I woke up with a start, my heart
thumping in my chest as if its trying to get out, and heavy sweat dripping from my brow, then i looked around my room. Then i realize it was just a dream. It was just another stupid, and scary nightmare I kept telling myself.
Images of strange pink creatures burning, dying, and the sounds of screams still echoed in my throbbing head.
Looking to the clock, I groaned.
There was still half-hour till my alarm was set to go off. The thought of trying to get more sleep and possibly continuing that dream were enough to get me out of bed.
I reached for the light switch with my mind, and as soon as I felt it and tried to flip it. Sharp, lancing pain drove into my mind.
It felt like a spike was slowly being pounded between my eyes, and I stopped trying to move the switch. The pain lessened markedly, but the echo of it could still be felt, then I realized that l’d fallen to the floor.
"Are you alright in there, man?" Dennis said a few moments later, knocking on my door. "I heard you yell."
I got up on my knees, and held my head in my hands as i answered back, "Yeah, just a bad dream. Sorry I woke you."
As Dennis walked away, I wondered what had happened?
I could still feel the switch with my mind, but I didn’t dare try and flip it again. I could still feel the pain between my eyes, though it was only a pale shadow of what it had been. Had I overused my new ability yesterday, or did I somehow break it?
Deciding that I needed to rest my mind for a bit, I brought up my laptop. The latest episode of Big Bang Theory had downloaded last night, and it usually put me in a much better mood.
"Exterminate! Exterminate!" The sound of my alarm going off scared me all over again, which ruined the final scene of the episode l’d been watching, and turned my mood sour all over again. I quickly grabbed my Android phone, and turned it off.
Considering the dreams I’d had last night, I decided that I really should follow Dennis’s advice and change the alarm sound. I
choose Jackson’s HEAL THE WORLD Theme, as that was a soothing song, and hoped that it would be better to wake up to.
I changed out of my Batman pajamas, rubbing my eyes, and wishing I had slept better.
"Hey," Dennis said around a mouthful of cereal as I walked out of my room, "I’ve done some more checking online, and found even more people who claim to have gotten special abilities."
I froze as I heard him say that, trying to recall if I had told him what I could do now. Or rather, what I had been able to do yesterday. Then I remembered the conversation he’d had with me yesterday morning about the news reports he’d seen on T.V.
"Don’t give me that look. I thought you were into this kind of weird stuff."
"What did you find now?" | asked, trying to act uninterested, but after the events of yesterday, he had my full attention.
"Some guy down in Brazil can make himself change colors like a chameleon. It almost makes him invisible." As he talked, bits of cereal spewed from his mouth, but he just kept talking excitedly.
"Man, if I could do that, l’d hide out in the cheerleader’s locker room. Can you imagine what goes on in there?"
I could only shake my head at his behavior, but wondered if what he was telling me was real. If I had received new abilities, it was completely likely that others might have too. The only thing I couldn’t figure out was: what had been the catalyst ?
"I forgot to ask you," my roommate said, finally swallowing his mouthful, "How did your date go with Tina?"
"It wasn’t a date," I answered immediately. "It was a tutoring session." I couldn’t hide my smile though, and knew I’d been somewhat busted.
"Tutoring... Right... Somehow I think she did more teaching than you did, from that smile of yours!"
He said.