Madness

Horny Truckers

Ever since Peter came back , I kept having terrible nightmares, waking up in the middle of the night and I know better than to think it's just a bloody coincidence. In those dreams I keep seeing someone wearing a weird white mask and then a sign that says "Gone Sis" ... None of this made sense to me and as much as I hated it -- I had to talk to Peter about this.

Turns out, we were having the exact same dreams and he suspected Roman to have the same too.

I joined Peter at Destiny's apartment and we begged her to help us. She wasn't very glad to see us "back in business" again but she looked a tiny bit happy to see her cousin with a friend again.

"You want to know what your dream means, right ?" She said to us in her bathroom. Peter and I both nodded. "So we're going to the source of all things."

"The human race is deeply fucked if the source of "all things" is in your bathroom." Peter tried to joke. He got a faint smirk from me but his cousin wasn't having it.

"One of the images from your dream, the snake in a rushing torrent of water, well it gives us a place to start." She explained.

"In a bathtub ?"

Destiny was getting quite annoyed and she just picked up a small jar and placed it under Peter's mouth. " All water is connected. Spit, please."

"Seriously ?" Peter asked a bit disgusted.

"This is your consciousness we're exploring here. spit." he quickly did it and then she turned to me. "It's yours too. Spit." I felt like I didn't have the choice and spit in it. "Thank you." and then ... She swallowed it. I did want to throw up for a bit and judging by Peter's face, he was feeling the same way.

"What is it ?" I asked, pointing to the rest of the jar.

"A psychoactive smoothie I whipped up. To stimulate my root chakra." Like I knew exactly what she was talking about, I nodded and it seemed enough for her. She got in the bathtub, water up to her ankles and she softly rocked back and forth. Peter and I were watching her and when she started to moan we both looked at each other. It was getting pretty awkward the louder she moaned.

"Oversharing there, coz." As soon as he said that, Destiny stopped and she furrowed her eyebrows. "Destiny ?" I tried to get her attention.

With her eyes still closed she started to moan again. But this time it seemed like she was in pain. She was moving as if she was trying to get rid of something off of her skin and that's when I noticed it. Small creature that looked like snakes were crawling under her skin and were quickly getting up to her face. I wanted to do something but I had no idea what . When I was about to touch her arm, she took a giant breath of air as if she had been under water for the last 2 minutes. She rapidly got out of the bathtub and fell on her knees. She looked at us before throwing up some sort of black substance and turned pale. Just before her head can hit the ground, Peter caught her and laid her on the floor.

"Destiny ? Destiny " Peter called her but she didn't react.

Fearing the worst I checked her pulse and it was really faint. I immediately performed on her what I remembered of the CPR training we had in middle school and she suddenly opened her eyes. She looked around and hugged Peter for dear life ... quite ironic ..

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"I'm serious. You two need to forget about these dreams." Destiny told us, definitely back to her normal self.

"How are we supposed to forget about 'em ?" Peter asked. He was still a bit stressed out about the little incident and was intensely smoking his cigarette.

"Somehow. Drop it. Just ... stay as far away from this as you can."

"How are we supposed to stay away from it if everytime we closed our eyes it's the only thing we see ?"

"Rose's right. We can't sleep without seeing them. And by the way, you still haven't told us what the hell happened in there." He said pointing at the bathroom.

"I'm not sure. But I felt some big ... bad .. shit that you do not want to be part of."

I sat next to her on the couch and try to make her understand. "Destiny ... If we don't do anything I feel like the dreams are never going to stop and people will die ..."

"And you always say you can't see into the future." Peter added.

"I experienced it. Whatever it is, it's out there ... And it's really fucking bad."

She then left us to take a shower. I wasn't exactly keen on her taking a shower right now, I mean she almost died half an hour ago, but knowing how stubborn the Rumancek family is, I didn't push it.

Peter was next to me and was drawing the things we saw in our dreams. A snake and the sign "Gone Sister". Suddenly, Destiny came behind us and tore the page from Peter's hand. He immediately reacted and told her to stop this childish behavior.

"No, Peter ! I want you yo promise me to let this go. And it goes for you as well Rose. You became family and you just saved my life, consider this warning as my way to thank you."

"I can't help my dreams Destiny. We can't help our dreams."

"Ignore it ! Banish it from your mind ! "

Peter was going to say something when she violently grabbed him by the chin and pulled him closer. "I almost died in there."

Then, out of nowhere, a guy came in the room and looked at us. " What's up guys ?" he simply said. He was quite tall, had long curly hair, beautiful blue eyes and a beard. No one seemed to mind his presence so I just assumed he was part of the family. Destiny let loose Peter and answered that guy's question. "Long story. I'm gonna go take a shower, get this snake smell off of me." And she left the room to take a second shower.

"I don't believe we've met. Andreas Vasilescu. I'm ... the new guy in the family." The man told me, his hand stretched towards me.

"Hi, I'm Rose .... a friend." I told him, shaking it.

"Well nice to meet you Rose." He took something out of his bag and quickly went in the kitchen to get something to drink. "I had to run an errand in Kirkwood. They've got this bakery. Best Blintzes you've ever put in your mouth." Peter had just took his drawing back from the floor and Andreas took a quick look at it. "Gone Sis ? You gyspy dog."

"You know what this is ?" Peter asked surprised. I can't say I wasn't but I just didn't want to show it. People having the same dreams is not a good sign, and the lesser people knew about it, the better I'll feel.

"The Wagoneer Oasis." Andreas explained us. "It's a trailer park for horny truckers. Letters on the sign burned out, so all it says is, "Gone Sis." The concrete blondes there were knows as the "Gone Sisters." "

Peter looked at me and I just nodded. We quickly got up and took our stuff.

"Thanks man, and please, tell Destiny ... never mind."

"Never mind", I'll give her the message." I followed him but stopped at the door. " It was nice meeting you. And please, tell Destiny I'm taking her shift tomorrow morning. My way of thanking her." He nodded and Peter and I left to see some horny truckers.