#2

I squirmed under the blanket I was using. I feel very uncomfortable when I sleep, like having a bad dream. But it's true that I was having a bad dream.

Until finally I woke up gasping for breath like I had run a marathon.

I looked around. I'm still in my bedroom, with my kamen rider plushies sitting on the shelf in a sitting position and still, you could say they're asleep too.

I held my forehead, it was hard for me to close my eyes and go back to sleep. So I decided to get out of bed and walk to the kitchen.

I opened the refrigerator and drawers in the kitchen, hoping to find something to snack on. Unfortunately, nothing is suitable for snacking, especially for my current mood. Finally I took the jar filled with coffee grounds and intended to make coffee.

"If you drink coffee in the middle of the night, you're going to be even more sleepless."

I heard someone talking to me when I was about to make coffee. I looked down. It turned out that Kabuto and Ex-Aid had noticed that I had come out of my bedroom.

"Eh, Kabuto? Ex-Aid? I didn't know you were here," I said as I returned the jar filled with coffee grounds to its original place.

"Why do you suddenly want to make coffee? After all, it's only the middle of the night," Ex-Aid said.

I just scratched my head, trying to piece together the words I had to say to them.

"I..., yeah, I just couldn't sleep. I was looking for something to snack on, but nothing matched and I'm in a bad mood...." I stopped talking because I thought of a single word to describe my feelings feel right now.

"Did you have a bad dream?"

Kabuto could totally guess what I was feeling. I just nodded slowly.

"What kind of nightmare did you have? Just tell me," Ex-Aid said.

I then lifted them both and put them on the table, then I immediately sat on the chair.

"This... This was a dream when I was little. At that time I was still in 2nd grade. At that time my mother was pregnant with my brother. At first I was happy because I was going to have a brother, but..."

Kabuto and Ex-Aid listened intently. I continued to talk about the dream I had.

"But my father scolded me more and more for no apparent reason. Even when I made an unintentional mistake, my father immediately shouted at me, even beat me. Because of that, I thought that my father didn't like me and it continued until my brother was born." I continued to tell the story while holding back tears.

Kabuto and Ex-Aid who had heard that, immediately grabbed my hand with their small hands.

"We know it was a painful experience, but it happened in the past. It's not good for you to have to go back to that," Ex-Aid said.

"Yes, you better move on and forget about it. You don't live with your father anymore. Besides, if you remember it, it will only be mental stress for you," Kabuto added.

"Thank you," thar was all I could say. I decided to go back to my bedroom with Kabuto and Ex-Aid and try not to remember that bad experience again.