Anna rarely had bad dreams. Most usually, she didn't dream much.
But when she did have nightmares, they were horrible. They were also incredibly vivid, so that she remembered them for days afterward.
Such was the one she was having then.
A lot of things contributed to the dream. Anna had her own fears (not that she'd ever show them), her own dark past (her parents did abandon her…), her own… problems?
Well, that wasn't the word for it. More like insecurities, of a sort. Things that made her vulnerable.
It was those elements that brought her dark visions out.
As a result, Anna was groaning, kicking, struggling, and… crying.
"Anna… Shhh…. I'm here…."
Anna froze in a kind of mid-yell, which means she choked. In seconds she was fully aware of her… position.
Her fiancé had taken it upon himself to be concerned. Such was the volume of her cries. So, the sweet guy that he was, he went into her room and held her.
The scene must have looked odd, but nobody saw it anyway. Yoh was holding Anna, half out of the futon. Anna was trembling in his warm embrace.
An embrace, which she immediately rolled out of.
She looked at him with a horrified expression.
Anna, you see, was embarrassed that he had caught her in such a sorry state.
"Bad dream?" he asked, sympathetically. She scowled at his pity. It made her feel weak.
"…None of your business."
"Why not?" I am your fiance, after all. Those were left unsaid.
"I'm fine, you don't have to worry."
"Well…. You didn't sound fine."
She crossed her arms and looked away. "Leave me alone."
Yoh frowned. "Anna…"
She gave him a look of exasperation, but she was still shaky.
They sat in silence for a while, until she decided to speak up.
"Yes, I had a bad dream."
"Want to talk about it?"
"Not really."
He stared at her for a while. "You know, that's probably the first time I heard you that scared. It must have been bad."
"Hmph."
"I don't think I could go back to my room with you feeling bad..."
She looked at him with raised eyebrows.
"So, I'll just stay here until you feel better!" he said with a cheerfulness that could only come from him.
Anna felt both angry and weary, but she leaned towards weary instead.
"Fine, you just sit there while I sleep. But if I find you here in the morning, you're going to join Amidamaru in his lifestyle."
The threat caused him to sweatdrop, but he didn't get up from his position.
"Hmph," said Anna a second time; and then she went to sleep.
It was much easier for her to sleep then.
Yoh watched her for a while, until he was sure she was sound asleep. It was late, so he thought that he'd better go back to his own room. Anna did say she would kill him if he were still there in the morning.
But she didn't say anything about….
As he made his way back to his room, he couldn't help it.
He kissed her on the forehead.
This will be my last update for a while, because my brother needs to borrow my computer soon. For about a week or more, he said.
I'm not sure when he's coming by to pick it up, so either this is my last update or another chapter for Dreamdays.
But the next chapter of Dreamdays is having trouble getting done, so I doubt it.