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Life is but a Dream

Teen Fiction

Marie has been living a (mostly) ordinary life for fifteen, almost sixteen years. She has a loving family, two best friends, a boyfriend, and straight A's in school. The only thing weird with her life is her. Sometimes she hears noises and voices...

Chapter 3

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by Abcats44

by Abcats44

Marie's POV

"Jasmine?" the woman says. "Jaz, can you understand me?"

"Who are you?" My voice came out scratchy, as if I hadn't used it for a long time. The woman turned away sadly. Then the man came to her side and spoke to me.

"Jasmine, we're your parents."

"What? No you're not. I have parents. And stop calling me Jasmine. That's not my name. My name is Marie." Now he looked confused.

"Of course Jasmine is your name!" The doctor walked in.

"Excuse me, may I talk to you two alone?" The man and woman followed him out.

David's POV

Isabelle and I followed the doctor out of our daughter's room. As soon as we were far enough away, I turned to the doctor.

"What's wrong with her? What's wrong with my daughter?" The doctor looked uncomfortable.

"Well, based on your daughter's brain waves over the past years, my best guess is that she heard you two talking to her, teaching her in her sleep, and her subconscious created a dream world based on what you told her, although I don't know how she ended up with a different name." Suddenly Isabelle looked up.

"Oh!" she gasped. "David, remember Marie the nurse?" I did. She was a nurse that specialized in the care of young children, and so she'd been around a lot when Jasmine was younger.

"You don't think she heard us talking to her and thought it was her name, do you?"

"That's the only thing that makes sense."

"I believe she's right," the doctor said.

"Our poor baby," Isabelle sighed.

Marie's POV

What is going on? That man and woman from my dreams think I'm their kid? That I'm Jasmine? That's absolutely ridiculous. I'm sure that any moment I'll wake up in my own bed and it will be my birthday. This is just a very very realistic dream. Yeah. That's it. I'll wake up any second now. It'll all be fine.