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Chapter 13- Lucid Dreams

I rubbed Kevin's back and asked him what the dream was all about. Instead of talking to me about it he pulled a small box from underneath the mattress. He opened it revealing a shiny new rock. He asked me "will you be mine?"

Chase: I'll need a little bit more time...... to plan for our wedding arrangements!

What was about to be a frown morphed into the biggest smile I've ever seen.

My eyes opened wide at the sight of the ring, it was hard to pay attention to anything else in the room. When I tried on the ring it was a perfect fit, I don't recall him ever measuring me either. All I could think about when I was wearing it was of how pretty it was. I thought about it carefully for a moment and asked Kevin "where did you come up with the money to pay for this?". I borrowed a little bit from my parents, some cash from my first paycheck and, the gals down at the salon pitched in some money.

Chase: Kevin, you know that you didn't have to do this right?

Kevin: NO! chase......Kevin: I had to show you my level of commitment, it was eating out my insides.

Kevin: till death, and never parting.

Chase: Kevin, I want you to move on after/if I pass away

Kevin just looked at me silently, he knew that would be difficult for him because he was very sentimental. "Chase, lets just focus on our future together okay?". Since Kevin had to work tomorrow we spent the remainder of the day working on wedding details. I've always been under the impression that weddings were ridiculously boring ceremonies, but planning your own wedding is just too fun. CLICK! Apparently Jim and Martha had been spying on us for quite some time from the crack between the door because they swiftly barged in on us. "son, you do realize same gender marriage has been illegal for quite some time right?". "Yes dad but domestic partnerships are still allowed". "Ok son, but make sure you look into things like this carefully. We wouldn't want you to get burned by the government".

His parents instantly framed the picture of Kevin proposing and refused to take the photo down from the fridge, no matter how much room it had taken up.

When we went into our bedroom Kevin had an absurd mood-shift. The fox had an expression on his face that made me cringe. I asked him if it was about the other dream he had and he nodded at me. I kept assuring him that I'd be okay, but he wouldn't shake that ominous feeling. Kevin then revealed the reason why this particular dream bothered him.

The last bad dream he had involved the loss of his two siblings and immediately I pictured what was happening here. "I'm not sure how I could take the news if the dream I had came recently came true Chase". "Kevin, the only dream that will come true is the one with us getting hitched mmkay?". "Okay, just promise me you'll prosper if I fall hun". I nodded at him, took his hand, and marched off to the room shutting the door behind me.

Today when I woke up the bed was empty. Now that I think about it the whole house was empty. Their house isn't usually so quiet either, and I would've sensed some sort of problem but the car wasn't in the driveway so I had reason to believe everything was alright. Why else would Kevin need to be accompanied by both of his parents to get to work. I plopped down on the sofa pondering what was wrong with this picture. I walked into the kitchen to view the calendar and looked at the date, if my memory served correctly then I know that Kevin doesn't have work today. After a few more hours of waiting the house telephone started ringing. I ran into the bathroom and picked it up off of the holster. I heard Martha whisper in a raspy voice "something bad has happened to Kevin".

Martha: Now Chase I need you to become the man of the house for a few weeks, or at least until my husband snaps out of of his coma.

Chase: Wait! what happened?

All I heard was the sound of her sniffling and then dial-tone. Just from listening to the conversation on the phone I was overwhelmed. I needed to take a break away from life, but only for a moment. I collapsed onto the carpet in tears, I felt a massive pain surge through my chest. I know that the truth is almost never as bad as the mind interprets it but I've had my share of letdowns in the past. I felt like I was suffocating on my own sorrow. When Martha came knocking on my door alone I struggled to open it. She came in the house with her blouse stained in tears. I approached her with my eyes dripping with salty orbs and my throat too quenched with fear to speak, and squeezed her tightly. After coming to my senses I absorbed all my issues and was out on the open road within minutes. Instead of stopping by the hospital I drove to a nearby mountainside just to get a glimpse of the beautiful view. I stood at the edge of the cliff, but in remembrance of Kevin's last words to me, ("Okay, just promise me you'll prosper if I fall hun") I backed away from the edge. I cleared my mind for the moment and just relaxed. If I could just wrap my head around this, every little thing would fall into place.

{wait a second}

I began picturing the little things one at a time. Surely one detail had to reveal everything. I looked out into the sunset and the everything became clear to me.

I just awakened and it had already shifted to dusk. I looked back on how I got here and there aren't many mountains in our region. How I managed to sneak a (thirty minute) drive past Martha without a license, even in her current state, is a blunder. I finally found a piece that would solve the puzzle. We have only one phone and it is only located in the living room, not the bathroom. That last detail came as a huge relief to me as I felt something grab my tail.

It came as a reward to me to know that when I opened my eyes drearily they were being cleaned by my boyfriends tongue.

Kevin: wake up sleepyhead, it concerns me to know that you cry in your sleep.

Kevin: want to talk about it?

Chase: maybe later.

Kevin: well, what was the dream about?

Chase: I dreamed we got married in the big city last night.

Kevin: awwww how cute, tears of joy.

Kevin clamped his hands together off to the side all childishly and rubbed me with his cold wet nose. I don't know if I have the stomach to tell him what the dream was really about, but Kevin is usually worrying enough for the both of us. Its time that I removed some uneasy thinking off of his plate. "I love you Kevin". "You too, puppy love...... you too".