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"Austin, wait!" Mr. Dawson calls to me.

"I can't, sir," I call back, still making my way to her room. "She needs me!"

Mr. Dawson stops and stops Dez and Trish from coming, too. "You're right," I hear him mumble.

I barge through the door to her room and am immediately bombarded by the staff, ordering me to leave and it's against procedure for someone to come in. I try to stop them but I know it's no use. They're right. I don't want to make Ally's condition worse.

"Please," I hear her beg from behind the doctors trying to help her. I almost do it- I almost cry at the sound of her strained voice. "Austin," she cries. "Austin!"

"Let me through!" I shout. They reluctantly oblige and they move a little to let me to her. I ran to her and in a second she was in my arms, still crying, still hyperventilating. I stroke her hair, trying to soothe her. She begins to calm down a little.

The doctors must have understood that she's okay with me, because they one by one left the room, trying (but not succeeding) in looking casual. I started rubbing her shoulders. The friction between my hand and her cotton hospital gown started burning my hand really quickly, but at the same time it was calming.

"Shh," I whisper. "It's okay. Everything is okay."

"I had a horrible dream and it was so real."

I hugged her closer. "What was it about?"

She took a deep, shaky breath and said "I was being smothered my the darkness, and I thought someone was in Sonic Boom and I felt trapped."

I stopped. I took a deep breath. "It wasn't real, Ally," I try sound comforting. "Here," I say. I slowly get up, just long enough to open the curtains. The darkness and shadows are quickly gone, and from the room you can see the sunrise approaching.

I sit back down on the bed with her. She rests her head on my chest. "It's beautiful," she says, mesmerized by the sky.

"So are you," I say.

She looks up at me, her expression almost childlike, and says, "I love you."

ALLY'S POINT OF VIEW

He smiles and says "I love you, too, Ally," and kisses me.

BOTH

Then my world explodes.