For some time, I had not dared to step out of my bed, lest I should fall through the clouds. Everyone knows that clouds are just water vapour. Seeing the kid stand on it like it were solid tempted me more than I could understand. I had to fight back the urge to stand up. And then I did it. I finally stood up. Bad idea...
I stood for a a few milliseconds motionless on the clouds and fell through it. It was a long fall. It reminded me of that one girl who was chasing a rabbit and fell into a hole and reached Wonderland. I had this thought about reading that story in my childhood. I wondered where I was going to fall. If I fell somewhere, would I die? If this were the afterlife, I possibly couldn't. I wasn't terribly afraid after a little while. I figured that this was just a fall to hell...
I got bored after a while and started counting seconds.
One second...
Two seconds...
I counted till I reached sixty. A minute and more had passed and I was still falling. I hit the ground when I was least expecting it. I had been drifting into sleep and then suddenly, CRASH! I fell onto the ground and surprisingly, the ground was as soft as a mattress. I rebounded twice and fell onto my back. I could see the red and yellow sky.
It was dawn.
I got up and brushed some dirt off my clothes. I was wearing a white sweatshirt with jeans. I let out a dry laugh at the sight of them. They were the same clothes I had been wearing on the day of my birthday.
First, I die on the day of my birthday. Then I wake up in a random bed with only a kid to talk to. Then I fall through the clouds and wake up in yet another strange place. I could say that my life was pretty great. If I was alive...
The land I fell on was pure grass. There was no other sign of anything except grass on the ground. Except a path. A man-made one. It looked very out of place in a jungle like place. It was made up of asphalt and stone and led somewhere. The last few days had really tested my patience and had increased it too.
Since, there was a road, it had to be taken. I started walking in the direction to which the road led me.