Chapter 3

Vanille writhed herself because of the despair she was feeling, while realizing that she destroyed everything that she wanted to protect, they were lying right in front of her, dead, all of them, her lies and actions changed and nearly destroyed the life of her friends, she looks down at the five lifeless Bodys, her tears that were running down her face, froze and captured her in the cold of grief.
She couldnt cry anymore, she wanted but her throat was so dry that every single sob she made, hurted like a dagger that someone stabbed in her chest, she sank to the ground and gave up, she was sinking down the lake of tears, just to be swallowed by pure darkness.

The blanket on which she slept was totally wet when she woke upand her heart was beating way quicker than normal, she was just dreaming.
That realization relieved her so much, it was such a horrible nightmare and she wanted to forget it as quickly as possible.
It was still deep in night and Vanille stood up slowly, the others were still sleeping

No surprize at night she thought.

She stood up to move a bit, just to realize that her legs were very shaky and it costed her a lot effort to avoid falling back on her butt.

It was just a dream, nothing to worry about she wanted to believe this, but she couldn't forget this horrible scenes in her dream.

It felt so real she started to cry again, or maybe she did never stop since she awoke.

She started to reel around the place where the fire that they made burned just a few hours ago. She had to concentrate to avoid falling, but her view was still blurred by the countless tears that ran over her face.
Suddenly she felt that something was watching her from the shrubbery behind her, she could avoid to scream when red eyes were wandering the darkness behind a few trees, the creature that she saw wasn't probably such a big and dangerous monster as she expected, but it was enough to scare her so she lost her balance and reeled backwards, Vanille stumbled over something behind her and fell on her back.

I am glad that nobody saw this

She just heard a quite groan from somebody in front of her, probably the one she stumbled over, the person moved up and looked around confused.
The shadow of the person came towards her after sighting her, she slowly recognized the silver haired boy in the darkness, it was Hope.
He seemed a bit drowsy and confused when he joined her

,,What are you doing here so late Vanille? I almost believed an animal had attacked me" he gave her a sleepy smile while he looked at her inquisitively.

,,Oh, I am sorry that I woke you up, I... I was just going to go on a walk around the camp"

,,At night?"

,,Äh yes of course, I wanted to try out something new and the stars in the sky are so beautiful at this night" She had no real reason that would explain her activitys at this time, Vanille just tried to smile back to him, it really was just a try.

Now Hope got closer to her, he must have noticed her tears and the tremble in her weakend Voice. He gave her a worried look.

,,What happend Vanille? Are you ok?"

She almost couldnt answer, she just felt the tears running down her face again while she just sobbed:

,,I-I'm fine, I just... had a nightmare"

Suddenly Vanille felt Hopes hand at her face, he was gently brushing away the tears that ran down, after that, he hesitated but eventually took her carefully into a warm hug and said:

,,It's ok, you were always there for me, now I will do the same for you, at least I'll try. I will do anytime you need it, It just hurts to see you sad like that"

she was just speechless, no matter how much depressed she was a few minutes ago, she felt much better now and his deed cheered her up, because he managed to get her back out of her despair.

,,Thank you Hope" she tried again to smile and Hopes reaction told her that she found back to her old performance.

She felt his hands around hers and his eyes were looking deep into her eyes, while he said:

,,I am just glad that I could help you, I would do everything to make sure that this beautiful eyes, doesnt get filled with tears again" He smiled shyly at her and she could see, that it needed much courage for him to say that, but he did and she wouldn't forget those words.
Then they just sat there for some minutes, enjoying the time together.
After a while Hope asked her if she was really ok now, she ensured him that she was and he slowly returned to his blanket to continue his interrupted sleep.

Vanille just sat there for another four or five minutes, just smiling and thinking about what was going on with her when Hope comforted and complimented her in such a sweet way like no other boy did before, it's more accurate to say that there never was any boy who complimented something on her before.
She stayed in those warm thoughts for a while before returning to her own blanket to sleep again.

The next dream wont be a nightmare, thats for sure That was her last thought before sinking into a blissful sleep.