I open my eyes. The light is harsh and I blink rapidly to try and focus my eyes. My head hurts. I decide to head to the bathroom. At the sink I splash water in my face with the hope that the cold liquid will awaken my mind to some memory of the night before. That’s when I look into the mirror and freeze The person looks like me. But it doesn’t. Her hair is the craziest shades of black almost with spots in them but all dark. Her eyes are so green and alight, slanted and have the slit of a cat. Her face is more angular and her teeth are razor sharp with canines protruding. I touch the mirror wondering if I am still dreaming but her hands touch the mirror and they have long sharp curved nails. My eyes widen as I realize it is not a dream and the person or animal in the mirror isn’t someone else. It’s me. That’s when I scream! A cat-like snarl erupts from my voice and I run back to my bed. I throw the covers over and close my eyes in the hopes that maybe it really is just a dream! I hear footsteps racing up the stairs of what I first thought was my home. “Angel, dear, what is it?!” I peak out of the covers to see the person I hope to see. The voice is right. “Mom?” I shakily ask in a state of panic. “Sweetheart, did you have a nightmare?” And I see her, my mom. But not. Everything is the same except the subtle changes to her appearance like mine, and her eyes are a startling hazel-brown color, not the green of mine. “This is not happening. I want to go home,” I begin to rock back and forth saying the words like a prayer. I try really hard to picture my room back home. To picture myself the way I am supposed to be. “Angel, honey do I need to call the physician. Are you ill?” The animal-person who looks so like my mom sits on the bed and takes the covers off my head. She uses her claws and moves the hair from my face. It’s then that I notice her ears are like that of a large cat. “What are you?” I ask in shocked horror as I reach up and feel my ears the same as hers. “Angel Pantheras, what in the world has gotten into you?” Now she is starting to sound like mother; irritated and cross with me. “You were supposed to be up and heading to school. Timothy just left as he couldn’t be late. Please get up and get dressed. Your bag is next to the front door.” She gets up and leaves me, closing the door behind her. I sit up and look around eyes huge. It’s not a dream. It’s my life, but not. My new life.

“So, mrs pond” AJ said with a touch of acid in his voice “you landed us in the one dimension where humans are an anomaly and then you go and break the one device that can get us home” His mind was racing fast but the stress had been making his heart beat his brain since breakfast.

That morning he had woken up with a sort of cylindrical metal tube with what looked like saucers on each end with a straight up arise shaped button and a dial. Next to the device the was a note that read. “ Nerzugal’s Magnificent Dimension Hopper”. Upon reading the he smirked. His roommate Hera Pond had barged in with a similar device.

They had sat down together trying to figure out how the things worked when AJ nudged the dial accidentally and hit the dial. A jolt of green and pink energy leaped out grabbing them by the torso. Dragging them into the unknown.

They were spat out and immediately felt soaked as there bodies were hurled into the sea by the things. There was a display screen that read the following:

Dimension 9954RX Difference from native plane Land never existed Plane of origin 2591AQ

Seconds before the duo hit the water AJ turned the dial and slammed his thumb on the arrow. The energy grabbed them and they were gone. They landed on the bed and relaxed.

Hera grabbed the device and smashed it. “That’s enough of that but AJ looked in horror at the display

Dimension 3177DD Difference with native plane The meteor that killed the dinosaurs never hit Plane of origin 9954RX

“So, mrs pond” AJ said with a touch of acid in his voice “you landed us in the one dimension where humans are an anomaly and then you go and break the one device that can get us home”

“I’m sorry AJ I’m sure we can think of something.” Heras pleas of forgive fell of deaf ears as AJ’s mind and heart were in a race to see weather got got a heart attack or a stroke, neither win as he snapped his fingers.

“The layer effect dictates that we follow our souls through out our dimensional layers. In the water one the device will have just sunk to the bottom but in this one it seems to only be changing the plane not the location on said plane. Hopefully the Dino me and you will find there way back and we can use that to get to a dimension that we are willing to give it up freely. The chances are 100% after all”

As if on command. Two humanoid dinosaurs came out of nothing and looked at both leonine and human in turn before saying “ lemme guess your broke and you wanna get back to yours” the duo nodded the dinosaur consoled a chart on the wall and said to the device. “ 0001AA” he then pointed the device at AJ and Hera sending them flying back home.

Sometimes I wish I had another life. Like one where I am not an only child or one where I actually have a talent that gives me recognition. But sometimes wishing can become sinful, when the wish actually comes true. It happened to me. I woke up to an alarm on my phone playing some jingle I had heard a million times before, but when I opened my eyes I wasn’t seeing my bedroom. Well, it was my bedroom but I never had matching white furniture or an attached bathroom. I immediately sprung from my bed opening up the door. What once was a small hallway elongated into a hallway with three other rooms. Not only was the hallway longer my house was four times bigger than what it used to be. I walked down the hallway glancing at all the doorways. Two of the doors were decorated with Star Wars stickers and Marvel characters. I opened the first door and peeked in. A man who looked very much like my father maybe at the age of 16 was still sound asleep. I closed the door immediately and continued down the hallway. Where the living room was, was now a small set of stairs. Which at the bottom was a big living area with a flat screen tv, video gaming system, and two large couches. Sitting on one of the couches was my father though he was wearing a suit when he normally wears his mechanics uniform. He looked much younger for a fifty year old. “Hey, Sweetie,” he said calmly as if nothing was wrong. “How you feeling this morning?” How could he be acting this way our house wasn’t our house and we had strangers in our bedrooms. “Who is the boy sleeping in the room upstairs?,” I asked confused. He gave me a weird look. Then his face relaxed and he broke into a smile. “I know your brother drives you crazy but it’s not something to kid about.” “My brother,” I said still confused. “Are you feeling alright?” I didn’t know how to answer. I was flabbergasted. There came a creaking at the steps. A younger boy than the one I saw earlier about the age of nine or ten. Stood at the edge of the last step. “Good morning, son,” my father said to the young kid. “Morning dad, morning sis.” Where in the world was I? Where was my house? Where was the norm I was so used to?