Dreams or nightmares

"Wow! That means you can work in Zara's Cuisine" Ashton loudly exclaimed his eyes shining like twinkling stars.

"Oh! Zara's Cuisine" Serene muttered remembering the famous restaurant in the upper class part of the city which she also has often visited for meetings, dates and casual hangout of acting teams.

She released a sigh remembering her predicament "no one will wanna work with me Ash" she lamented sadly fiddling with her dinner already losing appetite.

"Com'n Serene don't think like that, not everyone will dislike you" Ashton comforted trying to reason with the dimmed star.

"Hah! Not everyone is like you and your brother Ash, you guys are Angels".

"Huh Angels? Angels with no wings and halos" he commented giggling at the thought of being a wing less angel.

"The wings and halos must be spiritually hidden" Serene also laughed with him enjoying the peaceful moments that are hard to come by in her unfortunate life.

"I mean it, you guys have good hearts" cutting off her laughter she stated the fact with a serious face.

"Although Vil looks emotionless and tight, he's the real angel in both our lives" Ashton solemnly stated the last part almost a whisper which got Serene confused and in thought, thinking they must have lost their parents and Melvil choosed to step in the position to provide and care for his younger brother instead of sending him to a foster home or relatives home.

She wanted to ask him but choose not, noting herself to visit her parents grave the next day.

"Now forget about Zara's Cuisine and eat so you can finish your school work early before going to bed" she promptly shifted the conversation and urged him to finish his dinner.

They quickly finish dinner and Serene pushed Ashton to his room before going back to clean the dirty utensils and plates they used before going back to the room she has been using since she was brought here which she was sure belongs to Melvil. She knows he didn't wanna let her stay anywhere away from his watch after the stunt she pulled but she also, it isn't like she has completely given up on her goal of dying.

She lay back on the hard mattress in contrast to the one she was used to but who's she to complain when she has nothing and nowhere to go she's even lucky to have this, but it isn't like she seek it.

She seek death and was almost close to achieving that goal when Mr.handsome decided to be a knight in shining armour saving the damsel as if she ever said she needed saving. Serene rolled her eyes at the thought, she blew air out of her mouth and puffed her cheeks in annoyance.

'So he need to take care of me since he wanna take responsibility' she thought thinking like a brat before she released a tired sigh, she wanna sleep but she's actually scared of the her nightmares, she wonder what she'll dream of if she close her heavy eyelids.

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"You really know I wanna be that girl- matilda's angent, why make me Serene's?" John ask the CEO of the Rising Star's Company.

"Com'n John, the girl has more potential than the Matilda, I assure you she can be the brightest star in the Industry if she put all of her effort, she just need a little polish" the chubby man with large eyes spoke, sitting opposite John across his black glass desk.

"You think so?" John ask probably doubtful.

"I assure you, you'll see for yourself"

"Okay, if you say so" John agreed and they stood up leaving the office to meet the new potential star named Serene.

"Hello sir!" Serene immediately got up and greeted the CEO when he approached her sitting in the lobby area.

"Hello Serene Louis, this is John Arnold, your new agent, I hope you'll work with each other perfectly well" he said gesturing towards John beside him who flashed her a gentlemanly smile and shook her hand with contempt and coyness hidden in his eyes.

"It's nice to meet you, am now in your care please take care of me" she accepted his handshake smiling thankfully with her bright innocent green doe eyes, happy for the journey to the future of her life and carrier.

Serene immediately jolt out of bed as she found it hard to breath under the illusional suffocation, her brain quickly wake her up from the dream, she pant heavily catching her breath from the non horrible dream but still creepy as she couldn't find a reason as to why she's dreaming of past event with fragments of what transpired under her nose.

She walk out of bed and went into the bathroom washing her face and hoping to wash away John's face and her boss but like a virus, it leach on her brain. She sigh and leave the room walking to the kitchen to get water and hydrate her dried throat when she notice the light in the kitchen is on, her steps falter in momentarily suprise, she knew she switched the light off so it must be Melvil right? She thought calming her racing heart.

"Melvil?" The sound of plate crashed on the floor made her flinch and took a step back before calling again.

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The restaurant is closed, no more orders, so it's time to go home Melvil"

"Yeah, lemme clean up" Melvil spoke to the older woman before stepping out of the kitchen to the staff locker room and proceeded to the bathroom, he quickly clean up and change before bidding goodbye to the manager and other workers and he set to the leave the upper class party of the city in an urber.

After 40minutes long drive, the urber parked before his apartment and he paid before getting down and walking up to the patio, he search his keys and quietly opened the door avoiding making sound so as to not wake the people in his home.

He stepped into the kitchen after hanging his coat to drink water and toast some pieces of bread to chase away the hunger he hadn't taken care of in the restaurant cause he was working effortlessly when he saw a written message plastered on the fridge he was about to open.

"Your dinner in the microwave" it read and he furrow his brows thinking his brother must have almost burn the house to make him dinner, but he knew he doesn't know how to and had already stopped him, so he never come back home to dinner.

"Oh!" Realization quickly found him when all the thought were bombarding him and he remember the dimmed star, it must be Serene, he thought and a smile start to grow on his stoic blank face. She made them dinner, what a hassle he made her go through, Melvil thought and went forth to warm his dinner.

He took out the heated food and sat it on the counter quickly gobbling it down and when he was done he took the plate to go wash it when he heard his name been called.

"Melvil?" He was startled as he didn't expect it and the plate he was holding slipped his hand crashing to the floor making him slip out a curse.

"Fuck!"

"Melvil is that you?" Serene called again hearing the profanity that she was sure sounded like Melvil's deep voice.

"Yeah it's me, sorry I woke you up" he said sounding genuinely sorry.

"It's okay, you didn't actually wake me up, just a dream" she said walking into the kitchen where she saw the crouched figure of Melvil trying to pick the broken pieces of the ceramics plate that she heard crashed down. She instinctively squat down to help picking the shard pieces instead of bringing something convenient and her haste in assistance without thinking made her recieve the backlash.

"Ouch!" Serene cried as the edge of the ceramic cut her index finger quite deeply and blood quickly found an escape behind it confinement and it trail down her finger.

"You shouldn't have done that" Melvil lectured promptly getting up to get the first aid box and came back quite fast holding her hand and dragging her to the sink, he wash the wound under running water before cleaning it and wrapping the slender finger with a plaster before he guided her to the small dining table to seat down and he left to quickly clean the broken shards of the plates before joining her.

Serene watch the quite cold caring young man clean up the shards his features illuminated by the faint glow of the kitchen bulb while she sat in the dining table engulf in dark, she watch as he finish and slowly walk to one of the seat opposite her and sat down staring at her.

"Are you okay?" Melvil asked looking intently at the silhouette of her figure sitting across him and only illuminated by the faint light which show little of herself and him in the dark.

"Yeah" Serene answered softly and the silence stretch between them neither knowing what to say.

"Have you eaten?, the food I kept for you?" She asked this time, breaking the awkward silence she thought between them.

"Yes I did, thank you but you shouldn't have trouble yourself" Melvil replied gracefully leaning back on his seat, his eyes still on the figure of the dimmed star.

"Why are you awake? Couldn't you sleep?" He asked softly but firmly remembering her lack of sleep issue.

"I woke up from...a dream or...nightmare, whatever..but something related to the past?" Serene expressed also confused with what she has been seeing, like past and future,.if what she has seen that look like future, does that means she's gonna die soon?.