I've Been There Before

Grace didn’t sleep well. Her forehead got sweaty.

It was a really long dream.

She dreamed about the old days when her grandfather was still alive. She dreamed about her chasing Caden. She dreamed about her best time when she was eighteen.

Suddenly, she dreamed about her miserable prison life.

She dreamed about Leona’s death. She dreamed about the day when she regained freedom, her bitter life after that and that man she could not escape from.

She also dreamed about her parents. But she couldn’t see them clearly.

“Grace, Caden want to be with you forever! Caden want you to be happy forever!”

Suddenly she heard an innocent voice.

She opened her eyes at once and looked at the snow-white ceiling. After a long while, she finally came to her senses and realized that it was just a dream.

She sat up from the sofa. The door of the balcony wasn’t closed. The cold wind blew in. She trembled with cold sweats.

She raised her hand to wipe the sweat off her forehead. Then she sat motionless like a statue.

That dream was so real, like a movie about her whole life.

It showed the ups and downs in her life.

It showed how she became frail and weak.

that dream, she recalled a lot

young and her grandfather was alive, she was still innocent. She knew that her grandfather was very strict with her,

same

under the spotlight. His brother had always received more care from parents, so they lived a

her brother to school. But she didn’t go to school

was bullied soon after she entered that school.

asked her not to threaten others with her family background. She should deal with

time, she wasn’t strong. The

home with some contusions on her body. Those seniors were not stupid. They hit her on

grandfather nor the

homework as usual, her brother stopped her and dragged her into his bedroom. Suddenly, her school uniform was pulled down and he

her contusions. At that time, she lost her temper. She didn’t want others to know

did she say to

you think you have got something on me? I have the ability to

was just a fight. And you lost. I fight a lot, too. That’s why I hide a medical box under the bed.”

lacked the care of her parents, she was very jealous of her brother.

that, she always fought back and got injured. Every day, her brother

finally won, those seniors called over some gangsters who were actually

was blocked in the back of the school building. She thought she would be beaten up. But her brother showed up suddenly. It was the first time that she had seen her brother fight so fiercely. In the end, her brother got injured and his head swelled up. But he still laughed at her, “Look! I’m a real fighter. You’re

in a daze. Memories flooded to

he shouted loudly, “Only I can bully my sister. I’ll kill you

time her

the sofa for

lips. She seemed to have been lost in