Falling

Chapter 1

A/N

Heya! Please understand that the chapters are going to be really short, perhaps at times even just one paragraph. The whole story itself is really short. I'm guessing about 12-14 chapters unless I decide to increase the amount. 

 I will update on either this Saturday if I get 50 reads, otherwise you can expect an update every week. 

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For 18 years I've been having that same dream each night. I'd be falling. Falling into pure nothingness, a suffocating darkness. I don't know how long I'd fall. But then eventually, It would end. After falling for what seemed like an eternity, I'd hit a sharp, jagged rock. I land exactly on it, the sharp point of the rock piercing the exact area where my heart is. And then I'd wake up, screaming, sweating, gasping for air. I just know this. Every single day I go to sleep at exactly 11:00pm. And I'd wake after having the dream at exactly 11:01pm.

I try. I try just so hard not to sleep, just so I can evade having this dream. This terrible dream that scares me so much. It scares me more than dying.

 Falling.

No matter how hard I try to stay awake, I always fall asleep. I don't know how. I remember, 10:59pm I was reading this book. Not even feeling a little bit tired or sleepy, because I'd drunk some coffee just a little while ago. My eyes were wide open. I was wide awake. And then 11:00. And I was sleeping like I'd never slept before. Dreaming the same dream I'd tried to hide from. And then I wake up exactly a minute later, when it seems like millennia have passed.

And when I wake up, I see her standing there. Every single night. Always standing there, still as a statue. She walks over to me, talking slow deliberate steps. Her bare feet not even making a single sound on the floor. The corners of her lips curling into that same insane smile.

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