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dream the other night. Do you want to talk about it?”
    She wanted to talk about a dream? I was surprised that such a big deal would be made from a bunch of way-out thoughts that were going through my head in my sleep.
    “Dreams are our unconscious mind trying to tell us something. It could be something important. It could be a memory from childhood that you're blocking, maybe...?”
    I laughed, “I don't think so, somehow, Jo. I dreamed I was flying. If I was ever able to fly, I'm sure I'd remember.”
    She laughed too and we continued to eat in silence for a moment, but I could sense there was something she wasn't saying.
    “How come Gabriel is asking you about this, anyway?”
    “I guess he thinks I'm the best person to speak to you about anything... and everything. He can see we're becoming close and I guess he wants to take advantage,” she laughed again.
    “So you're like his spy or something?” I laughed.
    “Yeah, I guess you could say that. But don't worry, I won't tell him anything you don't want me to tell him.”
    Why was it such an issue? They were just dreams. Dreams weren't important. Not to me anyway.
    “Well, if you really need to know – and I don't mind you telling him – in that dream, I turned into a raven. I doubt that's an early repressed childhood memory though,” I said smiling, as I suddenly recalled another dream I'd had. “Remember when I went into the woods alone and fell asleep by the river? Well I dreamed of a woman and a raven then too. There's something about these ravens here, isn't there?” I laughed.
    Jo looked at me in a way she hadn't looked at me before. Almost as if she was looking at someone else. “Jo?” I whispered.
    Her expression softened and she smiled and then the bell went, signalling the end of lunch break. “Saved by the bell, eh Jo?” I joked as she told me she'd see me later before I headed in the opposite direction to my next class.
    All afternoon I couldn't shake the feeling that something strange was about to happen. It was Jo's expression that had started it all off. That feeling that she was looking at someone else even though she was looking right at me.
    When I got back from school that afternoon, Meredith greeted me.
    “Hi sweetie! How was your day?” she asked, giving me a quick hug as I dropped my bag on the kitchen floor and flopped down onto one of Gabriel's handmade wooden chairs.
    “It was okay, thanks. Where's Gabriel?” I asked, eager to sit down with him and have a proper chat to find out, finally, just what was going on.
    “I'm afraid he's had to leave town for a day or two... which is why I'm here. I'll be staying with you until he gets back.”
    I tried to hide my disappointment. I loved being with Meredith but I had been hoping to finally get some answers. And why hadn't he told me he was going away? Why was everything so secretive? Life seemed even weirder all of a sudden. Instead of getting the answers I craved, the questions were just piling up and I was becoming increasingly frustrated.
    Early that evening, however, something happened to take my mind off things. Oliver came round to see me. Yes... to see me!
    Meredith and I had just finished eating dinner, followed by a dessert totally new to me: pumpkin pie. I'd only ever read that pumpkins were for Halloween, after seeing pictures of them carved out to make creepy lanterns. I'd no idea something so delicious could be made from them. So there I was, totally stuffed with the top button of my new black jeans undone, the jeans that Jo had given me when she'd seen my wardrobe – or lack of it. So I was lazing on the sofa when the doorbell rang. I assumed it would be for Meredith so I stayed put, eagerly reading the first Harry Potter book which I had found on the bookshelf, when in walked Oliver. Blood rushed to my cheeks as I saw him standing there.
    “Hi Lilly,” he said as I struggled to get up from the sofa and do up my button at the same time.
    “Er... Hi! What are you