"Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you."
- John Irving
All the thinking will be in italic font.
Third-person POV:
"No! don't come near me," I screamed while running. There were so many corridors. One after another, and then another.
It was dark, so dark. I could not see anything but,
They were after me. I can feel their dark essence behind me. They will never leave me alone.
The unshed tears in my eyes were at the edge and my little legs at the edge of giving up.
But they didn't.
"Don't worry girl, we would never hurt you. You are our princess, Our little happiness." They hissed from behind me.
They were coming close to me.
"Don't come close," I screamed so loud that it hurt my throat.
There was a door and light was coming from there- just few more steps.
I was going toward the door. So close-
Before I could grab the handle, they grabbed my arm and pulled me toward them. They were laughing.
"You can't leave us, we won't let you leave us, you are our sunshine, no one will come for you, we are your everything"
Their teeth were showing. They are monsters. They grabbed me as I tried to fight them.
"You can't leave us"
"No, I would"
They were laughing.
"Stop laughing"
"No"
They were coming closer.
"No" their laugh.
"No"
"Nooooo"
Fayth woke up with a loud scream and frantically looked around. She was sweating and shaking.
She squatted toward the edge of the bed.
"It's just a dream.," Fayth told herself.
"Calm down. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9..." She starts to count numbers. A famous distraction after nightmare.
"You are safe, it's just a dream. They are not here."
"You are safe."
She placed her right hand on her heart. To listen her heartbeats, to make herself calm. To remind herself she is alive.
After a while, Fayth was able to calm down. She knows, how to calm down herself after a nightmare.
They were not a new thing for her.
But every time they come, they leave their mark on Fayth for weeks.
These days, the nightmare had become more frequent. And because of that her sleep schedule was ruined.
Fayth quietly opened the drawer beside her bed and took out the photo frame. There were three people in total. A couple with a child. Both of the people looked toward the child with big smiles.
And 10 years old fayth looked shy as she glanced toward them.
Her parents.
Fayth gripped the frame so hard that her knuckles turned white. Once again voices start to boom in her head. Her breathing turned heavy.
With one last look, she put the frame back into the drawer., And locked it. Locking away all the memories.
She looks at Marley's bed and fortunately, Marley was still asleep. Fayth had come to know that Marley is heavy sleeper.
Fayth sighs, she would not be able to sleep again tonight. She unlocked her mobile screen, It was already 3:00 am.
In the Silence of the night she heard something. The sound was coming from the outside so she went toward the window, opened it., and what she saw, made her speechless.
It was the sound of Rain. It was raining outside.
Beautiful.
Fayth could smell the aroma of Earth, also known as petrichor.
When the raindrop hits dry soil,
The oil is released into the air along with another compound, geosmin, a metabolic by-product of certain actinobacteria, which is emitted by wet soil, producing the distinctive scent.
Fayth had always liked it from her childhood. So she had searched a lot about it.
Fayth had always been a curious child. She wanted to know everything. From the study of heredity to the constellation of stars. She wanted to know everything about anything.
Fayth went out of the dorm quietly,
She didn't want to awake Marley and answer any of her questions.
The Academy was empty, Fayth went toward the Terrace. There were total three main terrace in the Academy and one of them was not far from her dorm.
She wants to be there.
On the terrace. Where she can see the stars. Yes, that illogical part of her brain made her ass to come here.
After approaching Terrace. Fayth noticed her surroundings but nothing was clear with rain and there was only one light on. She did not carried umbrella on purpose, and let the raindrops drench her.
She begins to walk ahead and stops at the middle of the Terrace.
The wind was circling around the raindrops happily when they noticed the girl who just came.
The younger wind watched fayth with curiosity as they have never seen her before. They caressed her cheeks with small gestures and giggled.
But older winds were scared for the girl as they knew what was going to happen.
Raindrops were pouring on Fayth mercilessly. Soaking her whole body with rain.
Fayth moves her hand forward and opened her palm, to take the raindrops on her wet palm.
Maybe Raindrops are the bravest thing created by God.
Want to know why?,
Because they are never afraid of falling.
Rain was Fayth's favourite thing,
After all, in rain, no one can differentiate her tears.
There were many other reasons.
She liked the smell of rain.
She liked everything about it. From the small puddles to the hurricane of memories.
Fayth knew that she was carrying a lot of weight on her shoulders,
And all this time, she had not given her soul the time to adjust.
She has not given herself an explanation, which was needed.
And she knew that she will break at a point. When she will look around her. Just how much of a mess she had become.
She was pushing her emotions back,
Knowing well, she would do that until she could not.
A person can manipulate others easily but when it comes to their own self, they can not run away from their feelings or truth. It will catch up to them eventually.
And now she knows that she couldn't control herself anymore.
This was the limit of her emotions.
They were screaming at her to let them out. And she did exactly that.
It's perfect.
Storm and terrace.
Perfect.
And with that thought.
She falls into her knee's and screamed.
loudly.
A kind of Scream that a person would never want to hear. A kind of scream which can bring tears into persons eyes and kind of scream which crawl under your skin.
"WHY??"
"EVERYTHING WAS FINE THEN WHY??"
She screamed and her fist made contact with the concrete as she punched, looking upon the sky.
Hoping someone would listen to her.
The dark sky boomed with glorious thunder as if it was laughing on her.
But it didn't affect her.
It was nothing compared to the thunder that was inside her.
And then the tears starts to fall. Her shoulder shook, letting all the emotions run out of her.
Fayth was crying, with all she has,
She cried for herself,
She cried for her miseries,
She cried for her past and present,
She cried for them,
She cried for her helplessness.
Fayth was bounded with her emotions as she cried.
She was crying for them.
Fayth forced her right hand to her chest to ease the pain.
The pain. It was Ineffable.
She had never felt this kind of pain.
Heard but never felt. She closed her eyes. Soon her screams turned into sobs.
Fayth was shivering from head to toe.
She felt so cold that she couldn't even feel her fingers.
But this is what fayth wanted.
To feel cold.
To feel numb.
Numb from all the feelings.
She wants to get rid of these feelings.
She was there,
at that spot for almost an hour. Later, she stood up. And put a smile on her pale face.
Which unmistakably showed the pain.
After that, she went toward her dorm.
To get ready for her tomorrow work. Ready to achieve her goal here in this Academy.
But she didn't know that fate has something else for her. The wind caressed her last time as the girl turned to leave.
Fayth entered her room and directly went to bathroom. her wet clothes leaving the trail of water behind her.
She steps out from her drenched clothes and turned on the shower. She was getting ready for her new day.
Not knowing what she got herself into.
Not knowing that,
There was certain someone who was watching her all this time in Terrace.
Watching all of her screams and cries.
Someone who is too lethal to feel anything. And she did exactly that.
And Not knowing that now, she was in big trouble.
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