2 Confusion

Azure eyes were locked on a peculiar specimen inside a large tank. It was a jellyfish, a very simple organism yet something alien about them captivated the attention of the young Kamille.

Ever since he laid his eyes on one when he was a child, the creature's enticing form fascinated him. Public aquariums are a safe haven for that young lad. Whenever he feels under the weather, he'd abandon whatever he's doing and go straight into where the jellyfishes may be to calm him down.

As of now, he stood watching inside the dimly lit jellyfish exhibit area where there's only a dome of glass that's separating him from water that could easily drown him if the glass were to break. He also closed the doors that lead to the corridor where the other attractions are to prevent other people from ruining his "alone time" with the jellyfishes.

Numerous jellyfishes of different sizes slowly zoomed around the tank and Kamille's eyes followed. It relaxed him really, people had their own ways to escape, and this was his.

Kamille, or by his full name of Hannibal Kamille Andersen, 19 and a college student went to this place just to clear his head of senseless thoughts. Everyone would eventually come to that one point in life, and this is what's exactly happening to him now. At first he thought everything would go out as he planned, but of course it all backfired. He soon hated that feeling, he never thought it'll all come at one point he regrets something something he'd call a "trivial matter."

"Get yourself together Kamille, this isn't the time to be upset. I have to focus what comes after...I don't want anyone to see me in this state." Kamille sighs while twirling his finger around his purple hair. "What would dad say when he sees me like this?"

With a sigh he went to a corner and sat down, looked at one of glasses and observed the jellyfishes yet again. However, he what he loved the most, he detested the most. These creatures that he's been fascinated throughout his childhood are trapped in a cage, powerless and unable to make a change.

He hated it, why would such a beautiful creature be so weak? To be confined in such a space, just to be stared by people day after day. Nature gifted them with unique abilities and yet here they are, placed here against their will by man.

"I pity you...but you aren't to blame. You live out simple lives by being simple organisms, that's why I can't help but be fascinated by you. No, I envy you even." Kamille spoke with a cold voice. "I want to be free from all of this, but I can't. That's why I envy you, I want to be something like you. Swimming freely as you can be in that enclosed space of yours..."

Kamille huddled himself like a child, shivering from the aquarium's cold air. He hated weakness, he knew firsthand how absolutely terrifying it was to be powerless.

However, that mood didn't last long.

The youth raised his right hand as far as he could and dropped it down hard and fast to his right cheek. As if the hand of God himself bothered to descend from the heavens just to slap the heretic, all of Kamille's negative thoughts immediately left his mind. The resulting pain made him bite down on his own lips and clench his fists. He stayed like this for a good minute before standing up and took a deep breath.

"AHHH! THAT HURTS DAMMIT!" He yells loud enough for his voice to crack midway. "Now that I shook that disgusting feeling away, I feel refreshed! I guess I'll call it a day and go home. There are a lot of better things I need to than waste my time moping around."

All his pain and hatred suddenly vanished just like that. As if they weren't there in the first place. Kamille felt satisfied with how this day turned out to be. And so he walked towards a group of jellyfishes and talked to them as if they could hear him.

"Well, that's that. Our time was short but guys surely helped me out. Sorry if I had to vent everything I had to you guys, so no hard feelings ok?" Kamille then placed his forehead against the cold glass and chuckled as he continued on talking. "I'm still jealous of you guys, and I always will. But that's enough from me and my ramblings, I got to go now. Worry not my gelatinous audience, for I shall come back when I feel like shit again. So best of luck to your confinement!"

And with that he slowly walked away from the exhibit with a content smile. Who wouldn't after consulting all of his personal burden to a bunch of mindless floating sacks of water. Nevertheless Kamille will leave the public aquarium a happy man like he wanted.

However, something else was listening to him other than the jellyfishes...

As Kamille placed his hands to open the doors, he noticed two things:

The knobs were freezing cold which as odd, and the other was that both knobs didn't turn when he tried to open the doors. With all of his strength, Kamille once again tried to open the doors but he soon gave up when the coldness got the better of him.

But, this is just the start of the bizarreness he's about to witness.

The atmosphere suddenly shifted, a slight shiver ran from the top of Kamille's head down to his spine as he heard a very loud crack.

"No way...?!" He turned his head around and to no surprise, the glass around him started to break.

He should be panicking right now, but instead he was confused. The cracking glass is one thing, but what about the water above? At this point there should at least a leak coming out but there was none. What's more weird are jellyfishes. The entire smack of jellyfishes aren't moving, it's like they're frozen in there.

With a big gulp, Kamille stepped in to take a closer look. He sensed no danger whatsoever, but with how everything doesn't make any sense as now, the concept of danger was irrelevant.

There's only confusion and sheer silence.

Kamille stared at the jellyfishes for a while until he noticed one of them, somewhere in the middle is still moving. This one in particular looks different from the others. Maybe it's because of the otherworldly red glow it emits or the patterns that resemble eyes decorated the sides of it's dome shaped body. He couldn't get rid of the growing paranoia that he's feeling, it felt like that one peculiar jellyfish is...watching him.

His paranoia jumped from 0 to 60 real quick when the "eyes" of the jellyfish blinked and looked straight into his own eyes. Kamille steps back now sensing the danger he's in, as if everything were suddenly shot up to maximum. His heart rate, temperature, everything really. He shivered in absolute terror when shards of the glass finally broke off and fell on the ground and so he braced himself for the water that will eventually kill him.

But no, there was nothing. He looked up to see what's going on and to his surprise, there was no water behind that glass. There was nothing at all. The glass broke off piece by piece, revealing a black empty void. But it wasn't the end of that, the presence of "something" can be felt there. This feeling terrified Kamille the most, something he couldn't see is lurking in that very same space he was in.

But, all that disappeared in an instant. Kamille felt oddly normal again, the paranoia wasn't there. Yet he's still aware where he is, at this point nothing absolute makes sense.

Is this a sick dream of some sorts? Or is he just hallucinating? Is this even real or not? He couldn't tell which is which anymore.

Then...

"What...ahhh...AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!"