Chapter 1

Mark was looking throught the window trying to focus his binoculars a little bit more to get a better look at his neighbors. Nothing much happened in this town, an occasional death or the rumours at church would be considered exciting in grafton county. It rained most days in grafton, and the days it didn’t rain, it snowed. It’s not surprising that a teenager like mark found it boring and sleepy.

Mark liked to look at their neighbors through the binoculars, and all that spying sometimes paid off with a juicy scene. Right now he could see a 24 ish lisa with her dirty blonde hair trying to setting up the table and a man in his 50s came up from her back grabbing her by the waist, pressing himself against her while kissing her along the neck...

“Mark breakfast is ready “ announces his mom

Mark put down his binoculars with a sigh and went downstairs,

“We recieved a word from your principal” said Robert (Mark’s father)

“huh ... what did he say”

“He says you need to blend in and socialize more, young man, how hard is it for you to talk to people. Maybe taking your head off of books and your computer could help. Just books and computer’s are not life, Mark “ Rober said with a hint of irritation creeping in his voice

“i will ... it’s just that they are boring and more often than not, are doing nothing “ Mark replied

“Maybe take a part time job or volunteer for something dear, you know what the pastor says an ideal mind is a devil’s workshop” his mother offered

“Yeah maybe you can help pay the bills in this household “ Robert said

Mark and his father talked about navy a little bit more as they finish their breakfast

Robert isn’t around most of time, he only returns home few times a year from the navy. Mark’s mom martha reads books, watches tv and cooks, that is it, nothing else. Mark used to joke that his parents have been infected with whatever this damn county has. Mark felt the same dull vibe even in his house.

Mark went to school, it was the last year of high school, and most of his classmates were talking about which college they will be applying to or about continuing their father’s business. Mark didn’t have a choice as his father couldn’t afford to pay for college and Mark didn’t want to the student debt dangling over his head.

“What about your website creating business, mark” his friend ryan asks poking his elbow at him

“i mean, it’s going well, maybe i will continue that”

“Maybe you could do buy some servers with the money you get from your birthday”

“Man you are an unstoppable idea machine aren’t you ... where will you be going? “ Mark asks after a pause

“I think I and amy will apply to bunch of university and the university we both will be the one “ ryan

“You guys are such a lovey dovey couple aren’t you” mark says

“it will bum me out when i will move away from you man... “ ryan says getting into his car “see ya”

Things were the same for the next few months occasional spying on the neighbors and his work with websites and handling his clients incessant problems. Over this time he started getting some weird dreams, out of body experiences while sleeping and occasionally, instances where he could feel his body enter another place. His 18 th birthday wasn’t really remarkable, his mom wished him, his father was on the some ship working and his friend have him a long vision binoculars as gift. Mark wasn’t able to sleep in three days after his birthday he was halucinating, each night his mind jumping places once he ended up forests with huge creatures he never seen and other times in water with a feeling of drowning. It’s a dream, it’s not real ... deep breaths he said to himself in an effort to calm himself down. Fourth day was better and he slept like a log for two days straight.

Mark was geting a hang of his hallucinations now he could will his hallucinations to go to jsut one place or will it, to go other places. once when he was hallucinating he went to a dark forest and saw a hog, the size of a car and snakes and trees, it was crazy. He willed himself out of the hallucination and got back to working on his laptop. He could see a commotion going on at his neighbor’s front yard, he took his binoculars and pointed at his neighbor he could see that they were taking out a body, The old man died?.The young wife was on outside answering the police. Well that’s a development thought mark.