If you were to see your future and you had the capability to change it, what would you do? Raven Blair did. She saw her future. Her downfall. In her shoes, what would you do? She lived with the man she loved deeply. She was sure he was the one. Everyone was. The man was everything to her. She put her husband before herself, before anybody else. He was her god. It was getting unhealthy though she claimed it was true love. Of course.
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One night, Raven slept in the arms of her lover when she awoke, screaming and clawing at the air. No one knew what happened but folks said she was never the same. She had no family or close friends. Heaven knows what happened that night. Her lover swore that they did nothing, they only slept. No one knew. But I do. I was her only family though she refused to acknowledge me after a certain conflict after the event. She talked to me a lot before the disagreement. I was her only outlet. She also refused to let her husband know of her current state. The man remained in the dark so, as Raven claimed, they can live in the light.
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She was forever paranoid that he might leave her. She opened up to me about her dream. She was in an endless dark tunnel where she wandered for almost an eternity when she heard her husband’s voice calling out to her. She woke up. Everything was so realistic. She couldn’t control her arms and she started screaming, shrieking as if mad. She couldn’t control her body at all. She saw her husband leap out of bed, his face as pale as the sheets on the bed. This one reaction caused Raven to feel afraid. She felt alone. She said that she kept shouting for him in her head, “don’t leave me! Help me, please!” but then again… Who can hear man’s thoughts but the man himself? No one else. She saw him take out thick ropes as he bound her to the bed. He didn’t even hesitate. It took him only a few moments to decide to tie his wife to the bed. Raven kept screaming. She almost bit her husband but he dodged, pulling back his hand from her with a disgusted face. Raven felt fear seeing him like this.
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She screamed and screamed until she coughed up blood. She blacked out and when she woke up, she was in a cell. It wasn’t long until she learned that the love of her life, her husband, turned her in to a hospital for the psychologically disturbed. A nurse was beside her. Leather belts bound her to her hospital bed. The door was opened then she saw a doctor and her husband walk in. Her husband wore an uneasy expression. She overheard the following conversation:
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The doctor: “As we discussed earlier, we might keep her longer. Of course, it depends on her state of mind.”
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The husband: “Keep her as long as you can.”
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The doctor: “Well then, you’ll be pleased to know that her situation isn’t very serious-”
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The husband: “How long?”
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The doctor: “Given her situation-”
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The husband: “How long?!”
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The doctor: “A-a year and a half at the most…”
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The doctor and her husband were on the left side of the bed. When the doctor said this, her husband's face fell. His eyebrows knitted together, again, showing displeasure. As if disgusted, again, this expression stabbed Raven’s heart. She saw her husband pull out a briefcase filled with money. The doctor’s eyes and the nurse’s lit up. Her husband, again, said syllable by syllable, emphasizing his words, “Keep. her. as long. as. you. can.”
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Raven wanted to cry, she wanted to beg. She wanted to close her eyes so she wouldn’t see the look on her Worshipped’s face, but her body reacted on its own again. She shot towards her husband and shrieked. Her husband simply moved a little bit to the left where she can’t reach him and said to the nurse, “Tie her up more when I visit. I don’t want her contaminating me. If I visit.” His eyes were cold and distant as he looked at his ‘beloved’ wife. Raven does not recognize this expression. Never has he had the face to look at her like that.
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Then… she woke up screaming. But this time, she looked beside her and saw her worried husband extending an arm to embrace and comfort her. It was a dream. But it seemed so realistic. Every day, she told me, she would have the same dream. She became paranoid. One day, it was her pouring out her paranoia to me and another day, it was her husband telling me how much his wife changed. I couldn’t tell her that he noticed or else it would cause her to stir up more horrible nightmares and ‘day-mares,’ so to say.
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I knew that it was time for this to stop. I met with her and told her she was being too paranoid. Cullen would never do that to her. I knew because he told me so. I told her to stop it. I told her to trust him. She got even more agitated and started spouting nonsense then stormed out. I visited her once to say sorry and told her, this time gently, that she has to calm down. Nothing is going to happen.
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Until now I blame myself. That time, I paid her a visit because I was leaving for Europe in a day. I’d be gone for 9 months. I called their house less than often, and every time I call, her husband answered. I thought it was maybe because she was still mad at me. I encountered something when I was in Europe and had to go back 3 months earlier.
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When I got back, I decided to pay the couple a visit. To my unpleasant surprise, Raven wasn’t there. Neither was Cullen. Neither were their things. Or their gardener, or Raven’s roses, or their car.
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They left.
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Two days and four bottles of vodka later, I found out that Raven was sent to a mental hospital while Cullen was nowhere to be found. I couldn’t stop the chills from overtaking me. Did Raven really see the future? If so, wasn’t she scared? Obviously, she was—the weight of having to carry your unfortunate future is like a burden is enough to drive one crazy.
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Raven Blair, bless her soul, represent people like me. People like you. After catching a glimpse of her future, she didn’t do enough to change it. Instead, she was driven mad by the fear that it will happen. How ironic.
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