Sixty-one: Unforgiving nightmares

Temperance

I sit at a table in the house I grew up in after mom died. Alec and Emaline sit in front of me.

Multiple pictures of younger me align the walls. Those are the pictures that my late mother used to have on the walls in the house we lived in all together.

I laugh with Alec about something I don't remember as Emalines eyes are filled with terror, staring at the front door as a man walks in.

I ignore the man, looking at her with wide eyes.

"I thought you were dead?" I suddenly remember seeing Emalines dead body. I remember holding her dead body.

My heart begins to race. "That's not what you should be worried about Temp." She responds, her eyes not leaving the man at the door.

I glance at the door, my heart drops and I feel my blood start to flow backwards as I see my father.

"I... I thought you were dead? I thought you were dead how are you here?" I gasp, I stand up, backing up. I glance towards Alec and Emaline only to find them gone.

"I never died. I was just waiting f