Heaven or Hell?

Chapter Five:

I'm running. My hair flys in the summer breeze. My legs carry me through the peaceful serene meadow, sounds of laughter escape my lips. But am I running away from danger? No. I'm playfully running away from Leo. The boy who chases after me with that playful glint in his eye. Until finally his arms wrap around my torso and he lifts me off of the ground before spinning me around. But then all sounds of laughter is cut off, and replaced with the sound of a terrifying scream. A scream that neither belongs to me or Leo. I turn my head at a grand total of 180 degrees in order to find the source of the scream. And then I see it. A diminutive boy stands with his face and hands pressed up against a glass wall. His face is stained with tears, his gleaming green eyes are blood shot. That's when I realise that boy is my son. I desperately try to release myself from the grip that Leo has on me, but as I turn myself around in order to beg him to let me go. Leo is no longer there. Instead I find Jack looking down at me with a murderous look in his eye. Then I hear it. Complete silence. The crying has stopped. But what's worse as I turn my head back around to face where my son stood crying. I find both Leo as Liam lying there motionless. Dead.

I wake up screaming and panting, waking Leo up in the process.

"Zoey! Hush, it's okay!" He continuously whispers until my breathing becomes more steady. But the only thing that I keep thinking oils the image of my both my son as a young child lying dead next to his father. But why was Jack there? Does it mean something?

"Zoey, focus on my eyes!" Leo says as he pushes my body softly back so that he hovers over me on the bed. But truth be told I would rather focus on anything other than his eyes. Yet I do as he says and lock my gaze with his. Where shockingly as soon as I look into his eyes, it's as if I am seeing all those moments that we kissed, chatted and made love all over again.

"Good girl, you see your fine. Your safe" he says whilst placing a strand of hair behind my ear.

"You were dead" I murmur as I find my voice.

"I'm not going anywhere, I promise I won't leave you" he reassures me as places a kiss on my temple. But the nagging feeling in the back of my head tells me that I have heard him say that before. "And I mean it this time Zoey, whatever you go trough I will be there every single step of the way" He adds whilst I was in the middle of my thoughts.

"Liam was there too" I say as he lays down next to me.

"And what happened? Start from the beginning" Leo instructs once he gets himself comfortable and turns himself around so that he is supporting himself up on one elbow whilst his other arm strokes mine.

"We were running and laughing like we use too, then I heard a scream. He was there Leo, he was at least four years of age and he needed our help. My help! He needed his mother" I cry but with every year that appears Leo swiftly wipes it away.

"Then what happened?" He chokes out as if a cat has got his tounge.

"I turned around to ask you to let me go, but then it wasn't you holding me. Jack slater was and when I turned around to face my baby. Our baby. Both you and him were on the floor surrounded in blood, both dead" I say but as I finish saying this Leo brings me in closer to his chest and engulfs me in a hug.

"Sh, Zoey it's going to be okay. We will be okay" he vows as he plants another kiss on my forehead.

"But we won't be!" I mumble, but he immediately cuts me off and places his index finger underneath my chin so that I am looking him dead in the eye. "We will be fine!" He says once again before his lips are firmly placed on my lips. And too weak as well as feeling too vulnerable to push him away, I give into his pleasuring lips. But it's as if as soon as his lips are on mine, he is quick to remove them.

"It's still early, try and grab a few more hours sleep" He instructs before pulling the quilt cover over us to keep us warm.

But no matter how hard I attempt to fall back to sleep, I simply can't. Instead I lie awake trying to make sense of my dream. As well as what the future may hold for myself and Leo, because whatever it holds for us, I know for certain it won't be a easy ride or a simple destination. Although, what I do know what will happen is this our bond will grow stronger. I just hope nothing happens too dangerous that could possibly make my dream become a reality. But who am I kidding? When has luck ever been on my side? Heck I doubt I'm even going to heaven! If there is such a place. Maybe that's where my baby is, an angel in heaven. Whereas his mother will be going to hell. Especially, if Leo is certainly here to stay.