Chapter 3
"Run! Run! ….Faster! Faster!" someone screams. It's that scream that you hear when someone is killed. The terrifying, sending chills up your spine scream. I turn to look, but before I know it a group of people start running toward me. I turn around, and start running into the pitch black forest. I can't see anything or what I am running away from or to for that matter. I am clueless. I have no idea where I am going in these woods I could possibly just fall off a cliff at any moment and I wouldn't even know, but my legs keep carrying me away from whatever I am running away from. Next then I know I am falling, falling faster, and screaming at the top of my lungs. Then, everything goes black.
Next then I know Alex is shaking me waking me up. I look around in bewilderment. All I see is a green tent that I am sitting in and Grace is rolled over on her back all the way over to the right. I must have fallen asleep in the tent last night with Grace. Thank God it was only a very bad nightmare. Then, all at once everything comes rushing back. That Raven and Tack are dead. That the Invalids actually breached Portland. The fact I can't be seen with Alex since Julian still deserves to know that I never truly loved him. That he was just a phase to help me move on from Alex when I thought he was dead. Then, I remember Alex is still in my tent looking down at me with those gold eyes of his, and I remember the first time I ever looked at him from the bottom of the evaluation room and our eyes met.
"You ok, Lena?" Alex asks in his sweet romantic voice.
"Yea I am fine why would you ask?" I reply casually as if nothing happened
"You were screaming in your sleep again." He trails off
"Oh, it was just a bad nightmare that's all" I reply as he grabs me and brings me in tightly for a hug. I haven't felt his arms around me in ages it seems. Naturally, I put my arms around his neck and bring my head to his shoulder. I feel all tingly inside, and I can't speak just embracing him is enough for me. I can't help, but smile the biggest smile. I know more than anything how sure I am that I do truly and always will love him.
He whispers in my ear, while stroking my back, "I am sorry for hugging you; I know we aren't public yet, but I couldn't resist any longer."
I turn to look up at his face and I softly place my hands on his warm cheeks, and reply, "Don't ever be sorry for expressing how you feel towards me."
"I won't," he brings me in to a kiss.
Feeling his soft lips touch mine for the first time in a year melts me into his arms. Everything goes still, and I feel time stop. This moment, our moment it's unspeakably perfect. My lips go numb as he pulls away from me slowly. I feel his eyes beam through me.
"I think it's time I speak to Julian, he deserves to know, but I need to…"
"I know," he cuts me off and walks out of the tent as if everything was perfectly normal.
Nothings normal everything is far from it.