Page 3 of One Last Wish

I was knackered, having worked five days in a row. Thank fuck it was Saturday tomorrow. One more shift and I’d finally get a day off.

Deciding to put a movie on, I got dressed into my comfortable night shorts and top. The film had hardly started before I fell asleep.

I’d been having a reoccurring dream the last few weeks, and as I slipped into dreamland, it was waiting there for me again.

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“DON’T GIVE UP ON YOURSELF, Alora.” The black figure called out towards me. It was always a male voice, but I never got to see his face.

“Who are you?” I asked the figure, taking a step closer. Where was I? It felt so damp and cold. Was I in a cave? If I listened close enough, I could hear gentle waves crashing onto a shore in the distance.

“No one,” the voice chuckled. “I’m no one.” Shadows began to surround me, suffocating me! I thrashed against the mist, trying to claw my way to the surface. “Relax. Shadows can’t hurt you.” A hand grabbed mine, pulling me out of the darkness!

I shot up in my bed, my skin clammy from cold sweats. Wow! That hand feltreal. I shook my head. Maybe I needed to stop reading my fantasy books for a while. That had to be why these dreams were becoming so vivid. It must have been that new book series I was reading. Touching my hand that the figure had clasped, I frowned, confused as to why it still tingled and was slightly wet. Was I sweating that much?Great!I was finally going insane! This was how I’d die! I was going to be some raving, crazy woman that slept-walked into traffic because of a deranged dream!What a way to go!

Needing a glass of water, I walked out into the kitchen to find Evelyn making out with a guy on her couch.Yuck!Isiton that couch!

“Don’t mind me!” I winced when they noticed me. Evelyn was on top of the blonde guy, dry humping him.

“This is Danny, one of my friends from college,” Evelyn beamed, throwing her long dark hair behind her shoulders. “Danny, this is my roommate, Alora.”

“Judging from the way you’re humping him, I’d say you’re past thefriendphase.” I remembered her mentioning him a few times. They were doing the same law course, and often studied until the early hours together.

Evelyn snorted as Danny gave me a small, shy wave. “Yeah you might be right.” She wasn’t even looking at me as she spoke. “We’ll try not to make too much noise.” That was a lie! I could tell by the look on her face. She wasneverquiet.

“Great! Thanks!” I’d seen enough. My glass was full now, anyway. Quickly, I retreated back to my room. I really hoped they moved into her bedroom at some point. Evelyn could getreallyloud if the guy knew what he was doing.

I couldn’t even remember the last time I had gotten laid. It had to bemonthsago. I was due a rumble in the sheets. It was finding a guy I found attractive that was the issue. Being fucked up, it was no surprise that I liked bad boys. He couldn’t be just any bad boy, though. He had to have dark featuresandtattoos. The right kind of tattoos sent me feral. Arm sleeves with geometric patterns.Ugh!Fuck, yeah, that shit did things to me.

Bad boys knew how to use me and fuck me like they hated me. I didn’t want soft kisses and gentle caresses. I wanted a hard pounding. Thrusts so forceful and deep, that I felt my body might break from the pressure.I really needed to get myself laid soon!

I put my earplugs in and fell asleep to a classical orchestra. If Evelyn and Danny did fuck in the living room, I wouldn’t hear them now.

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SHADOWS BEGAN TO CREEPup my bedroom walls. I was dreaming; my bedroom wasn’tthisbig. It was like it had been stretched by a long lens camera. Sitting up, I watched as grey mist began swirling on the wall right next to me. If I reached out, would it feel real? Something stopped me, though. Fear was pinning me to my bed.

“YOU!” a voice seethed. This wasn’t a voice I’d heard before, it was female. “You’re stillweak. After all this time! You’ll never have him!” The shadows seemed to react to the voice. Well, this was a weird dream. I was kind of missing the male shadow figure now. I had been enjoying him whispering sweet nothings in my ear. If only he had a face. I might have been able to get off to images of him. Why was I horny in mydream? “You’ll never have him! I won’t allow it!” the woman's voice sneered as a weird light started to appear in the middle of the shadow. Suddenly, I was upside down, but still in my bed. A hand pushed through the shadow unable to grab me because I was now on the ceiling. The arm glowed in the strangest way.

Yep, definitely the weirdest dream I’d ever had.

“RUN!” A male voice shouted, pushing me out of my dream again.

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IJUMPED AWAKE, MYchest heaving as I calmed my breathing. Yeah, no more books for me for a while! That was fuckingweird!

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