It had been a week since the incident with the house had occured. I think my emotional mind had been trying to convice myself that it was just a bad dream, and my physical part of my brain was saying it was real.
"Tyler, pass the salt." I said. Tyler and I were sitting at the breakfast nook, on an early Saturday morning. Tyler pushed it down the table, but didn't look up from his phone. He had been texting some body a lot lately and i was convinced it was that Madi girl. I sprinkled the salt onto my omlet and dug in. Just then Dylan came downstairs, and into the kitchen whistling. His hair was damp as he had just taken a shower. He came over, and sat down next to me. "Good morning guys!" He said cheerfully.
"Whats up with you? Why are you so happy this morning?" I asked eyeing him suspicously.
"Well for starters, i am sitting next to my beautfiul wife." He said and came in a gave me a big kiss. I kissed back but unconvinced that, that was the reason he was so happy.
"Eww." Tyler interuppted "You two have a whole house to do that in, and you choose infront of me." He put down his phone and grabbed the cereal to pour into his bowl.
Dylan laughed. "Is someone just jealous that i didn't mention that i was sitting across from my awesome brother in law?" Dylan teased.
Tyler stifled a laugh "Please, what are you going to give me a smooch too?" "No. But i was thinking that we could maybe... go to the lakers game today?!" Dylan announced, he pulled out two tickets for the Lakers basketball game from his shirt pocket. "We have front frow seats! Right behind the players!!"
Tyler jumped up "Oh my god!! Are you serious??!! Awesome!!"
So thats why Dylan was so cheerful.
"Yup! And they play tonight. At 8:00! i figured Em would want to have some alone time?!" Dylan exclaimed.
I was so excited that they could finally get to go and bond together, seeing that they never did have a very good relationship. But i was also upset that Dylan had used up alot of our paychecks for that, and I hadn't even found work yet!
"Dylan, I'm happy for you two its just well... where did you get that money from?" i asked sternly.
" I knew you would ask that! i was well prepared, i saved up all of my extra pay work, you know from the hours i worked in the office that were extra? I used all of that money to buy them!" Dylan said handing Tyler the tickets.
"So you didn't use any of our money from the bank? Because i saw that deposit check on the counter yesterday... thought you had used that money." i said throwing a glance at the counter.
"Oh, don't worry that deposit check was used for my office, it wasnt anything important." He said. "Ok Dylan, you two can go."
****
It was 7:00 in the evening when i snapped awake from my nap. Sweat was running down my face. I had another nightmare again. It was about that same girl with the black hair. She looked remotly familiar from the figure that i had seen in the basement a while ago. But these nightmares became so frequent that i dismissed the thought of them being real.
I hoped.
"Ok, we are leaving now." Dylan came out of our bathroom. I rolled over in the bed and faced him. He saw me, realized I had been sleeping "Oh sorry babe. Didn't know you had been sleeping." He came over and sat down next to me. I leaned up against the bed board, "Its ok, I just woke up anyway."
"Ok good. Hey why did you nap so late in the evening?" He asked.
I shrugged my shoulders, truth be told I hadn't been getting much sleep at night with the nightmares keeping me up all night, so after a day a long saturday of shopping it was nice to take a nap.
"I was tired I guess." I said. "Ok, well like I said we are leaving in a minute. Hopefully traffic isn't too bad getting down to the Lakers game, but who knows. Hopefully we won't be late." Dylan said.
"Yes, and please be careful Dylan. And call when the game is over." I said stressfully. I hated when my two favorite boys drove at night.
"We will", he looked into my tired eyes. "Are you sure you are alright?" He asked.
i nodded. "Ok baby, well better be heading off now." He kissed my forehead and before i could stop myself i threw myself at him and kissed his lips. I was worried for a strange reason and kissing him made me feel better. We didn't let go for at while until Dylan slowly pulled apart. "Are you sure-"? I kissed him again for another second. "Yes I'm fine, now be careful Dy." I said. He nodded, kissed my cheek one last time before leaving the room. I heard Tyler race down the stairs after Dylan and in another second i heard the roar of Dylans car and I was alone.
*****
I layed in bed for a long time, rethinking of all of my nightmare visions. The girl with the long black hair seemed to stick out in my memory the most and i had to try something. I ran downstairs and into the office. I grabbed a pencil and paper and began to sketch out a picture of the girl from my dreams. I felt like i knew her from somewhere. The long hair. The green eyes, the pale skin. I finished my sketch and took one good look at it.
It was Madi Black.
