by Epifania Rita Gallina
That morning I woke up after a terrible nightmare, probably the worst nightmare I had ever had in my life.
In the nightmare there were trees around me, but they weren't normal big and green trees, they were terrifying, horrible trees that looked like they wanted to kill me.
You might ask, "How can trees kill you? They don't move!" But these trees had come to life and were chasing after me, until I fell into a big hole and died.
The moment I woke up, I felt like everything I had experienced throughout the nightmare was actually going to happen to me.
I felt my blood pressure rise and my heart fill with anxiety as I looked at my mirror, placed next to my head, and noticed the oddly pale color of my face.
I surely did look like a dead person, but thankfully I was still there, in my small, unspecial room, surrounded my silly belongings.
After I dressed, I came downstairs to the kitchen and saw my parents, who were usually drinking their coffee at that time, waiting for me in the living room, on the couch.
I faked a smile as I walked over to them, trying hard not to think about the trees, and sat next to them.
My mom, who was always readiant and beautiful, looked worried and fragile, and my dad looked like someone had totally offended him. He sat there in a state of shock with his eyes wide open.
As I sat next to them, they took synchronized deep breaths.
Then I saw them again. The trees. I saw them in my head as my parents faced me and started their conversations.
First, they asked me how I had slept, and I lied about that, and then they seemed to gather some fake courage to tell me the worst thing they could.
"Your blood test came back yesterday," my mother said. "There's something wrong."
My dad started crying. "You have lukemia," he said.
My mom turned to him and burst into tears with him.
But no one could have felt like I did. My heart raced worse than it had in any dream. Faster than a train. My head began to pound and my insides fell in on themselves. I was really going to die.
In the nightmare there were trees around me, but they weren't normal big and green trees, they were terrifying, horrible trees that looked like they wanted to kill me.
You might ask, "How can trees kill you? They don't move!" But these trees had come to life and were chasing after me, until I fell into a big hole and died.
The moment I woke up, I felt like everything I had experienced throughout the nightmare was actually going to happen to me.
I felt my blood pressure rise and my heart fill with anxiety as I looked at my mirror, placed next to my head, and noticed the oddly pale color of my face.
I surely did look like a dead person, but thankfully I was still there, in my small, unspecial room, surrounded my silly belongings.
After I dressed, I came downstairs to the kitchen and saw my parents, who were usually drinking their coffee at that time, waiting for me in the living room, on the couch.
I faked a smile as I walked over to them, trying hard not to think about the trees, and sat next to them.
My mom, who was always readiant and beautiful, looked worried and fragile, and my dad looked like someone had totally offended him. He sat there in a state of shock with his eyes wide open.
As I sat next to them, they took synchronized deep breaths.
Then I saw them again. The trees. I saw them in my head as my parents faced me and started their conversations.
First, they asked me how I had slept, and I lied about that, and then they seemed to gather some fake courage to tell me the worst thing they could.
"Your blood test came back yesterday," my mother said. "There's something wrong."
My dad started crying. "You have lukemia," he said.
My mom turned to him and burst into tears with him.
But no one could have felt like I did. My heart raced worse than it had in any dream. Faster than a train. My head began to pound and my insides fell in on themselves. I was really going to die.
