At first I thought maybe I was in a coma or dreaming.
But the sensations were to vivid to discard it as such.
My cheeks were proof of that, which glowed bright red.
'Maybe, pinch would have been enough.' I thought as my cheeks stung.
Anyways....
"..."
After looking around and making quite a big scene, which made 'my' supposed roommate especially worry and some people question my sanity.
My roommate dragged me here and told me to rest.
I was in a sleek room whose furniture consisted of a bed, a wardrobe, a study desk, and a window, there was also a mirror in here, and i was standing right in front of it.
In the reflection, a young man with black hair that were as black as night which matched the deep black eyes. He was slightly tall but his frame was worryingly lean and every moment seemed to reveal sharp lines of his bones. His complexion was so pale, it looked as though he hadn't seen sunlight in years.
A very cold look stared back at me.
It was me and it was not me.
I didn't knew, who this person was at all.
I raised my arm as the reflection did the same. I lowered it and the reflection did too.
I stared at the reflection for a while, then turned around and made my way to the bed and sat down.
My body sank slightly, for a moment the softness caught me off guard as my palm brushed against the cool fabric, the softness beneath me was a stark contrast to the turmoil taking place inside me, it was very foreign but I didn't move and settled myself slowly.
For a while I just sat there silently and stared at the empty air in front of me, there were many thoughts going through my mind.
'Mother...Father' Thoughts about my mother and father passed through my mind.
'How will they fare with the news of my death.' I can imagine crying on my body body which I didn't knew how it would look after the accident and what would be their reaction to it.
I didn't dare to imagine.
Thoughts about my mother and fathers warms smile and warm aged hands passed though my mind.
'What will happen to them?'
Some time passed in this thoughts.
Some more passed.
Tears threatened to spill from from my eyes from the constant thoughts of my parents.
But I took a deep breath and tried to calm myself down as much as possible.
There was still a thing to be done.
To confirm whether I was correct in my conclusion or not.
I looked at the thin air in front of me, where right now there was nothing.
My heart beat increased as I tried to compose myself and spoke.
"System" In the empty air in front of right now there was....still nothing?
I looked forward and furrowed my brows.
"System" I spoke again.
"SYSTEM?"
"Panel?"
"Interface?"
"Panel-nim?"
"Interface-nim?"
"Is there someone there?"
I tried many things, but the system which was supposed to open by now didn't open.
'Maybe I was wrong and this was not the novel?' I thought.
I stood up and made my way to the door and opened it.
The door opened to a small living room which consisted of a sofa, a small balcony and a TV on which something akin to movie was playing.
On the sofa was sitting a handsome young man watching the movie.
The handsome teenager turned his head around on the sound of door opening.
"Have you calmed down?" He asked while munching something, his face looked quite worried while asking this.
My face turned red from embarrassment after imagining what I did.
"Ahem!..Yes, I have."
He nodded and smiled back.
"It happens when you take too much stress, don't stress much." He consoled me, he appeared to be kind fellow. It proves it how he didn't leave me behind when I did those shameful acts.
AHEM
I tried to sound as casual as possible.
"Do you that thing which appears when we call 'SYSTEM'" The way I spoke the last part was even weird to me.
My roommate turned towards me and looked at me confusingly. Right maybe I was somewhere-
"Isn't it the interface?" my roommate spoke unknowingly drowning my all hope of being on earth.
"Yes! right that thing."
He looked at me and I looked at him.
For a while we both stared at each other.
"...What is my name?"
SWISH
I heard the sound of the door sliding behind me as I stood in a vast corridor. After saying my roommate I was going for a walk.
After questioning my roommate for sometime until I felt like he would dial hospital, I knew my general situation.
'My' name was Kael Virell and I was in a place called The Stronghold.
Which I knew very well.