This Belongs to You
Chapter one: Recalling the Dream
Startled from sleep, i glance towards them a flash of lightning meets my gaze. Another ragging storm has greated london this night before my engagement party. It was that dream again, the same one that has haunted me since I first started dating William Rudolph II. It all starts with flying, as if magic, where I am flying to? I do not know, but as I stare ahead in my dream my target seems to only be the shadow of a figure, with marvelous green eyes, and a michevious grin. The dream always ends as I come within inches of the shadowed figure, reaching out my hand to grasp it's, desperate to take hold of the figures hand and pull him from the shadows. This dream is nothing like any other, it is less of a dream and more of a reminder of one person I will never see again.
The door to my room creeks open slowly, "Wendy?" Michael says from the door, and I can see two other figures behind him.
"Yes Michael?" I say sitting up and scooting over in my full size bed. Michael and both of the twins step into my room, holding tight to their teddy bears. "Is it the storm again?"
I am answered by three nods, and with a smile, I hold open my blanket for them to come join me. With all of us snuggled warmly under my blanket, sleep is quick to over take the small boys. But my mind is racing with thoughts, questions, and images of the boy who still held an important place in my heart.
Tomorrow I would anounce to both William's family and mine our engagement. Though I was pleased to find a man who treated me with kindness and respect, who could also provide me with a home and stability, It was far from what I truely wanted. A part of me deep within me screamed for me to think this engagement throught, but why second guess such a great opportunity for myself, as mother would say. There was a good reason why and it came in the shadowed figure in my dream. Of course who was i fooling, that figure had long since forgotten me, and was now off on another great adventure. I fell back to sleep that night with a tear in my eyes, and the name of that shadowed figure on my lips. I had locked the name away for so long, just the thought of speaking it aloud scared me.