Dream with Me ✔️

18: I don't Like You Back

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Aurora ☪︎
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Chapter 18
I Don't Like You Back [Edited]

"What's going on? What do you mean? What are you saying?" A familiar, feminine voice cries out. I hear some dull taps in the back of my mind... or maybe it's in the front. Tap, tap, tap.

It's dark here, like always. It's almost like seeing nothing, not black, not static, no light, just nothing. My body feels heavy, I can't move them at all. I'm stuck. I'm stuck inside.

"Maya, you need to calm down," A tired voice responds. I've heard this voice recently, I know I did.

"How can I calm down when you tell me that? It's my daughter! It's your daughter!" The voice starts to get louder and... closer. It feels like I can reach out and grab it if I try hard enough.

"I just came to warn you it was a possibility. It's been so long that at this point, we have to wait and see if she wakes up." This voice stays calm, leveled. It's like they've gone through this before or they already prepared themselves.

"If? Are you kidding me!? Why do you keep saying that?" She screams. The voice echoes in my inside mind and a sharp pang hits the left side of my head. I try to flinch, touch my head, move, anything, but I can't. There's a low beeping that starts to make itself known.

"Oh god... you don't believe in her." The voice cracks. Where have I heard this before? I know this voice too. I feel like I've listened to it my whole life. "You don't believe in her. You don't think she'll make it do you? Do you!"

Another sharp pounding hits the side of my head, this time lasting longer than the last. It starts to pound with the rhythm of the beeping sound. I want to scream, I want to move. I start thinking of my hand, imagining it moving, lifting, holding my head, anything.

"Oh my god."

"What's happening?!"

I feel something warm envelop the hand I want to move. I can feel my frustration building up inside me, like it's fuel for me to move. I use that to keep going. The beeping starts to get louder, more distinct, and closer. There's another beeping that starts to go off which makes me even more angry.

Tap, tap, tap. Something bright is coming, it's coming towards me.

A jolt courses through my body from my fingertips all the way to my brain. The jolt starts to tire my body and I can feel all of my emotions draining away.

The light starts to disappear and the nothingness starts to blanket over me again.

"Aurora? I'm here!" I know who it is, my mother.

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Saturday seems to come to a hell of a lot quicker when you keep overthinking about it. I'm not nervous about Theo himself. I mean yeah I get nervous around him, but I'm more worried about this date. We've obviously hung out alone before with no problem, but this is a date. It's going to be different and more intense. I don't want to mess it up and ruin a potential something.

I haven't seen him since we admitted feelings for each other. Not on purpose though, I've been having trouble keeping up with my work lately. I can't afford to slack off and fall behind, my scholarship depends on my grades.

I can't help but keep getting distracted by my headaches and dreams I'm constantly having, worried it's something much bigger. Part of me wants to go to the doctor to get it checked out, but the rest of me is telling me not to. I'm not sure why, but something keeps telling me to not go. My thoughts quickly disappear when I spot the familiar blue-haired frat boy coming in the cafe doors.