A new Horizon- chapter 3- Dreams
Disclaimer- I don't own any of the old higher ground characters. But I do own all the new ones
Note- In this chapter Alley has a dream. Katherine, Peter, and Sophie get a call from Daisy asking if she can visit them for a couple of days.
~Note this is a dream~
"Come on Alley. I'll race you to the car." Alley heard her brother say and as she looked up he was there.
Adam was wearing his Blue swimming trunks and his Purple and Yellow Minnesota Vikings shirt. It had been his favorite. Alley stood there for a minute looking over the seen. She loved watching the light sparkle in he twin brother's eyes.
"Alley, come on. I want to go." Adam whined sarcastically.
She played this scene all the time. Of all the things she remembered how come it was this.
Alley looked in the mirror, she was wearing a blue sundress, and it had little white flowers on it. She was younger then, only 13.
"I'm coming Adam." She yelled to him and ran over.
"Ready, set, go." Adam yelled and started off before the go.
"Hey. Cheater." She said as she tagged Adam at the car.
But she didn't care. He always cheated. And she let him because she knew she could beat him any time. And he knew it to that's why he cheated.
"Ready guys?" she heard her mom ask.
Alley looked at her mom to, and her dad. They were just as she remembered. Her mom with her dark curly hair and her father with his deep brown eyes. It was like they were right there in front of her.
"Yeah mom." Adam said for both of them.
"Okay then Kids, get in the car. We need to hurry if we want to get to the lake in time."
'We never got there.' Alley thought to herself. 'We never made it to the lake.'
Adam climbed in eagerly. Going to the family's cabin on the lake had always been his most favorite thing in the world. Even Alley loved it. The deep piney smell, the water lapping up against the dock. And the cabin that they owned. Alley remembered almost all of it in perfect detail. Though she hadn't been there since the accident.
THE ACCIDENT.... Alley had almost forgotten about it all with the excitement of seeing her parents.
"You guys we can't go." She felt like screaming out loud. But she knew she couldn't. It always happened like that. She wanted so badly to change the ending of her dream that the crash wouldn't happen but it never did.
Seeing this scene again, seeing how willing everyone was to go to the lake made Alley sick to her stomach. "We were so stupid. If we hadn't tried to get there before dinner we wouldn't have crashed." She thought to herself. She could feel herself waking up.
"No you guys. We can't go." She screamed as she was waking up, but no one heard.
~end of dream~
Alley woke up crying. She hated dreams of that day. She sometimes wished she had died to, so she wouldn't have to be alone.
"Don't cry Alley. Please don't cry." She heard a voice say as she was crying.
Alley looked around the room wondering where the voice was coming from. Neither Rylan or Jamie were up, she could even hear Jamie snoring, she was in such a deep sleep. There was no one there.
"Alley don't cry." The voice said again.
"Who... who's there?" Alley asked to the darkness.
"Come on ally. I know you're not stupid." The voice said coming closer.
"I know who you sound like but it can't be you. It can't be who I think it is." Alley said.
It sounded like her twin brother Adam, but he was dead. And even if he were here he hadn't appeared to her since just after the accident.
"Wanna bet?" the voice questioned. "Turn around."
Alley turned around. She didn't want to believe what she would see but she saw it. Adam was standing there. Not fully human but not totally invisible either. He had on different clothes than he had in his dream.
'How? What? I must be going crazy" Alley asked, surprised, stunned, and scared all at the same time.
"I told you that I'd always be there for you. I'd come when you needed me." Adam said to her.
"But... but... How? I haven't seen you in so long now. Why now?" Alley asked and sat up.
Adam sat down and looked at his sister. He too had gotten older in the years since he had died. But his eyes still sparkled.
"You needed someone to give you a run for your money." Adam said.
"What?" Alley asked.
"I was in your dream you know. And I don't always cheat." Adam said.
"Yeah sure." Alley said sarcastically. "Never."
"Hey sis. I am the older one you know." Adam said returning with his usual humor. He always took the time to remind Alley of that.
"By a minute. But remember, I'm the one who's alive." Alley said, knowing right after the words were spoken they had been harsh.
"Ouch... That was low Alley. Even for you." Adam said softly his face getting a depressed look.
"I would have taken your place Adam." Alley said.
"And you try every moment to make it possible. What about when you tried to kill yourself. I didn't want that Alley. And neither do mom or dad." Adam said with a hint of anger and disappointment in his voice.
"Why, you guys all get to be together and I get shipped here in the middle of no where." She said hugging her pillow.
"Alley, don't think we wanted to leave you. We didn't, but mom and dad were hurt so bad, if they had lived it would have been awful." Adam said trying to make his sister understand.
But Alley couldn't comprehend it. Or she didn't want to. Adam couldn't understand. He wasn't the one that was left over, the one that was all alone now.
"Adam, stop it. You don't understand." She said as she turned over in bed, hoping he would go away.
The conversation was going no where, and both of them knew it. Adam was trying to make his sister understand but her pain was so deep that even he couldn't see the bottom.
"Oh how I wish we had some divine intervention right now." Adam said.
He had meant it to be a joke, seeing he was an "angel" and all at the moment, but Alley didn't see it that way.
"Yeah me to." She said bitterly. "Now can you please shut up and go away." She yelled.
Adam was hurt and was beginning to walk away too. "I'll be back Alley. I promise, when you're ready I'll be back."
Alley didn't answer and didn't turn around either. But as soon as she knew that Adam had left the tears fell from her eyes, burning on her cheeks. She had never fought with Adam like that while he was alive. It was their first fight, really ever. Usually they had been inseparable. And now when he came to her she couldn't understand why she had. She should have been so happy he appeared to her, that he had come back. She hadn't heard his voice in so long. But she wasn't it just hurt more. The tears kept coming. And Alley ended up crying herself to sleep.
THE NEXT DAY
Aiken sat on the dock, his sneakers almost touching the water. Most of the campus was abandoned; almost everyone else was in class. It was one of those times when you were glad to be a senior. He didn't have to be in class for another 20 minutes. He looked up at the sky. It was getting darker; a storm had to be coming.
Just then He heard footsteps. He turned around and there was Alley. She was wearing an overly large sweatshirt and a pair of jeans on. But there was a strange look on her face, he could tell she was tired but there was also something else.
"Hey Stranger." Aiken said as he moved over on the doc so she could sit down. "Haven't seen you lately."
"What was it, last night?" she said sarcastically as she sat down and kissed him softly on the lips.
"Yep." He said as he slipped his arm around Alley's shoulders.
There was a silence between the two for a moment. Alley looked at the water. She watched as the reflections of both of their faces blurred together.
"I saw him again Aiken." Alley said suddenly.
"What? Saw who?" Aiken asked looking at her.
"Adam, he came to me again last night." She said softly, facing the water again.
She moved away from his arm that was still on her shoulders. She didn't want to have physical contact with anyone right now.
"Don't think I'm crazy Aiken. Cause I think I might be loosing it. But Adam was there. He was talking to me. He was right there next to me on my bed." Alley said seriously believing she was going crazy.
"I don't think your crazy Alley." Aiken told her seriously. "Maybe he was there with you. What did he say?"
"That he would never leave me."
"Well that's true. After you spend Nine Months in a womb together that bond kind of stays with ya," Aiken said.
"That sounds like what Adam would have said if I had given him the chance?" Alley asked hysterically.
"What do you mean? If you had given him the chance?" Aiken asked as he brought his hand up to Alley's face.
"I don't know. I guess I was scared or something because he came because we got in a fight, it would have been our first one, and I told him to shut up and leave." Alley said crying.
Aiken wrapped her into a tight hug. He felt his shirt getting wet with Alley's tears and he tried to comfort her.
"Maybe he'll be back Alley. Maybe." Aiken said as he kissed her head.
Alley looked up at him, her eyes red with tears.
"You think so, you think he will and you think I'm not crazy?" Alley asked him.
"No, I don't think your crazy and I think he will come back. If he said that he would, he will." Aiken told her.
MEANWHILE IN ITHICA, NEW YORK (a.k.a. Cornell University)
Daisy Lipenowski sat at the desk in her dorm room. It was the beginning of her 3rd year in the Ivy League collage's Pre-med Program. Soon she would be going abroad to Australia to learn at one of their schools for a semester. She had always wanted to go there (that and Italy but Italy wasn't in the program). Daisy was trying to make a list of all the things she needed to do before she left all the loose ends she needed to tie up.
"I need to call Shelby and Ezra" she thought to herself and added it to the list.
She thought back to the days she shared with Shelby, especially the time that they went to her mother's funeral. It would be 6 years this winter; her father would have his 3rd anniversary of his death in February. She had been glad when he had died. She didn't care anymore after what he had done to her before horizon. His drinking had done it to her, made her loose her little faith she had let in him.
She picked up the phone. "Hello, Assistance, I would like the phone number of Shelby Merrick, She lives in the Syracuse, New York area." Daisy said as she waited for an answer. "Thank you."
Daisy hung up the phone and then picked it up to dial Shelby's number.
"Hello?" Shelby answered getting up from her law books that she was studying over.
"Hey Shelby. It's daisy." Daisy said excitedly.
"Oh my God Daisy. I was just going to call you." Shelby said in relief.
"What's wrong?" Daisy said hearing Shelby sigh.
"I've been trying to study my law books but my mind keeps wandering. I can't concentrate at all." Sophie said sighing again.
"Listen. I'm going to Australia in a couple of weeks for med. school you know." Daisy started.
"Yeah, I hope you have fun there." Shelby said still distracted.
"Anyway, I want to tie up a couple of loose ends so to speak before I go, and I was wondering if you wanted to go to horizon with me? Just to see how things have changed or not." Daisy said explaining and kind of begging.
"I'd love to go. Did you hear Kat is teaching there now?" Shelby asked.
"I think Ez told me. I knew she'd be the one to go back." Daisy said. "She always planned to."
"So when do you want to go?" Shelby asked. "I have tests all next week."
"So do I and I leave at the end of October. So how about in two weeks?"
"We'll have to call Peter and Sophie." Shelby reminded her.
Sure they kept in touch with Sophie and Peter al the time, but calling them to ask if they could visit was another thing. It always made any of the Cliffhangers feel weird.
"I'll do it. It was my idea." Daisy said. 'Well I better let you go so you can study."
"Thanks. Call me with the final plans." Shelby said as she hung up.
PETERS OFFICE
Sophie sat at Peter's desk. Peter and the other cliffhangers were at group. She had Anne Marie in her lap and they were playing with some toys.
"Hush Anne." Sophie whispered to her daughter who was laughing.
Anne Marie grabbed her squeaky toy and started squeaking it. Sophie looked at her and started laughing. She though not biologically theirs looked a lot like Peter, but had already gained Sophie's personality. Anthony was more like his father though.
"Mama, phone." Little Anne Marie said as the phone rang.
"That's right honey. Now lets see who it is." Sophie said kissing her daughter's forehead.
"Hello, Mount Horizon, Sophie Becker-Scarbrow speaking. How may I help you?" Sophie asked in her formal voice.
"Hey Sophie. It's Daisy." Daisy said from her end of the line.
"I haven't heard from you in a while Daisy, how have you been, how's pre-med?" Sophie asked.
"That's one of the reason's I'm calling." Daisy told her. "You see in our third year we go abroad to like a different country almost anywhere in the world. And I'm going to Australia for a semester."
"Wow Daisy, I'm impressed, that's wonderful." Sophie said impressed.
"Yeah, and I was wondering if Shelby and I could come to Horizon for a couple of days like in 2 weeks? Just to see you guys again." Daisy asked.
"Sure that would be great, for both of you. How about the 10th? Is that okay?" Sophie asked reaching over Anne Marie to check the calendar.
"That's great." Daisy said. "I need to go because I have class in 20."
"Okay Daisy, see you in two weeks." Sophie said and let Daisy hang up.
As Sophie hung up she turned to Anne Marie "We're having visitors soon honey." She said tickling her.
Anne Marie giggled a sign of approval.
The end of Chapter 3
Disclaimer- I don't own any of the old higher ground characters. But I do own all the new ones
Note- In this chapter Alley has a dream. Katherine, Peter, and Sophie get a call from Daisy asking if she can visit them for a couple of days.
~Note this is a dream~
"Come on Alley. I'll race you to the car." Alley heard her brother say and as she looked up he was there.
Adam was wearing his Blue swimming trunks and his Purple and Yellow Minnesota Vikings shirt. It had been his favorite. Alley stood there for a minute looking over the seen. She loved watching the light sparkle in he twin brother's eyes.
"Alley, come on. I want to go." Adam whined sarcastically.
She played this scene all the time. Of all the things she remembered how come it was this.
Alley looked in the mirror, she was wearing a blue sundress, and it had little white flowers on it. She was younger then, only 13.
"I'm coming Adam." She yelled to him and ran over.
"Ready, set, go." Adam yelled and started off before the go.
"Hey. Cheater." She said as she tagged Adam at the car.
But she didn't care. He always cheated. And she let him because she knew she could beat him any time. And he knew it to that's why he cheated.
"Ready guys?" she heard her mom ask.
Alley looked at her mom to, and her dad. They were just as she remembered. Her mom with her dark curly hair and her father with his deep brown eyes. It was like they were right there in front of her.
"Yeah mom." Adam said for both of them.
"Okay then Kids, get in the car. We need to hurry if we want to get to the lake in time."
'We never got there.' Alley thought to herself. 'We never made it to the lake.'
Adam climbed in eagerly. Going to the family's cabin on the lake had always been his most favorite thing in the world. Even Alley loved it. The deep piney smell, the water lapping up against the dock. And the cabin that they owned. Alley remembered almost all of it in perfect detail. Though she hadn't been there since the accident.
THE ACCIDENT.... Alley had almost forgotten about it all with the excitement of seeing her parents.
"You guys we can't go." She felt like screaming out loud. But she knew she couldn't. It always happened like that. She wanted so badly to change the ending of her dream that the crash wouldn't happen but it never did.
Seeing this scene again, seeing how willing everyone was to go to the lake made Alley sick to her stomach. "We were so stupid. If we hadn't tried to get there before dinner we wouldn't have crashed." She thought to herself. She could feel herself waking up.
"No you guys. We can't go." She screamed as she was waking up, but no one heard.
~end of dream~
Alley woke up crying. She hated dreams of that day. She sometimes wished she had died to, so she wouldn't have to be alone.
"Don't cry Alley. Please don't cry." She heard a voice say as she was crying.
Alley looked around the room wondering where the voice was coming from. Neither Rylan or Jamie were up, she could even hear Jamie snoring, she was in such a deep sleep. There was no one there.
"Alley don't cry." The voice said again.
"Who... who's there?" Alley asked to the darkness.
"Come on ally. I know you're not stupid." The voice said coming closer.
"I know who you sound like but it can't be you. It can't be who I think it is." Alley said.
It sounded like her twin brother Adam, but he was dead. And even if he were here he hadn't appeared to her since just after the accident.
"Wanna bet?" the voice questioned. "Turn around."
Alley turned around. She didn't want to believe what she would see but she saw it. Adam was standing there. Not fully human but not totally invisible either. He had on different clothes than he had in his dream.
'How? What? I must be going crazy" Alley asked, surprised, stunned, and scared all at the same time.
"I told you that I'd always be there for you. I'd come when you needed me." Adam said to her.
"But... but... How? I haven't seen you in so long now. Why now?" Alley asked and sat up.
Adam sat down and looked at his sister. He too had gotten older in the years since he had died. But his eyes still sparkled.
"You needed someone to give you a run for your money." Adam said.
"What?" Alley asked.
"I was in your dream you know. And I don't always cheat." Adam said.
"Yeah sure." Alley said sarcastically. "Never."
"Hey sis. I am the older one you know." Adam said returning with his usual humor. He always took the time to remind Alley of that.
"By a minute. But remember, I'm the one who's alive." Alley said, knowing right after the words were spoken they had been harsh.
"Ouch... That was low Alley. Even for you." Adam said softly his face getting a depressed look.
"I would have taken your place Adam." Alley said.
"And you try every moment to make it possible. What about when you tried to kill yourself. I didn't want that Alley. And neither do mom or dad." Adam said with a hint of anger and disappointment in his voice.
"Why, you guys all get to be together and I get shipped here in the middle of no where." She said hugging her pillow.
"Alley, don't think we wanted to leave you. We didn't, but mom and dad were hurt so bad, if they had lived it would have been awful." Adam said trying to make his sister understand.
But Alley couldn't comprehend it. Or she didn't want to. Adam couldn't understand. He wasn't the one that was left over, the one that was all alone now.
"Adam, stop it. You don't understand." She said as she turned over in bed, hoping he would go away.
The conversation was going no where, and both of them knew it. Adam was trying to make his sister understand but her pain was so deep that even he couldn't see the bottom.
"Oh how I wish we had some divine intervention right now." Adam said.
He had meant it to be a joke, seeing he was an "angel" and all at the moment, but Alley didn't see it that way.
"Yeah me to." She said bitterly. "Now can you please shut up and go away." She yelled.
Adam was hurt and was beginning to walk away too. "I'll be back Alley. I promise, when you're ready I'll be back."
Alley didn't answer and didn't turn around either. But as soon as she knew that Adam had left the tears fell from her eyes, burning on her cheeks. She had never fought with Adam like that while he was alive. It was their first fight, really ever. Usually they had been inseparable. And now when he came to her she couldn't understand why she had. She should have been so happy he appeared to her, that he had come back. She hadn't heard his voice in so long. But she wasn't it just hurt more. The tears kept coming. And Alley ended up crying herself to sleep.
THE NEXT DAY
Aiken sat on the dock, his sneakers almost touching the water. Most of the campus was abandoned; almost everyone else was in class. It was one of those times when you were glad to be a senior. He didn't have to be in class for another 20 minutes. He looked up at the sky. It was getting darker; a storm had to be coming.
Just then He heard footsteps. He turned around and there was Alley. She was wearing an overly large sweatshirt and a pair of jeans on. But there was a strange look on her face, he could tell she was tired but there was also something else.
"Hey Stranger." Aiken said as he moved over on the doc so she could sit down. "Haven't seen you lately."
"What was it, last night?" she said sarcastically as she sat down and kissed him softly on the lips.
"Yep." He said as he slipped his arm around Alley's shoulders.
There was a silence between the two for a moment. Alley looked at the water. She watched as the reflections of both of their faces blurred together.
"I saw him again Aiken." Alley said suddenly.
"What? Saw who?" Aiken asked looking at her.
"Adam, he came to me again last night." She said softly, facing the water again.
She moved away from his arm that was still on her shoulders. She didn't want to have physical contact with anyone right now.
"Don't think I'm crazy Aiken. Cause I think I might be loosing it. But Adam was there. He was talking to me. He was right there next to me on my bed." Alley said seriously believing she was going crazy.
"I don't think your crazy Alley." Aiken told her seriously. "Maybe he was there with you. What did he say?"
"That he would never leave me."
"Well that's true. After you spend Nine Months in a womb together that bond kind of stays with ya," Aiken said.
"That sounds like what Adam would have said if I had given him the chance?" Alley asked hysterically.
"What do you mean? If you had given him the chance?" Aiken asked as he brought his hand up to Alley's face.
"I don't know. I guess I was scared or something because he came because we got in a fight, it would have been our first one, and I told him to shut up and leave." Alley said crying.
Aiken wrapped her into a tight hug. He felt his shirt getting wet with Alley's tears and he tried to comfort her.
"Maybe he'll be back Alley. Maybe." Aiken said as he kissed her head.
Alley looked up at him, her eyes red with tears.
"You think so, you think he will and you think I'm not crazy?" Alley asked him.
"No, I don't think your crazy and I think he will come back. If he said that he would, he will." Aiken told her.
MEANWHILE IN ITHICA, NEW YORK (a.k.a. Cornell University)
Daisy Lipenowski sat at the desk in her dorm room. It was the beginning of her 3rd year in the Ivy League collage's Pre-med Program. Soon she would be going abroad to Australia to learn at one of their schools for a semester. She had always wanted to go there (that and Italy but Italy wasn't in the program). Daisy was trying to make a list of all the things she needed to do before she left all the loose ends she needed to tie up.
"I need to call Shelby and Ezra" she thought to herself and added it to the list.
She thought back to the days she shared with Shelby, especially the time that they went to her mother's funeral. It would be 6 years this winter; her father would have his 3rd anniversary of his death in February. She had been glad when he had died. She didn't care anymore after what he had done to her before horizon. His drinking had done it to her, made her loose her little faith she had let in him.
She picked up the phone. "Hello, Assistance, I would like the phone number of Shelby Merrick, She lives in the Syracuse, New York area." Daisy said as she waited for an answer. "Thank you."
Daisy hung up the phone and then picked it up to dial Shelby's number.
"Hello?" Shelby answered getting up from her law books that she was studying over.
"Hey Shelby. It's daisy." Daisy said excitedly.
"Oh my God Daisy. I was just going to call you." Shelby said in relief.
"What's wrong?" Daisy said hearing Shelby sigh.
"I've been trying to study my law books but my mind keeps wandering. I can't concentrate at all." Sophie said sighing again.
"Listen. I'm going to Australia in a couple of weeks for med. school you know." Daisy started.
"Yeah, I hope you have fun there." Shelby said still distracted.
"Anyway, I want to tie up a couple of loose ends so to speak before I go, and I was wondering if you wanted to go to horizon with me? Just to see how things have changed or not." Daisy said explaining and kind of begging.
"I'd love to go. Did you hear Kat is teaching there now?" Shelby asked.
"I think Ez told me. I knew she'd be the one to go back." Daisy said. "She always planned to."
"So when do you want to go?" Shelby asked. "I have tests all next week."
"So do I and I leave at the end of October. So how about in two weeks?"
"We'll have to call Peter and Sophie." Shelby reminded her.
Sure they kept in touch with Sophie and Peter al the time, but calling them to ask if they could visit was another thing. It always made any of the Cliffhangers feel weird.
"I'll do it. It was my idea." Daisy said. 'Well I better let you go so you can study."
"Thanks. Call me with the final plans." Shelby said as she hung up.
PETERS OFFICE
Sophie sat at Peter's desk. Peter and the other cliffhangers were at group. She had Anne Marie in her lap and they were playing with some toys.
"Hush Anne." Sophie whispered to her daughter who was laughing.
Anne Marie grabbed her squeaky toy and started squeaking it. Sophie looked at her and started laughing. She though not biologically theirs looked a lot like Peter, but had already gained Sophie's personality. Anthony was more like his father though.
"Mama, phone." Little Anne Marie said as the phone rang.
"That's right honey. Now lets see who it is." Sophie said kissing her daughter's forehead.
"Hello, Mount Horizon, Sophie Becker-Scarbrow speaking. How may I help you?" Sophie asked in her formal voice.
"Hey Sophie. It's Daisy." Daisy said from her end of the line.
"I haven't heard from you in a while Daisy, how have you been, how's pre-med?" Sophie asked.
"That's one of the reason's I'm calling." Daisy told her. "You see in our third year we go abroad to like a different country almost anywhere in the world. And I'm going to Australia for a semester."
"Wow Daisy, I'm impressed, that's wonderful." Sophie said impressed.
"Yeah, and I was wondering if Shelby and I could come to Horizon for a couple of days like in 2 weeks? Just to see you guys again." Daisy asked.
"Sure that would be great, for both of you. How about the 10th? Is that okay?" Sophie asked reaching over Anne Marie to check the calendar.
"That's great." Daisy said. "I need to go because I have class in 20."
"Okay Daisy, see you in two weeks." Sophie said and let Daisy hang up.
As Sophie hung up she turned to Anne Marie "We're having visitors soon honey." She said tickling her.
Anne Marie giggled a sign of approval.
The end of Chapter 3