The Boy With The Key - Chapter 1:Nothing

     Silence. Deafening silence. He opened his eyes, and what he saw startled him. Nothing. There was nothing around. No sky, no ground. Nothing. Only a cold feeling wafting around his body and darkness all around. Why was he here?
     This place that was so unfamiliar made him want to scream. He shouted. No words, just a yell. He didn't like unfamiliar places. Finally, as he began to calm down, he started to think. Maybe this was all a dream. Yeah! A dream. He had ate something the previous night that was way past its' expiration date. He'd wake up any minute and run to the bathroom to expel the food that was causing this nightmare. He waited, and waited, and waited longer still. But nothing happened.
     He finally called out "Hey!!!.....Is anybody there? Anybody!? Where am I?!?!" He waited for a reply, but it did not come.
     He began to worry, What if he had died in his sleep? Yeah! He could of passed away in his sleep, But from what cause? Age? No, he was only sixteen. Heart attack? Back to the age thing. Was it even possible for a sixteen year old high school student to have a heart attack? He didn't think so. He tossed that thought aside and started to ponder another. Maybe this was real. Had he wandered of into a pitch black tunnel. But there were no tunnels in his home town. Had he been at a party last night? Perhaps he drank to much and got in a car with someone and they dropped him off in the middle of no where? No! He would never drink. He despised drinking. Ever since his brother had died in a car accident while he was intoxicated. He swore to himself he'd never touch the stuff. So if he hadn't been out partying then what was it then? How did he get here? Why was he here?
     He looked down and saw nothing but his legs. He attempted to push down with his leg to get some footing. But as he tried his whole body had the funniest sensation. His heart began to race, beating faster than it had ever beat before! He knew this feeling, although he had only felt it this once before. One summer a few years back, him and his friend were jumping off of a bridge into a lake. They knew it was illegal but they were having fun and that was all that mattered. The sensation of falling was an intense one. He remembered that when he would jump off the bridge, he could feel his heart stop. It only started beating again when he was a few feet from the water. Then, once he had plunged into the deep, cool water, he would surface and catch his breathe, feeling alive and excited. But this time there was no water, or at least he didn't see any. He was falling inside a black abyss. He couldn't see anything that looked like ground. If there was ground, then maybe he would splatter across it and end this torture. But seeing nothing and knowing that nothing lay below him, it was worse than death. He could be falling for ever and not realize it. He began to panic. Frantically, he began wailing his arms about, in some attempt to grab onto a ledge of some sort. Nothing. There was nothing to stop his fall. He spread out his body and looked straight down. Or was it up? He could no longer tell. He had come to the conclusion that he was going to fall like this forever. Or at least until he died from starvation.
     And then, all of a sudden, he saw something. In the distance. A speck, a dot of light! What was it? He wanted it. He wanted to reach it. He slowly angled his body towards the light. His body was as straight as a pencil. He could feel his body freezing. It was so cold, but anything was worth getting to that light. Slowly, the light began to grow. Which meant he was getting closer! He looked straight into the center of the light, transfixed by it. The light, he finally realized, was a small platform, very small. Possible only big enough for him to stand on.
     "L....lll" He heard a noise.
     "Who is it!?" he called out. Then the noise came again
     "Llle....Lllleee...Leeeee!!!" His name,  Lee.
     "Yeah! That's me, I'm Lee! Who are you?" And then it hit him.