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.
drawer, or stroke
staggered to her feet during the whole process, which made Cassandra quite
walked downstairs. Cassandra followed
were horror movies, but with
lady was sleepwalking. These were the classic elements in a
reached the first floor and opened the door of
wind blew in, and a surge of tiny chills
at the gate for a long time before she
Courtney eagerly. Her mind wanted to do something to help her, but her body was so afraid that she did nothing but
stiffly to the third floor, returned to her own room, and then lay on the bed again as if
do next. However, her tension ebbed a little when she noticed that Courtney was lying still in the bed. She must
thing that must be taken for granted. She needed some serious medical treatments. Cassandra felt sorry
dangerous? What if nobody saw her? She might hurt herself.
mind. She drowsed into a nap. However, she woke up from
seeped through her room's window panes. Cassandra refreshed herself up before she went downstairs. Whitney had already prepared the breakfast
I'd like to tell you
to tell Whitney what happened to Courtney
"About what?"
her in a puzzled face, her
opening and
anxiously
time, just don't
inside,
Whitney must've known it and just took
house. What if she went
at the thought of Courtney's behavior last night.
out. I've sent some people
lowered her head and picked up her salad with a fork. However, she was unable to
that tears fell down
Whitney... Are
out all of a sudden. Tears rolled down
in her eyes,
about everything. Courtney is sick. She started sleepwalking several years ago. I've taken her to many hospitals. But the doctors said she couldn't recover completely. She needs ample quiet rest every day to
voice was hoarse as tears kept on welling up in
learned. 'Courtney needs a peaceful environment to recover? That means that she has
talk to
always has meals alone in her room and doesn't sit with others on the dining
why she's doing strange things
living a hard
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