Chloe's POV

"Don't even think about running away this time! There is nowhere to run this time, Chloe." I screamed and ran as fast as I could through the thick and overgrown forest in Andrew's backyard. And of course being the klutz that I am, I tripped and stumbled over a tree root in the ground landing face first in the dirt. I tried to scramble to my feet but something grabbed my shoulder shoving me to the ground again. I felt searing hot pain through my left shoulder as I kept rolling in the dirt. Behind me I heard a sickening laugh. I was crying as I tried not to imagine what could happen to me. Boney fingers were making their way up my arm. I knew at that point only one thing could make me feel so cold…

Zombies.

I woke with a scream tearing through my throat. Tremors past through my body as I tried to recover from the nightmare that had occurred not 2 minutes before.

My door burst open and in less than 2 seconds flat I was in Derek's arms trying to be rocked back to sleep. Tremors kept ripping through my body as I cried. "Shhhhhh. Everything will be fine. Just calm down. Shhhhhh." Derek whispered reassuringly in my ear. He kissed the top of my head trying to comfort me. I had stopped crying but the only problem was that now I couldn't fall back asleep. I had the sickening laugh stuck in my head. It felt so real and I couldn't stop thinking about it as if it were burned into my memory forever.

"Chloe, do you want to talk about it?" He asked.

"Sure. But can we go somewhere else in case someone decides to come see what all the screaming was about?" A blush slowly crept to my cheeks as I realized what I just said. Derek's chest slightly rumbled with laughter as he saw me blush which made me blush even more.

We ended up in the back yard on the porch. Great, I thought to myself, I try to forget my nightmare and now I can't because it happened not more than 50 feet away in the exact same forest we were staring in. I sat on Derek's lap as I retold everything that happened in the terrifying dream. I let a few tears fall but I wiped at them quickly trying not to cry and embarrass myself any farther. His face was emotionless throughout the dream. When I finished, he kissed my cheek gently as if reassuring that nothing bad will ever happen to me like that.

As if under a spell, I drifted off into a dreamless sleep for the rest of the night.