Thursday, August 2, 2012

Chapter 16 "A Restless Nightmare"

10 months later

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Jenna woke up to hear crying on the baby monitor. She ran through the house, a beautiful 5-bedroom modern condo that their friend Jamie Nelson owned and invited them to live in.

On the way down the stairs and into the nursery, Jenna woke up the white puppy they adopted and named Lilly Pup. Luckily, the dog is quiet and lazy, so she didn't make any noise and nobody woke up.

Well, no one except Adrian.

Liza, Jenna and Adrian's daughter, stopped crying as soon as Jenna walked in.

"Looks like she just wanted your attention." Adrian smirked

"How did we make something so... Beautiful?" Jenna stared at her daughter, and looked at her in amazement. Even with her boyish preferences-apparent even as a baby-Jenna could see that they shared a great deal of genetics. They each had blonde hair and light blue eyes, and pale skin.

"Easy," Adrian hugged Jenna from behind. "You're her mother."

Jenna smiled and turned her head away. After all this time, he still treats her like a queen. "Adrian, I love you so much."

"I love you too."

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Jamie woke up to see Marisa standing next to the bed, staring at the wall.

"Risa," he said. "You okay?"


She just stared at the wall.

"The nightmares are back, aren't they?" Jamie walked over to her. "It'll be okay, Risa. We will get through it again. We always will, and always do."

"I'm so scared, Jamie..." Marisa started to cry, and just hugged Jamie tight.

"It's okay, Risa." Jamie kissed her forehead. "It's okay to be scared."

"I don't remember anything from that night..." Marisa started staggering her crying, making it even worse for Jamie. He didn't like seeing Marisa scared and sad.

"C'mon" Jamie led Marisa to the couch in the living room right outside their room.

They just sat there and watched T.V.. Jamie and Marisa often did that in the middle of the night when Marisa couldn't sleep. It helped them forget about the crash, and the 3 months when Marisa was in a coma, her fate unknown to Jamie...




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"Kari?" Travis walked outside in his sleepwear, to find Kari, also in her sleepwear, sitting on a lounge chair.

"Oh, hey Travis." Kari smiled. "I couldn't sleep, so I thought I would come out here and watch the sun rise."

"I couldn't sleep, either." Travis walked up to Kari, extremely nervous. "Kari, I..."

"Yeah..?" Kari got up out of her seat, confused. "Is something wrong?"

"No, no!" Travis rushed to say. "Look, Kari, you know I love you..."

"Oh... Oh my god..." Kari came to the worst conclusion of the situation: He was breaking up with her. "Are you...?"

Travis got down on one knee, and Kari suddenly went from crying, to shocked, to smiling. "Kari Summer, will you marry me?"



"Yes! Yes..." Kari hugged Travis and put on the ring. "Yes, I will, Travis Cross..."

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Jenna and Kari woke up at the same time that night, and went into the living room. They both complained of hearing a knock on wood in that area, and saw a note on the Coffee Table.

"The stakes are higher than ever now."

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