The Beat In Our Hearts

00| Prologue

6 years ago

Hailey

Im well aware of the faint sound of my phone ringing as I awake from my slumber, I loudly exhale, patting my hand under my pillow to find my phone, switching off my 04:30 am study alarm. Not sure why I still had it on because I was done with test week a week ago.

I'd weirdly been having dreams about my middle school crush. I exhaled loudly again, frowning when the morning sun rays blinded me. I've been so nostalgic lately, I finally was over Luke, my ex and maybe it had finally dawned on me how lonely I really was.

I was so nostalgic lately everytime I thought of the past because as a teenager I was happier, my high school friends were my everything and we all had each other. But then college happened and we all had new friends and relationships.

I looked over at Penelope my roommate, I faintly smiled because she was the best part of college, I'd met her freshman year when we first got our dorm rooms, now in junior year we were the best of friends.

I'd had the dream again today, just like a week ago. I never remember what its about but it's definitely the same person I haven't seen in ten years, a middle school friend that I'd briefly talked to on facebook 6 years ago until we lost contact again.

Does everyone randomly have dreams about people they haven't seen or talked to in so long and wonder where they are in life.

I get off bed and wear my pyjama shorts and top I took off during the night because it was too hot and decide to go back to bed because I might be an early riser but its four thirty five and I won't have to be up for another 3 hours.

I finally lose my internal battle and open my facebook app to check out if he still has an acþne account. I type out his name on the search bar and nervously wait for a second before three different Oliver Marks accounts appear. I randomly pick one and I know its him from his profile...I go through his posts only to find out his last post is dated a year ago.

One thing's for sure though...hes finer than wine and he isn't as  lanky as he was back then.

Because I'm not the first and last person to stalk someone on social media, I decide to search him on IG. I tell myself it's because he doesn't have any new stuff in his facebook

Who uses facebook anyway

Unfortunately as I find and open his account I can't see his feed because his account is private

Going down  a rabit hole I decide to follow him on impulse. I tell myself it's only to see what's going on in the life of the one guy I keep on dreaming about, he might be dead for all I care and he's reaching out in my dreams because I might have developed psychic powers

I mentality scold myself almost cancelling the request to follow him but then remember he'll be notified of that too.

Ohh God!

"Hailey!"

"Hailey! Gosh we'll be late"

I'm woken up by Penelope 4 hours later already dressed to go

"Are you leaving already?"

My roommate scowls at me, she has a bowl of cereal on one hand and is rapidly typing on her phone with the other

" no, I can't go alone, Andrew is at the studio, and I'll be bored if I go there alone "

Andrew is her brother, he's a college senior, but he doesn't go ymto our university, his is a town away. I've only met him a couple of times so I don't know him much, except he talks way too much for my liking and he's an artist.