That night, after Marissa had come in to wish Miranda goodnight, mommy sat on the edge of her bed as they went through her happy thoughts for the night. Miranda found herself looking at her mom's face and thinking of the picture Aunt Kendall had shown her. She did look like her mom, she really did!
"What are you looking at?" Bianca's asked as she noticed her daughter's stares.
"You!" said Miranda.
"Why are you looking at me?"
"I don't look like my daddy."
"I know, you look like…"
"…like me!" finished Miranda.
"Exactly." said Bianca.
"That's my happy though." said Miranda.
"What is?"
"That I look like me!"
…
That night Miranda curled into her pillow determined that this night when the bad dreams came she was going to be the big brave girl she was also told she was.
The dream did come but it was different. It was still a horrible scene to be playing in her head but the man she saw… she knew it wasn't her daddy, because her daddy didn't look like that! And the woman screaming… she knew now wasn't her mommy, because mommy had told her what had happened and it wasn't that. It was just a film, just pretend, like Harry Potter and his magic wand and Marvin Marvin not really being an alien from space. It wasn't real.
She fought to get back to her happy thoughts; being all grown up and looking at all the make-up sets for Aunt Kendall; the Chinese food and Gabby winning the battle for the last Spring Roll; played Clue again after dinner and how she and AJ secretly cheated together so Marissa couldn't win.
That had been fun…
And just like magic, the bad dream evaporated and Miranda went to sleep with a smile on her face.
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See you next Monday.
:o)