Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Chase Me

A short story by  Prawoto Satryo Durakim
Written in 2020 as a final project of Prose Fiction Course
English Language Education Department,
Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha

 

What do you know about dream? Dream will come in our asleep, not all of us but sometimes or everyday it will come. Dream is a big world that we do not know how can it produce. It going to be bad or happy. It depends with our feeling, it just a statement. Dream comes to people not only the rich one, but all people can feel the dream itself. Dream sometimes make us afraid, dream has a meaning. Do you believe it? Some of you will say yes for this opinion. Dream is only a dream, your beautiful memory while asleep. There is no one can beat your dream except yourself. Do not be scary of your dream, cause you are ghosted by your dream. Accept or leave is your choice to confront your life.

He is Brian Lee. He is handsome, some people said that. He has 188cm tall, he is really tall for a man. Many people especially like him. He is uncommunicative but he is educated. He lives alone in this town, a small town with poor people. How about the rich one? They did not live here, this is not their place. He likes to travelling, and he is free person. He had his own house but he sometimes sleep there. He works in the place that somebody do not know. Every people in this town respect of his existence in this town. He usually wearing a causal fashion to enjoy his time.

The people here know that Brian Lee is not only a normal person. He is called as a “dream chaser”. how can he get his name like that? Some people believe that he has a sixth sense. The power of restrain his mind and he can detect the future. It is interesting right. A lot of people come to his house and they want to ask something about their future. But they would be disappointed after that. Do you know why? Because Brian Lee did not want to do it, he is not an oracle. He is human, and someone who asked with him is human also. It makes him confused of this situation.

In the past, little Brian Lee always get bullied by his friend. He actually not know why he get this kind of condition. He was still young to get this treatment. Some of them said Brian Lee is an enchanter because of his speciality. There is no friends of Brian Lee live, he was give up of himself. He asked to his parents and there is no answer, but they called him as “special” little Brian Lee always thinking of himself “am I special? I’m not, I’m different” it makes him suppressed. He was blaming himself.

The dream came again and again, he feels doing the same activity everyday. He felt like he does what he was doing in his dream. He confused and scary at the first time he feel. But he ignore the thought that can make his life chaotic. The dream came again, but the dream was not tell about him. But it tells about his friend, at the first he ignore and still enjoy their way. Suddenly the dream came true, what was he dreams about his friend happen. He is bathed of blood in front of Brian Lee. He knows it will happen but he silenced, he save it in his mind. No one should not know about it. It is my big secret. He keep did this until the time comes and is open to everyone, even though it is very difficult to accept it but he still grateful for what he should be grateful for.

Brian Lee is a dream chaser. After he coming out, he is overtake his dream. He travelling around the world to chase his dream and save his life. He is a writer, so it going to be nice if he write his story into a book. He almost travel around the world, followed his dream. He meets a lot of people, kind, pretty, bad, and anything he find it. He straight away to follow his dream. 

At night, he dream about his life. He do not know about the dream then he woke up and start to write his story. He wrote like what he felt right know. After that he slept again. He woke up earlier in the morning, he prepared his clothes and some kind of stuff to his trunk. He know that he should go to the place that he noticed from his dream. But before that he wrote again his activity. Then after that he went to the shower and take a bath. He had a bad feeling, for the first time. But he ignore his feeling and continue his activity. He was already to go to his destination. But before he walks farther he write what he feel again to make this memorable. He go to the bus station with his his trunk. People in there accost Brian Lee warmly and replied warmly with him. Suddenly his neighbor come to Brian Lee and said “Do you will go for a long time? “ Brian Lee said “ yes sir, but I don’t know actually.” his neighbor said to Brian Lee “ be careful and stay safe you can pass all of them”. Bruce lee replied with nod and smile. Then he walked to the bus station.

While he waited for a bus he suddenly felt someone look at him, then he looked around but nothing. There is no one here, only Brian Lee and his trunk. The bus come and Brian Lee go with the bus. In his way he was wondering that how can his dream is abstract like that. He does not know where it is actually but he knows the sign it not really far from his town so he decided to go there. His bad feeling come again and it makes him uncomfortable. Then he take his book in his pocket then he read it until the bus arrive there. It is around 2 hours from in the beginning he go suddenly the bus tire was broken and it makes Brian Lee shocked. Because it is far away from the town, the passenger should sleep in the bus one night. It is not a big problem for Brian Lee, the night comes and he coming down to his dream. It was a flat dream but he looks something over there. At the end of the road a girl who glowed seen by Brian Lee. He just wondered that who is that girl. Then he come over to the girl in the end of road. when he reached the end of the road surprised him because the woman turned into a scary creature.

He woke up with sweating he does not know what happen then the bus stopped he arrive to his destination. He walked passing the path by looking around. This is not a strange place he knew this vibes. Then he got the place that he wanted, the sign that indicate his destination. This sign showed toward to an old house, he taught that was an inn. He walked there slowly. He came to the hotel and looked around. He had bad feeling here. And again he ignored his feeling then he leased one room.

He walked through the rooms. He arrived in his room, 808 was room that he rent for a long day. He wanted to open the door but suddenly the light here was unstable. The door was hard to open, like somebody locked from the inside of the room. He was curious, he looked around and he caught a girl who bring a doll in at the end of corridor. He was monologue “who is she?” then the lights off for a second then lights again. The girl who brought a doll was disappear. It was too fast for someone to move it was only 0,1 second time. After that the lights off again for a second then lights on. The girl there, looked at Brian Lee. She looked sad and there is no happiness in her. He ignored her and opened the room. He came inside and looked around.

He spruced up the thongs that he brought in the proper, including writing tools that he putted on the table beside his bed. He was too tired, then he took a rest in his bed. He felt asleep, suddenly he dreamed again. He drew some girls, he could not count the girls in his drew but he drew until his pencil tip was broken. He felt dizzy at that time and he woke up. He looked around and take a deep breath. He take his pencil and his paper in the table beside his bed. He remembered the picture in his dream. He started to drew the girls. And then finally he knew that the girls in that dream was seven girls. But when he wanted to drew the last girl, he only finished his sketch. His pencil tip was broken, it was the same with his dream. Suddenly he felt dizzy and his nose was bleeding. He stopped drawing and cleaned up the mess.

After he cleaned up the mess, he came out of the bathroom. Faintly he saw a girl with long hair and wearing a gown that made from woll yarn seat and starring at the window. He blinks his eyes and the girl was disappear. He felt awkward and he went to his bed and lying on the bed. He started to sleep again because the time showed night time. He felt someone interferes his sleep. He woke up with bad feelings he looked at the window and there was nothing. There is nobody else except Brian. He decided to not sleep at that time. Because he was too curious what happened in this room. But in the middle ha could not hold back his sleepy and he fall asleep again. He dreamed about two girls in the corridor approaching Brian Lee who stood in front of the door of his room. He froze and he woke up after that.

The sunshine began to entered his room. He woke up and he prepared himself, he wants to go out to look around of this town. After he already to went out, when he wanted to open the door, the door locked again. It felt like in the first time that he came. But it feels a little bit different because there is someone who hold a door handle. He was frustrated and kicked the door slowly. He confused and he thought that he should call the inn staff.

In the night, Brian Lee was fall asleep. He tired because he read a lot of book these day because he discourage to went out of the hotel. Suddenly a few books in the cupboard felt down. He shocked and woke up, then he tidy up the books in the cupboard. “Dduk” he was hearing something outside. He decided to look outside. He open the door slowly and he just peering out. He shocked and confused there was a girl who was hovering like no gravity. A girl looked at Brian Lee and suddenly he felt like saw something. He saw some girls playing with the teddy bears and started to release the both eyes, the he blinks and looked at the mirror. His eyes was already gone. He shocked, he touched his empty eyes calmly. He was wondering that what happened to me. He shocked and he woke up of his dream. Sweating and confused, that was he felt. But he could not hold the dizziness in his head and he started to sleep again. He dreamed some girls changed the number of the room. He confused then. What is happened here.

He woke up and went out to his room. He looked around and that was real, now he was confused with the number these room. It looked same and it had same number of room. He looked around and he curios is this real or not. Then he went to the monitor room of CCTV cam. He looked at the corridor in his room. But there is nothing, he got permission to forward the time and it same. There was no one came or changed the number of room. He was wondering for a second, what is mean, why it could be like this. Then he came again to his room and suddenly the number of the room changed into usual number. He came inside his room, and sit in his bed. He just thought that what is mean with this.

In the next day, he went out from the in and looked around this city. He wanted to buy some foods here but suddenly he found something under the big tree in the right corner of the inn. He went to it and take the thing. It looks like a book but it was too hard as a book, it was black and it looked like someone has locked this book. So he decided to not go and he came back to his room.

In his room he tried to open this mysterious book. The cover this book is too hard and it could not open. He should know the key of this book. And then he take his writing tools and start to write what happened here. It was going to be interested because this inn was mysterious. He wrote his story until the night came. He put back his writing tools and start to sleep. After he cleaned up himself he started to sleep.

The dream was coming back to Brian Lee. He was in empty room and looked around. There was nothing, there was no lights. But he looks a light in the corner. He came through following the lights but it was a wring decision. It was the mother of devil came to Brian Lee and it started to caught up Brian Lee. He was afraid and run. He ran until he fell on the floor. He did not stop to move. He struggled to moved toward the corridor where the room was. He found out his room, and opened his room. He came inside, then he woke up. It was a bad dream he said.

In the morning, the staff called Brian Lee to came to monitor room. He confused and he went to the monitor room. A staff there told him that he was afraid and he was stumbling when he came inside his room. At the first Brian Lee was not believe it, then the staff gave him a relay video in the corridor, he was shocked. It was Brian Lee and it looked like in his dream. Then he looked for a long time that cam. He just wondered that how it could be like that. And then he realized and collapse all of the events that he had experienced. From the beginning he came until he stumbling on the floor. It caused of “ghost” that can not be looked by the eyes.   

 

He remembered that there is a room that is the real room of the number 808 room. He walked to corridor and try to found out the real room. He peered around the gap in the door. Then he found it, the brightness room in the corner of corridor. He would to open the door. He forced himself to come inside with breaking down the door by all his might. He did it more than twice again and again until the door was break.

He entered the room and looked around, there are a lot of girl stuff, he looked one by one the photo of seven girls. It seems like what he dreamed about. He read all of the paper there. He started to close his eyes and he can see what happened before. He was crying and he open his eyes slowly. He saw a key in the table, and he realized that was a key the book that he found in the tree. He decided to take the key and go back in his room. Then he opened up the book. It was empty until he read a sentence in this book.

“Come to me, Come to me, Come to me, I’ll take you to the place that you never know”

  then he lost his consciousness, his nose was bleeding, his heart was taken by her.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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