Sorry it wasnt broken up, Im copying what I wrote down and in an effort to write as much as possible before i forgot I just had a lot of run-ons and no paragraphs.

Part 2 Of I was Dreaming

As my friend rethinks this situation, she quickly leads me away from the scene. We ran back down the stairs and to the beach. The warm tropical sand didnt seem to comfortable anymore, instead I could feel the cold hard grains of sand, each digging into my feet as though I was walking on glass. It seemed to me that in this real world the sun had not shown for years, dark clouds covered the sky and thunder crackled in the distance.

We made our way to a small stone building, not a home, but more like a shack. Inside I could see that it was used for storage, but there was a pallet made in the center of the floor, so someone was sleeping here. My friend told me that this was were she stayed and pulled a box of papers from under a table. She grabbed a newspaper and a box of crackers. I couldn't help thinking how disgustingly stale the crackers could be, seeing how the box no longer had a face, all sides crumbled and faded. The newspaper had a green tone ink and life coming from the pages (vegetation I think is what I meant). I could only make out the cover picture and headline, which read "Trans-dimensional Breakthrough May Have Link To Life In Space!". The picture showed a line of scientists standing in front of a machine that took up the entire background. It looked very unreal and unnatural with a cat-eye shaped gate in the middle, and each of the scientists were holding artifacts of some kind.

My friend explained to me that the scientist discovered a way to travel to another planet without traveling through space, a portal or door that could take them anywhere they imagined. They used it to find new life, and did, but made the mistake of not concealing it and quickly its infectious race covered the planet, leaving cities of millions to small fortified towns of hundreds. A race of small parasitic aliens that would leech to civilians and slowly deprive them of everything that made them human.

She explained to me that a cure had been made, but can only be used in early stages of infection, over time their bodies would change into a more grotesque alien form, by then there is no hope for life again. Occasionally the people here would find one thats still in the human form curiously wandering across the bridges, alone and often falling into their traps. They continually cured as many as possible, which leads to me and how I got here. She said the I was once one of them, and that after they cured me I lost all my memories from my past life. And still now Im having trouble remembering things because despite how many times my friend has given her name, I just cant remember. Everything so far has been very weird but I believe that it is all true. I guess now I should try and make a new life for myself and be happy Im here now, alive, and very much human.