Chapter 1: Prologue

"Stop crying!" A woman screams and angrily points at the newborn. "Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!"

"What are you doing?! She's just a baby!"

The woman laughs hysterically. "A baby, yes! But whose baby was it? Is it mine?"

"The baby's mother is your sister!"

"And she's dead!"

*

I open my eyes and breathe heavily. What the… what is that dream? It has been weeks! And it's still going and it's getting worse each day. Do I need to go to a psychiatrist? A therapy? Do I need to go to therapy? Sighing, I sit up and massage my forehead. I look at the clock and I still have an hour before my alarm clock rings. But I'm too afraid to fall asleep again so I just stand up and go to the kitchen. There, I make myself some coffee and breakfast — scrambled eggs and fried rice, with my leftover rice from last night. After that, I go to my phone where I watch some videos and then my alarm finally rings. I shower, wear my office uniform and go to work.

There, I work as an office worker in Administration. So, I answer a lot of emails, answer phones and argue with my other coworkers who are as underpaid and overworked as I am. And then it's lunch.

"You look terrible," Amy tells me when we meet in the pantry.

"Thanks, Ames. Exactly what I needed to hear on Monday."

Amy rolls her eyes. "Girl, you know that's not what I mean. I know you know I mean the bags under your eyes, your overly tired blinking, and your dry skin." She tilts her head at me. "What happened?"

I just shake my head and make myself a cup of coffee. "I don't want to talk about it." I feel tired, yes, and sleepy but I didn't think it was that bad. Wasn't it? Is it that bad?

Amy sighs. "Nana, if you need a break, take a break."

"I still have things to do."

"And the things to do will still be here if you take a break." She pats my shoulder before leaving. "I'm just saying."

I stare at my cup, seeing my reflection on the liquid, I stir it before looking away. It's not that I don't want to rest, it's that I can't. I keep dreaming, and the dreams are starting to feel more real as time passes by. The strangest thing is that my dreams feel… familiar but I don't know how. I don't know any newborn or who that woman in my dreams is or the other person she's fighting with. I sip my cup slightly and breathe in deeply. Do I miss… having parents? Is that it? Are those two in my dreams my parents? Is that yearning manifesting in my dreams?

I'm an orphan. Three years, officially. But it has felt like that ever since I was born. My mother died giving birth to me and my father was a deadbeat and abandoned my mother right after finding out they were having me. I grew up with my grandmother who died when I was eighteen. I only found out my father was alive when someone called me for his funeral. He had another family; a woman he actually took responsibility for and children he was never absent to. He wrote me letters, apologising for his mistakes. He never sent them, and before he died, he wrote an apology letter. I never read any of them and burned them right outside his family's home. I would like to think I'm fine but my mind is just there to try to keep me alive, right? It doesn't really understand the concept of trauma, or depression… Maybe Amy is right, maybe I need to rest.

I go back to my desk, and finish my work. I leave the company on time, for once, and eat in a good restaurant for dinner. I buy myself some skin care stuff to relax, and some snacks. I send an email to the HR of my company before turning my phone off when I get home. I shower, wear my most comfortable clothes, eat snacks, and watch trashy shows. I fell asleep on my couch like a normal person.

And then, by the morning, I wake up and… find a floating gift box with a bow in front of me.

Should I be happy that I at least I didn't dream, anyway?

"What the actual Hell is that!" I immediately crawl away from the box but it's not like it's going to do anything. It's still just there. Floating. First of all, how is it floating? How did it get here and it's not a bomb, is it? I gulp, staring at the gift box like it personally threatened me with a knife but minutes turn into an hour, and nothing has changed.

The floating gift box is still floating.

Slowly, I approach the gift box, holding my hand up and trying to reach it with just the tip of my fingers. When it does, the floating box turns into something else.

It's like a screen. A screen. In a game.

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"What?"

KARMA POINTS INFORMATION

CURRENT KARMA POINTS: 0/10

TO EARN KARMA POINTS, YOU MUST DO A GOOD DEED. DEPENDING ON YOUR ACTIONS, YOU CAN EARN 10 KARMA POINTS IN ONE GO. 

TO USE KARMA POINTS, YOU MUST FIND WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IN THE STORE, AND PAY FOR IT WITH KARMA POINTS.

There's a huge sign that says STORE on the top right of the screen. I click it and the screen changes entirely.

KARMA POINTS STORE

SEARCH THE ITEM YOU WANT TO BUY

"Ah," I blink. "Avocado?"

The screen changes again and it shows me avocados at different prices. One is two karma points, the other one has five karma points and so on. But there's a bold phrase that says NOT AVAILABLE in front of the picture of the avocados.

"Not available? But why?"

KARMA POINTS STORE IS NOT AVAILABLE IN THIS REALM.

…In what now?

"What now?"

You also have five available Item Boxes. You can keep one (1) item per box and it will not change as a day old nor rot. It will be the same as you keep it.

"NO, WAIT, GO BACK TO THE IN THIS REALM PART? WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?"

When you buy —

"TELL ME, EXACTLY, WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?"

— something from the Karma Points Store, it will automatically send it to the Item Boxes. You can hide anything in the Item Boxes, even the objects you want to keep. But if the boxes are occupied, you may not be able to buy anything from the Karma Points Store.

What does it mean in other realms? I stand up hurriedly and get my phone. I turn it on to check Google or call an ambulance, maybe I'm being delusional but when I open it, it has one notification.

Back To The Past: In love with a rich Merchant has updated.

When I look up, the screen is in front of me.

The transfer to another realm is 1/7 days away. Please make sure to make your Karma Points full to be able to buy items to the Karma Points Store.

…what?

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