Innocence

II

"What?"

How on earth was that possible? Surely it couldn't be possible that two people shared the exact same dreams every night.

It was impossible.

I am the only one with this problem, I am and the one has to deal with it alone.

The prospect of having someone else with these issues... I didn't even know how to respond.

"I have the same dreams as you Crystal," he repeated, and I could do nothing but stare at him with wide eyes.

I stared until I finally got a grip on myself.

"How is that possible?" I whispered, turning my gaze away from him to look at the floor. I then looked back to him. "What does it mean?"

I could hear my voice shaking as I spoke and damn, it was weird.

But I still had more questions: like how did he know I had three dreams and why did he rock up at my house at 3am instead of a reasonable hour and was his mother really in America? I wanted to know more about his sister too, maybe she played a part in this.

The questions flew around in my mind, fighting to get out while I struggled to keep my grip on reality.

Thankfully, Calum wasn't judging me at all, only staring at my sympathetically.

"I think that's enough for you for one day, you look drained."

I wanted to argue but suddenly I was yawning and I scowled. He knew so much, he held more answers than I could dream of.

Oh, the irony.

But I wasn't gonna let him get away with just that, I wanted to know more, even if they were just little pieces of info.

"What about your mother?" I asked quietly, wanting to be sensitive with it in case his mother wasn't around anymore.

A flicker of sadness that passed through his brown gaze gave me a hint but he didn't provide me with the final answer because all he mumbled was:

"I don't have a mother."

I studied the sadness in his face for a moment but he shook his head, and the miserable look I'd seen was gone.

Obviously he did have a mother, because everyone did. You can't exactly be born if you don't have a mother.

"But I do have a sister," he swiftly changed the subject. "There's something I told the truth about."

"Who's your sister?"

"Zoe, she's fifteen. But she acts like she can take on the whole world and she scares me sometimes."

Zoe? That sounds normal enough.

"I try to look out for her, but she won't have any of it. She's fairly independent. She's also not my biggest fan, considering I moved us over here."

They moved here? How is that possible, he doesn't look old enough...

"How did you move here? You're what, sixteen or seventeen?" I was confused. Maybe he had like a million dollars and a fake ID. He seemed pretty good at lying and acting things that he wasn't. I wouldn't be surprised.