Cassandra felt warm sleeping in her comfortable bed. However, her blood froze when she caught sight of a figure in the dark from the corner of her eye!
It was looming around the corner. She could not recognize who it was. It was just sitting there quietly, not moving.
Cassandra dared not do anything boldly. She covered herself with the quilt carefully while staring at that figure anxiously.
After what seemed like an eternity, the figure suddenly moved and stood up slowly.
Its shoulders moved up and down in a heave of sigh. Then it turned its head from left to right, and walked out of the room at a very slow staggering pace.
Through the dim light from the corridor outside, Cassandra saw its face all of a sudden.
It was Courtney!
Her skin seemed to be paler, and her face bore no expression. There was something odd in the way she walked. It was really slow, rigid and unnatural as if she was a puppet.
Then an idea occurred to Cassandra. She covered her mouth to stop herself from making any noise.
Courtney was sleepwalking! On the back of her mind, she recalled that sleepwalking happened in one's dream and the sleepwalkers were unconscious and didn't know what they were doing.
Cassandra was both surprised and curious. She remained silent and watched Courtney walk out of her room silently.
After Courtney left, Cassandra rolled out of bed. A precarious idea haunted her. She wondered why Courtney sleepwalked to her room and where she would go next.
With that thought in mind, Cassandra tiptoed and opened the door. Courtney went to the next room. She opened the door and walked in.
Cassandra followed her carefully. She didn't enter that room. Instead, she crouched down by the door and peeked inside.
Courtney walked to the walk-in wardrobe and opened the door. A ginormous closet filled with countless pieces of gorgeous garments surprised Cassandra.
"Not this one, nor this one..."
Cassandra heard Courtney murmuring. Her pale and thin hand stroked through the rows of fancy dresses.
'Is she looking for a special dress?' wondered Cassandra.
Finally, Courtney closed the door and turned around.
She continued murmuring, "No, no...not here. It's not here..."
Cassandra saw her walking towards the door of the room. She didn't want herself to be discovered. So she hurried to her room secretly.
Courtney repeated her act going into one room after another. She would open the door and walked inside to search for something.
open the cosmetic drawer, or stroke the mirror by
to her feet during the whole process, which made Cassandra quite anxious, afraid that she
walked downstairs. Cassandra followed closely behind her.
hated the most were horror movies, but with what was happening
a young lady was sleepwalking. These were the classic
and opened the door of
surge
all. She stood at the gate for a long
something to help her, but her
her own room, and then
little when she
thing that must be taken for granted. She needed some serious medical treatments. Cassandra felt
it be very dangerous? What
troubled mind. She drowsed into a nap. However, she woke up from
refreshed herself up before she
like
Whitney what happened
"About what?"
at her in a puzzled face, her hand still
and went on opening and entering every room
and anxiously
It's okay. When you see her next time, just don't wake her
Cassandra's surprise, Whitney replied calmly. But deep inside, Whitney's heart ached
assumed that Whitney must've known it and just took it for granted.
opened the gate of this house. What if she went outside? That
be nervous at the thought of
out. I've sent some people to watch her. She'll
her salad with a fork. However, she was unable to open her mouth the moment the fork touched her lips. She
suddenly saw that tears fell down on the edge
Are you
never anticipated that Whitney would cry out all of a sudden. Tears rolled down her cheeks.
her head. With tears still resting in her eyes, sorrow
hospitals. But the doctors said she couldn't recover completely. She needs ample quiet rest every
kept
'Courtney needs a peaceful
she doesn't like to talk to me and is always so distant.
she always has meals alone in her room and
that's why she's doing strange things while sleepwalking?'
been living a hard life
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