Discovering A dream world!

My name is Ben Parker, and I’m your average high school student. I just began my senior year at a new school, and don’t know anyone here, not that I would want to. I was a freelance programmer, and a indie game maker in my free time, so I didn’t usually have a ton of time. In my free time however, I didn’t really want to hang out with friends of classmates, which usually led me to being in a social middle ground.

I may end up friends with a popular kid, an unpopular kid, or someone who doesn’t matter, but people didn’t really assign that popularity to me. If I entered a room, people would recognize me, but they wouldn’t interact with me first.

I exited my acceptably sized apartment room, and went down the street to my school. As I walked, I saw four people beating up another kid.

“Are you gonna say it again?!” A rather large boy shouted at someone on the ground, as several others stood by him.

They yelled as they kicked him around for a bit, and I passed them without paying much attention. I knew that getting involved with bullies who were okay with being physically violent wasn’t a good idea. I had been trained in martial arts, thinking it would let me beat everyone that messed with me up. Thinking this led me to getting beat by five bullies, and after that I kept to myself.

I checked a notification from my phone as I walked, and saw it was a video about mutants. They were people born with superpowers, and although uncommon some people were scared of them. After about twenty minutes, I arrived at school. It was a large building, and had a few trees symmetrically set up, forming a path alongside the sides of the sidewalk. There were several other branching sidewalks, and people were streaming into the school from the sidewalk and a car lot.

I entered the school, and went to class. My first class for the day would be pre-calc. It was boring, but I find math easy as it follows obvious rules, and you can often figure out the rules you don’t know through other rules.

After that was US history, which was also easy. I made sure to take notes, respond to questions, and I was out of there. When history was finished, I took my CS class which was a bit harder. Computer Science required a lot of logic development, and minor bugs could stop progression entirely, but it was still pretty easy.

When those were finished, I took an advanced science genetics class. This class was pretty hard, and took a lot of focus, but I was able to handle it. Lunch came after that, and I decided to get what I usually get, a hamburger and fries.

As I was sitting at lunch, a girl came over to my table and began talking to me.

“Hey, you said you do commissions right?” She asked me.

“Uh, yeah. Do you want one?” I responded, having gotten a message the previous day.

“Yes please, if possible. How much would it cost for a big colored drawing, I guess?” She asked me as she tried to repress her excitement.

“An illustration? How big? Digital and printed, Digital, or hand drawn?”

“Like, a wall poster 5*3 feet I guess. Digital and printed would be nice.”

“Hmm. That’s doable, what would it be of? How much shading and detail would you want?”

“I wanted to get a poster of two cool dragons fighting!”

We talked about that for a while, and after that I accepted. Her commission would come out to $45, which she thought was pretty cheap. She had seen some of my work before online, and was confident in the quality.

‘Although, it was a bit weird to have someone hunt you down for your art...’

Lunch ended, and I went to my next two classes of the day. I had to take speech and debate, and then physics before the day was done.

“This is my last year of this at least...”

This was my senior year of high school, and I was relatively ready for it to end. I lived by myself already, and had saved up a bit of money for myself if I wanted to go to college in the future. I was confident I could get a job at some video game company, as I could illustrate, do concept art, and design 3d models.

As I was walking away from the school, I noticed three people following me. They weren’t being covert about it, and were clearly following my path exactly.

‘Is it the three from before? Do they think I saw something?’

As they approached, I decided to figure out what they were after in the first place, before reacting. When I looked at them, I realized it was a different trio than before.

“What do you guys want?”

“Hey, you messin’ Hannah?” A boy in the front with spiky grey hair asked me, his voice clearly tinted with aggression.

“No.” I told him, already annoyed at having to deal with m=him.

“Lying punk, I watched you talking with her earlier. You think you can steal my girl?” He shouted at me, and tried to look intimidating.

“Judging by your attitude, I don’t think she’s ‘your girl’, and no.”

“B****\, get him!”

The three ran after me, and I ran away from them in the opposite direction of my house. I had no intentions of leading them back to where I lived. I ran for a while, and when they would start to get close, I would push or punch at them and continue on.

Eventually I ended up at a dead end, and they cornered me into it.

“Huh.. huh.. Where ya gonna run now?”

They walked up to me, and I fought back with them, but eventually they grabbed me and punched me in the gut. The pain made me fall down, and they began kicking and beating me as I was down.

After a bit of their beating, I felt something inside of me crack, but I didn’t feel any pain from it. Actually, after that I didn’t feel anything from their attacks.

‘God, they’re beating me so hard I can’t even feel it?’

After a while, they got tired of it and backed off.

“Don’t mess with my girl again!”

They walked off, and I stood up.

‘Idiotic jerks. I wish I could beat them back...’

I limped home, and took a shower to get rid of the dirt. I didn’t have any homework, and so I just went to sleep. After laying down for a while, I went to sleep and in my mind was a dark space, and inside floated a blue sphere with a crack covering it.

‘What’s this? A dream?’

I touched the sphere, and it felt cool to the touch. I pinched myself and could feel it, so I decided this wasn’t a dream.

‘What does it do?’

I touched the sphere again, tried to move it, and even tasted it.

‘Nothing.’

I hit the sphere out of anger, and then it cracked more.

‘Oh god, what did I just do! No, wait… It was cracked when I got in here.’

I decided to fully open the sphere, and I hit it several more times causing it to finally shatter, then it exploded in a flash of light.

When I finally recovered from my blindness, I looked around and saw an empty space, with nebulous glowing gas like stuff flowing around.

‘What’s that?’

I watched for a while, and when it did nothing I decided to sit down. I watched the gaseous lights for a while, before they flowed together and exploded again. Stuff was launched everywhere, and it looked like the big bang was happening.

‘Is this like, the beginning of time?’

I watched it, and saw that a massive amount of material wasn’t emitted, but instead just enough for a planet the size of Jupiter. The planet had glowing spots, a barren earth, and looked violent, but I still flew down to it.

‘Cool, I have dream powers! Can I make a chair?’

I imagined a chair, and energy flew over to make a chair for me, which I sat down in.

‘Maybe I shouldn’t do that...’

It seemed like there was a finite amount of energy, and I didn’t know what it was for exactly, so I decided not to waste it on stupid stuff.

‘Can I speed this up or something?’

As I thought that, the world began to move faster, energy dispersing and moving, weather and natural phenomenon began to form, and it looked like a movie edited version of how the world formed.

‘Cool beans.. But, what is this?’

I watched for a while longer, and walked around after destroying the chair from earlier. As I walked through the world, I could feel weird energy flowing into my body, but it didn’t feel strange or dangerous so I didn’t reject it.

After what felt like hours, and seemed like millions of years. I saw dust flow over the planet, ash clouds rise and fall, toxic gasses moving about, plates shifting and forming, oceans forming and settling, and the world changed around me. At some point, the world formed a sun and two moons, causing me to notice that before nothing had seen light. I saw small animals and plants begin to form, and considered this for a moment.

‘That must mean this place was forming bacteria before...’

I waited for a while longer, and as bigger animals developed I eventually woke up.

‘That was a weird dream...’

I prepared to go to school again, and as I was getting ready I realized all of my bruises and damage from yesterday were gone. I actually felt better than the days previous to the beating.

‘Weird’

I returned to school, and carried through my day normally. Upon returning home, I got to working on my homework, which only took an hour to do. After that, I worked on the commission for four hours, had an hour of free time, and went back to sleep.

These dreams continued for the next couple of weeks, and I finished the project and had it printed to a canvas. At lunch the next day, I told Hannah about it, and that I could deliver it to her, or she could come to pick it up.

“I’ll pick it up, thank you!”

 I also warned Hannah about the guy talking about her, and she took note of it. I returned home, and while I was walking I noticed that the three guys appeared again.

“I really thought you had the lesson figured out kid. Guess it’ll have to be stronger this time”

“I really don’t have time for this, so can you get a life?”, I said to him, tired of his existence.

“What did you just say?”

“You heard me.”

At this point I was really just annoyed at them bothering my income, which I worked my butt off for. The three guys charged at me again, and I ran like before but I didn’t feel tired at all. My muscles felt like they were barely used, and I felt a warm energy sitting in them.

 After a while of running, I still wasn’t tired, and the trio of jerks seemed to be running out of gas.

“You’re sure good at running punk!”

“And you aren’t.”

The three guys stopped, and I saw one of them get on their phones as I ran. I left their sight, and returned to a path leading me home at full speed.

Even after running long distances at full speed, I didn’t feel more than one might after walking a lap around a big building. I waited at my house for Hannah, who pulled up in her truck and paid for the commission.

“Thank you, it’s awesome!” She said as she looked at it, holding it somewhat happily.

“Glad you like it! Thank you for your patronage.” I was glad that someone liked my work that much, and happy that I was making some money.

“Yup!”

She left, and I finished up my homework for the day. After finishing all of that up, I thought about what I should do for now.

‘What Game could I make...’ I thought to myself, as I drifted off to sleep.

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