Dreams Do Come True

Chapter Seventeen

Awkward isn't even the word to describe how I'm feeling right now. The car is so silent, if a fly were to pass by you could hear its wings flap. I turned and looked out the window, staring as the trees pass by. Suddenly I felt Micah's hand brush mine. I looked down, but sadly found his hand to be long gone and miles from mine. His hands were holding the steering wheel and as stupid as it sounds I wish I was that steering wheel.

I turned my attention back to the moving trees outside. Everything was so peaceful and... and...

Why is everything getting so quiet? I felt like I was deaf. I looked over to Micah and almost screamed. Instead of his lean body all I saw was a skeleton. I looked to the backseat hoping to god I saw Ray, Eden and Liza but everyone was just bones. I screamed and closed my eyes. I waited a few seconds.

"This has to be a dream, this has to be a dream." I repeated over and over, expecting everything to poof away. I opened my eyes and just saw darkness. Literally and figuratively.

I felt a dark presence.

"Who's there." I whispered, too scared to yell it out like in the movies.

There was an eerie silence but I knew something was out there. I opened my mouth to whisper who's there again, but was cut short by the ear clenching growl of... an animal? A beast? I really didn't know but it sounded dangerous as hell, and this nightmare just turned deadly.

"You will die here!" Something horrid whispered in my ear. I spun around, and hugged myself.

"What the hell do you want? Why am I here?!" I screamed.

There was a long silence.

"I want you DEAD!" It screeched.

I spun on my heels and started to run, but it felt like I wasn't going anywhere, and as I ran the voice kept on whispering we'll find you, and kill you.

I started to cry.

I tried to run faster, but then the voice would get louder.

I screamed the only name I could remember at the moment.

"MICAH! Micah help me!" Suddenly there was a light in the midst of the darkness. I ran to it and before I knew it I was back.

Back to reality.

"Henrietta!" Everyone screamed.

Someone was shaking me, trying to see if I was alright. I felt the tears scroll down my face. It felt like an infinite waterfall the way it was going.

"Did you have another vision?" Micah's friend Eden said in a sing-song voice.

"No." My voce wavered a little. "Someone just tried to kill me."

Suddenly I heard a loud growl escape Micah's throat. I looked to him forgetting he was there in the first place. His expression almost toppled out of my seat. He face was twisted in anger, and to top it off he started to shake.

"Micah calm down, you don't want to shift in the car." Eden said. I saw Liza trembling and Ray just sat there stunned. I think it was finally starting to hit them that we were on a serious mission and it may just kill us.

I closed my eyes, tears still streaming down my face.

This is all my fault; this is all my freaking fault!

If I hadn't brought this up and tried to be a hero, no one would get hurt or even be traveling on this god forsaken mission. How could I endanger the lives of my friends? Of Micah?!

What is wrong with me? I made a fist, decision made.

"I'm doing the rest of the mission alone. Thank you all for helping me get this far, but I can handle the rest."

Before they started to protest, I jumped out the car and slammed the door. I cast a quick speed spell and ran like hell into the forest nearby. In the distance I could hear them yelling for me to come back but I just ran faster.

Once I was far enough, I stopped and keeled over, trying to catch my breath. I must've ran for miles, because I felt like shit. This I why I never tried out for the track team, I was a dreadful sprinter and was ghastly at long distance.

When my breathing finally calmed down, I tried to remember the directions Mary gave me. She had said to find the portal.

Shit! Micah and his friend were supposed to lead us to that portal. Crap crap crap.

"I guess I'll just have to find it myself."

"You should know that if you run, I'll always find you." I spun around.

"How did you ... but I was running for hours?" I must've looked dumbfounded but who wouldn't. How in the hell did he find me, I had even cast a disappearing spell so that my foot steps would disappear.

I took a step backward, and he took a step forward.

"Please Micah, just let me do this. I can't endanger your lives any longer. And plus this is my burden, I can do this on my own-"

"Stop it!" his voiced echoed through the trees. "If you think I'm going to let you run from me again you must be crazy. I let you go once and I won't do it again."

"What are you-"

"Please just let me finish." I shut my mouth. "The day I told you that you weren't my mate, I lied. I want you so bad it hurts. It hurts every time that freak Ray touches you, and it hurts when you're always running away from me. The only reason I said those things to you was because I was afraid you would turn me down-"

"I thought it was a joke..." he gave me that look that said shut up and listen. And so I did.

"But I can't any longer, and I can't let you do this alone. I won't. With every being in my body I will protect you, and if that means going against my people to save yours then so be it." Everything got quiet; the birds stopped chirping, the wind stopped blowing. It was like someone hit the pause button. I looked at him and he stared intensely at me.

What do I say? I have such strong feelings for him, but what if this is another trick and by tomorrow he's going to say I'm not his mate anymore. I looked down and stared at my dirty converses. When I looked back up he was gone. I felt my heart crack.

He left me again-

"Henrietta." He whispered in my ear. I spun around and within a blink his lips were on mine.

He grabbed my waist and pulled me close. I was resistant at first but slowly fell right into place.

This felt... right.

I pulled out of the kiss because if I didn't, I would have suffocated under his lips. He didn't seem the need to breathe because he just started trailing hard kisses down my neck. I'm going have quite a lot of hickeys when morning comes. Suddenly hard and hot, his mouth came crashing back to mines.

It felt like days and months passed by.

But then I remembered how he rejected me.

I thought about it. What if he's just leading me on, just to let me fall straight n my face? I couldn't let that happen again. It would kill me.

I pushed him back, but him being as strong as a wall of brick, he didn't budge. So I stayed there in his embrace. He stopped kissing me and looked up. His eyes were glowing.

"You'll leave me once morning comes, and you'll start to ignore me and act cold again. Micah please don't break my heart. If this is a sick joke just end it now-"

"I love you. Would I kiss you like that if this was a joke luv." His face was so serious.

I smiled having my answer. He picked me up and we started kissing again. This was utter bliss.

Something in the back of my mind kept bringing up one thing though.

At the end of this journey he'll be walking away mate less. My sacrifice is going to ruin us.