"Hey wait up!", Sam yelled as she run towards her sister Roxy. The two of them are walking towards the bus stop where they will ride their bus to school."Double time Sam, you're too slow. It's the first day of school, I can't afford to be late." Roxy her younger sister is a one impatient human being. She always think that she's right but she is not. However, compared to her sister she is stronger, braver, and wiser.
The two of them reached the bus stop right on time. A minute later, the bus arrived. Samantha and Roxy together with the other students went inside the bus and sat on their favorite sits. Roxy usually seats behind the driver because she feels like she is the one driving. As for Sam, her favorite sit is on the very back right corner of the bus where she can enjoy reading her books and sleep.
Krrrrriiinnggggg! Krrrrrriiiinnngggg! (phone ringing)
"Hello?, Mom? Yeah! We're already on the bus." Sam talked to her mother for awhile while her sister Roxy is busy playing with her phone.
"Yes, okay Mom. I'll tell her. Bye! Love you." Sam ended the call and opened her bag to get her novel for her to read. She was reading when the student beside her asked her if what she is reading.
"What's that?" the student asked.
"Um, it's called 'The Dream', it's a novel about love and trust and why dreams are called dreams." Sam explained to the student.
"Sounds interesting. I'm Veronica by the way, you can call me Vicky." The student smiled and offered her right hand to shake. "Oh! Hello. I'm Samantha and you can call me Sam for short." The two of them shook hands and smiled towards each other.
Vicky and Sam talked and laughed for the whole 15 minutes. They hardly noticed that the bus has arrived at the stop. "Oh, we're here!", says Vicky with amazement. "Already?", asks Sam with disbelief. "Yes, come on! We're gonna be late for school." Vicky dragged Sam outside the bus but before they could run Sam stopped Vicky.
"Wait! I forgot about my sister. You go ahead!" Sam told Vicky. "Well, okay! Nice meeting you Sam!" Vicky shouted before she run towards the school.
"Rox! Roxy?" Sam shouted as she went back inside the bus that's about to go back to the terminal. "Excuse me Sir. Have you seen my sister? She is seating behind you." Sam asked the driver nervously.
"The one who is wearing a white T-shirt with a letter 'A' on it and braided her hair?" asks the driver. "Yes, that's her!" Sam says with relief. "She already went out of the bus 5 minutes ago." Explained the driver.
"Really?, thank you Sir." Sam went out of the bus and run towards school. She couldn't believe that her sister did not wait for her.
At School:
Veronica was walking in the lobby facing the Registrar's office when Samantha saw her.
"Vicky!, where are you going?", asks Sam while walking towards her direction.
"Hey! I'm going to the Canteen. Wanna come?", she offered Sam. "Maybe next time." Sam answered with a sigh. "What's the matter?" Vicky asks while looking closely to Sam's face. "I have to find my sister's room first.", Sam explained.
"You haven't seen her earlier?" asks Vicky. "I haven't. But the driver told me that she went out of the bus." Sam says, unconvinced. "What is her course? Common let's look for her.", says Vicky. "No, I'm okay. Just go to the canteen and eat. I know that you're hungry." Sam told Vicky.
"Are you sure?" asks Vicky. "Yeah, definitely!" Sam told Vicky with a reassuring smile on her face. Vicky smiled back and continued her walk to the canteen. "I hope you'll find her quick!" says Vicky while walking towards the canteen. "I hope so!" Sam replied.
Samantha was walking on the library lobby when she saw a familiar sight. It was Roxy and she was not alone she was with a... "This could not be right, why is she with a goat?" Sam was talking to her self while walking towards the direction of the goat and her sister.
"Hey sis! Meet my friend the Satyr!" Rox introduced her friend to Sam like it is a person. "Wait, is it a human dressed like a goat? or it is a human and I'm hallucinating right now?" Sam cannot believe what she is seeing and suddenly felt dizzy.
"Samantha! Sam? wake up! We're already here! Come on! All of the students are out of the bus." Roxy is trying to wake Sam up for she's deeply asleep for almost 30 minutes.
"Wh-What happened to the goat?" asks Sam while breathing heavily. "What goat?" Rox asks while making a 'what the heck' face. Sam looked all over the bus and realized that she was dreaming. "I have a dream again." she finally answered Roxy. "What kind of dream? A 'goatly' dream?" Roxy asks Sam with a laugh.
"Okay, you go laugh about it but it was so real that I can't even point out if this conversation that we're having right now is real or not." Sam was so serious. She's thinking so hard when the bus driver approached them. "Hey girls? I have to go now." Sam's attention was caught by the driver and the two of them went out of the bus.
"Hey Sam! You okay?" asks Roxy. "Um, yeah! I'm fine." Sam replied. "Of course you are, your Samantha Roberts and nothing can put you down." Roxy giggles.
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When She Sleeps
Mystery / ThrillerThis is a story of a girl whose life changed when she turned 18. She never thought that her ordinary life can become extraordinarily insane. Samantha "Sam" is a girl whose life rotates only in school and home. Her parents are not pressuring her to...