Desired Dreams

Chapter 7

The next few days went by quicker than I wanted. Even though they were filled with lectures from Seth once again – I mean seriously, how stupid did he think I was? Then again I would much rather stay and listen to him drone on than start this ridiculous school plan that he had. One more sleep and then I would be there, surrounded by young kids that had no idea what existed in the real world. If they did they would probably never sleep again.

The books that Seth had given me hadn't been touched since I threw them into the back of the wardrobe in my room. Of course I wanted to find out who I was before I came to be here and in the sewers for so long. But I highly doubted I would find that from some stupid book and didn't want to waste my time doing so.

During the weekend Seth had been out and bought me all of the school supplies that I needed such as a back pack and pens, pencils and anything else a high school student might need. Including exercise books, I mean seriously I like my books but I prefer anything with heated battles and epic adventures. Not something that can send you to sleep within ten minutes of reading from it.

Luckily I didn't have to wear a uniform and I could wear whatever I wanted. I don't think I would have looked right in some of those clothes schools are forced to wear these days. As long as you looked presentable you where ok. That didn't mean wearing something provocative either as Seth had told me as that could get you thrown out of the school.

It was more of a college really than a school I suppose, what with the no uniform and having to be there until you're eighteen. Seth explained to me that at one point school finished when you were at the age of 16 and then you went off to college, but now they have just laced them both together to save time and having to get a space at college. At least this way everyone got a fair education.

"So, you ready for your first day tomorrow?" Seth gloated as he sat at the kitchen counter reading what looked to be the newspaper.

"Oh yeah, I can't wait. Oh and by the way if next time you read that and it says 'Teacher at Carmen High killed in terrible animal attack!' just remember you sent me there," I said making a joke. But the look on Seth's face told me he didn't find it that funny.

"You behave, you do as you are told. Or you will be back down in that sewer. Or I'll do what happens to any teenage kid at school and ground you." Seth said amused by his own joke.

Mocking him talking I walked off and decided to just go to bed since I wouldn't be able to lay in it all morning like I have been recently, relishing in the comfort it provided.

The flames roared higher and higher, as the screams grew louder. Everywhere people were crying in the street, shouting for their loved ones. Huddling with their families in the rain, squeezing them so tight as though they would never see them again.

"Kara!" A woman screeched in the background, and I could see a faint figure running the opposite way over to the house that was burning wildly. Never stopping, never looking back. She had a goal set in her mind and she looked as though anything that got in her way wouldn't stop her...

I woke with beads of sweat dripping down my face, my breathing heavy and fast. What in the world were these dreams about? And who was that woman who screamed with such passion I have never heard before from anyone. Even the woman in the café didn't seem to have that kind of passion, she had simply seemed to have given up on just about everything in life.

Turning to look at the clock that Seth had also bought me over the weekend that I had placed on my dresser, I saw that I was awake much earlier than I needed to be. It was odd having to change my sleep cycle so quickly since I had been used to sleeping during the day in the sewers, sneaking out in the middle of the night so that I could be at peace and alone with my thoughts rather than with everyone else's. And now having to be awake during the day and sleeping at night, I felt out of place.