Chapter 6
"Why I'm I having a nightmare that has to do with Ray?"
"My Ray?" I said trying to mimic the lady's voice in the dream.
The voice sounds like mine, but I couldn't see anything. Everything was foggy.
"What's going on?"
"Ray, the same guy that knocked me down?"
Lots of things were not just adding up.
I didn't sleep for the rest of the night, I was just rolling from one end of the bed to the other.
As the night wears on I was wide awake, praying for sleep to come, my mind racing from vivid images from the night mare.
Images I don't understand, blurry but scary images.
I tried to distract myself from the images but they kept crawling back into my mind.
The voices , the sound of the weeping girl.
I don't understand what was happening.
I wanted to scream but I didn't want to disturb Mia.
I was trapped.
Trapped in anxiety and pain.
The feeling to kill myself slowly crept in as it has been happening recently since after the accident.
I held my head, traumatized.
I was running mad, I could feel it.
My mental health was deteriorating.
I held my head even tighter, I could hear voices in my head.
Little, little voices of a lady.
From little voices, I felt being watched again.
The feeling of unease returned, I was no longer suffering from the nightmare.
Someone was in my room.
My body was now at alert, every hair on my skin was standing.
Goosebumps were everywhere on my skin.
The lingering fear and adrenaline from the nightmare mix with the fear of being watched.
I was being drained both mentally and physically.
"What is happening?" I said in my mind.
I tried my best to shake off the feeling of being watched, but the feeling felt so real.
Truly, I was being watched.
"But why?"
"And by who?"
I picked up enough courage to face my fears head on.
I stood from the bed, turned on the light, but I didn't see anyone.
Not even a shadow, yet I could still sense someone's presence.
"Who are you?" I asked scared to the core.
"Show yourself!" I said again this time louder than the first time.
I got no response.
I walked slowly but steadily to the room window, it was halfway open .
I closed it immediately.
I went back to my bed, I didn't turn off the lights because I was scared.
"Was I dreaming?"
"Could this be another nightmare ?"
My brain refuses to quiet down.
Different thoughts kept popping up.
"Could this be my imaginations or I was truly being watched?"
While I was still trying to figure out what exactly is happening to me.
The little voices in my head started becoming louder, warning me to stay away from Ray.
"Stay away from Raaayy"
This voices kept echoing like a mantra growing louder and more urgent with every passing moment.
I try to push them away, but it was there.
Right there in my room.
The voice filled my room, sounds more like it was coming from someone in my room.
My mind keep racing with these questions
"Who are these voices?"
"What do they want from me?"
" And do they keep asking me to stay away from this person?"
"Is it actually the Ray that knocked me down, that they are asking me to stay away from?"
"If yes, why?"
"I have nothing to do with him"
In fact since I was discharged from the hospital, I haven't heard from him nor seen him.
"So why the strange dream?"
The whole thing tries to suffocate me, making it so hard for me to breathe.
This night was becoming longer than usual.
I prayed for the arrival of a new dawn.
The voices in my head and the feeling of being watched intensified as the night wears on.
"Aarrrgghhh" I let out a scream, I couldn't stop myself any longer.
Everything was just overwhelming for me.
The air became thick with unsettling energy, the presence of the unseen still lurks around.
The voices still linger.
I let out another loud scream
"Arrggghhh"
At this point I wasn't considering anyone anymore, my mental health was taking a toil on me.
My eyes were closed, my hands on my head.
I was trembling, my chest was beating so fast and loud, I didn't know when I started crying.
Everything was just too much for me to bear, I couldn't help it.
Mia came running to my room.
"Aubrey, are you okay?" She asked looking concerned.
I hugged her immediately, as the tears hurriedly rushed down my face.
"What happened?" She asked again.
I couldn't talk at this point because my mind was a mess.
"It's okay"
"Everything will be fine " she added while slightly patting my hair.
Slowly the voices in my head vanished and I stopped feeling watched.
Everything was slowing getting back to normal.
My heart beat slowly returned back to normal.
I didn't want to let go of Mia, so I held her tighter because I found comfort in her.
"Mia" I said still trembling from the fear that if she leaves the feeling might return.
"Yes?"
She replied still patting my head.
"As you walked into this room, did you see or feel someone's presence aside mine?"
I asked detaching a bit from her to see her facial expression.
"No, why?" She replied looking surprised
" I had a terrible dream, Mia"
" I couldn't see their faces, just voices "
"Voices of people I don't know, they were saying stuffs I don't understand "
" And when I woke up I felt being watched and I heard strange voices in my head"
"Mia, I don't feel safe anymore, I don't know what is happening to me!" I said
"Shhhh, it's okay " Mia replied
"Can you tell me exactly what happened in your dream?" She added while releasing herself a bit from my grip.
"That's the point, I didn't see anything"
" I only heard voices, voices I can't recognize nor recall what they said."
" Then I heard a lady's voice screaming, it seems like she was warning someone about some sort of danger "
"Mia, the voice sounded like mine"
" For some minutes I thought it was mine, the dream felt so real, too real Mia " I said while sobbing
"Stop crying Aubrey"
"It is just a dream, you'll get over it" she said hugging me
She adjusted the duvet slightly to cover me up while she gently pulled me closer.
"Mia someone is watching me but I don't know why?" I said
"I can feel it, I can sense it, I know it is real, it feels so real" i added
" you are feeling this way because of the night mare, it is normal" Mia said
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