The man was standing in front of the house. He searched until he found her in the kitchen.

His mouth turned into a devious grin.

Such was his excitement that he almost forgot about the girl tied up next to him. The man picked her up and looked into her eyes.

She was very, very much afraid.

"Come on Cassie" he said with enjoyment, "you don't want to miss this".

Cassie looked at the man with terror, she couldn't remember how she had got there, all she knew was that she was terrified. He raised his hand and her gaze followed it.

What she saw left her petrified.

Without hesitating the men took a match and lighted it up.

The kitchen burst into flames and so did Amelia. Cassie fought and tried to scream but it was useless, no shouts came out of her mouth and no one could help her. She stood there, unable to move as she watched how her mother burned to death.

I opened my eyes and cried as the dream was still with me. Slowly I came back to reality and I felt relief running trough me.

It was just a dream. A very horrible and traumatizing dream, but a dream nonetheless.

I looked at the clock- 3:24 a.m- I knew I wasn't going to be able to sleep so I got up the bed and went downstairs for a glass of water. The house was dark and silent. When I reached to the kitchen I looked out the window, it was a beautiful night, the moon was bright so I could see the whole yard without problems. I opened the door and stepped outside unable to resist.

I love watching the stars.

The temperature was nice so I laid on the grass at ease. The nightmare was fading away.

Not two minutes must have passed when I heard a voice.

"Couldn't sleep either?" I got up so fast that I got a little dizzy.

"Hello?" I asked both confused and a bit scared at the same time.

"Here" I heard an amused voice coming from the back of the yard.

I thought what I was doing and what I should do. I was talking to a voice in the middle of the backyard at half past three in the morning. As far as I knew it could be a rapist or any other kind of creep. But despite all the obvious reasons for me to leave, I found myself walking towards the voice, I had never heard it before but I felt as I already knew it.

My head was working so fast trying to figure out to whom the voice belonged to that I didn't realize that there was no one in the garden.

I stood there for two seconds when I heard "Here"

I turned and first saw nothing, but then I looked behind the fence and saw a tall blond guy with a smile on his face.

"Hi there, neighbor" he said, the smile got playful and sweet at the same time.

I can't really explain what happened to me, I've never been the kind of people who feel strongly, sure I get happy and sad and all, but I've never been passionate about anything nor I fell in love at first sight. And yet, I can't explain what happened when I saw him, but I just went with it.

"Hi there" I said feeling extrangely relaxed. It felt really easy. But I had to be realistic, I didn't know him and I shouldn't be talking to strangers in the middle of the night. So I added, "Mmm, who are you?"

He laugh and said "Jake Armstrong new your neighbor".

I really didn't know who my new neighbors were so I said the first thing that came to my mind, "Well, I don't really know you. As far as I know you could have been stealing and I caught you" and I felt completely stupid, I mean, what the hell was that?

Fortunately he found my theory amusing and said in a voice as if he was telling a secret, "You are Cassie Blake, you lived here until you were two years old and are allergic to chocolate, it makes you sneeze twice". My eyes opened in shock as he said this. Only my mom knew that I sneeze with chocolate. He was on the other hand quite pleased with himself for had caused my bewildered expression.

"How did you know about the chocolate?" My face showing confusion.

"When we were little you once sneezed a slice of brownie on my face, and then laughed" He was having a good time with this that's for sure.

Suddenly I remembered, we used to be pretty close until I moved away.

"I remember" I said almost laughing, "you must have been seriously traumatized" I said joking.

"I haven't been able to eat a brownie ever since" he made a fake expression of regret.

He was about to tell me something when we saw the light in my mom's bedroom.

"I have to go" I said as I walk away and stopped, "see you around?" I could feel the hope in my voice.

"Sure" he said with a big smile, "see you".

I went inside and into my bedroom. The nightmare was gone.