Aurora burst into her room, tears welling in her eyes, cheeks red and face twisted with anxiety. She flung herself onto her bed face down and cried uncontrollably into her matress. Her mother could hear Auroras sobs from down in the living room, but she didnt care. What had this girl done wrong to be crying in such a pained manner? Nothing, that is the saddest part. Her mother was drunk and needed someone to blame to for all her problems, Aurora just happened to be in the kitchen at that time.
Aurora's sobbing subsided and she just lay in her bed motionless, face down, tears still streaming from her eyes. "Your a failure! Why cant you ever make my life easier! I cant stand dealing with you and I cant wait till you are out of the house and I dont have to bother with such a useless person anymore!" She could still hear her mothers stinging words in her head, every syllable a deep cut in her.
As she lay motionless in her bed, so distraught that she was unaware of her own impeding drowsiness. It was like an instant, one moment she was was laying in the comfort of her bed, the next she was laying in the tall grass of her dream meadow. It happened in a blink of an eye, and soon she aware that she had drifted to sleep and was back in the serene place she had found in her dreams.
The breeze there was always constant, cool yet gentle on the skin. The grass always swayed hypnotically with a gentle wisk, and the night sky was always clear with bright stars. After a few moments of taking in the sounds of her dark grassy knoll her mother seemed to fade from her mind, and her pain seemed to just melt away. Aurora felt content laying there in the tall grass looking up at the stars.
One star shone brighter then the rest. She wondered for a moment then relized that it must be her sweet lil friend that she had met the other night here in this very setting. She did not move, she just layed on her back looking up at the bright star. Not soon after she heard a voice, it was not coming from anywhere around her, it was coming from inside her head! It was a gently voice, mysterious but kind.
"Do not fear sweet Aurora, your importance is more than you know. Without you I could not exist. So smile, and dream for me, and know that You mean more to me then anyone. Sleep my friend, and do not fret."
The voice faded and the bright star shot across the sky in a streak of light and out of view. Aurora's pain seemed to be gone. The little cupcake of her dreams loved her when no one else would. Feeling so serene, and having a new purpose Aurora closed her eyes and layed in that meadow until morning.