Promise

The Nightmare

"....Guess I'm back in this room, huh?" I said out loud in this dark room that I haven't seen since that day.
          "Who are you?" I hear a small girl and like a doll, she had a perfect smile like a porcelain doll. She was dressed in a pink poofy princess dress with a bow around her waist. Her long pale blue hair with white highlights from the tips of her hair flows down her caramel shoulders. She looks at me curiously tilting 
       "I'm you, from the future, Iris," I tell her sweetly as I kneel to look at her more closely. I can't believe I've grown so much over the years. 
       "How are you, me? Mommy wouldn't let me cut my hair" she started to say slowly frowning as she finished her sentence. "because she said that if I cut it....she'll punish me," she said as she looked down at her white flats. I...I forgot what the punishment was again. I remember how many times I cried because of her so-called 'punishment'.
                "Don't worry, I won't let her hurt us anymore."
                 "Y-You promise?" she said as I wiped her tears. I smile and hug her tightly.
                   "I promise," I say. After all, we have a savior with us.
      "I want you to be your light, baby~. You should be your light~." I hear a whiny yet gentle voice singing getting closer to us. I can't help but smile as I see Daehyun's boxy smile as he comes closer. He holds me by my waist as our lips entwine with each other. And as my younger self gives us a disgusted face.  
      "You shouldn't trust other people's words over mine, sweet daughter of mine. You know the rules darling; no boys around my pure and innocent angel." I heard a voice that haunted my nightmares. A voice that ruined my childhood.
       "L-Leave him alone! D-D-DON'T t-touch him!", I warn her yet I'm still trembling and stuttering my words. I push my younger self behind me. I won't let my mother touch us again.
     "Darling, you dare to yell at the person who has fed your pathetic, worthless, and disgusting being? Did you forget your place, monster?" she said as a chain wrapped around my wrists and neck. As always, she treats me like a wild animal. Like a dog on a leash. I forgot...I'm a "monster" to her.
        "Leave her alone!" I hear him say as he tries to unchain me. His baby blue eyes start to glow with fury. His angel wings start to spread and wrap around my younger self and me. 
     "I...I c-can't see you! P-PLEASE HELP ME!" she said as she tried to rub her eyes as she felt a blindfold around her eyes. A blindfold that kept on stinging like bee stings. 
     "Daehyun i-is gonna keep you safe, okay?" I said as I started to slowly see blurry just like her. 
      "O-okay.." she said following my orders as I saw her running away with Daehyun holding her small fragile hand. 
I can start to feel the chains getting tighter and tighter slowly suffocating me. I start to hear whispering around me. I can't see and all I'm doing is shaking in fear. I can't breathe...anxiety is taking control of me. My brain tells me to move but my body disobeys just like that...day.

"Iris! Iris! Unblind yourself. Unblind yourself!" he keeps repeating but I can't see him. I want to see him. I need him with me...I can't control my fear. I let the small sobs let go of my mouth. Please....don't leave me here in this hell again. 
       "I-I c-can't! D-Daehyun...please help me...I-I'm scared. I-I can't see you." I start to whimper as I try to get up and walk around touching the walls from this glass house trying to find him. I finally touched something. Is it him? I'm scared...please help me.
        "I'm here Iris. I'm here, but you have to unbind yourself. Please, I'm begging you to stop pushing everything away. Please stop hiding under that so-called "safety blanket". Because all you're doing is destroying the faith of our garden growing in the night under the moonlight's shining light. Please, I'm begging you." he says as he tries to comfort the fragile glass in which I've become. 
          "I-I do-don't know how, Daehyun. Please don't leave me. Please don't let her hurt me anymore. I-I hate being a monster. I-I hate being....inhuman." I keep repeating as I try to control my tears, but they keep flowing away like the raindrops falling down the sky. All I can smell is his scent of sweetness and masculinity. He smelled like ginger with a hint of vanilla. He was always there when I needed him even now...
      "Sleep now, darling~! Or the monster hiding in your head will...Get.You.~!" I hear my mother singing that eerie lullaby she used to sing to me before going to bed. 
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