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.

she recalled a lot of

was still innocent. She knew that her grandfather was very strict with her, but he cared about her more than

same elementary school as her

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

to school.

at that time. She was bullied soon after she entered that school.

her family background. She

strong. The seniors always ganged up to

were not stupid. They hit her on her body part

neither grandfather nor the servants

day, after she finished dinner and went upstairs to do her homework as usual, her brother stopped her and dragged her into his bedroom. Suddenly, her school uniform was pulled down and he saw the contusions. She still remembered that she was

medical kit from under the bed and silently put medicine on her contusions. At that time, she lost her temper. She didn’t want others to know

she

something on me? I have the ability to deal with them

too. That’s why I hide a medical box under the bed.” Then he

she was very jealous of her brother. Looking at the door, she even shouted, “I will win. Let’s wait and

day, her brother would

seniors called over some gangsters who were actually high

beaten up. But her brother showed up suddenly. It was the first time that she had seen her brother fight so

a daze. Memories

those gangsters, he shouted loudly, “Only I can bully my

time her brother

on the sofa for three

She seemed to have been lost in her memories.