Slowly Aileen waded deeper into the ocean laying before her. Her white dress already started to soak but it didn't matter. In this place, nothing really mattered except her being here again. Finally she was in deep enough to start swimming. She turned around to swim on her back and gazed lovingly into the deep green sky above her. She relished the silence and her isolation. A deep sigh escaped her lips as she felt the tension of her body slowly cease away.

After what felt like hours of peaceful resting, there was a sizzle in the air making her knit her eyebrows. There never was a sound here. She didn't even know if she was able to speak - there never was a reason to try. She decided to look for the scource of this sound and got out of the water. Taking a look around she noticed a passage she hadn't noticed before enticing another smile. She loved the fact this place seemed to change every time she came here. Her heart leapt at the thought of exploring a new corner of her private little place.

She followed the path unfolding in front of her. Just when she thought it would possible never end she rounded a corner and stopped dead in her tracks. There was another person standing there. Slightly smaller than herself and dressed in strange clothes the figure held something that looked like a... crook? No. It was more of a... staff. The figure didn't take notice of her because she was standing in his back. Her heart pounded loudly in her ears, as the figure suddenly started to turn. Just when it needed only an inch more to see his face she felt a familiar tug at her conscience. She wanted to cry out and stop it, but it was to late.

She woke with a start, heart still pounding at a rediculous speed. This was the first time she had met anyone in the land of her dreams. Shaking her head, she got up and ready for school. The thought of that stranger never left her mind during the whole day which didn't go unnoticed.

As lunch arrived, her best friend quietly set down beside her in the grass, clearly giving her a bit of space before voicing her concerns.

"You seem out of it today, Leeny." she said taking a bite of her nectarine. "Did you dream again?"

Aileen side glanced at the other girl. She still wasn't sure if it had been a good idea to tell her about that place. She had been there often in the past year and her visits there were becoming more frequent. She had tried to explain to her friend that she wasn't really dreaming. It felt too real, as if she went to a different place. She chose her words with utmost care.

"I actually did, yes. And.. I met someone there."

Her friend raised an eyebrow. Aileen was known not to be the most sociable person on the campus. For her to dream about meeting someone was a big surprise. It obviously took her a few minutes to process what Aileen had said and when she opened her mouth to dig further into that topic the bell rang signalizing the end of lunchbreak. The girl shot her best friend a look saying 'We will talk about this later.' before standing up. She held out a hand to help Aileen raise off the ground. Smiling, she accepted the gesture. She was not yet actually standing when her vision suddenly went green for a moment and she felt that familiar tugging on her mind. Clinging on her best friend in order not to fall she tried to regain her balance. The feeling only lasted a few seconds, but it was long enough to gain her a quizzical look.

"Is everything alright?" Aileen plastered a fake smile on her face. "It's nothing. I probably just stood up too fast." She forced out a small laugh for good measure and that seemed to allay her friends worries. Just as it always did. The thought clouded her eyes a bit, but that went unbeknownst to her friend.

It was on her way home after school was out that the tugging retourned though more gently this time. She slowed down and let her mind wander. It took her a few minutes to notice that the tugging seemed to get stronger and weaker depending on where she went. It made her curious if it wanted to pull her somewhere. Deciding that there could be no harm in wandering around a bit, she began to follow it.

An hour later Aileen walked through the forest that spread across the northern border of the town she lived in. The tugging had become strong enough so she thought she actually could feel it physically. But what really got her to tense a bit was the atmosphere in this forrest. It somehow felt like the air around her was thickening and loading up with some foreign energy. She seemed to have reached her destination when she felt the tugging going up into the sky.

As she looked up the earth beneath her suddenly tore open and with a deafening shriek she fell.

Author's note:

Well, this is just something I thought about and really needed to get out of my system.
I don't know how far through I will write this story, but I hope you will enjoy it. =)

And if I write nonsense sentences, use phrases/words in the wrong way, etc. please tell me.
I am not a native english speaker so I might still do mistakes but I would love to improve.