LIAM
I am lying on a flatbed next to rain as machines beep all around us.
Dr. Melanie and her assisting doctors surround us as she begins the restoration. A mask hovers above my face meant to render me unconscious once I inhale the gas. I tilt my head and look at rain, linking our fingers together as the mask finally settles above my nose and mouth.
I can hear someone counting from backward, and my eyes grow heavy, and the last thing I see is Rain's face before I fall into a heavy slumber.
I open my eyes and it's sunset. I am on a beach again. My heart is hammering as I sit up, looking around. I am having the nightmare again, the same one that has been haunting me.
I hear children giggling and I stand up, looking behind me. There he is … rain.
He is playing with the two little girls wearing pink with ribbons on their hair. They are laughing as they run around, and Rain is on the ground, rolling and laughing as they wrestle him, playfully.
