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Chapter 1
A Dream Yet to Come
It was a peaceful night out in the country, with a small, warm breeze and a clear painting of the stars and the full moon in the sky. The highway of wheat, golden and crisp, was ready to be picked in the coming days, was located nearby. Elizabeth lay in an easy to reach plain, just looking at the stars. She couldn't help but notice that she had been here before. But, she had never visited this place outside of her dreams.
Is this another dream, or am I truly here for real? Elizabeth thought to herself. As suddenly as she had gotten there, she saw herself, standing in the distance. But, three other people were there.
"Who are you? What are you doing here?" Elizabeth cried out to the strangers. However, they didn't seem to hear her. She tried again, but to no avail.
"Hey, could you at least be kind enough and answer my questions?!" Elizabeth yelled. Another four shadows appeared from thin air. Elizabeth tried standing up, but somehow, she was stuck to her spot.
"Hand her over, or you'll suffer the consequences!" one of the newcomers booming voices proclaimed to the other four standing across from him. The voice was deep and sinister, and this sounded like a negotiation from the movie.
"Never in your wildest dreams would we give Elizabeth up!" a new, female voice shouted. Elizabeth was puzzled. She had never heard such things in her life. But, they were talking abut her, and she didn't even know them!
"Who are you people?!" Elizabeth's anger was presently known now. However, the eight people didn't pay the slightest attention to her or her questions.
"I'll never go with you, Bakura!" Elizabeth's own voice now shouted. Elizabeth's confusion now became like a time bomb waiting to explode. Who were these strangers and what was she herself doing here?
This has to be a dream, I just have to wake up, she thought. Elizabeth concentrated on her soft bed, her warm room, and the comfort to be alive when she returned. Right as Elizabeth was ready to leave, a huge snake came pummeling toward her.
Elizabeth woke with such a fright; she scared her father, making him jump with terror. Elizabeth felt her face, drops of sweat coming down from it.
"Don't scare me like that, sweetums. What happened? Are you ok?" her worrisome stepfather, Mr. Jones, asked.
Does he always have to call me by his pet name? Elizabeth thought to herself. "Don't worry, Mr. Jones, I'm alright, just a nightmare, that's all," Elizabeth replied.
"That's the fourth time this week! Tell me about it," her stepfather asked as sympathetically as a father could be.
"Are you sure about that? It could scare you worse than when I woke with a fright," Elizabeth asked, knowing that he just wanted to interpret her dreams. Mr. Jones interpreted dreams for a living, and he was famous for it, too. Elizabeth had told one of her dreams to Mr. Jones once, and he said that she was going to die in the next hour. Elizabeth lived, of course, and she never told him a single dream after that.
"Alright, sweetums get dressed for school, and we'll talk about this later, ok?" Mr. Jones asked.
"Alright, Mr. Jones I'll get up," Elizabeth groaned, straining to conceal her relief for escaping the torture of reliving her dream. I know that my friend will understand my dream for what it is; Elizabeth contemplated telling her dream to her friend. After agreeing to tell her friend after school, Elizabeth got up and started changing.
Mr. Jones walked down the stairs, and went toward the kitchen to make breakfast for him and Elizabeth.
I wish that Elizabeth would call me her father. But, after that incident, she would call it replacing her father if she called anyone else 'dad', Mr. Jones thought to himself. He started making pancakes. While making Elizabeth's pancake, he added chocolate chips into it.
Elizabeth ran down the stairs, went to her favorite kitchen seat, and started to eat her pancake.
"Remember, Elizabeth, this is your last day of school, and that's it," Mr. Jones reminded his stepdaughter.
"I know, Mr. Jones. Then, we'll start our trip to Disneyworld tomorrow, where my new, mysterious friend will meet us later on Sunday, right?" Elizabeth asked with her mouth nearly stuffed with food.
"Yes, that's right, as long as you behave," Mr. Jones emphasized the last part as he started a tickle fight with Elizabeth, who rolled on the floor and started laughing.
"Mr. Jones, cut it out!" Elizabeth squealed, trying to push off her step dad's body away from hers.
"Oh, alright," Mr. Jones freed Elizabeth from his grasp, "but remember, you aren't going to Disneyworld if you don't have good grades, and as long as you behave," Mr. Jones reminded Elizabeth.
"How many times do you have to remind me of the same thing?" Elizabeth teased, putting on her poker face.
"I need to remind you one million times before you ever get it," Mr. Jones teased back, smiling. Elizabeth knew that face to be a teasing one, considering the fact that she'd been living with him for nine years.
"Sweetums, we need to leave now, or you'll be late to school, and I can't be late for work, either," Mr. Jones commented.
"Oh my gosh! C'mon, dad, we've got to hurry!" Elizabeth realization once more startled her step father. She got her backpack, checked to be sure that she had everything that she needed, and then ran down to the car.
Kids can be energetic when they want to be, and I'll be preparing for the trip tonight, anyways, so we have to go, no matter what her grades are, Mr. Jones thought to himself.
"Elizabeth! Over here!" Elizabeth's friend, Ashley exclaimed to get her friend's attention.
"Oh, hi Ashley, what's up?" Elizabeth asked.
"The sky is what's up. Just joking, I'm fine, and you?" Ashley's calm, soothing voice seemed to carry Elizabeth's troubles away, but she had to tell about her dream to Ashley.
"Ashley, I want to tell you something, but please don't tell my father, ok?" Elizabeth pleaded.
"Another dream, eh? Alright, let me hear it," Ashley's face showed that she was ready to hear the dream.
Elizabeth explained her dream, describing her location, the time of day, even down to the clothes that she thought that she saw through the gloom of the night.
"But right before I woke up, this huge snake came and nearly pulverized me! What do you think about that dream?" Elizabeth's worried face disguised how desperate that she truly was inside.
"Hmm, well let me think over the dream, and I'll get back to you on it today, ok?" Ashley still looked as calm as before the dream.
"Thank you so much, Ashley," Elizabeth blew out a relived sigh, knowing that her secret was safe with Ashley.
"Come on, Elizabeth, or we'll be late for school!" Ashley exclaimed to her stunned friend.
"Oh, right, I'm coming!" Elizabeth shouted, not knowing that starting on Sunday and lasting through her vacation, Elizabeth's life would change forever.