All is Revealed...

Chapter 2 - The secret is coming out

Chapter Two - The secret is coming out

I'm going to have sleepless night tonight, there are so many things to worry about.  I’m even worrying about my father, which is unsual.  I don’t want to lose anyone else, my father included.  I seem to be losing the ones that I love these days.  My family is slowly falling apart, just what I need at a time like this, what's going to happen next?

I hear a soft knock on my door.  I don’t say anything but my father walks in a sits on the edge of my bed and looks outside my window for a while.

“I’m sorry about your mum Jake, but it was too late by the time I got home.  I rushed home after your mother called me telling me what she was about to do but I was too late.”  My father says trying his best to hold back his own set tears.

“It’s ok dad, at least I still have you.”  I say with a sad smile, nearly on the verge of tears.

My father smiles at me sadly.  He gets off the edge of my bed and tucks me in.  Just as he closes the door he says goodnight. I still feel the warmth of my father on me, I fall asleep instantly.  Haunted by all my fears in my mind of endless dreams.

3 hours later                                

I wake up in the middle of the night drenched in sweat, the dream was so real.  I was in a dark old house, all the lights were off I could see nothing, but I heard a very loud scream they were the screams of a young, scared girl.  It didn’t feel right.  I shiver runs down my spine, the dream felt so real.  It's like I had actually been there.  

I got out of bed and went down stairs to grab myself a glass of water with some ice.  I was boiling hot, I think I have a fever.  When I reach my room I open my window and I put my glass on my bedside table.  Turning my lamp off I fall back to sleep again but I don’t wake up until 11:30am the very next morning after Sunday, I had slept through a whole day.

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“Why didn’t you wake me up dad?”  I ask with a harsh sounding tone.

“I thought you might like the day off considering what happened to your mother on Saturday. Just to let you know Lucy called, just wanting to check if you were ok.  I told her that you would be at her place this afternoon.”  My father said.

“Thanks.” I say with an ungrateful tone.

I go to the kitchen and grab myself a glass of juice and a small yoghurt out of the fridge, I then sit myself down at the table.  I watch my father reading the newspaper very carefully. He doesn’t seem his complete self today, but then again I don’t think I am either, so who’s to judge?

Once I had finished breakfast I raced back upstairs.  My window was still open, with the window still being open it jogged my memory of the dream that I had last night.  The dark house and the terrifying screams of the girl. 

I sit back down on the bed and take deep breaths.  It was so real, but it was just a dream? Wasn't it?  I question myself.  I lay down on the bed for a little while until I get my breathing back under control.  I don't know why I struggle with my breathing, I guess I easily get anxious by things and having asthma doesn't help me either.

When I had my breathing back under control I went to my closet to grab some clothes out for the day.  The things that I chose to wear weren’t the best decision I've ever made, but the decision was good enough and considering my mental state, I could live with this decision.

I go back down stairs and tell my father that I am going to take Snowy (my dog) for a walk.   Snowy was rather cute while we walked.  She practically sniffed at every tree and pole we got near.  We walked around the park and checked out all the new things that had been put in place.  Life is sweet when you want it to be