4:45 am, I was getting my car out of the garage getting ready to leave for work, it was really hard to wake me up that day, the weight of my body felt heavier than usual, I spent more time on the shower trying to wake up completely but I kept listening to those words

“Go live your daily routine, we will meet here tomorrow”

I had yet to repeat a dream in my life, but having dreams was very common for me, I was used to tell my workmates about my dreams because it happened not long ago that one of my dreams became true, it took around six months to become a reality

But yes, thinking about this dream was a different story, meanwhile while I was driving to my workplace I stared at the sunrise, I wondered myself how would it feel to see the sunrise in another country, I’m not a person who travel at all and I barely went outside the country when I was younger, but this was a different feeling, traveling to the countries around you will never compare to travel to Japan but wait, I was not supposed to travel to Japan at all because I meet that man in my dream and how the hell did I travel there in just one night? Normally it will take nineteen hours to reach Japan if I decide to go there in one go, well, if is a dream then that would explain everything because everything could happen inside a dream

Yea, I don’t consider myself a novelist to begin with, why would they hire me to work as novelist and how did they find that I was an amateur writer? Ah, I remember now, I posted a story on a website, maybe someone read It there and maybe he liked it but that would make sense and it won’t make sense at the same time because after making my research about people making a living just by being writers I found that the chances were really low so if someone hired me to be a novelist then it would mean that I was like a person who just won lotto, being hired when there are better stories than mine, it was like a chance in a million

But I should not give too much thought to it, I have to focus on work today, I hate when this happen on busy days

“Good Morning Josh”

“Good Morning David”

David is my co-worked on the work force management team, he just says Good Morning as habit because he doesn’t even remove his headsets when he salutes, is like if he notices the shadow of someone behind him and say Good Morning by default, like if he had a sensor on his back

Josh finished his daily reports and then he decided to go for coffee, David was taking a smoke break early in the morning

“You will get sick if you smoke early in the mornings”

“You haven’t gotten punched before your coffee, have you?”

Yea, David was not a very sociable person and he was right, I should mind my own business if I want to keep my life into my comfort zone

Josh went back to his station and started browsing his twitter account which had around 500 followers, most of them Japanese bots

“You still dreaming of going to Japan?” said David who came back, he stinks to cigarette

Josh ignored him and David put on his headsets and started to look like he was playing drums and started making huge noise

“Can you lower the volume please?”

The boss on the other side of the station was the only person who David could not go against, Josh felt that Karma was haunting David for being a jerk

“Josh can you come please?”

It was a bad signal to have the boss call me to her office

“Josh, it looks like you are making the same mistake on this report, I know that you run this report by memory but you need to pay more attention”

Josh was facing his boss and David was behind her making fun of Josh who was being scolded by the boss

“Are you paying attention Josh?”

“Yes Ms. Walker”

Ms. Walker was a really beautiful woman on her 30s, I don’t get why she was not married yet, that ponytail and her glasses made the best mix on a girl with long legs, Josh was not able to look at her because he always gets turned on, well, I would get turned on if she like to give fan service as she usually does, leaving her blouse wide open so everyone can see her bra and crossing her legs to show those black stockings

“Look, I cannot tell my clients that the reports are wrong, otherwise we will lose credibility, is something bothering you?”

“No ma’am”

“Is your family ok?”

I hate when she starts asking me personal questions

“Yes, they are fine”

“Did you fight with your girlfriend”

Yea, I definitely hate when she asks the same questions

“No ma’am”

“Then if you don’t have any personal problems, STOP MESSING UP AND GET BACK TO WORK!!!!”

And here is where the explanation of why she is not married comes, she might be sexy and all but she has short wick, meaning that she can lose control of herself in one second, people usually calls that bipolarity but that is just an excuse for the people who don’t really know what they want but in Josh case was different, Josh work was lacking focus

“Didn’t I tell you? Smart people smoke and get drunk, that’s why you are still dumb”

Josh tried to ignore David comment

“Yea, only a dumbass like you would dream about Japan, if you can’t even have the discipline to learn how to run a report that you do every freaking day, you are really a retard”

Josh started to write as he used to when he felt under pressure

“Writing your hate thoughts on your personal diary? Are not they for girls? Don’t tell me that you are in the closet waiting for the right moment to go outside?”

“SHUT UP DAVID, LET JOSH DO HIS WORK”

Ms. Walker saved Josh who was doing exactly what David said, he was writing on his book but it was not exactly what David was saying, the truth was that Josh wanted to get out of his mind the dream that he had, maybe that will help him to forget about it and focus on work

Tuesday passed and Josh went back to his home, even when the traffic was heavy he found peace after a hard day at work, it was like everything went wrong, he was late for lunch so every place at the cafeteria was taken so he had to eat lunch at his station, he dropped his afternoon coffee, the machine took his money when he tried to get a second coffee, yea, it was a very bad day but that didn’t stop him for getting dinner that night, a couple of beers would make the trick and make him forget about today

“I thought you were not coming today”

Josh opened his eyes and he was inside a temple, it looked really scary, there was a hand made of bones alone which was writing on a notebook

“Come, follow me please”

“Sorry, but what was that?”

“The Ouija?”

Oh yea, if you look at it, it makes sense…. Josh was inside the dream again

“Take a sit”

“I’m sorry but can you turn on the light? I can barely see your face”

“You don’t need to see my face, ok let’s talk about business”

The person handed a cup of tea to Josh who was acting normal

“That should help you with your dinner”

Ah I see, this is a dream, I guess the beers are kicking in

“So, as I said yesterday, we want you to work for us so please fill this form, that way we can send the payment at the end of the month, your payment will be 299,441 yens, the stories that write must be done during your dreams otherwise they won’t work, we will provide you with a notebook”

“Wait, why do I have to write only during my dreams?”

“That’s the only way where we have meet”

“Why can’t I write when I’m awake?”

“The notebook that we are giving you will stay here so you have to come here to write in it”

I keep forgetting this is a dream

“Ok, I guess”

“Is time for you to go back, I would recommend you to sleep more as you will have to spend time writing here”

“Yeah Yeah…”

Josh was standing up to get ready to leave when he hit his head with the ceiling of the temple which made him wake up and he realized that he hit his head with the floor, it was the first time in ages that Josh fell from his bed

Jos was silent during the breakfast and sometimes he started to smile like saying “it must be a joke”, he was driving and he kept saying “is not possible”, it was Wednesday and Josh life was about to change