Then she woke up screaming. She hadn't told anyone about the nightmare because she was hoping that it would go away. It hadn't yet! She looked at the clock and moaned it was only 12:35 in the morning and she had school tomorrow. Maria climbed out of bed. No use going back to bed she had tired that before but it never worked she would just lay there driving her-self crazy. She walked to the bathroom and turned on the light. She splashed some cold water on her face hoping to clear her mind. It felt good so she decided to take a cold shower. Maybe it would clear her head. She was in the shower for about 15 minutes before she shut the water off. She grabbed a towel off the rack and rapped it tightly around herself. She was humming a little tune that she had known since she was little while she started to walk back to her room. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"she screamed "Calm down Maria" Maria hugged the towel tighter around herself. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE MICHAEL?" She yelled. She wanted to know what Michael Guerin was doing in her room in the middle of the night.

"I came to check up on you." He mumbled.

She was shocked. "WOW Michael Guerin having a moment of sensitivity!" she joked trying to hide her shock. Why is he worried about me?

"Laugh all you want Maria but I know something is wrong with you. And I know that you've been keeping secrets from me and everyone else including Liz." She waited for her reaction. He waited for her to deny his claim. She didn't. She just walked over and sat on her bed next to him. She looked at him then down at her hands that were sitting on her lap, "tell me" was all she said and she burst out in tears. He wrapped his arms around her and then.. ~*~FLASH~*~

Maria Deluca was walking out into the street from a building. She stopped to look around it is dark except for a few streetlights. She takes out her keys and starts walking towards where she parked her car down the street. Feels kinds uneasy and she doesn't know why. When she gets near her car she breaths a sigh of relief. Then she dropped her keys. When she bends down to pick them up someone grabbed her and yanked her up. She let out a noise from the pain. Then she screams but none hears. Then the man threw her into a nearby car. ~*~END FLASH~*~ Michael stopped hugging Maria and lifted her face in his direction "Please Maria tell me that was just a dream!" if someone had hurt HIS Maria he wanted to know and he wanted them dead. It killed him just to see Maria like that. "It was just a dream! BUT IT WONT GO AWAY" Maria yelled through her tears.

"What do you mean it won't go away? How long have you been having the dream?" Michael wanted to protect her more then anything else. He would protect her from the world if he could. " A few weeks now. Its been waking me up at the same time every night. The same dream over and over again. It never makes it past that part either!" Maria mumbled then she shivered. She looked down at what she was wearing and snapped back into reality. She quickly got up leaving Michael on the bed wondering what she was doing. He loved this blonde girl more then life itself. He wouldn't have a life if it weren't for her. He loved her more then anything in all the solar systems and on all the planets. He was watching her when he realized she was still in a towel! He couldn't believe that he had forgot! HE smiled. He was still smiling when Maria turned around "What are you smiling at Space-boy?"

"Did anyone ever tell you, you look HOTT it a towel?" he laughed to hide the fact that he had just told her she was hot. "Yeah right. Now I have heard it all. I have to get dressed. So will you please get some clothes out of that dresser next to yeah?" she snapped. She turned around to hide the fact that she was blushing "ok calm down" Michael said laughing. Then he mumbled under his breath "anything for you" he pulled the drawer open and froze