In the middle of the night
"It´s your fault." Sophie stood in front of me, with blood all over her shirt and face. "You should have died."
"Sophie I´m sorry, please forgive me, please." She didn´t listen to my begging, she just turned around and started to walk away from me, I tried to run after her, but my Legs wouldn´t move.
"Sophie, no. Sophie please. Sophie I love you, please don´t leave me."
"I hate you." I could hear Sophie´s voice from all directions. "I hate you, I hate you, I hate…"
"Sophia, Sophia wake up, it´s ok. It´s just a dream. " With a scream, I sat up in my bed. Tee sat next to me, and the lights were turned on. Soon, we could both hear the thunder of running footsteps running down the hallway. The door to our room, opened, and Mike came in, with the whole care home after him.
"What happened?" he asked.
"She started screaming." Tee began. "She shouted Sophie, Sophie, don´t leave me, over and over again."
"Who´s Sophie? I could hear Stan´s voice, or was it Joe´s?"
"Kids," Mike turned around. "Bed now." The others started turning around, and soon we could hear slamming with doors.
"Sophia, you´re coming with me downstairs."
"But I´m fine. I just wanna go back to sleep."
"Ok, in the morning then." Mike turned around and turned off the lights, Tee walked back to her bed, and then the door closed. I laid back in my bed, with my face towards the wall. I was shaking, but I didn´t cry. And it took me a long while to fall asleep again. And when I did it, it was a night full of nightmares of men with guns, and gunshots that came from nowhere.
"Who´s Sophie?" Stan asked, when we came downstairs for breakfast in the morning.
"No one." I mumbled.
"And you scream her name in your dreams?" Joe asked. "I don´t think that´s no one."
"I don´t wanna talk about it, Johnny can you pass me the cereal?" I changed subject and started eating, before someone had the chance to ask anymore. Afterwards, I went straight up to my room. I dressed in the pair of jeans, and the same grey cardigan, I had used yesterday, and then I went to the bathroom. When I came downstairs again, Gina had arrived.
"Hi babes," she began. "Had a good night´s sleep yeah?" I shrugged and sat down in the sofa under the stairs.
"Good, Sophia." Mike came around the corner. "Can you come with me to the office please?" I looked up at him.
"Do I have a choice?"
"Not really," he smiled. And I followed him to the office.
"Sophia…" he began. "What happened tonight made me a bit concerned. And Tee told me that you slept very badly after we had gotten back to sleep. She told me, that she woke up several times, by the sound of you saying the name "Sophie" in your sleep."
"Where do you wanna come?" I asked.
"Look. I can´t force you to say anything, but the fact remains, if you don´t tell us what´s going on. We can´t help you."
"Do you wanna know who Sophie is?" I asked. The door to the office opened, and Gina came in.
" If you wanna tell us." Mike said.
"Sophie´s my sister. " Mike got that, worried- adult look on his face, but I didn´t care about it.
"Can I go now?"
"Are you going to tell us something else about yourself?"
"No, I´m not telling you anything else. And you´re not telling anyone else about me having a sister." I stood up and started walking towards the door.
"Of course I won´t. By the way." Mike began and I turned around. "Your sister… Sophie, is she back in Gota?"
"No," I answered. "She´s not." Before Mike had the chance to ask anything else, I walked out of the door and to the living room.