Sirius held himself perfectly still after the kiss. He hugged Jessica so hard unaware she felt scared as well. He glanced at his watch next then his phone. There was no signal. He drew a deep breath and let it out. The butterfly drawn with red was a clue and he understood this was like a game. He couldn't remember what happened before he blacked out but he remembered something important.
Humans say that when you are in need of something important that will shape your future, a memory knocks the door inside your mind and guides you. It's the best way the mind could do to help in all situations, showing how much the human mind is magical and unnatural. It just gives you what you need when you need it.
The frowning of his eyebrows was visible to everyone in the room and his hand rubbing his chin was as well; he just had a revelation from a memory that he didn't know he had. It happened two weeks ago; there was an article in the newspapers stating that there was someone who was hospitalized because of a severe mental breakdown. She was found in the streets with a saw and bloody clothes. Fortunately, no body was found but she was reported missing for a year.
The person in question said she was in a maze with ghosts and evil spirits and she was the only one left alive after all her companions died, one after the other. There was something that caught his eyes in the article; something important that came to him at the moment. He stared at his clock then at the moon in the sky; it didn't move. He still remembered the dream vividly and a dream is a dream when you can't be sane in it. He could feel everything.
"The day out there is like a clue; you know when you are going through the right path when the moon is moving and the night is switching. Guys," he turned, confidence highlighting his face. "We need to do something. I think there was someone who was in the same position as us."
"Yeah dummy… I don't think this position we are in is something we could take as normal. It's not a dream either," Rayan said, his back still clinging against the door.
"Come and help us. You can use your brain while keeping this door still," this time it was someone else who spoke, his name was Christopher and everyone called him Chris.
"Jessica, help me out here. The others won't take it for too long. Let's move these desks and chairs to the door. A lot of them will be enough to secure us for a moment to discuss what I remember. We need to move to make the day work. I don't know what's happening but I think the moon up in the sky is a clue."
"Ammm… Okay, okay… I don't know what's happening either but I was worried about you. You didn't want to wake up so I thought you were dying. I will help. I will help. Let's see! Where should I begin? This chair!" Jessica moved the chairs one by one as her hands trembled while Sirius approached them to the rest of the group.
Everyone didn't question the idea since it offered rest from keeping the door at bay and now that the shadows were moving again. After finishing what they had to do, they sat in a circle and held their hands together closing the circle they formed with their bodies.
"What do you think we need to do, guys? You, the fucking intelligent one who ordered us to stack those stupidities there… This classroom is creepy. I don't know where I saw that poster before," Ordinarily this would have irritated him, Rayan didn't like it when someone ordered him around, especially a former classmate.
"Oh God! Why do we have to hold hands like this?" she turned her head to Sirius expecting an answer but he talked about his memories instead.
"I remember something…"
"We don't need your heartfelt moments here, Sirius. I need to know where we are… All this is creeping me out, I want to go back. Is this some kind of a prank?" Christopher retracted his hands then crossed his arms.
"What do you think those words means?"
"Listen to me, guys," Sirius yelled. "There is something important I have to say and if you don't listen, you will be the next one on the list. Something happened before… Something important and I have seen bodies wrecked up and I had to find the cause and now it all makes sense."
"What?"
"Listen to me… There was a patient I was interested at… She was all scared and with a lot of scars, something that a human can't do… She had her body all twisted and a hand turned around. She wasn't that way. She wasn't… I just tried to rationalize it and said that in the report…"
The memories kept rushing body of the patient explaining what happened and no one believed her… It would happen to him too if he didn't do. She had a hand turned around and there was no injury of it; it was moving on but the opposite way, like she was born that way. There was no one from her relatives alive to prove the opposite.
Her body was covered in scars and some parts of her skin was torn slowly. It was agonizing just seeing it, how about experiencing it?
"Listen to me, guys. Let's make a promise. Let's not abandon our humanity! We will need to open that door and look for clues all around this place. We need to reach the day to be safe. We cannot stay in the night."
"Then it would be good to just wait… Isn't that right?" Jessica looked terrified.
"No, no, no, no…" he shook his head. "There are no apparent rules here. I can't believe that my curiosity gave me an advantage. Keep in mind that the day here doesn't move unless we do something. I don't know what we are supposed to find but the day is a clue. If we find something important, the night will go forward. If not, it will stay still in the sky…"