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.

to that dream, she recalled a lot of

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

to the same elementary school

His brother had always received more care from parents, so they lived

would send her brother to school. But she didn’t

She was bullied soon after she entered that school. Those bad kids played tricks on

to threaten others with her family background. She should deal with those who bullied her on

wasn’t strong. The seniors always ganged up

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

the servants discovered the

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

lost 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

did she say

got something on me? I have the

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

her parents, she was very jealous of her brother. Looking at the door, she even

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

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

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

was in a daze. Memories flooded

also remembered that when her brother fought with those gangsters, he shouted loudly, “Only I

time her

sat on the sofa for three

she pursed her lips. She seemed to have been lost in her memories. Not all the memories were good. But some of