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 You wake up on a bed of roses with light shining 

upon you. You have fallen down into the hole above 

you. The vast caverns and sharp stalagmites intimidate 

you. Cliffs all around you makes you think how lucky 

you were to fall on this platform.

 The only safe passage out of this area is... a narrow path 

with thousands of knives from the earth below. One small 

mistake could end it all.

 You take a step and...

 You cross it. Simpler than it looked.

 Once you crossed the narrow path, you see a curve 

within the cave. The caverns take a sharp right turn. You 

decide to walk along the rough wall and turn to the 

corner. There's a Huge door blocking the whole entire 

way. You open the door. It's a very dark room.

 There's light shining upon a pink rug in the middle of 

the room. 

 You walk toward the rug, not sure what the floor is, if 

there is a narrow path like before with stalagmite, and 

what exactly is going on.

 "Hello, child. You seem to be lost. May I, guide you 

through the ruins. Do not Fear the ruins. Take my 

hand."

 A hooded figure manifested itself by stepping into the 

dim light. He held out a hand.

 "Come on, I will not attack you."

                       There was a long pause

"I will only make you..."

 You feel extreme Fear as the hooded figure walks 

toward you. *Gasp* The hooded figure hesitates. One 

second felt like an hour as you stared into the darkness 

of a creature, TRUE darkness.

 The ground starts to shake. You look behind you as the 

door you just entered gets blocked by the tumbling 

rocks. You look here, there, everywhere, rocks from the 

ceiling crumble and fall. You crouch there, unable to 

move, unable to comprehend what's going on.

 Right in front of you, stands the pink rug fading away. 

The dark hooded figure is also gone. You conclude that 

you're going to die alone. No one can help you.

 Multiple cracks appear on the walls, but the wall ahead 

of you cracks with a glimmer of light piercing through 

the darkness.

 The light shines brighter. You stand up and walk toward 

it, all your concentration, all your focus, onto the beam 

of light.

 As you walk toward it, everything in slow-motion. The 

boulders about to crash into the ground, causing to lose 

your balance, but you don't care. All you care is the 

light. You don't know anything, your origin, who you 

truly are. You feel like someone is watching you. The 

sensation of fear starts crawling to your head. It grows 

rapidly. Then, it seems to be physical as the growing 

sensation starts applying pressure. 

 You soon realize that it was a...

 "Is the child waking up?"

 "We just have to wait, darling."

 "What happened to it? How did you find it?"

 "Look, I've already said it a million times, the little 

one was hit by a boulder, you don't have to 

worry about it, I'm pretty sure I healed it already."

 "Wait, where was the child found?"

 "I- wait a sec, I think I found that human in a room 

I've never discovered before. Well, it disappeared 

quickly. Guess we're lucky I found it just in time."

 A feminine squeal is heard in the distance.

 "I just can't wait to share my love and care for my 

child! *Gasp* This will be a new experience for us! We'll 

get to play and have fun like a family! I can see it now, 

watching our little bundle of joy hug, kiss, achieve its 

goals, and soon make us proud."

 It's been about one hour from when you woke up to 

listening them until they left. You forgot most of the 

conversation due to you being bored.

 The couch they have is surprisingly comfortable that 

you don't want to leave, but you need to get out of 

here. You sit straight on the couch and see an 

amazingly decorated house. The walls are bright 

yellow and covered with painted on clouds. The room 

is practically a typical living room with chairs, 

shelves, and a lamp. The ceiling is so far away yet so 

close, but dangling pieces of flower pedals hung by 

sturdy looking rope acts as a bridge from high 

above to here.

 You walk around and find a stick with a sharp 

corner. You take it just in case something attacks 

you.

 Once you exit the room through the only door 

there, you come across a wall. For some reason, the 

brightness blurs out your vision. In fact your vision 

is still blurred once you look to the left, which is just 

a solid, metal, massive door. What a long, narrow 

hallway. But when you look to the right, everything 

looks beautiful. You walk continue walking in the 

narrow walls, the view getting bigger as you see 

columns, paintings, and fancy benches. It felt weird 

immersing from a claustrophobic to an intriguing 

feeling.

 It's huge! The living room is nothing compared to this 

room. It has like 10 huge water fountains with statues 

of fish spitting out milk, for some reason. Beautiful 

paintings are everywhere. Red blobs fall from the 

ceiling. As you get closer, you realize they were roses. 

The one that peaks your curiosity is a painting of a black 

and white city. It's extremely detailed and large. You 

can see up to the smallest thing like pots of plants, 

crumbled up pieces of paper everywhere, and the 

skyline is just so beautiful.

 Under the painting is the fancy bench you saw. You lie 

down on it. You were about to fall asleep on it, but you 

manage to open your eyes for quite a while. Instantly, 

you see a sign next to the painting saying, "You must 

not rest, for it will delay you, only delay you, it will not 

stop you, only delay you." You get up from the bench  

and hold your stick, paranoid. You walk around 

exploring cautiously with every step changing the 

atmosphere into a dark, cold room. You become fully 

aware of the tempting joys. Noticing roses falling down 

from the ceiling into huge piles of flowers. A sign 

suddenly appears. You can't read it from here but you do 

notice that the flowers seem to be the color gray and red 

at the same. Almost like you can change how you 

perceive the roses.

 You look directly in front of you and see a huge archway 

substituting a huge door. Lots of big doors these days.

 You continue on, ignoring the riches of furniture and 

intimidating signs like the "Come here for free 

chocolate" sign. The atmosphere of this place has pretty 

much gone downhill, replacing the beautiful music of the 

wonder into the sound of rushing water...milk.

 As you approach the archway, you see a smaller, more 

narrow room, bigger than the hallway before though. In 

the room, you see a blurred red color. Once you lift your 

foot off the ground, something just very small poofs into 

the side of the arch. As you turn your head, you noticed 

that the bright yellow color in the hallway in front of you 

have line, almost as the colors had a boundary, like the 

corner of a wall. Once you focus on the design of the 

arch, you find that the color is more sharp and see 

clouds on the sides for decoration instead of just pure 

yellow. About one hundred pounds were lifted off your 

chest. Now you could focus clearly and be more alert.

 As you lifted another foot, there was a curious thought 

that buzzed in your head. Your foot quickly planted on 

the ground and looked back at was once the most 

luxurious place you've ever seen. Instantly, everything 

was yellow for the walls and red for the roses. You 

turned back and saw perfect color resolution in the 

hallway. You turned your head again and again until you 

felt nauseated. You finally enter the hallway.

 Another pile of roses, you thought.

 Another sunny background, you thought.

 You were at the center of the hallway staring at what 

the room had to offer, nothing. But there was something 

that caught your eye, something shiny at the corner.

 A knife.

 You walked toward it and picked it up.

 "It's about time", you said out loud.

 "No, wait!"

 A large creature thing runs toward you. You instantly have a 

heart attack, have a sense of fear that completely outmatches 

the hooded figure, and returned to normal, all at the same 

time! As soon as you snap out of it, the feeling of your name 

being called out fills you, but you do not have time to ponder it 

because life could end right now. You quickly found out there 

was another opening in the room.  

You felt incredibly stupid that you didn't bother to look 

at the right side of the room.

 All you could do was cover your face with your hands 

and drop the knife. A sudden gust of wind blows all over 

you and ends quickly. Your hands still frozen all over 

your face gives an opportunity for the creature to charge 

into you. As you stand there, still frozen, you sharply 

hear clothing rubbing on each other. The feeling that 

someone is watching you, more like someone a 

thousand feet tall. Another year, or second passes as 

you hear a very tiny sound that sounds like those 

swords that makes a cool noise from cutting through the 

air, only the sword and sound are smaller.

 "You can open your eyes now." You open your eyes very 

slowly and see what you didn't expect. Instead of seeing 

a gigantic creature, you see a normal looking woman. 

She wears just a dress and shoes. Nothing strikes your 

curiosity except maybe for the fact that her dress is 

blue, instead of red. As you look up toward her face, 

something catches you off guard. Her face looks normal 

except for the nose and mouth. That thing is a 

combination of the head of a woman and the snout of a 

bull. She currently has a pissed off face and holds the 

knife you dropped beside you. She suddenly drops the 

knife and tears swell in her eyes as she shakes her hand, 

removing her scowl.

 "Are you alright? Please, be more careful with the knife sweetie, 

don't you know the knife is dangerous, it's common sense! Why 

didn't you tell me you were awake? Were you even awake?

Please answer me, I intend to take care of you, please understand." 

She hugs you, rubs her hands against your back, all 

these motherly gestures she does while her mouth runs 

ten miles per second. "Here, we are going to go to my house. A 

cozy condo will fit nicely as a description of our house. Come along." 

She grabs your hand and walk into a long hallway. You 

look back at the knife. Is that how the world is like, you 

wonder.

The journey was beautiful...for like one minute. The 

trip in a nutshell was seeing a bunch of waterfalls and 

roses. The only thing that kept you from going insane 

was your supposedly "Mom" rambling about interesting 

facts like how turtles grow and how hamsters are 

nocturnal animals. This kept you from going insane for

like five minutes. Now all of a sudden, all she discusses 

about are numbers and how you can add them and 

subtract. She also talks about pointless history and 

stories that have no importance to life whatsoever even 

though she said so. You answered, and answered, and 

answered a bunch of pointless questions. But there were 

a few fun riddles and tricky number problems.

 After about an hour of this nonsense, you decide to 

rebel against what she says. You're tired of following the 

stupid rules. You want your "independence."

 "I do not tolerate this type of behavior. Get rid of those evil, red 

horns of yours. Haven't you been listening to my lect-"

 "Shut up!"

 "Stop! Listen to my lecture, OK. L-listen to my lecture, young child.

Your mother has more experience in life. I regret the choices I made 

back when I was a child, so listen follow my commands if you do not 

want to have a childhood like mine. Don't worry, we're almost at m-, 

our place. You'll also get to meet your father there."

 You never really pondered why those people want to be 

your parents, you just took it like it was a normal thing, 

maybe like a tradition.

 Since your "mother" told you that we're almost at our 

destination, you decide to put up with her, so after about 

seventeen hours, you finally arrive at your destination. 

 The place is beautiful, it contained a sunny background, 

waterfalls, a bunch of roses, and a wall in front of you... 

Tears swelled up in your eyes. All that waiting for 

nothing. You felt a sharp pain in your head. You felt an 

extreme need to end one's life.

 "Here we are!" She pointed at the sunny wall in front of 

you. You pinched yourself. Nope, it's not a dream. You 

brainstorm ideas of why we did this. Is it because she's 

mean? Is it because she's blind? Is she mental? All the 

thoughts run through your mind. Then, you get snapped 

back to reality by a sudden move in the ground. The 

sudden shake turns into a quake. It's not as powerful as 

the dark room but still pretty strong. You look up from 

the cracks forming in the ground and see her standing 

straight with arms folded behind her back while you're 

trying to keep your balance. It isn't long before the wall 

in front of you literally opens like an elevator!

 The shaking quickly stops as soon as the sunny doors 

open completely. Took you a while to regain focus.

Once the blurred vision stopped, the best thing you've  

seen thus far was behold by your eyes. You saw green 

stuff, but not just any green stuff, that was just your 

peripheral vision saw. What your true vision was dipped 

into was the true nature of beauty itself, and that is 

nature itself.

 The towering trees, the beautiful leaves, and the variety 

of plants that contained a variety of colors, but mostly 

green. It was majestic. Feelings you've never imagined 

were real, are real. It felt like someone finally gets you. 

Like it felt your pain and is here to throw that pain away 

into the ocean.

 "You see, totally worth the wait." You agree to what she 

said. You roll in the dirt, jump in the mud, jump on logs, 

and hang on vines.

 "Woah! After this you're gonna have to take a shower, child."

Child. She called you a child. She.. called you a child.

 "Hey, don't think any red evil thoughts. You are a child, face 

it", the half human, half bull said. Anger boiled in you. 

You tried to stay silent and not talk back. To keep you 

busy, you just stared at the trail that all of you were 

following. The atmosphere of the forest didn't have that 

majestic feeling anymore.

 "Welp, here we are. Our home now." She showed you the 

outside of the house. It was like any other house, but 

not as fancy as the BOX you've watched.

 Everything went like a flash. You met your dad, a half 

bull, half human. You got to experience fun times like 

playing board games with them, learning fun stuff with 

them, and snuggling with them. Good times, but now 

you don't care...

 It got boring real fast. All the hugging and learning 

didn't appeal to you, no, you hated them all. What's the 

importance of all these numbers? Why do you "parents" 

put restrictions on you like a bedtime, or learning 

useless numbers, especially on the amount of hours 

each day to use the BOX. That thing is practically the 

only reason why you put up with this "family." Without 

the BOX, you are practically nothing. 

In this world, who cares about learning numbers, when 

you have a BOX to learn about. It has everything to 

learn about, from what clothes to wear to what's going 

on with high ranking people's lives. Why don't your 

parents know the importance of this BOX? Your parents 

tell you to go outside, play sports, or do the chores. 

Why can't your parents do it. You've already done 

enough with the numbers, so why can't you take a 

break. It's unfair, right? It's unfair, right? Is it? 

 You tell yourself lies just to have a good reason to use 

the BOX. You remember that your GOAL is to get out 

from the underground. You tell yourself another lie by 

saying to yourself that it'd be quicker to reach your 

GOAL if you just left this place, your "family." 

 You ignored them and left them. You regret your 

choice, your mind filled with anxious questions as the 

consequences, but those questions aren't just the only 

consequence you'll experience in this world, in the 

underground. Your "parents" won't help you now. 

 As you reach the outskirts of forest, you hear a familiar 

voice. "Hehehe.. Nice job on ditching your parents. 

You're finally free from that jail in disguise. But I don't 

think you'll survive one sec by the time you've stepped 

out of this forest. But don't worry, I'll accompany you in 

this barren wasteland. I'll act as your guide, like I said. 

So, ARE YOU HAPPY WITH YOURSELF?"

 Nothing. Absolutely nothing. You look around and see 

grass everywhere. You look up and see that the sky is 

blue with the true sun looking like it just woke up. You 

don't know that is possible in the underground but so 

are other things like why do the people, sorta, in here 

speak your language. You ignore the questions, life here 

has been a crazy roller coaster. Behind you is the forest. 

It still blows your mind on how precise the boundary

of the forest and wasteland is. "Welcome to this place." 

The hooded figure made gestures to introduce the land 

to you. The hooded figure is surprisingly enthusiastic. 

"I'll help you with anything that's worth my time. In the 

meantime, just walk forward, dead straight."

 Within just minutes, you found a broken BOX. "Hmmm, 

looks like people are still buying those worthless 

BOXES. People these days, who needs fancy clothes? 

Who needs to know high ranking people's life?" You 

hate to admit it, but he's right. "Who needs online 

friends? Who needs friends at all? They're just a bunch 

of burdens." You agree with the former, but totally not 

the latter.

 Water is the only thing you think about. Thirstiness 

overwhelms you. "Thirsty, ehh? Well, we're approaching 

company so maybe that'll distract you, I guess." A few 

minutes, you concentrate on the horizon of the plains 

and find little black things barely moving. People! You 

had a sudden boost of energy.

 There appears to be a group of four people, or 

creatures laying on their, belly, yet manage to...float? 

 They are dogs. Looks like all five of them are focused 

on something on the ground which is why they are in a 

circle looking down. You walked closer. They don't 

notice you. Your walk turns into a stomp intentionally. 

Still no. You look up and find a numerous amount of 

black, dark, and yellow squares on the horizon. You 

surmised that it was a town...A town! There could be 

water there, no, there has to be water there. You kept 

walking until something soft stops your shoe from 

continuing. It's followed by an ear-screeching

scream, "YYEEEEOOOOWW! What is wrong with you!" 

The dog glares at you. It's a golden colored dog, more 

like a golden retriever. It took you a second to realize 

that you stepped on the dog's tail. Looking beyond this 

dog, you see a poodle, bulldog, and a german shepherd. 

But then, as soon as the german shepherd walked 

toward the golden dog, a rose can be seen. It had 

glowing eyes, a nose, a mouth, even ears attached to 

the side of the rose. It looked directly at you with two 

blank eye sockets that used to be glowing. "Hey, why 

aren't you listening to me?" The golden retriever bit you. 

You took no damage from the bite.

 "Hello human, I am Jake, the leader of this pack. We do 

not want to make harm, but to make friends with 

everyone." You explained what happened and everything 

turned out okay. You thought about what 

Jake said, dog being your friend. You guess he'll be your 

best friend. Drums are heard in the distance. "This is 

Abby the poodle, Jack the bulldog, and Russ the german 

shepherd."

 "Hi", they all said in unison. Not much excitement. 

"Can't we just watch the BOX now?" Jack said. They all 

walked toward Jake. "Uuhhh, what do you think, Sam?"

 The rose had its glowing eyes back. Go ahead, if you 

want to. "Okay!" They all gathered around BOX. You 

looked at those dogs being absorbed by the content they 

are watching, not noticing the bird landing on the BOX. 

You looked at them with pity as their eyes grew larger.

 Never again will you ever watch that BOX. Never again 

will you ever watch that BOX...right? The rose looked 

straight at you...and disappeared.

 "So, you guys can't enter the town due to your stupidity", you 

asked. "We're not stupid, just not good at puzzles, right 

team?" All the dogs put their head down. The rose was also 

gone, yet they don't seem to notice. "So who is this 

PazMcClass guy." It was important to know who this was since 

that person doesn't let them enter the town which could 

contain, no, which contains water. "So what type of questions 

does PazMcClass ask?"

 "Mainly number, maze, and riddle questions", Jake responded. 

The group and you travel toward the outskirts of the town 

which was a thin gate. You see nothing the gate contains but 

the city itself. You can probably can climb the fence around it. 

"Why don't you just climb the fence without some dude telling 

you to stop", you ask.

 "Uuhh, I don't think that's allowed here", said Abby. "Hmm, 

you know what? I think you're right. I'm tired hanging around 

in the grasslands", shouted Russ confidently.

 "Now, now. We don't need to fuss. Just, answer the questions 

like we're supposed to do", Jake said speaking directly to the 

team. "I think our friend here knows how to solve this 

predicament."

 You consider your options carefully. Should you do it, or 

cheat. 

 You decide not to cheat because rules are rules. "What 

do we do to summon this PazMcClass guy?"

 "I see, well you just press this button right here", Jack 

said as he pressed the red button right in the center of 

the gate. Then, the gate opened. When you were about 

to step forward, black smoke appeared right in front of 

you. That black smoke changed into a yellow color, like 

the sunny background wall. The yellow smoke expanded 

around you and your friends. You somehow felt anxiety, 

lots of it. It was like you knew everything was going to 

be alright yet felt like something is controlling your 

emotions.

 "Don't worry, this feeling, happens to all of us," Abby 

said in a reassuring tone. Your worries went away in a 

flash. With friends you can do anything...right? "Hello 

class, my name is PazMcClass. Today, we will

discuss and do fun activities together. First all, we will do fun 

number activities."

 PazMcClass had the face of a bull, literally! But besides 

that, it's just a normal person with a shirt and blue 

jeans. PazMcClass also talked babyish, like your mom. 

You took it with no sense weirdness.

 You learned cool facts about numbers, which bored 

you.

"Look, you need to learn this or else you won't pass so 

be positive and stay behaved."

 That tone of voice changed from caring to serious. 

Guess there's another person who is aggressive on the 

red thoughts.

 It was easier than you thought. Everything involved 

colors, shapes, and barely riddles, mazes, and numbers.  

Your friends also had an easy time doing this. You 

wonder why they asked you to help them. But still, you felt 

satisfied for being in there with them.

 "Class is dismissed. Remember that lectures I taught you 

people, all these teachings will be very useful in the future, but 

now, in future classes which you will likely encounter, they will 

expand on these concepts."

 The authority figure continued blabbering. It seems that there 

will be more classes.

 "Thank you all again. You may pass my class", said 

PassMcClass.

 You and the dogs stood next to each other as all of you 

watched PazMcClass and the sunny background wall disappear 

into thin air. "Uh, thanks for helping us, without you, we 

wouldn't pass this gate", said Jake. "Guess it's time to take our 

separate...paths, I guess." Something about Jake is suspicious. 

Why would the group need your help?

"Sam, I need you to-" Jake suddenly whispered into the rose. 

You didn't know when and how it came here. As soon as Jake 

stopped whispering, Jake called out to his team, said there 

final goodbyes to you, and...went to the opposite direction of 

the town. Not what you expected. The rose looked at you with 

glowing eyes. It's not truly you.

 The rose disappeared right in front of you, but you weren't 

aware of that.

 You walked into the town. A bunch of black rectangles. The 

town is literally black. All the tall buildings are black like 

shadows. People going in and out of buildings are like simple 

black stick figures. The streets were empty, like a ghost town. 

All you see are people walking in and out of buildings, homes, 

and stores. Once you walked closer to the black, shadowy 

town, you heard the people talk about...gibberish.

 It's just like any other day in this town. You wake up, eat 

breakfast, watch the BOX, eat lunch, watch the BOX, eat 

dinner, then watch the BOX.

 You walk toward the suburbans of the town and see stick 

figures sitting and watching the BOX.

 Once you press it, you can't stop it.

 It's a boring sight, but for some reason, you're still able to be 

entertained by a bunch of black squares. In fact, you think the 

town is beautiful. Food, there might be some good food in here. 

You explore the town and see what seems to be a store, 

another black square on the ground. You don't question how 

you found the store. You open the door, cold air rushing toward 

you. No one is in here. You see a menu in front of you. Type 

any food you like. You type in pizza. The menu in front of you 

opens like doors in an elevator. 

A platform gives you pizza. You eat it. You walk out of the 

store and into the streets. It's filled with people with one side 

going one way and the other side going the opposite direction.

 It's beautiful day today. The sky's white, buildings are a nice 

shade of black, and we all live equal lives, forced not to make 

any difference on this world.

 You soon join the people, walking toward your

destination. A flying machine hovers over and makes a 

screeching noise. "Hey, what's up, good after... boy, it's a 

beautiful day today. And of course, I'm here to bring you up 

with some daily news about high ranking people, because of 

course, their lives are more interesting and important than our 

lives. I'm here with my man...unfortunately, da man can't join 

us today, but don't worry, I've got some hot topics that'll make 

sure all of you remember this in our

tiny little lives.

  Actually, I've got something better than what's going on with 

our high ranking people's lives, something we've all been 

hyped for a very long time."

  "I'm here to announce the one and only! The MoblieBOX! 

Available in stores near you! No. I'm just kidding, it's only 

available in the city New Angels, but, it is coming to stores 

near you once the sales gone down because boy did those 

MobileBOXES sell fast like hot pancakes! And now time for 

some ads!"

  You listen to some ads. Once that's over you hear a song 

playing in the radio. It keeps saying "baby" for some reason. 

Whatever reason that is, you're back into reality from 

excruciating pain. You look around and see the same

thing, the same sights, yet you feel as if there's a brand new 

thing to see. You get out of the street and sit down on an open 

area like a park, only everything is black and white. You look 

at the city skyline. This city is bigger than you thought. You 

stop and think about your journey. A small voice whispers in 

your ears. "Think about the time you saw the city at the horizon." You 

try to remember. You vividly see black and shadow spots at 

the horizon. You also see yellow spots...yellow spots! You got 

up and look around to find anything that's not the color black 

and white. Sure enough, you spot something particular from 

the buildings. Something bright flashed in your peripheral 

vision. In a second, you can clearly see something yellow. You 

run into the stick figures walking in unison. No one is 

provoked.

 Now you see a bright, sunny yellow building. Running

turns into sprinting as the sunny background gets closer. You 

look at the ground while sprinting. The sound of your 

consistent footsteps makes you think about how silent this 

place. Just people walking, walking, and walking, barely 

making any noise. This town reminds you of the gray painting 

of a city you stared at. Silence. You are in a mist, your mind is 

at its max, body on auto pilot. Self consciousness fills your 

concentration.

 So many wonders of the world, so many questions. Why are 

you here? Where do you come from? What exactly is the 

underground? Heck, what is the meaning of life? These 

questions, mysteries, the unknown, the darkness, the 

monsters under the bed. It scares you. The small things you 

take for granted.

 You wake up on a floor of concrete. Turns out you bumped 

into wall while running. There's no other way but to go

to this dark alley. Automatically, it's different here. You 

actually smelled something!

 A can of garbage. You're excited to smell a can of...garbage. 

You take some time in order to let what happen flow in. You 

continue on.

 It's also dirty, unlike the clean, bland city that literally only 

have streets, buildings, and open areas. Crumbled pieces of 

paper sit on the ground waiting to be open. You open one up.

"Should we have rules and be equal, or have our own 

personality." You picked up another. "Just one man trying to 

make his way in life."

 "Can we go back?...The bomb's ticking...Having fun has 

consequences...Are we time travelers trying to fix a mistake 

but ending up having amnesia, living in this fake world?...Why 

are we here...Work or play...Someone out 

there will always be better than you at 

everything...What's the point...Why is this place called 

Puzzle Town?...Why is the answer always 

cliched?...Save water guys."

 All these crumpled up pieces of paper, are these true?

 Finally, you're out of that creepy place. Once you turn 

the corner, you see a small, yellow building right in 

front of you. You open the door and enter. A library. It's 

a small one, with lots of childrens books. You pulled 

one out. The title says,"Second Place." It's about a kid 

who's always beaten and second place in anything, in 

school, in sports, in life. And just as the kid finds 

something it's really good at, the child finds out that 

someone else won an award on the hobby, and that 

person is younger than the protagonist. Interesting.

 Once you put the book back, you hear loud bark, no,

make that four. Yup, they're back.

 "What up! Long time no see!"

 You agreed. "Ahh, I see you're reading the book, 

Second Place. One of the best books ever. Ten out of 

ten, best book of the year", Abby said in dreamy voice. 

While Russ and Jack were fighting each other, you 

conversed with Jake and Abby. "Did you hear about the 

new MobileBOX?"

 "Yes, but where is it", you asked Abby who was clearly 

hyped up for this product. "We're planning to travel to 

New Angels with my team", Jake said in proud voice, 

obviously trying to act casually. "Ugh, look, we aren't 

going to follow your every command."

 Great, now they're all fighting. You leaped out of a 

window that was destroyed by Russ and Jack. You left  

the library, heading toward the edges of the town, which 

is...conveniently right in front of you in a form of a 

tunnel. You walk toward the tunnel, hearing footsteps 

behind you. "Wait, don't forget us! We only know the 

directions, not you...I think."

 You continue walking, knowing that they'll catch up. But 

they didn't...or you think.

 The forest. The true nature of beauty itself, and that is 

nature itself. The towering trees, ugh, the beautiful 

leaves, dirty insects, and the variety of plants that 

contained poison ivy, bugs, a variety of colors, mostly 

green. It was majestic. It was uncomfortable. Feelings 

you've never imagined were real are real. Yeah, one 

feeling is how dirty and unclean you are from all this 

dirt and leaves. It felt like someone finally gets 

you. Great, my shirt's all covered in dirt. Like it felt your 

pain and is here to throw that pain away into the ocean. 

Boring. When can we watch the BOX?

 "No, you shan't. You have been watching too much of that stuff. We 

must limit the time."

 "Hey, if you wanna pass the time, then go outside, instead of 

watching that stupid BOX."

 " Hey kid, don't worry about them, I'll take care of em for you. 

They'll only be a burden to get out of this underground." 

You felt your sins rolling down your cheeks.

 "Wake up!"

 Russ shakes you uncontrollably. You wake up. 

"Whew, don't scare us like that. Why didn't you tell 

us you were gonna take a nap, huh?"

 "Calm down dude." Jake walks in front of all of us. 

"Anyways, tell us, what happened to you, when you 

were walking in the tunnel, your breathing 

sounded funny. We tried and bring you back to 

reality, but you just fell on the ground, flat.

 Besides that, in order to reach the big city, we need 

to open more gates that block the way." "Why are 

there more classes", you asked but then 

remembered what PazMcClasss said, "There will be 

more classes that expand on this concept." Or at 

least you think it is. "Where are the rest of the 

classes?"

 "They're straight ahead", Russ answered for you.

 You and the group walked dead straight and not 

long after, you saw a gate. You looked at the fences, 

it looks higher than before. "Ready?" Jake hesitantly 

pressed the button. The beginning of the

class is the same as last time. The black smoke surrounded 

you and the gang, quickly turning to yellow smoke. "Hello 

children, I am PazMcClass the second. Now get to work." This 

teacher seems to be more strict than the other teacher. You 

still did numbers, and mazes, and more riddles. There were not 

much interactive activities like cutting out shapes and coloring, 

just mostly numbers.

 You passed the class only getting one failing grade. Your 

friends seem to be doing good as well.

 Another gate.

 You pressed the red button. "Hello students, get to work." Well 

that was a warm welcome. It was more difficult now. You did 

numbers, mazes, and riddles but no interactive activities. 

Again, you passed the class with a few failing grades. Jack 

seems to be struggling. He got multiple failing

grades. You wished the sun would just go down so you 

can rest. Back then, you complain about sleeping early. 

Now, things has changed.

 Another gate.

 "Get to work." The sunny background is no more. You 

did numbers and mazes all day. "When can we do 

riddles", Russ asked sounding desperate. "You won't be 

doing them anymore, focus more on the numbers." You 

felt an incredible sensation to cheat. You barely have 

any social hour with your friend. "I wanna watch the 

BOX so badly." Abby whispered in your ears.

 You agreed.

 You passed the class, with a lot of failing grades. Jack 

was left behind.

 Another gate, right in front of you as soon as the black 

smoke faded away.

 You barely have anytime to talk with your friends. You 

look at the fences. It is almost as tall as the gate itself. 

"I'm tired of this. I can't do this anymore." Russ headed 

toward the fences and tried to climb the fence. He did 

it.

 You wanted to do it too, but you decided not to.

 You pressed the red button. Black smoke turns into a 

solid wall. This is the classroom, black and white, like 

the town before. You did numbers and mazes all day, 

but at least there was something fun which was seeing 

beautiful and amazing sights. You stared at erupting 

volcanoes, ocean creatures, and historic raging wars.

 Funny. You didn't know BOXES are used in this class. 

You, Jake, and Abby barely pass the class.

 No more gates. It's just Jake and Abby now, the others 

are gone. "OMG, I can't believe we managed to get out 

of that stupid place", Abby sighed. Everything is the 

same as before, grassy land and the sun looking like it 

just woke up. "I'm tired." Jake lied down on the grass. 

Although the ground might make your shirt dirty, you 

didn't mind it. You close your eyes.

 It was weird, having a rare moment to take a break 

from your journey. Conveniently, the ground starts to 

shake. You get up and see Jake running away. "Jake! 

Stop!" Abby starts to run. You do the same thing.

 The shaking gets harder. It starts to form cracks 

through the grass! This earthquake is nothing like you've 

ever experienced before. The crack gets wider. You can 

practically see lava down there now.

 Jake is running dead straight into the ravine. "Suicide is 

not the answer", you call out. Abby right in front of you 

stops. You also stop and walk next to Abby. You saw  

Jake pick up something shiny. "Look guys, I found the 

MobileBOX!" He waved it around.

 It's mine.

 You run toward Jake. Abby also runs at your side. "I'm going 

to be the one to get it." Abby trips you. You try to catch up with 

Abby, but it's too late. You watch her grab the MobileBOX from 

Jake. They're practically standing at the edge of the cliff. No, 

you must get that MobileBOX.

 You run toward Abby, not caring whether she will fall or not. 

Just when you are about to push her off, Jake runs from the 

side and rams her off of your path consequently being the 

target of death. Too late to stop, you knock Jake off the cliff. 

"Jake! No!" Abby glares at you, her fur shining from the lava. 

Her eyes are now getting blurred. "You know what, this wasn't 

worth it." You thought she meant that of your actions. It has to 

be bigger than that.

 She runs away far into the distance. She's gone now. 

You stand there.

 You try to comprehend that your friend is dead. 

Something else bothers you. You notice the earthquake 

stopped. You look behind you. Grass. The ravine is 

gone. No signs of an earthquake, not even cracks. How 

long did you stand there? You seem to be always in 

trouble. Like the trouble is attracted to you. You blame 

it on bad luck, but that isn't the case, is it?

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