Hi all
This one took a lot longer than I anticipated to write, but here it is. I hope you all enjoy it! I should have more coming out very soon, though! If you haven't already read the chapters preceding this, I advise you do so, or else it won't make sense!
Cheers
GT
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It is generally difficult to tell when someone is having a nightmare. But there are tell-tale signs - terrified body language, tossing and turning, moaning and murmuring in their sleep. Of course, if nobody is around to witness these, then it doesn't matter whether that someone is having a nightmare or not. But had anyone been in the room with her that night, they would have worked out that Maddie Reid was having a particularly bad nightmare.
It was the same nightmare she had had for many years.
The laughter first. Always the laughter. Coinciding with the sound of the "clip clop, clip clop" of hooves on concrete. The laughter was Shaun's. Maddie couldn't see him from where she was. Only hear him. She longed to look up, to see him again, but she couldn't. Her body wouldn't move.
Clip clop, clip clop.
More laughter.
Then the familiar voice of the instructor, saying that same sentence that always echoed in Maddie's mind.
"Easy, Shaun! She's a bit frisky today!"
Look up, damn you! Why won't you look up!?
Clip clop, clip clop.
More laughter.
Maddie couldn't look up, and she knew what was coming. She closed her eyes.
Then the loud whinny, followed by a small, high-pitched scream, then a thud and a dull crack. Followed by a louder, more blood curdling scream.
Finally, Maddie could look up.
And once again, she found herself looking into her twin's dead, lifeless eyes, his face nothing more than a blank expression.
A trickle of blood started to gently flow out from under his head.
Maddie woke up with a start, to find herself in a dark room. Her body was hot and clammy with sweat. She felt the familiar trickle from her nose, and switched on the light to find that it was definitely blood this time. Grabbing a tissue from the nightstand, she wiped her face. Then she pressed it to her nose to help with the bleeding.
As she just sat there, nursing her nosebleed, she began to cry, softly. This was the fourth night in a row that she had had this nightmare.
There was good reason for it:
Issy wasn't with her.
She had flown back to New York to celebrate the 4th of July (it would've seemed ironic to celebrate in England!). Once she was away, and her comforting, dominant presence was gone, Maddie's mind had gone back to its old night-time tricks. Interrupting her sleep, giving her horrible flashbacks like this, the whole nine yards.
Once the blood had stopped flowing, and Maddie was feeling better, she reached over to her phone and turned it on. The time revealed that it was 05:37 in the morning. That was frustrating - she had no desire to go back to sleep now, and would have to find a bit of time to kill.
Maybe she could go for a jog? The sun was about to come up, and the air was warm from the heatwave, and Maddie was itching to get up and about.
Eventually, she decided to go for it, and got out of bed. After hurriedly dressing into some running clothes and trainers, she took her key and phone (which she strapped to her arm using a special armband), slipped quietly downstairs and went outside. Immediately, she started jogging down the street.
The air - somewhere between warm and cool, and therefore perfect for running - whipped against her face. It ran through her hair and swept it behind her. The solitude was perfect, and the exertion meant that she wasn't focusing too much on her nightmare.
So, Maddie kept on going, running at a relatively ordinary pace for someone tired and unfit. She headed from the pub to the town hall, round the corner and up the street. Soon, she lost all track of where she was going, but found herself heading for the hill where she first met Issy. Her mind was tempted to head all the way there, but even that was quite the distance. She eventually got about halfway, and sat down on the grass by the path to rest.
As she thought about it, it occurred to her once again how badly she needed to have Issy with her. This was very strange, the more she thought about it - not even two months ago, she had been perfectly content and satisfied with her life, and the direction it had gone. Issy had only been in her life that long. And yet she was everything to her now. Everything she thought about, everything she wanted, the whole works. And even though she had believed in the early stages that the feeling wasn't necessarily mutual, that had changed when she had - by accident - seen one of Issy's messages to Molly Wilson (her best friend). She had seen that Issy cared about her just as much.
But the drawback to that was that her time away from Issy was even harder. It affected Maddie's emotional state, caused her to relapse into her nightmares, and generally made her enjoy life a lot less.
As she reflected on these thoughts, Maddie found herself reaching into her running shorts and sliding her fingers under her knickers. Gently gently gently, she teased her clitoris with her index finger, moaning softly as she did so. The finger became bolder, and began to work its way into her, working its way up to the familiar place in her that really got her going, her sweet spot.
Finding it, her fingers began to pump in and out, going first at a slow pace, then building up speed and momentum as the stimulations came on.
The moans became louder, more intense. The images in her mind became even more vivid, as she imagined all the things she wanted Issy to do to her - to fuck her with a strap-on, to do scat stuff with her, to tickle her into unconsciousness... the list was endless.
Then she thought of her girlfriend looming over her, as she lay helpless, tied to the bed. Any bed. She imagined the look of menace on her face as she took out a large rubber dildo. The satisfied smile as she began to fuck her with it.
She pumped and pumped, in line with the rhythm that Issy was setting in her fantasy. Her moans became louder, her breathing more vigorous and her eyes clamping shut. She was now well and truly beginning to ride the roller coaster.
Eventually, after a couple of minutes more, she hit climax, and collapsed sideways as her weight carried her downwards. She couldn't even try to quiet herself - she was up on a small hill, quite some distance from town, late at night. There was no way she could be heard.
When her orgasm subsided, Maddie just lay there, relishing the perfect temperature of the night air. For the first time that morning, she was feeling at peace. Her nightmare had faded to a distant memory, and all she had now were her thoughts of Issy, and how much she was looking forward to having her in her bed again.
She was shaken out of her thoughts by the sound of her phone vibrating against her left arm, which she had not been using.
This was odd, she thought. Sliding it off the band and looking at it, she saw that it was a WhatsApp from Issy.
"Hi Mads. I know it's probably like 6 in the morning for you, but when you wake up, could you please message me?" It read.