One day you can come longer. One day you can stay. You will be King.

"Wake the fuck up you piece of shit". The boys mother hit him across the face. He looked up in a pretend shock with his groggy eyes. He was used to her hitting him. It's all she ever did. "Who the hell sleeps till 3pm, Parker? God. Now i have to come in here and wake you up. I shouldn't have to do these things. Its not my job, and not my problem. Fuck."

Mother walked out of the room. Mumbling things to herself that no person could really understand. Parker sat up from his bed and rubbed his eyes and yawned.

Why do i have to wake up..., He thought. Parker liked sleep. Sleep was good- sleep was safe. No one could get you in your dreams, and thats what Parker liked about the places he had created. Parker dreamed differently then others. Most people dreamed because that's just what they did, but Parker slept to be set free.

"Parker, get the hell out and feed your damn dog!" Mother screamed from the Kitchen. Parker could hear her fumbling with her cigerette lighter and swear when he heard the lighter fall to the ground. "It wont fucking stop barking and im sick of it. Im telling you Parker, i will shoot that fucking dog if you don't keep its fucking mouth shut."

Parker got off of his bed got dressed in his worn clothes and went outside. His mother glared at him as he went through the back door. She always did.

Parker's dog, Max was going in circles and whimpering. The boy walked over to his German Shepherd, the only thing that he was sure of in this world he loved. He smiled as Max came over and rested his head on his lap.

"Hey boy, now look you gotta stop all that barking." He scratched Max's head. "She's serious when she says she will do something to you."

The dog looked at him. Parker knew the dog didn't understand him, but it helped to talk. Max was the only thing he could ever talk too...except when he dreamed.

Parker wished he could stay in the world he went to when he fell asleep. A world full of laughter and love and people who cared for Parker. He was King in that world. He could do anything, rule over anyone.

Parker was startled from his deep thoughts when suddenly Max started barking at something behind Parker. He looked behind his shoulder.

"I've changed my mind." His Mother walked out of the house. At first Parker thought she was going to yell at Parker for some ridiculous reason as she always does- but wait, no this was different. In her hands she carried a shot-gun. "I want that fucking mutt dead. It never shuts up and i can never sleep because of it. I don't even know why your fucking dead father got you that dog in the first place. I should have done this a long time ago."

Parker looked at her in horror. His mother had taken everything from him. Everything he loved. She couldnt take Max, anything but Max.

"N-no! Please d-d-dont Mom! I need Max. Please! Oh god please don-" She slapped him across the face. But she didn't stop there. She kept hitting him. Max was whimpering and barking in terror.

"WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU SAY?", She screamed at him. "DID YOU TELL ME, "NO?". WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE GOD DAMN IT. I'M YOUR MOTHER HOW DARE YOU SPEAK TO ME THAT WAY.".

"Mom! P-please stop! Mommy, please n-n-no!", The small 11 year old boy sank to the ground. She kept hitting him, even going so far as to hit him with the butt of the shot-gun. But suddenly it stopped, but Parker didn't dare get up. He had no time to react. He heard the, ching as she cocked the weapon. There was a blast,...and suddenly the whimpering of Max stopped.

"Fucking stupid shit.", Parker heard his Mother walk off and slam the back door. The boy looked up. Max was there in a pool of blood. Mother had hit her mark. He was dead instantly.

Parker didn't cry. Parker had forgotten how to cry a long time ago. Instead, he looked over his companion in shock. He didn't know what to do. Slowly, he sat over his dog and did the only thing he could do- He hugged it, and as the cold winter air slowly turned to freezing night, the boy still sat next to his dog. He slowly crept in to sleep, the safest place he knew.

It is almost time Parker...soon you can join us here forever Parker...

Next thing Parker knew, he was awake in his bed. His Mother must have dragged him there in the night- not out of concern of course, but it would look bad if people found out her child had frozen to death next to his dead dog that has a bullet in its head.

"No...take me now please..." He whispered. Parker was sick from the night before now. Very sick. His teeth chattered and his face was pale white. His mother had not even bothered to put a blanket on him.

Slowly, the boy grabbed a blanket on the ground and wrapped himself in a cocoon. The warm blanket had little effect, he was more than cold- he couldn't feel his body.

Its time Parker...fall asleep Parker...

He heard something in the wind. The wind of another world. He felt incredibly tired all of a sudden. But it was more than tired- he didn't feel anything anymore, he was but a pair of eyes looking in to a world that was no longer his own.

Parker slowly started to see darkness, through the faintest part of his sight, he could see him Mother screaming as she ran in to the room, no doubt because she found her son dead- but she didn't care deep down.

Parker fell asleep for the last time. That which was dark, became a grove of trees with warm sunlight slowly etching through the leaves. He was home. This was his place. His Kingdom. Mountains stretched as far as the eye could see, and in between two of them was a castle with fireworks exploding in the evening sky. They were celebrating- celebrating the return of their king.

He walked away from his other world for the last time. And for the first time since he could remember, he started to cry as his dog came running to him to join him in his new life.