SYNOPSIS:
On an normal day in her perfect life in Rosewood, Courtney DiLaurentis has a dark dream.
With Alison.
SINGLE CHAPTER
“Courtney?”
I was dreaming. I knew that. Still, I didn't have the will to wake up.
“Go slower!”. She was laughing. “I can't keep up with you!”
I looked behind me, seeing Alison pedaling her pink bike. I was in first place, but knew it wouldn't take long for her to reach me.
“Thought you said you were better than me!”, I teased, smiling so much my cheeks started to hurt. I sped up, pedaling so fast that I could fall at any given moment.
“Courtney!”, Alison called back once again. But this time her tone was different. Anxious. She sounded distressed.
I braked immediately, turning around. Alison had stopped as well and was holding tight on the guidon while she looked to both sides. A dark smoke started to rise from the ground.
“Ali?”, I said, scared, hopping off my bike and going near her. “What's happening?”
My twin sister didn't answer me, just stayed still, observing the smoke. She looked frightened. The smoke was taking over her entire body and her eyes went dark. I took a step back.
I was losing her. I was sure of that, more sure than I ever had been in my whole life.
I was losing her.
“Hey... Everything is fine”, she said calmly, eyes so dark they looked like a black hole. Like her soul was being sucked. “I´m fine.
But no, she wasn´t.
And never would be again.
I woke up scared, panting in my bed.
I sat, running a hand across my forehead to wipe the sweat off.
Have you ever had a dream like that? One that looked as real as the sunlight, as deep as the universe and its infinite?
Well, I have. And that day, even though I was used to being called Ali and destined to forget I had ever been Courtney, I felt like the dream was some kind of signal.
Maybe not even a signal, but a warning.
I never knew exactly when Ali changed. When she stopped being my sister, when she let all that jealousy, envy and other bad things take control of her.
And, who knows, perhaps that smoke did exist. Perhaps it was really there, invisible to naked eye, dominating my twin sister forever.
I stayed confused and thoughtful the whole day, til the night came again. I was feeling weird, like I wanted to cry.
Wishing to be able to go back in time and save Alison.
Before I, myself, were the one in need of being saved.
