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He shined a flashlight into my eyes and asked me to count backward from ten When I was finished, he asked, "And you don’t reers together, I thought about e, about all the sleep I’d lost, and all the s I’d woken up in sheets drenched in sweat

But at least those drea out in class was different; it was abnor "I had a drea like one I’m not really sure"

"Of what?"

"Of the Royal Victoria Hospital I alking through it to a certain roo was so clear and detailed, like I’d been there before"

"Have you?"

I shook my head

"Can you describe what you saw?"

I told hi to the pediatric ward and entering the boy’s roo beneath the bed

He looked unnerved "That’s startlingly accurate," he said "The layout, the interior of the hospital--that’s all correct Are you sure you haven’t been there before?"

I nodded

The doctor frowned "Have you had other dreaht, yes In each of the"

He took notes as I told hihtmares I’d had all summer When I was finished, he made me stand up and walk across the roo

"Physically, everything seeh your body is exhausted and sleep deprived I’ to schedule you for so inside is okay" He leaned forward "But if I h a lot in the last year, and I think you’d benefit fro in to see s, which must have been there from when I fell out of my chair

"You can think about it if you’d like In the et so down on a pad and tore off the prescriptions for two kinds of pills

"What are they?" I asked, trying to sound out the names in my head

"One is an antianxiety medication The other is an antidepressant"

"But I’m not depressed"

"Thatme "However, for now, this medication should put an end to these dreaet some much needed sleep"

"But what if I don’t want to stop the them for a reason?"

"And what reason would that be?" he asked, puzzled

I let my hands drop into oing tests and scans of my brain When they all came back noro By then it was already late afternoon, the shadows shifting over the courtyard as the sun sank in the sky Classes were over, and students poured out of the buildings Keeping h the coluirls was sitting on the stoop of the dor above the others

"Apparently she had so her gum as if to punctuate her sentence "I heard froood of a Monitor at Gottfried," she added, turning to April and Allison and three other girls who had lived down the hall from me last year

I hid behind a colu to her sister for approval

"Well, she wasn’t that good," Allison corrected She was only distinguishable frohty tone "She justshohenever she found a dead anie" The other girls nodded in agreement

"So how did she do it?" Clementine asked, her voice calm "How did she survive the kiss of an Undead?"