It has been a while since someone hugged me. Yet, my body still recognized the warmth. It felt like home. I remembered how my mother used to hug me when I was a kid. How my father used to carry me.
That time when I was innocent, not caring what's going on around the world or what other people think of me. Just playing games, hide-and-seek, and running as fast as I could as the monsters chased me. I didn't know when it started, but growing up was a real waste of time, as Peter Pan said.
"Can you tell me where you live?" I asked.
"Yeah, we live in a city far from here. Why?"
"I want to accompany you there if you want. It'll take a while before the woman wakes up," I said.
"That's so kind of you, but you don't really have to do that. You've done enough already. It'd be rude to make you sacrifice more time and sweat."
"Don't worry, I don't really mind. Besides, I'm not planning to carry that woman."
"What do you mean?" She asked.
"I know you won't believe it. Some people might even call it crazy, but I can teleport you there," I said.
The girl was confused, and then she suddenly laughed out loud to the point that she was holding her stomach and tears were streaming down her knees.
"I didn't expect that reaction," I said.
"I'm sorry, but I think you're funny," she replied. "Are you doing this to make me laugh, right?"
"So, you don't believe me?" I asked.
"You mean you're serious?" She looked into my eyes, and I looked at hers too without blinking. Slowly, she got closer, filling out the gap between us, and then she kissed me, passionately.
"What's going on here?" the woman asked.
I immediately distanced myself from the girl, and she did the same. We pretended that nothing happened between us, but I couldn't forget how her lips tasted.
"Seems like you don't have to teleport us anymore," the girl said. She helped the woman stand up.
"Right. Can your sister walk?" I asked.
"Yeah, she can. Thank you again for helping us, Lil." They carefully walked out of the cave.
I followed them. "Wait, may I know your name before you leave?" I asked. I knew it would be rude not to even know the name of the girl I had just kissed.
"I'm Kaila, Kaila Breaks," she said.
"Well then, Ms. Breaks, I hope we'll meet each other again." I waved my hands as they walked away.
I used teleportation to go back to the physical world. I opened my eyes and found myself sleeping on a bed. I remembered what happened. I got so dizzy after killing the leader of the tiktiks, and I didn't know what happened next.
"Finally awake?" Cain asked. He was lying on his bed, with a white pillow raising his head, reading a book about sexual reproduction. A lamp was lighting cozily beside him.
"Where are we?" I asked.
"You've been asleep the whole day, and I didn't bother waking you up since I knew you were sad about your parents death. You fainted after you killed the leader of those creatures, so I brought you here," Cain said.
"Yeah, I remembered what happened, but I didn't know I'd slept for a whole day. I had a very long dream."
"A dream?" Cain asked. "About what?"
"Um, I couldn't remember most of it, but it was about a girl..." I stopped when I remembered that scene. It was like in a romance movie.
That kiss seemed so real. My face turned red just by thinking of it. Perhaps I've been so focused on my sadness that even in my dreams, I wanted some company, someone who could hug me and tell me that everything would be alright, someone who exactly knew how I felt.
"You alright?" Cain asked. "Don't think too much about that dream. It wasn't real."
Cain was right. My dream wasn't real, but still, I felt the realness of that girl. She couldn't be just a fragment of my imagination. I really hope to see her again.
I wondered what time it was, so I checked my wristwatch and saw that it was almost midnight. I walked toward the window, opened it, and saw some ugly green monsters outside. They had three eyes and four arms.
"What are those things?" I muttered.
Cain walked toward me and glimpsed through the window. "Those are aliens, aren't they?" He asked. "They must have started invading your world, Lil."
At first, I couldn't believe it, but I quickly realized that in this world where I belonged, everything is possible. Aliens, magic, monsters, everything. Even shit could grow arms and legs and become a giant dick with eyes as big as the moon. Then we'd call it bald head.
"We should stop them. We have to save humanity, or we'll all perish together," I said.
"Stop playing the role of a hero, Lil. There's nothing to be saved; everyone is still going to die. Life and death will happen whether you like it or not," Cain replied.
"But that's not a reason to just give up. Helping people is our lives purpose," I asserted. "Now, if you don't want to help, you can just sit here, but if I die just as you said that death is inevitable, then you have to accept the fact that our mission will be in vain."
"Do you think I'll let that happen?" Cain asked. "Let's go and kick those aliens' asses."
We went outside our rooms. The green monsters had already gotten inside the building. There were too many of them. Some were killing people. Others are harassing them, fucking and fingering their asses, even the male. This wasn't funny. I've only read these things in books before, and now they are becoming real.
"It's showtime." I turned my arms into machine guns and shot at the aliens, but they were tougher than I expected. They could regenerate their tissues. There was only one way to get rid of them: make them gone completely, or, as we could call it, erase them from existence.