What Was Reality?

I spun around as light on my feet as a feather in the wind

and my world faded away. I was filled with the most amazing feelings,

excitement, happiness, ...LOVE.

The feelings only grew stronger as I twirled around...

When I caught gaze of who I was with,

time froze almost instantly as he started deeply into my eyes.

It felt like he was reaching into my soul and wrapping me in 

warm comforting emotions.

He leaned me back as his straight face turned into a smile and his

sparkling eyes glistened with light as he grasped his hand firmly around

my body and kept his grip tight on my fingers.

I placed my hands gently on his shoulders as he placed me against

a wall. He never moved his eyes away from me.

He continued to keep his focus solely on me and nothing else.

He slowly leaned in toward me with his hands against the wall

as he closed his eyes and moved into for a kiss.

His soft lips caressed mine and at that moment,

I felt unexpectedly calm and at peace.

As we began to engage in romance, he clung to me and turned his back to the

wall, keeping me in his arms and sinking to the floor.

He kept his lips on mine as he massaged the edges of my lips and

embraced me with his warmth.

We stared into each other's eyes and we took a breathe 

after the long passionate first kiss we shared. 

He pulled my chin closer to his mouth and held me close

as he started to form words with his lips.

He whispered to me, "I am here for you darling.

Do not be afraid, do not cry when I am here.

I shall never leave you alone and when I find you,

I shall keep you forever, safe and warm in my arms.

We are star-crossed lovers, destined in another life,

to be together, but I shall change that fate

and find you myself. You are my love, truly fated to be mine!

I am going to find you no matter what!"

I drifted off to sleep as he watched me doze off into dreamland.

He held me in his arms and whispered, "Sleep my beautiful. I will always be here."

He laid me down on him and held me close to his warm body

as we both slept soundly.

Suddenly, I woke up in the dark room where I had been laying

on my bunk bed. I stood up with a grin on my face.

That guy, who was he? I couldn't figure it out, but I knew

he was the one I so much desired for.

I wanted to find him, but how?

He said he would find me...

But how?

Oh the irony.

It was early in the morning and quite dark, so I headed up the 

stairs to the top floor where I could be by myself.

I walked to the edge of the building and gazed into the 

dark sky as I started to think about what I was feeling.

Was I to meet the one who is my star-cross lover?

Will I ever know his name? 

How old is he? Where is he?

SO many questions ran through my head.

I desired him, I felt so different with him, as if nothing was wrong.

I wanted him and him alone, that is what my heart said.

But who did I love?

Was it Damion?

Will he ever show up?

I was stuck in a place of dreams and memories, all depending on hope and faith. I hoped that the dreams would tell me more.

But were they dreams?

OR WAS IT REALITY?

What's Going On Here?

Just after I was let out of that horrible caged room, I finally got to shower

for the first time in forever! I walked upstairs to an open-room bathroom

with toilet stalls, a sink, and a brownstone and grey shower stall.

I couldn't understand anything that was going on.

The only thing on my mind was my dreams and my memories.

The guy with turquoise hair was frequently in the corner of my mind...

When I wasn't even thinking, there he was...

After a long, hot shower, I went upstairs to another open room, but this 

was a bedroom filled with metal-framed bunk beds and a small wooden dresser.

Excited, I went straight for the dresser to see what I might find to wear.

 I found a cute hot pink dress with a black tank top and matching dark grey belt.

The first person I met as I went down the two flights of stairs to the level floor,

was Aimee Beuregard. She stood with a blank stare as I walked passed her

into the center of the room.

Hai-Yen Cho was one of the more friendly girls that I met.

She was actually smiling, while the other girl Jennifer Nash just stood in the back

of the room with a disgruntled look on her face.

Cherish Manor, the lady who let me free, was the caretaker of this facility

where we all evidently stayed without a choice.

(there was one door out and a very impressive badge swipe lock system on it,

which indicated to me that it was meant for us to stay inside.)

Cherish supervised my visit with the girls as Aimee tried to say hello to me.

Hai-Yen introduced herself to me and let me know if I needed anything to ask her

first. I shyly thanked her and smiled as she winked and walked away.

After sometime, Jennifer eventually warmed up to me and came over

and greeted me with a friendly hello.

The first thing she said to me was, "Hey, a guy was looking for a girl with pink hair about a year ago."

"What do you mean?" I asked her, quite puzzled by what she said.

"Oh some dude with black hair came around here one night

and asked me if I had ever seen a girl with pink hair. I hadn't known anyone with

pink hair, that is until I met you," she replied.

I thought to myself for a moment, "Could this be Damion? Sounds like him!"

I continued to ask her questions, "Okay, well did he ever come back? Did he give you a name?"

"Umm," she shrugged and said, "He just told me to keep an eye out and that he would be waiting for her in the woods if she ever showed up."

I was convinced that it had to be Damion!

I know he was the only person that I know who would be looking for me,

a girl with pink hair...

plus he wanted me to meet him in the woods...

And to add to that, he was the only person who could have access to this place.

We couldn't leave, so he must have had a badge here, that's what I thought.

I wondered how he intended me to meet him...

But did I wanta see him again?
I was locked up in a caged room

with no friends, no life, no nothing.

Then suddenly I was being told he was waiting?
Something seemed strange...

Was the guy of my childhood really waiting for me just outside this building?
Was my life going to be better now?

The Realm of Dreams and Memories

There was a dream that I had almost every night

 of a young man with fine turquoise hair and the most incredible sparking eyes I have ever seen.

He was always smiling and staring straight at me in the dream as we stood

face to face in a bright white room.

I fell asleep on an old brown, dusty sheet on a metal frame bed in a small

room where I had been for a few weeks.

In the dream, this time, his eyes didn't glow as they had before in previous dreams.

His eyes glistened with a deep violet tint in his blue and magenta multicolored eyes.

I stared at him as I stood with uncertainty on my face.

I had no idea who he was, but he felt like someone who I am supposed to know.

I turned to my left and saw a gorgeous young woman with flowing light aqua-teal 

hair and sea foam eyes.

In a sudden flash of light, the scene changed to a young teenage female who resembled me

in more ways than one, except she was smiling and in a beautiful hot pink ballgown.

The same young man from before stood behind her as she posed for what I thought had to be a camera.

They were a gorgeous couple, could that be me? Who was this guy?

Before the dream faded away, he had turned to my older self and held her hands

as he smiled and gazed deeply into her eyes.

The dream was gone and I was alone in the otherwise empty room.

I woke up and felt like I hadn't slept a wink the night before.

I couldn't get over the dream and what it meant.

"What was that dream about? I wonder who he is? Will I ever get answers?"

I asked myself out loud, knowing no one would answer me.

After I got over pondering possible answers, 

I once again remembered that I was in a caged room...

I got very depressed and just decided to go back into the corner and

sit down on the floor and think...

I picked up the rock that was on the floor, which oddly it was here for me.

It had been only about a month since the incident when I was taken away

from Damion and my childhood. The fact that I even knew how long it's been is amazing

as time moves ever so slowly here and days felt like years.

As I looked at the rock for a long time, I started to remember when I got this.

Damion had gotten me a present and told me it 

was a very special gift that meant a lot to him.

"Jovi, this rock was something I found when I was in my mother's old house

and it means a lot to me, but I want you to have it," Damion explained to me.

"Aww, thank you Damion, I will keep it close to me and take good care of it!"

I replied with a smile.

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Months passed as I was left alone in that small room with nothing,

but a pencil and a pad of paper to help pass the time.

I spent most of my time writing about Damion and my childhood...

My favorite memories were when I was eight years old and Damion was almost twelve.

Everyday after school, we used to run back into the woods and find our secret

meeting spot where we had some logs placed to sit and a beautiful small pond where we

would often times fish. We spent so much time there that we decided if we ever got lost,

we would meet here.

"Damion, remember when we first found this small pond?"

I asked him.

"Yea, we deemed this our secret meeting spot forever!" Damion said with a smile.

"No one will ever know where we are and we can always be alone here!" I replied.

"Do you think this will be here in ten years, Damion?" I asked.

"This spot might not be here, but we live in Hidden Springs and there are

tons of these small ponds and woods everywhere!" he explained to me.

I got worried thinking that we wouldn't be able to keep a secret spot to ourselves.

But after awhile, his words sunk in and I stopped worrying because if we ever

got lost, we knew where to find each other.

As the spring became summer that year, we started to spend more time 

fishing and catching minnows just for fun.

The last thing we did that summer before we had to to back to school was

play catch with the beach ball he got for his birthday.

That was one of the best summers that I can remember.

Before heading back to school, something happened to me...

My eyes started to change...

And eventually they would occasionally glow...

But as the years continued to go on, I hadn't been able to find a way to get them

to glow again and it frustrated me more than anyone would ever know.

Eventually I gave up trying and just stuck to my dreams and memories

as I tried to make the time pass by more...

And as my thirteenth birthday arrived,

a strange woman showed up and left me out of the room

where I was trapped for those long two years...

And I would finally find out where I had been since

I last saw Damion...