The Dream

Chapter 20

AARON'S POV

Those deep blue eyes and beautiful light brown hair could make me feel alive over and over again. What was such a delightful sight turned into my biggest nightmare. Having to think that I could ask this angel in front me out was beyond my dreams...

Aaron! Are you okay?!

Said the same angel of my dreams tha- whoaaaa...I was dreaming with my eyes open!

It was two million hours later..or so it felt like..and here we were still stuck in this "prison". What sort of ropes did Elizabeth use to tie us up anyway? They were so strong that I started feeling bad for this rope that wa-

AAARRROONN!!! Are you alive?! Why aren't you responding???

Said Alexis ..err..okay maybe was shouting at me in my head.Get it? In my head.

Oh boy! Guess I was finally going mad just what was I doing?

I'm sorry Alexis! I zoned out for a while. What happened anyway?

What happened? What happened? I'll tell you what happened. We were sitting here trying to figure out what happened to you. Maybe worried a little. Maybe started thinking Elizabeth did something to you somehow. Maybe-

Okay Okay! I said I'm Sorry! Forgive me! Now is not the time to yell at me and waste our time.

Not the time? Like what? Do you see any one of us doing anything productive right now? What time are you wasting?

Kids! Suck it up! Stop yelling at each other and figure out things now! Please. We have got to figure out if the guards are really helping us out here. If not, then we need to plan a way out of here. Said Melissa interrupting our little dispute.

So Aaron honey, please stop zoning out and scaring poor Alexis here...and Alexis darling...please stop arguing with Aaron here until we get out! My mom decided to say.

Just then...Steve decided that he was some sort of super hero and he tried moving and shaking around as if that was going to let the ropes loosen up. That made me wonder..where was Elizabeth anyway and what was she upto? Were the guards really going to help us? That one guard that came to me earlier seemed pretty genuine to me. My head started to hurt now. I don't remember thinking so much and worrying about things ever!

Suddenly, this thick dark creepy-looking smoke came out of nowhere. And well naturally I thought we all were doomed thinking that Elizabeth was going to suffocate us to death.
You would think that too right? How many movies haven't we all seen that in?

So,I did the most obvious thing to do! I did,honestly! I shouted out my last words that I always wanted to say before I died. Yes these were definitely the words. I made up my mind in this mess.
What were they?

"Alexis! I wished that we could date before we died. I had my eyes for you the second I saw you. And I wish we could get to know our real parents more!"

Ah, well I couldn't exactly see what her expression was and I wasn't understanding why she wasn't responding in our last few seconds of life! I guess the only people who had last wishes other than me were Steve and Gary. Seriously what was wrong with the women in the room?

I heard Steve say, "Amanda and Steve and Vicki,I love you all for eternity!!!"
If you guys are wondering, Vicki aka Victoria was my little sister. She wasn't adopted like me but these guys never saw me as a stranger in their family and I was privileged to have this family!

Moving onto Gary, " Anna, I may have kept secrets from you but I will always love you!"

Okay things were becoming mushy in here and smoky too. From what I made out of Gary, he wasn't a very expressive person. So this just made things awkward.

Here was the catch though, I didn't feel like I was suffocating. Was this even real smoke? Or was I already dead and my soul wasn't feeling suffocated? What was going on?
Just then I felt a pair of hands behind me untying my rope.
So that meant I wasn't dead yet but who was that?

ALEXIS' POV

Smoke? Why, yes. It put red signs in my brain. What was Elizabeth trying to do now? But that was when I could feel that our ropes were being freed by, err well, no one honestly. It was like some sort of control was used to remove them.

I could hear Aaron shouting from the other side of the smoke though I couldn't see anyone.

"Alexis! I wished that we could date before we died. I had my eyes for you the second I saw you. And I wish we could get to know our real parents more!"

Whoaa! Huh?
Well that got me. Why was Aaron shouting like that? Was he finally out of his mind? And "date"?
Ahem. Well I never ever really dated anyone till now and that's like this huge secret of mine. Most of the girls I knew dated and I never took that big step though I was in college now.
So coming from a guy who I found cute and maybe a tad bit more than that, was , truly different to me. I never experienced this before. I couldn't place what I was exactly feeling.

I suddenly realized I was dreaming. I felt hands and I could tell through the smoke that people were moving around which meant that my dreams would have to wait.
After Aaron I heard Steve shout followed by Gary.
It then struck me that they weren't going mad. They thought that we were going to die. I mean when would I have ever heard Gary shout such words?
I tried shouting "Aaron, Aaron .."
I guess he was too busy thinking we were going to die.
I made myself toward him struggling to get around this smoke. Mind you, the smoke that we are talking about here is not something poisonous or whatever. I guess it was a distraction for us to all get out of where if I wasn't wrong.
I quickly untied the ropes for Aaron and I realized it was safe to talk.
I silently wondered why the guys in the room weren't let free by those controls.

"Melissa? Katherine? Amanda? Anna? Vicki?Are you guys all okay?" I shouted as loud as I could.

"Yes Alexis! We are and we freed Gary and Steve too. Everyone drop to the floor. We might be able to see each other better!"
Advised Melissa.

So we all dropped to the floor but I could hear Aaron muttering
"I was so stupid. I just embarrassed myself in front of a girl. Stupid Aaron. Stupid stupid..."

He kept on going. I giggled to myself and I found his hand and said
"Hey, don't feel that way. We'll talk about this once we are out of here okay?"

He just nodded I guess and I could finally see everyone. So the big question now was, how do we get out of here when we can't even see a light or a door?
Who was helping us?
Oh dear lord, Please let the guards be helping us and not let it be some stupid trick of Elizabeth's, I silently prayed.

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