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Alex wakes up his eyes illuminated by the sunlight coming thought the window, he covers his eyes using his right hand. Alex feels a sore on the left side of his neck. He moves his left hand towards the side where he is feeling sore. As he touches it he feels something. Something made of plastic and silicon. He has no idea what it is and he is already getting very irritated because of the pain. He moves his finger around it and finds out that it’s like a chip. Alex has no idea at all about how the chip is on his neck and who has placed it over there. Alex tries to pull off the chip from his neck but he cannot do it as the chip slips from his fingers and he hurts himself even more. Alex touches the chip again but all of a sudden he hears a voice in his head, it surprises him. Alex is confused on where the voice is coming from, he is thinking that maybe he is dead and it is god talking to him.


The voice introduces itself and calls itself ‘I’. Alex is unable to understand the situation he is in at the very moment as he never expected a day like this would even occur. I tells him that there are certain tasks that he will have to do inside 3 minutes, these tasks will require him to hear what it tells him and he will have to follow strictly or else he will have to start all over again from the very start. I also tells him that he only has 3 tries in total so he will have to do it in those 3 tries, and somehow he did not successfully completed the tasks in those 3 tries than something bad will happen to him that he will never escape from, he will fall into a black loop where there will be nothing and he will be falling in it forever with no end.


At first Alex do not believe and tries to be skeptical. But this skepticism turns into believe as I tells him about the house that he lives in, it tells him to look at the couch that he is sitting on, it is tilted towards left. I tells him the yellow rob that he is wearing and the white shirt he is wearing under the robe and as bottoms he is wearing black trousers. Alex asks I that why he do not remember anything that has ever happened in his life, I explains him that its creator JB removed all the memory that ever existed in his mind. After hearing all this Alex himself slowly gains trust towards it. Alex remembers the tasks that it mentioned before so he asks it about it that what to do. Alex hears I response as I replies by saying


“It’s too late”


Then there is a sudden blackout…

Alex wakes up from his bed thinking that it was a bad dream but he feels the chip and knows that it is not a bad dream, it is his reality. He hears a sound and knows that it is I as I guides him again and tells him to look right in front of him, he sees a watch, I tells him to wear the watch. Alex follows the instruction. He wears the watch and I tells him that the watch will tell him the time that is left. Then I tells him look inside the shoes that he wears every morning.


Alex replies sarcastically “Like I remember what I used to wear every morning”

I guides him “It’s on the shoe stand”

ALEX replies “Not helping”

I replies “Look at the far corner of the room”

Alex sees the shoe stand and moves towards it.

Alex asks “Which one?”

I guides him “The yellow shoes”

Alex replies “Good God why did I use to wear theses shoes”


Alex puts his hand inside the shoes and finds out that there is a gun inside his shoes. He takes the gun out. Then there is a sudden bang on the door. There are men who are asking him to open the door and if not then they will barge in. Alex answers the door and moves towards the door. I tells him to not to open the door because they are the bad guys and they will do bad thing with him. Alex asks I so what he should do? I guides him that he will have to go to the other door.


I guides “On your right there is a washroom, go inside it and you will find out another door”


Alex runs towards the washroom and sees another door.

Alex asks I “When did this door came here”

I replies sarcastically “Like you remember”


The men’s standing out barge inside while here Alex is in two minds that whether. One of the men sees him and tells his partners that there he is, now he has no option left so he goes inside the door and closes the door as the door disappears for after the men reach it them.


 Alex is holding the door so it would resist them from entering. I tells him to leave the door as they cannot come through the door. Alex slowly leaves the door and he sees the place, it is a long corridor, something he may have seen before, he walks forward and his eyes catches room number 237, he remembers that he is in the overlook hotel from the film “The Shining.” He looks back at the corridor and sees Jack Torrance, with his axe and is coming towards him to chop him with his axe.


A he shouts “Here’s Johnny!”

 He tries to run back but as he looks back the sees that the lights are staring to go down one by one and it is coming towards him, this gives him the feeling the something evil is coming towards him from both sides. He asks I what to do?


I replies “Go inside room..”

ALEX interrupts “Okay.”

Alex do not listen what I wanted to say and he entered the room.

Alex comes out of the door as he is in a barren vast land with no one in the surroundings. He sees behind him as there is no door behind him.


Alex asks I “Now what?”

No reply is received.

Alex asks again “I, now what”


But he receives no reply from it. He looks at the watch and sees that only 10 seconds are left. He looks back up and he knows that he has done something wrong and now he will only have 1 chance left. The time goes 3..2..1.. And there is a sudden blackout. Alex wakes up from his bed and now he knows what to do as now he will have to do everything from the start.

 

May 22, 2020 04:12

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