p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 200%;" align="CENTER"span style="color: #3a3a3a;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Chapter two: The Nightmare/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 200%;" align="LEFT"span style="color: #3a3a3a;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" The next day Gardenia rose without her usual pep. She glanced over to the curtains in her room where the sun tried to force its way through, but she rolled over and buried her face into her pillow. Her eyes were pink and her cheeks had stains running down from where she had spent the remainder of yesterday and her night crying. She recalled her mother attempting to write a letter asking about the placement, before another owl came and delivered a letter specifically to her mother. She read the letter before crumpling it up and throwing it into the fireplace along with the one she was writing. Grasping the mantle for support, she watched as her mothers body heaved and shook with each ragged breath and she could hear the sobs emitting from / Rubbing her sore eyes, she forced the thought out of her mind and tried to grasp some dream as her eyes /span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 200%;" align="CENTER"span style="color: #3a3a3a;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"***br /span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 200%;" align="LEFT"span style="color: #3a3a3a;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" Her eyes opened as she heard the door squeak open and heard footsteps cross the floor to her bed. A hand was pressed against her shoulder and grasped it tightly before turning her over, leaving her face to face with the gray complexion of a man with a sneer. br / "Well aren't you just a little buffet of fear?"/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 200%;" align="LEFT"span style="color: #3a3a3a;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" She let out a scream and kicked her foot out, making contact with the strangers chest before watching him disappear into a cloud of black leaving her in her bedroom alone. She sat up in her bed quickly and looked around, fresh tears streaming down her face as she huddled against the post, trying to find something out of place. Suddenly, the light got dimmer and dimmer and the shadows on the floor seemed to slither across the floor and crawl up into her bed. /span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 200%;" align="LEFT"span style="color: #3a3a3a;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" The shadows started wrapping themselves around her struggling body, moving up towards her mouth; cutting off her screams for help. She felt the air go cold and fought for breath before she felt hands on both of her shoulders./span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 200%;" align="CENTER"span style="color: #3a3a3a;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"***/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 200%;" align="LEFT"span style="color: #3a3a3a;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" "Gardenia? Gardenia! Wake up, span style="color: #000000;"mon chéri!" Her mothers voice broke through the nightmare and she was left flying upright in her bed with her mouth opened to release another blood curling / She felt arms wrap around her and could feel hands. One rubbing her back, the other running through her hair as she let out a soothing shush sound. Sobbing, Gardenia clutched onto her mothers chest and buried her face there, not wanting to remember./span/span/span/span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 200%;" align="LEFT"span style="color: #3a3a3a;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" The next day Gardenia rose without her usual pep. She glanced over to the curtains in her room where the sun tried to force its way through, but she rolled over and buried her face into her pillow. Her eyes were pink and her cheeks had stains running down from where she had spent the remainder of yesterday and her night crying. She recalled her mother attempting to write a letter asking about the placement, before another owl came and delivered a letter specifically to her mother. She read the letter before crumpling it up and throwing it into the fireplace along with the one she was writing. Grasping the mantle for support, she watched as her mothers body heaved and shook with each ragged breath and she could hear the sobs emitting from / Rubbing her sore eyes, she forced the thought out of her mind and tried to grasp some dream as her eyes /span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 200%;" align="CENTER"span style="color: #3a3a3a;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"***br /span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 200%;" align="LEFT"span style="color: #3a3a3a;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" Her eyes opened as she heard the door squeak open and heard footsteps cross the floor to her bed. A hand was pressed against her shoulder and grasped it tightly before turning her over, leaving her face to face with the gray complexion of a man with a sneer. br / "Well aren't you just a little buffet of fear?"/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 200%;" align="LEFT"span style="color: #3a3a3a;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" She let out a scream and kicked her foot out, making contact with the strangers chest before watching him disappear into a cloud of black leaving her in her bedroom alone. She sat up in her bed quickly and looked around, fresh tears streaming down her face as she huddled against the post, trying to find something out of place. Suddenly, the light got dimmer and dimmer and the shadows on the floor seemed to slither across the floor and crawl up into her bed. /span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 200%;" align="LEFT"span style="color: #3a3a3a;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" The shadows started wrapping themselves around her struggling body, moving up towards her mouth; cutting off her screams for help. She felt the air go cold and fought for breath before she felt hands on both of her shoulders./span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 200%;" align="CENTER"span style="color: #3a3a3a;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"***/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 200%;" align="LEFT"span style="color: #3a3a3a;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" "Gardenia? Gardenia! Wake up, span style="color: #000000;"mon chéri!" Her mothers voice broke through the nightmare and she was left flying upright in her bed with her mouth opened to release another blood curling / She felt arms wrap around her and could feel hands. One rubbing her back, the other running through her hair as she let out a soothing shush sound. Sobbing, Gardenia clutched onto her mothers chest and buried her face there, not wanting to remember./span/span/span/span/p