Changes: A New Life Book 2

Chapter 17: Dreams

{Songs for Chapter;

Second Chance; Shinedown

The World I Used to Know; We came as Romans}

Shelby, Vince, Mike and I were the last ones at the party. Meanwhile Mike and Vince was overloaded drunk, so we had to clean up everything. We tore down the lights, got the keg, and cleaned up the rest of the place. When that was all finished, we grabbed out boyfriends and left.

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"Vince you have to go to bed.", I said pulling him off the couch.

"But my show is on", he said lying. His eyes keep fluttering back and open, trying to stay awake.

"Just go to bed Vincent.", I demanded one more time. He still didn't listen so I had to do the right thing. I grabbed his arm and got him to stand up. He put his arm around my shoulder as I tried to haul him to the bedroom. When I was 99.9% sure I could get him to the bedroom, my knees buckled and I fell right on the floor. Vince's head was on top of my stomach and I knew he was asleep. I was already tired too, so I was too lazy to get up myself. So I just fell asleep right on the floor.

I woke up about 15 minutes later from Vince snoring loudly. I hit him upside the head and he woke up, "What the hell?" He started to rub his head and crawled up.

"I'm sorry......", I said quietly.

"You better be, it really hurt.", he said continuing to rub his head.

"No not about that, about... Me flipping out on you.", I said criss-crossing my legs.

"About what? You tend to flip out on me alot...", he said running a hand through his hair.

"Oh shut up. About you know, starting a family and stuff. I just got so protective over that. Hannah said it was probably because I've lost so many people.....", I said getting quieter.

"Don't be sorry. I knew it was too soon. Shelby told me to slow it down, because I've been pushing everything, starting with the proposal.", he said putting his hand on my knee.

"I mean, I loved that you proposed to me. But having a child is a little too early, don't you think?", I asked. He nodded and said, "You want to take that dress off?"

"Actually yea, it's really itchy", I said. He nodded and unzipped it for me. I pulled it up and over my head, throwing it on the couch.

"Here.", he said slipping off his shirt that he changed into after the party. I put it on and he laid his head down on my lap.

"I'm definitely going to miss this.", he said stroking my leg. "Out of everyone I know, you will be the person I will miss most." He gently gave me a kiss on my knee and stroked it again, causing me to close my eyes.

One week. One exact week he will be leaving to go to the military, in one week I'm going to be alone. In one week.......

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"Goodmorning beautiful."

"Goodmorning. WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?", I said sitting up in the bed.

"Your boyfriend. Who else?"

"Jordan?", I said squinting to see if this is real. "Where is Vincent?!"

"Honey, we've been over this. He died in Iraq.", he said getting the picture frame from my dresser.

"What the hell this can't be real.", I whispered to myself.

"This is as real as it gets babe.", he said plummeting a kiss on my lips. I pushed him off of me and screamed. "GET OUT! GO HE IS NOT DEAD!"

"GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT.", I continued to scream, I put my hands up to my ears so I couldn't hear him screaming my name.

"Spencer! Wake up!", somebody said shaking me.

"GET OUT!", I screamed again. Then I opened my eyes to see Vince. I sat up and hugged him.

"Babe are you alright? You were screaming in your sleep.", he said still holding on to me. I came down in tears and stayed silent.

Those dreams have been appearing for weeks, but tonight it seemed like it was the worst one yet.

"You wanna talk about it?", he said pulling back and wiped a tear off of my face.

"Vince this one was really scary.", I said grabbing his hand. My heart was racing and I couldn't breathe.

"Hey.... Hey, look at me. Take a deep breath in, and out.", he said doing it and I copied him.

Deep breath in, and out.

******Vincent's P.O.V.******

When she woke up, I've never saw her that scared in her entire life. She immediately hugged me when she opened her eyes.

"Babe are you alright? You were screaming in your sleep.", I said. As she stayed silent, I felt my neck become wet so I knew she was crying. I finally pulled back and asked, "You wanna talk about?" I wiped a running tear down her face, trying to comfort her. She finally spoke, "Vince this one was really scary.", she said.

From my past therapy sessions, I taught her a technique that could help her calm down.

"Take a deep breath in, and out.", I said breathing in and out. She continued to do the same, until she calmed down.

"It was a bad dream Vincent. I've had ones like this before but this one... This one hurt.", She said with fear in her eyes.

"I was in the bedroom, and I guess I woke up from sleeping. Jordan said good morning and I was wondering where you were. And he said.... he s-said", she stuttered and closed her eyes, taking a deep breath in.

"He said you d-died in I-Iraq.", she said.

I grabbed her and pulled her into a hug. "It was only a dream babe. Nothing more."

I gave her a kiss and said, "I'm going to go and get your bath ready. You stay out here alright?", I said getting up.

"Babe you don't have too.", she said getting up. But I put my finger up to her lips and started my way to the bathroom. 

I turned on the faucet and got her favorite lavender body wash. I opened the container and took a big wiff of it.

"Geez, this shit is the bomb.", I whispered to myself. When the water reached the right spot, I turned the faucet off and called for Spencer.

She jumped into the steamy tub and I said, "I'll just be out here..."

"No stay. Please.", she pleaded. I nodded and put the toilet seat down to sit.

"What am I going to do when you leave?", she said playing with the bubbles in the tub.

"Well your going to get good grades and graduate. Go to parties and get drunk. Your going to meet new friends and have the time of your life.", I said.

Trying to cheer her up was my main goal here. I hated to see her like this. She's been sad all her life, so I waited to make sure that everything I said was right.

"And you are going to meet my new brother or sister.", I said smiling. I saw a grin come upon her face.

"I'm going to start writing to you. In a book, and when you come back you can see what you missed.", she said smiling and closing her eyes.

Little did she know, I already started writing to her.

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Little bit of a P.O.V. change here, a short chapter, but hey. I'm trying here.

Well I love you guy! <3

~Kenzie :)