The Truth of Oliver Fray

Pinch Me

Dana woke up from her dream screaming. Dana shot of and felt her head. She had sweat dripping down her forehead to her chin. She looked down at her sweaty palms. She clenched her fists as she tried to slow down her breathing. She closed her eyes as her body started to relax. She slowly opened her eyes once she realized she was alone in a cabin. She looked around at cabin confused. How did she end up here? Where was she? Her mind felt like a ball of yarn that was tangled in so many ways. Each solution that she had come up with always had a twist or turn that didn't make sense. Her mind turned towards her dream that she had. The dream seemed so real and it felt like it really did happen. It was hard for Dana to take it as a dream. Everything in the dream seemed so real. The feeling, the pain, was all there. Dana remembered the woman in her dream. Was she real? Or was she just made up? The woman acted as if she really knew all of the secrets that Dana wanted. She had all of the answers that Dana wanted. Dana felt mad at herself for not getting answers out of the woman, but she knew that even if she pushed the woman harder for answers, that she wasn't going to get more answers than what she got out of her. Dana remembered how the woman had transferred into a monster. That couldn't be real, could it? It had to be her imagination. Something like that couldn't have actually happened, could it? Impossible, it was impossible.

Dana put her head in her hands trying to get all of her thoughts straight and on track. At the moment nothing seemed to make sense to Dana. Her mind seemed to be running forward forgetting to tell the rest of her body where it's going. Dana sighed and laid her head back, looking up at the ceiling. She then remembered that this place was familiar. She looked around at the scenery. Was this the place of - Before Dana could finish her thought she heard a door open. Dana quickly jumped off the couch that she had been laying on. She quickly looked around for a place to hide. She heard the footsteps getting closer and closer. She quickly dove behind the couch hoping to not be seen. She heard the footsteps nearing the couch. Dana held her breath. She felt the couch move and she ducked her head down.

"Hey Dana. Glad you woke up."

Dana tensed at the words. They sounded so familiar. It was almost like- before Dana could finish her thought. A boy around her age popped up from the couch and looked down at Dana. Dana immediately recognized the boy that was smiling down at her.

"William!" Dana's eyes got wide as she looked at the boy.

William just kept smiling at her. Dana watched him closely. He had never smiled like that before at her.

Dana got up off the floor and looked around at her surrounding brings, sure enough it was William's family room that she had woken up in. Dana put her head down in her hands, trying to straighten out her thoughts. She didn't know what was real and what was just a dream.

Dana looked up at William, "Pinch me."

"What?" William asked confused.

"I said pinch me." Dana replied.

"Why?"

"Just pinch me." Dana such out her arm.

"No."

"Why not?"

"I'm not going to pinch you."

"Fine, I'll do it myself." At that Dana brought her hand up to her arm and pinched herself. Dana expected her to wake up on the ground of the forest or some where but here. Dana blinked, hoping that it was just a dream. Dana tried blinking multiple times trying to wake up from the dream that she was determined to be in.

William looked at her concerned. He had his eyebrows furrowed as he looked down at her. William brought his hand up to her for head to check if she had a fever, she seemed to be acting really weird.