My Home

My home is a little unconventional. For one instead of being any sort of residential building. It used to be a police station, but when the station moved to a better position downtown, my family purchased the building and turned the old police station into a compound. It's modified heavily, turning the area that used to be holding cells into a number of small rooms. Each one fitting four people snugly. A few of the rooms were expanded and some of the entrances and exits were removed and/or sealed.

Some other strange aspects of my home is the constant patrols of armed guards and the still stocked armory. As well while the holding cells were modified into bedrooms there were other cells that were left functioning as normal. It's rare they're ever in use, but they are used on occasion.

One of the rooms I'm not sure what it was before, or if it even was something different before, has been converted into a chapel for various faiths to pray and worship. Trust is a big issue in my home and as such there is a constant buddy system and no one is allowed to wander around alone. This is especially true at the chapel where two guards are always posted to make sure that those within are not praying to the wrong god.

I should specify in this case the wrong god being a part of The Darkness not that we are intolerant of any specific faith.

So, that is my home. When the darkness comes I will undoubtedly be forced to flee my home. If I go by myself I will be forced to stay on the move. Otherwise I can stay and eventually my entire family will be forced to move, but I will still be with them when they settle down again... I don't want to put them through that though. When the Darkness comes I will leave by myself.

Next time... I suppose I can tell you about my Family I've already mentioned a lot about them in this post. 

My Dreams

In my dreams I see other universes and other times. Only the past though never the future. I don't know what's happening in the future I only know what's happened in the past in this and every other universe.

I've seen The Darkness, I've seen people fighting The Darkness. I've seen other universes where The Darkness is gone and new Darkness simply moved in. I've seen The Rapture and The Fall of Gods. I've seen my friends and my family and their interactions with The Darkness. That's how I found my friends and how I learned about my family.

In my Dreams I see The Darkness and The Darkness has seen me. That's why eventually The Darkness will come for me.

Next time we'll talk about My Home.

My School

So, starting with my most boring foot forward let's talk about my school.

My school is called Country Vale High School. It's a two story brick building. The top story is a donut shaped hallway of doors leading to various classrooms. The bottom floor is a small rectangle that leads off in one direction to the lockerbay and main stairwell and in the other direction to the gym, library and a few more classrooms, mostly language and science classrooms.

There are a number of teachers at the school and a number of students. A few of my friends are here. One's a teacher and another is a "Office Administrator". The teacher is an I.T. teacher... I'm not supposed to use their real names so we'll call him Mr. Doloro. He's a whiz with computers. I'll tell you more about him later.

The Administrator is a young man probably not too much older than me. We'll call him Patrick Aurelio. I have to call him Mr. when I speak to him at school though. To be respectful. Mr. Doloro makes me call him Mr. all the time though. Everyone else, but Patrick calls him Mr all the time anyway. I'll talk more about both of them at a later point.

So... at the school I have a few acquaintances, but only two real friends. I don't want anyone else close to me when The Darkness finally catches up to me so I keep people at a distance. It's earned me a reputation as sort of an outcast. Occasionally people make up stories about me or pick on me. I don't mind though. I'm nowhere near the most picked on person at school anyway. I'm mostly ignored. This is probably because of my well known friendship with Mr. Doloro and Mr. Aurelio. Which is another reason people pick on me calling me a teacher's pet and stuff, but they mostly leave me alone because everyone likes Mr. Aurelio and no one wants to upset Mr. Doloro.

So, that's my school I guess... I'll tell you about my dreams next.

It's been a little while now and everything still seems calm.

Any day now the dam is going to break and the nightmares will rush forth, but for now I can lie happily on the grass, stare up at the sky and let all the pain, suffering and Fear stuck behind the dam float out of my mind.

Let me tell you about the happy things.

My friends.

My love.

My family.

My school.

My home.

My dreams.

My life.

One thing I don't have to worry about. When the dark comes I will lose many of these things, but not all.

In the end I will undoubtedly lose my home and be forced to leave my school.

My dreams will no longer be places of sanctuary, but the first casualty in their war against me.

In the end I may lose my life.

I will never lose my love, I will never lose my family and I will never lose my friends.

This I know, because my family has stood for a long time against the darkness and will not falter now.

My love was once one with the darkness and still holds it's power.

My friends have fought the darkness before many times and won in the end and will continue to do so forever after.

I think in this case I will start by telling you about my school. The most innocuous of starts...