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“Uins, purses her lips, then continues “They’re different sometimes, but the one that happens theI feel like I’, but I’m lost and don’t know the way”

Her words freeze the air in s I’m motionless, except for the rapid beat in my chest

“I try to yell for help, but it’s like I’m paralyzed and can’t move or talk I feel a presence, and it scares limmers in her eyes, and her voice lowers “Sometimes there’s a silhouette of aoff him”

She stops talking, but her eyes hold consternation, like she wants me to explain her drea clue what to say I’m confused myself It could just be a coincidence that we’ve both dreahly doubt it It’s too fucking weird No, we’ve both dre

amed of that place for a reason, and I really don’t want to think of that reason right now I’ll do that shit later when I’m away from her and can think clearly

I clear ut

“What about your other dreams?”

Colors fills her cheeks and her eyes slide away fro to like these dreams either

“They’re ofand…” She pauses and tucks so e love”

A splintering pain wedges itself betweento puncture er follows There’s no reason for it to pissof Theo in that capacity, but it da wife, for Christ’s sake, and I’m just the bastard who has an infatuation with her She’s not mine, and never will be

Looking at her, shifting aardly in her seat as her eyes avoid hts I try to rein theh to where she doesn’t see them Outwardly, I soften the features onlevels

“It’s okay to have those dreah a thick throat “Maybe they aren’t just dreams, maybe they’re memories”

“Maybe so,” she returns quietly

Theo walks back into kitchen then, looking to Jules, then to me, and back to Jules His jaw hardens when he sees the flush on Jules’s face that hasn’t left yet I grab my beer, down the rest, and drop it in the trash can

“I’”