Nights Without Forty Winks.

I was having a very nice dream when a black figure woke me. It was my sister. Her face was lighted by the pale moonlight. She looked ghastly.

"What is it, now?" I asked angrily.

"Come with me." She whispered and went out of the door. I did not move because this is some sort of a prank she's playing on me. Again. She just ruined the perfect dream I was having. Usually, when she wakes me up in the middle of the night, she just asks me to accompany her to the bathroom. Gosh, like someone would eat her there. I went inside of the covers and did not mind her again. But just I was retrieving the dream in my mind, I heard a whisper again.

"Come with me." This time it was faint.

"Oh, c'mon! Somebody wants to sleep peacefully! It's still dark. So, just shut up and go back to bed. And that's an order." Whew. I hope I sounded like mama.

"Come with me."

I put my hands to my ears and hummed a tune. But, it was no use, because the three words were playing in my head. "Okay, okay, okay, I'll come! But, where?" I looked at her and her face really shone in the moonlight. She looked different. Too different. It's as if, she went to a parlor or something. Maybe more than that. To a dermatologist's clinic, perhaps? She looked beautiful.

"Are you on a date? What are you wearing?" I asked as I looked at her from head to toe. She wore a mini white dress. A crown of leaves was on top of her head. Glass slippers were on her feet.

"Come with me." She said it again. Okay. Are these the only words she can utter? Normally, she's like a parrot. Well, a parrot actually. Anyway, to end this early, I decided to follow her. "Have you done something wrong?" I asked. But she only shook her head. She opened the door and it revealed not the hallway, but...mountains, fields...and waterfalls. They were...awesome! Where the heck am I?

"Where the heck are we, Christine?" I asked her, but she only smiled at me, revealing pearly white teeth. Everything around us felt like magic. She, then led me to a cliff. For a long moment, we were just there.

"Okay, is something suppose to be happening here?" She answered me with just a smile again and then, she just jumped off the cliff with a splash! But, don't worry, she's still alive. In the water were my father, mother and sisters. They were all happy and together they looked at me.

"Jump, Celine! Jump!" Pauline shouted as the sky turned really blue.

"But, I'm afraid. What if I break a neck? A leg? A hand? A nose? Or what if I bump my head on a stone? On a very large stone?"

"Come now, darling. Why be afraid? None of those terrible things will happen to you! I promise." My mama said. "Yes, we promise. Come down now." My father joined in.

"But, what will happen if I do not jump?"

"Come now. You don't wanna miss the fun, do you?" Regine quipped as the sky turned to bloody red. "Jump...NOW! Jump now...!"

Someone was pushing me really hard, but I tried not to give in. I looked at my back and saw that the beautiful sceneries changed into horrifying ones. I was scared and frightened. Every thing beautiful turned chaotic. My family were wailing like banshees. I was just so afraid that I thought it was the end of me. But then, before anything else, my father, looking like he just woke up, was in front of me, saying, "Celine. Celine. Wake up!"

Yes. I was dreaming. My arms were in front of me. I was standing and behind my father was a flight of stairs. Sleepwalking was what I was doing the whole night. This was the first.