• I got up to my sister thrashing around in bed and screaming. I ran to her bed and held her down. I sang a calming song and watched her. She calmed down and I lay next to her. She held on to my arm as I looked out the window at the stars. Her alarm clock beeped four a.m. and I slowly drifted into a dream.
    Tenshi stood in front of me and Ryane behind me. They were laughing at me. I looked around me and saw I was in a cage. I was wearing a leopard costume with ears and a tail. I tried to tell them to stop, but all that came out was a loud yowl. I stopped and Tenshi came forward. I tried to tell her it was me, Lilith, but all I did was purr. I walked out of her arm range and stared at her. She didn’t the hint. I wrote my name in the dirt and all she did was clap. I got tired of this game and was getting angry. I glanced at her and backed up. I charged at her and bit her arm. I was covered in her blood and she was screaming. I snapped out of my rage and looked at what I had just done. I felt deep regret and pain. The guards came at me with a gun and shot me.
    I woke up screaming with Tenshi holding me close, still sleeping. I snuggled in closer to her and fell asleep again. I woke up minutes later to Tenshi whispering my name into my neck. I brushed her hair back.
    “Tenshi,” I whispered in her ear. “What Lilith,” Tenshi moaned angrily.
    I held back a laugh. “What are you dreaming about?”
    “You silly,” she said sweetly with a hint of pain,” You are trying to tell me something, but you can’t talk. I know it’s you, but I can’t tell you with words because you are a leopard.” I stared at her sleeping body. “I am trying to tell you I know it’s you, but I can’t tell you because my friends are around, so I can’t tell you with words. I’m trying to tell you with actions, but you are just getting angrier and angrier.” Her words were getting frantic. I started to feel sorry about her. “You are backing up. You are staring. You are running at me.” I held my breath. “You attacked me. My arm hurts. Am I bleeding? I see red. Lots of red. Blood. Lots of red blood. You are being put down by the guards. You are dead.” She started crying and clinging to me.
    “I’m so sorry,” I whispered in her ear. “I’m so sorry.” I held her close. “You are being taken care of.” I was trying to fix her dream.
    She stopped crying. “Really,” she asked.
    “Yep.”
    “ I will always love you.”
    I started to tear up. “ As I will always love you.”
    She woke up with her eyes red and tears still on her cheeks. “My arms hurts. A lot.”
    I looked at her arm and saw teeth marks. They looked like they could bleed at any moment. “I’m sorry Tenshi. It’s my fault.”
    “It is?” She looked at me funny. “Why?”
    “It was me who was…” I couldn’t tell her. “I hurt you.”
    “Why would you …hurt me?” She was confused.
    “I was the leopard.”
    “Ah... What?”
    “I was the one who bit you. I was the leopard.”
    “In what? Why?”
    “In your dream.”
    “What dream?”
    “The one you just had.”
    “I didn’t dream.”
    “You don’t remember?”
    “Remember what?”
    “Your dream.”
    “I didn’t dream.”
    “Yes, you did. You told me about it.”
    “But I don’t remember it, right.”
    “Yep.”, I said with worry.
    “Okay.” She was relived. “I understand now.”
    “I’m glad.” I looked at the time and freaked out. It was seven o’clock. “Hurry and get ready.”
    “No need.” She was calm and calculated. “First of all, it’s Saturday. Second, it doesn’t even start until nine.”
    ‘It’ was a special school for twins that meet every day from nine to seven. Mom thought it was a good idea for us to go. It was a special school for all grades, even collage, and we thought it was good for us, but stupid at the same time. We were in the upper section, or high school section that required us to live in dorms an A rotations. Rotations were month cycles that made it easier to learn in school. Only a select few live all year round. Juiles School for twins was an all girls school and only able to be attended by invitation because it was a private school. It wasn’t a very big school and didn’t cost much to get into. Of all the rules, only one rule was broken. No sleeping together. The way the rule could be bypassed was by pushing the two beds together. The school had a uniform. It was a grey knee length skirt with a button up white shirt. The vest was grey and ended at the waist. The red tie held together by a rose clasp and ended at the top button of the vest. The socks were mid calf and germ with a red band at the top with black dress shoes. The rule on jewelry was limited to one piece per item. If you put your hair up with a ribbon, it had to be red. Altogether, the uniform was very comfortable.