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.

dream, she recalled

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

the same elementary school as her

brother had always received more care from parents, so

to school. But she didn’t go to

looked very ordinary at that time. She was bullied soon after she entered that school. Those bad

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

The seniors always ganged up to bully

body. Those seniors were not stupid. They hit her on her body part that was

nor the servants

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

temper. She didn’t want others to know she was bullied, so she sneered at her brother and told him not to meddle in her affairs and not to tell her

did she

think you have got something on me? I have the ability to deal with them myself. Don’t tell grandfather

said with distain, “It was just a fight. And you lost. I fight a lot, too. That’s why

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

fought back and got injured. Every day, her brother would put medicine on her wounds and then chased

won, those seniors called over some

building. She thought she would be beaten up. But her brother showed up suddenly. It was the first time that she had seen her

daze.

he shouted loudly, “Only I can bully my sister.

her brother

the sofa for

into the distance and recalled the old days. Sometimes she smiled; sometimes she pursed her lips. She seemed to have been lost in her memories. Not all the memories were good. But some of them