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Name: Faith Goodwell
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Faith rubbed at her tired eyes and wished for the hundredth time that she hadn't run out of her precious prescription. Without her nightly sleeping pill that practically knocked her unconscious, the strange dreams that disturbed the whole household were back. She had tried, tried really hard to stay awake to avoid them, but her body had finally shut down two nights ago.
Her cheeks flushed at the memory of being shaken awake by her father as her mother stood behind him, her face tight with a combination of shock and worry. She couldn't answer any of their questions about what she had been dreaming about, nor could she say why she was making the odd noises she supposedly had been making.
But it had apparently been worse than any time before, and since that night there had been hushed conversations that stopped abruptly when she walked by and meaning-laden glances at her when they thought she wasn't looking. It seemed like someone was always hanging over her shoulder, although she had no idea why. It was like they thought she was up to something, when all she wanted to do was get through this last month of summer vacation.
Perhaps the routine of school combined with an express-mailed prescription renewal would distract her from whatever was going on with her parents. She sighed as she plopped down on the couch and aimlessly started flipping through the TV channels searching for something that might keep her interested enough to stay awake.
Who would have thought she'd be looking forward to going back to school, especially all the funny looks she got when people found out how old she was. She had given up on trying to explain that she had a medical condition that had caused her to miss a year of school, and simply tried to avoid discussing her age at all. Besides, very few would guess her age anyway, thanks to her mother's genes.
With nothing on the TV to hold her attention, her eyelids began getting harder and harder to keep raised, and there was an almost hum in her ears as if someone was sitting next to her trying to lull her sleep with a deep vibrato that could almost be felt across her skin.
Sleep. She really wanted to sleep. Wanted to sink into the lovely oblivion of sleep.
It was until she felt her chin bouncing off her chest that Faith realized how close she had gotten to succumbing to the temptation of a cat nap, and her body practically shuddered at the thought. 'Oh god,' she thought, 'what is my problem?!' The thought of sleep shouldn't leave her afraid. Nor should it leave her strangely excited and it was the second feeling that terrified her more.
Fingering the simple gold cross that hung from the delicate gold chain she always wore around her neck, she was absently staring at the television, neither really hearing, nor seeing it, when the repeated sound of someone clearing through throat finally broken through her thoughts. Turning towards the door, she saw her mother standing there, looking somber.
"Faith... Please join your father and I in his office, dear," she said when she saw that she finally had Faith's attention.
"Yes, Mother," she replied with only a twinge of worry in her voice. Being called to her father's office for a discussion did not bode well as it was only used for family meetings for the most serious of topics. Pushing herself up, she followed her mother and prayed that whatever it was wasn't as bad as it seemed.
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Three weeks later, Faith watched with an odd sense of detachment as her parents got harder to see as the thick blanket of fog seemed to swallow them up with each passing minute. Even when she could no longer see them, she stayed at the back of the launch looking forlornly at the disappearing coastline.
She still couldn't believe she was being banished to a boarding school in Maine. Oh sure her parents had tried to spin it as some grand plan to get her totally caught up so that she could begin college the next year, but she knew the real reason. Grandmother was having to move in with them, and they were probably afraid she'd give the old woman a heart attack with her unfortunate night 'terrors' as they had always called her ailment. Forgive me, Father, for my unkind thoughts...
Hugging her arms around her waist, she huddled in her new school uniform and tried to find solace in reciting the rosary, mentally checking off each decade as it occurred. She knew her parents loved her, but she had seen what looked like relief in their eyes as they said the final goodbyes.
She sniffed as she tried not to feel abandoned, and instead tried to focus on something positive like the fact that her prescription had been fulfilled, if only with a portion of what she needed. Hopefully, the rest would be sent to her new school soon. If not, perhaps she should cut them in half. Surely a partial dosage would be better than no dosage at all. Thankfully, she was going to have her own room, so perhaps no one would be the wiser if the dreams did start up again.
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