Every day Dan wishes he could escape from reality.

I instantly fell in love with the first sentence. I wish I could escape from this world too Dan, you have no idea. Now I'm not saying that my actual life is bad. It's just really lonely here cooped up in my house. After all, it's just me, myself, and I living in this house.

I curl up and bury myself further in the couch, reading the first page. I throw my head back laughing. I was only one page into this story and yet I feel like I can relate so much to this Dan character. I flip the page and continued reading.

A slight pain jolts through the back of my neck, but I thought nothing of it until it started to get worse. And it doesn't help when my phone started ringing. I sigh, setting the book down and answered my phone.

"Hello?"

"Hey, Phil." It was Billy. I sigh, closing the book gently, trying to ignore the pain the back of my neck.

"Billy what do you want?" I mutter, rubbing my neck. Billy laughs a little.

"What? Can't a friend check on his pal?"

"But you never do this," I point out. "And you've been acting very freaky today.."

"Freaky?" Billy asks in confusion. "What do you mean freaky?" I sigh, staring down at the cover.

"Never-mind, maybe I am just over-reacting..." Billy was silent. "Billy?"

"Yeah? I'm here. Sorry, was distracted by something." I frown.

"Are you okay?" I ask, glancing over my shoulder. For some reason I feel like someone was watching me. God, I was being so paranoid. I need to relax.

"Yeah, I'm fine," he replies. "Anyways, how are you enjoying the book so far?"

"It's good so far. I feel like I can relate a lot to what the main character, Dan, is trying to say because-" I was interrupted by Billy.

"That's cool. Hey can you do me a favor and repeat the following words after me?" I was surprised at his request but a little bit more confused.

"Um.... Okay. Sure I guess," I felt like I was going to request this later.

"Okay, here we go," he says, while I gripped the book a little tighter to keep from exploding with millions of questions. "Nescar vas."

"Nescar vas," I tried my best with pronunciation.

"Vëll glasīa."

"Vëll glasīa." I said the last words and Billy laughs maniacally. I frown even more as my vision becomes blurry all of a sudden. "Billy? Billy what did you make me say?!"

"I'm free!" He cries happily from the other end of the phone. "I'm free from the curse because I tricked you into saying those words!!"

"B-but Billy, I trusted you!" I mutter, closing my eyes slowly.

"Haha goodbye Phil!! Enjoy your stay in the book with the rest of those losers!" He laughs before my vision went completely black.

What in the world was going on?