“Nicole, are these yours?” Tara asked the next morning when she walked in holding the letters. “They have your name on them, who are they from?” she asked as I took them. The top letter said to read it first so I opened it.
Dear Nicole,
It’s hard to explain how you got these letters since I don’t have your address but the time will come when you will find out how they came to you. I know what you have been through. No one your age or any age should have to go through such a hardship and have to deal with the nightmares alone.
Like your friend said in your dream, yes I know what you dreamed about, read a letter that is labeled how you are feeling whenever you feel that way. If you need another letter for the same feeling, place the old one under your pillow and the next morning a new one will be there with the old one. Through this, I hope to be able to help you get over your fears and get rid of your nightmares.
Until the next letter, I hope you have a great day and that nothing happens that the EMTs have to come back.
Until then,
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“Who is it from? How do they know about this?” Tara asked as Kennedy walked into the room. “Did you sleep here last night?” Tara asked looking up at her.
“No, came over to work on the door when Ms. Jane went out this morning to run to the store,” she explained. “What are those?”
“We don’t know, someone knows what happened and sent these letters,” I explained counting 7 letters. “Where did you find these?” I asked Tara as I turned to her.
“They were on the bed side table, they weren’t there last night when we put you on the bed,” she explained. “By the way, how are you feeling?”
“Ok, feel good really, had the first good night sleep in a while,” I said sitting the letters down. “I had a dream but no one died, you had these posters with sayings that apply to my life. My favorite one was one that had Misha on it, said something like if I ever needed him to call, like Dean did when he needed Cass,” I explained.
“Yeah you would like that one,” Tara picked on me. “Come on, we need to unpack and get ready for school Monday,” she said as she left the room and started to unpack her bags in the room we shared last night.
I sat down at the table and grabbed a green apple from the middle of the table and took a bite out of it. Without thinking about it, I started to scratch my arm where I had cut myself yesterday. “Nicole, stop,” Kennedy said grabbing my hand to stop me. “Just don’t think about them ok, you have school to think about right now. Speaking of school, I can give you two rides Monday since I’m going by the college anyway for work.”
“Where do you work?” I asked as she let my hand go.
“I own my own photography business,” she said.
“How old are you?” I asked surprised because she looked to be 25, she couldn’t have her own business.
“I’m 24; I know what you are thinking. With some help from a rich uncle who cares about me a lot, he helped me get a studio and now I run my own business down the street from the college,” she explained. “If you guys ever get done early you are welcome to come by and spend the day with me and leave with me,” she offered.
“We might take you up on that,” I said smiling. I finished off the apple and grabbed my camera as I headed to the bedroom but stopped when I heard Tara singing. I pocked the camera into the room and taped her as she sang Somewhere only we know as she put posters up and unpacked her bags.
I walked across an empty land
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
I felt the earth beneath my feet
Sat by the river and it made me complete
Oh simple thing where have you gone
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin
I came across a fallen tree
I felt the branches of it looking at me
Is this the place we used to love?
Is this the place that I've been dreaming of?
Oh simple thing where have you gone
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin
And if you have a minute why don't we go
Talk about it somewhere only we know?
This could be the end of everything
So why don't we go
Somewhere only we know?
She stopped singing as she sneezed and then continued while she finished unpacking.
Oh simple thing where have you gone
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin
So if you have a minute why don't we go
Talk about it somewhere only we know?
This could be the end of everything
So why don't we go
So why don't we go
This could be the end of everything
So why don't we go
Somewhere only we know?
I let her finish the song before I came in still taping. “Nice singing, I’m sending it to Richard Armitage,” I joked as she turned around to face me.
“Give me that camera or I’ll kill you!” she yelled as she came at me. I ran out of the room still taping as I jumped over Kennedy who was cleaning something off the floor and ran out the door. Tara was still running after me as I ran down the street and ran into a store.
I was hiding in the back of the store near the drinks when Tara came in. I lifted the camera up to see Tara and she saw the camera as she looked around for me. I turned around but ran into a girl with green eyes and long brown hair.
“I’m so sorry,” I said turning the camera off as Tara ran around the corner. She ran into me and made me push the girl down as all three of us fell to the floor.
Tara got up as she continued to reach for the camera but I acted like I would bite her so she stopped and helped the girl up. “Sorry about that, my friend here has some info on me that I was trying to get from her,” she explained.
“It’s ok, but we better get out now, the owner is heading in our direction,” she said pointing to a mirror that showed the owner of the store heading to us with a mad look on their face. We ran out of the store and back to our building.
“What is your name?” I asked as we stopped to catch our breath.
“I’m Kait,” she said as she fixed her hair that was in a hat that went with her combat outfit. “Sorry, my brother is in town and he’s taking me hunting this afternoon,” she said explaining the outfit.
“That is cool,” I said as I started to scratch my arm before Tara slapped my hand. “Hey ass-butt, that hurt!” I snapped.
“You watch Supernatural?” Kait asked happy.
“You have no idea, she talks none stop about Cass and I have to put up with it,” Tara said.
“Hey, I put up with your talk about Richard Armitage,” I snapped. “Like Tara here said, I’m crazy about Cass. Who do you like?” I asked turning back to her.
“Jared Padalecki, even though Jensen Ackles is better looking,” she smiled. “Sorry, but I have to go, my brother is over protective and will worry about me if I’m not at his hotel in time,” she said waving bye as she left.
Once she was gone Tara reached for the camera again but I pulled it away and ran up to the apartment building to find Miles sitting on the couch. “Miles!” Tara yelled as she ran over to him and sat beside him.
“Hey my girl, what’s up?”
“Nicole has a tape of me doing something and she won’t give it back,” she complained as I ran into our room laughing my ass off and locking the door.