She turned and smiled, as she spoke in her soft voice
“sure it was really good fun”
As we discussed the different enemies and areas we were going to use in this dungeon I worked up the courage. I paused mid sentence and looked at her before the words fell from my mouth.
“w..would you wanna go on a date with me like to the park or something?”
She stopped and looked up at me from her notepad that she was writing our ideas in to. Her eyes that deep purple that captivated me stared at me and I felt them staring almost into my soul I was once agai lost in the depths of her eyes. It took me a moment to realise that she had answered and I had literally just missed it due to my mind drifting. I held my breath for a moment as my mind pieced together the sound I had heard. My heart jumped and I felt all the weight of everything lift off my shoulders. She said yes. I couldn’t believe it I stuttered as I continued
“ y… yeah I was thinking we could have a picnic or something?”
I stooped after this question and basically kicked myself, how lame was a picnic. She smiled as she nodded apparently not lame enough to scare her off. I spent the rest of the day in an almost euphoric state. I was planning what we could do at the park during our picnic. The remainder of the day passed by quickly and when I sat down for tea that night with my mum I asked
“ do you think I could make a picnic this weekend for me and abbey?”
My mum smiled as she looked at me and questioned
“ so you and abbey? How are things? Is this a proper date or just friends?”
I sighed as I readied myself for the answers and the oncoming torrent I knew was about to erupt from my sister I began answering
“yeah me and abbey, and yeah things are good and I think it’s a proper date”
I was cut off by my sister before I could finish explaining the situation to my mum.
“oh that’s cute you to would make such a cute ship proper hash taggable”
I got up and put my plate on the side before heading to my room. The usual stuff that came out my sisters mouth wasn’t worth my time on the best of days. As I sat on my bed I turned on my games console and decided to distract myself. This worked for about 2 hours before i found myself drawn back to the photos ad trying to make any sense of what i had already written down. I spent another hour or so looking through the words and pictures and nothing jumped out at me so i decided that i would yet again call it a night.
That night i had the worst night i had ever had. I was once again in the battle field watching people get cut down around me. Then again i was in the large marble hall and again i felt the searing pain in both my wrist and my back. This time however when i began falling i felt restraints around my ankles and wrists. I tried to move my arms and wrists and felt the resistance keep them in place. I was surrounded by darkness and nothing else. Their was no sound or even light every thing was in total darkness. I woke in my bad and panicked at first as it took my eyes a couple of minutes to process being awake. In that moment i believed i had gone blind and this time i cried out more scared than i had ever been.
My mum rushed into my room and asked me what the problem was. I responded a little shakily
“Sorry i just had a really bad dream.”
“Thats ok dear do you want to talk about it ?”
I shook my head in response and apologised to my mum knowing that this disturbance would most likely make her tired for work tomorrow. I laid myself back down and prepared myself for the nightmare i knew i would be returning to. Each day seemed to drag with my only relief being the brief periods of time that i got to spend with abbey, even these seemed to become less intense
The only light that seemed to be shining at the moment was the weekend when i would be able to spend time with just me and her on our own.