The Dream

Chapter 2

"Alexis get up!" Hollered my aunt from downstairs.
I suddenly got up only to realize that it was all a dream.
A dream.
The dream.
The dream that has been haunting me from ages.
And my phone was warning me with the pathetic alarm I put.

Day number a thousand and something I woke up like this... With panic and sweat and not knowing what was going around me until I could come into my senses and out of my "dreamworld".
Yeah,I know it's such a bummer to not know what happened to that voice.
But let me tell you that this voice which keeps haunting my dreams? Well trust me. Even I don't know to who it belongs to. But I do know one thing. I've heard it before. It's all very faint to me but I do know the fact that this voice belongs to someone who I knew.

So yes. My name is still Alexis. That wasn't a hallucination from my dream. However, right now I live with my aunt who I never knew existed till I was 16.
I used to live with my foster parents who adopted me when I was 5 years old and yes them being people who I feared a lot was no hallucination either.
I was too young when I was adopted to realize that I was taken into the wrong hands. When I finally turned 15 I was fed up with the way I was treated and decided to put up a search on myself to know who my parents were and if I had any relatives still left somewhere out there.
Trips to the library,to my orphanage,even continuous pestering with my foster parents asking who my parents were didn't help at all.
One year later, Finally, as if some spirit answered my questions on a fine day..

Two years ago..

"Miss Willows, you have a letter delivered by the postman. I suggest you go pick it up before they see it." Said one of my servants sadly.

Bingo! Whatever you are thinking you are right... I had been owned by a rich and cruel couple to add on to my fate who had on servants at home to take care of me. All of them were ordered to treat me just like they treated me. However,this one servant..I would rather call my friend,Brenda, was the most kindest to me and we grew up to become friends. She had two kids and since they were having a financial crisis she ended up working for the Moyer's(Gary and Anna).
So whenever I would get into trouble with the Moyer's she would help me solve them and she would also warn before something big would happen.
Thus, her warning of the Mail I got.
I usually don't expect posts to me especially since I wasn't allowed to get them from any of my friends.
So this one mail post did surprise me and I ran downstairs.
But I was won over by Anna.
"Alexis Willows! Now what might this be? Haven't I already told you that no postman may be allowed to deliver any mails which are addressed to u? Now wha-"
There she stopped mid sentence.

I still do not know to this day what I would have done if she had thrown the letter out or burnt it.

She slowly opened it--let me tell you,Anna is a woman of her words and she never ever stops mid sentence. So this was a first to me
As she slowly read the contents...
"GARYYYYYY!!!!!! COME DOWN HERE RIGHT NOW! "
She practically yelled out at her husband as if she was going to strangle him to death.

Fear. It started crawling into me slowly not understanding what was going on.
As soon as Gary came into sight,
"Gary, have you contacted Elizabeth again? I thought we already discussed this before! Now look what happened. She wants to keep Alexis to herself!"

Wait???...What??? What in the world did I just hear? Someone else named Elizabeth wants me? Who is she? And why is Gary so concerned about me suddenly? Where did this come from?

I cleared my throat. "Uhmm I'm sorry to interrupt but what is going on here? Who is this Elizabeth? And why does she want me and why did sh-"

"Hold on Alexis. Let me tell you something. She is your aunt. Your mother's younger sister. An-"

"Gary!!!! We were never supposed to tell her! Keep quiet and keep it that way!"

"No An! We have to tell her. I am fed up of pretending she's our daughter when we have other things to worry about. I'm sorry for doing this behind your back but she's gonna turn 18 soon and I found her searching for her parents the other day...

"Alexis I am sorry to say I do not know who your parents are but I myself have researched on your behalf and your aunt Elizabeth would like to take you in. And no. This does not mean I suddenly started caring for you or that I would like to help you for your sake. This thing I've done is not for you, but me and Anna since you are getting older and we cannot treat you like a child anymore. You will start to fend up for yourself and we will not tolerate it. We were able to control you in our hands till date but now it's time to say hello to your aunt. This is what the letter was for. "

Whoa whoa whoa hold it...aunt? Parents? Gary helping? My mom's younger sister? What is this? A trick?
All this information at once was making my head hurt that I couldn't figure out if what I heard was right or wrong. So I myself snatched the piece of paper from Anna's hand who was standing like a statue in disbelief.
And sure enough it was written by Elizabeth asking for me to be taken under her care and thanking the Moyer's for contacting her and letting us reunite.
I stood there. In disbelief. In shock. In a mad mind that I kept pinching myself to make sure this was real.
I finally found my aunt!!! After a long wait!

Now..

And so here I was in my aunts house two years later and she turned out to be an amazing person!
I go to school here and I've made some pretty neat friends.
One day I sat down with my aunt asking about my parents and I don't even know if I believed half of what she said to me was true or not. It was since then that I started getting these dreams well they came in different forms- nightmares sometimes, and dreams sometimes. But this one voice would always be present in them and it haunts me. Well what do u think I found out about my parents? It isn't anything ordinary let me tell you.