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 recalled

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

to the same

the spotlight. His brother had always received more care from

school. But she didn’t go to school

she entered that school. Those

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

she wasn’t strong. The seniors always ganged up to

she went home with some contusions on her body. Those seniors were not stupid. They hit her on her body part that was covered

neither grandfather nor the servants discovered

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

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

she say to

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

fight. And you lost. I fight a lot, too. That’s why I hide a medical box under the bed.” Then he drove her out of his room and

girl who lacked the care of her parents, she was very jealous of her brother. Looking at the door, she even shouted, “I will win. Let’s wait

that, she always fought back and got injured. Every day, her brother would put medicine on

won, those seniors called over some gangsters

the back of the school building. She thought she would 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 injured

was in a daze. Memories flooded

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

time her brother

on the

old days. Sometimes she smiled; sometimes she pursed her lips. She seemed to have been lost in her memories. Not