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“Here.”
    “Perfect. I’ll message you later,” he told me, smiling as he looked down at it.
    “I… look forward to it,” I said slowly, a small smile finding a home on my face. For the second time, I found myself watching as he disappeared into the night.
    I sighed, content as I looked around the store, which was empty once again. Part of me wondered when he’d get around to messaging me. I’d never been on a date before. Wait until Maddie heard about this.
    Olivia walked back into the store, carrying a sub and a bag of chips.
    “Anything exciting happen while I was away?” she asked.
    “Nothing worth mentioning,” I lied.
    She laughed, heading into the back room to eat her dinner. “Story of my life.”

Chapter 4: Maddie
     
    “You’re going to be okay. You’re going to make it. I can’t lose you.”
    I opened my eyes slowly, the male voice sounding close and familiar. Sitting up quickly, I grabbed my phone and used it to shed light on the rest of my room. But no one was there.
    “Remnants of a dream forgotten,” I murmured, taking a deep breath and letting my head fall back into my pillows. My heart pounded in my chest. I repeated the words, “You’re going to be okay. You’re going to make it. I can’t lose you.”
    They sounded so familiar. Like I’d heard them before. But I couldn’t place a face to the voice. Nor could I put a timeline to the feeling of déjà vu.
    I rolled onto my stomach, grabbing my notebook and flipping to the page with other dream notes on it. I glanced at my phone for the date. Two in the morning.
    “Will I ever have a full night’s rest again?” I yawned and scribbled the date down, before jotting the words I’d woken up to underneath it. For three weeks, I’d been having these weird dreams, where I wake up with words, or a very, very specific mixture of feelings, or the image of something I’d never seen before. And I wrote them all down. Mostly, though, it was words. Sometimes one. Sometimes many.
    “Apothecary,” I whispered into the darkness; it was the word from the night before. I looked it up on my phone during the day. It was a medicine maker of sorts, though I had no idea what it meant for my dreams, but I had a strong feeling that they were all connected.
    What I’d gathered from everything so far was that someone had been rushing me someplace –presumably the Apothecary. The dreams were always fast paced. I’d wake up breathless, heart racing. Tonight, if anything, confirmed it.
    “I can’t lose you,” I said again, closing my eyes. Waves of a dampened sorrow washed over me, the words sounding more heart wrenching than they had originally.
    I wanted to tell Evelyn. I’d debated it constantly, but she’d laugh and chalk it up to reading one too many vampire stories. And maybe I had. Perhaps four years obsessing over the supernatural was finally paying its toll. However, my dreams had never been as intense, nor as repetitive as they were these days.
    But who knew? Maybe everything meant nothing in the end.
     

Chapter 5: Evelyn
     
    I took a slow drink of water, placing the glass carefully back on the table. My hands quivered slightly, and I snuck them under the table onto my lap, shaking them out inconspicuously. Almost two weeks –and hundreds of text messages –later and I was still nervous about this date… especially since he seemed to be pulling out all the stops to impress me.
    “Everything okay?” Shayne asked, setting his fork down.
    “It’s great,” I pulled my hands out from underneath the table and picked up my own fork. I pushed the chicken around on my plate, wishing I’d ordered something a little smaller now. “It’s just… I, uh, don’t really go on dates that often. Between you and me, I’m a little nervous.”
    “Don’t be,” he smiled, an easy smile that managed to ease a bit of my anxiety.
    “Well, when you said dinner, I thought you meant, like, a burger joint or something,” I forced a laugh. I waved