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Her eyes flashed open. It had been just another nightmare. She took a deep breath of relief, but it didn’t last long. Darkness surrounded her completely. Only the sound of her quick breaths could be heard in the silence of the night. She reached out to grab her phone from her bedside table, but her hand only met with a cold and rough surface. The breath caught in her throat. She wasn’t in her room, where was she?!
The girl sat up quickly and tried to stay calm. She tried to see something in the darkness, but her eyes hadn’t gotten used to the lack of light yet. She pricked up her ears, hoping the sounds could give her a clue of where she was. It was completely quiet.
She was about to look for her phone in her jeans pockets when she realized she was wearing her pijamas. A tight frown fromed in her brow as thousands of questions boiled in her mind.
Something suddenly made a sound. A buzzing sound, continuous and very loud, was getting closer. Shining bright, a far away light accompanied the noise. The light was closer by the second, illuminating the road.
A road? What was she doing in the middle of a road?!
The girl yelped when the source of that noise approximated at the speed of lightning. It was about to hit her. Shutting her eyes tight and holding her arms before her face to try and protect herself, she braced for the impact. But it never came.
“What-?” A male voice startled her, making her open her eyes.
Before her was a boy around her age. He had tan skin, sweet brown eyes, short dark hair and strong built. The boy was sitting in his motorbike, which still roared loudly. He stared at her in utter confusion.
“Hey, are you okay?” He worriedly looked her up and down.
“I… I…”
“What’s your name?” He asked her instead, hoping that at least she could answer to that.
“Catori” She answered, gulping down the lump in her throat.
The boy dedicated her a kind smile that lit up his brown eyes and walked up to her, leaving his bike behind for a moment.
“I’m Scott” He took his jacket off and offered it to her, who hesitated for a moment before taking it and putting it on. “Do you want me to take you home, Catori?”
“Please” The girl nodded as she huddled under his warm jacket.
All she wanted to do was go back home and pretend like all that had been a nightmare, that she was dreaming. It had to be a dream, because she was actually in her bed, in her comfortable and safe room.
“Hop on” Scott sat on the motorbike again and she slowly followed.
Still in a daze, Catori positioned herself behind the boy and heaved a sigh as she put the helmet on. He had given it to her even though he apparently had only one.
“Hold on tight” He warned her, and she complied by wrapping her arms around his stomach.
Scott started the engine, and she shut her eyes tight as she waited to arrive home and put an end to that nightmare.
It had to be a dream.
It didn’t make any sense that she found herself lost, in an unknown road in the middle of the night and a boy she didn’t know had offered her to take her home. No, she would soon wake up in her bed and realize it all had been just a strange dream.
It had to be a dream.