The Visitors

Dream a little dream of me

It was bright outside without a cloud in the sky, and I stood in an endless field of Astilbe flowers. They swayed in the wind which made them brush up against me. I didn't mind since they were feather soft. I slowly started walking through the field trying to find where it stopped. My long curly brown hair getting caught in the flowers occasionally.

It felt like I had been looking for hours when I bumped into someone standing in the field. I looked up to see a woman looking away from me. She had Curly brown hair and she wore a pink sun dress. This woman seemed familiar to me so I went around to see her face.

I knew it! Its mom!

I tugged on the end of her dress to get her attention but she wouldn't look at me. Her gaze was focused on something off in the distance. I looked to see what it was and saw the mountain. I turned back around to meet her face to face. She was crouched down now and she smiled as she kissed me on the head. She stood back up, grabbed my hand, and started walking towards the mountain.

At the base of the mountain is where the field stopped. She looked at me and told me to stay. Then she tried to let go of my hand to start walking up the mountain, but I wouldn't let her hand go. I felt like if I did I would never get to hold it again. She got down to my level and kissed me on the head. Then she looked me in the eyes and gave me a reassuring smile that said everything was going to be alright.

"I'll see you soon. I promise." She said. I shook my head, let go of her hand, closed my eyes, and took a deep breath.

When I opened them she was nowhere to be seen and I was in the middle of the field again, except this time it was dark. My heart started racing. I frantically looked around trying to find her but I didn't see her anywhere. So, I did what any lost kid would do. I ran.

I ran as fast as I could through the flowers but they were scratching me. I took a closer look at them and realized they were no longer the soft Astible flowers I was running through earlier, but rather Rhododendrons, which in case you didn't know were poisonous, and white roses. I had little scratches up and down my arms with small droplets of blood poking out. I started to feel dizzy but I couldn't stop looking for her.

So, I kept running. I ran until I couldn't physically keep myself up anymore. I coughed a few times and blood came out spraying the white roses and turning them red. Then I fell to my knees in front of a large tree, tears in my eyes.

I looked up at the tree and saw a large white owl with black feathers looking down at me. It opened its mouth to hoot but instead the word Emma came from its beak. Emma. And I fell to the side laying on the ground now staring up at the owl. Emma. And I let out a deep breath and closed my eyes. I was so tired. Emma. And a tear rolled down my cheek. I knew that this was it. EMMA!

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I sat upright in bed taking in a large breath. My dad came through the door moments later. He set a cup of coffee on my night stand and kissed me on the head.

"Didn't you hear me Emma I've been calling you." I rubbed my eyes and stretched my arms out.

"no sorry I was having a weird dream."

"oh, I had a weird dream last night too. There was this tree that was alive and he wanted me to be his friend and he didn't want me to have any other friends so when I got a friend he killed the entire world with his laser vision and made me play jump rope with him for the rest of eternity."