Dream System Of Seven Sins

Adam woke up with cold sweat breaking on his forehead. He sat up and breathed deep, trying to calm his beating heart.

As he calmed, the sounds of the morning sifted into his ears, the chirping of the birds and the sound of the few solitary motorized vehicles.

Out of nowhere, he heard a groan coming from his side. It was his roommate, Jason, tossing around in his sleep.

He was half-dressed and had kicked away part of his mattress. Adam studied his roommate's aquiline nose, sharp jaw, hair that was tousled from sleep, and b.a.r.e c.h.e.s.t that was rising and falling steadily.

A quick blush rose to Adam's face when he realized his roommate's male part was doing its morning salute.

Adam dashed into the bathroom to splash cold water on his face and freshen himself to face the rest of the day.

The rest of Adam's day was spent in a daze, him being all caught up with what he saw earlier.

Night had fallen when he finally tumbled through the door of his room.

The first thing he noticed was the absolute silence. This meant that Jason wasn't around to fill the room with video game noises.

This was better, Adam concluded in his mind, some alone time would probably do me good.

After a shower and dinner, Adam switched on his laptop, and realized he received a reply from the strange website he emailed the night before.

Compelled by curiosity, he clicked it open

"Dear esteemed customer, after visiting your dream last night, my rudimentary diagnosis is that you've been haunted by those in my business call, a Nightmare. Of course, I will need to talk to you for a little more before I can come up with a firmer conclusion. Therefore, I wish that you retire to bed early tonight and I shall meet you in your dream. Do not fret because after we ascertain the source of your Nightmare, I will do my best to help you exterminate it.

P.s We will discuss the issue of payment during the dream meeting as well. I will see you tonight.

XoXo, Eevie's Dream-catcher Practice"

Adam studied the message with scepticism.

Then, he lied down on his bed to figure things out.

First thing's first, he did kinda spot a little girl that usually wasn't there in his dream yesterday night.

However, he was too caught up in his own trauma to be able to tell whether that really happened or it was his brain playing tricks on him.

Secondly, the dream did have a prem.a.t.u.r.e ending compared to the other ones he had earlier, at least, this time, 'she' didn't make an appearance, and that thing did qualify to be called, a Nightmare, as long as it defined things that could scar one for life.

However, the question was: Were these enough for him to base his trust in a mysterious message from a person whom he had never met before?

Furthermore, what was this payment the message spoke of, Adam had a feeling it was not referring to conventional monetary payment.

Maybe Adam's nerves had been pulled taut for so long that lying on the bed unravelled them or there was some magic in the email, because even without the aid of medication, Adam was slowly succ.u.mbing to drowsiness...