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Save Me

Chapter One - Nightmares

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH,” I wake up screaming and catching for breath. Bad dream. I have been having nightmares for the past few weeks. I don’t know how to stop it. I am so scared. Someone knocks on the door. Adam. He probably heard me.

“Hey, what was that?” he asks. He looks so worried. He turns on the light and walks to me. He sits on my bed and looks at me. “Nightmare again?”

“Adam, I’m so scared. This time he tried to kill me. I couldn’t escape. He got me trapped in like, a dark room. Then, when I found a way to get out of it, he found me. He held out a gun and pointed it at me. Then, I woke up,” I start, tears already rolling down my face. I put my face on palm and cry more. Adam hugs me so tight trying to make me calm.

“Shh, honey. It’s just a nightmare, okay? He wouldn’t get close to you anymore,” he says. I try my best to believe in it that he wouldn’t get that close to me but he’s free. No one knows where he is now. He’s probably hiding somewhere. Somewhere no one knows but he might be just out there watching out for me.

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Last week, I had my first nightmare. I was sitting on the couch when I heard a knock on the front door. It was Matt. He was holding a bottle of beer and a knife. I was startled when I saw the knife. He was looking at me like he was about to kill me. But he dropped the knife on the floor, and then his looked suddenly changed. He looked at me pleading. “Please, come back to me Christina. I will make you my queen. I will do everything for you! Just please, leave Adam and come back to me!”

“Matt, I can’t do it. I love Adam! He’s different. He’s not like you. He lets me be…..me, you get what I mean? I, I just can’t afford leaving him,” I said. The moment I spoke those words, his scary looked came back. He picked up the knife and pointed it at me.

“You better hide your man now, or else, you wouldn’t see him anymore,” he threatened then walked off. I woke up sweat all over my face. I looked for my phone to call Adam but then I realized it was just a dream. But I called him anyway to make sure he was okay.

The next day after my first nightmare, I told Adam to just stay in my place for a while. He did and on his first night, I let him slept on the guest room. The next day, we slept together and that was when my second nightmare occurred.

It was midnight. I just came home from work. Max was already sleeping. I kissed him on his cheeks and I went to my bedroom. I slipped off my dress and got in the shower. I stepped on the bath tub and let myself relaxed on the cold water with bath soap, vanilla flavor my favorite, and let it linger on my skin. When I was finished, I stepped out of the shower and put on my bathrobe. As I combed my hair, I thought I heard a movement outside my window. I didn’t pay attention to it at first but then I heard like something dropped outside. I looked outside my window, nothing. Then I went out my room and looked for what was it. When I didn’t find it, I started walking back to my room. Then I saw a man standing on my bedroom door. He was wearing a black mask and holding a knife. I screamed and as I screamed I ran to my son’s room and locked it and put a chair against it. Max heard my scream and he started asking what’s wrong. Before I could tell him, someone was now trying to get in. He was knocking so hard and for a second, I thought he would be able to break the door. And then it stopped. Max was now crying at my side. I tried to hush him. I was looking on the window and there I saw the man. He broke the window and I grabbed Max but it was too late. He was so strong and he took Max from me, “NOOOOO!” I was screaming out loud. Screaming for help. Screaming till I woke up.

Adam was waking me up because he heard me screamed. He didn’t know about my first nightmare so I told him about it and that one. He did his best to convince me everything was alright. And so I thought. It’s been a week and I hadn’t had a nightmare since then. Until now……….

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“Adam, we’re not safe here anymore,” I tell him. I look straight in his eyes and part of me feels that he’s afraid too.

“I know, I know. No one knows where the hell Matt is now. But where will we go?” he asks me. I try to think of somewhere that’s safe. We can’t be safe here in LA anymore. I think and think. I know what I’m having are just nightmares but the police haven’t found Matt yet. As long as he’s free out there, Adam and I and Max are not safe.

“We can move to North Carolina,” I suggest. “I have a friend out there. I’ll call her tomorrow. Matt will not find us there.”

“Sure,” finally he agrees to me to finally go somewhere. “But, if Matt is that desperate to get you, he will do everything. You know he can track us down, right?”

Yes, I know, I say to myself. But I don’t have any other option. We can change our identities, can’t we? But how? It isn’t that easy to do that and it’ll take a long time. But then I realize we’re not going to another country anyway, in fact, we can just drive. “We don’t have to fly; we can take the bus, or you’ll drive.”

“No, driving is not an option. He could track that so good idea, we’ll take the bus,” he says. I nod at him and kiss him on the lips. I let him sleep on my side. He drifts off to sleep and I just watch him for a moment. And I let myself lost in my thoughts. This is the man I dreamed of. I will not let anything happen to you, Adam and to Max. You are all I have. I don’t think I can ever forgive myself if something bad happened to anyone of you. I love you both so much. I will not let Matt get close to you even if it costs my life. MATT. I try my best to get him off my head and the things he did to me. The things that made me want to leave him, that made me despise him. 

To be continued….