falling for his tricks again. I'll deal with him later.

I turn around to shield my eyes from the sun and a nice smell of flowers come across my nose.

'Nice smell, is that lavender?' I thought. 'Wait why am I smelling lavender in my room, did he put some flowers in my bed again. That's nice of him, maybe I'll go easy on him when scolding him.'

Eyes still closed I grope around to find the flowers but could only feel grass. Why am I feeling grass?

Crap, did he drag me to some garden while I was asleep again? Or was I so drunk last night I passed out in some garden?

"Nah, none of those"

Oh, thank god.

"Thanks, but you should wake up soon, the animals nearby would get your scent if you keep lying around." Yeah I should. Wait. Animals? Why would animals pick up my scent?

"Yeah you're in a jungle dude."

Ahh right a jungle. Makes sense. Wait, why am I in a jungle?

"Ohh yeah, you died"

Ahh. What? I jerked up as soon as I heard that to find my self in a forest with no one in sight.

"Finally up?" I hear.

'Yeah but who are you and why can I hear you? Am I hallucinating?

"No nothing of the sort. Just a friendly god helping out a recently passed on soul.

'Yeah I'm hallucinating, I'll just go back to sleep.'

"What do you mean by that I'm a true god"

'Really? What's your name then?'

"Rick"

'Fuck off Rick'

"WHAT? WHY?"

'There's no god called Rick that I know of. Atleast gods have some mysterious names'

"That's cause I'm a trainee. You're one of my assignments so I have to get you adjusted to this world." He retorted. "And besides you wouldn't have heard of me anyway, Other world remember?"

True.

"And haven't you realized that you haven't opened your mouth during our entire conversation?"

I could not refute that evidence.

"So, you believe me now?"

I tried to open my mouth but no words came out.

"Hmm? Oh wait I forgot about your voice." Suddenly I feel a searing pain in my throat and my head soon follows.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" I croak out.

"Ah, sorry about that I should have done that earlier while you were still asleep."

"No worries, at-least I can speak now. So, mind telling me what happened and why am I in a different world?" I ask calmly. "You said that I died, what happened? I don't remember much. Was I run over or someone stabbed me while I was trying to protect someone? That's what usually happens right?"

"Usually? You've heard of incidents like this?"

"Nah, I read a lot of novels when I was a kid specially the one's where one gets transported to another world."

"Ahh I've heard of those don't worry nothing like that happened to you."

"That's nice so what-"

"Your universe was destroyed."