I woke up in the middle ofthe night panting, crying and soaked in sweat to Matt shaking me.
"Are you okay? You were shouting, tossing and turning in your sleep." He asks. Of course I am not, dammit!
"Yeah." I lie. "You go back to sleep, I will go sit outside for a while."
"Don't lie. Nightmares, right?"
"It's nothing, really." I lie again.
"Yeah, and I am an elephant. Spill."
"I swear--"
"Just tell me what it was about so I can go back to sleep..." Matt yawns.
"Remember when I told you about my parents? How they died?"
"Yeah..?"
"I- I don't want to lose anyone else... And I saw everyone I care about die; you, my uncle, the others. I- I know it seems like I am exaggerating, but--" I say, but Matt interrupts me.
"Come here..." He tells me and pulls me in a hug. I hadn't even noticed I was crying until that happened. "It's fine, it was just a dream."
"You know, you mask your soft side really well when a lot of people are around." I tell him wiping my tears.
"What do you mean by that?"
"You know exactly what I mean. You put on a big facade when around people other than your friends. These guys only see the Party House leader, not you."
"Isn't that the same thing?" He asks.
"No, you are you. Being the Party House leader is just an aspect of yourself."
"Whatever. Goodnight." He says and goes back to sleep.
"Goodnight." I say and do the same.
~*~
The night was long. I couldn't fall back to sleep because I was afraid of having the same nightmare and I think I would break down on the spot.
I wasn't lying about what I dreamed of. I lost my parents when I was a little kid, I was distant and alone for most of my life because of my fear of losing more people. I wouldn't bear of losing anyone else. And the way they all died... Everyone was falling from the cliffs, one by one, at the exact spot my parents had.
I waited for Matt to go back to sleep and went outside.
The two people sitting there were more shocked than I was.
Sylvia was out there with a twin.
"Aileen! Uh... Erm..." Sylvia starts.
"Let me guess, you are together?" I ask sleepily. She nods. "So which one are you?" I ask the twin.
"Jace." Wow, I wasn't expecting that.
"Eliza! Get over here!" Sylvia whisper shouts, but gets no reaction. "Dammit!" She mutters, goes to the tent and starts shaking it. "Come out you idiot!" Sylvia says again and Eliza comes out sleepily.
"What is it?" She asks yawning and Sylvia points at me with her head. "Dammit... Chase!" Eliza whisper shouts too. What the hell is going on and everyone needs to be present?
Chase is a light sleeper, so we didn't have to shake his tent.
"What happened?" He says sleepily too stumbling outside. Eliza points at me with her thumb.
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Ficção AdolescenteSidegreen Isle is a small island in the middle of the Atlantic. Nobody knows of it. Nothing happens in it. And then, there is the Party House, a huge beach house where the island's teenagers party at night. Apart from being chased by the cops, they...
