CHARACTER STUDY (II)

It was an usually warm September day. Javi was taking his daily stroll to Dr. Preston's class after lunch. When he arrived, he noticed a peculiar water bottle just sitting there on his desk, minding its own business. Well, Javi was having none of that and showed the bottle who was boss by drinking it. Being quite parched on this hot and sunny afternoon, this action seemed justified. After he drank it, he crushed it and tossed it into the recycling bin. He thought nothing of it besides the fact that there was a slight metallic taste to the water, but it was probably nothing. After the journal write, Javi laid his head down for a moment and quickly fell into a deep sleep. He opened his eyes and was surprised at what he saw. It seemed as if his entire surroundings was animated in Squigglevision™. All the colors were a million times more vibrant and the carpet appeared to be made out of villi, slowly waving to and fro, to and fro. Then, Preston spoke up and told us that we had to write some essay on some hoopla on literature. I locked eyes with him and told him "We do not need to write that essay" and at that instant his face went blank and dully repeated "You do not need to write that essay". I went on to say "We do not have any homework" and like clockwork, he repeated "You do not have any homework". He then proceed to sit down in a rather automated way and he spent the rest of the period gazing around the room, feeling as if the colors were talking and noticing details he had never noticed. The bell blared and Javi dashed out of the classroom and leaped over the handrail. But something was wrong. As Javi began to descend, everything around him seemed to begin to melt and he spiraled down a seemingly bottomless abyss, the world slowly fading into a singularity above me until Javi was submerged by complete darkness.