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 a lot

grandfather was alive, she was still innocent. She knew that her grandfather was very strict with her, but he

the same elementary school as her

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

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

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

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

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

seniors were not stupid. They hit her on her body part that was covered by

nor the servants discovered the

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. She still remembered that she was so angry that

her 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 not to meddle in her affairs

she say to

something on me? I have the ability to

a fight. And you lost. I fight a lot, too. That’s why I hide a medical box under the bed.” Then

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

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

won, those seniors called over some gangsters

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 and his

a daze. Memories flooded to

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

her

on the sofa for three

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