The Loner

Chapter 9- Flashbacks or Nightmares

Chapter 9- Flashbacks or Nightmares

Lauren's POV

Flashback in Dream~

One of the days that I didn't enjoy.

"We are going on a holiday!" Mommy announced excited a week ago.

She loves holidays, but she and daddy work really hard and have not much time left for me and my little brother. So we always stick together now.

I never like holidays. We always go with those big flying planes and they make my ears hurt. Everyone sleeps in it and lots of people cry in it, like Chris probably will. I get bored in it.

"Lolo come we are going in the big plane." My daddy shouted and I began walking towards him. I was getting some free hot chocolate since it is cold from all the snow this year.

I walk careful with the hot chocolate in my hands and daddy and mommy take care of all the handbags and Chris, my little brother.

"She's so cute." A lady says stopping right in front of me.

I try to be polite and give her a sweet smile.

"Honey, this is the one." She tells the man beside her.

"Are you sure?" The man asks her. The lady nods and before I know it, my feed are off the ground and a beanie is placed on top of my head.

"Give me it." He tells the lady through his teeth. She hands him something and I feel something like a needle on my shoulder.

And that is when everything goes black.

End of Flashback in Dream ~

I wake up covered in cold sweat. I sit up and try to get my breathing on a normal rate. Breathing deeply in and out. My heart races and I can't help but feel scared again.

This is the second time I got the dream and it was the exact same dream. The first time that I got it, I was ten years old and now seven years later I see it again. I thought it was just a nightmare or a weird dream, but the mommy and daddy weren't my own parents in the dream. They were like strangers, but they must have been my family, it felt like it. Or at least someone that I cared a lot about.

"Lauren are you okay?" Zayn asks through the doorway. He rubbed his eyes open and the sleep away. He sees me breathing in panic and shock, so came closer to me.

"Did you had a night-mare?" He asks feeling my forehead with his hand.

"Yeah, kind of." I admit.

"Are you scared?"

Am I scared? I kind of was in the dream, but I was way younger in that dream. But after all it was a dream and not real right. I am safe in Zayn's house and nothing bad can happen to me now.

"I'm fine." I say as I calmed myself down.

"Alright, sleep well Lauren." Zayn says giving my forehead a peck and leaving the room.

"You too Zayn." I whisper and he probably didn't even hear me. He closed the door behind him and I closed my eyes going back to sleep again, hoping to see me smile in my dreams at least.

...

"I told you that they'd arrive tonight." Patricia told Safaa, her youngest daughter.

Apparently their neighbours went to their old town every year for a week or two. They'd come back this morning, but they got some important news or something and had to stay the morning as well. It had something to do with the police or something. I didn't wanted to ask any further to Zayn's sister and mother about their neighbours.