The Tale Of A Broken Soul

Chapter 9: Nightmare

Alina's POV:

I wake up quietly and get up from bed to try to not wake up Emma, but as I'm about to leave I hear Emma ask me "Please don't leave..." I turn around to see the little girl in tears as she begs me to stay.

"Ok, I'll stay." I say as I make my way back to the bed. Emma moves next to me before pulling me into a desperate hug. "Sshhh...its going to be ok, what's wrong?" I asked as I ran my hand through her hair to help calm her down.

She stays quite for a bit before I hear a soft whisper, "...Nightmare..."

I just hum in response as she continued to clutch onto me for dear life, like if she wasn't holding onto me I would just fade into thin air.

Eventually after what felt like hours Emma finally calmed down. Her eyes red and puffy from when she was crying and her nose red from sniffling constantly.

I was about to talk to Emma and asked what her nightmare was about when I heard my name being called

Emma's POV: The Dream

I was surrounded in darkness I tried calling out for Alina or Void but no matter how many times I yelled for them or how loud I got I never got a response... Then out of no where I saw someone I never thought I would see again...

"M-mama" I said the words feeling foreign in my mouth. She just stared off into the distance, not seeming to notice that she was right next to me. I went to grab her hand only for her to yank it away from me, I looked up to see why she did it only to see a look on her face that portrayed nothing but pure resentment and hatred.

"...mama..." I said so quite that I could barely even hear my self speak. The look on her face never softened in fact it only seemed to twist into more hatred as she finally spoke to me.

"Don't call me mama you freak! Stay away from me!!" Each word felt like it was dripping in venom. My heart felt like it was sinking into a never ending black hole, each word that she had said made it feel like a knife was stabbing me in the heart. Then she spoke again "Emma, darling, where are you!!" Her voice sounded desperate.

"I'm right here, mama I'm here...please..." I called out holding back the tears that threatened to leave my eyes. But she didn't turn towards me I screamed over and over trying to get her to attention, for her to see that I'm right here. I grab her hand and she turned to me.

"Get. Away. From. Me." Her voice as sharp as daggers.

"b-but mama I-I love you." I chocked out as the tears I tried to hold back came pouring down my face.

"You expect Me to love YOU, your just a FREAK who I wished was never born." She spat, and just like that she was gone and I was left alone. All over again.

My heart felt heavy like there is this never ending pain weighing it down,and it didn't seem like it was planning on leaving any time soon. is that what mama thinks of me... is that why she would never hug me, or tell me everything was ok?

Before I could get more sucked into the darkness of my own thoughts Alina and Void appeared in front of me. "Alina, Void, you came I thought you guys couldn't hear me." I said happy that they were finally here. But then they started circling me staring at me with the same resentment and hatred that mama looked at me with, and just like that they started talking .

"Poor little Emma did you really think I care about a little girl like YOU! Ha pathetic." Alina voice dripped with the same venom as mama's did as her and Void kept on circling me.

"Awe you really believed that we would help you didn't you.. scared little Emma calling for us over and over just to have no one show up, sad isn't." Void said in a sickly sweet voice. Alina and Void kept circling around like predators getting ready to strike their prey, as they continued to say all kinds of mean things.

And then out of nowhere it stopped. All of it. Alina and Void vaporized into thin air, the completely and utter darkness receding until eventually it all went away..

I woke up in Alina's bed my face still covered in tears when I saw her head towards the door to leave. My heart ache and all I wanted was for the pain to go away. I want Alina to tell me everything was okay and it was just a stupid dream the meant nothing... so as her hand reached for the door knob I called out for.

"please don't...don't leave." I barely got out as my voice threatened to break as my body began to shake from sobing.

I watched as Alina took her hand away from the door knob and turn towards me. Her eyes looked kind and gentle; her expression soft as I hear her speak.

"Ok, I'll stay." Her voice soft and calming unlike the one I heard I'm my dream. I watched as she walked over to me and sat on the bed.

She looked like she was unsure what to do next but as I studied her face all I focused on was how nice and calm she looked. I scooted across the gap that was in between us and I hugged her, I hugged her as tight as possibly could hoping this wasn't my minds way of making me believe everything is calm just before the storm hits.

Then Alina spoke up as she ran her fingers through my hair "Sshhh...it's going to be ok, what's wrong?" Just like that a little bit of the pain in my heart that I thought was never-ending proved that it does indeed end.

My body shook as sobs wracked through it. My nose was red from sniffling but I didn't care all I cared about was Alina's hand that was running through my hair as the words she said repeated inside my head, as those were the just some of the words I always wanted my mama to say to me.

"Sshhh... it's going to be ok."

And just like that every bad thing I experienced in that god forsaking nightmare. Just seemed to fade away...

Hello there, author here I just wanted to apologize for not updating I hoped you enjoyed this chapter and in case some of you are confuse on what's going on in the chapter, most of what we see of Emma's point of view is about a nightmare she had. It was supposed to represent her fears and what she thinks people think about her.

I promise I'll try to update more and just wanted to say thank you for reading this far and that I love you guys

Iya out.

Wait one more thing how would you guys feel about a QnA or a face revel, maybe both??

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