My eyes flutter open as small whimpers echo throughout my dark bedroom that is barely illuminated by the stream of moonlight that's creeping through my slightly parted curtain. I roll onto my side, to find Cat being the source of whimpers and that she's shaking uncontrollably.
"Cat?," I softly ask, now fully awake. I lean over her shaking figure and I shake her arm. Her eyes stay closed and the whimpering gets even worse.
"Cat?," I ask a little louder. Her eyes snap open and her breaths are ragged.
"T-Tori?," She asks in a timid voice.
"Yeah, you okay?" Of course she isn't...what a stupid question.
A single tear slides down her cheek and the next thing I know, she's engulfed me into a death grip of a hug. She buries her face into my chest and whimpers a few more times. I gently stoke her red-velvet hair and kiss her on the side of her head.
I feel so useless because I can't do anything else to help her; this has happened twice just this pass week which is odd because Cat never has nightmares. Her dreams are usually full of sparkly unicorns, rainbows, and fluffy clouds made of cotton candy and decorated sprinkles...or at least I'm pretty sure that's a good depiction of what to expect in her dreams.
"You had another nightmare about me leaving you again," I solemnly state. Cat grabs a fistful of my purple 'New York' sweater, squeezes it tightly in her petite hands and slowly nods into my chest. I sit against my headboard and I pull Cat onto my lap as I kiss her on the cheek, in hope of calming her down.
"Im not leaving you anytime soon, I swear it."
If only she would believe me.