Thanks for the reviews guys, sorry I've been a bit slow in updating, our Internet has been stuffing up lately, and it's been really hard to get this chapter up. Thanks for your honesty Cara, I agree with you, this story is beginning to drag, I'm trying to move things along faster, but it's a bit difficult at the moment cause there's a few things I have to make happen before some major things become clear, but I'm doing my best to make it all fall into place.

Anyway I'll stop my blabbering, here's the next chapter, hope you like it even though it's short.

Chapter number 12. burdening lies

Lara staired at the file that sat on Peter's desk, the same puzzled look that had been on Peter's face earlier was now plastered all over her's, none of what was on the document made sense, feeling frustrated she put the file aside and got up to get a cup of coffee to clear her head.

"Oh my gosh, so your really better this time?" Martha squealed with excitement after Serena told her the good news.

"Yeap" Serena smiled.

"That's fantastic news. As soon as you walk out the door of this hospital, we're going to have the biggest party ever for you. Well when your up to it anyway".

"Sounds great, you know me, I love a good party" Serena beamed, "I just can't wait to get out of here, I've been here so long I actually don't mind the food here".

"Ok now that is seriously weird, especially for someone who used to think hospital food was worse than dieing" Martha chuckled.

Serena laughed, "yeah, a lot of things have changed".

"Well hopefully not to much, otherwise I'm going to have to force the old Serena back" she added with a smile. "Anyway I have to go, I promised mum I'd be home for dinner".

"Ok, I'll see you later then".

"Yeap, and I'll bring Dylan along next time, he's been itching to come and see you" Martha told her grabbing her hand bag off the floor next to her chair.

"Well I can't wait to see him ether" she smiled.

"Ok now you make sure you get some sleep, bye".

"Ok, bye" Serena answered as Martha closed the door, the room was silent now, and the steady ticking of the clock could be hear almost echoing through the room and Serena's head till it drove her crazy.

As she continued to stair at the white rimmed circular clock on the wall it felt like ever second was a minute and every minute was an hour, the hands moved slower than she'd ever seen them move, and the ticking slowly made her feel tired until it sent her peacefully to sleep, but her dream wasn't quite as peaceful, it was more of a flash back of her life more than a dream.

DREAM

The ticking slow steady ticking of the clock continued to sound in her head, before her was a replay, except in this replay she could see herself like she wasn't there, like she was watching a movie. She could see herself walking slowly out of a tent, and as she came outside her eyes widened and then her imaginary self that was watching looked around to see what she was looking at, two bodies lying on the ground one was her boyfriend at the time, and the other was a stranger, they were drenched in their own blood, a knife lay carelessly on the ground. She reached for her phone and called triple zero.

The next few things in her dream were fairly quick, and the ticking of the clock seemed to be getting quicker gradually over time, and the sound became slightly more high pitched. A flash of hand cuffs around her own wrists and the sound of her boyfriend telling a police officer that she had tried to kill him could be heard and then she could see herself sitting in at the front of a court room full of people. The judges voice could be heard, "I find this woman guilty of murder". As the judge spoke the ticking began to get so fast that it seemed like something was going to explode, the judges hammer banged three times and on the third bang everything, including the ticking stopped.

END OF DREAM

Serena woke up in a frightful panic sitting up straight in one motion, she was breathing quickly like she'd been short of air and she began to shiver with fear, tears rolling down her cheeks. "It's never going to stop haunting me is it" she whispered to herself, "I can't escape", the lie was a burden on her.

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