I was afraid to go to sleep that night. I forced myself to keep walking, occasionally stopping for coffee. Eventually, however, my body forced me to sleep. I'd been walking for four hours, my legs burned, I had to stop. My dreams weren't comforting.
"Hey, Hun," Johnny said from behind me. I turned quickly to meet his face right in front of mine. "How've ya been?"
"You've already infected me. What do you want," I turned back around, beginning to walk away.
"Maybe I just like you," he said, grabbing my arm, forcing me to stop.
"I doubt that," I told him.
"It's true," he insisted. I pulled away from him. "Come on, I really do like you." I walked up to him, let him wrap his arms around my waist, then put my finger up to his lips to keep him from kissing me.
"I like you, too," I replied, then my finger lit ablaze and Johnny jumped back, shouting. You would think that it didn't hurt, but it apparently wounded his pride.
"Come on now," he beckoned. "Don't be like that." I began walking away again.
"You don't even know my name," I reasoned. He caught up, grabbing my hips and pulling me close to him.
"No...But I do know your taste." he said, his lips moving forward to reach my own. For a moment, I wanted to give in, but I pulled away again.
"What about my age?" I asked.
"Your bra size."
"How do you know that?" I inquired angrily.
"You were sort of out of it for a little bit," he replied, shrugging his shoulders.
"My interests."
"Your stubbornness."
"My family,"
"Your dreams,"
"You've only been in two,"
"But look at them," he reasoned. "In the first, you were up against a brick wall, in this one, we're in an abyss. A road with no end nor beginning."
"You created these dreams to infect me," I denied.
"Face it, you wanted these things to happen to you!" he shouted as I moved myself further and further from him.
"I don't want a lover who doesn't know me!" I shouted back.
"Then let me get to know you!" he yelled. I stopped. Turning around.
"How?" I questioned.
"Through your dreams until you find me..." he replied.
"Then what?" Suddenly he was right in front of me, his face centimeters from my own.
"Do you want to breathe?" he whispered in my ear. I nodded and then he was gone. I awoke, not to my mother, but to the forest surrounding me.