I woke up in buckets of sweat, Daniel was shaking me to wake me up. I felt my sweat slowly trickle down the sides of my face, I had a horrible nightmare. Daniel was in a hospital bed in the midst of surgery and his life was slowly being drained out of him, I woke up just as Daniel was about to fall in a deep slumber.
Daniel was staring at me straight in the eyes, his eyes were clouded of concern.
"Are you ok? You sound as if you had a horrible nightmare."
"E-everything is fine. Don't worry, ok?" He hesitantly nodded his head and I gently caressed his face. To think that the earth wants to harm this little boy made me disgusted of the earth. He jumped on top of me and wrapped his arms around me giving me a large warm hug. Why does it have to be Daniel Clifford of all the people, it had to be him. Why? I returned his hug and we stayed like this in silence for about 5 minutes.
"Hey Rhys are you sure your okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine. Don't worry."
"You know you can talk to me right?"
"Yeah I do know. Thank you!" I felt him relax and I figured he fell asleep. Soon after I fell asleep too.
I was gliding through the lavender fields running after Daniel. Daniel was holding out his hand, I grabbed his hand and gave him a big hug. But, his body started to go black and he was decaying.
"DANIEL?!"
"DANIEL?!" What's wrong with you?" He wouldn't answer me he was just decaying.
"DANIEL?!" He disappeared and I started to cry, I screamed. Daniel was gone. He was gone.
Daniels Perspective:
"RHYS WAKE UP! WAKE UP NOW!" He was screaming and crying in his sleep.
"WAKE UP RIGHT NOW!" I shook him and he woke up. He looked so scared and dazed. He looked up at me and his eyes started to tear up more.
"It's okay. It's okay. Everything is fine now." He was just crying and crying constantly. I don't know what happened but at this point I don't even care. He was in such a state that nothing else mattered other than taking care of him. He was shaking by now and I was starting to get really scared, he has never been like this before, well not that I know of. I didn't know what to do other than say, 'It's okay.' because I didn't know what else to say. He looked as if he had just seen a ghost in his nightmare. This is the second time he's like this.
Rhys' Perspective:
I was so scared, I don't know what scared me more. The fact that Daniel was decaying in front of me, or the fact that Daniel would have been dead. The dream felt so real, the warmth of him when I hugged him and then the coldness when he was decaying in my hand. It sent shivers down my spine. I hated the thought of it, but it kept on replaying in my head. I could hear Daniel telling me that it was okay, but his voice sounded so distant. Then I finally felt awake, apparently I was shaking and crying. Daniels father was in front of me his eyes full of concern. I was in Daniels and he was holding me in his arms.
"Rhys are you okay? Hey, look at me."
"I'm sorry, I'm fine." Hey tilted his head to the left and gave me the look of, 'Are you lying to me' look. I sighed and told him, "I just had a nightmare."
"Are you sure? I think we should take you to the doctors."
"No, it's fine!"
"Are you sure? Do you want me to get you something?"
"Could you get me a glass of water please?"
"Of course." He stood up and walked out. "Ummm, Sorry Si-James for you to see me at this sorry state but I have to talk to you about something."
"It's fine, but what is it you have to talk to me about?"
"It's about Mrs Clifford, she left me a note." I saw him breathe in. And I continued, "H-her note consisted of many things about Daniel, and now I keep on getting a re-occurring dream."
"Where is the note?"
"I-it's down stairs in the kitchen, under the table, I read it last night but Daniel came into the kitchen so I had to leave it downstairs."
"I want you to not to talk about this to Daniel at all, I'll go read the note and talk to your- never mind, just do not say a word about this to Daniel."
"Yes, James."
"Are you okay though?"
"Yes, thank you and sorry for worrying you."
"It's fine. I need to go out for a while if anything happens call me, I think we have to book an appointment for the doctors."
"No! I mean, No it's fine, thank you."
"Alright then." James walked out and I sat there wondering what would have happened if Daniel wasn't with me while this happened.
"Rhys I have your glass of water." Daniel told me as he walked into the room.
"Ah! Thank you." He handed me the glass and I glugged down the water. He was looking at me as if he wanted to ask me something. "What is it?"
"Nothing, Its just what was your nightmare about?"
"It was nothing."
"Please could you tell me?"
"No, I don't think you would want to know."
"Please tell me, I want to know so that I can help you." He looked at me and I told him my dream, but I told him in less detail
"Look I am not planning on dying anytime soon you know."
"Yeah I know, but I think you ending up in hospital probably triggered it."
"Well that doesn't matter cause I am here right now and we are going out today okay?"
"Yeah thank you! Where are we going today?"
"On a date!" A d-date?! He ran out and I sat there and I could feel my face heat up.
I got dressed, I wore a nice white dress shirt and black jeans. I wore a long black jacket over it. I only like to wear plain clothes so it wasn't too special, except for the fact that I was wearing a dress shirt. I did my hair and walked out and saw Daniel in the room. He did his hair, wore a black shirt and black jeans. He wore a blue denim jacket over his outfit, and some black trainers. He also dressed quite plainly, a lot different from when we were younger. When we were younger Daniel hated black, he always told me off when I wore black jeans. I would always wear black jeans to wind him up, it was cute to watch him get annoyed.
"Your style in clothing has changed."
"Yeah, I got tired of wearing bright colours."
"I see that."
"Your style hasn't changed, you still wear black the dress shirt is different though."
"I-I wanted to look a bit unique."
"I like it. I haven't asked but you're not opposed to this date right?"
"No, I'm more than happy. When we came back from the hospital I wanted to ask you where our relationship was going, but I didn't have the nerve to. Then so much happened and I just gradually forgot." I saw his cheeks go bright red and I gave a small giggle. I pinched his cheeks and walked out.
"H-hey!" He called after me. "Do you even know where we are going?"
"Well you haven't told me, so no."
"Do you want to make a guess? I'll give you a clue, you've always wanted to go here."
"AN AMUSEMENT PARK!!!"
"Yup!"
"Oh my goodness thank you, thank you, thank you."
"Your welcome." When I was younger I always dreamed of going to an amusement park. I would have fantasies of going there, going on all the rides having churros. I always told Daniel my fantasies but I never got the chance to go. I have always wanted to go with Daniel, but we were too young at that time. I asked my parents but they were too busy to take me so in the end I never got to go.
Daniel leaded the way, when we walked out of the house, the air blasted into my face, I could feel the wind wrap its way around my body. The wind was fierce but warm. Daniel entwined our fingers and we walked to the bus stop, the bus stop was the same bus stop that I told Daniel that I would be going abroad to study. It was also the same day that me and Daniel drifted apart.
"Thinking back this was the bus stop that you told me that you would leave. I never really told you but back then I had a huge crush on you. I told my Mother every single day she always supported me, my Father had some trouble as he wanted grandchildren but in the end when he knew I wouldn't change my mind he gave up."
"Yeah, I know you had a crush on me."
"WAIT?! WHAT?!"
"Your mother told me in her letters." I chuckled at him because his reaction was just far too funny.
"Obviously my Mother told you." I saw Daniels eyes look sad for a moment but when the bus came his eyes twinkled. "Let's go!" We walked onto the bus and got tickets. We then sat at the very back of the bus and sat with our finger locked together. I was quite tired so before I knew it, I drifted off to sleep again.
Daniels' Perspective:
I saw that Rhys had fallen asleep and I moved his head so that he could rest his head on my shoulder. The dream he had kept on bothering me but, I guess it bothered him more. I figured the dream must have been worse if it caused him to be so scared. When Rhys was finally awake from his dream he just kept on crying and screaming and shaking. My Father had woken up from all the screaming, when he ran into my room he ran back out. When he came back he had an injection. He told me to hold Rhys down and I did, Father told me that this would calm Rhys down a bit. No ordinary nightmare could have caused this to anyone.
When I snapped back into reality, Rhys was still on my shoulder, The next stop was our stop, so I woke Rhys up.
"Rhys wake up we're here." When he woke up it seemed he had a peaceful sleep. He looked a bit tired when walking off the bus but when he saw the amusement park his eyes shined like a diamond.
"We're finally here! I'm so excited! Seriously Daniel, this is more than I can ask for. I've caused you so much trouble and now your giving me so much."
"Think of this as a treat for us rather than just you, cause I've always wanted this, for us to go on a date and you just being so happy. So don't worry you have given me more thank enough. Nothing can repay how much you saved me, so don't worry."
"I really didn-" I cut him off and shouted, "TO THE AMUSEMENT PARK!" and ran maniacally up towards the ticket office. Rhys was just right behind me. I gave them out tickets and in we stepped, to possibly the best place ever. For some reason I felt like today would be the last day we could have fun like this. For some reason I felt like a big storm was coming but I kept the dark thoughts at the back of my head.
There were large death bringing rides and small baby rides. Ever since I was younger I was always a scaredy cat, so this is probably not very good for me. But, oh well it is all for Rhys I thought enthusiastically.
Rhys was running around like a 6 year old child and if I was honest he looked so cute.
"Rhys lets get some churros first!"
"Churros!!! You literally remember everything from when we were a child."
"Well yeah. You were the best thing that ever happened to me just you existing in general makes me complete."
"Ah..."
"Lets just go get some churros and rather than relive the past lets live the present okay?"
"Yeah. I love yo-"
"Sorry what was that? It's quite loud here."
"N-nothing." It didn't seem like nothing, Rhys was completely flushed.
"Rhys wat churros flavour would you like?"
"STRAWBERRY!"
"Okay, okay. Calm down would you?" He was so cute, I don't know what he said but it made him adorable so thank you Rhys for whatever you said. I got the churros, I gave Rhys the Strawberry and I got a chocolate. We sat at a bench for a while, while we ate the churros, Rhys was staring intensely at the map as if he was studying in to an exam.
"We should go to the haunted house!"
"S-sure."
"Oh wait you don't like scary stuff do you?"
"Oh no I Love scary things. I'm not a scaredy cat like before. Scary things are now my favourite things in the world. Scary cats, horror movies, horror stuff. Just love them all, I absolutely love them, okay?" Oh gosh I blabbered on, when I get nervous I normally blabber so this wasn't good.
"Okay, okay!" We finished our churros and walked towards the haunted house, I instantly regretted my decision when I walked in the house. The atmosphere was different, I could feel chills down my spine. Rhys probably knew I was scared cause he held my hand and told me everything was okay.
"Huhhhh...I think I might have died. When I said I liked scary things I was lying."
"No kidding!" He told me laughing his eyes out, "You think I wouldn't remember one of the best things about you." When he said that I flushed and turned around, I got nervous and pointed at something random and said, "Lets ride that!" Not even realising what I was pointing at.
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah I'm su-" I turned around and saw what I was pointing at, the highest ride in the whole park. It is all for Rhys, "Yeah I'm sure! Lets go!" I tugged on his arm and that was my day of hell starting, but I'm grateful I'm alive to see this.
"Aigoo, that was amazing!" Rhys said as we got off the last ride (hopefully of the night)
"I'm glad you had fun. Lets get ready to go home, my Father might get worried."
"I was thinking on one more ride."
"Ride? But they're all closed." He shook his head and pointed at the most beautiful Ferris wheel ever. The lights were a mixture of Blue and White and the heat radiated off from the lights.
"Do you want to go?" I nodded my head in awe. Although it was high I had a feeling that it would be amazing. We got into a glass cubicle and it started to go around. The view was amazing, it was breath-taking.
"Hey Daniel I want to ask you something."
"What is it?"
"Can we make it official?"
"Official? What do you mean?" Rhys was blushing at this point.
"Do you really not get me?" I shook my head from side to side. "I mean-" What on earth is Rhys on about?
"When we were younger I always thought that two guys together won't work and so I always kept it on the inside."
"Rhys could you just tell me straight out?"
"I-I l-l-like you." My heart thumped and my mind went blank.

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