CHAPTER 38

  Seeing my father, the only family I had alive, hanging from the vine of a tree, that was tightly wrapped around his neck, naked and lifeless. I was in such shock that I didn't know if what I saw was true or were my eyes deceiving me.

  "Rain, Rain," I heard Madison's voice.

  My eyes opened and I found myself in bed in my room. I looked around confused.

  "It was a dream," I said softly relieved it was, but not for Madison to hear.

  I assumed I had lost my father but I was just having a horrible daydream. A hand rested on the side of my head trying to recollect how I'd gotten in bed. I remembered lastly, trying to solace Madison after she chased my father away discovering his lies to her.

  I heard Madison begin to cry and I looked at her frighteningly now knowing what I thought to be a dream, a disheartening daydream wasn't. What I saw did happen. I did see my father's dead body.