One day, a boy named Erik was at home, and was playing video games with his friends. “Good shot, Erik!”
“Go get that gun over there.” said one of Erik’s friends.
Erik got the gun, and blasted an alien to bits. “Dinners ready boys!”
They dashed to the kitchen, and got their food, and began eating.
A few minutes in, someone rang the doorbell. “I’ll get it!” said Erik, and ran to the door.
Out of curiosity, he looked in the peephole. It was a man with formal, black clothing, who had an enormous wedding ring. “Excuse me, but who are you?” queried Erik.
“I am…”
Erik then woke up, puzzled by the dream.
He was supposed to have his friends over today, and planned to play with that exact video game, level, and gun. He also believed that he had seen that man, talking to a woman at a supermarket a few weeks back. Erik check to see what time it was. “6:00…”
“Man, I’m still tired from yesterdays soccer game…” he thought.
Erik plopped his head back on the pillow, and fell back asleep.
He woke up again at 8:00, ready for the party with his friends.
He got breakfast, played some games, and after a while it was 10:00.
They were supposed to come at 9:30… thought Erik.
I hope everyone is alright.
Erik decided to call his friend Sebastian. “Hello, please leave a message after the beep.
Beeeep. “Hey, Sebastian, you there?”
About fifteen seconds passed. “Alright, call me back.”
He hung up, and proceeded to try his other two friends. The same thing happened. No response, no answer of any kind. “Mom, do you know why everyone is late?”
“No, honey, I don’t. Erik glanced at the clock. 10:40… Man, I wonder what happened!
He decided to go outside on the porch and wait for his friends. It was 12:00, and nobody was there.
After about five more minutes, he went back inside. A couple minutes passed, and he heard a knock on the door. “I’ll get it!” said Erik. It was Sebastian, with a large brown bag.
“Oh, hey Sebastian, how are you?”
“Good, but I got stuck in a bit of traffic.”
Sebastian walked inside and sat down on a red couch. Erik joined him.
“Say, do you know what happened to everyone else?”
“No, but I think I may have seen John’s car on the way here..”
“Probably just traffic, like me.”
Sebastian was relatively tall and thin, had green eyes, brown hair, and was 14. Erik was very similar in physical terms, although he was slightly more muscular, and had blue eyes.
“Wanna play some video games?”
“Alright, for a bit. But I want to finish..” He pulled a book out of his bag.
“The dragon summoners!”
The cover depicted a man riding a dragon riding a dragon with futuristic battle armor, and guns on its back and head. The man riding it had a battlesuit as well, and a sword that appeared to glow blue. “Looks like an interesting book!”
“Mind if I read it when your finished?”
“Sure, it should only take me about an hour more to finish it.”
They both went upstairs, turned on the game console, and started playing. After about half an hour, they heard a knock at the door. Sebastian pauses the game, and Erik ran to the door. It was John. “Hey John!”
“Where were you?”
“Traffic.”
Odd.. why would there be such a massive amount of traffic? thought Erik.
“I heard something about a new book coming out today, but why it would cause so much traffic, I don’t know.”
“Anyways, wanna play some video games?”
“Sure.”
They played video games, read The dragon summoners, watched a movie, and told jokes and scary ghost stories late into the night. When Erik was asleep, he had the same dream as he did last night. Only this time, the man that showed up at the door was his friend that never showed up, Sam. He had the dream many times that night, wondering why.
