"Patrick's Dream Or His Nightmare"

Patrick Has A Hate For His Brother Dennis

It was late one evening and I was alone on a blanket down out by the sea. I was questioning myself if I were happy or not about my life and what all it had to offer me. I had brought with me a small wine glass and a bottle of bourbine and I'd take small sips of the wine in the hopes that I wouldn't become intoxicated while wanting to enjoy my time out on this sandy beach and feeling the cool breeze blowing against my face. I wanted to be abled-minded to walk back home later within that same evening, and I didn't want the beach police to arrest me for being a drunk on a public beach. I had just noticed a seagull flying above me in a circular motion and I was thinking about how wonderful it would be for me to be up there, flying away from all of my heartaches and troubles and even the tears that I've been feeling within my heart as of late.

I drifted off to sleep for what felt like to me was a split couple of seconds while my eyes were stead-fast upon that seagull. I felt a sudden jerk and  I quickly woke up to find to my amazement that the seagull was no longer up there in the clear blue sky and the sea appeared to be on fire. The color of this sea was a dark brownish red in color. It looked like a huge ocean of bubbling lava from an active volcano and there was no sky that I could reasonably sense up above me in the heavens, the sky above me seemed to no longer exist.  The heat from the lava seemed to radiate extremely hot  boiling balloon type bursts of heat that seemed to burst once reaching the top of this ocean of lava, it appeared to be so hot til you could  actually see the  heat waves floating upward into the blacken sky.

It seemed like anything remotely near that ocean of fire would be burnt to a crisp, and yet I didn't see my flesh burn from my bones, and I thought this to be so strange. Then for a moment I thought nothing more of it. I was not too far from a nuclear plant and I went to thinking  that something had went wrong and there must have been an explosion or something, but an explosion that I didn't hear? How strange....

I looked up to the sky to see if I could still see the seagull flying above me but it was no longer up there. What had replaced it was a strange looking huge blackish cloud with reptilian eyes within it, glazing down upon me. The eyes appearing to be wicked had a hint of what appeared to me to be clear gold glowing within them.  The cloud was shapeless for it had no bird like form, but this cloud had evil eyes that watched my every move just the same. 

I thought for a moment that it could be drapt with some type of halloween type costume because this was close to that celebrated day many people would later go out for tricks or treats. I looked around for a rock or something to throw at that cloud and I found a small stone. I threw the stone up at the dark cloud with eyes and I thought I had hit it because I saw it glaze having changed and it looked down at me with an even more evil glaze.

I felt uncomfortable seeing these demonic eyes watching over me, so I wanted to go  for shelter, to get away from the evil demonic steer. I left the blanket there on the sand because I saw those strange looking weird ants as big as a hot dogs crawling all over it. 

I was looking for my bottle of bourbine but those weird looking ant creatures had used their teeth to dig a hole through the bottle cap and appeared to be drinking the wine from within inside that bottle and they were swelling from inside the wine bottle. I couldn't believe what I was seeing so I bent to get a closer look at how the ants were growing inside that bottle and the bottle suddenly exploded and part of the wine glass and those ants had spashed onto my face. I started to freak out because those ants looked hideous to me.

I was scarping my face like a wild man and brushing off a small part of the clothes I was wearing, because I didn't want these weird big hotdogish looking ants to crawl on me.

A few of those ants had bit me and it hurted beyond belief. The razor-sharp teeth had cut into my flesh and I could actually see my meat being sheered off by these ants and they were actually eating my flesh. I pulled most of these ants off me and their bodies looked to be like intestines clinging tightly onto me. Those ants that I were able to pull off me, I threw them onto the sand and tried to smash them with my  boots, but with the sand not being of any hard substance, the ants didn't die, they had only tunneled their way through the sand, which was weird to me, because I've never seen big ants do that before neither.

These ants that I thought I were killing had quickly crawled back up out of the sand and were crawling over the top of my boots. I bumped my boots against each other to knock the hotdog sized ants off my boots and half way ran up the the pier to get away from them. I felt that those huge ants ruled the sands by the ocean of fire.

The heat from the sea being on fire should be hotter then I can imagine, I believe that it should have melted the flesh and meat from my bones, but to my surprise, my whole body stayed WHOLE. 

Seeing all of this had me thinking that it was time to gather my things and go home. I had said to myself those nasty ants can have that blanket, I don't need it that bad.. They looked like ants but not the type of ants I've ever seen before.Their bodies were made to look like hotdogs and their mouths had a circular adaption to it with triangler type razor sharp teeth. Their eyes were like those of your modern day snail type eyes. I would say that these fire hotdog type ants had three sets of eyes on each side of its head which reminds me of snails. But they aren't snails and yet they aren't ants neither.

I looked up to the dark sky and could still see that dark cloud with two eyes seeming to be still following me.

All along the beach front it appeared as if the small cafes were open, but when you walk into one of them, and rap on their corner for service, no one from the back would come towards the front. It seeme as if they had placed their best silverware and dishes for the costumers to see in the hopes that it would drum up business for them.

But how can they have any business if no one is there to take an order from you?

They had on their countertop a fresh set of glass covered doughnuts ready made and I felt that I had to have a few of them. I hollered to anyone that maybe able to hear me that I was leaving for them a $5.00 bill for two doughnuts I was going to take with me. I had placed the $5.00 on the corner close by the cash register and was stepping out onto the sand weary of those ants that might come up out of the ground.

I was walking along the beach hoping that the nuclear plant could maintain and get their plant back under control because I got bored with viewing that sea of fire.

I walked along the pier sidewalk so I would not have to fear those ants trying to get to me through my boots... I stopped and paused for a moment to gather my surrounds and figured out how could I be able to walk on back to my home not too far from here. I glazed up towards the sky and there was that strange cloud seeming to be almost right in front of me - in the sky, looking straight at me.

I took my eyes off that weird cloud and looked around where I can go so that those scary eyes couldn't see me.

I walked onto another pier and from that point I heard a familiar voice calling out my name. I looked around and to my surprise there was my half brother, Dennis  standing there behind the counter. He asked me if I were hungry and what would it be. I asked him who would be cooking the food and he said to me "Yours Truly".  I said no thanks and he said to me with a sad look on his face, he says, "Patrick... You still would trust your only brother to cook you anything? It makes me sad."

I comes back with telling him,"Dennis, you served me bacon and a cup of ice tea, where you peed in a glass and added sugar to it with a tea bag.... I had went to ask you something and  walked upon you perparing a plate for me to eat and tea to drink..."

Dennis then laughs and says,"Man I wasn't going to serve that to you... I was going to stop ya before you drank that tea... I swear it to ya...."

I sit on a stool and steared at Dennis and he then says, "Oh I forgot, you don't swear..." Then he goes on to say,"You know what our problem is? We're brothers but we don't act like it... When people come around us, you act as if we aren't related.... Okay, okay I am sorry when I told you that we were half and that I don't claim you as not even being half to me because I didn't want a thing to do with you and when I got children, I wouldn't want them to have nothing to do with you."

"Can't you see I was just funning with you?... Can't you take a joke?''

I then says to him,"Life is nothing to you, and I hate I was a half brother  to you. You use me as a  joke so that you can gain friends or you belittle me to make yourself look so smart ... I am sick of it and I am sick of you, man..."

Dennis then says"Man look at where we are at? This is Hell..! Did you know that?"

"This is not Hell! Hell can't look like this !!! Where is the fire and the brimstone?"

Dennis then sits upright and says to me that "There are degrees of Hell which we must travel down to then meet with Satan and be with him forever, and right now you and I are in Limbo."

"How can I be in Hell with you when you have stolen from me, lied on me, and had reations with every young woman I ever felt in love with?  You were the reason I never got married for the fear that you would keep a promise you made to me while sitting by me that if ever I got married that you would rape my wife! From that day til right now, all I ever wanted was for myself to have never been born with you as a brother to me and you've showed me nothing but resentment and hatred towards me. You tell me Dennis, how can I be in Hell with you?" So angry while looking at Dennis and he seemed through his glaze to be smiling at all I've said to him.

"Patrick you've not listen to me... If you'd take the time to listen to me right now, then I'll tell you why you're in Hell with me..."

"Okay... I'm listening..."

"Pat... you're in hell with me because you can't find it within your heart to forgive me for all the evil sins I put upon you... That is why you're in Hell with me...""You can't forgive me for locking you outside in the bitter cold til our mother would come on from work... Rememeber all you had on was your white tee shirt and short underwear.... You saw a police officer driving down our street about to pass up the house and you crawled underneath the house so that the policeman couldn't see you.

You felt that if the policeman would have spotted you, then they would take us to jail for being in a house with no parent nor guardian to watch over us... You were the smart one Patrick,... I wasn't.

After the policeman passed the house, I still kept the door locked and wouldn't let you back into the house. Not until our mother came home... You still can't forgive me for that..."

Patrick says sternly, "While I was underneath that house worms and maggots were crawling in the dirt... You and Sherry ran outside as fast as your legs would carry you and the both of you had saw my location underneath the house... The both of you ran back inside the house and went to stomping above the location where you knew I was curled up like a ball...Magits and worms were crawling around at my flesh and digging between my folded legs and they were making sores all over my legs."

Dennis has a smile upon his face and says,"We were just children then... That was all within the past... You want me to say it happen then okay... i will admit that it happened, but what can you do about it now? We are adults now and we should put aside our differences..  We were just playing with you...But look at your legs right now.... All those sores are now gone and still you don't forgive me for it..."

Patrick slowly rises up from his stool and says..."You don't see where you were wrong for what you've did to me so I've nothing more to say to you.." 

He then throws one of Dennis' plates to the floor and says with hate in his eyes.... "Sue me..." As Patrick is about to step off of the pier that Dennis has as his cafe, Pat says..."Dennis I am giving you what you've told me you wanted... You want me not to be your brother so that is what I am to you, I'm no kin to you..."

"I grows bored with talking to you... Hope to see you never again.... Goodbye..."

Patrick is about to step off Dennis' peir when Dennis runs up and grabs Patrick's left shoulder and says, "Wait! Please Patrick, you can't leave...."

"Dennis let me go before I hurt you..."

Dennis takes his hand off Patrick's shoulder and says,"I have someone I'd like for you to meet....."

I stopped in my tracks and turn to him, "How can you show me anyone in this lonely deserted place... There isn't nobody here but you!"

A fat overweight woman walks from the back of Dennis' small restaurant and she is looking at patrick with a smile on her face. Patrick looks over at Dennis and he says to him, "And who is this lady?"

The big lady interrupts their conversation and says to Patrick that they should talk a bit... So she begins their conversation by saying, "You remember Stacy Steward?"

Patrick sys yes but he isn't looking at the woman he is talking to, as he thinks back to how beautiful Stacy looked to him. 

Pat says, "I think Stacy as being the most beautiful lady God has ever made... I was so in love with her, but I couldn't tell her how I felt because I felt that Dennis would try to charm her and take her away from me, once he found out that she liked me..."

Stacy looks at Pat with shock in her eyes and she says aloud, "I didn't know you liked me?"

Pat has a quizzed look on his face and then he says, "What you mean you didn't know I liked you?... I don't know who you are!"

Stacy then stands in front of him and says, "Pat... Take a good hard look at me, I am telling you that I'm Stacy .... Stacy Steward, the girl you had a crush on..."

Being within this strange place with weird things happening around me, I steered at Stacy just to satisfy her request... Right before my eyes, her fat was slowly beginning to melt off her and the clothes that she was wearing was beginning to not fit upon her.

This fat woman that I didn't know was beginning to turn into someone that I did know.

After her transformation, she was beginning to thank me for shading her fat and wanting to hug and kiss me....

She went to walk up towards me to kiss and hug me and I pull her away from me at an arm's length and told her to get away from me because she is not whom she claims to be.

Stacy then says aloud, "I don't think you ever really loved me... You won't let me hug nor kiss you..."

I came back with a reply that I only wanted her for a friend and nothing more... She disappears back behind the counter and I asked Dennis is that what he wanted to show me and he just steered at me.. Earl Shomaker comes from out of nowhere and wants to try and shake my hand.. I motions my hand away from shaking his and he sees me doing this, so he stood upright in front of me and says, "Hey, Patrick where have you been keeping yourself?"

Patrick comes back with saying, Trying my best to stay out your face. You know I never was friends with any of Dennis' friends... I still remember you Earl... You were too lazy to get you a job so you stole your momma's money to help support whatever habit you had..."

Earl has a mad look upon his face and he then says, "Your brother, Dennis, he did it too!!!"

Patrick says,"Which is why I have nothing to do with him!"

Earl opens his arms and hollers, "Then why are you here, you tell me that?"

It seems that Earl is asking for a Patrick from Patrick and Pat has never ran from a fight so with the two of them standing in front of each other, Patrick hollers to Earl, "There is nothing but air and opportunity!!! Feel froggy Punk!!! Than jump!!!"

Earl is running towards Patrick with an angry look upon his face about to attack Patrick when Patrick feels a warm wet spray washing over the side of his face. Just as Earl is almost upon him, Patrick suddenly turns into a ghost and Earl runs right through him and is crashing into one of the tablesjust behind Patrick

Patrick turns around to see Earl laying on the floor hurt... Patrick laughs and says, "Now that was funny.."

Earl tries to stand up again and as he comes charging towards Patrick, Pat suddenly disappears from everyone's sight.

Patrick finds himself still on the blanket that he was laying down on by the sandy beach. That warm wet water that he felt running along the side of his face was a dog having peed upon his face. The owner of the dog was going for a walk on a leash and the dog had gotten away from him and ran across the sands... The dog needed a place to unload what was in him and he had to pee so he peed on Patrick's face... Patrick woke up to find to his surprise that a dog was urinating on him.

The dog's master had chased him down and said to her dog, "Dennis! You should be a shame of yoursel!!!" 

Patrick looked at the dog and the dog had a gleam in his eyes and then he walked away with her master...  He was wondering if he had dreamt the whole thing or was it for real...After all... The owner of that dog had called out my half brother's name... She said, "Dennis..."

Author's Note

I think I would like to make my stories thrillers...