Chapter two: Dream?.. or Reality?
Each day after that unceasingly becoming worse and worse. That same dream continued to haunt me, but it wasn't as nearly as bad as school. The word 'freak' was being used more often and I couldn't concentrate on any of my school work. Derek refused to leave my side, even after I gave him a black eye, and I seemed to be getting into more fights than usual. And to top it off, my P.E coach was starting to act weird around me, and seemed to have it in her head to make me work harder than everyone else in the class. Not that I minded the extra work, but, why? Little did I know that I would find the answers to my questions soon, and all started that night as I dreamt....
I found myself in a large open field. There were many trees surrounding it and apparently a waterfall some ways behind them. At least, that's what it sounded like. *SNAP!* I whirled around in time to catch a glimpse of someone, or something, disappear into the grove of trees. Not knowing what I was doing, I ran after the person, or whatever it was. I dodged past trees, and leaped over their roots; once tripping over a rock and landing face first in the mud. The strange thing was, I was able to wipe the mud off like it was dry dirt. Instead of staying there to ponder on this new finding, my curiosity of the stranger took control again and I was off. Several minutes later, I arrived at the waterfall. It was bigger than I had imagined! The cliff was at least 500 ft high. The water ran off it in a perfectly straight line and plummeted downward to the ground with a deafening boom. Soon, I lost myself in its beauty; that was a mistake. Without warning something small and sharp pierced the back of my shoulder. I twisted my head around to see a small dart sticking out of my shoulder. Reaching my hand over, I grasped the dart and pulled it out. I brought the tip to my eyes as I examined it. The tip was coated with a blue powder. Before I was able to register what it might be, I suddenly felt lightheaded and crashed to the ground. My vision began to blur as I searched the area for the owner of the dart, but I was sinking fast into unconsciousness. I slit my eyes open enough to see a figure standing over me. Even through my hazy vision, I could make out the stranger's black hair, which seemed to defy gravity, a scar on his left cheek, and dark black eyes.
"Where...?" I whispered hoarsely; my eyes rolled into the back of my head and darkness took over.
I regained consciousness some hours later. I opened my eyes and blinked in the bright light. As soon as my sight had returned to normal, I gazed about my new surroundings. I was in some kind of medical ward; there were rejuvenation tanks lining most of the back wall, and about four of them were occupied. The moment I tried to sit up, a wave of pain, dizziness, and nausea swept over me. I laid back down and raised my hand to my forehead. There, I felt something warm and sticky. I retracted my hand revealing a red substance coating my fingers. Blood. My fingers were covered in blood! I lifted my fingers again to my forehead and discovered a deep gash above my right eye. My head filled with pain as a finger brushed against the wound. I shook it off. I slowly raised my upper body off the table, ignoring the pain and nausea. Swinging my legs over the side, I jumped off the small bed I found myself in and walked cautiously over to one of the regen tanks. I peered inside at its occupant and quickly retreated back in terror. 'Who the hell is that? He looks like he got mutilated or something!' Panicking, I ran to the door searching for a way out. But to my misfortune, there was no doorknob. 'Dang it!' I thought. 'The stupid thing must be voice activated or something. Either that or you have to type in a code of some kind.' Suddenly I heard footsteps approaching on the other side. Adrenaline coursed through my body as I hunted frantically for a place to hid. My heart beat faster; now I could hear the strangers talking outside the room. Time was running out! A green light lit up above the door and it slid open a few inches. I froze in terror. But the door stopped where it was. I sighed in relief; it was jammed.
"Stupid door!" growled an angry voice. "The thing's jammed again!" Swallowing once more, I sprinted towards the regen tanks and dived behind one. My leg disappeared behind it as the door finished opening, revealing its operators.
Two males and a female entered the room. "Since when have you been concerned about someone other than yourself, Bardock?" said the female.
The one called Bardock grunted and gazed around the room. "I just want to know how she knew my name. That's all."
The other male shook his head. "Bardock, there are hundreds of Saiyans you don't know who know your name."
"Shut up Tora." he muttered. His eyed narrowed and he strode over the regen tanks. "Besides, it's not every day that you find someone who is almost an exact copy of the King's sister. And you both know very well that the only people who could look like her would be herself and her youngest daughter. But King Vegeta's sister is on a mission, and her daughter has supposedly disappeared into thin air; lucky us, she doesn't know about it yet. So tell me this doesn't make you wonder who the girl is." Tora and the feamle opened their mouths to reply, but no sound emerged.
A sudden pounding in my head arose and began to beat against my skull. I rubbed my temples to try and take the pain away, but it stayed put. When I noticed it wasn't working, I shook my head violently (which only made the pain worse) to clear my head and tucked myself into a tighter ball. Somehow I knew Bardock was talking about me. 'But how could I be the king's sister's daughter? I'm not even... well whatever they are, I'm not that!' I mentally slapped myself. 'Get a grip, girl! This is just a dream, so forget it!' But I looked down anyways. Something brown was waving around my legs. I gulped. 'I'm so glad this is just a dream. Any minute now I'll wake up in my own bed at home on earth'. For five minutes I sat there, and nothing happened. I screwed my eyes shut, praying the others would leave, when suddenly I heard three more people enter the room. I peeked around the edge of the regen tank; two med- techs and a small boy. I furrowed my eyebrows. Who the heck is he?
As the boy entered, Bardock and his crew imediately stopped their sreach and saluted him. "Prince Vegeta," the one named Tora said in a respectful tone.
But Vegeta ignored them. He stalked over to the tank next to mine and scowled. I figured it was the one being occupied by the half mutilated man. Vegeta grabbed one of the med-techs by his collar and yanked him roughly down to Vegeta's eye-level. "I thoroughly remember you saying that he would be recovered by now! From what I can see, he is only half healed! Now how can I get back to my training when Nappa is in there!" The med-tech muttered something about the uncertainty of Nappa's injuries, but Vegeta's scowled just deepened. "Oh stop your jabbering, I don't care! Revive him, right now!!" Nodding the other alien moved infront of Nappa's tank and pressed a few buttons on a control panel. The tank then began to drain slowly. I glanced over at Bardock; he and his his men still hadn't moved since Vegeta arrived. Vegeta glanced over at them and raised an eyebrow. "What are you doing here?"
Bardock saluted Vegeta and said, "We came here to check on a girl I had found in the forest. She had been attacked by some of the rebel natives, and now she has seemed to have disappeared."
Prince Vegeta smirked. "Well, looks like you have an escape artist on your hands, Bardock. Have fun looking for her." With that, he turned and stalked out of the room. Bardock sighed, and motioned for his friends to follow him, and they left as well. When the room was clear, I crept out from my hiding place behind the rejuvenation tank. I sighed in relief. Maybe now I could find a way out of here. I walked to the door (thankfully, the strangers had left it open), and peered outside. No one in the halls. Good. I stepped out only to hear many footsteps returning. When I turned around to hide again, I slammed into what felt like a brick wall.
"Well, well. What do we have here?" said a gruff voice.
I pried my face of the stranger's chest and looked into his face and gasped. Nappa! I backed away from him in horror. I turned again to run, but I came face to face with Bardock and his friends. And Prince Vegeta had just round the corner as well. Suddenly, an idea popped in to my head. Hey! Since this is a dream, I can do whatever I want! I hope. I then slammed my fist into Nappa's stomach, causing him to buckle over, and dashed back inside the room. I leaped onto one of the rejuvenation tanks and looked to the ceiling for a vent. I figured that I could crawl through one of the vents and find a way outside. At least, that's where I hoped they would lead me. I soon spotted one and jumped. My hands grabed hold of the sides and I began to pull myself up. I looked down at the others. Nappa had recovered and they were heading for me. I continued to pull myself up into the vent. What luck! When I had pulled my entire body in, I noticed that unlike the usual vents, these were big enough for me to move around freely. Not wanting to spend time gawking at my success, I ran. Right as I turned a corner, someone had shot something down the vent in hopes of hitting me. Unfortuantely I was too slow, and the shot grazed the back of my leg. Although wounded, I continued to run.
I spent what seemed like an hour searching for a way outside, but I was having no success. I was growing weary and I was afraid that they would soon discover me. Many times I had heard and seen them through small slits in the vents. Even the Prince had decided to join in the chase, and actually deployed troops throughout the palace to find me. Once one of them had shot some kind of energy beam down the vent I currently in. I managed to dodge it, but this time, the beam grazed my arm. 'This is nice,' I thought to myself. 'I have a gash in my head, I have an arm and a leg close to being out of commission, and I'm getting lighthead probably from the loss of blood. What more could go wrong?' Well, something else did go wrong. When I leaned against the side of the vent to rest, the sound of buckling metal rose to my ears and the wall caved in around me. The next thing I knew, I was falling thought the air, and I landed one something soft, yet hard. It was a person. Whoever it was, they rolled me off them, and I fell to the ground.
"What is this?!" I heard a man yell. "King Vegeta, is this your idea of a joke?"
'King Vegeta??!! Oh no..' "Trust me, Ambassador Dorran, I have no idea what is going on." I opened my eyes to see many other aliens staring down at me. I sat up quickly and jumped to my feet. I was in what I guessed to be the throne room. "Who are you?" demanded the King. "And what do you think you are doing here?!"
"I..uh.." I back away from them. At that moment it seemed as if time stopped. King Vegeta looked into my eyes like he was looking for something, and it could only be found in me. I also looked into his eyes; somehow, I felt like I knew him from long ago. Suddenly, the doors burst open, the connection was broken, and Bardock and some of the troops spilled in. "I'm dead," I whispered.
"Well, you did an exellant job avoiding us so far, but now you've run out of luck," said Bardock, breathing heavily. I continued to back towards the opposite wall.
"What in the name of the Gods is going on here Bardock!? Who is that!?" The King pointed at me.
Bardock swiftly looked to the King. "This girl is an escapee from the medical ward. I had found her in the forest after she had been attacked from the rebel natives."
"Well, then capture her and take her down to the prison cells. I will question her later," King Vegeta yelled. With that said, Bardock disappeared and reappeared behind me. I struggled as I felt his strong arms come around my arms and upper body. He growled as I managed to hit his legs with my feet.
"Let me go!" I yelled, trying desperately to free myself from his hold. I continued to tell and thrash around as Bardock signaled for one of his men to come help hold me. Soon, I felt him shift slightly as he moved one of his hands up to cover my mouth. When his hand was close enough, I bit it as hard as I could, earning a yelp from Bardock. I fell to the ground and quickly scrambled to my feet, heading for the open window and jumped. As I was falling fast through the air, I thought to myself, 'Okay, now that was the most stupid thing I've ever done in may life. But hey, at least this is a dream and I will wake up before I hit bottom.' I looked down as the ground was closing in. ' So maybe I won't wake up before I hit.' I closed my eyes, expecting to feel my body crash to the ground with deadly force, but nothing happened.
I opened my eyes and saw stars and planets rushing past me. I absently thought that I was traveling through space when I finally felt my body hit something. I blinked a couple of times before I realized that I was back in my own room. And on the floor for that matter. Not to mention my head really hurt. The lights came on and my parents and brothers all rushed into my room. "Christa!" my mother yelled. I looked at her through my slowly closing eyes and then blacked out.
When I woke again, I found myself surrounded by bright lights. 'Am I dead or something? 'Cause I've always heard that you're encircled by bright somethings when you die.' I tried to sit up, but a sharp pain shot through my left arm and a hand was placed on my shoulder trying to push me back down. "You need to rest miss. You have not fully recovered from the shock and loss of blood."
I shoved the hand away and sat up anyway, as well as looking at my arm. An IV. 'Nope, not dead. Bummer.' "What are you talking about? I'm fine. Where am I?" I demanded as I jerked the IV out of my arm.
"You're in the Ijutsu Hospital," said a new voice. Suddenly the bright lights disappeared, and everything came into focus. I definantely was in a hospital. A nurse was changing the IV, and the guy who spoke was on the other side of me with a clipboard in his hand. Another doctor was outside the room talking with my family. My mother had tears streaming down her face, and my two brothers looked like they would fall asleep on their feet any second. When my father looked through the window at me, his face broke out into the biggest smile I've ever seen him wear, and rushed in followed closely by the rest of my family.
"Christa," he choked out, with tears beginning to run down his cheeks. He quickly wiped them away. "Thank heavens you're alright."
I looked at him curiously. "Of course I'm alright, why wouldn't I be? But what in the world am I doing here?!" My voice slightly rose with each word.
Every single smile in the room, slowly changed into a frown. "Chris, sweetie," my mother began. "You've been unconcious for three days. When you had fallen out of bed, you had a gash across your forehead. We figured that maybe you'd struck your head on the corner of your nightstand. But what had us worried the most, were the burns on your arm and leg."
I laid back down and stared at the ceiling. 'Just like the dream. I must be going crazy or something. Hey, maybe this is one of those times when you have a dream inside of a dream.' I looked at my family and the doctors, then back at the ceiling. 'Cause I sure hope it is one of those times.'
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~Raydias
Each day after that unceasingly becoming worse and worse. That same dream continued to haunt me, but it wasn't as nearly as bad as school. The word 'freak' was being used more often and I couldn't concentrate on any of my school work. Derek refused to leave my side, even after I gave him a black eye, and I seemed to be getting into more fights than usual. And to top it off, my P.E coach was starting to act weird around me, and seemed to have it in her head to make me work harder than everyone else in the class. Not that I minded the extra work, but, why? Little did I know that I would find the answers to my questions soon, and all started that night as I dreamt....
I found myself in a large open field. There were many trees surrounding it and apparently a waterfall some ways behind them. At least, that's what it sounded like. *SNAP!* I whirled around in time to catch a glimpse of someone, or something, disappear into the grove of trees. Not knowing what I was doing, I ran after the person, or whatever it was. I dodged past trees, and leaped over their roots; once tripping over a rock and landing face first in the mud. The strange thing was, I was able to wipe the mud off like it was dry dirt. Instead of staying there to ponder on this new finding, my curiosity of the stranger took control again and I was off. Several minutes later, I arrived at the waterfall. It was bigger than I had imagined! The cliff was at least 500 ft high. The water ran off it in a perfectly straight line and plummeted downward to the ground with a deafening boom. Soon, I lost myself in its beauty; that was a mistake. Without warning something small and sharp pierced the back of my shoulder. I twisted my head around to see a small dart sticking out of my shoulder. Reaching my hand over, I grasped the dart and pulled it out. I brought the tip to my eyes as I examined it. The tip was coated with a blue powder. Before I was able to register what it might be, I suddenly felt lightheaded and crashed to the ground. My vision began to blur as I searched the area for the owner of the dart, but I was sinking fast into unconsciousness. I slit my eyes open enough to see a figure standing over me. Even through my hazy vision, I could make out the stranger's black hair, which seemed to defy gravity, a scar on his left cheek, and dark black eyes.
"Where...?" I whispered hoarsely; my eyes rolled into the back of my head and darkness took over.
I regained consciousness some hours later. I opened my eyes and blinked in the bright light. As soon as my sight had returned to normal, I gazed about my new surroundings. I was in some kind of medical ward; there were rejuvenation tanks lining most of the back wall, and about four of them were occupied. The moment I tried to sit up, a wave of pain, dizziness, and nausea swept over me. I laid back down and raised my hand to my forehead. There, I felt something warm and sticky. I retracted my hand revealing a red substance coating my fingers. Blood. My fingers were covered in blood! I lifted my fingers again to my forehead and discovered a deep gash above my right eye. My head filled with pain as a finger brushed against the wound. I shook it off. I slowly raised my upper body off the table, ignoring the pain and nausea. Swinging my legs over the side, I jumped off the small bed I found myself in and walked cautiously over to one of the regen tanks. I peered inside at its occupant and quickly retreated back in terror. 'Who the hell is that? He looks like he got mutilated or something!' Panicking, I ran to the door searching for a way out. But to my misfortune, there was no doorknob. 'Dang it!' I thought. 'The stupid thing must be voice activated or something. Either that or you have to type in a code of some kind.' Suddenly I heard footsteps approaching on the other side. Adrenaline coursed through my body as I hunted frantically for a place to hid. My heart beat faster; now I could hear the strangers talking outside the room. Time was running out! A green light lit up above the door and it slid open a few inches. I froze in terror. But the door stopped where it was. I sighed in relief; it was jammed.
"Stupid door!" growled an angry voice. "The thing's jammed again!" Swallowing once more, I sprinted towards the regen tanks and dived behind one. My leg disappeared behind it as the door finished opening, revealing its operators.
Two males and a female entered the room. "Since when have you been concerned about someone other than yourself, Bardock?" said the female.
The one called Bardock grunted and gazed around the room. "I just want to know how she knew my name. That's all."
The other male shook his head. "Bardock, there are hundreds of Saiyans you don't know who know your name."
"Shut up Tora." he muttered. His eyed narrowed and he strode over the regen tanks. "Besides, it's not every day that you find someone who is almost an exact copy of the King's sister. And you both know very well that the only people who could look like her would be herself and her youngest daughter. But King Vegeta's sister is on a mission, and her daughter has supposedly disappeared into thin air; lucky us, she doesn't know about it yet. So tell me this doesn't make you wonder who the girl is." Tora and the feamle opened their mouths to reply, but no sound emerged.
A sudden pounding in my head arose and began to beat against my skull. I rubbed my temples to try and take the pain away, but it stayed put. When I noticed it wasn't working, I shook my head violently (which only made the pain worse) to clear my head and tucked myself into a tighter ball. Somehow I knew Bardock was talking about me. 'But how could I be the king's sister's daughter? I'm not even... well whatever they are, I'm not that!' I mentally slapped myself. 'Get a grip, girl! This is just a dream, so forget it!' But I looked down anyways. Something brown was waving around my legs. I gulped. 'I'm so glad this is just a dream. Any minute now I'll wake up in my own bed at home on earth'. For five minutes I sat there, and nothing happened. I screwed my eyes shut, praying the others would leave, when suddenly I heard three more people enter the room. I peeked around the edge of the regen tank; two med- techs and a small boy. I furrowed my eyebrows. Who the heck is he?
As the boy entered, Bardock and his crew imediately stopped their sreach and saluted him. "Prince Vegeta," the one named Tora said in a respectful tone.
But Vegeta ignored them. He stalked over to the tank next to mine and scowled. I figured it was the one being occupied by the half mutilated man. Vegeta grabbed one of the med-techs by his collar and yanked him roughly down to Vegeta's eye-level. "I thoroughly remember you saying that he would be recovered by now! From what I can see, he is only half healed! Now how can I get back to my training when Nappa is in there!" The med-tech muttered something about the uncertainty of Nappa's injuries, but Vegeta's scowled just deepened. "Oh stop your jabbering, I don't care! Revive him, right now!!" Nodding the other alien moved infront of Nappa's tank and pressed a few buttons on a control panel. The tank then began to drain slowly. I glanced over at Bardock; he and his his men still hadn't moved since Vegeta arrived. Vegeta glanced over at them and raised an eyebrow. "What are you doing here?"
Bardock saluted Vegeta and said, "We came here to check on a girl I had found in the forest. She had been attacked by some of the rebel natives, and now she has seemed to have disappeared."
Prince Vegeta smirked. "Well, looks like you have an escape artist on your hands, Bardock. Have fun looking for her." With that, he turned and stalked out of the room. Bardock sighed, and motioned for his friends to follow him, and they left as well. When the room was clear, I crept out from my hiding place behind the rejuvenation tank. I sighed in relief. Maybe now I could find a way out of here. I walked to the door (thankfully, the strangers had left it open), and peered outside. No one in the halls. Good. I stepped out only to hear many footsteps returning. When I turned around to hide again, I slammed into what felt like a brick wall.
"Well, well. What do we have here?" said a gruff voice.
I pried my face of the stranger's chest and looked into his face and gasped. Nappa! I backed away from him in horror. I turned again to run, but I came face to face with Bardock and his friends. And Prince Vegeta had just round the corner as well. Suddenly, an idea popped in to my head. Hey! Since this is a dream, I can do whatever I want! I hope. I then slammed my fist into Nappa's stomach, causing him to buckle over, and dashed back inside the room. I leaped onto one of the rejuvenation tanks and looked to the ceiling for a vent. I figured that I could crawl through one of the vents and find a way outside. At least, that's where I hoped they would lead me. I soon spotted one and jumped. My hands grabed hold of the sides and I began to pull myself up. I looked down at the others. Nappa had recovered and they were heading for me. I continued to pull myself up into the vent. What luck! When I had pulled my entire body in, I noticed that unlike the usual vents, these were big enough for me to move around freely. Not wanting to spend time gawking at my success, I ran. Right as I turned a corner, someone had shot something down the vent in hopes of hitting me. Unfortuantely I was too slow, and the shot grazed the back of my leg. Although wounded, I continued to run.
I spent what seemed like an hour searching for a way outside, but I was having no success. I was growing weary and I was afraid that they would soon discover me. Many times I had heard and seen them through small slits in the vents. Even the Prince had decided to join in the chase, and actually deployed troops throughout the palace to find me. Once one of them had shot some kind of energy beam down the vent I currently in. I managed to dodge it, but this time, the beam grazed my arm. 'This is nice,' I thought to myself. 'I have a gash in my head, I have an arm and a leg close to being out of commission, and I'm getting lighthead probably from the loss of blood. What more could go wrong?' Well, something else did go wrong. When I leaned against the side of the vent to rest, the sound of buckling metal rose to my ears and the wall caved in around me. The next thing I knew, I was falling thought the air, and I landed one something soft, yet hard. It was a person. Whoever it was, they rolled me off them, and I fell to the ground.
"What is this?!" I heard a man yell. "King Vegeta, is this your idea of a joke?"
'King Vegeta??!! Oh no..' "Trust me, Ambassador Dorran, I have no idea what is going on." I opened my eyes to see many other aliens staring down at me. I sat up quickly and jumped to my feet. I was in what I guessed to be the throne room. "Who are you?" demanded the King. "And what do you think you are doing here?!"
"I..uh.." I back away from them. At that moment it seemed as if time stopped. King Vegeta looked into my eyes like he was looking for something, and it could only be found in me. I also looked into his eyes; somehow, I felt like I knew him from long ago. Suddenly, the doors burst open, the connection was broken, and Bardock and some of the troops spilled in. "I'm dead," I whispered.
"Well, you did an exellant job avoiding us so far, but now you've run out of luck," said Bardock, breathing heavily. I continued to back towards the opposite wall.
"What in the name of the Gods is going on here Bardock!? Who is that!?" The King pointed at me.
Bardock swiftly looked to the King. "This girl is an escapee from the medical ward. I had found her in the forest after she had been attacked from the rebel natives."
"Well, then capture her and take her down to the prison cells. I will question her later," King Vegeta yelled. With that said, Bardock disappeared and reappeared behind me. I struggled as I felt his strong arms come around my arms and upper body. He growled as I managed to hit his legs with my feet.
"Let me go!" I yelled, trying desperately to free myself from his hold. I continued to tell and thrash around as Bardock signaled for one of his men to come help hold me. Soon, I felt him shift slightly as he moved one of his hands up to cover my mouth. When his hand was close enough, I bit it as hard as I could, earning a yelp from Bardock. I fell to the ground and quickly scrambled to my feet, heading for the open window and jumped. As I was falling fast through the air, I thought to myself, 'Okay, now that was the most stupid thing I've ever done in may life. But hey, at least this is a dream and I will wake up before I hit bottom.' I looked down as the ground was closing in. ' So maybe I won't wake up before I hit.' I closed my eyes, expecting to feel my body crash to the ground with deadly force, but nothing happened.
I opened my eyes and saw stars and planets rushing past me. I absently thought that I was traveling through space when I finally felt my body hit something. I blinked a couple of times before I realized that I was back in my own room. And on the floor for that matter. Not to mention my head really hurt. The lights came on and my parents and brothers all rushed into my room. "Christa!" my mother yelled. I looked at her through my slowly closing eyes and then blacked out.
When I woke again, I found myself surrounded by bright lights. 'Am I dead or something? 'Cause I've always heard that you're encircled by bright somethings when you die.' I tried to sit up, but a sharp pain shot through my left arm and a hand was placed on my shoulder trying to push me back down. "You need to rest miss. You have not fully recovered from the shock and loss of blood."
I shoved the hand away and sat up anyway, as well as looking at my arm. An IV. 'Nope, not dead. Bummer.' "What are you talking about? I'm fine. Where am I?" I demanded as I jerked the IV out of my arm.
"You're in the Ijutsu Hospital," said a new voice. Suddenly the bright lights disappeared, and everything came into focus. I definantely was in a hospital. A nurse was changing the IV, and the guy who spoke was on the other side of me with a clipboard in his hand. Another doctor was outside the room talking with my family. My mother had tears streaming down her face, and my two brothers looked like they would fall asleep on their feet any second. When my father looked through the window at me, his face broke out into the biggest smile I've ever seen him wear, and rushed in followed closely by the rest of my family.
"Christa," he choked out, with tears beginning to run down his cheeks. He quickly wiped them away. "Thank heavens you're alright."
I looked at him curiously. "Of course I'm alright, why wouldn't I be? But what in the world am I doing here?!" My voice slightly rose with each word.
Every single smile in the room, slowly changed into a frown. "Chris, sweetie," my mother began. "You've been unconcious for three days. When you had fallen out of bed, you had a gash across your forehead. We figured that maybe you'd struck your head on the corner of your nightstand. But what had us worried the most, were the burns on your arm and leg."
I laid back down and stared at the ceiling. 'Just like the dream. I must be going crazy or something. Hey, maybe this is one of those times when you have a dream inside of a dream.' I looked at my family and the doctors, then back at the ceiling. 'Cause I sure hope it is one of those times.'
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~Raydias