Falling Into You

Chapter 10

It looked like the walls were closing in as I ran down the hallway. The green skinned red eyed people followed. As I turned the corner towards the EXIT, the lead evil guy showed up out of nowhere. I stopped abruptly. My heart sank and I tried to scream, but before I could the man grabbed my throat and I struggled. I swung my arms around trying to hit him. Then, I stopped. My name was being called. The sweet comforting sound of Jay's voice filled my ears. It was faint.

"Allie! Wake up!"

Where was he? I couldn't see him.

"Jay?" I called.

"Allie!" 

I was still stuck in my dream. I screamed his name again.

"Allison!"

I awoke to my body being shaken. My eyes shot open. "Jay?" I searched the blackness.

"Yes! I'm right here!"

I got up on my knees and turned to him.

"Horrible nightmare!" I gasped.

"I could tell! You screamed so much! I've been trying to wake you up for like 15 minutes!"

"Did I? I'm sorry!" I brushed my hair back out of my face

"Are you okay? Come here" he held out his arms

I curled into him and breathed in and out "yeah, I'm okay. Now"

"What was it about?"

"These evil guys were chasing me and then the lead evil guy was choking me" I shuddered.

"Wow! That's horrible, I'm sorry you dreamt about that" he kissed my head

"Yeah, and the weird part was..."  I trailed off. I didn't know if I wanted to tell him that the evil people resembled Dean Hearing's gang and the head guy resembled Dean.

"What was the weird part?"

"Uh, just, the place I was in resembled the school" I lied

"Oh, odd" he scoffed

"Will you tell me a story? My mom would always tell me a story when I had a nightmare"

"Sure. What do you want to hear?"

"Can you tell me your story?"

"Hmm?"

I pulled away from him and went on my own pillow. "Tell me about, your life. What got you to the point you're at. What got you involved with..." I hesitated

"The law?" he guessed

"Yeah, I- I want to know"

"It's a long story"

"I don't care"

"I don't know where to begin though"

"How about, the first time you went to Juvenile Detention?"  

"Joy-riding"

"Why did you steal a car?"

He shrugged "It was fun"

I gave him a look "Please"

He shrugged again "I really don't know what to tell you. I mean, I was walking, met up with some guys, we got talking and the next thing I knew I was behind the wheel of a BMW"

"What guys?"

"Doesn't matter, I hate them"

"It does to me"

"That's great" he said sarcastically

"Fine. Don't tell me" I turned around

He sighed "Don't do that. Come on please" he put his hand on my waist