A Dream Adventure Part 9

Author: Omlettthebeagle
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== Story ==
Alina POV
As we were about to restock our pile of food, I saw someone walking towards us in my peripheral vision. They looked to be about our age with brown hair and blue eyes. They looked to be the same height as Austin who is 6'5. (I'M SORRY, I'M ON TIKTOK TOO MUCH. BUT I SWEAR HE DOESN'T WORK IN FINANCE. and I don't even know if teenagers can have trust funds. Oh my gosh there's a Wikipedia page for it).
"Oh, hey," I said.
I then looked at them more closely. They looked very very familiar. I tried to look back to where I remembered them from. She used to be in our friend group. Okay, so, in the friend group, there were about 5 of us. The other person betrayed us and joined a bully group. His name was Alastor and I still wonder where he is now. Then, it came to me. Her parents never got along well but they were still together for her sake. When we were in 1st grade, me and her tried to prank Alastor by making him think that his crush liked him. And she didn't. He never really liked me after that.
This girl was named Adelaide. She was the opposite of Alastor even though they hung out with each other a lot.
"Hey," she said and smiled at me.
"Adelaide?" Audrey asked.
"Audrey! Austin! It's so good to see you two, and you too, Alina," she said. She had a more cheerful personality than what I remembered. Maybe she is used to doing anything she wanted in a lucid dream as well.
"What's going on?" I asked.
"You guys remember Alastor, right?" she asked.
I nodded.
"Yeah, he never really liked me after we pranked him," I said.
"Well, you know how you are seeing dead bodies, right?" she asked.
I nodded.
"Did you also almost go insane?" she asked.
I nodded again.
"He never forgave you. Although, I don't think he recognizes you guys, but he's planning on doing something to you. To all of you," she explained.
"Why?" Audrey asked.
"I have no idea, to be honest. I've been working with him. Our job is to kind of like ruin people's lucid dreaming experience. And don't tell him, but I don't really enjoy doing this," Adelaide explained.
"Then why are you still doing this if you don't like it?" Austin asked, his voice soft.
"I told a couple of dreamers that their dream was about to be ruined. Alastor caught me and threatened me that if I ever tried to do that again, or if I try to stop doing my job as his secretary, or if I sabotage him, then he would make my dreams into nightmares. And trying to make them back into lucid dreams wouldn't work. Ever since then, I never even thought about trying to betray him. Until now, of course," Adelaide explained. "I'm sorry, guys. I never wanted to ruin anyone's dreams. They don't deserve that. You guys don't deserve it. You've always been there for me and I love you guys."
Even when she apologized, I wasn't mad at her. I understood that she was threatened to do this. Her voice sounded so sincere and she was genuinely sorry and she didn't like to do this.
Audrey hugged her. "It's not your fault. You were threatened. You should never be sorry for this," she said.
We all hugged her.
"Where's Alastor right now?" Austin asked.
"Probably trying to charge the invention that made you go crazy, Alina," Adelaide said. "Don't tell him, but I may have tinkered with it to make it so that it never charges and it will only work once," Adelaide explained.
"You are a genius," I said.
"We need to come up with a plan to make sure he doesn't ruin anyone else's dreams. They don't deserve to have that kind of treatment," Audrey said.
Austin POV
Adelaide and Audrey and Alina never wanted to hang out with you. They always wanted you to leave them alone. You were always annoying to them.
What in the world was happening? Why was I suddenly getting these thoughts?
I then felt that my thoughts were right. They did think that I was annoying. I mean, I had pranked them once or twice but I was always there for them. Or was it Adelaide or Audrey who was there for us?
My vision started to get blurry.
Then as quickly as they started, they ended.
"Are you okay, Austin?" Adelaide asked.
"I just got the same thoughts that Alina had earlier," I replied.
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