In my hometown…

There is a legend about a cave…

Where supposedly a 7 year old had been found dead inside of…

A few of my friends and I decided one day…

That we would venture into the cave…

To find out once and for all if it was real…

We walked to the cave at 10 pm…

The time they found the boy’s body…

A chilly night had been waiting for us…

The cave is about a 12 minute walk from the edge of town…

Sitting between a cliff and a trail…

That leads to town and further up the mountain…

As we made our way up the trail…

The cave now in sight…

We began to reconsider our plans…

The cave was surrounded by dead shrubs…

That gave the place an eerie look to it…

And a faint, blue light in the pitch black of the cave…

We were all frozen in place…

Of all the stories that were made of the legend…

None mentioned a faint blue light from the cave…

But we knew we had to find out the truth…

We slowly made our way to the cave’s event horizon…

And disappeared from outside…

As we paced through it…

The blue light seemed to become bigger and brighter with every step…

We were all breathing heavily…

Afraid of what we would find…

We finally reached the end of the cave…

And what we saw…

Was a scenery straight out of a fairytale…

A ceiling with luminescent lights…

A floor with lush, green grass…

A small pond with water trickling down a hole in the wall…

And lanterns with blue lights sitting on stones…

We stood in awe…

Taking in the sight…

And left, feeling relieved and satisfied…

The legend seemed to have been totally wrong…

But the next morning, my father told us the truth about the story…

The story was indeed real…

Because he was the father of the boy who was found dead…

We froze, and I thought about it for a second…

He never mentioned I had a dead older brother…

Nor did we have any pictures with him in them…

He then took out a photo, and handed it to my friend…

Who was standing next to me…

It was a picture of, me…

Then, my memories came flooding back…

I was kidnapped, and eventually killed…

By an unknown person…

And after weeks of search, they found my dead body in the cave…

Then my father, after grieving my death…

Decided to make the cave my grave…

And designed the cave straight from the book I’d love to read…

And now….

I had to accept one, irrefutable fact….

I’m, dead….