Nightmares

The kids have also penetrate my psyche now.

I've dreamed about work before, which can be expected, considering I spend 10 hours a day in this school. My past 2 dreams, however, have been less than pleasant.

The first one was about Javier. I woke up and felt... not right. Other people in the house said they could hear me making noises in my sleep. I couldn't place it until I saw Javier later that day, and my stomach just churned and fell to the floor. A flash of him in serious physical danger came back to me. In my dream, he had been cold, shriveled, shaking, discolored... basically on the verge of death. In the dream, he was wearing the black sweatshirt he always wore, with the hood up, but he was basically a skeleton. He's skinny as it is, but looking at him in my dream gave me a physical sense of his harm that couldn't be hidden by a giant sweat shirt.

The second one was about Kim. She was wearing a necklace, and a man came up behind her and strangled her with it. I actually lashed out in my sleep when that one happened.

I can only protect them from so much.