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

grandfather was alive, she was still innocent. She knew that

the same elementary school as

always received more care from parents, so they lived a

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

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

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

The seniors always ganged up

seniors were

neither grandfather nor the servants discovered

her into his bedroom. Suddenly, her

and silently put medicine on her contusions. At that time, she lost her temper. She didn’t want others to know she was bullied, so she sneered at her brother and told him not to

she say to

me? I have the ability to deal

why I hide a medical box under the bed.” Then he drove her out of his room and

a girl who lacked the care of her parents, she was very jealous of her brother. Looking at

injured. Every day, her brother would put

she finally won, those seniors called over

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

daze. Memories flooded

loudly,

that time her

sat on the sofa for

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.