100 Days With Mr Romero

“Sam! Sam! ” Emma yelled while shaking him violently.

Sam was having a nightmare and he was shaking and screaming like a victim of severe electric shock.Property of Nô)(velDr(a)ma.Org.

He was shouting “Natalie. ” while gasping for breath and Emma woke him up.

“Sam listen to me.” began Emma with her hands going up and down.

“Can you hear me? ” she said to his face as he stared at her blankly.

“Calm down. ” she comforted him.

Sam had woken up already but his body was still shivering. His mouth was shaking and Emma could hear his teeth clattering.

She quickly got out of bed, pulled the large sheet underneath his pillow and wrapped it around him. After switching on the lights, she went to get him a glass of water.

“Here. ” she said presenting the glass to him.

Sam collected the glass and hurriedly gulped the water. He drank as if he had just concluded a marathon race.

“Are you okay? ” Emma asked again after ensuring he was now breathing moderately.

Sam nodded and placed the glass on the little stool beside the bed.

He nodded again, cleaned his face with the towel Emma had just brought and laid his head against the wall.

“You had a nightmare. ” Emma told him.

Of course he just had a nightmare which he wished Emma never got to witness. Emma had just witnessed one out of the torturous nights of his life. He wished he could have prevented the nightmare from haunting him that moment before Emma.

“Am so sorry. ” apologized Sam while Emma watched him in amazement.

“You are sorry? ” she asked.

“Come on Sam. We all have nightmares once in a while. ” she maintained.

Sam knew people had nightmares once in a while but his was different. His nightmares weren’t dreams but flashes of events he wish he could forget.

His body temperature was normal now so he took away the large sheet around him and placed it on the bed.

“Who is Natalie? ” Emma blurted from the edge of the bed.

“She.. She is the lady in my nightmare. ” confessed Sam.

“You have nightmares and it turns out to be visions of this lady? ” demanded Emma.

She climbed the bed and properly sat on it.

“Yes. ” replied Sam after coughing out loudly.

“And since when do you have visions of this Natalie? ” asked Emma.

“Almost every night. ” replied Sam.

“For twelve years now. ” he revealed.

Emma immediately covered her mouth with her palms demonstrating shock.

“Wow! ” she exclaimed.

Emma moved closer to Sam on the bed and said “Would you mind to share your nightmare with me? ”

Sam adjusted his legs and nodded in affirmation.

“So tell me. ” began Emma.

“Who is Natalie? ” she asked.

“She was my high school girlfriend. ” replied Sam.

Emma chuckled and quickly apologized.

“I’m so sorry. ” she pleaded with a a half smile.

“If you and Natalie were sweethearts then why do you have ugly visions about her? ” asked Emma.

Judging by Sam’s manifestation that night, Emma doesn’t need to be told the nightmare was ugly.

“What happened? ” she further asked folding her legs on the bed. Her hands were before her folded legs.

“If you don’t find sharing the story an easy thing then you don’t have to recollect anything. ” Emma assured Sam.

“Natalie and I were seeing each other. ” began Sam. He was staring at the door.

“She didn’t know I had bipolar. No one did back then in my high school. ” he stated.

“Until.. ” he recounted then stopped.

Emma didn’t want to rush him so she kept mute and he continued.

“Mark, the hall monitor harassed me. I lost my temper and I pounced on him. ” recollected Sam with his voice quaking.

“I couldn’t stop. I just kept punching him and I just couldn’t stop. ” he said to Emma sounding regretful.

Emma didn’t know whether to nod her head or shake it. Sam turned towards her and their eyes met.

“Am so sorry. ” she slowly said.

“The incident happened in the hall way downstairs. ” continued Sam.

“When I turned around and saw those students terrified and staring at me like a psychopath, I got frightened and headed upstairs. ” he said.

“I was panicking at that moment. Mark was already bleeding. ” he quickly added.

Emma listened to him with keen attention.

“Then Natalie ran after me. Her brother tried to stop her but she wouldn’t oblige. She followed me upstairs. ” narrated Sam with his face cupped in his hands.

Emma placed her left hand on his shoulder. She patted him and quickly took her hand away.

“She kept calling out to me. ” he continued. I told Natalie to go away but she kept running after me up the stairs. ” he said.

“Then she reached out for my shirt. ” he said slowly and stopped talking.

“What happened Sam? ” requested Emma.

Sam’s eyes were already welling up with tears.

“I pushed her. ” he revealed and bursted out crying.

“Oh my God. ” Emma exclaimed and moved closer to him on the bed. She hugged him while he cried like a child in her arms.

“I pushed Natalie. ” he kept screaming with tears running down his cheeks.

He was already soaking Emma’s night dress.

“Shhh! It’s okay Sam. ” Emma consoled him still hugging him.

Poor Sam she thought.

“I didn’t mean to. I just couldn’t control myself that moment. ” regretted Sam.

Few minutes later, Sam had dried his eyes and was sitting on the bed.

“I am so sorry for all you’ve been through. ” Emma professed.

“When I pushed her down the stairs . “recounted Sam again.

“She rolled over. ” he said while Emma opened her mouth and quickly closed it.

“She got down to the floor and hit her head. ” he said with eyes blurred by tears.

“Then blood started to gush out of her head and everyone that was in the hall witnessed it. ” he narrated cleaning his teary face with his palms.

“They rushed to her while I ran away. Natalie ended up in coma. ” he finally revealed leaving Emma speechless.

“Up till now, she still is in coma. ” he stated.

“Oh my God! ” declared Emma.

“Natalie is Mike’s sister. ” he then confessed.