Dreamcatcher

Chapter 1

I’m Hannah, a typical college student. Well, not as normal as other teens out there though. I don’t live with a typical family either… you know, the ‘mom-dad thing’. This is the story of my life…the thing that started it all… 

“So what do you want? Let’s get an annulment then!” my dad always says every time they fight.

 And it ain’t a joke. They did get an annulment and since I was only six then, my mom got the custody of taking care of me. Since they decided to live separate lives, my mom took me with her and we left dad. We lived with my mom’s younger sister who is definitely— an old maid (that’s Mama Angie). Then…

“Mommy! Don’t leave me! Don’t go…didn’t you tell me you’re going to take care of me? Ma… I promise I’ll be good—I won’t mess your thing up anymore—mommy, please don’t leave! Ma...” I beg as she kissed me goodbye and finally got in to a cab.

I tried to catch up with her…running as fast as my little feet could go but I just can’t. ‘Till I found myself crying under a big acacia tree in a wide grass land…in a place that has never been familiar to me…I’ve never felt this kind of fear before; I don’t know this place…just then I realized that I ran too far trying to catch up for my last source of happiness…I just lost the two most important persons in my life; they left me…abandoned me…left me alone and helpless…what could a six year-old girl do?

“Why are you crying?” a young boy asked as he hand me a handkerchief “I hate seeing people cry.” He smiled at me and said “take it, don’t worry, it’s clean…”

“Uhm…since you used my hanky, are we friends now?” he asked.

I looked at him; puzzled…it is the most unlikely question I heard all my life. Shocked from what he said, a can barely open my mouth to speak.

“Hey, why don’t you speak…ahh…I get it, my mom said if I would like to be friend someone, I must tell my name first…uhm…I’m Harvey and you are?” he asked still wearing that friendly smile…I somehow made me forget the things that has happened before I came in this unlikely place.

“Uhm…Hannah” I said hesitantly 

“Alright then! So were friends now, aren’t we? Why are you crying? Did you lose your way? Play with me first then I’ll ask my mom to bring you home…my playmates went home already, and I’m kinda bored so I came here…it’s good you’re here, I have someone to play with...” he said. I looked at him blankly the he said, “its okay with me if you cry first...let’s play when you’re done.”

This boy is weird, I told myself. How can he speak comfortably to a total stranger? He asked me a lot of things, about myself about how I came here, about my mom and dad. And he talked about a lot of things too.

“You know what? When I saw you crying a while ago, I remember the day papa left us.” 

I looked at him with curious eyes, I don’t intend to speak but I think he got the whole point. He continued…

“Papa didn’t do what your dad did…” he said

“Then, where is he?” I asked

 “Up there” he said, pointing at the sky. 

“He died? Why?”

“I don’t know…well, all I can remember is that blood always comes out of his nose” he said looking sad.

“How did that happen?” I asked, shocked and scared at the same time.

“I don’t know…I asked mama but she wouldn’t tell me…when I see him up there I’ll ask him but I can’t give you the answer right away, because I don’t think I’ll be able to see him sooner…” he said with a bitter grin.

Just then, I realized I’m still lucky, I have both mom and dad, they might not be living together now but at least none of them is up there…I can’t imagine myself in Harvey’s situation. He might have lost his father but now he gained himself a friend that will never leave him whatever happens…

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Para kay Nie,

Wag papastress sa Anatomy and Physiology at kung ano ano pang librong kaharap mo ngayon. Namimiss ka na namin dito sa bahay. Oh, nakapost na ang chapter mo po. I love you, Nie! :3

-Bokshil