"No one tells you about this part" I look up, jerked out of my own scrambled thoughts into the moment by an unfamiliar voice. I look up and study the older mans face and missing ear before responding. "I'm sorry, what did you say?" He cocks his head and looks bothered that I wasn't paying attention "I said .. No one told you about this part... you've been reassigned" I ponder the possible applicable definitions of the term and my blank expression must speak volumes because he lets out a long sigh followed by the explanation. "You have been reassigned to another male... and from what I hear, he's a miserable prick" He grins at me and a chill runs up my spine.
"Wait... where is my husband.. Where am I?" He gestures to the room... cold steel benches, blinding white windowless walls... smooth as glass floors. Nothing about this room lends a hint as to where I am as he enlightens me "You're dreaming girlie... and in your dreams you belong to someone else now. You're still you... but unlike your life, you're not in control, you aren't the boss... if you aren't sure what that means, you'll learn soon enough." I'm what, where and what the fuck is going on in my head? I'm losing patience. "So, you're telling me that I'm dreaming. None of this is real?" More of a statement than a question to be sure.
He stands up and jerks me to my feet by my wrist. A sharp pain shoots into my shoulder like a bolt of lightning as I cry out more out of reflex than the level of pain but who does this asshole think he is? He forces me against the wall, drawing both hands high above my head. I can look at him but I don't. I'm looking for the door. My heels aren't on the floor. My body feels oddly long as I am held against the cold, ugly white wall. In the midst of this exact moment, the vision of the jerk getting his ear cut off in a freak door slamming accident draws a very unexpected laugh from my lips. One is followed by another and then another and I am hanging there like the days most impressive catch laughing uncontrollably. He is visibly confused and rather than to let him in on the joke I manage to stifle my hysterics in less than a minute.
I take a deep breath and clear my throat "If I'm dreaming, who reassigned me? I didn't" He looked at me and grinned "Are you sure?" No more laughing. Suddenly there is nothing funny about this. Maybe I am not dreaming. Maybe this Lurch looking freak is just trying to make me think I am dreaming. My head spins. Is there anything I can do to figure this out. I'm lost. I'm confused. So, very unsure of anything right now. I will this guy to disappear, to turn into a purple unicorn... I try to wake myself up... nothing. He drops my hands and I slump against the wall, barely standing, keens weak. He lifts my chin with a single finger. The long nail of his index finger has a jagged part that digs deeply into my flesh and the sensation makes my jaw tighten. He draws and captures my gaze before he speaks "Nothing you think you know applies."
He walks to the door, half guiding and half dragging me by the same wrist. Makes me wonder who had put up so much of a fight before that he felt the need to be so rough. Wait, if I am dreaming, there has been no one else, right? Why would my subconscious decide that I needed to experience this? My thoughts distract me from the moment again. On the same wall I'd been sitting on and had subsequently been pinned to is a door way. Before I even have time to fully register it, he opens it and tosses me through it, slamming it behind me.
At first, I'm trying to tell myself to open my eyes but they ARE open. Going from the ugly, blinding white room to a dark room takes some getting use to. I wait for my eyes to adjust but nothing materializes. I back up but after taking several baby steps back I still feel nothing behind me. A few more and I give up. I stand still and try to gain my bearings. I'm naked. Birthday suit naked. My fingertips on my thighs alert me to the fact that I am wearing nothing. Was I naked in the white room? I suddenly have no idea. How could I have missed it if I was? My head spins. Okay. I have to get it together. I stand still and try to imagine the room I am in now. Try to hear... anything. Pin drop silent. I feel like I have gone blind and deaf. I speak. Some odd "ahhh" noise comes out and I hear it.. Or do I. The sound I make bounces off of nothing. In my mind I am standing in a black hole. A sudden wave of dizziness at the thought of being in such a vast void brings me to my knees and then to my hands and knees. I don't know what I look like. I am not even sure I know who I am. That freaks voice bounces around in my head "nothing I think I know applies..." No shit.
I am not warm, not cold. For that I am thankful. Being naked and either hot or cold would suck... kinda just as much as being naked and in the dark and alone. I make myself laugh. Really? I find myself chastising myself. I'm a great dreamer. I have had some dreams that we so real that I could smell popcorn from the street outside of a dreamt up theater but this... this is too real to be unreal... isn't it? I don't know. I know I don't know and I hate it. I suddenly wonder if I have fallen asleep in front of the tv again and something is influencing my dream.
I sit on the floor and take inventory with my hands starting with my feet. My pedicure is still in tact. The edges of my nails are filed smooth and even. My legs.. Yup, still have them both. The feet should have been a good indication. I tell myself to get serious.. This isn't funny. I realize if I then tell myself to shut the fuck up that I will be certifiably bat-shit. Am I? If you found yourself naked, somewhere darker than the deepest darkest cave with not a peep of sound other than the ones you make and oh yeah.. Naked... would you talk to you? I feel myself roll my eyes in the blackness. I have to get a grip.
My fingers find the apex between my legs and after planting my feet further apart on the floor I explore my own sex with my fingers. I have no idea if I took my clothes off or someone else did. I'm not in pain down there but running my fingers between my lips discovers no abnormal fluids or anything other than the usual degree of "wet-n-ready". I continue to exploration until I have reached my hair. I'm all here. Now if I could just figure out where the fuck I am. Crawling is more appealing than walking so I move forward onto my hands and knees again.