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The School
Life…
For me it is more like a video game, a Role Playing Game like The Sims, you are the character,
you meet different people and do different things, you are free to choose the way you want to
live or treat people but every action has its result, Sometimes it gets exhausting, you don’t know
what to do, you are lost, nowhere to go.
I was laying on the ground in my room and starring at the celling, I don’t know why but
sometimes I get weird and do weird things, sometimes I walk in circles, sometimes I grab a pillow
and scream, sometimes I lay down and stare at the celling, though most people say I have
thoughts in my head that makes me do like that, but in my head there is nothing, an empty
black space.
Suddenly my phone vibrated and I checked it, it was a text from Nathan;
“You excited for tomorrow?”
“Not that much …”
“Don’t worry it will be fine”
“I hope so.”
“What you are up to?”
“Oh well starring at the celling”
“Oh god, find something to get busy with”
“Like?”
“Go play a game, or read a book or something”
“Not in the mood”
“Oh well…”
“I’ll go sleep then, maybe it helps, gotta wake up early tomorrow”
“You take your pills each night?”
“Yeah, that’s why I said it will help”
“Oh okay, good night!”
“You too.”
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Nathan is the only boy who knows all things that goes with me, he knows my habits, my favorite
games, favorite singers, everything. Sometimes we go to each other’s home and stay up all
night, playing games, telling stories.
He is the only one whom I share my secrets with, not all of them but a couple.
Because sometimes he acts strange and I don’t want him to gossip about me for someone else
so I keep some of them hidden from him.
He is such a fun and good boy to be friend with, his father has a supermarket, his mom is a
housewife, and He has a little brother, his name is Bruce.
He is a gamer too, we mostly play online or play together in split-screens sometimes his brother
joins us too, we both have the same gaming consoles.
We sit in the same bench in the class, he is likes mathematics a lot, and he says he wants to
become an entrepreneur in the future, he says when he gets rich He is going to buy a Rolls
Royce him favorite car, get a big mansion and enjoy life.
Although I underestimate him sometimes for fun to see how he reacts but he don’t take it that
serious because he knows I am joking with him.
I putted my phone near the bed and opened the cabinet and took my pills bottle from it, I have
a REM disorder, I dream a lot, like not normal dreams, but strange ones, I talk and sleepwalk too
much, the doctor even said that the disorder I have is not that common.
But somehow I have control over my dreams, it is like I can feel that I am sleeping and this is my
dreams that’s happening so I can do in it anything I want.
Dreams are the beauty of sleeping. Because it is the only state where souls are free, they leave
your body and travel to different places
The reasons why I took the pills is that mom is afraid that maybe one night I might fall from the
window and die. So for that reason she accepted the doctor’s prescription and bought the pills.
So I took one of the pills and drank a glass of water after it, and then went to sleep.
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I woke up from sleep, didn’t had any dreams just a blank screen and nothing else.
I went and washed my face, wore my school uniform and went downstairs that I saw
mom prepared breakfast already, I was eating my breakfast that my mom appeared
and said; “Ready for the first day my dear?”
“Not really mom”
“Don’t worry dear, it will be fun and you will enjoy, Nathan is going too right?”
“Yeah”
“Good, just focus on your lessons to get better grades okay?”
“Seriously, I’ve always tried hard mom, how much hard you want me to try, I am not
Einstein.”
“You are more than him, everyone is unique in their own way.”
She looked at her watch then said;
“Okay I gotta go now I’m gonna be late, love you dear.”
“Stay safe mom.”
She kissed me on the forehead and left the home.
I don’t know why but my mom always says I have to focus more on my lessons, she
thinks that I don’t try that much, although I have the 1st position in the whole class in
intelligence and the best student of the school, she still says I have to try hard,
She acts like as if all these trophies and medals I brought, all those appreciations letters I
brought from school is nothing. But I don’t care, I got used to it.
Anyway after I finished my breakfast, I left the house and went to the bus stop,
And then the bus arrived, I climbed in and went to the school.
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School is really a good place to spend the half of the day, but the way how the periods
go is exhausting, except from your favorite subjects.
My school, it is quite different from the other schools, like way too different, you don’t go
to different classes for different subjects, yet you are in a class with other students and
each subject’s teacher comes inside your class, teach their subject, and when the bell
rings they leave the class and the other teacher gets in.
For somehow I like this, cause in one class with other students, the connection between
them grows and grows, they know each other, their friendship grows, they can have fun
and much more, they will have amazing moments with each other which never gets
old and stays as a good memory.
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I don’t have that much close connections with them except Nathan, but I always try to
help them in the exams, in homeworks, group projects, always, I want them to know
that I care about them and I am not a jealous person to have pride over my
intelligence, I help till I can.
And just because I am intelligent, doesn’t mean I am something better than them or
know more than them, I am just a normal boy like them, but just try a little more.
We are only off at Fridays, which is what I hate the most about my school, if only we
were off at Fridays and Saturdays that would be much better, but that’s just the part of
the school’s policy and the place we live at.
My favorite periods in the class are biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, English
and computer, these are the only periods that I have full attention, but not that much
on other periods.
Anyway the first day was good, we had a lot of fun in the class, and the periods went
perfect, I came back home and dad opened the door, hugged me and said;
“My boy, how did the first day went?”
“It was good dad, thanks.”
“You met your friends and teacher?”
“Yeah, all of them.”
“Glad to hear it, come on in, we were waiting for you to come so we could eat the
lunch together.”
“Oh dad, you should’ve not waited for me.”
“It is okay Grey, let me take your bag from your shoulder.”
My dad just got retired from his job, he served the military for 25 years, although he
didn’t met the required age for retirement but he chose to retire, “Tired of this much
fight” he says when someone asks why he retired.
So he took my bag and I went to mom, she kissed me on the cheek and I went to my
room to change my clothes, after I changed I came back to the dining room and we
ate the lunch together.
My mom is a really good cook, and I love the way she cooks the lunch, she always
comes early from him school, like, she reaches home at 11am and I reach home at
1pm, after we finished the lunch, I took the dishes to the kitchen and helped mom to
wash them, after that I went to my room, whenever I open the door of my room I am
like; “what’s up everybody, I am back.”
And the audience is, the toys from my childhood, I know it sounds funny, why would a
seventeen year old boy has too keep his childhood toys with himself, I can’t throw them
away or give it to someone else because they are a part of my life, my whole
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childhood was spent with these little toys, each toy gives me a flashback of my
childhood, the moment where I was free of drama, free of life problems, everyday was
a happy day.
And then there is this other guy who is not a toy, but just an imaginary partner I created
myself, “The Grey Two”, this guy, he is always with me, whenever I am alone or I want to
discuss about something with someone, or I go into deep thought, this guy appears
there, I can hear his voice inside my head, we laugh together, cry together and agree
together in the ideas and promises we make.
My room is my heart, the place where my ideas are born, where I have fun, where
everything is the way I want to, so when you open the door to my room, first thing you
see in front of you is the window that leads to the terrace, with a chair and a table,
that’s the place where I go for stargazing at night with a cup of coffee, or read a book,
beside the window is my bed and on the top of my bed there is a little bookshelf where
my books are, in front of the bed is my TV with my Xbox under the table of the TV, then
to the left side of the room is the desk where I write my homework and study, my
computer is there too with my photography camera, and the right side of the room is
my closet and on the top of it are my childhood toys.
I put my bag beside my writing desk and jumped on my bed just to relax for a while;
“It was really a good day though.” Grey two said.
“Oh well it is just like the same old school days no difference.” I said.
“Oh well you have a couple of homeworks too I see.”
“Yeah three homeworks only, most of the teachers didn’t came today.”
“Oh well you should take a one hour nap, then you can do your homeworks in a good
mood.”
“Yeah probably, a good nap is what I need.”
So I turned to my right side and went to sleep.
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I was walking on the pavement, that suddenly my leg slipped and I fell on the ground,
that was when I jumped up and saw I was asleep and I was dreaming, I looked at the
clock it was 3:00pm, I went to take a shower.
After I came back to my room, I saw my phone’s notification light turning on and off
when I unlocked it, it was a text from Nathan;
“Dude, I saw her today at the mall”
I didn’t know who he was talking about so I asked him;
“What do you mean?”
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After a few seconds he replied;
“That neighborhood’s girl dude, I saw her today at the mall, she was buying something
and she looked perfect as always.”
Nathan has a crush on a girl that lives beside their house, god you don’t really want to
know how he changes when he sees her, he suddenly gets busy with his hairs, and tries
to keep a fake smile, gazing at the girl in hope of an eye contact and when they see
each other eye to eye, he is the first one that says “Hey Anna” and that girl replies back
“Hey Nathan” and after that simple talk, Nathan gets blushed, and when you try to talk
to him, he giggles at everything, a smile gets on his face though he don’t smile that
much.
I replied to him back;
“Dude, you see her every day.”
He replied back;
“No. Guess what happened?”
“What?”
“So apparently she was there and I was there too, I wanted to buy some stuff for home
my mom asked for, and she was there at the snacks section…”
“So?”
“Then when I went to the seller to the pay the money, she came there too I let her to
finish first.”
“Okay, then?” I said.
Then when she wanted to give the money, she searched her bag, but she couldn’t find
money, her purse probably slipped from her backpack on the way” he said.
“And then you paid for her?”
“My man are you a mind reader or what?”
“Oh well just said randomly…”
“Anyway yes, I paid, she tried to stop me but I said “it is ok, this time it is on me” and I
could see she blushed and took the snacks left the store.”
“That’s it, you only paid?” I said.
“No, just listen…”
“After I left the store, she was there waiting, I went to her and she said thanks for the
help, and I said nah it is ok, and she asked me if I could go with her to their house and I
said ok, so we walked to the home talking and laughing. When we reached home, she
said; you are a good guy to talk with, maybe whenever I was bored can I text you?”
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“I didn’t know what to say so I said; yeah sure and she took my phone number!”
“Cool…”
“What, at least it is real not like your dream crush Megan.”
“Oh shut up Nathan.”
“Sorry…”
“Fuck You.”
I really hate it when people asked me if I have feelings for any girl, I mean seriously? I do
have many friends which are girls but I didn’t had feelings for any of them.
But Megan… she just belonged to my imaginations, we all have an imaginary crush in
our thoughts, whom we wish if they could exist, but they don’t.
Oh well if you want to know how she looks, well not that much, just a girl with brunette
hairs, blue eyes and a dimple on her left cheek, nothing else.
Anyway I put my phone away and started writing my homeworks, and after I got it
done it was 6pm, so mom called me for dinner, I went downstairs and ate the dinner
with my parents and then came back to my room.
I started staring to the celling again, with my back on the ground and my hands on my
tummy, I was thinking that what would’ve happened if humans had the ability to travel
back through time, even if they had the ability, Imagine if they went back through time
to fix their mistakes, they might’ve felt a little good but the truth will always remain in
their head, they cheated on their destiny and they feel happy about it.
“It will never happen trust me.” Grey Two said.
“Oh well maybe they might go to future.” I said.
“Even if they go, it will still be the same thing with going to past”
“It is time for you to sleep now, get up take your pills and go to sleep.”
“Ok”.
So I stood up, took my pills and went to sleep.
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Where It Begins
Spring went too fast, I mean way too fast, I feel like the school started yesterday, but it didn’t just
like the saying; ‘yesterday is a history’. It belongs to the past now.
The first term exams went perfect and everyone started their summer holidays, ugh summer, I
only liked winter and autumn from the 4 seasons, and the two others, well, they are not my cup
of tea.
The result of the exams will be announced after the exams, damn why they don’t announce it a
little earlier I don’t know, and plus the teachers gave us some topics to research about and
write an essay about it.
I chose my own topic.
Communicating with someone telepathically.
It may sound strange but telepathic is something that pulls me toward itself. Imagine getting
inside someone’s mind and telling them something you don’t want anyone else to know about,
or communicating with someone who is far away from you, the human brain is a complex organ
but this complex organ has some hidden abilities which we can’t find them.
Telepathic is one of those abilities.
I searched the internet about how to telepathically communicate with someone and found
various articles about it.
Some of them were like: sitting in a quiet room, thinking about the person you want to
communicate about, choosing a message to send for that person but not a complex message,
a simple one like banana, and then asking that person what are they thinking about and if they
answer was your simple message, congratulations, you sent your first telepathic message.
It tired some of them on Nathan but it didn’t worked out so well, I even did it in a closer space
but it didn’t worked, when I asked him what is he thinking about, he answered “Anna”.
“Seriously, Anna?” I said.
“Yeah man, Anna’s gorgeous face” he said.
“Nathan, try to clear your mind like, imagine a blank space without anything”
“Okay, a blank space” he said and closed his eyes.
I closed my eyes and brought a picture of a banana in my mind, and tried to the telepathically
message Nathan, then I asked him: “What are you seeing in that blank space?”
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“Still Anna man, but this time flying like superman” he replied, unfortunately.
“You gotta be kidd…”
“Wait a min” he cut my talk.
“What, do you see something else?” I said.
“Oh my god she grabbed me from my back and, oh my god! I am going high above the sky!”
“Ugh, it doesn’t work”
Suddenly his phone was vibrating and it was his mom calling him.
He grabbed the phone and answered the call:
“Hey mom! … yeah I am at Grey’s home… oh really… okay I’ll be there as quick as I can bye!”
“What was she saying?” I asked.
“Oh well some guests came and I need to go home, you know we should do this thing more
often, it feels good.” He said.
“Whatever.” I said
I walked with him to the door, and then he left.
You know it feels really sad when you try so hard, giving so much effort on something and it
doesn’t work it feels so sad like, you tried your best yet nothing happened.
I went back to my room and stayed there till the dinner, then came back down and ate the
dinner then went back.
I was laying on my bed and staring at the celling then Grey two started talking:
“It is okay, sometimes somethings take time to work the way you want” Grey two said.
“I don’t care, it’s been 2 weeks and it didn’t worked” I said.
“Wait a minute…” I said.
“What?” he said.
“What if I try this while I am dreaming like you know communicating with someone telepathically
while sleeping that might be possible, right?” I said.
“You haven’t take your pills yet?” He said.
“Luckily for this experience, no sir.” I said.
“Then give it a try.” He said.
“But with who should communicate with?” I said.
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“Megan” He said.
“That will never happen, she doesn’t even exist.” I said
“Nor I don’t exist Grey, But who knows maybe she might be somewhere around here?”
“But…”
“There is not but, you only got this choice, and it will be a good one.” He said.
“What about you, maybe I can find you” I said.
“I belong to your thoughts only Grey, But Megan is in your dreams and imaginations” He said.
So I didn’t take my pills this night, but what if my mom finds out.
“She won’t” Grey two said.
So I turned to my side and tried to sleep and thinking about Megan, her brown eyes, her
short hairs, her white skin, her beautiful smile and I was imagining her sitting beside a tree,
under the sky with colorful northern lights and a colorful river in front of her, and I am looking
at her from a far distance.
Until I fall asleep.
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A darkness is following me, I can’t tell whether it is a beast or a ghost or someone but it keeps
running, I am trying to escape away from it but I am not fast enough it gets closer and closer.
“Grey, Grey wake up” the darkness said.
I stopped and turned around and the darkness was keep coming, I realized that I am
dreaming, so I closed my eyes to wake up.
I opened my eyes and Nathan was looking at my face;
“Hey” he said in a low pitch voice.
I freaked out and pulled the blanket on my face, Nathan was laughing;
“Wake up man, how come you are still asleep” he said.
“What time is it?” I said.
“It is half past nine” he said.
I usually wake up early in the morning even if there is no school, which I am okay with it but
most people disagree with me.
“Is my mom and dad home?” I said.
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“They were both going somewhere and asked me to stay with you because you were alone
and haven’t wake up yet, so no they are not home.” He said.
“Dammit” I said.
“Why, something wrong?” he said.
“Nothing” I sat on my bed and looked outside through the window, the sun is up high in the
sky, shining brightly.
“You had your breakfast?” I said to Nathan.
“Yeah your mom cooked some eggs and sausages, and left some for you too” he said.
“Okay then, I’ll go and wash my face and eat breakfast downstairs, you can play any game
if you want until I am done.” I said
“Sure” he said.
So I stood up and fixed my bed and went to the bathroom to wash my face;
“Did you managed to talk to her?” Grey two asked.
“No I told you it won’t work.” I said.
“Some things take…”
“Stop with that quote grey, I know it takes time but something that is impossible and doesn’t
exist it doesn’t take time, and you are just wasting your time” I interrupted him.
“I believe it will happen Grey, impossible itself says I am possible remember that.” He said.
I was staring at the mirror that suddenly Nathan knocked at the door;
“Hey wake up!” he said.
“Dude I am awake what is wrong?” I said.
“Oh well you didn’t come out I thought you fall asleep on the toilet” he said.
“Seriously, that wasn’t even funny.” I said.
So I washed my face and went downstairs to eat breakfast, mom kept my food in the fridge
so I took it out, and put it in the microwave for a min to get a little warm.
I went back to the imagination. Imagining Megan beside the tree, looking at the sky and
playing with her hands, I start walking to her and eventually I was only one step away to her,
I tried to put my hand on her shoulder that suddenly *Ding* the microwave sound woke me
up from day dreaming, I took my breakfast and went to the dining room.
After I washed the dishes and went back to my own room, Nathan was still playing game;
“Let’s play something together.” I said.
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“How about a gun game in black ops 2 you and me, but I will win this time” He said.
“Okay” I said.
So we sat together and we were playing call of duty, during the match I asked him about
Anna;
“Oh she is fine thanks she always asks about you too” he replied.
“That’s so kind of her” I said.
“I know right, kind like me” Nathan replied with a strange voice.
I laughed and said;
“Like you? Hah! She is ain’t nothing like you” I said.
Nathan always got triggered when I tell him he and Anna are not alike so he paused the
game and look at me.
“She is just exactly you” I said.
Then a happiness and a smile appeared on his face;
“My man, always tell stuff like this” He said.
“Continue the game, I know you will lose again come on” I said.
After the game was finished and I won, we turned off the Xbox and I could tell by his eyes he
wanted to ask me something but he was shy to ask so I asked him myself;
“What is it you want to ask” I said.
“Oh… eh nothing” he said it in a shy voice.
“Come on tell me or else I won’t sleep at night thinking about it.” I said.
“Oh well, I was eh you know, Anna wants to take some photos of her, but she can’t cause
she is not that good, and she can’t trust anyone else taking her photos” he paused, took a
short breath and said” I thought if you could help her with that”.
“Why not? You can have my camera if you…”
“No! No! You will have to take the photos, you are much experienced and you will get much
better photos than me” He said.
“Oh well for sure dude, just pick the time and the location” I said.
“We will do it at your place, Don’t want to go too far you know.” He said.
“Okay, as you wish” I said.
“But I am not forcing you, if you don’t want just tell me” He said.
“It is okay, trust me I’ll delete the photos once I edited them I won’t keep it for myself” I said.
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“No that’s not the problem, I have all of my secrets shared with you and I don’t want to hide
anything, don’t tell that kind of a thing again.” He said.
“Okay.” I said.
Nathan never wanted to hide anything from me, it is so sad that one person who put their
fully trust on you but you are afraid maybe they might plan something else so you don’t trust
them fully as they do you.
Trust is like a mirror, once it is broken into pieces it might get fixed but the cracks remain till
the end.
But me, I never want to break those glasses people gave to me, I handle it with care and
clean it always to it can look clean.
Anyway, we spent the day watching movie and telling stories, mom and dad came at the
evening and Nathan went home.
We ate the breakfast and mom and dad talked about their visit to my uncle’s house, they
said it was fun and we laughed at some points together specially that point where my cousin
ran and slipped on the banana peel on the ground and when he fell on the ground he let
go a “tear gas” as mom said and everyone went outside.
I took the dishes to the kitchen and when it was bed time, I went to my room and while I was
in the bed my phone vibrated and it was a message from Nathan;
“Tuesday at four Pm in your place how copy?” He said.
“Good Copy, Good Copy.” I texted him back.
“;-p, good night then mate.” He said.
I put my phone away and stared at the stars in the night sky then I saw comet;
“They say if you see a comet, any wish you make will come true.” Grey two said.
“I don’t believe such things Grey, all of them are lies women create when they are together”
I said.
“I just said that in case if you wanted to try that telepathic thing…”
“It won’t work Grey, I told you that.” I didn’t allowed him to finish.
“Trust me, it will work this time I am sure.” He said.
“Ugh, ok fine I’ll give it a try.” I said.
So I turned to my right side, and start thinking about that imaginary scene again until I fell
asleep.
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