Chapter 25: Dreamers

Kelria had not been sleeping well. At all. Ever since the girls had told the boys about the immaturity points, she had been having strange dreams that she could never remember when she woke up. All she knew was that someone in the dream was trying to tell her something important.

This particular night, she had left the window open (much to Alexandra's annoyance), because it was such a warm night for late April. She went to sit on the window seat, and looked out at the lake, sparkling in the starlight.

"Beautiful," she whispered very quietly.

"What's beautiful?"

Kelria turned, startled, to see Khyana padding softly toward her from her bed on the other side of the room.

"The lake."

Khyana looked out over Kelria's shoulder, and gasped.

"That is beautiful."

"What are you doing up?" Kelria asked, turning to face her friend.

Khyana shrugged. "I couldn't sleep. I've been having really weird dreams."

"Really?"

"Yeah. I don't remember them, all I know is that someone in the dream is trying to tell me something really important."

Kelria gave Khyana an odd look.

"I've been having the same type of dream."

"Really?"

"Yeah. I can't ever remember them when I wake up, but there's something familiar about the person in them."

"Yeah…I can't figure it out. Getting top marks in divination isn't even helping."

"You got top marks in divination?"

"Yup. I just made up a load of crap, and Sehen fell for it hook, line and sinker."

"Sehen?"

"The divination teacher. She's an old fraud, but whatever. The whole class is a load of dragon dung."

Kelria smirked. "Yeah, I agree."

"You took it?"

"Nope. I've always thought it was a load of dragon dung."

Khyana smiled and sat down on the window seat beside Kelria.

"You would have liked the class here. Sirius and James made it interesting."

"Sirius and James took divination?"

"Oh yeah."

Kelria laughed. "I can just picture it."

"No, you can't. Trust me. You can't picture it 'til you've seen it."

Kelria nodded. "I gotcha."

Khyana sighed and looked out at the lake. "These dreams are driving me bonkers, Kel."

"Me too. It's really annoying."

"Yeah."

The two girls sat in comfortable silence for a few moments, during which Khyana drifted off for a moment.

Suddenly, she sat up straight, causing Kelria to jump five feet.

"Merlin, Khyana, a little warning next time?" Kelria complained, rubbing the top of her head, which had hit the windowsill.

"Sorry. I guess I must have dozed off. But I know who is in the dreams, I just had another one!"

She had all Kelria's attention now. "Who is it?"

"It's Sara."

Kelria gaped at Khyana, but then realised that she was right.

"That's why she seemed so familiar!"

"Exactly. I still don't remember what she's trying to tell us, though."

"Me either," Kelria agreed. "This is really weird. Why are we both having these dreams about Sara? And what is so urgent that she feels she has to tell us?"

"I don't know," Khyana replied. "But I intend to find out."

Both girls had agreed to keep a dream diary after that night, to see if they could sense any sort of pattern, anything that would help them decipher what it was that Sara was trying to tell them.

"You seem quiet lately," Remus said offhandedly one day, while he and Kelria were sitting in a secluded corner of the library, doing homework.

"Do I? I hadn't noticed."

"Yes, you do. You and Yana both. What's going on?"

Kelria sighed. "Nothing really," she replied.

Remus raised his eyebrows. "Nothing?"

Kelria nodded. "Nothing."

Remus moved a little closer. "You can't hide something this big from me, Kel. Something's up."

Kelria shrugged, writing the next sentence of her essay, and trying not to notice how close Remus was sitting. "It's not really anything big, Remus. Honest."

Remus raised his eyebrows, and cupped her chin, forcing her to look at him.

"You can tell me, Kel. You can trust me."

Kelria nodded. "I know. This is just something Yana and I need to figure out on our own, okay?"

Remus nodded. "I'm here if you need me, okay?"

"Okay."

Kelria locked eyes with Remus, and then Remus leaned in and kissed her softly.

"I love you, Kelria."

"I love you too."

They kissed again, this time more passionately than before, and Kelria lost all sense of time and place…

The whole dream thing was starting to drive Khyana insane. Neither she nor Kelria could figure it out. She knew there was something very important that Sara was trying to tell them, but she couldn't figure it out from the dreams (because she never remembered the dreams when she woke up), and she couldn't think of anything that was going on that Sara would want to warn them about. And besides, Sara was dead. Dead people don't just randomly start talking to friends who are still alive in dreams. And from what she could gather from talking to Alice and Lily, she and Kelria were the only ones having the dreams. So why would Sara want to talk to Kelria and not Alice or Lily? She had only known Kelria for four months, while she had known Alice and Lily for six years…it just didn't make any sense.

At any rate, Sirius and Remus were getting annoyed with the two of them, because they wouldn't tell what was going on, and the boyfriends both wanted to help…understandably, but the girls knew this was something they'd have to figure out for themselves. If Sara had wanted other people to know, she would have told other people. The message was meant for Kelria and Khyana only. And it was driving them bonkers.

The dream diary was blank.

"Merlin, Sara," Kelria muttered to herself. "If this message is so damn important, why can't either of us remember it when we wake up?"

Sitting in the Slytherin seventh year dorm by herself, Kelria threw her dream diary against the wall across the room, above Khyana's bed. She was getting really frustrated about the whole dream thing, and she just wanted to forget about it. But she knew Sara would never let her forget about it. She haunted even Kelria's daydreams, and her night time dreams were getting more and more frustrating and scary.

"Sara, you're lucky you're dead," she muttered. "Or I'd kill you."

A/N: I know, I know, it's a little short...but the next one will be better and it will be longer, I promise. I've got big plans for it! You'll like it. At any rate, my feet hurt. I walked all the way to my piano teacher's house and when I got there I found out that her dog was having puppies, so the lesson was cancelled, and then I had to walk all the way home. I think I have blisters...I should probably also mention that I was wearing my heeled boots because my other ones are too small and I forgot my shoes at school...so yeah. That's that.