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

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

to the same elementary school as

the spotlight. His brother had always received more care from

school.

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

not to threaten others with her family background. She should deal with

she wasn’t strong. The seniors

contusions on her body. Those seniors were not stupid. They hit her on her body

the

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

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

she say

I have

just a fight. And you lost. I fight a lot, too. That’s why I hide a medical

she was very jealous of her brother. Looking at

day, her brother

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. In the end, her brother got

was in a daze.

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

her brother was

on the sofa for three

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