A Thousand Dreams (2)

The scene in front of Jeffrey changed. Terrance was falling in total darkness, unaware of his surrounding. He was screaming but with no sound coming from his mouth.

Soon he stopped dropping and instead stood in place. Before his mind could process what was happening, an enormous eye with a yellow pupil emerged from the darkness. It stared upon Terrance and blinked or winked. but one thing was for sure, it was disgusting.

"Human with a pure heart, you have earned the right to live again" a voice resounded from the darkness. Terrance wasn't even spooked out by the talking eyeball while Jeffrey looked at it with interest, it's not every day you see an eyeball speak.

"Are you ready to go through a thousand dreams, success means reincarnation....while failure means death and you have only three chances at each dream" the voice said again.

Terrance stared at the eyeball before nodding his head "yes I'm ready". On a norm who would say no to reincarnation? not him because he would snatch even the smallest possibility of ever seeing his friend again.

In a split second after he responded he appeared in a modern court of some sort and was met with the judge's glare.

"Ten days, ten days is all you have to prove your innocence...The court is adjourned" the judge said.

Terrance was confused just like Jeffrey who hadn't read about any of the dreams yet. In his confusion, he suddenly heard a voice inside his head. "Your first dream, you have been accused of deflowering a minor prove your innocence in the next ten days or die"

Jeffrey heard it too and only rolled his eyes. 'I know deflowed means raped do they think I'm that little?'

Terrance was handcuffed and led to prison. "Your ten days start tomorrow," an officer said before leaving Terrance to himself.

"I don't care what I'm accused of, I will cross all these dreams and meet 'Joku' again whatever it takes" Terance muttered with resolution in his eyes.

Jeffrey's consciousness suddenly returned to his body with no prior warning. He opened his eyes and saw Moon shaking him in a way that would awaken even the dead. "What do you want?" irritation wrote on his face.

"You're finally awake, since when do you sleep like the dead?" Moon asked.

"Dead people don't sleep, they're dead," Jeffrey said before standing from his chair.

"Whatever, mom wants you downstairs, I think to check your height again and to eat dinner" she grinned.

Jeffrey groaned after listening to her. He hated having his height marked as it would always remind him that he was short compared to his pairs not that noticeable but short was still short. "Couldn't you just say I'm sleeping?"

"And miss the look on your face, not in a million years" Moon chuckled before vacating Jeffrey's room.

Ten minutes later, Jeffrey could be seen downstairs with a sour look on his face.

"You've not been eating adequately, only two inches since last year. I'll call your teacher now, I'll be giving you two lunch boxes every day, and he'll help me monitor you"

Jeffrey couldn't take it anymore and stare at his mom with dead eyes. "Please stop, don't embarrass me any further. I will grow when I want to"

"You won't understand what a parent is going through. It doesn't matter what you say, this time I'm taking matters into my own hands" his mom stubbornly replied.

Annoyed Jeffrey went back to his room without eating. He wasn't even in the mood to read anymore so he went to check out discord. He did not dilly-dally and just went directly to #general and scroll down to an hour before.

[Tooth-Reaper: Can't believe Evie lake is coming to Trost city]

[Dawn-Tree: That's not as crazy as the fact that she's staying, I'm speechless]

[Blue-Ivory: Poor kid must be confused. Bet she'll still go back to acting though]

[Tooth-Reaper: It's not like she can't be both]

[Shameless: What's happening here]

[Tooth-Reaper: Scroll up to get the gist]

Jeffrey then scrolled down a bit before something caught his attention.

[Mr-Crabs: Little-Chibi stopped uploading for two days now, can someone tell me what's wrong]

[Candle-Wax: Cheers to them, readers and writers]

[Wolf-Out: Heard she's taking time to edit her book but she did promise a mass release when she's done]

[Mr-Crabs: Okay thanks]

Jeffrey then exited the group before entering #novel-discussion.

[Cross-Knuckles: I have an idea of making a fantasy world infested with robots but can't seem to put the idea on paper]

[Frozen: Take a shower, works for me]

[Food's-Will: I suggest you read books of fantasy and sci-fi genre, maybe it'll help]

[Cross-Knuckles: Thanks man]

[Food's-Will: np]

Bored he exited the app and went back to Dark-Beacon's book 'A Thousand Dreams'.

Terrance was released the next day to go find evidence. He wasn't sure how he was going to prove his innocence and he couldn't go meet the said girl. There would be too many people watching so he wouldn't even be able to interrogate her properly.

With a heavy heart, Terrance went to the scene of the crime at his home. Well, the home was given to him in this dream. He had no memory of the night but he was sure he wasn't guilty, he shouldn't be because the dream required him to prove his innocence.

He also noticed that he was changing, he couldn't tell how but he felt it like the dream was affecting him.

The house was scattered with everything out of place, Terrance owned the place as it looked like an earthquake happened. A sudden feeling of familiarity came over him making him feel weird.

He hadn't been there for a week yet the incident happened three days ago. 'Wait what?' Terrance thought backward, if he hadn't been here for a week then how did he deflower the girl?

The discovery led him to a disturbing thought, either the girl was lying or a third person was trying to frame him.