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Chapter 21- Hot chocolate before bed
Inside Ashley's Dream (Ashley's P.O.V.)
I walked down the hallway of my home. The house I had grown up in. The house I had lived in for seventeen years.
"Mom? Daddy? Where are you?" I walked down the hallways looking for them. Until I came to their room. I stopped at the closed door. It slowly opened by itself. The room was covered in a good thick layer of dust, cobwebs everywhere and plastic sheets over the furniture. I looked on the bed. Two skeletons. They both sat up at the same time and looked at me.
"Ashley." One whispered.
"Come lay with us" the other one said.
My parents.
I screamed and turned around to run, but the door slammed shut, trapping me inside. I turned back around to see nothing. Just darkness. Then a bright spotlight a little ways ahead of me. Someone stepped into the light.
Trent.
I ran to him and hugged him. He remained frozen. I pulled away. He looked at me with disgust and bitterness. Someone else stepped into the light beside him.
Abigail. He picked her up and kissed her aggressively. She returned it with the same amount of passion.
"Trent", I muttered. He paused kissing Abigail and looked at me. He sneered.
"What do you want, slut?" he spat.
I shook my head and backed away slowly. He embraced Abigail again and they continued. My best friends, how could they? I turned around and ran. I stumbled and fell, but I didn't hit the ground. A pair of strong arms caught me.
Leonardo.
"Leo!" I hugged him tightly and he returned it. When I pulled away, he looked at me with kind eyes. Someone came up behind him. The Shredder. "But… Leo said they finished him", I thought. I screamed for Leo to move aside, but I was too late. Shredder stabbed him in the back from behind and the tip of the blood-stained blade poked out from his chest. He fell to the ground. I screamed and fell to my knees next to him. I looked up from Leo. Mikey, Donnie, Raph, and Splinter all lay across the floor bloody and battered. I tried to scream, but heard nothing.
A shadow stood over me. Shredder. He held his blade up, and I closed my eyes, awaiting my death.
Then I woke up.
I jolted up. I huffed and panted.
My parents. The Turtles. No. No.
"No" was all I could say. I shook my head slowly and I could feel myself begin to shake.
"Ashley" I heard a voice say gently. I snapped my head in the direction from which the voice came.
Leo. He was alive. I hurled myself at him and cried. I was still shaking. I was confused, scared, and relieved all at once. I was a mess. I bawled and bawled into Leo's plastron. He embraced me and rubbed my back. I felt him move so that he was sitting cross legged. I just sobbed and whimpered in his lap.
"Shh… it's okay now… you're safe. Everything's alright. Shh… shh shh shh" he tried to calm me down. He slowly rocked me back and forth and stroked my mid-back length hair.
"It's alright. Everything's alright. Don't worry." He continued. He knew how to calm me down, even if he didn't know what exactly made me so upset and shaken up. I shifted so my cheek was pressed against his hard plastron. I felt his head's weight on top of mine.
"Please don't cry", he whispered. I sniffled.
Three more seconds. Three more seconds of crying, then I'm done.
One. I see my parents' skeletons summoning me.
Two. I see Trent and my best friend making out.
Three. I see the Turtles and Master Splinter dead by the Shredder's hand.
Done.
I stopped shaking, I relaxed. I fell deeper into Leo's embrace. He pulled me away a bit. He looked down at me and wiped away my tears. He smiled a warm, comforting smile. Somehow, just by his smile, I knew that I would be alright. No matter what. Even if my parents did die, and my friends did betray me, as long as he was around, I would be alright. I leaned back on his chest and fell asleep.
I awoke when Leo picked me up, but I kept my eyes closed. I was too weary to open them. He sat me on the couch and I pulled my legs up beside me. I felt him sit next to me. I scooted closer to him and leaned on him. I breathed in his scent. He smelled clean and fresh, like freshly-washed linen. I never wanted to forget this. He put his arm around me and I fell asleep again.
I woke up with my hand on Leo's lower thigh, and my head on his upper chest. His cheek rested on the top of my head. I moved my hand away, but continued to lay there. He was asleep, and I didn't want to wake him. Besides, I was still shaken up from the nightmare, and he made me feel safe, even when he was sleeping ad vulnerable. I looked at the time on the DVD player.
9:47am
I closed my eyes and tried not to think of the nightmare I had just hours ago. I needed a distraction. I focused on Leo's breathing and the rise and fall of his chest. I matched his breathing. He took long, slow, deep breaths. I opened my eyes and looked down at the rest of myself. There was a piece of paper at my feet. I managed to get it without moving too much. I read the letter;
Hey Ash, it's Mikey. Me, Don, and Raph are back at the Lair. Have fun you 2.
XP
But keep your hands to yourselfs
I smiled and put the letter on the ground. I sighed quietly and closed my eyes. But they shot open not a minute later when I heard an alarm. My stupid phone. Leo jumped a bit and lifted his head off of mine. "I'll get it", I said, about to get up.
"No", Leo said getting up. "I'll get it. You should rest. You had quite the night." He stretched and turned off my phone, which was sitting on the ottoman next to his katana. Why it was there, I may never know.
He shut the alarm off and sat next to me on the couch.
"How are you?" Leo asked, looking at me.
"I'm fine." I said, sitting cross legged.
"Ash, I may not be human, and I may not know much about them, but I do know that when a girl says she's fine, she's definitely not." I shrugged and we sat in silence for a while.
"Thank you, for being there for me last night. I just needed a shoulder to cry on, and I really appreciate you being that shoulder."
"Hey, it's no problem. Don't mention it. But just to be safe, no more hot chocolate before you go to bed."