Cursed Children.

The Dreams

That night I had dream. They went in a kind of order almost.

The first one: It was night, the stars sparkled and gleamed with beauty, the moon was full tonight so it gave off a faint yet beautiful light. Liza had started a fire with some friends of hers but that was earlier before the sun had set so everyone was gone by now. Liza is left sitting there all perfect like she is. She's waiting for the fire to die out. I snuck up behind her to give her a little fright, but she already knew I was there. She turns around right before I jump on her and picks me up. 

"Got you silly goose  don't you know you can't sneak up on me" Liza laughs sweetly,  I giggle in response.  "Come on now let's watch the fire it's getting to the point where it glows and sparkles like little fairies," I knew she was joking but I didn't care I sat staring at the fire. It slowly begins to fade and under one of the logs is the last bit of flame. I stare as it sends a sunset orange color around it. Eventually the little flame goes out and Liza and I are left sitting in the night. It's so peaceful here. The wind picks up and Liza shivers. I look at her in confusion.

That's when the dream took a change. We hear shouts from inside and we go investigate. It's those black armored men. "Can we help you gentlemen?," Liza asks politely. One of the men wave to the others and they leave, well all of them but the one who waves.. 

"Liza my men must leave tonight, I'm so sorry but they are forcing all memories of us be disappeared," the man says to Liza. "They say that we will return though in approximately 3 years." He takes off his helmet to reveal a beautiful face that is stained with tears.

"But Lucas you can't do that to me, if I didn't remember you then I would die, u are the world to me," Liza says desperately. "3 years alone I can't do that, Aerith still needs you, your like a father to her."

"I know and I'm sorry please forgive me," Lucas takes out this strange looking thing and presses it against Liza's head, next she passes out. He catches her and walk over to a chair to set her down. Lucas turns to me then smiles, "Aerith I don't want to hurt you, you know that so how about we make a deal, I'll leave your memories if you tell Liza my name when you grow up, I promise I'll return so don't worry, ok?" 

I nod my head not understanding anything that is happening (After all I'm only 5) and Lucas leaves. I look at the open door and the figure of what was the closest thing to a father. When Lucas is out of sight I turn to Liza.  I stare at her for a while, or until the dream changes again. 

I'm in the square, around the age of 7 and I'm playing a game with Selena and Nala. We were playing with some old dolls of Liza's. We hear a rustle from the trees so of course being us we look at it. It's a boy, he looks so familiar but of course as soon as he sees us girls he runs. I stand up and I start chasing him,  just when I catch up the boy transforms into a giant monster, then the dream changes again.

I'm at the West gate, I leave the village for no apparent reason, maybe I'm trying to follow somebody, but  I'm alone. Then 3 men appear and stand around me, the one that was named Lucas, the second is the one I chased, and the third was Jackson. I didn't know what it meant, all of them stare at me with intense eyes. "You failed Liza and I," Lucas says in disgust. 

"You didn't believe in me when I needed you too, Aerith you disowned me," the one I had chased responds with a snarky frown. 

"You left us Aerith how could you do that to us, I thought we were friends..." Jackson doesn't get a chance to finish what he was saying because  I hear someone scream. All the people are gone and everything around me is black, then Liza appears, but it's not her alive, it's her dead body with bruises all over scars and beat marks. Her dead mouth opens to speak and I listen, "it's your fault, your brother left you, I wanted to die so I could leave you alone, soon enough Jackson will realize that you are a horrid girl and leave you, just take a look at what life you forced upon them," 

I look to my right and for a while I see only darkness, but then I see it, all of my friends are getting burned alive. Dying and I'm just standing there watching.

"Why Aerith I thought we were friends forever!" Selena asks as fire engulfs her and Nala. Next Michael starts to burn too "How I can't die from fire, why must it be me" he dies too. I'm left with Jackson who has that little orange glow right in the middle of his chest. "Aerith, I thought you loved it when I said I would protect you, I thought when we grew older that we would get closer," I start tearing up for every word he speaks the glow gets brighter and bigger I open my mouth to speak but no words come out, "I thought that u could be loved, but everything you love always dies by your hands, I should have known." Then fire engulfs him. 

Nothing is ok anymore I'm breathing heavily sitting there in a fiery room. My head hurts like heck I'm sweating that's how scared I am. I just watched my friends burn up. I'm sitting in the middle of darkness now. "Aerith, oh poor Aerith, did u tell Liza my name before she died?," Lucas snuck up behind me and grabs me by the shoulders picking me up and spinning me around to face him. 

"How do you know Liza?," I ask in utter confusion, my breath is still rapid and it's hard to control my thoughts, my heads pounding.

"Oh you silly brat it's me Lucas, Liza and I could have dated, had your village done what it was told to do. Oh and I was gonna get her back but then you killed her," Lucas tightens his grip hurting my shoulder. Then he's gone.

I'm dropping through the air screaming my head off until I hit grass. I sit up and look around only to be greeted by a sad sight. The boy who I chased earlier was there in front of me.... with a dead Liza on the ground at his feet. 

"Aerith I have missed you dearly, I want to be near you again, I want to hear you laugh. Oh Aerith I miss you so much," 

I stare at him confused "who are you?," I question.

"Oh silly 8 year old I'm the one who gave you your favorite present but of course you would forget, you always forgot about me, that's why I left I knew you didn't love me. That doesn't stop me from loving you though, it's kinda my job," he leans down and gives me a soft kiss on the head before he turns around and disappears into smoke.

I wake up dripping with sweat and tears sliding down my face. No one else is up yet so I just sit there like that, crying and sweating recalling as much as I can from those  dreams. Yet also wanting to forget all of them. My little 8 year old body shivers, I look at the night sky and growl. The stars are full as if afraid and the moon it's only a little sliver in the sky, it does that thing where it's supposed to smile, but instead it's frowning. I keep that in mind as all of the dreams wash away. I try but fail to get back to sleep worried something would happen that would make my friends hate me, I stare at Jackson and growl again how could he say that to me. I sit there with growing hatred. I realize now, some nightmares don't end when we open our eyes.