Lovers Crises

CHAPTER 3

DREAM

Hugging both my parents and later cuddling in my dad's arm was the perfect gift nature could ever bring to my path. I embraced my dad with open arms as my mum bit into an Apple.My dad chuckled and kissed her  cheeks.

"Could you at least remember us dear,we'd also like to have a taste of that Apple" he joked and I checked in the basket to see that the three apples I brought was all gone.

"MUM" I shrieked, " you ate all the apples in the basket."I pouted and felt tears pool at the corner of my eyes."Awww,my little baby, just kidding" she laughed and pulled an Apple from behind her back.She pulled my cheeks and made a funny face at me.

"Gotcha" dad laughed and chased me down the park for the Apple, I run and kept on running until my breathing quickened up.I looked behind and my dad was gone.

"DADDY"I yelled into the atmosphere and gasped when I saw him in fire, burning and screaming,screaming at me to get back away from the fire.

I sobbed my heart out and called his name "DAAAAAD"but all that was heard was him wailing in pain and the sizzling fire that kept on burning.

"MACKENZIE;wake up,wake up"I heard some one calling my name and everything became black.

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I bolted up in bed crying,sweating and screaming profusely I knew that everything I saw was a dream.My mum was cradling me in her arms as she massaged my hair soothingly and told me to stop crying but I couldn't stop.

"He--h-he was burning mum,"I pulled away from her and looked her in the eyes."he kept on burning and I couldn't do anything to h--help him,I am so hopeless mum.I made him die mum,if only I hadn't pestered him on taking me to the park that day.T-then he would be still alive with us.Here"I sobbed into her shoulders as she rubbed my back.

"It wasn't your fault Mac, you were just a baby.And it was Destiny,it was supposed to happen and it did.Don't blame yourself for such atrocities. That is unheard of" she soothed and that words she said made me calm.

"But how could life be so cruel as to snatch something so valuable from us just to make us suffer everyday"I whispered so lowly.

"I wish I could take your pain away,but it is impossible.If I can then I would have.So stop crying,take a cold shower and come downstairs.We'll have breakfast together." She stood up and made her way to the door and stopped to say something.

"Wear something comforting,you look pale and you might be burning up". That made me touch my cheeks and neck to feel my skin and  I was burning up indeed.

Oh God I can't be possibly coming down with fever,can it get any worse.I lied about being ill and i'm feeling ill.

I'll be damned. I thought.

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After my so called cold showers,I pulled on a warm green and black sweater and some sweatpants before tying my hair into a messy burn and deserting my room for breakfast.I usually take the stairs two at time in the morning's when going for my breakfast but low and behold,I wasn't up for it this morning.

I just felt like ditching breakfast,go into my room and succumb to sleep but I can't because mum always says "breakfast is the most important meal of the day and blah blah"

So I have no other choice rather than to go down and eat even if I want to throw up.And I really don't want to because I would be in the hospital within the next few seconds if I do.

AND GOD SO HELP ME.I hate hospitals with all my guts,the least I wanna be now is a bundle of mess because that was the last  place  i felt my dad's warm hands slip away from mine and fell limp on the gurney at the entrance of the hospital.

That was the day I felt part of my life falling into pieces and just hoping to get it back but it has being tougher ever since then.

I was snapped out of my reverie when a I felt a tapping on my shoulder from my mum,ready at points length to feed me my hot chicken soup.

What the.....I thought she prepared me pancakes and when the h**l did she even make this soup,did I spend over an hour bathing???

OH no,"No pancakes,?"I pulled my head back a little, trying to make a disgusting face at  the poor soup I am about to consume unwillingly,"And besides,mum you know am not a huge fan of soups,I prefer pancakes and jams to this "

She laughed,then her face turned to a sour,horrendous look.Then it was my turn to laugh my a** off."Are you trying to scare me into drinking this soup or what"

She was still not smiling and that was my cue to stop since a headache was coming over too.I took the soup from her tray and placed it on mine on the kitchen island and begun to blow little airs over it to cool it down.

"You know, am sick not an invalid"I drank the first spoonful of soup and she turned and headed to the other side of the kitchen as she made her way to the sink, she smiled my way  at what I said and begun washing the plates.

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"You know "my mum said as I laid on her lap on the couch watching tv.She hand combed my hair once in a while as she spoke which made me drowsy and sleepy by the second.And that was what my dad used to do to me when I was proving stubborn to sleep.

"It's our hope th...that makes us human.We have gone far too long to dwell on the past.I always thought and hoped of getting over your father,about how h....he  d..died".Her voice shook over what she was saying,which made tears pool at he corner of my eyes and wet her dress.

"But I....can't, I just can't.I always go to bed thinking of him,hoping he will be laying next to me when I wake up"she sniffed and help an arm over her face to  pull herself together.

"You and him"she turned my face  on her lap to face her,and I pitied her because I wish I could take her pain away and make her forget everything but it was impossible.

"Are the best thing that could have ever happened to me and am glad that I still have you by my side to protect,love and make you happy all the time."

"How do you expect me to become happy if you're not."I immediately sat up and hugged her and she cradled me in her arms and whispered into her ear "we should always overcome our fears,hope for the best and move on with our lives as if nothing can break us apart even if there is a halt in hope."

She calmed down and I laid back into her arms and began drifting off again not until I felt her kissing my cheek and saying  "You always know what to say at the right time and place and that is why I love you and I always will."I smiled and succumbed to the drowsiness that took over.