Nikes - A Blake Richardson (New Hope Club) FanFiction

A long night

There are walls. Everywhere. Only walls. No window, no door. Suddenly I feel that oxygen isn't enough! I can't breathe! I scream. Where is a door?! I need to get out here! 'No escape' is all I can think. There is one! There is a door! I run to it. I can't open it! Where is the key?! I need a key! I can't find it! I scream again. It is a desperate scream. My lungs burn, they need air. I try to open the door forcibly but I am too weak. No escape, no escape! I scream again. I will scream until no air is left which I need to scream.

I started up as somebody called my name and shook my body to wake me up. Disoriented I looked around and recognized my room and my bed. I was at home. I was save. I tried to calm down meanwhile I still breathed heavily.

"Are you alright?" The person who had woken me up asked.

I turned my head to see who had freed me from the nightmare. It had been Blake.

"Yes" I managed to say between my breaths.

"Oh no I think you are not." He said worried. I wanted to answer "Why do you even ask then?" but I couldn't because I breathed too havily.

"I'll get you a glass of water." Blake turned around to leave my room but I took his wrist and stopped him.

"No!" I said louder than I wanted. "I mean... no. Please stay."

Blake turned around again and sat down on my bed.

"Do you have these often? Such bad nightmares?" He asked.

I hesitated, unsure whether I should say the truth or a lie.

But my hesitation was an answer as well and I could literally see how worried he was. Why was he worried about me? He barely knew me.

I just noticed that I still held his wrist and let go of it. But Blake took my hand again what made me shivering by the touch. Blake didn't care. He softly moved his thumb what relaxed me a bit.

"What did you dream?" He wanted to know.

Even though I didn't want to remember it, I told him.

"I was in a room where I couldn't escape. And there was no air I could breathe and I got a panic attack. Then I found a door but I didn't have the key and I just screamed but nobody let me out. It was horrible."

"Do you always dream that?"

I nodded.

Then we fell silent.

After a while I slept again without noticing that Blake went to his own room next to mine again.

***

I'm very impressed by the size of this large room! The ceiling was so far away that I couldn't even see it. I sit in the middle of the room on a chair, the white walls about thirty meters away from me.

Suddenly there appears a cockroach on the ground. Small and nondescript but very disgusting though. I put my feet on the chair to not touch it. But there appear more insects. They come from all over the ground and I stand up on my chair because they are so many. I look up and see the ceiling now. It comes down. It comes closer with every second. When I look around I see the other walls coming closer as well. The insects on the ground duplicate and I struggle with avoiding them. I need to get out of the room! The insects climb on my chair now and crawl all over my body. I scream and shake my body to get them off. But it doesn't help. I scream more and more and before they can reach my face they are suddenly gone. None of them is left. I stop screaming in disbelief. They are gone. I sigh.
But now I realize that breathing was difficult. Together with the insects the air is gone. I look around to find a window or a door. Neither a window nor a door is there. I scream in panic. Help! I run against the wall to break it but it doesn't move. Only my shoulder hurts from the impact. I scream again. I need air! Help me!

Another time someone woke me up. I breathed in heavily when I realized that I was still in my room, safe.

Blake reached me a glass of water and I drank it thankfully. The cold liquid took me finally back to reality.

"What time is it?" I asked.

"Six in the morning." Blake answered and yawned. "Sorry I left when you were asleep again."

"No it's not your fault."

He closed his eyes tiredly and said "Just try to sleep again..."

I mumbled something and did what he told me. Somehow I managed it. I felt save when Blake was next to me.

It was only a fitful sleep but at least I didn't have nightmares until the sun rose.