Lucidity 2

V

"Well congratulations Lucy on your prom queen nomination, too bad there can't just be two prom queens instead of a queen and a king," said Sam in a sarcastic voice as I turn around to look at her. That made her little group of girls burst out into laughter. It really wasn't even that funny.

"Why did you do that Sam? Haven't you embarrassed us enough this year?" Lucy replied stepping up to the counter.

Sam also walked up closer, the girls started to follow but she motioned them to stay put. "I'm not in any way finished with the two of you," Sam replied in almost a whisper not taking her eyes off of Lucy. Then she exited the store with her group of girls following.

Lucy was mad for the rest of our shift. Once we got to my house we lay there awake in my bed for a moment just thinking.

"What do you think she meant by that?" Lucy asked.

"I'm not sure, I wouldn't be too worried though, we have enough on our plates already."

"I'm sorry for all of this."

"It's not your fault Lucy, let's try to have a good night. Maybe we could try to lucid dream together and if she shows up maybe the both of us together can overpower her."

"I don't think that's such a great idea."

I wanted to object but I can see by the look on her face she's tired of fighting, probably just tired in general.

"Just let me know or wake me up if you need anything, or if you can't sleep, or anything really. I'm here for you. I know at first I was really upset with you but I can clearly see you don't want anything to do with this girl that she's been haunting your dreams. Let me help you, Lucy, I love you."

"Thank you, I love you too."

Tonight I'm trying to stay awake at least until Lucy can try to drift off into sleep.

"Don't do that, really Primrose it's already horrible that I'm not really sleeping it would just make me feel worse if you weren't either."

I can understand that I hold her close as we're lying together. "Okay, I'll try and get some rest, just close your eyes and try with me at least."

Lucy nodded and closed her eyes with me. I'm beginning to really worry but I know she'll be alright. We'll figure a way through this, there's no way this dream world girl can haunt her forever. She's just a dream. A few minutes later I drift off to sleep leaving my thoughts behind.

I'm awakened by the realization that I am becoming cold. This is odd because it never happens when Lucy is here, she always keeps me warm at night. As I shift in the covers I realize that I am in bed alone. This doesn't make sense because the bathroom light is off and I can't think of anywhere else she'd go. I start my way downstairs to the kitchen. All lights are off as usual and I also realize my mom isn't home. She must have had a girls night out. I find myself childishly jealous. I've never had friends to go out with, only Lucy. She is everything to me and kind of all I have. Our car is still here, so I make my way upstairs to check my phone. All I have is a message from my mom confirming my assumption about her girls night. I'm going to get dressed and go over to her house, that's the only other place she could be. She probably just didn't want to disturb me. I haven't done laundry in a few days so she must have needed to grab some clean clothes from home and figured she'd be back before I even knew it. I could at least go by and give her a ride back over here. Once I put my clothes on I make my way to the bathroom to brush my hair a little. Once I turn the light on I am frozen in spot unable to move for what feels like forever. My heart skipped some beats then began racing out of control. Lucy's entire body is submerged in my bathtub filled with water only, no bubbles. She has on her night time clothes and there is a folded up piece of paper on the sink. Once I snap out of my quick moment of shock I grab Lucy out of that lukewarm water within a matter of seconds. There is no movement from her body whatsoever. I immediately began performing CPR on her cold body. After three complete sessions still no response. I burst out into tears and collapsed over her body gripping her in a tight hug. A few seconds later I return back to CPR. After the fifth session, I finally get a response from her body. She begins to cough up water and she starts crying. I raise her up not knowing what else to do or what to say so I just give her a hug. We sat there for a long amount of time wrapped in each other's embrace.

We didn't say much for the rest of the night. I honestly don't know if that's a good or a bad thing. I am just still so deep in shock I almost don't even know what I can say. We finally got up and got her into some dry clothes. Once we lay down together I run my fingers through her hair and whisper to her that I'll always be here for her and that she should try and get some rest. I'm definitely not going back to sleep tonight, I have to stay up and make sure she's okay. A few hours later when my alarm for school went off I got up and began packing our suitcases. Lucy looked up confused. "What are you doing?" She asked.

"We're going to the beach," I answered abruptly. That only mad Lucy even more confused.

"Um Primrose, we're like in the middle of Oklahoma."

I gave her a look and she instantly knew this was not up for discussion. I think I'm kind of losing it to put it lightly. I just feel that we both need an escape, we can call into work today and be back in time enough for prom. Once we were both done with our morning routine, she finished helping me pack a few things and we loaded them into our car. I peeped into my mom's room and she seem's to be sleeping off her night out last night. I decided I'll text her later with somewhat of an explanation of what the hell is actually going on here once I figure that out myself. I did go ahead and email our boss letting her know we had an emergency which is kind of true. Lucy and I ate a quick breakfast and headed to the car.