[ WP ] A story where all the dialogue is lyrics from your favorite song .

`` Hello'' I heard a muffled voice distantly making echoes in my head. 
 
 `` Is there anybody in there?'' There it was again, but it sounded louder and closer. Slowly, a figure started forming in front of me, it was blurry, but it was clearly a person. 
 
 “ Just nod if you can hear me ” The figure became closer, and clearer. 
 
 “ Is there anyone at home? ” I moved my head with great effort, it felt as if I was submerged in gelatin, it was so hard to make small movements. 
 
 “ Come on, now. I hear you ’ re feeling down ” I detected a bit of friendly sarcasm on its tone. 
 
 “ Well, I can ease your pain, and get you on your feet again ” Can it now? I tried to tilt my head towards his voice, interested. 
 
 “ Relax, I ’ ll need some information first. Just the basic facts, can you show me where it hurts? ” I felt like I was floating, nothing hurt, but there was a trace of it. I was tired, I felt the ghost of an excruciating pain, but now there was nothing. 
 
 “ There… is no pain ” I managed to articulate. 
 
 Suddenly, the figure started to vanish in front of me. “ …you… are receding ”. 
 
 My sight became a little clearer. I was floating in an endless sea “ A distant ship ”. I said to myself, was what that figure had turned into. “ Smoke on the horizon ” It made the illusion of stormy clouds, but somehow, I knew it was smoke, coming from the ship. 
 
 I felt the need of that presence again, it was… calming. “ You are only coming through in waves ”. I watched it come closer and closer again, until it became that human figure again. But this time it was different, its presence made me very sleepy and tired, it was hard to see, and I couldn ’ t hear anything. 
 
 “ You ’ re lips move… but I can ’ t hear what you ’ re saying ” I could only hear my voice inside my head, and then it came to me. I had felt this before. The figure was in front of me, standing over the water, watching me silently. 
 
 “ When I was a child, I had a fever ” I remembered. “ My hands felt just like two balloons ” I moved my hands in front of me so I could see them, and they were huge. “ Now I ’ ve got that feeling once again ”. 
 
 The figure was motionless and silent. 
 
 “ I can ’ t explain, you wouldn ’ t understand ” Then all of my body felt bloated, like I was wearing a heavy costume. “ This is not how I am ” It didn ’ t felt bad, but it felt somehow wrong. 
 
 “ I have become comfortably numb… ”. 
 
 “ Okay… ” I heard its voice again, as clear as crystal. “ Just a little pinprick ” A pinprick? 
 
 Suddenly, his arm extended with something pointy at the end. 
 
 “ There ’ ll be no more… ” 
 
 “ AAAAAHHHHHHHHH ”. I cried as the needle pierced my skin, it burned like acid, but then it settled. 
 
 “ But you may feel a little sick ” Then, I felt as if gravity planted me on the ground all of a sudden, I felt normal again, and I hated it. 
 
 “ Can you stand up? ” I realized my movements were fluid now. With some effort, I could stand in my two feet. “ I do believe it ’ s working, good ” 
 
 “ That ’ ll keep you going through the show ” For a moment I could see his face, he had an unsettling smile and big black eyes that looked at me as if I were a mere toy, just repaired. 
 
 “ Come on, it ’ s time to go ” He extended his hand as a white door opened behind him. 
 
 Then I saw something behind me. And I remembered again. 
 
 “ When I was a child, I caught a fleeting glimpse, out of the corner of my eye ” I looked back to see nothing but emptiness. “ I turned to look, but it was gone. I can not put my finger on it now ”. I turned back to see the figure, with his hand still in front of me. I put a defiant gaze and tighten my fist. “ The child is grown… The dream is gone. And I have become… ” 
 
 I turned and started to walk towards the emptiness, until it started to turn into light. 
 
 “ …Comfortably Numb ”. 
 
 The End.
