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imagination. Reality wasn’t supposed to be this
harsh even if a black cat turned its back on me hours ago. When I opened my
eyes, I saw that I was still on the floor. I tried again. Some things actually
happened the second time around. I closed my eyes and counted to three once
more.
    Then I said to myself, ‘Open it now!
Surprise! Nothing is real!’
    I looked around the room and it told me otherwise. Oh my
gosh! This was not a nightmare. This was real. I pinched my cheeks and it
actually hurt.
    Ouch.
    My phone suddenly started ringing again. I hurriedly grabbed
it. It must be Aaron and he was about to tell me that he was just kidding and
instead he would actually surprise me with a marriage tomorrow. I looked at the
caller’s name and stared at it for a while hoping that I just read it wrong.
    It was Sandy.
    “Hello?” I answered gloomily.
    “Kayla, I’m sorry. I was trying to call you earlier but I
couldn’t seem to get through,” she said. I wondered why I was hearing another
‘sorry’ word again. This was Sandy we were talking about. She was my best friend
and we didn’t fight that often.
    “Why?”
    “Remember the investment we made with All is Good Company ?” she began. I remembered that
one. We invested all our savings in their new product. I wondered if we had
doubled our money that fast.
    Wow! I was still lucky, I guessed.
    “What about them?” I excitedly asked her, hoping to finally
hear some good news.
    “Uhmm... they are...” she said, stalling with the words.
    “They are?” I asked her again.
    “They disappeared,” she blurted. My shoulders dropped down
in surprise. This was not the news that I was expecting to hear.
    “They what?” I exclaimed.
    “I went back to their office today and they weren’t there
anymore,” said Sandy.
    “Sandy, what happened to our money?” I hurriedly asked her.
    Oh no, she shouldn’t tell me that... that... that!
    “I’m afraid they took it all with them,” she said with a
rattling voice. Then I heard her soft cries as she held back the verge of tears
that came out after.
    “What? But I thought that it was a trustworthy investment?”
I dejectedly asked her as I felt my own voice shaking.
    My savings. All my life savings. I trusted it to my good old
friend. She was the one who told me that she heard of a good investment. I
actually got busy for the past few days that I never got the chance to look at
it with her. And now what? My whole life worth of savings was gone?
    “Are you still there, Kayla?” asked Sandy on the other line.
“What should we do?”
    “Just do what you can to get it back. I’m having a
headache,” I said before hanging up. I pressed my phone to my forehead in
dismay.
    In a moment, I suddenly felt my whole world spinning. This
couldn’t be. This was just one nightmare and I had to wake up now.
    I got up and headed towards the bathroom, turning on the
shower and putting my face underneath the flowing water. I felt shivers coming
down to my spine as the cold water hit me. Okay, enough, so this was real. I
turned the shower off and headed outside of the bathroom. Grabbing my coat from
the sofa and putting it on, I decided to go out.
    Disregarding my broken stiletto and ripped up pantyhose, I
slipped into a pair of ballet shoes. I locked my apartment door and walked
outside, still having no idea where I was going. But I felt the need for some
fresh air to clear up my confused mind so I went nonetheless.
    I randomly walked down the streets as the thoughts of
everything that had occurred today flashed back and forth inside my mind. I
hadn’t given a care about those people who stared at me like I was some
psychotic. They could think all they want. What else could I lose when I
already lost everything?
    All I needed was some place to clear my mind.
    Taking deep breaths, I kept on making myself believe that
everything was just a dream and when I woke up, it would all be over. I felt
like I was floating in the air as I trod the