#Chapter 24 Just a Dream.

#Chapter 24: Just a Dream…

Nina

I didn’t want to believe Enzo.

I couldn’t believe Enzo! Werewolves? Talking skeletons? None of that was real. Surely this was all a daydream or a hallucination. I just needed to get home, sleep, and destress. A good night of sleep and a hot shower would make me feel better and I would realize that all of this was just in my head.

After nothing but nightmares all night, I resolved to march straight over to see Edward and see if he could help me. I was resistant to his therapy before, when I had the incident with the cadaver, but now I was completely open to it. There was no way any of this was real. I needed serious help.

I crawled out of bed and put on a university sweater, jeans, and my glasses; lately, my contacts were #Chapter 24 Just o Dream

burning my eyes from lack of sleep, so I had given up on them altogether. Besides, people looked at me less with my glasses on. They helped me blend into the nerd crowd, so the popular girls who wanted my head on a pike for being caught with Enzo would leave me alone.

Once I was dressed, I went into the

kitchen. Lori and Jessica were still asleep, so I slipped out without having to interact with anyone and made my way across the quad toward Edward’s office.

Edward let me into his office and had me lay down on the sofa.

nightmares?” he said. I nodded and explained to him what I

skeleton and Enzo and sat in his chair across #Chapter 24

your eyes… Good. Now I want you to repeat after me. There is

no such thing as

no such thing as talking

as talking skeletons,” I

he turned on a metronome. The slow ticking of the metronome lulled me into a somewhat dazed state. Next, he described images to me; peaceful scenery, like the ocean at sunset, or a field of flowers, to help me relax. I started to breathe deeply and felt my heart rate slow down, and soon I was

the hypnosis seemed to be helping.

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like it was all a dream. Edward seemed pleased with my progress and told me to come back if I needed

waiting for me outside her

said, looking concerned. “You

glasses up on my nose.

school will do that to you,”

boys are starting

so we’ll be doing lots of physical exams

explained as we walked in the chilly morning air. The leaves had finally begun to fall and it was really starting to feel like autumn now. With the morning fog and the smell

smiled warmly at me. “I just want to say that I’m glad you’ve

the ground. I had still been planning on talking to the dean for a reassignment, but now I

probably wouldn’t even let me pick a new internship since we were already a quarter of the way through the semester. Maybe things would calm down soon and I

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because I really

the arena and we went inside. The team was already practicing their drills when we entered. Justin was too

and I walked over to the bench and started preparing a spot for

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