Guardian - Chapter eight

The night is beautiful. Laying in the softest polar fleece Pj's, sky blue sheets surround my exposed cream coloured skin. The moonlight escaping from my ocean blue curtains, throwing its pleasing white light onto my bed and across my face. I am bathing in the moon light and I feel like a goddess.

It is Friday and my heart aches to see Zain again, to feel his being. The night finally arrives and anticipation scores my entire core. The usual routine is followed, when I reach my destination Zain is patiently waiting for me.
I take my time getting out of the car, I don’t want people to see how love struck I am over Zain. I shouldn't have bothered, Zain is slowly strolling towards the car, a look of concern bleached across his face.
He opens my door for me and extends his hand to help me out, I take his hand and once I am out of the car he all but encloses me in the warmest bear hug known to mankind.
“How have you been? I am sorry that I didn't meet you any of the past nights, I've had complications to attend to.” He confesses with a heavy sigh.
I soften into him.
“I've been fine, just missed you but its OK. What complications are you talking about? Is it something serious?”
“Greet everyone else first and then come back to where you belong.”
I smile, because we both know that I belong in his arms.

Worried and excited at the same time, I make quick work of acknowledging my other friends and get back to my Guardian.
“So tell me about these complications.”
“Do you know that there is a reason why I stayed away from you for so long?”
“Maybe you didn't like me enough” I try.
“No, I have loved you for a long time, I stayed away because I didn't want to draw attention to you. I didn't want anyone or anything to hurt you.” He turns away from me.

“After I dreamt about that monster nearly touching you, I freaked, that is why I am here now. I have always protected you from a distance, but that isn't enough anymore. I need to explain to you, why you dream and what you dream.”

Zain began telling me about how there are some families in which a gift gets passed down-Sight he calls it. Where we dream and everything that happens in the dream is true or will be true. We live in days where spirits are active and are controlled by human emotions. If someone truly wishes to harm a person, they can do it with the use of spirits. The bad intentions attract them to people and unknowingly they cause havoc and destruction, this sometimes seem like menial accidents when in truth it is not normal. It is our job to look after our family, to, to protect them. We can protect them by physically fighting these spirits in our dreams.

“We dream differently from normal people, when we sleep our soul becomes a spirit and we have the ability to interact with other spirits. I know this is a lot to take in Rose, but it is the truth.”

Zain looks at me with uncertainty sprawled all over his face.
It all makes sense, why I always felt tired, why my dreams always felt real and why some of my dreams came true in the past.

I gulp the bubble of fear that started forming in my throat, and look at Zain. In any normal person’s eye, he sounds crazy, but I know that what he says is true.

I look into his eyes and say;
“If this gift brought me something astonishing and amazing as you, than I know that what you say is true. What you have just described is something that I have held in fear, least it frightens me to the point where I don’t sleep anymore.” I said.

“You are taking it too lightly.” He exclaims.

“It is not that simple you are now going to be attacked, there is a fight that is coming our way and I tried protecting you all these years, but I can’t anymore. War has been waged against our family, all these years I protected you because you were my weakness, and how do I let you go into battle without any experience. I don’t know how you were found by those monsters, but what I do know is we are in this together and I will protect you until my last dying breath.”