Chapter 3: The Nighttime Dark Forest
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Dream: Third Person POV
Autumn found herself wondering through the forest alone. She could hear her own footsteps echo across the forest, accompanying the nearby robin bird's music like a carefully arranged orchestra. She heard a stick crack under something or someone's weight.
"Where you goin', Autumn?" A deep, familiar, voice broke the symphony. Autumn gasped as two strong, calloused hands wrapped around her neck tightly. She tried to kick and wriggle out of her father's grasp, but he was way stronger than her. She couldn't scream and she couldn't get free from his grasps.
She felt tears well up in her eyes. "I'm going to die tonight", Autumn thought and stopped struggling.
"Autumn! Wake up," Jake begged, shaking his younger sister softly.
"Hey, Autumn, it's just me. It's okay. It's just Jake," he whispered as she woke up with a start and began sobbing shakily, gasping. Her dark, calculating green eyes shifted wildly around the room.
"H-H-He was g-gonna k-k-kill me, Jake! He-He was right there! It felt so... so real," she sobbed.
"Sh, sh, I know, Autumn. It's okay," Jake assured her.
"Autumn?" Soda questioned groggily, peeking his head into the room, Darry and Pony behind him. Jake nodded, letting them known that he had the situation under control.
He had done this before.
The Curtis brothers left back to their own rooms as Autumn's sobs slowly began to subside and Jake laid back down next to her.
"Ready to go back to sleep?" Jake asked softly. Autumn nodded and snuggled into Jake's warm chest, but it took her hours to fall finally back into a fitful sleep.
Jake's POV
"Jake! School time! Get up. Autumn, you need to get up too!" Darry shouted outside my bedroom door. I groaned, listening to him leave to Sodapop and Ponyboy's room and listened to them groan.
I rolled over to face Autumn. Her brilliant green eyes stated back at me.
"Ready for your first day of school?" I asked, feigning excitement. She nodded, but I could see the uncertainty in her eyes.
"You'll do great," I assured her, pushing myself up and patting her arm.
A/N: Please check out my new co-written story on Chicago Fire Buddies profile, "Two Young Hearts" :)
I won't be updating until Monday or possibly Tuesday, I'll be gone all day tomorrow. Sorry for the short chapter.
Aufenthalt Gold,
~Alee xXx