Sleep paralysis

"Once again he had to experience the terror"

"In which his body couldn't move"

"From his mind her picture"

"He couldn't ever remove"

He laid on the bed,his blanket on top of him and his head on the pillow. He wasn't asleep and didn't have any plans to sleep. The television in the room was switched on and he was watching sports on it when all of a sudden his body froze,froze like the ice which takes time to melt. This wasn't a new experience for him as this had happened with him multiple times before. He wasn't scared as dark creatures and shadows were what he mostly saw when he was under this spell but this time it was different. From the inside of the wall came out a crystal like female figure and slowly colour started to come in her body. And that's when he saw her. Her skin was pale and some parts were burnt. There was pomegranate blood coming out from her forehead. The wound looked fresh and her hair was tangled as if it hadn't been brushed for days. She wore a green dress which also was attacked by the fire. Her brown pupils were in a red ocean. He knew it was her but he also knew that she was a hallucination. White pumps were the last shoes his Cinderella wore before she died and those were the same shoes in which she took a step forward to him and then another. William closed his eyes but her soft voice made him open them

"William"

"What happened babe?. I came to meet you and your ignoring me?"

"What did you think?. I will let you live in peace when I fuckin died because of you!"she shouted. The television in the room was also making noise but at that moment it was only her voice which he was able to hear. Her voice filled of rage.

"This is not real. This isn't real"William repeated this sentence in his mind but the phantom of his ex was sending shivers down his spine.

"You said you loved me and that we will always be together"she said standing next to William's bed. He felt a heavy pressure on his chest and he couldn't do anything about it. His hand's trembled but he couldn't even move his pinky finger while the power of his legs was already taken away from him in the same accident in which her life was taken away.

"So why not join me darling?"her voice changed into a rough and deep one. William stared at her and the more he did the more terrified he started to feel. Her entire look was demonic as if she was possessed and back for revenge.

William tried to take deep breaths by inhaling and exhaling but it wasn't helping him and only made it more difficult for him to breath. He wanted it all to end quickly because these ten minutes were horrific for him.

"Don't worry I will surely come to meet you again"And with this the weight on his entire body vanished and he felt a renewed strength in him. He made himself sit straight and looked around in the room. His cold sweat dripped down as he breathed heavily. Inhaling and exhaling he tried to gain back the oxygen which his body had just lost when the door opened with a creak and the person was left shocked to see William.

She came upto him to find the man in slight panic and drenched in sweat.

"William are you alright?"she asked him and he looked at her

"Y..yeah iam alright"he lied to her

"You don't look alright. What happened?"Jurin questioned him

"It's nothing. Also why did you come here?"

"Sir Bryan sent me here to ask if you wanted to eat?"she told him still unsure if William was lying or saying the truth.

"I want to eat but in my room" Hearing this Jurin went out of the room. If something was troubling William then she didn't want him to hide it. When she came back she told Bryan

"Sir I think sir William isn't well"

"Why is he sick?"Bryan asked in worry. William's health and well being was the most important thing for him.

"I don't think he is sick but from what I saw he was breathing heavily and he also had sweat on his body as if he was running a marathon or something"

"He isn't running a marathon but is running away from the monsters. I thought that he might have fully recovered and there would be no more sleep paralysis but I guess I was wrong"Bryan sighed and held his head before he further said

"Go give him the food. I will join you two in a minute" Jurin grabbed the tray of food and took it to William's room. He was much calm now but still drowned in thoughts. Jurin presented him the food which he ate. Surprisingly this time he finished his dinner without leaving a bite of the rice or a piece of the chicken. The glass was also empty. Jurin was about to take the tray on which the empty plate and glass were when Bryan came inside. William looked to the window purposely ignoring his presence knowing what he was about to hear.

"Sir William you had sleep paralysis again didn't you?"Bryan came infront of him not letting him look at the darkness outside the window. Now his stone eyes came to Bryan

"Yes"he replied. He could lie and even get away with it but it was uslesss of telling a lie to Bryan who knew him and his problems the best.

"We will visit the doctor tomorrow but for now I think you should go to sleep"he took the remote and pressed the bottom on the top making the screen of the television black.

"No, I don't want to slee right now" William told him. He didn't want to embrace the darkness but the world outside that darkness was also becoming just as soul frightening for him.

Bryan looked back. William was a grown up man but it was the truth that grown up men could also feel scared sometimes. Bryan had been serving William's family since his teenage years and to him William was like a younger brother. He always saw him like that. He never had a brother and the time he had spent with William and his family developed a brotherly bond between him and William.

"Jurin" Bryan said and faced her. An order for her he had.

"You will stay here until sir William has fallen asleep"he told her. Their was a stern look on his face and he didn't want her to deny his command.

"Bryan I told you iam ok"William held Bryan's arm trying to make him listen but if anything meant harm or stress to William then Bryan was not going to let him be convinced by anyone even if it was the victim himself. Bryan left from there and Jurin and William shared eye contact with each other.

"Iam sorry. You know how serious he is about these small matters" William said gloomily. Sometimes it was frustrating for people to take care of you as if you are a child but there was one similarity between William and a newborn child. Both couldn't walk.

"It's fine. Iam coming back after placing this in the kitchen"Jurin picked up the tray and took it to the kitchen. She placed the dishes in the sink and went back from where she came from.

She sat on the sofa and William was still in a sitting position. She couldn't understand what he was looking outside the window when all she could see was the black colour. Since silence had possessed the room she decided to talk

"What are you looking at?"she asked him

"Nothing"he gave Jurin a basic answer.

When she thought that this was the only conversation they were going to have he spoke

"Also thank you"he looked at her as these words left his mouth.

"For what?"

"I have had three caregivers before you and all of them always had me irritaed. One was too talkative and kept on asking me question after question while the other she fell in love with me. Kept on trying to prove how much she loved me and for that Bryan fired her from the job" he tried to make the real meaning be understood by Jurin to avoid any misunderstanding.

"I know"Jurin said and William smiled. And for the first time Jurin's focus went on his smile. A big and real smile. His smile was lovely and complimented the rest of his features. His white teeth were visible to her for a moment and the gates of his pretty smile were closed when he started to speak again

"The third one was better than the rest in her job but sadly she got into an accident and died"

"He still doesn't know that it wasn't an accident which took her life "Jurin knew the real cause of her death. The cause which was known by Bryan,Oliver,some of the guards and Jurin herself.

"After that you came and iam gonna be honest. I never got this friendly with any of my caregivers but with you I feel comfortable and it's easy to say what I want to. And the fact that you have just been my caregiver for one week is surprising" A smile made it way on Jurin's face. She was quite happy to hear that William didn't have any complaints from her and how he liked her work.

"I had no experience and still I did the best"she spoke in her mind proud of herself at this small achievement of pleasing William. At the first day of her work she remembered how she was nervous and didn't know what to do but now she was also at the front when it came to help William. It was like as if it went out of her mind that he was the same guy who was going to kill her father and fake lover. The guy who was her enemy and most hated person in the past life.

"So I would just like to say thank you"

"Your welcome"

William finally laid down and Jurin waited for him to go to sleep. As she waited she rested her head at the back of the one seater sofa and closed her eyes. But just after some time she felt lazy to open them again. Her hand tapped the arms of the sofa just to make herself stay in her senses while her eyes were closed. However in the silence both of them fell asleep. One on the bed and the other on the sofa. His head on the pillow while hers on the back of the one seater. He was in the darkness while she was in a dream. A dream or a nightmare that she will have to see as it progresses slowly in her mind.

"Roque iam glad that she is finally going to know"a squeaky voice spoke to her friend. They were invisible to humans but those who were the same as them could see them

"She has to know Tevra "the deep voice said. They were standing in William's room and placed their hands on Jurin's head making a past event appear in her dreams.

The dream which was the reality.