"No, no …NOOOOOOO!" I was shaking my head furiously, tears running down my pale face sending a black river flowing down my cheeks. It couldn't be true. He couldn't be dead. Not him. Not Alexander. And most definitely not my baby. I crawled over to them, and looked into Alexander's open brown eyes.
"No, no, no, no." I crawled onto his chest taking the tiny dead infant out of his arms and into mine. I looked into his eyes, my son's eyes. I began to sob uncontrollably.
"NO, NO, NO, NO!" I buried my face into Alexander's ice cold chest.
I felt a squirming in my arms. I looked down through my flooding eyes, as I saw the tiny black bundle squirm. I felt a flutter of happiness run through my body. He was alive, my beautiful son was alive!
"Mommy." I heard a voice say. It sounded like it came from inside the bundle, but it was much to low and throaty for an infant. "Mommy, you know he's not my daddy mommy." Shock, disbelief, but mostly fear shot through me. I pulled the blanket away from the tiny face and I screamed. It wasn't the young version of Alexander I assumed he would look like. It was the exact face of Trevor Mitchell.
"Raven? Raven what's wrong? Raven honey, wake up!" I awoke from my nightmare to my aunt shaking me by my shoulders.
"I'm up Aunt Libby! I'm up!" I said, my voice shaking.
"Oh honey, I'm sorry." She said, and stopped. "You were screaming." she said with pure concern in her voice. "Did you have a nightmare?"
"Um, ya." I said crawling out of the futon. I made my way towards the kitchen.
"You want to talk about it?" she asked, following me.
"Naw." I replied, opening the fridge, "It was just a stupid nightmare" I pulled out a carton of soy milk, and walked to the cabinet and got the box of camel flakes.
"Well, ok."she said, still sounding worried. She looked at me eating the cereal and tusked. "Oh honey! Im so sorry!" I looked up from the bowl confused.
"About what?" I asked with my mouth full. She looked at me seriously.
"Well honey your eating for two now. You must be hungry for more than camel flakes and soy milk." I didn't notice it until she said it, but I was preety hungry. Actually I was really hungry. I began shoveling the ceral into my mouth. Aunt Libby laughed.
"Ill be right back Raven You help yourself to anything in the fridge." She said getting her coat out of the closet.
"M'cay." I said sipping the milk out of the bowl. She giggled again.
"I'll be back in a little bit." As soon as she shut the door I went for the fridge.