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

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

same

put her under the spotlight. His brother had always received more care from parents, so they lived a

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

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

others with her family background. She should

strong. The seniors always ganged up

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

neither grandfather nor 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

under the bed and silently put medicine on her contusions. At that time, she lost her temper. She didn’t want

she say

have got something on me? I have the ability to deal with them

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

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

her

seniors called over some gangsters who were

she would be beaten up. But her brother showed up suddenly. It was the first time that she had

daze.

brother fought with those gangsters, he shouted loudly, “Only I

that time her

the sofa for three

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