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Chapter 6: Alex
"Hu… wah?" I asked half asleep.
"Elen! It's time for our watch. Remember, three to six in the morning?" Lizzy asked while gently shaking me awake.
"Five more minutes…" I groaned.
"No now." She said as she tore open my sleeping bag to let the cold air in.
"Fine. I'm up. I'm up. Geeze…" I grumbled as I fell out of bed. Lizzy, the smart one, wore flannels and a long sleeved shirt to bed so she didn't have to change, unlike me who wore a tank and fuzzy short shorts. She left and I changed into sweatpants and a sweatshirt. I grabbed my journal and raced out of the room after Lizzy because I didn't know where the observation deck was and I had a feeling that she wasn't going to wait. I found her going up the main stair case and followed her up three flights of stairs and down the hallway to a cold metal door.
Through said doors was a circular room that had floor to ceiling windows and an air that froze my breath in the air. There were two chairs one facing port, left, and the other starboard, right, in relevance to the bow, the front of the boat. I took the starboard side and took out my journal.
How many times have I opened this book? Its pages were frayed, and the brown leather had become worn and supple. Its spine was bent and had several layers of colored duct tape. Hundreds of pages had my chicken scratch scribbled all over it explaining my dreams. Now that I realize it, I remember my dreams with amazing quality. Most people could barely remember that they even had a dream while I, on the other hand, could remember every painstaking detail.
"What are you doing?" Lizzy asked looking over my shoulder.
"Writing." I crudely responded. She replied with a look that said both 'Do I look like an idiot?' and 'What?'
"My dreams" I continued.
"You mean you can actually remember them after your up?" She asked.
"Right down to every detail."
"Wow… and they're all in there?" She asked.
"All of them from the past year… actually… almost exactly one year." I thought aloud. I flipped to the very first page to check the date, December 12, 2009. How long ago it seemed. I had lost a lot of innocence since then. I never realized how much more I was to lose in such little time, looking at that page, the page that started it all.
"Could I…"Lizzy pried.
"After I finish this one," I replied. I had nothing to hide. It's not like they were about me.
As I finished recording the dream I had in the car earlier and my most recent one about Eron, I continued to think about that first dream. That one was about the first time Elizabeth met Axle, in the Alley of In-between, and immediately knew his name before fainting.
"Here," I said passing the book back to Lizzy.
I spent the next three hours watching the black waters and hearing Lizzy's reactions. They ranged from 'Bastard!' to 'but, he was so young' to full out crying, and she didn't have to actually be in them. When the alarm went off to signal that our watch was over, Lizzy jumped up taking a defensive stance.
"Relax, our watch is over, can I have it back now?" I asked.
"Hu? Oh! Sure, sorry." Lizzy said handing over the book. She was abnormally jumpy; I guess that's what my dreams do to people.
"You hungry?" She asked. My stomach gurgled in replied.
"Let's go see Jerry."
"Who's he?"
"The cook."
"Oh… sure, I don't think my stomach would mind." I said as my stomach replied. Lizzy let loose a little laugh and lead the way to the cafeteria. She tried the doors but they refused to open.
"I hate it when they lock it." Lizzy said. I caught a flash of vibrant red out of the corner of my eye and a small tug on my pant leg. I turned to see a girl with that red hair and deep blue eyes. She looked to be about five and was fairly tall.
"Hi, Alex. Is your daddy awake?" Lizzy beamed. Alex replied with a small nod and stared at me with those large eyes of hers.
"Would you mind grabbing us a bite?" She asked. Little Alex pulled out a set of keys, unlocked the door and went in without taking her eyes off me for more than a second. She slipped inside leaving us in the hallway to come back moments later with two apples.
"Thanks!" Lizzy said as we waved goodbye. Something creped me out about that kid, I had seen those eyes and hair somewhere, but I couldn't say where.
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