I was curled up in a ball on my bed.
She's been gone for hours.
Might as well take a nap.
I laid down and closed my eyes.
(This is her dream- Kaden)
"Mayo!"
"Joe? What're you doing here?"
"We're at school dumbass."
"We are?" I looked around. "Stop lying bitch."
"No Maya. We're at school."
I looked around.
"O-Kay."
"Anyway. Why'd you run away a few weeks ago?"
"You said I've been gone for a year."
"Not exactly a year saying as we're still juniors."
"Joe. What's happening?"
"You're changing Maya."
"What do you mean?"
"Well. You let a stranger take you away."
"She's not a stranger to me.."
"But does anyone else know her?"
"No."
"My point exactly."
"But.."
"Maya. Some part of you knows what the right thing to do. The girl you were is still in there kicking and screaming. Hoping that she'll see that she has the worst case of Stockholm syndrome and will come back and fuck my sister again."
"Is that really what's right?"
"No!" I turned and saw Eliza. "You know that if you go back you'll have to deal with all of that shit. Your dad. The neglect. The abuse. The sleeping around to hide the fact that you cried yourself to sleep every night after."
"She's fucking insane!"
They both started talking louder and louder and I screamed holding my head.
"MAYA! WHAT HAPPENED?!"
I sat up in an instant and opened my eyes. Eliza had a panicked look on her face and I felt like I couldn't talk.
"Nightmare."
"Oh baby. Do you wanna talk about it?" She sat on the bed and looked into my eyes.
"Um. Sure."
"Okay. Go on."
"I don't know where I was but joe showed up and said we were at school.." I hesitated to add any details of what he said. "I can't remember what he said but at the end you showed up and you two ended up having a screaming match and I screamed shut up. And here I am."
"Well. Good thing you don't have to worry about him anymore."
"Good thing?"
"Well sure. He's not your best friend anyways."
"But.."
"Hey. Why don't you go to the kitchen and make yourself some ramen."
"Why don't you ever let me talk?"
"Because there's nothing to talk about. The whole situation is irrelevant."
"You're right babe." I nodded.
"You know I'd have a conversation with you and let you talk."
"Yeah babe."
"A..are you mad at me? Of course you are! I'm being an ass! You should just leave. I'm not good for you.."
"Hey.. never say that again. Yes I'm mad. But I'm not leaving."
"What did I ever do to deserve you?"
She kissed me and we cuddled until she fell asleep.
