Story Based on Item

Back to Nature

Genre: Psychological, Fantasy

8 hours to go. Cavin has been look unwell since the school started. Today is his first day of entering school after 10 years of home-schooling. That makes him a high scholar now. Instead of feeling excided, he feels rather down and cold sweat covering his body. He feels sick and his mind was off to his laptop at home. He desperately wants to touch his laptop and play the game that he just bought.

5 hours to go. He breathes heavily through the entire lesson with his eyes always starring at the clock. His face becomes pale. The teacher asks him to go and rest at the infirmary. Instead of heading there, he goes to search a computer lab at his school. His eyes barely open, his body feel really cold. This condition makes him need to walk supported by the wall. There is no one around since it’s a lesson time.

3 hours to go. He waste 2 hours walking around wherever his feet lead him to because still doesn’t know the school area yet. When he passed by the garden, he feel that it seems really comfortable to sleep under the shady tree. He then, fell asleep under the tree. He had a dream. His laptop become alive and sucks him inside the computer’s world. Inside there, he is chased by computers virus and was eaten. He then awake.

The school hours are over. He then head home with a weird feeling. As usual he on his laptop and play his new game. When he starts the game, the desktop show a door opening and the entire screen become white.

Cavin’s head feels heavy when he opened his eyes, somehow he can see his body which means that his consciousness was being sucked up by his laptop. He is shocked his dream becomes reality. Cold sweat running over his body again. He then remember his late father’s word “Don’t play computer too much or your soul will be eaten by it”. He ignored the advice.

It is a surprise that he is not the only human in that world. One of them approach him and asks him about his laptop. He explains that he will need that to keep alive in this world. He must find his laptop somewhere at this world because that is the portal to go back. He then heard the voice, an unusual voice like a machine, called him master said that it is his laptop. The voice ask him to open his heart to nature and shall not open his heart to the machine which will cost him his soul.

He followed the voice bring him and found his laptop. He open back the portal and go back to his world. When he awake, he saw the screen said that the game has ended. He decided to go to the backyard, enjoyed the wind and listen to the sound of nature. He sit under the tree and thought how much he miss to sit under the tree with his father as he used to before his father passed away. He begin to obsessed with his laptop since then additionally his mother always busy with her work. A teardrop fell on his cheeks and he realized how much beautiful is the nature.