章 3: Revealing Dreams

Mrs. Robins

I can't calm down knowing that my son is missing and can be anywhere away from home, it's like the earth has swallowed him, the cops don't take me in and I'm so nervous I feel like I hear him and I see everywhere in the house, I'd like all this to be just a bad dream and when he wakes up Leo is sleeping next to me with his tender, reddish face for being recharged in the Sofa.

But I know this is real and this nightmare won't end until I find Leo safe and sound. I took the audacity to tell my husband that I'm very nervous and that I hear Leo running around the house, I thought he'd make me crazy, but he just told me, "I heard him too, sometimes running around the garden."

I'm keeping an eye on the phone in case the cops have news, but well being honest didn't expect much from them. Without realizing it I fell asleep on the couch and whatever it took me, these last few nights I haven't slept very well, because I thought that at any moment Leo would come from his room to hug me and say, "I'm afraid Mom, let me sleep with you and Dad."

I dreamed of Leo, it just didn't seem like a dream it seemed very real as if he had been there with me, I dreamed that I was in a dark and big room, he was hiding in a corner and I was behind a piece of furniture, he made me signals to keep quiet as if there was someone he was hiding from, I tried to ask him what was going on, but that's where a big, tall silhouette comes in, he had no face and although he looked human he could not claim that he was, the shadow looked around as if he were looking for something or someone everywhere.

Leo looked scared and even more horrified when the silhouette came in, closed his eyes, and covered his mouth with his hand, it broke my heart to see that. When the shadow came out Leo let out a sigh of relief and I look into my eyes.

—Mom, help me get out of here, please —Leo says with pleading eyes.

—What's the matter, Leo, where are you? —The worried mom asks.

—I'm at home —says the boy.

—Whose? —the confused mom asks.

—From him —points to the shadow coming out of the room.

Then I woke up so confused, I wasn't sure if that was real or just a dream, I just wanted to find Leo. I was researching on the Internet dreams that seem real and different meanings appeared to me, which I did not know if I was going crazy, but the one closest to what happened to me contained things like parallel worlds or parallel dimensions, in which people are dragged or carried by ghosts or spirits looking for things from the world in which we live, at this point without return I could not close myself to anything. The question was, what did you want, what do you get for that?

On the night my husband arrived and something fearful I told him about what I discovered this afternoon on the internet.

—You mustn't believe everything on the Internet —her husband says.

—I'm desperate, besides maybe it's true or it will help us be closer to finding her —explains Mrs. Robins.

—I'm desperate too," I'll talk to the cops tomorrow to find out if they found anything new —the husband replies calmly.

—They won't do anything, if they were doing their job, they'd have called us by now. That's why we have to look for him on our own —begs Mrs. Robins

—Calm darling, we'll find him. I promise you —the husband replies.