CODE RED (Book 1)

Hard To Face Reality

My eyes snapped open from the sound that broke threw the quiet of my bed room. I blinked a couple times trying to adjust to the darkness surrounding me but it never came. It was still in the middle of the night, not what I was expecting because I hadn't remembered going to sleep at all.

My mind had woken up with me so I wasn't distracted by sleepiness as my eyes continued to look around my dark room as I lay on my pillow.

There was nothing now, not a sound that I had just heard seconds before except the slight banging on the window from the wind outside. I sighed in half annoyance, I had school in the morning and I needed to get up early for it, I wasn't going to get enough sleep if I woke up by a sound that obviously didn't happen. Rolling over on my other side I closed my eyes again.

A few minutes passed before I heard the thud outside my door. I opened my eyes again about to turn around out of curiosity but found that my body would not move. My eye brows creased in confusion. What? My muscles felt stiff- as if frozen. I didn't understand what was happening to my body. I tried to move my arms and legs but they wouldn't budge from the side position I was in. I was stuck laying on my pillow, the only thing I could move was my eyes as they darted around the darkness in sudden fear.

I was beginning to freak out, it was dark but yet I felt a presence in the room with me watching me as I pathetically couldn't move to defend myself. In one swift inhale of breath I was hyperventilating because I couldn't breath, it felt as if I had just done a mile run the way I desperately breathed in air, and so quickly an ice cold hand gripped the bottom half of my face in a strong hold before snapping it to the side that was when I woke up.

I screamed loudly as my eyes opened to be met with the bright rays of the sun lighting up my bed room. My alarm clock screamed with me in unison as it was the time for me to wake up for the day.

My screaming stopped abruptly after I looked around myself to see nothing that could hurt me physically. My heart thudded in my chest and ears as the calm feeling came back to me.

I was shaking.

Rakeing my hand threw black strands away from my face I sighed in relief. It had been another nightmare about my dad. He was taking over my head- even though I may have escaped his torment on beating me he was still stuck in my mind whenever I went to sleep.

I jumped as my mom slammed my door open looking panicked. Gareki are you okay?!

Even though I had been having nightmares ever since I left the hospital- or should I say ever since my dad had been taking away to jail she was still shocked awake by my screams even though it had been happening almost every night.

Her eyes turned to me and saw that it had in fact been a dream. She sighed a breath of relief. Thank goodness. It sounded like you were getting murdered in here!

I didn't say anything as I felt my muscles continue to shake from the lasting effects of the dream. I hadn't grown accustomed to the nightmares either, I was still just as scared the night they had first began.

My mom still stood in the doorway looking at me unsure. Her face turned melancholy before she spoke. Gareki, I've noticed that these nightmares of yours aren't going away, I'm not saying this would be a good idea for you or not but maybe we could-

No. I said abruptly. I knew what she was going to say before it even passed her lips. She wanted me to see a counselor- a shrink, I didn't want to sit in an office with a person with a clip board asking me random questions as I lay on a couch or chair. I wasn't crazy neither did I have a personal problem. Why were both Alex and my mom trying to make me forget so quickly didn't they understand I needed time for Christ's sake!