Chapter 1: Dream

Place: Bridgeport (Valarie's Apartment)

Time: 4am in the morning

A sharp gasp, Valarie wake abruptly. Her heart pounding is pounding in extreme where the heartbeat can be heard clearly in the silent night. She rubs away the tears and get up. 

“Oh gosh…it hurts…” Rubbing her head, hope to ease the intense headache. As usual, Valarie wakes up in a great pain. Noticing it is just 4am in the morning, but the pain is killing, she couldn’t fall back to sleep. She leaves the room.

She went downstair and immediately collasped to the sofa. The pain is still there, just not that intense now. Everytime she wake up from the dream, she will find herself crying. Her heart pained as million dagger jabbed straight to her heart. The piercing pain make her gasp and tremble. She try to recall back all the things. Wondering why always the same dream. The same man.

The same old scenes appeared. The same old dream haunted her since she was 10 years old. Seeing herself dying. Lying on the bed lifelessly. Feeling the energy is draining away from her, the sharp pain from the whole body… and there is always a man sitting beside the bed and grieving for her pain.

Valarie can feel his sorrow. She can feel that he is in a great pain. Seeing him guarding her by her bedside, she can feel the intense love from him. It seems like she is everything to him. 

She always wanted to get closer to see his face clearly, the man that loves the girl so deeply in her dream. A sharp pain will wake her up abrutly. It is always a blur. She just can’t see his face. 

“When will this end?” she mumbled to herself. Though the dreams had haunted her for such a long time, but she still can’t get used to the pain. She always wonder why is this happening. Valarie get up from the sofa and decided to grab a coffee.

She always thinks that things happen for a reasons. But she can’t figure out any reasons for this. This dream has haunted her for a long long time. The only person who know about this is her one and only best friend, Sandra. “Is just a dream. Nothing much.” She whispered to herself.

But the man in her dreams does gives her a great impression. The man that can loves a woman so deeply. And the woman he loves look just like her. This made her confuse. It seems like he had taken up a place in her heart. She fidgeted in the chair. “Stop, stop, stop. Is just a dream.” sipping her coffee and reminding herself. She knew that the dream does nothing to her life.

Place: Bridgeport (Hogan Deep Fries)
Time: 12pm in the afternoon

Hogan deep fries, is the favourite place of Valarie to hang out with her best friends, Sandra. This is also where they met each others and become best friends.

 “Hey pretty~~” Valarie found  Sandra sitting elegantly and reading her favourite vogue magazine as usual.

“Oh, there you are. You are half hour late bitch.” Sandra push away the magazines and smirked as Valarie settle down besides her.

“I know..I know…Sorry about that, emergency meeting. I’m starved. Where is my food?” Smiled back to her apologically and start looking for food. This is the usual lunch time meet up where they can chit chat and gossip. Both of them automatically act like bitches whenever they met up. Just for fun.

“I’ve ordered  your favourite pie. Go shove your mouth full and shut up.” Sandra signal the waiter to serve the pie and handed over to Valarie.

“I love you.” Valarie hugs her and really start shoving the pie to her mouth. She is damn hungry when she only have a cup of coffee for her breakfast.

“Why not sitting in our booth? Erk…” asking with mouthful of foods and choked.

“The waiter is cleaning the booth. Some bastard spilled their foods there. Finish up your foods quicky and we change back to our booth.” She pat on her back gently when seeing her choked.

“Well, tell me something new.” Sandra sits oppositely to Valarie with her chin resting upon her hand.

“Nothing new. I spilled a coffee on my boss today, which is Matt and the photostat machine jammed and I spend half day repairing it.” She shrugged her shoulder and saw Sandra curled up her lips with disapproval.

“You bitch. You know what I am asking.” Valarie definitely knew what she was asking but she would like to play around with her. She loves playing with her.

“Ya, right. Well, really nothing new. His face is still a blur. All I can remember is that he has a black hair, Um, a bit silver. And he is quite tall and....” She tried hard to picture the mysterious man in her dream. "and nothing..." Sandra is always very curious about the mysterious guys in her dream. What she concerned the most is whether the guy is hot or not. This made Valarie didn't know whether to laugh or to cry.

“I see. Really nothing new. Well, my turn now. This is something cool.” 

Sandra sit straight and suddenly become very serious. The atmosphere tense up and Valarie lean forward to pay 100% attention on what is coming.

“Wala~~I’m a witch.” Sandra announced dramatically with both hands in the air.

Valarie stunt for awhile and burst into laughter. She laughed until she can hardly breathe. She continued laugh without noticing Sandra’s face is getting darker and darker.

“Hey, bitch.” Sandra said coldly to prevent her dear friends from dying because of laughing too hard.

“Hahaha, I’m sorry…I couldn’t help it…I’m sorry…” She apologized and tried very hard not to laugh.

“What makes you think you are a witch?” She straightened up and asked seriously even though she knew she would burst into laughter again any minutes. 

“Well, if you have not laughed right after I told you I’m a witch you might already know the reasons.” She looked coldly to her best friends and continued. “My mum told me that my ancestors are powerful witch and the history of them, but I didn't pay much attention. In conclusion, I might get some witch's gene from them and have some super power. Maybe I'm a psychic that can tell the fortune, predict the future.”

“You see I predict that Matt will ask you to be his girlfriends and it is now. And I predict that you will accept and you have accepted too and blab bla bla… I really think I’m a psychic.Hahaha” She continued without giving Valarie a chance to retort and Valarie gave up by sitting there listening her continuous prediction.

“Then why don’t you predict for me.” Valarie smiled. Not that she believes they are witches in this world just that she loves her, the only best friends she have. She will believe whatever she said.

“Sure. You will find a very great man that loves you and you love too and you two will live happily ever after.” Without thinking, Sandra blurted out. She really hopes for the best for her best friends. She want to see her happy.

“Thank you. I love you. and you know that.” She can tell that Sandra is saying just to make her happy and she is really touched with that. Both girls laughed and continued chit chat for a while.

“I think is time to go, if not your Matt is going to kill me for kidnapping you.” laughed Sandra.

“See you then” grimaced back to Sandra.

When Valarie and Sandra are leaving, Valarie’s phone rang.

“Hello? Dylan?”

“Yay, sweetie. How are you?”

“Dylan? Your bro?” Sandra asked and Valarie nodded and answered back to the phone. “I’m fine. You?”

“Well, I go first, see you tomorrow.” Sandra leaves.

“Never been better. Tell you something. I got an offer from a band manager in Bridgeport and I had accepted it. So, I’m moving to Bridgeport. Surprise??” Dylan, step brother of Valarie is very excited with the new job offer and he is almost screaming in the other end of the phone.

“Really? Congratulations. I’m really happy for you. Have you found your apartment? When you are moving in? What do you want me to buy for you? Is there anything I can do for you?” Valarie is as excited as her step brother and flooded him with lots of question.

“Wow wow wow, take it easy sweetie. I have everything settle. They provided hostel and you don’t need to buy me anything. And I will be moving in next week. And.. and.. and.. I will hold a little party and wish you could bring Matt with you. k? promise? I’m dying to meet him.” Dylan in returned answered all her question in one shot too.

“Sure sure..I’m dying to see you too. Love you” Valarie can’t help to jump up and down like a kid when she heard that her step brother is inviting her to his party.

“See you then. Love you.” Dylan hung and Valarie is still in hyper mood and rush back to gallery to tell Matt the great news.

~to be continued~