Chapter 6: Nightmare

*We are in the park, mom and dad are sitting together on a beach, and we are playing soccer. Diego, Ivan, Hugo, and Andreas are team, and I and Isabella are team.

"Boys vs. girls," Isabella declares.

"You are going to lose." Diego says.

"We'll see." I reply.

We don't know how to play soccer, so our team lost....as usual. It was an unfair game cause they were four while we were two, and we started another game with the same teams.

While we are playing Diego falls, mom goes running to him while dad goes to the rest of the boys.

Now I am in the middle while mom is standing with Diego in front of me, and dad is standing with the boys and Isabella behind me.

I press a foot forward to go to mom and Diago, and tears fill my eyes.

"Mom, Diego." A sop escapes my lips. "I missed you." Mom openes her arms to me.

"Addy, I missed you too." I smile wildly as I hear his voice.

I have been playing with Diego and sitting with mom, and just now I notice them!!!

The floor cracks under my feet as I go closer to them, and the cracks keep going till it reaches under mom and Diago's feet. I begin to run towards them, I want to pull them into my arms, but as I get closer, Diego begins to fade away in the air.

"Carmen, run!" Dad yells at mom, begging her to run.

"Bye, Daniel. I love you all, kids." Mom's eyes went red, and tears rolls over her cheeks as she was speaking to dad and then us. I keep stepping forward.

I stop, I don't want them to fade away, but I can't manage to stop it. Both of mom and Diego fade away, I fall to the ground and scream.*

It was a nightmare, my eyes are filled with salty water now.

"Lina, what's wrong?" Hugo brakes into my room cause of my scream. He comes near me and places his hands on my cheeks, wiping my tears.

"What's wrong, Adell?" I try to calm myself down.

"I-I killed them. It is my fault." I put my hands on my mouth and keep sopping.

"Hey, hey, it's a nightmare. It's okay, Adelina." He grabs me into his hug and rubs my back.

I nod. I finally managed to collect myself, I thought I got over these nightmares, but I guess not yet.

"You okay now?" I nod and raise my thumb.

I want to get out of here, I still have four hours to get dressed for school. I am going to get a short nap.

*******

I got dressed after i woke up from the nap and on my way downstairs, to get out of here.

On my way to school I meet Leonor and we keep talking till we reach the school.

"Wanna play a game?" Leonor asks me. she looks so excited, I don't want to destroy her excitement. So I give her a nod.

"Truth or dare?" I keep jumping in excitement, and she laughs.

"I love this game. Let's play." I say, pulling her down on the bench.

"Okay, let's start.... truth or dare?"

"Truth"

"Mmmmm, let me think... Mmm about your name, who chose it for you?" She says, not satisfied with the question. "I know it's a stupid question, but this is what I came up with." She shrugs her shoulders.

"No, it's a good one, and I have a good answer for it." She tilts her head. "It's a dumb story, okay! And I still don't get the point of it." She nods and sits facing me.

"Okay, mum and dad made a deal that, mom name all the girls and dad name the boys, and as dad is Spaniard, he named all the boys spanish names and mom is Italian so me and my sister's names are Italian. With this deal that I still don't get the point of it. They ended up by dad naming four boys while mom naming two girls."

"Okay?? This is confusing..... I have a question." Of course she has a question, with all this mess I told her. I give her a nod.

"So you said four boys, but I only saw two of them, Andreas and Ivan. Who are the others?" Her question makes me uncomfortable, I don't want to answer it.

"The third one is Hugo and the other..." I keep silent for a moment. I have to answer her.

"Can I just not answer?" My voice begins to break, and she notices it.

"Yeah, of course," She pats my hand and smiles at me.

I wipe my tears and clear my throat.

"So.... you can speak Spanish and Italian?" She says, a little shimmer in her eyes.

"Yeah, and I am trying to learn German, I love languages." She gives me a very tight hug that makes me giggle.

"Your turn." She tells me after she pulls away from the hug.

It was like- it was like the-the hug that my mom used to give to me when she was proud of me.

"Truth or da-"

"Truth." She says. Before I can even finish my words.

I keep thinking for a good minute and then find the perfect question.

"So your brother is the owner of this school. How did he manage to do this?" I want to know about this man, not interested but curious.

"Ah, okay," she says it slowly and looks at me slyly.

"What?"

"No, nothing."

"So..... my mom was the owner of it before him, and when she passed away, she left it to him." She answers with a cold face and rolled her eyes, like when I remember my mom I begin to cry and she doesn't even blink or her voice cracks a little?!.

"Okay, truth or dare?" She continues normally.

I think her relationship with her mother wasn't a good one. Maybe, like me and my father now... I became an expert at bad relationships.

"Dare." She looks at me amazingly. "I wanted to try something else."

"Okay, let me think." She is gonna pick something good, I know her.

"Ah, found it. Go tell Lucy that you heard from John that James loves her."

Who the heck are John and Lucy?. I am new here so it's normal that I don't know some people.

"Who are John and Lucy?"

"James' best friend... wait a minute, how are you here for a year and don't know those people?"

"I am not so outgoing, okay?!" I am not good at making friends.

"Anyway, this is lucy." She points at a blonde girl.

She pushes me and tells me to go.

"Mmmm. Hey, you don't know me....probably you don't know me. Anyway, I have heard from John that James is in love with you." I say to the blonde girl. I think she is nice, she gave me a little nod and told me that she knows me.

"He sucks, nevermind him." She says and then shakes my hand.

"Nice to talk to you, Adelina..... I have to go now. Bye." She says while walking away waving bye at me, I wave back and go to Leonor.

"She told me that he sucks."

"That's not what I expected." A confused look on her face.

"Now, your turn."

"Truth or dare."

"Truth." She replies fast.

"What is your father's job?...sorry I didn't find something better." I am not satisfied with what I just said.

"He is an- aaa---- engineer. Yeah, engineer." She stutters.

Why did she stutter? Anyway maybe she isn't proud of his job...at least I don't even know my father's job; he doesn't talk to me so.....

"Truth or dare? I think you will pick Truth, right?" She is really good at changing the subject.

How is she like this? How did she know what I would choose?

"Yeah."

"The punch that you gave to James was so cool. How did you learn it?"

"My brother Diego, the one that I -" she give me a nod. "Taught me how to defend myself." I sight. "He was the best." I am strong because of him. He helped me by learning how to hit my enemy."

"Was??.... Anyway." She notices how I won't like to answer it, so she changed the subject. "My brother taught me too, and now I am using it against him." She smirks, and I laugh.

"I think he deserves it, with this attitude." He really deserves it, I can't forget the glare that he gave to me.

"He can't use this attitude with me. Father won't allow him to so...." She shrugs her shoulders, and I smile.

"I am bored." She continues. "What if we sneak out of here. My brother is the owner, so it won't be a deal." A sly look drew on her face, and she smiles at me.

I can't deny that it is a good idea but, if my brothers knew it, they won't be happy.

Anyway, let's do it. Just for once, I am gonna have fun with a friend.

Just for once, I am gonna think about myself, put myself above everyone. I need to get out of my thoughts, I have to accept that Diago and mom aren't here anymore.

"I am in, but to where?"

"My house."