My Guardian Love

Chapter XVIII

The next morning, I decided to see my parents. It had been a while and I can't remember why I stopped seeing them in the first place. I ran downstairs to grab my shoes when Felix called me from the kitchen. "Nina! Can you come here?" I rushed over to him.
"What is it?" I leaned over the counter only to see him holding a coat.
"Is this yours?" It was a mans coat.
"Isn't it not yours? It's not even my size. That's huge."
"That's weird. It's definitely not mine." He put it on the coat rack. "Might be dads. I'll hold onto it."
We rushed to the door and got into the car.

Upon arrival, my dad hugged me as I got out of the car. "Where have you been?"
"With Felix. I'm sorry, I don't remember why I stopped coming around." I hugged him tightly even though something told me not to.
"I'm sure you had your reasons, whatever they may be." He let go and showed me inside. My mom was waiting for me with my favorite dishes.
"I'm so excited to see you!" She hugged me.
"I apologize for not coming around. I've been very confused lately." She stroked my head.
"You're sick, I understand. Let's eat."

We sat down and talked for hours. Something deep in me wanted to leave. I was so angry with them, but I don't understand why. They did nothing to me. I still felt my face get red with every word they said.
"Are you okay?" My dad piped up.
"I'm fine. Can I step outside? I think I'm getting hot or something." I put my hands on my cheeks to feel how flushed they were.
"Of course." My mom got up from her seat and helped me out the door.
My head had been fuzzy since I collapsed yesterday. I have all these feelings for someone I don't even know. There was so much love and sadness in my heart, but why? I had been sick and there's been no one else but my family around. These feelings were resurfacing for someone I desperately wanted to find. I felt like I should be looking, but for what?

When I went back inside, my parents kept checking on me. "Everything okay?"
"I think so. My head still hurts." They rubbed my back and kissed my head.
"Let's sit down. Why don't you stay here tonight? We never see you anymore." I wasn't fond of the idea for some odd reason, but I stayed.
Later that night, I kept having these awful dreams about a man I loved so dearly, disappearing. I can never see the man's face, but I know I loved him. I wake up in tears, violently shaking. It was a sleepless night. I had never loved anyone so who could this man be?

The next morning, I was exhausted. Extreme pain coursed my body, like I had been hit by a truck. I was dizzy and nauseous. Something was wrong, very wrong. I collapsed in the kitchen. I heard running from the other room. My mom had came to check on me. "Oh my god! Nina!" She grabbed me pulling me onto her lap as my eyes rolled to the back of my head. She screamed my name, but it faded with every second that I laid there. Until I completely blacked out.
When I opened my eyes, I felt perfectly fine. I was in the middle of nowhere, there were flowers everywhere and butterflies that circled them.
I saw a man in the distance, I began running. He had his back turned towards me. "Excuse me. I think I'm lost. Can you help me?" He turned around and our eyes met. My head started to spin, the pain took over.
"What are you doing here?" It was the guy I met in the hospital. "You're not supposed to be here."
"I'm not sure why I'm here." He stood up and leaned into me. My breath hitched. He had a cold, dark glare.
"What do you have with me?" He examined me.
"What are you talking about?"
"There's no way you're human. Humans can't come here on their own." I was even more confused and distraught.
"I don't understand what you're talking about." He turned around and walked away.
"You need to leave." I chased after him until he completely faded.

I woke up in the hospital bed in a cold sweat. Could it have been a dream? It felt way too real. I looked around to find a clock, but I wasn't in my original room. There were no clocks in here and my phone was nowhere to be found.
I ran outside taking my monitor with me when I saw Chan at the end of the hallway. I ran up to him. He turned around before I could speak. "What do you want?" He had that same cold glare from before.
"I saw you in my dream. Why am I seeing you?"
"I don't know what you're talking about." He walked away but I grabbed his wrists.
"Yes you do! I saw you in that garden. You told me I needed to leave and that humans can't enter on their own." He rolled his eyes.
"I have no idea what you're talking about. It was just a dream, nothing more." He stepped away. "Maybe you should stop reading those fantasy books of yours." He walked away.

Maybe it was a dream, but it was driving me crazy. All night my dreams have been about this mysterious man and now him? There's got to be something between me and him. Something that goes deeper than just this. How could I forget someone that I love endlessly?