Inkfall Writes

Fern went straight to the adoption apartment of the orphanage to get Iva in anyway possible. Her hands were trembling as she saw the exact woman smiling at her who had attacked her in her dream. The woman was the principal. Her name, Agnes Crowell, made Fern shudder. "Yes? What do you want?" She spoke in an authoritative tone. Though she was smiling, her words were stern. "I-Iva...I want to adopt her." Fern replied. The principal made a face but quickly forced a smile, "Sure. Right this way." The principal took her to another office. Soon Fern found herself filling forms. One after another. Then they kept telling her to submit them to different offices. It was relentless. She stayed busy for a long time. Once she was finally done, she was told that she would get a reply in a week. She was annoyed, but went home. As she sat on her couch and looked at her phone, she saw several emails from her work. Her boss had sent her an email saying that they are cutting...

Fern decided to ignore it all and get to her daily routine.  When she went out of her apartment to get to her job, she found the exact same little girl she had seen in her dream. Her jaw dropped as she just stared at the girl. She looked exactly the same, except she looked happy, unlike in her dream. Fern felt uneasy as a thought came into her mind. What if that dream showed her future? Fern quickly shook her head and went past the little girl who was still playing with her doll. Fern kept thinking about it the whole day. She couldn't focus on her work at all. Usually, she would have called it a coincidence and ignored it, but the girl and the man had been coming for 36 nights in her dreams already, and then suddenly the girl appeared in front of her apartment. It was too much for it to be brushed off as a coincidence. On her way back home, she bought a few sweets to give to the little girl, in the hope that she might talk to her and figure out what was going on. A road was closed ...