From Dreams to Nightmares

Chapter 12

Kaly's perspective

   How could I have explained to Octavia that I only knew because she ended up invading my life and in the realms of dreams where she appears again and again. I am afraid that her spell is being cast on me and she is ensnaring me. Although with a heavy heart I began to see the uniqueness of her character. I can understand why girls throw themselves at her feet. She is indeed a being full of the unknown. The mystery drawing us towards the light at the end of the tunnel.

I watch Lily use up her energy running around the garden like a little knight looking for new kingdoms to conquer and new lands to call home. It is surprising how Octavia managed to shape the imagination towards limitless barriers. She even started making friends in kindergarten about which she constantly tells me, fascinated by everything she's lost so far.

"Kaly, don't people who like each other kiss?"
She asked and my face dropped at her question. Why would she ask me something like this? She is 5... I hastily responded to her. "Yes, why?" She looked into my eyes with her big brown that reminds me of another chocolate pair. "So when are you going to kiss Octavia?" She said and my brain stopped working. "What? Why would I kiss her? Why do you think I like her?"

"I like the way she looks at you. Exactly how I look at the motorcycle you don't want to buy me. I always look at it hoping you will buy it for me. Octavia is cool always teaching me new things and I never get bored when she's here, she always asks about you anyway."

I can't lie and say that her answer didn't surprise me when she actually did. She never said anything like that. She didn't even notice Seb. I don't understand where all this curiosity about this girl comes from.

I am currently walking down the hallway to the exit of the school building. As I open the door the pouring rain hits me. I quickly turn around and got back into the building. It would have been amazing if I hadn't walked today here and took the car but how could I know it was going to rain.

I take out my phone with the intention to order a car to take me home when I see I have no battery left. I look around lost in space thinking. I am poorly dressed so I can't walk and I don't even have an umbrella with me either. I took a step watching through the door window to see that the rain became a storm now. I am lost now! How could I go home? I can't just stay here... Now I am hungry to. I am going to lose my mind!

I feel a hand on my shoulder and an intoxicating scent that I can recognise anywhere. I turn and looked up at the tall girl.

" I should have come to you after school to babysit Lily but your street has been blocked because of the storm." She said with her calm deep voice. "What?" This can't happen, I need to go home, I hate storms, it creeps me out. I can't even sleep when it rains. "How do you plan on going home?" She asked looking down at me. I hate when she does this... "I have no idea..." How could I go home, there is only once street that leads to my hause and if it's blocked I can't even go home. "Come by my place. I mean, stay at my place until the storm ends and then I am going to take you home. I live near by and I have the car parked parked next to the exit... If you want of course!"

Now I was weighing my options, I could sit here and lose my mind but keep my pride and hubris or I could go with her. She was offering me shelter, it was still a gesture I respect. But I don't want to be a burden to her. Lily's question replayed in my head and I realize that I don't want to steer her wrong either. I don't want to give her the impression that she has a chance with me or that she can have me. However, even though she is a selfless person, the intensity of the tension between us scares me.

"Look, I just want to help you, I thought we were on the way to understanding each other at least a little bit, don't ruin what we built by turning your back on me..." Anyway I didn't want to admit she was right and her words made me I feel like a horrible person. What other get she could I have? I can't stay here, who knows how long the rain will last...

"Fine, I'm going with you, but I don't want anyone to know this. That's all I ask for!" I watch as she takes a sweatshirt out of her backpack and hands it to me. "Put it on so you don't catch a cold." Why is this girl so caring? It drives me crazy that I can't find any flaw with it.

I put on her hoodie, enveloping myself in the smell of her perfume that filled my nostrils. She took my backpack and put it on her other shoulder and I followed her on the way to her car. The cold wind and rain gave me chills, the breeze giving me goosebumps. Once in the car Octavia turns on the AC and waves of heat fill the whole environment. She gives me a fleeting glance and smiles.

The way to her house I can't say that it was awkward or unpleasant, even the silence between us was a comfortable one. The whole way was like a game, I often watched her and she did the same. When our eyes crossed I felt like I was losing and she was smiling from ear to ear.

The house was small in my opinion but it was a real house. A welcoming house with warm colors and large windows that made you feel comfortable. They made you feel at home not like in my concrete palace surrounded by so many people who make me feel so alone.

Entering the house we are greeted by a thin female voice. She stops in the doorway looking at me for a long time, studying me as if she didn't know me, although she certainly did. Until she realized what she was doing and shook her head. "My God, why didn't you tell me that you were introducing me to your girlfriend, I could have prepared something for you too, I didn't even clean the house." he said and my face turned red like a tomato. "Auntie, she is not my girlfriend in the first place, in the second place don't worry, you go and rest. You look tired.

"You're right, my sweet girl, it would be nice if I went to sleep a little, this weather makes me want to rest. Make yourselves something to eat, I did the shopping today." The woman says and leaves but not before she winks at me and takes me in her arms whispering in my ear in a moment of Octavia's inattention "Maybe it looks cold but it's hotter than the sun itself..." and leaves leaving me to I'm trying to understand what he means by that...

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