I know it's been forever since I updated either stories(well, forever for me since i write short chapters and update almost every other day;). It's because I was busy reading this awesome story on FictionPress. It's fabulous, if you want to more, ask me and I will give you a link. It's called Breaking a Promise, ad it is a great story if you like romance. I'm also working on and finishing a poster I'm making for it. (: Check it out, really.

SECRET

Chapter Seven

Nightmare

I bounced into my squeaky desk chair and opened up the lap top that Gina had given me recently. My room had never been large. It was actually too small for my liking. It used to be larger, a big room shared by me and Lily. It was always a big house. Dad and Gina thought it was appropriate to have a wall put up between me and Sarah's room, making the room smaller.

There was a door connecting my room with the room next to Sarah's room. Usually, we kept that door open all the time so we could call to each other, or hang in each others' room. I had known Sarah for only a short time--as opposed to me already knowing Brady from school-- and we were already close.

The laptop was a gift from Gina on my recent eighteenth birthday over the summer. Every year I had a small party with friends, and every year I mad the same wish when I blew out the candles. It was the same I wish I made when I saw a shooting star, when the time was 11:11, and any other excuse for making a wash…Come back.

Footsteps came into my hardwood floor became louder and louder, and I turned to see Lily. My sister was pretty. Se was the kind of girl that made college guys' heads turn. Her chocolate brown hair was long and straight. She had ice blue eyes like our mother did. Our mom had passed when I was eight. When I was about sixteen, Dad met Gina, and I was happily ever after.

My sister has a boyfriend who she's had since her freshman year of high school. Chase. He was average, and he told me in confidence he found himself luck that my gorgeous sister had chosen him of all the guys out there.

"Hey, girlie." She greeted, pulling the cap I was wearing and shaking my hair. "How've ya been?"

"Hey Lil." I said. "I'm fine. Just don't call me girlie."

She giggled. "Wat'cha gonna do on the computer?"

"Email." I answered automatically. I opened up to my online mail, and signed in. No messages.

When he was still around, he would send me messages constantly. My inbox would be full. Every message ended the same: I love you. I couldn't see why he sent these messages. He was with me most every single moment of the day. Now all of those emails are safely stored in a folder on my computer. I haven't opened it since putting them in there.

I sighed heavily, and shut down the laptop. When I came back into the real world, My hair was in a thick braid.

"Ugh! Lily!" I shouted at my older sister, "Why?" I quickly undid it. She knew I hated braids.

She giggled again, and fled from the room. I shook my hair flat, running my fingers through it to be sure there was nothing left of the braid. I couldn't let myself get hurt over this! Why was I so paranoid!? It was just braids. Then why was I tearing up over braids? They were just braids. The same hairstyle that Elise always wore…

I bit my lip and evacuated the idea from my head. This little thing was not going to break down the wall I had put up around the hole in my heart.

I sighed. I glanced over at the digital clock by my bed. I was up late…again. I was usually talking to Crystal of Eva, or Sarah or Brady or Lily. Maybe even doing homework or house chores. But tonight it was ten fifty five. I got up, and started to get ready for bed. I had yet to change into pajamas, I rushed, grabbing what I needed from the closet. I might just get back on time.

After changing, and bringing my brown hair into a ponytail, I walked to my room, and looked at the digital clock. 11:10. I stared intently, waiting for the number to change. Slowly, the number changed, 11:11. I closed my eyes, and counted to eleven slowly by Mississippis before I made my wish. Nine…Ten…Eleven: Come back.

I opened my eyes, and crawled into bed. I drifted to sleep, but my night was far from pleasant…

***

Repetition. Usually, when the same thing happening over and over again, you get used to it. I thought I had. But t had been about a year and a half since my last nightmare.

It wasn't really a nightmare, it was just a flashback, really. It's just something that happened. It picked up right where the story I told Edward left off.

I was being shook. "Mia! Mia!" Someone was calling. I know now that it was Lily shaking me up. "Dad! Help me with Mia!" Arms wrapped around my bodice, and I was taken inside, and draped onto a kitchen chair.

"Mia?" Lily panted. "Mia are you okay? What happened."

"Kyle." I said. "He's…gone."

"Gone?" Lily said, then she bit her lip. "Dad?"

He sighed. "They moved. Elise's being moved from the office here to a new firm in Florida. Brent Callaway was supposed to go, but he didn't want to pull his two kids out of school since they just moved here."

"But the Denvers just moved here too." Lily retorted.

"She was the only one who could go." Dad shrugged. "She had no choice. I guess The kids only found out today. He must have only told Mia today."

"Poor Mia." She said, looking at me.

You think this was bad? The worst was yet to come.

"Burn it." I said in a whimper.

"What?" Lily asked.

"Burn it!" I yelled. "The final drawing, burn it!"

"What are you talking about?" Lily asked sweetly.

"This." Dad said. He showed her the last picture of me and Kyle. The one that I was working o before he came.

"Mia, this is beautiful." She said. "So you really want to burn it?"

"Burn them all!" I said. I tried to grab it form her, she raised it high above her head like we were five and fighting over a toy

"Mia, don't!" Lily commanded. "You don't want to do that."

"Yes, I do!" I said. "Don't you see? He's not coming back!"

"But he'll keep contact of course." She said matter-of-factly.

"No." I whispered. "He won't."

It usually stopped there, and I would waking in screams. But it was different this time, I don't know why…

"Mia!" Someone was screeching. "Mia, Mia, Mia!"

I screamed a little and sat up furiously. Sarah was standing over me, a frantic look on her face. "I'm going to get Lily." She told me. She walked away, her too long silk pajama pants brushing against the wooden floor.

A moment later, she came back with a messy haired, short shorts, tank topped Lily, who was looking at me with squinty eyes.

"She was hyperventilating, so I came in, and she was thrashing around, and sweating." Sarah told Lily.

"You okay, sweetie?" Lily asked, she kneeled down and stroked my hair. I blinked, and nodded half heartedly. "You can go now, Sarah, I got this." Sarah nodded, and went around to the door connecting to her room.

"Are you sure you okay?" Lily asked. "You haven't had a nightmare in over a year. Is this about… what I think it's about?"

I closed my eyes. "I don't know what you are talking about." I said with a straight voice. I studied my heart, and the wall. It was shaky, but fine.

"Don't lie to me, Mia." Lily said. "I want to help you. This…this fear is eating at you."

"I don't know what you are talking about." I repeated sternly. "It was just a bad dream."

"Yeah." She said, getting up, "But it's the kind of dream I never wanted to see you have again."

She spun around and left my room, closing the door behind her.

"Night Mia." heard Sarah call from her room.

"G'night." I said. I closed my eyes and crawled under the blanket for the second time that night, and drifted into dreamless sleep.

So now wee know a little bit more about Mia and her relationship with Kyle…again. So THAT'S what happened, this is a reviewer quote. Haha. Anywho, REVIEW! *this is the second longest chapter! It better have been worth the wait* (:

And yes this was just a crappy filler chapter. I don't know if I've mentioned it yet (and I am too lazy to check XD) , but there is a major chapter coming up soon, and I figure it will be the ninth chapter. So after the next chapter, eight, the big one is to be revealed. It involves a lot of revelations, and a character POV i have never ever used before (and no one else of Fan Fiction has used *le gasp!*) For those of you who are also reading Holding On, sorry I haven't updated! I am NOT putting it on hiatus, I swear. It's coming! Just wait! and review!

~Sparkel (: