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This is a non-matrix story. I hope you enjoy. Dont be too critcal!
Dreamscape
Everynight i dream. i dream of fun things and i dream of horrible things. That is until the night that changed everything. See im the kind of person that when they cant sleep they just walk around the neighborhood and think about things. Well it was one of these nights that my life changed forever. I was out walking down the street. I was just truning the corner to go toward the elementree school that is a block from my house, when i heard it. 2 gun shots echoed through the sky like a firework on the 4th of july. Blam, Blam. 2 more, then i hear a car screaching away into the distance. I thought to myself, what should i do, should i run and get help or should i just not worry about it, thats when i realized i was running toward the sound of the gunshots. As i ran i saw a man laying on the pavement in front of a dark brown house. the house looked evil. its dark color remineded me of what blood looks like when it is dry on skin. The man was pulling himself up he looked to be about 26, he sat leaning against the fence holding his abdomen. "are you ok" i asked knowing full well he wasnt. "ive been shot, what do you think" he said while reaching into his jacket to pull out a pack of cirgerettes and a lighter. He lit his cirgerette, and caugh up some blood. I began to pull out my cell phone when i heard sirens, they were about 2 blocks away and closing fast. "shit, hey help me up, i need to get out of here." I looked at him with confusion, i could tell he was agrivated. "look pal, help me or not." he said with a growl. "oh sorry here" i said as i reached for his arm, so he could put his weight on me. "listen, i need to get out of here, i cant be caught by the cops" the sirens were less than a block around the corner. "you live nearby" he asked, then caughed more blood up. "uh sure its this way" i said as we crossed the street. we slipped into an old alley as the police car screached to a hault in front of the brown house. "thanks man, i dont know what i would of done" said the stranger
"are you in some sort of trouble" i asked as he still leaned on me, walking crooked. "no, well, yes, sorta."
"yes sorta" i said with a look of confusion.
"well, im not but i will be if i am found" he said
"did you do something" i asked
"well, i sorta stole some money from the salvatore family" he said with a smile
"The salvatore family" i asked stunned
"yep, about $250,000 dollers"
"holy crap" i said mystified
"thats why i cant be found by the cops, hey how much further, im feeling woozie"
"about 300 feet." i said
"good, and by the way my name is jake" he said
"nice to meet you, im charles"
"well charley, i think you just earned about 10 grand helping me" he said with a smile
"we will discuss that later but lets get you into my house"
we arived at my front door, i put the key in and opened it up. my wife was standing in the living room, she had tears streaming down her face as she looked up at me. Her deep blue eyes were comforting to me. she had a look of confusion as i let the man lean against the stair post. she ran up to me and wrapped her amrs around me. "What happened" she asked
"hey babe, do me a favor and get me the 1st aid kit" she looked at me with a strange look on her face. "its for my friend."
"what friend" she asked with confusion on her face. i began to turn toward jake but as i did i felt a sharp pain in my side. as i looked down toward my side i noticed blood all over the front of my shirt. as i lifted my hand i noticed blood on my hand. The pain grew more intense. I needed to sit down, i was feeling weak.
"oh my gosh, youve been shot" my wife screamed. she ran to the phone in the living room picked it up and dialed 911. "hello yes my husband hsa been shot" as she talked into the reciever the sound of her voice began going lower. I tried to shake it off, but the room started to melt away. like iceing on a hot cake the room melted away. i passed out. As i woke up i was in a bright room, with my wife hovering over me.
"charles, can you here me?" she asked
"yes my love, what happened" i asked
"charles, im so sorry this happened"
"what" i asked as the room went brighter. i had to close my eyes it was so bright
she said something but i drifted away.
I awoke in an all to familiar place. my bed at home. i sat up and lifted up my shirt, nothing there. was it a dream? My wife was laying next to me with a book in her hand. She was looking at me strangly. "whats the matter" she asked
"uh nothing, i just had a weird dream"
"of what" she said while folding a page in the book to mark her place.
"i had a dream i was shot"
"oh, thats more of a nightmare"
"yah i guess, well im glad it didnt happen"
"me too" she leaned in for a kiss, i noticed something different about her. this was not my wife
i jumped out of the bed and steped backwards toward the door.
"whats your problem" this woman said
"your not my wife"
"what yes i am, weve been married 19 years, whats your problem."
"i need to go" as i said that i turned. i started to walk away but as i did i heard a womans voice. it grew louder as i walked into the living room. it was a newscaster. i picked up the remote and turned up the volume.
"In other news, a 50 year old man was robbed and shot at gunn point late last night, the man seen here died from 2 gunshot wounds to the chest" as she said that a picture flashed on the screen. that picture was me, but im here. i ran to a mirror and looked in it. i wasnt looking at myself. i was looking at jake, the man who had been the one shot. what is going on. As i looked at my face, the woman from upstairs walked down.
"whats your problem today" she asked
"i dont know" i said
I must be losing my mind i thought to myself. what going on? Who am i? as i thought this a bang on my door was heard. i truned startled as another BANG. and another, BANG. then the door came down fast. as police ran in with guns yelling at me
"on the floor, on the floor" they yelled i complied and layed on the floor. as i did i was patted down and cuffed. they pulled me up by the cuffs and sat me on the couch.
a man in a dark red suit walked in and took off his sunglasses he began to speak
"Jacob Wheeler, you are under arrest for the murder of Charles Lester"
"what, no thats me, im charles lester" i screamed
"thats not gonna work with me" the man said as he slapped my face
"take him" the man said
As I was walking out of the house the man stoped me. he punched me right in the face, then everthing went black.
I awoke in another light room, hearing the words of my wife, "oh charles, why you, why you" she said
i tried to speak but couldnt i blacked out again.
I woke up in my bed at home. What is going on i asked myself, i looked over to see a dark figure at the doorway to my room. it moved closer. it spoke.
"you are dreaming, you need to wake up, you are dreaming, WAKE UP" the figure yelled. i felt like i was now moving through time and space at an uncharted speed. What is going on? as the movment stoped dead, i felt a precence behind me, as i truned he looked down. "where am i " i asked
"you are in a place without time, you come to see me" he asked
"whats going on"
"you are being given a second chance at life" he said as he looked up, his dark brown eyes looked deep into my soul. "you have a choice, stay here or go back to your life"
"i wanna go back" i said
"so be it" he said, he then pointed toweard a door. the door was dark red. I walked toward it and entered through it. I started to fall, fast. i felt a reching in my stomach as if i were on a roller coster for the 50th time today. I then saw bright light.
I awoke in a room. It was dark, i tried to move but it hurt too much. I saw a dark figure move toward the door. a light turned on. my wife was standing there
"lisa" i said as i stretched out my arm
i then passed out. They say when you die you die, but i was special i had a second chance. I woke up in the morning, i looked at the clock on the hospital wall, it was 8:34. my side hurt. my wife came to me and she hugged me the best she could, it was the most akword hug i have ever had but it was soothing.
"i was woried" she said
"how long have i been out" i asked
"3 weeks" she said
"what thats impossible"
"no, you suffered braindamage from when you fell and hit your head"
i reached up and felt the bandage around my head
"ah he is awake" said a man in a red suit
"hi im agent jenkins" he said while streching his hand out
i took it and shook it
"i need to ask you a few questions, is that ok"
"yah sure" i said "ill answer them the best i can"
"good, now Mr. Wheeler" i stoped him there
"what did you call me" i asked
"are you allright" asked my wife
"your Jacob Wheeler"
"no my name is Charles Lester" i said with harshness
"uh Mr. Wheeler, Charles Lester is the man who shot you"
i sat stunned, could it be true, as i sat up more i looked in the mirror that i saw in the bathroom. i looked the same. "what happend to me" i asked
"well, you were walking at night, and you were jumped by a charles lester, his intent was to rob you."
"what?"i said
"Charles Lester is the hitman for a mafia family, he claims you stole money from him"
"what ive never heard of such things" i said
"well, we know you did, but we at the FBI are here to take you into Witness Pertection as long as you testify to a judge what horrible things you did for the salvatore family."
I was totally confused, then a blinding white light appeared.
a voice spoke "i told you, you had a choice to come back i just didnt say as who"
"why are you doing this" i said
"we arnt"
I awoke sometime later. I looked up to see my wife hunched over me. she was crying. i tried to move but couldnt. i laid there. as it seemed like an eternity later she got up and moved to the door. she turned one last time and left the room. i felt no more pain as i felt the light take me.
It seems that i was shot by a man named jake, he yelled at me for being a thief as he sped away in his car. I was helped up by a boy. he brought me to my house where i passed out. i layed in a coma for 2 years. then they pulled the plug. i died in that hospital. I dreamt the whole time. i had always wondered what heppened in comas. i found out.
Hey you like it? tell me what you think....
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