Brutal History, Great Mystery

1. Never leaving Nightmare

"IF NOT MINE, YOU CAN NEVER BE ANYONE ELSE'S!" The man shouts with rage. His whole face red from the fury brewing inside him as he looks at the girl deep in the eyes. He has her in his arms forcefully, with her back against his chest. The girl is trying to get free from him but her attempts seem futile. There are so many people surrounding them, all shouting and pleading for him to stop. 

"PLEASE LET HIM GO!! DON'T DO THIS TO HIM!!!" The girl yells as her heart constricts. Her heart is aching, she is deeply hurt by something. And that something being someone, ...some other man lying on the ground, using all his effort and energy to reach the girl captive in the first man's arms.

"LET HIM GO!? HE IS THE VERY REASON YOU ARE NOT WITH ME TODAY!! UNLESS HE DIES, YOU CAN NEVER BE MINE!! HE IS THE REASON FOR EVERYTHING HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!!" The same man from before says outraged.

He then raises his hand in the air, the hand holding a sword. The crowd pleading him to stop, all of them on their knees crying for the t*****e to come to an end. 

"RAHH!!!..." The man holding the girl captive roars and shoves his sword in the downwards direction at the same time when another sword plunges into his own body. Blood oozes out of his mouth and he looks at himself, where the sword just went through and is still stuck there. 

"I.. I'll alwa.. al... always be... be with y... you..." The man on the ground with a sword penetrated in his chest says to the girl with great difficulty.  

"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!........." 

"NOOO!!.." I get up with a jolt. My head, neck, arms, legs, stomach, and every single inch of my body draped in sweat. I instinctively wipe my forehead with my shaking hands while taking deep breaths to calm myself down. 'Who are those people? Why does that girl scream 'No' every time? Whom is she mourning over? Why does the man promise the girl to stay by her side forever?' All these same questions form in my mind like always and I reach for the glass and jug of water at the table beside my bed when the door creaks open and in walks my dad.

"Alexa! What happened my child!?" He asks coming over to me and sitting by my side.

"Nothing dad, just the same nightmare. I fell asleep tonight and this is my punishment." I say. Of course, this was to happen. This has been happening since I was an infant. Even when I was an infant, my dad told me that I used to cry all night and so they used to make me sleep in bed with my mom and him. I never slept in the handmade cradle made by my dad when he and mom were waiting for me to come into their life with so much love. But I didn't get much time to spend with my mom. She passed away when I was five. I don't even remember her except for the few incidents, one of them being her scolding me as I had eaten the toothpaste instead of brushing my teeth with it. But what to do? I liked the taste. But I've many times witnessed dad hugging her photo frame and shedding tears for his beloved. I know he misses her. I know he needs her with him although he tries to remain strong in front of me... for me.

"You are my strong girl. All these nightmares will soon go away." My dad hugs me and wipes my tears, trying to encourage me. When will they go away? I wanted to ask. When will these screams let me live peacefully? I wanted to ask. When will I ever be able to sleep at night? I wanted to ask. And most importantly, Will I ever be free from this? Will I ever be able to solve this mystery? I wanted to ask... But I know it's of no use. My dad can only comfort me and give me his support. He can't solve my s**t when even I, myself am not aware of what it exactly is! Why do I get these blurry images of two men and one girl shouting at each other to let go of one of them? I don't even know who is right among them! And what does it even have to do with me!? What is this mystery!?   

I can't sleep at night because of them! And whenever I do, I get up panting and sweating, scared of myself, questioning myself if I'm delusional. Before too they did use to come but it was a sometime thing, as in once in a month. But as I grew up, it's like the level of difficulty in my sleep too decided to grow itself up. I started having them many times a month and now as a twenty-year-old, it's a daily thing. And since a very long time now, I have made it a habit to stay awake at night and sleep in the daytime after my classes. I sleep with dad beside me that helps me in sleeping peacefully though still sometimes it doesn't work and I still experience the roller coaster ride of the mystery of my nightmares. But the majority of the time it does work and so I always go with that as even the doctors can't do anything. Yep! Now you know why I question myself if I'm delusional. That's because even my therapist doesn't get anything out of my s**t. But the main thing is, that I can't sleep alone.  

"Now wake up and do what you desire. You do know Desmond is going to come here to pick you up." My dad says and after he kisses me on my forehead, he leaves the room. 

Well, I can't definitely sleep. So, let's see what is up for work. There isn't much time left too and in the morning, as Dad said, Desmond will come to pick me up. My best friend, my bodyguard from other boys, my tutor with my studies, the person I'll go to whenever I'm in trouble, trouble as in when I'm on my monthly, ...yeah he knows. All in all, he is my everything! Everything as in, every type of shades in one person. He is a well-built man with a drool-worthy body and eight-pack abs, brown beautiful eyes. He is the dream of every girl, however, he doesn't w***e around. Not that he is a virgin too like me. Hehe... But the only thing he doesn't do is kidding, ...as in joking, but I've friends to fill up that vacancy too. Brett and Rhett, the twins, the ones with the gullible sanguine personality. They can make anyone's day with their presence because they always stay cheerful no matter the situation. Be it any punishment from the authorities, they'll go through it happily unless their parents are involved, because that's when it gets a little serious you might think, but they still remain the same. Not like they aren't good at studies, but no one would believe their grades if the person stays with them and spends time with them. 

And they both love adventure and as the result, we all are going camping in not yet decided location soon on the occasion of their birth,...I mean their birthday. It'll be a few days trip and on the last night, we'll celebrate their birthday and will be back the next day. The ones who'll be going will be me, Desmond of course and again, ...of course Rhett and Brett and, ......that's it. Just us four. And the dumbest thing is that we have to leave tomorrow and we still haven't decided on the location. Like,...I don't know. 

But surely it'll be done today as the first thing when we'll meet at the university.