“Who?”
“The old woman.”
Isaac looked up in surprise.
“The old woman at the church? The crazy one?”
Taylor hesitated, but shook his head.
“I don’t know. She sounded crazy, but what she said makes sense now.”
He looked across at his brother as someone walked past. Isaac sat back.
“So, you’ve been cursed by the ‘Dream Doctor’ huh?”
Taylor couldn’t help but laugh.
“It sounds stupid I know, but… oh man.”
The two of them were sitting on a park bench at a park not far from their home. Taylor had been shaking all day, and of course everyone had noticed, so Isaac had made a point of asking him about it that afternoon.
Opting for a more private place to talk, they’d come out to the park. There were minimal people around, mainly young roller bladers, some joggers, and an old couple feeding some ducks.
“I think I’m going mental,” he chuckled, a grin appearing on his face.
Isaac raised his eyebrows, and looked out across the lake in front of them.
“Tay… I know you’re not making this up. I know that you’re too freaked to even consider it,” he began, scratching his head, “but… this sleep paralysis… I know he apparently said it wasn’t, but I just wanna know, more, about it. I mean…”
Taylor looked up at the water for a moment.
“All I did was look it up on the net. So many people have had it, apparently it’s not a very rare thing,” he said finally.
“How rare?”
“I’m not sure. Somewhere said one in six, but I think it’s more like one in a thousand… that get it often. Some people will only have it a couple of times in their whole life.”
“So there’s a chance I could get it?” Isaac chuckled.
“Every,” Taylor shrugged, “it’s completely random. It’s brought on by stress or lack of sleep or something. Which is a good point…”
He sat back and rubbed his chin.
“If you get it because of lack of sleep, then you’re too scared to sleep because you think it’ll happen again… then you’re just gonna get it from lack of sleep again.”
He raised his arm a little and frowned.
“And what the heck is the point of that?”
Isaac raised his own eyebrows and leant forward.
“But sleep paralysis isn’t what you say you have, so can we get back to the topic?”
“Sorry.”
“So what do you think you have?”
Taylor shook his head.
“I’ve been cursed by the Dream Doctor. What else?”
“You’re going by the old lady’s statement?”
“What else is there to go by?”
“How do you know it’s not sleep paralysis anyway?”
Taylor sighed.
“Hallucinations don’t socialize with you, ok? They don’t tell you what you can feel, they don’t threaten you, and they certainly don’t plan what they’re going to do with you,” he began, “this was more than just a hallucination. Ike, I could see you in the room. I was still in the bedroom. Everything was normal except for the fact that he was there, and I couldn’t move or speak.”
He hesitated for a moment.
“And I guess he’s expecting me back at 10.”
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