Chapter 19

Chapter 19

Needless to say, the party ended after that. The rest of the night was a blur of hysterics, flashing lights and questions. I was pretty drunk and exhausted, both physically and emotionally, so I wasn’t really coherent for most of it. I don’t even remember going to bed.

At some point I must have actually fallen asleep, because I had a dream. I’m lying in my bed facing the door. It slowly opens and then my best friend steps into the doorway with a smirk on his face as he leans to his right against the frame and crosses his arms. Then this girl with blonde hair comes up behind him and puts her right hand on his right shoulder and her left hand around him on his stomach. He’s pretty tall, so his left shoulder is blocking most of her face so I can only see above her nose. That was enough though; her eyes captivated me. They were kind yet at the same time, aggressive. They were giving, yet selfish. Honest yet deceitful, comforting yet deviant. I could tell by her eyes that she was smiling. My attention gets drawn back to my best friend as he moves to pick something up off of my desk and holds it up for me to see. It is one of my favorite vampire books. He and the girl look at each other for a moment, then they both look back at me. He tosses the book towards me and it lands on the floor, right beside my bed.

When the book hits the floor, I wake up. As the dream wears off, the memory of what happened that night sinks back in and the reality of it hits me hard. I begin to sob and I don’t stop until I fall asleep. Maybe I didn’t even stop then.