Foggy dreams and Hothouse foreboding fog.
All I saw was fog. But then, that's how it always began.
With fog.
The heavy fog made the air thick and harder to breathe. It's surrounded me in a suffocating cocoon.
This was my idea of hell.
A blinding white light flashed through the fog. Panic overwhelming my senses, I turned around, frantically searching for a way out, the feeling of gritty sand beneath my feet.
And then another blinding flash. Something was moving through the fog; I could feel the change in the air surrounding me.
"Kathy…" a man's voice whispered.
I could detect a little bit of a different kind of accent in his voice, though it was barely noticeable. I felt a chill run down my spine at the eerie, haunting sound.
"Kathy…"
I began turning every which way, looking for the source of the voice.
"Kathy…"
I could see a dark figure pushing through the fog- a man, walking towards me.
God, why couldn't I open my mouth to scream for help? Why couldn't I scream? "Kathy…''
I could make out his dark hair, his lean figure, and his substantial height... but I could not see his eyes. Oh, those eyes... I remember those eyes.
I opened my mouth and tried to cry out but my voice was gone.
"Kathy…"
He was getting closer. My heart was racing in my chest as I tried to think of a way to escape. He was nearly in front of me now. I looked up and let out a silent scream of terror at what I saw; his eyes were white in colour and opalescent, but they seemed to hold the pain of ages long past and burdens too great for any one man to bear. They seemed to call me- no, beg me for something, but I could not understand what.
I screamed once more, but there was still no sound. I broke out into a run but I could hear his voice call out to me through the fog.
" Kathy... Kathy... Kathy…"
Beep! Beep! Beep!
I shot up in bed, perspiration beading all over my body. I blindly felt my screaming alarm clock, slamming my hand down on the off button harder than was necessary. I ran my hands over my eyes wearily trying to shake the feelings of helplessness and confusion brought on by the dream.
The dreams had gotten worse since my family had moved to the small main town of England called Bramshott. I didn't know if it was the stress that made them worse or the increasing dread of my first day of school. But whatever was causing them they had to stop. I didn't know how much more of it I could take before I wound up in the Loony bin.
I had been having these dreams for years but only of late had they become frightening. Before there had only been the fog and sand and that ominous voice with the hand of a different accent. But now a face came with that pleading voice.
It was his eyes that I found the most frightening. White and opalescent, but filled with so much pain and longing. They unnerved me to my very soul. This mysterious dream man made me feel like he wanted something from me, but I couldn't understand what and he seemed familiar, so familiar with his black hair and opalescent eyes, but I knew that I had never seen him before. I should have remembered him; there was no doubt of that in my mind.
It was dark still, but the first days of Dawn were peaking through the glass walls of the fragrant hothouse. It was always this way in the mornings and I could always be found living across the cushioned white wicker bench in the middle of the rather large glass building at that early hour. It was one of the few places that no one cared to bother me, not even my best friend Sophia. The Wildflower hall, being a hotel, had very few places for private, undisturbed contemplation. The hothouse was one of them. At that moment I was contemplating the strange feeling I had in my gut that something was going to happen, though good or bad I couldn't tell.All I knew was that it was something importa
I pushed in a quarter and then another after it before dialing the number to my brother's college dorm. I knew that his classes were later than mine, so it was perfect time for me to have a heart to heart talk with my brother. I just hope he's up till now, I don't want to disturb his sleep, but I know that he's a morning person.The phone rang and rang, its annoying trill grinding on my already raw nerves. My palms were getting sticky and wet from the sweat, making the receiver slip around through my hands. I was nervous about my first day, but I would never accept this fact out loud.Why else would I be bothering my brother at what would very likely to be called an inconvenient tim
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Katherine grabbed her books and ran out of the algebra 2 classroom door, only barely waiting until the bell rang to make her escape. She couldn't take another minute of it. It was worse than it was at her other school. They hadn't been so hatefully cruel, so utterly malicious back in Chicago.Yes, they had teased her, but there was no real ill will with it. She hadn't ever thought she would miss that teasing, those words she had seen as so harsh then. But now she did. She would trade places with any one of the kids she went to school within Chicago and would be grateful for it.She headed for the bathroom, feeling sick. She pushed past some of the girls who had been cruel to her- Deirdre Kirkpatrick, Alyssa Addison and Christy MacDonald, she remembered briefly.She ignored their laughs at her agitated state, yanking