The Dream

By Mary Meaker

A different type of mystery book, than any other mystery book, that you will find in any bookstore today.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Mar 6, 2012
• ISBN: 9781456796389

Mary Meaker

Children's books are my favorite. I enjoy writing children's stories.

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Chapter One

As I look out my window as the sun is coming up, blue skies, white sandy beaches, a warm gentle breeze is blowing. It feels good to be alive. The temperature is around eighty degrees, everyone is heading for the beach. I love this time of year. I have a lot of things to do, but I don’t really feel much like doing anything. Since I didn’t get much sleep last night again. As I open the door to my balcony. My lounge chair looks so inviting and is just a few steps over there. I decided to walk over and sit down, but much too soon with the warm sun, I slowly lean back and before, I know it I’m drifting off to sleep.

After a few hours I woke-up and I said to myself, oh, no!

No, way! I couldn’t have fell asleep.

I was a little afraid, that I might have that same reoccurring dream.

My whole body was burning up, from sleeping in the sun so long; I needed to get me something cool to drink. So I stepped back inside and got me a glass of coke. I then decided to take a short walk down on the beach. It was now late afternoon and again, there was a cool breeze, blowing. I always enjoy walking in the surf, it’s very relaxing and I sure needed that.

Oh, my, it will soon be dark again; I will probably stay up late and watch a good movie. I really do not want to go to sleep for a long time. I am thinking about tomorrow, I had just bought me a new bright colorful swimsuit, it’s really pretty and I may go down by the pool and show it off. Besides, I am still working on getting me a good tan. Well, it’s around two o’clock I better try and get some sleep, if I can. I will close my eyes and try my best, to only think of good things.

It’s already morning I cannot believe it and I don’t remember a thing.

No bad dreams or nothing, all right! Another brand new day. Today! What day is this, I think my friends are coming over, it’s I think our night to play cards and have a glass of wine. I want to get some fresh flowers I want to make everything look real nice for them. Besides, I haven’t known them very long, but I want to try and make a real good impression. They live close around here somewhere.

I can’t believe the line of condos along this stretch of beach. I never even noticed them before, but it’s a little strange, although the way that I’ve been sleeping these days. Who knows! Well, it’s still a little odd, that I sort of don’t remember that many. Well, of course, I have been real busy and not paying any attention, that’s why.

There are certainly a lot of families with their children out today. They look real happy I don’t even remember, seeing that many two weeks ago. The waves are getting stronger and higher. It may be a bad storm brewing somewhere. I’ll have to watch the news tonight. I hope that there won’t be anymore bad hurricanes this year.

I hate storms!

The lightning, it has always scared me and made me feel afraid.

The thunder and the dark roads with the blinding rain sometimes, are very frightening.

Sometimes the strange looking dark clouds have a mysterious look about them.

The sizzle of the lightning to ground strikes.

The howling of the wind makes me nervous as a cat.

The eerie sound of the wind, as it groaned. What a horrible sound it made, as the wind kept on blowing hard, it seemed like the wind, had it in for only my condo.

I don’t know, what to make of all these strange things, which are happening to me.

When you look out the window during a bad storm, you just want to pull the curtains quickly together and shut out all of the darkness and strange noises.

The seagulls have been busy all morning, trying to catch a fish. I’ve been watching them a lot lately. They really amaze me, because they are so quick. As I walk along the beach, I am looking for the one perfect seashell, there are so many. I don’t know if I’ll ever find the one that, I’m looking for. Well, it’s almost the end of another magnificent day. I love it out here so quiet and peaceful. I wonder what’s in store for me tomorrow.

I need to go over my checkbook. There is something wrong all right. I have got to see, if I can find out, where I made a mistake at in my math, nothing is adding up right. I can’t be that far off, but with all those bad dreams that, I had a few nights ago. I’m not surprised, I haven’t been thinking so clearly. I must get busy and get this took care of, before I turn in and it’s already getting late and I am kind of beat tonight. Maybe, I will fall into a sound sleep for a change tonight.

Waking up to another gorgeous sunrise, what a glorious sight the sun rising up over the sea. I thank God, that I’m alive I give him all the glory. I haven’t been out for a drive in a few days. Well, I really do need to pick up a few things. I don’t know which way that I want to drive into town. It’s what they call the scenic route, or along the ocean. At least I can ride with my windows down, so that I can feel the cool breezes blowing off the ocean. That sounds like the best idea to me and a lot more pleasant.

This is a very small quaint town; I never paid that much attention to it before. I have been much too busy, enjoying the beautiful beaches and all the scenery. Even though it is a small town, it still seems popular with all the visitors that are here. Well, that certainly was a strange kind of sign; I wonder what that was all about. I will be staying here for a while; I will talk to someone here a little later on. And find out more about this town and what kind of things, one can find to do here. Maybe, they have a sightseeing tour, or riverboat ride I don’t know. The next time that I come back into town, I will pick up some brochures and see what they have to offer.

I want to stop at this quaint little shop and see what I can find; it looks very interesting from here. I will see when I get inside and take a look around. That’s a cute little basket to put some flowers in. I didn’t know, that it was that late. I’ve been having such a good time, just looking around and I haven’t even had any lunch yet. I’ll have to stop somewhere, or just go home. I guess, I’ll just grab me a coke and go on home. Besides, I am feeling a little sick on my stomach, it must be the heat. I will come back here again, another day.

Off to bed again, gee, I’ve had a busy day, what a long day it has been. Well, it’s up and at it again. Well! Would you look at that! Shrimp boats so far out, that I could hardly see any of the tall masks, pretty as a picture. I love the sea. They must not be from around here. I have not seen any place for them to dock. And no city marina anywhere in the area. The very next time that I go back into town. I want to look for some pictures for my walls, with some flowers and the sea.

Well! There it is again, that same long-black-

limousine that I saw a few days ago.

I wonder where it’s going. This is such a small town, looks like I would have seen an airport by now.

But, I don’t ever remember seeing one. They are sometimes usually taking someone to catch a plane, that’s pretty well off.

What’s that! Looks like a few raindrops on the windshield, but it’s hardly raining at all and look there’s a beautiful rainbow. I haven’t seen one in such a long time. I just love a rainbow; the colors are bright and cheerful, what more could anyone want, sunny blue skies, white puffy clouds, rainbows and waking up to the birds always chirping cheerfully in the morning. White sandy beaches, palm trees, swaying gently in the cool summer breezes. It’s almost like, heaven on earth.

The freshness of the ocean breeze, as I breathe in this clean fresh air, makes me feel good just to be alive. Of course, my depression sometimes sets in, but I wouldn’t trade this day for anything. I never knew that a few weeks ago, that I would even be here in this area and really enjoying myself. It must be all of the new surroundings, new and a lot different than what I’ve been use to. The change has been good for me.

I left my hometown, a few weeks ago. I wanted to start a new life. At least I’m trying to, but it sure hasn’t been that easy. Moving away from everything and everyone that you are use too. The town that I grew up in, the schools that I attended, the church that I went to on Sunday. My life has been well really turned upside down, since then.

I almost had a nervous breakdown, because of those bad nightmares.

The awful nights, I always dread the nights I prefer the daytime, there’s never enough hours in the day for me.

That’s why I prefer summer, because the days are longer. I like it when the sun stays out until 9 :00 o’clock at night, They say that Alaska has 6 months of daylight, that sounds like the perfect place for me. Maybe, one day I will give Alaska a visit, who knows just exactly what the future holds.

I’ve been thinking back lately about that black-limousine, that I saw a few weeks ago, it might belong to a small funeral home around here.

I did not think about that at the time, it never even crossed my mind.

Now, why in the world! Did I think of that, as many times as I have paid my respects to someone?

Funeral homes!

Still give me the creeps!

I don’t know why they