That night, when Skye went to bed and fell asleep, he began to have another crazy dream. It was underwater. All was quiet and peaceful. Fish swam around, and the seaweed swayed in the water. Skye didn't know what was going on until he saw something swimming by. It was a silhouette of a large fish. But it had an upper body of a human and spiky hair. There was another figure just like that swimming with him, but it was muscular, and it had long hair, just a little above his shoulders.
What the heck is that? thought Skye.
Right when the figures swam by, Skye shot up in bed. He sat there, in a cold sweat and panting like he had just ran a marathon.
"Why do I keep having these crazy dreams?" he asked himself.
He turned to his nightstand and saw that it was almost three. Skye yawned and drifted back to sleep. Just as he did that, he had another dream. This time, there was a girl with short auburn hair, wearing a long, pink dress, and she was lying on the shore, soaking wet and passed out. The spiky haired figure, who was no longer in a silhouette, was in full color, and he was sitting next to the girl, giving her CPR.
"Please wake up," the boy said to himself has he compressed his hands the girl's chest. Then, he breathed into her mouth. He did this repeatedly until she woke up and spat out water.
"Relax," said the voice calmly. It sounded just like Skye's own voice! "Everything will be okay!"
Suddenly, a girl's voice called over to the auburn haired girl and before she was fully awake, the boy for some reason crawled over to the ocean and went underwater. Skye saw that the boy had a tail. A mermaid's tail. Something else was about to happen, but then Skye felt someone shaking him and saying his name.
"Skye, wake up!" said the familiar voice. "Time for school."
Skye opened his eyes and saw that it was his mother, Kairi, sitting on his bed next to him.
"Oh, hey Mom." said Skye, breathing a sigh of relief.
"You looked like you had a bad dream." explained Kairi. "Is everything okay at school? Are you flunking something? Or did you get into a fight with Nicky or Rebecca?"
"Everything's fine, Mom!" reassured Skye. "Nothing out of the ordinary's going on. Just had a weird dream."
Kairi kissed her son on the cheek and stood up. "You better get ready for school. Breakfast will be ready in a few minutes." she said. She walked out.
Skye got out of bed, threw on his blue bodysuit, a white long-sleeved hoodie, and yellow and white shoes and then stormed downstairs, where his parents were sitting and eating breakfast. They ate blueberry waffles, fruit, and orange juice while Skye ate bagels with cream cheese and lox. He loved bagels with cream cheese and lox, and he ate them nearly every morning. Sometimes, Kairi and Sora ate bagels, too, but Sora never ate the lox. He always said that he wouldn't eat fish of any kind. Not even shrimp, and his wife and son were total shrimp fans. After Skye ate, he put his backpack over his shoulders and ran out the door. He got out just in time to catch Nicky and Rebecca walking by.
"Hey, Skye!" said Rebecca as Skye caught up to them.
"What's up?" asked Nicky. "Did ya sleep okay?"
"Not really," replied Skye. "I keep having these weird dreams. I just found out last night that it's a spiky haired mermaid."
"A spiky haired mermaid?" repeated Nicky. "You're right. That is weird."
"There was also a long haired mermaid." pointed out Skye. "Maybe that was a girl...but then it was muscular."
"Could be a really muscular girl!" said Nicky.
"As our dad would say, he'd say 'You're tripping!'" said Rebecca, deepening her voice when she said "You're tripping." She giggled.
"Yeah. Maybe I haven't had enough sleep." said Skye.
They got to school and Skye went to his math class. He always hated math. And the teacher didn't help. He was boring and he would drone on and on about one specific type of math problem for forty of the fifty-five minute class period. Skye always took the time to fall asleep and would later get the answers from Nicky, who sat on the other side of the room. Today, the second Skye plopped into his desk, he fell asleep. He slept for about five minutes when he had another weird dream. It was on shore this time. The background looked familiar, and so did the people in it. But Skye couldn't figure it out. There was a spiky brown haired boy about his own age, wearing nothing but a blue towel, and he was trying to walk. The auburn haired girl was there, too. She seemed to be helping him. The boy had his left arm around the girl's shoulders and took steps with her.
"You must be really hurt," said the girl to the boy. "You're having trouble walking."
The boy shook his head.
"You're not hurt?" asked the girl.
The boy nodded.
"Okay, I'm going to try and let you walk on your own," said the girl. "Think you can do it, yet?"
The boy nodded once again. He took his arm from the girl's shoulders and stood on his own. He slowly took a few steps, but then fell. The girl rushed to the boy, but he waved her off and stood up. His legs hurt and they felt weak from having no weight on them before. He began to walk a little more faster this time, but better. He felt that he was getting stronger.
"That's great!" said the girl. "Come on. I'll take you to my place to get you cleaned up."
The boy smiled and went, slowly, with the girl.
Skye was about to find out more when he felt someone shaking him.
"Skye, wake up!" said a voice.
Skye opened his eyes and saw Nicky standing in front of him. Rebecca was in a different classroom first period.
"You slept the whole period, man!" said Nicky. "Time for history!"
Skye grinned and picked up his backpack.
That night, at dinner, Skye thought about the weird dreams he was having. He didn't want to tell his parents about it because they would just tell him that he was having problems with school. But the kids in his dreams looked awfully familiar. Who were they? Why do these dreams keep recurring?