• The dream begins the way it does every night. I'm running through the house searching for somebody. I don't know who i'm looking for, or for what reason in fact am i looking for him. I know he is a man and I know he has something for me, if he didn't, well, why would I need him? As I run through the darkened house I trip over something large and huddled on the ground. I take a minute to restore myself and stand up.
    I kneel on the floor to see the mysterious object and realize it's a body. I turn over the person and begin to breathe heavily. The man's face looks familiar, but yet I can't seem to place a name to him. As I knelt there on the floor trying to figure out who this is I feel a cold breeze fly into the hall. And then, a hand on my shoulder, and another hand on my other shoulder. i shudder but stay silent. Then the stranger lifts me up and leads me off into the hall way.
    "Who are you?"
    "We must leave immediately! You are not safe here!" The man answers me.
    This confuses me but I continue to let him lead me away.
    "Nessa!" I hear somebody calling me. Then somebody grabs my shoulders and begin to shake me back and forth-
    I flew upwards in my bed, and screamed.
    "Vanessa!"
    "What Gabriel?!" I groaned at my boyfriend.
    "I was scared...you were...you were screaming...and I didn't know...and...?"
    "Oh."I said, "I'm sorry." I told him and rolled over. After a few minutes he put his arm over my waist and I fell back asleep.
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    "Nessa." Andrea called out my name.
    "Yes, Drea?"
    "Where did you want me to put the punch bowl?"
    "Um, I guess just put it on the table next to the kitchen."
    "Mmmmm, okay."
    As soon as Andrea said this, there was a knock on my front door.
    "Who is it?"
    "It's Gabriel. Can I come in Nessa?"
    "No, Gabe. You can stay outside all day and night. And then you can sleep in the dogs house too." I said to him as he walked in the door.
    He smiled at me and wrapped his arms around my waist. I smiled back at him as he leaned in to kiss me. He started slowly and softly but gradually the kiss became rougher and deeper. His hands wrapped tighter around my waist and he pulled me tighter to his body, every curve of mine fitting perfectly into his.
    I pulled away from him when I heard my sister clear her throat and I heard Gabe chuckle under his breathe. I winked at him and turned around.
    "Yes, Andrea?"
    "Um, nothing, Nessa," She sighed. "Never mind."
    "So, um, Nessa." Gabriel cleared his throat. "I can't wait for the party tonight."
    "Yeah, me either." I breathed out when he wrapped his arm around my waist and layed his had on my stomach. Even though he'd been doing this for the past 2 months, I still wasn't used to it.
    Gabe and I had been going out for about two and a half years now. He moved into my two story house about 3 months ago. I'd inherited the old house from my great grand-mother when she died 2 years ago. For awhile my mother and father lived with me, my sister, Andrea, and Precious, my two year old pure bred black lab-I Precious got for my seventeenth birthday from Andrea-but about 7 months later, dad passed away and mom went to live with our aunt and her sister, Kailey. She still visits occasionally, and she never really gets upset about dad anymore either.
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