Careless Snow [Book 1]

Chapter 1. - Nightmare

I wake up screaming. I had the same nightmare, I used to have before I found my price Charming. With him by my side, I didn't have to face this nightmare anymore. But now the nightmare was back for some strange reason. As I open my eyes, all I can see is dark. I have woken up into never ending darkness and that's totally not helping me to forget that bad dream. I touch the pillow beside me to find out that Charming is not sleeping next to me. I decide to leave the warm bed and let my feet touch the ground. I ignore that unpleasant feeling of the cold as I try to find window. I pull the shutter up and look through the window. The view should calm me down, but I am scared even more. I am not looking at my homeland and my beloved kingdom. Instead I'm looking at some strange place and I know only one thing for sure. I'm not home.

"I heard you scream," I hear a girls voice and I turn at her.

I have no idea who she is. I might have seen her sometimes, but it's not like I could remember her name. She is pretty though. She has nice blond hair tied into a ponytail. Her eyes are blue and she looks at me like she was little nervous. I smile at her and lean against the wall near the window. I suddenly feel like a hit myself into a head. Something is terribly wrong. First I wake up into strange room and Charming is nowhere to be found and then I am talking to some strange girl.

"You're alright, Serena?" she asks and I know that she's worried about me. I was about to nod, but I was shocked by the name she just called my. My name is most definitely not Serena. "Serena?"

"Yeah," I lie. I am not okay. I am scared for my life. It costs me a lot of energy to just talk to her. I wanted to ask her so badly who she was, but I didn't. She apparently knew me and it would be rude, if I showed her that I don't know her. "I just have had dream, but it's gone now," I excuse myself.

"I have nightmares too," she admits and I nod. "It's totally okay to have them, but it's important to face them and defeat them."

"I already did," I respond.

"Can you go back to sleep?" she asks and I shake my head. The images of that bad dream were still in my head and I couldn't get it out. I wish Charming was around to calm me down. But he was nowhere to be found. "Maybe coffee will calm you down."

"Coffee?" I whisper. I have lived long enough and I never heard about something like coffee.

"You act like you never had it before," she laughs and I look out of window. "There's something wrong, right? Tell me, Serena. You can tell me anything, we are friends," she says nicely and I shake my head again. There's no way I could tell her the true. She would think I lost my mind.

"Actually," I whisper, "coffee would be nice."

A have taken a sit across that girl and carefully tasted that drink I never heard before. It actually tasted really nice. It had really strong taste and I liked it, but it didn't help me at all with my problem. That girl on the other hand seemed like she would try to help me.

"So what was the nightmare about?" she asks.

"About someone I used to know," I answer her question.

"Is that someone bad?"

"Really bad," I admit. "She's someone I never want to see again."

"Oh, so it's a woman," she exhales thoughtfully. "Can you give me some details? Perhaps I can help you, Serena. It's my job anyway."

"Your job?"

"Yes," she nod, "I'm the psychologist, remember?" she laughs.

"Yeah," I lie, "I was just messing with you. Of course I know."

"So... what was she like?" she continues with the questions and I feel kind of relieved. It's nice to know that I can talk to her. She is my friend, I suppose.

"Like she always has been," I answer her question and take a sip of that delicious coffee. "Mean, I suppose. I was all alone in a forest in that dream and all I could she was darkness. Every inch of my body knew that something bad was about to happen. I only heard her voice. She was calling my name and laughing."

"That sound terrifying," she says quietly.

"The worst part was that I knew I was going to die. She was about to kill me, there was no doubts about that. My beloved was nowhere around to save me. That how she wanted it anyway. Kill me without someone mourning me. I was all alone at the end anyway," I say with tears in my eyes. "No one could save me."

"It's sounds so real."

"It was real," I almost shout. "I was there! Please, believe me. This was reality, not just some silly dream."

"I think you need to rest, Serena," she touches my shoulder and I look at her with tears streaming down my face. "How could you leave our house like this? I'm sure that your patients wouldn't be happy to see you in such a mess."

"What are you talking about?" I ask. "What patients?"

"There something wrong with you today, Serena," she says with frown. "You're doctor."

"I am?" I'm in shock. How could I be doctor, when I'm so scared of blood? I guess I defeated this fear and started helping people. I did that in past anyway. "Could you give me a ride to the hospital?"

"Sure."

With that I leave the kitchen and that nice woman alone. I rush into the bedroom I have woken up recently and open the wardrobe. This person I am now has some really nice clothes. It's not like what I am used to wear. Non long dresses, only short ones. I dress myself into nice white top and pair of black jeans. I pull my hair into high ponytail and choose to wear pair of heels.

"You look just like... Snow White," I hear that girl again and I smile at her.

You have no idea, dear. If she only known who I really am. If I could just tell her the truth without her thinking I'm crazy. I could try that, but that's risk I'm not willing to take. So I just take that as compliment and thank her.

"Thanks, um-" I almost revealed that I don't know her name. I couldn't take cover for that, because she notices that I'm little nervous.

"Delilah," she laughs, "like you didn't know already."

"I'm just really tired," I excuse myself.

"Right," she smiles at me, "and now let's go, or we both are going to be late for work."

[A:N] So here's first chapter. As I said in my previous chapter, I'm not a native speaker. So mistakes are possible and I'm sorry, if you find some. I honestly hope that like this so far. I love to write this. You have no idea how freaking excited I am.