1 How it all began

You must be thinking, Who am I

Well... I'm not sure. But that's not what matters, what matters today is how it all began, well in my perspective anyways.

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Pitter Patter, Pitter Patter

On and On it went, the rain the wind, the smell in the air.

It seemed wrong, or how should I say it, off.

At that time I thought I was just going crazy, But I should have stuck with that gut feeling, maybe then I wouldn't have had to do what I did to survive...

But anyways, I just Stood there under the eaves of the shop, oh? I haven't been clear enough with my descriptions? Oh I never mentioned what I was doing at the time, well let me re-do it then.

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The wind was blowing the rain was falling, and this odd smell in the air gave me this bad feeling as I bought my groceries. For a while, I thought I should wait until the weather clears up a bit to go home, as this gloomy weather came in so suddenly that I didn't manage to bring a umbrella with me.

I took a seat at one of the benches under the eaves of the store. You may be wondering why I wasn't inside the store and was instead outside to be victim to the fierce winds and foul odor. Well I guess I was just going crazy. As I was slowly becoming irritated from this foul odor, I see, across the street, two shadowy outlines of people fighting. A shrill shriek resounded in the area, and I quickly got up to see what the matter was about. At the time, I should have just ignored it and went into the store, but my craziness from earlier apparently still hadn't warned off yet. As I quickly crossed the street, I hear a SMACK, and one of the shadowy outlines started running away, while the other fell to the floor with a sad sigh.

As I ran up to the fallen figure, I say "are you ok?", which, most of the time would be answered with a No or a Yes.

What I got for an answer was a knife in the gut. For a few seconds, my mind went blank and I staggered to the side of the street.

Then the shadowy figure ran in a flurry, as I coughed up blood. I woke up from my stupor and immediately tried to get under the eaves and cry for help. The winds and rain did not help me at all in this endeavor, and instead muffled my shouts and worsened my wound.

And at this point I was losing consciousness due to how fast my blood was being drawn to the outside world. It would have been a little better if I was in a warm and dry place, but the rain and wind, made my wound worse, and helped to stop any form of help my body was trying to give me.

As I exerted my body to the very limits that it could go at that point in time, I managed to get inside the store and shouted my voice hoarse crying for help.

As I looked around, I see no one, not even the workers. It was eerily silent and the lights flickered on and off from time to time.

As I was badly wounded and coughing up blood every time I cried out for help, I chocked on my blood. So I stopped shouting for the time being.

As nobody answered my calls for help, I had to search around and find some spare pieces and parts of blankets, bandages and other things. To just barely manage to make a place for me to rest and with enough bandages to keep me from bleeding more than I already am.

As the adrenalin, that I did not know was coursing through my body, disappear, I fell unconscious in the blink of an eye.

Next thing you know it, I am sitting down on a bench, I'm not even closing my eyes anymore. My wound disappeared, and the empty store was once again filled with people. I quickly glanced towards across the street. And there, was nothing there, no blood or people.

I would have shrugged it off as a dream if it wasn't so realistic and painful. And of course, with my curious nature, but fear of death, I slowly creeped to the other side of the road, of course getting drenched by rain in the process. When I looked around there seemed to be nothing out of the ordinary, so I look in more detail to the surrounding, as I still found nothing wrong. I hurried back to the store and thought about this mysterious dream, yes I thought it was a dream, a very abnormal dream now as there were no trace of anything in the real world.

Just thinking about the pain from my dream earned a wince from me. I just could not believe that, that realistic dream was just some ordinary dream. And I should have just went on with my mundane life after this but, As my crazy streak grew larger, I started to look into this dream. Of course since I was already drenched, I thought, since it is only a 5 minute walk to here from my apartment, I shall just run back. As I was passing some alleyways, a blurred shadowy figure flew out of one of them and landed on me. As I tried to look at what it was, I saw that it was just some black cat. I tried to shoo it off, but when I went to grab it, It scratched me causing me to bleed.

Just as I was about to shake it off, It jumped down from my side and seemed to fly, due to its immense speed. As I was dumbfounded, I stood there looking at the alleyway for a moment of time. But I eventually recovered and hurried to my apartment. As I rushed through the door after fumbling with the keys. I turned on the light to be greeted with a clean floor? As I suspiciously looked around, I thought to myself, what is going on today?

"SURPRISE!!"

"Ahh, who's there?!?!?!"

"It's me, silly, your sister"

As this self-proclaimed sister of mine walked from out from my room, with a duster. I stood dumbfounded, and indeed recognized this self-proclaimed sister of mine to be, in fact, my actual sister.

"what are you doing here sis?"

"Well thought I would just drop by and say hi, but when I saw your messy room, I had to clean it up. Like what is this? a pigsty? You have to clean up every once in a while. Like this is unbelievable."

"Well, this is my apartment..."

"So what, you are never going to get a girlfriend if this is how messy you are!"

"Ok, fine I deserve that, but I need to go shower, and clean off myself from the rain."

"What rain?"

As I looked down at myself, I was no longer drenched in water, I was in neat dry clothes, and had a bag of groceries in my hand.

"Oh, I must have been dizzy today. Well I need to go wash up anyways, so can you put my groceries in the fridge for me?"

"Ummm, well sure, but are you Ok, cause I don't know about you, but it seems kind of weird that you would get the weather wrong even though you were not getting wet"

"It's fine, I was just feeling dizzy, that just affected my judgment for a bit. I'll be better with a shower and some sleep"

Of course at this point I was not fine, I was sure, That it was raining, quite hard, at that, and that I was drenched to the tips of my toes, with water. This, "dizziness" that I made up could in fact be hallucinations, having to do with that dream. Even if the rain "illusion" started earlier.

"Well I'm going to go get clean right now"

"well Ok, back to the kitchen when you are done, I prepared some food for you, since it is dinner right now."

"Oh, thanks sis, I appreciate it."

After cleaning myself off, I put on a new pair of shorts and a shirt that seemed to barely fit me. I walked back to the kitchen, and smelled a heavenly aroma, which of course was my sister's cooking. I always knew that she should have been a chef!

"Sis, what is this Heavenly aroma that I smell,?"

"Oh it's nothing special, it doesn't really smell all that heavenly either, but try it, I'm sure it will suit your taste buds!"

If what my sister is saying is true, then the heavenly smell is most likely due to the fact that I was smelling that foul smell, earlier... wait! that's it, that foul smell! That foul smell could be the cause of all my "Hallucinations".

As I sat down at the table, my sister laid out some dishes for me to try, I took a bite from the middle one, and It truly was a delight. I quickly finished the rest of the dishes and said

"Sis, you should become a cook, you're just that good at cooking!"

"R-really? You think so?"

"Yes! You would make tons of money with such outstanding cooking."

"Oh, umm I'll think about it. Well I need to get going soon, Thanks for having me over."

"You're welcom- wait you just came over by your self, when did I have you over?"

"Well. I'm leaving now, Bye~"

"Oh, well Good Bye."

And as the day drew to a end, I quickly went to the restroom and washed up. I got into bed and as I was quite exhausted for an unknown reason, I will -yawn- look into the foul smell tomorro- zZzzzZZ