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 a

young and her grandfather 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

brother had always received

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

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

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

wasn’t strong. The seniors always ganged up

body. Those seniors were not stupid. They hit

the servants

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.

brother secretly took out a 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 was bullied, so she sneered at her brother and told him

she say

you have got something on me? I have

a lot, too. That’s why

she was very jealous of her brother. Looking at the door, she even shouted, “I will win.

her brother would put medicine on her wounds

called over some gangsters who

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

in a daze. Memories flooded to

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

her brother

sat on the sofa for

recalled the old days. Sometimes she smiled; sometimes she pursed her lips. She seemed