CHAPTER 10

  I was running through a forest, I wasn’t quite sure why I was doing this, but I felt that if I did stop for even a short moment, something terribly dangerous would occur. I was running in this long old pale blue dress. I began to realize that I was becoming exhausted running in heels, I finally ran out of breath, and I soon felt myself hyperventilate. The next thing I know everything become blurry and seem to grow twice as large as they originally were. I looked towards the ground, and I was shocked to realize that my hands were no longer there. Now in there place were paws. Was I insane? Guess so. I started to run again thge second I heard braches crackling, with footsteps and voices approaching. Suddenly I felt that my senses had become extremely sensitive and sharp. 

  Immediately I saw an opening in the forest, Thank God! I felt hopeful for survival until I came to notice that I was at the edge of a cliff. NO!  I quickly turned around and tried to run anywhere else but it was too late. Men with torches, fork picks, knives, and many other dangerous objects surrounded me. I was completely terrified that I didn’t even come to realize that one of the men in the crowd was lunging at me with a knife. He got me deeply on the shoulder and again dug it in deeper. There seriously could not be any words to explain the amount of immense pain I felt. Within the crowd I heard a young mans voice, ‘No! What have you done?!' but I didn’t get the chance to see the face of this man, with the most sorrowful voice. I slowly began to feel myself fall of the edge of the cliff, and suddenly my body seemed morphed into something. I wasn't sure what I was but I notice all the eyes of the men widen in utter shock. Rapidly I headed towards the rocky bottom of the cliff but deep down, I felt safe but I instinctly closed my eyes to the horror of dieing and suddenly... I woke up.

  I was breathing deeply and breaking into a cold sweat. I quickly placed my hand on my cheeks and realized I was burning up. I quickly shot out of my bed and headed to my bathroom, in attempt to splash some water in my face and make it cool down. My eyes immediately squinted when I flicked the lights on. It took my eyes a rather long time to adjust to the light and once I did I went over to the sink. I glanced up at my reflection and saw that my face was a light pink color. “I really need to go out for a walk," I told myself.

  I rushed back to my room, and threw on one of my many sweaters and slipped on my shoes. My body felt so exhausted, but I really needed this walk to get some fresh air. I slowly opened the window by the television and then hoped onto the garage roof. I quickly ran across, climbed down the tree, and landed on the ground without any broken bones, lucky me.

  I started walking in a random direction, but I wasn’t really sure where I was going to go though. I headed down my block, and passed the block after that, then the one after that. And before I knew it, I had already walked much further than I planned to, so I quickly turned and went back home. For some reason I felt that I needed to think about the dream, there wasn’t even a reason, I just needed to re-think that whole bizarre dream. Seriously I have never had one like that, I mean one that felt so real. There was also the fact that it was way to weird to even recap, all that I really understood was running and doing some time of morphing. I think I might be deranged or something, hah.

  Suddenly, out of nowhere my “paranoid trigger” switched on because I felt as if someone were watching my. I instictly quickened my pace until I got into a dart back to the house. I glanced over the sky and realized that the sun was rising, so I assumed it was around six-thirty. Now, during my quick walk I made the quick decision to now tell Seth or Felix anything about the dream, simply because the first thing that would come to their mind is ‘your really crazy.”

  I had soon reached my house, rushed over to the tree, climbed up it, run over the garage and threw myself through the opened window. I accidentally made a big thump sound as I fell to the floor and flung my shoes off. I immediately rushed up, jumped into my bed and yanked the covers over me, just in time to hear a knock at my door.

  Slowly the door opened, “Amelia, are you up yet? Well wake up, we have church today. Right now you have just enough time to get ready and come down for breakfast,” my Dad sad. Once he shut the door I pulled the covers off and started to get my church clothes ready. Now, your probably wondering what a rebel as myself is doing going to church, but honestly I for one do believe in a God, Jesus, Mary, you know the whole caboodle, I just slightly believe in the back of my head that the church is a conspiracy. Anyways, I grabbed one of my towels and went to take a nice long hot shower. As much as I was trying to block that nightmare from my head, it just somehow crept back, almost like a really bad catchy tune. After forty-five minutes in the shower, I got dried, and changed into my clothes. It usually takes me about an hour to get ready but today was yet another record for me.

  As I was buttoning my blouse, I started to smell eggs and bacon. I rushed down the stairs and saw the food right on top of the counter. I quickly glanced over into the living room to see how Seth and Felix were, but I only seemed to see Seth on the sofa.

  “Boo!” I immediately jumped and turned around. Felix was there smiling at me, “Did I scare you?”

  “Not at all…okay maybe just a tiny bite.” He gave a little chuckle.

  “You look nice today.” I was wearing a white short sleeved blouse, with a black skirt about 2 and a half inches above my knee and black stockings.

  “Why thank Sir Felix,” I was attempting to sound like Samantha, but I’m a bit rusty on my impersonations. We both laughed at my failed attempt, and that’s when dad came by.

  “What’s so funny?” He looked at us both.

  “It’s nothing, so what’s for breakfast?”

  “Eggs, pancakes, bacon, toast, now if your hungry I suggest eating now because your Mother would like to leave as early as we possibly can today.” I gave him a look. “She seems to want to meet up with an old friend of hers’ who’s coming by today.”

  “Okay…oh, hey Dad, do you think Felix and Seth could come along with us?”

  “Would they like to come?” He turned toward Felix.

  “Yeah, I’d like that. I mean I’d have to wake Seth up…oh but, we didn’t bring clothes along.”

  “Well, you seem a bit smaller than my son. Let’s go see if his suits fit you.” Just as Felix and my Dad left to go and raid through Kyle’s room my Dad turned and told me to wake Seth up.

  “Yes Sir, I mean Dad!” yeah, the Samantha joke stuck with me a little too long. I soon left the kitchen and walked over to the living room. I glanced over the sofa and saw Seth. He seemed peaceful, almost angelic, when he was asleep, it was actually really cute. Whoa, there!

Get a grip on yourself, gosh! At first I slightly shook him and called his name. When he didn’t respond I did it again just a little harder and louder, “Seth get up!”

  “I’m tired…nnmm…” he seemed way too deep into sleep. So I gave him a moment to get himself together, and eventually he did. “Oh Amelia, I’m sorry, I was just so exhausted that I didn’t even know where I was.

  “Hah, that’s alright, I actually do that all the time. So hey, Seth I was wondering if you were up to going to church with us, Felix is coming, Dad’s even helping him find a suit right now.”

  “Sure, why now.”

  “Cool, well Felix and my Dad are in my brother’s room. So you could head down the hall and to your left it’s his room.” He slowly got up and headed over the Kyle’s room, where all the other guys in this house were. Alright, what to do now? I thought. Now, for some weird reason I suddenly had a strong undesirable craving for meat. I rushed back into the kitchen and yanked the refrigerator door open. I examined inside and noticed we had some ham and baloney. I took several pieces of both and scarfed them down. But I still felt this uncontrollable hunger, so I just ate all the ham and baloney straight from the bag. I seriously could have eaten a deer at the moment, especially at the rate I was eating. Then the sudden reminder of the nightmare made me lose all sense of my appetite. I slowly sat down in a chair for a good twenty minutes and I was about to go head upstairs when I saw Seth and Felix coming back. They both seemed to have taken showers, since their hair was wet, wait forget I just said that, that really wasn’t the point I was trying to get across, anyways what I’m trying to say is that they both looked really good in suits. Felix was wearing a white men’s dress shirt under a black jacket and red tie, while Seth wore a light blue shirt under a black suit and red tie. “Wow, you guys look great! Nice going Dad.” He nodded at the acknowledged comment and smiled. “Oh did Cathy ever call back?”

  “Yes, she actually called this morning to tell us she was needed back at campus.”

  “Oh, so then it’s just us today, sounds good.”

  “We should be leaving any moment now. Did you all eat?” Seth shook his head while Felix and I nodded ours.

   I turned to Felix, “You ate?”

  “Yeah, when your Mom started to cook, that’s when I seemed to wake up.”

  “Right, and you, Seth? Are you not going to eat?”

  “I’m not that hungry,” he replied.

  “Alright then, I’m going to go get my shoes, call Mom down, and we can leave.” I ran upstairs, got my black high heels, called for my Mom, who kept saying she would be down in a minute. I quickly slide my shoes on and ran back downstairs.

  “Okay! I’m ready.” Dad got his keys and Mom was down in her brand new blue dress. Once we were all ready we locked the door and left. In the end Felix and Seth decided to go in their car and my Dad, Mom, and I in ours.

  I got into the back seat, just as my Dad got into the drivers seat and my Mom in the front passenger one. As Seth and Felix got into their car, or if I were to be more technical “Marcus’ car”, I slid down the window and yelled out to them, “See you there!”