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What Was Hope Doing In Your Dream?
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I yawned and laid my head on MG shoulder , Dr. Saltzman called an emergency meeting in the middle of the night. I swear it seems impossible to get a good night sleep around here. "Yesterday, I came into possession of another artifact. It's was my hope to find a method of containment before signaled another monster, but given the emergency meeting I've just called I'm sure you can guess how well that went." Ric said. "Do you see Hope anywhere?" I hear Landon ask Rafael.
I look around wondering where she was as well. "Bus rest assured we are every precaution. Sheriff Donovan has been kind enough to open the doors of the Lockwood to us, so Mr.Williams and Ms. Tig are now in the process of evacuating our students from the lower grades." Alaric says. "Why don't we just evacuate the damn artifact?" Kaleb asked. "We are much more well-equipped than the world at large to handle the arrival of a monster.
Once we know what we're dealing with and the problem is contained, then we can reassess what to do with the artifact. If any of you would like to evacuate, please talk to Dorian or Emma. However, exam week will continue as scheduled, wherever you are." He said and I groaned with the rest of the room. "I know. I'm sorry. I can't exactly call the state accreditation board and tell them that we're canceling the exams because of monsters. We'll get through this, I promise. Try and get some rest. Good night." Alaric says and I yawned and stood up.
"Hey, Amara." Landon says stopping me by jumping in front of me like a freak. "What do you want , Kirby?" I asked crossing my arms. "Have you seen Hope?" He asked and I shake my head. "Nope, she's probably in bed. Most likely Dr. Slatzman already told her all this before he even woke us up." I said and he sighed and nods. "Thanks." He says. "Whatever." I said and push passed him, I'm so freaking tried. I walked down the hall and back to my room, when I closed the door behind me I finally see a nervous Hope sitting on my bed.
"Hope? What are you doing here? " I asked walking over to my bed and she shrugged. "Landon was just asking about you." I said. "Oh, I'll talk to him later. I just wanted to talk to you...but clearly you're tired and I have been wasting your time a lot lately...so I should just go." Hope rambled on and stood up and started walking to the door but I grabbed her hand before she walked passed me.
"Hope, calm down. Would I prefer you wake me up at ten o'clock in the morning? Yes but I would help you or listen to you anytime you asked, you're not wasting my time. Plus I like spending time with you, we haven't hung out much since your parents.." I said and she smiled sadly and looked down at our hands. "Sorry.... I've missed you too." She said and smiled. "Okay so what do you want to tell me?" I said and we both got in my bed and sat under the covers.
"It's about what happened when we went to find Landon." She said. "Did you remember something?" I asked and she nodded. "I remember all of it." She said and my eyes widen. "Since when?" I asked. "Since we woke up." She said and I hit her shoulder. "Why didn't you say anything? Does Ric know?" I asked and she cringed which made me hit her again. "Of course, he does! I had to tell him, I couldn't lie to him...and I can't lie to you." She said and I felt my cheek warm up. "What about Landon?" I asked and she sighed and lean her head back on the wall. " I haven't told him." She said. "Are you?" I asked. "I don't know."She said.
I see how keeping this secret from him was messing with her so I grabbed her hand and she looked at me. "Whatever you decide I got your back, always." I said and she smiled giving my hand a squeeze. "Thanks Amara." She said and I nod. "You can tell me the details in the morning and we can figure out what you're going to do together." I said and she nodded but she didn't get up. "Could I sleep in here tonight?" She asked and I nodded.
"Yeah, of course." I said and turned off my lamp light and we both laid down facing each other. "Good night, Amara." Hope said and I yawned. "Good night, love." I said before turning over and closing my eyes, I smiled when Hope's arm lays across my stomach. I don't move a muscle, I just enjoy the moment in her arms before falling asleep.
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At seven o'clock this morning Alaric, Hope and I were in the office with Rafael. He had a crazy dream and he was telling us about it, this will be the second crazy story I heard this morning, first when Hope told me everything that happened the other day and now this. "This happened to you in a nightmare?" Ric asked and I looked at the bruise left on Rafael arm. "Are you sure?" I asked and he nodded. "Look, I know that it sounds crazy, but I was studying and then I fell asleep, and then I just started dreaming about.." He said.
"About what?" I asked and Rafael looked at me and gulped. I rubbed his arm so he knew that it was okay but that seemed to make his heart beat faster."Um..one of my old, uh, foster dads. He was in the library, and he had this old belt that he used to use on me." He said. "Do you remember anything else?" Hope asked. "Yeah, there was, there was this woman there, too. She's was wearing an old black dress and- and a veil. And she told me , "you know what I want." But .." he said a shrugged and I sighed and turned to Hope. "The urn." Hope said and I nodded. "Sounds like our next monster showed up." Ric said. "Noo, what gave you that idea?" I asked sarcastically and Ric and Hope roll their eyes
"You know, every culture on earth has a legends about creatures that only appear in dreams. They're in our dreams. But a woman in a black dress and a veil is pretty specific." He said and walked over to his self and grabbed some book. "So, does that mean that she can, like, control what we see in our dreams? That she can put stuff in our heads, right?" Rafael asked. "It's possible." Ric said and Raf nodded. Dr. Saltzman hands him the book and I look over to see what he was showing Raf. "Does that look familiar?" He asked and Raf nods again.
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After talking to Rafael, Dr. Saltzman called another meeting to tell the students what's going on. "Our lastest monster is a Night Hag, a malevolent spirit trapped on the astral plane that can only interact with us through dreams. In this case, nightmares." Alaric said. "So, like Freddy Krueger?" MG asked. "Well, in the sense that what happens to you in your dreams seems to also happen to you in real life, yes. But the good news is we're safe, so long as we stay awake." He said and I look over at a nervous Hope before grabbing her hand for a little comfort and she didn't seem to mind, she smiles and squeezing my hand.
"I've lined up more evacuation shuttles. They should be running all afternoon, so please, for those who don't want to stay and fight, take advantage of them. All right, that all." He said and everyone stands up. "Hey, Amara. Maybe you should go-" Hope says but I cut her off. "I'm not going anywhere, Hope. This is my home and I'm staying to fight for it. Plus there is no way I'm leaving you." I said and she rolled her eyes playfully. "I had to try." She said and I smiled. "I'll see you later." I said and walked away.
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It was four in the afternoon now and I was in sitting in class and Mg was about to make his presentation. "Dracula, as a novel, has only retained relevance in modern times because of our patriarchal culture's obsession with the idea of privileged, powerful man who does absolutely what he wants with absolute impunity. Meaning we've spent weeks in this class analyzing the literary value of a character who basically abuses consent in every way.." MG says and when he nervously looks at me I give him two thumbs up and a big smile while Kaleb sighed and shook his head.
"Don't be a jerk." I said and Kaleb rolled his eyes playfully before we here Landon gasp , it made the whole class look at him. Landon looked around the room and he seemed scared. "Landon are you alright?" I asked and he doesn't answer me he just looked at his hand and he was bleeding. "I don't know." He said and I took a deep breath to control myself before I got up and walked to him. "It was the Hang, wasn't it?" I asked and he nodded. "Lets go to Dr. Saltzman." I said and he nodded before standing up and following me out of class.
