The rain hitting the roof was heard all over the place,even on streets and surely in another roofs. The cafe has become an eerily silent since Simon,Thea,Darwin and Stacy left together, with deafening silence,is the darkness that covers all over the place. With only the lights from street lights and a light bulb in the kitchen is helping Demetri see while making his hot cappuccino for himself in this cold midnight.
Staring at the rain that can be seen through the transparent glass in front of him. Hearing the only sound of rain and no other city sounds then closed his eyes to calm himself down after his first argument with Simon and his anxious encounter with the girl he caught at the back of the shop hours ago. Putting his coffee down,he slightly massaged his head to ease the stress he's been feeling after meeting the new employee.
"She must not be that girl."Demetri whispered and pulled himself to sit at the kitchen counter. His mind can't calm down as all the happenings of his day isn't what he's planning and now,he's been left confused and alone in his own restocafe.
He felt himself sweating and out of breath as he clench his hands into fist as he keeps on remembering the new staff's face. Various images kept on flashing on Demetri's mind; images of men smashing thick wood into his body, the place of which Demetri identified as a barn house, and a big barrel of full water on his side. What terrifies him the most is the men who seems to be in quite forties or fifties are the face they are making; they looked so amused as they keep on hurting him.
With these images lurking in his head, he harshly held the sides of his head,clutching some of his hair.
"NO! Fuck it! Get out of my mind! You dimwittss!! Get the fuck out!"he shouted hearing his echoed voice himself in the empty cafe and pulled himself to sit on the ground while leaning his back against the kitchen counter.
"What do you want from me!Why are you doing this?!"He again shouted as he started crying and catching his breath keeping on seeing those tormented images in his mind.
He calmed down as soon as the images in his mind shows that all those men beating him up turn their backs at him. With the image in his mind he stopped crying as if he's like a child who had been awaken from nightmare,he regain his relaxed demeanor both in his physical and mental state and found himself burying his face down on the crook of his crossed arms leaned against the both of his knee.
"Why are those images appeared this time even though I'm not sleeping?"his weak voice whispered through himself. "I am wide awake,and not that every night nightmare becomes a hallucination,am I getting worse?"
"That Thea girl,I saw her in my nightmares several times. What's her connection about my nightmares? Why did it have to be me suffering in those unreal images?"
As soon as he went back from his normal self and recovered from those tormenting hallucinations,he pulled himself up to stand,grabbing unto the kitchen counter to get support. Demetri is still wobbling, and cant even stand straight,he harshly grabbed the cup of coffee and drank it in one gulp as if it was some kind of liquor.
Just like a drunk old man,Demetri walked towards the exits of the cafe and locked it safe. He isnt drunk from some kind of liquor or any drinks, he's not sleepy nor tired. The Demetri Alvarez is clearly overtaken by the hallucination that have been haunting his everyday life. The Demetri Alvarez who's known to be the 'Unbeatable Lawyer' and the 'The Master.' in the world of business at just in the age of twenty-six just got beat up by a nightmare.
Getting himself in the driver's seat of his black Bently Flying Spur car, he harshly punched the driving wheel of the car out of frustration. Frustrated on how that nightmare ever related to him, frustrated at the idea of him getting worst to the point in where he's having a sudden hallucination and even more frustrated when he saw that girl Thea and have several unanswered questions.
"I have a lover,I have the fame,I have a good job, I have wealth and living well in my life,just why did that freaking nightmare always bother me every night?!"he whispered to himself continuously punching the driving wheel. *Even so I am tired and want to have some sleep. Those nightmares made me so afraid to close my eyes and doze off to my subconsciousness. Its the same nightmare every night, why am I not used to it?*
Just when the moment when he's on the verge of crying again,he was distracted when he heard his phone placed on the passenger seat vibrate and showed an incoming call notification.
"Hey honey?"he said as he grabbed the phone and answered the call.
"Hey honeeeeeeeyyyyy."a voice of woman responded from the other line of the call.
Demetri took a glance of his wrist watch and turned to the car's window putting himself on relaxation. "Its already one why are you still awake?" he asked with his sweet voice to his lover.
"I thought you never let yourself awake before it gets twelve in the midnight?"
"...Something so sudden happened that needs my attention."Demetri grew cold as he answered,remembering the events just few moments ago. "Then why did you call?" he slightly laughed making the conversation long with his lover.
"Im just checking,I can't sleep though or maybe I'm just worried your'e out there looking for some hot girls! Hmp!"
Demetri laughed at the silly behavior he just imagined while hearing the grumpy voice of his girl.
"Why would I do that,my girlfriend is already that hot,and no one can even match her."
"Yes that's right! She's even so beautiful!"
Just with the slight conversation with his girl,Demetri feel into silence thinking on how lucky he was his girlfriend called on his verge of breaking down.
"Hey honey,your'e such a savior." he suddenly blurted out seeing his reflection on the window;smiling.
"What? What do you mean honey?"
"No,nothing...Im just glad we had a short late talk,I love hearing your voice though. sleep there tight,Im gonna see you tomorrow. Goodnight honey......I love you so much Annie." He said in his very sweet tone and voice he could.
Hearing those giggles on the the other side of the call makes him laugh.
"Yeah,yeah so corny honey,"Annie laughed and hung up the call.
Getting those relieving and small conversation Demetri is well assured that he is well now,and yet he can see his eyes the rear view mirror with full of determination.
"It's quite a cliche that I need to find that girl to ask some questions, and if there's not. Let's just say we need to counter that nightmare."