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Chapter 8: A weird dream

He then walked away from his position and very slowly walked toward me.

Too scared, I stood still in place although I was yelling at myself to run away. He just got closer, and closer while I was just standing there. Once he had come near me and was standing in front of me, I closed my eyes waiting for my death to come.

I waited… and waited… but nothing happened. No pain came. I slowly opened my eyes and saw that his face was inches from mine. We stayed silent for a while until he spoke up.

"We will meet each other soon, Konna."

"AHHH!"

I yelled as my whole body raised from the bed as quickly as I opened my eyes. I panted. I put a hand over my forehead. Sweats were all over it. I panted again and talked between it.

"Ah… It… It was just a dream… a bad dream…"

"What time is it…?" I asked myself and looked at my alarm clock. It was 8:30 in the morning. Damn… I had never woken up this late before. It was fortunate that today was Sunday, so I had no class. I was grateful for that as well, because, like I mentioned, my head was aching hard as hell.

I tried to get out of bed to grab some pills, but then decided not to afterward because as I was doing it, not only my head ached, but my whole body was aching as well, especially my wrists and ankles. Sighing, I plopped my head back onto the pillow.

What the hell was that dream about? I was stuck in that game Delin played a while ago, and then I was searching for the eight pages for the sake of my goddamn life. Then, I was expecting him to kill me, but he whispered… something instead. What was it again…? Oh, he said that we would meet each other soon, and he even said my name! What did that even mean?! God, if that was just a dream then I wished he would just kill me instead of saying that, because I was so freaking confused right now.

People say that the things that you thought about or happened in your life are often related to your dreams, so let me see… What happened last night?

I stared up at the ceiling as I thought.

Oh, I remembered. Last night, when I was heading home from work, you know, the café. But then suddenly, something or someone grabbed me by my mouth, on its or their hand was a cloth with the smell of chemical. And then, everything went black and now… I just know that I was here, lying in my bed.

…

Those weren't related a bit!

Or was I having that dream because I hung out with Delin too much?

…

Okay Konna, you have to pull yourself together right now or else you'll go crazy for sure. Come on, just enjoy life. Beside, the weather today was very nice.

My phone buzzed, cutting off all of my thoughts. I opened it and found a text message from Delin.

Heya gurl -3-. Wanna hang out today? Seriously, I'm bored as hell here ._.

Hey Delin :). Sure. Where should we meet?

How about at Sakura mall? We can go shopping and then grab some ice cream. I heard that the ice cream there is super delicious *w*. At 9 AM?

Sound good. Let me get ready and then we can go.

Ok. Don't let me wait too long though. Or else I'll die from boredom T-T

I giggled a bit. Alright, you don't have to remind me. :)

"Wow, you were right Delin." I said as I munched on the vanilla ice cream. "The ice cream here is very good."

"See? I told you! I'm an expert in this!" Delin replied happily while eating her chocolate ice cream. "Next time we should try the other flavor. The fruit yogurt flavor looks so good, don't you think?"

"Yeah…"

The dream suddenly came to my mind again.

Should I tell Delin? I mean, she's my best friend and they say that you can always trust your best friend. But…

…

Okay, here I go.

"Hey, Delin…" I said.

Delin looked away from her ice cream and up to me. "Yes?"

"Have you ever, like, had an unexplainable dream before?"

"Huh? Um… no, if I remember correctly. Why do you ask? Something's wrong?"

"Well, I had one last night… and…" I was suddenly stuttering.

"Come on Konna. You know you can tell me anything." She leaned toward me a bit.

I took a deep breath and talked again. "I had a very weird dream last night. And by that, I meant that it was super weird!"

"What was it about?"

"Slenderman."

"H… huh?!"

"It was about Slenderman."

An uncomfortable silence went through us. I stared at her, and she stared at me. No one said anything to break it, so I decided to do it. I hate uncomfortable silence, and I know everyone does as well.

"So… what do you th-"

I was cut off by her slamming the table and leaned her face very close toward mine. She was smiling ear to ear. "OMGOMGOMG! I'M SO JEALOUS OF YOU! TELL ME! WHAT HAPPENED IN THAT DREAM?! TELL ME ALL OF 'EM AND DON'T LEAVE OUT ANY DET-"

This time, I cut her off by slamming my hand onto her mouth. "Delin… stop. People are looking at us."

Yes, I was telling the truth, and that made me felt very awkward.

"Oh… um… sorry. Hee hee… got too carry away…" She chuckled awkwardly as she sat back onto her seat. "But anyway, let's get back into topic. Can you, like, describe what happened?"

I told her all about that dream. While I was doing so, I could tell that she was trying her very best not to fangirl again. I appreciate that, because if she did that again then… damn, people would be looking at us awkwardly again. I soon finished telling her about the dream.

"Oh, I see… That was pretty weird, alright."

"That wasn't pretty weird, that was extremely weird." I sighed tiredly.

"Yeah, I agree. But seriously, I'm so jealous of you, Konna! Why did you have that amazing dream but I didn't?"

"I wished it were the opposite." I groaned into my hand.

She leaned forward and patted my shoulder. "Come on, cheer up. It isn't about that dream that is going to affect your life. Just ignore that. You're probably just so stressed that you start thinking about silly things."

"Yeah, I think that's the reason." I sighed again.

"If you ever need to let out some problems then I'll be there for you, alright? Don't be afraid to tell me anything."

"Okay. Thank y-"

I trailed off when I saw a figure standing at the tree behind Delin. It was him again, Slenderman, the one that was giving me so much thoughts these days, and I could feel that he was staring at me.

"Uh… Konna? You alright there?" The shook on the shoulder that Delin gave me snapped me out of my thoughts. I rubbed my eyes and looked back at that same spot. No one was there.

"Oh, it's nothing Delin. I'm probably just tired."

She looked worried. "God, are you really okay Konna? Are you getting enough sleep? Or are you skipping meals? Or are you studying too much?"

"I'm fine, really Delin. Thanks for caring."

"No prob!"