Wakes up with a sudden jolt, it's still night.
"A nightmare? It was too realistic to be one."
"This? (looks around)"
"Where? Hospital?"
He cautiously takes a clear look of the surroundings before someone steps into the room.
"Why haven't you gone to bed yet? Tomorrow it's your first day in high school! Go to sleep!"
"Er... Dad?"
"mm?"
"Why are you here?"
Wait... isn't this the house we lived in before transferring schools in senior high? Why am I here and with Dad?
Before he speaks, a lady—his mother's voice from a distance—urges him to sleep. Then his father leaves.
he gets confused and wonders whether it's a dream after all.
The most shocking part is how young his parents were.
He gets up from his bed after his father leaves, switches on the light, and meets himself in the mirror of his room.
"This? Why do I..."
He sweats profusely. "It should be a dream... why is it so ..?" he stops,
The fear of an Unknown situation grapples him. The darkness outside adds to his fears.
He grabs a glass of water, controls his speeded breathing, and drinks the water to calm down.
"Well, this dream is too realistic.
I've had this kind of dreams before. Pain doesn't work as our brain stimulates and copies how we feel during pain in reality in this kind of dreams."
"Right...? Numbers, it requires logical thinking, clock works. right??"
Shen yi runs to the living room in a hurry and finds the clock moving. It was 2:23 PM and it was working just fine.
His fast breaths slow down a bit as he tries to calm down and find a solution.
He looks up as if finding one and goes back to his room. He was in such a hurry to find a clock,
He forgot he had one just beside his bed. He throws the clock on the bed and takes out the Advanced Maths book under it and starts solving them.
The morning sunlight peeks in through the window. A whole night passed. His room was messy, filled with solutions he solved the whole night.
"Is it reality... after all?"
"Haah," Shen yi gives a long sigh.
"Maybe... I should take a shower and look around, find what's going on."