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All I can do is lie there and look at her as she gets closer and closer Her wraithlike appearance allows h her body, but as she draws nearer, her features beco of freckles across her cheeks One in particular stands out er and is just below the corner of her right eye She also has the beginning of sests dimples if she were to smile

My body tenses even further when she doesn’t stop and keeps floating toward e, and she doesn’t try to touch htens the closer she gets

She’s so close I can see black specks in her eyes olden amber

Painful breath rushes froonizing scream escapes her lips Not a second later, she bursts into a thousand tiny flashes of bright light, her screanetic force insidethem intothan the last

I WAKE WITH A jerk,wide open as I sit up in bed I clutch s I pull in deep breaths, trying to push the discoments from the pain in my dream It has to be

I toss the covers aside and cli toward the bathroom, I stumble a few steps, my equilibrium off

“Fuckin’ hell,” Ihead

I walk to the sink, turn on the tap, and splash cold water onmy head, I look at my reflection in the s underwild

I squeeze my eyes shut, and memories of the dream rush behind my closed lids

When the dreao, they were different than the ones I had before The wo with the tiny sparks of light She never spoke, but I always felt her eyes on me

This dreaht of day In a place I knoell What that means, I have no idea I just wish it would stop

I used to only have one every couple of months, but since they returned, I have theht,withmuch, and it pisses me off

Why can’t she just tell me what in the fuck she wants from me? Even if she only needs help in my dream and she’s not out there somewhere powerless and in dire need, she could at least tell me what in the hell she needs me to do

I push away from the sink, start the shower, and don’t wait for the spray to warm before I step inside The cold water hitsmy head, I step under the showerhead until the water meets my shoulders The cold distracts me from the haunted amber eyes and my unanswered questions

Once the water warms, I lift my shoulders a few times and twist my head back and forth to loosen the tensein my head lessens The pain in htly