Nadia sleeps. Her head is rested on the green pillow and her green blanket envelopes her body. It is evident that her sleep is not peaceful. Cold sweat trickles down her forehead as her body tosses and turns over the sheets. Is it a nightmore she is having? Or is she just dreaming expressively? Maybe she was falling down a steep cliff when someone shakes her awake. At first, she looks annoyed by being disturbed in her sleep, but in truth she is a little bit grateful. Her dream, she dare not repeat it to anyone, was one so horrifying that it made her shiver to even think about it.
She rubs her eyes, her groggy face staring at the person who woke her up. She sweeps her fringe aside to find an old frenemy sitting on her bed. The friend smiles at her but Nadia can not tell; is her enemy smiling to make amends? Or is her enemy giving her a sinister grin? It is way too late at night to try and figure out these complex things. Nadia sits up, adjusts her pyjama top and lays back on to the pillow.
"Oh, it's you," Nadia yawns as she says this, her eyes begging her to go back to sleep but her confused mind will not hear it. Her mind wants to be relieved now.
"Yes, it's me," Her frenemy's grin grows wider. Still, no one has a clue why this old friend smiles so much. The person was a frenemy; both a friend and enemy. A friend to Nadia because she/he has been kind to her at times. There were also times when she/he was cruel to Nadia, hence also an enemy. This was an old frenemy of Nadia's, they go back to a long time ago. They go back to the moment Nadia was born. I introduce you all to an old frenemy of Nadia's: Time.
"What do you want from me?" Nadia groans. Why was it that Time came in her sleep? Couldn't time come another day - perhaps when Nadia was bored and in need of company? Time remains grinning. So, Nadia's conversation with Time starts.
Time: Haha, actually I think you're the one who wants something from me.
Nadia: *Confused* I'm sorry? Me? Want something from you?
Time: Oh come on, you're the one who keeps saying out loud "I wish I had more time."
Nadia: Oh. Erm.
Time: You're leaving soon, I thought I'd help you out a bit.
Nadia: Thanks? I guess...
Time: So, do you want me to slow down?
Nadia: Yeah, but the thing is, sometimes I wish you would speed up too.
Time: Wooah, I can't do both!! Pick one.
Nadia: How the hell do I pick one? I can't pick just one.
Time: Hmmm *Time jumps of the bed and strolls around Nadia's room* There is something I could do for you...
Nadia: What?
Time: Well, I can show you...show you what happens first and then you can decide for yourself if you want me to speed up or slow down.
Nadia: Show me what - woaaah - show me MY FUTURE? No way, no, I can't ask you to do that!!
Time: It's easy really, seeing as we've known each other since you were born, I'll bend the rules for you. I'm not supposed to be allowed to show you...but seeing as you're my favourite human *cough*
Nadia: You mean you can show me my AS level results? And my A2 level results?!
Time: YOU ARE SUCH A NERD!! I can show you the future and all you want to know about is your exam results? Live a little woman! Don't you want to know who you'll marry? Or when or how you'll die?
Nadia: I'm going to get married?! To who?! I get married?!!!
Time: *Shifts uncomfortably* Well...maybe...I don't know I can't tell you...
Nadia: SIGH.
Time: Stop sighing, you waste me when you sigh.
Nadia: Hmmm welllll, if you were to tell me how I die, I could prevent it.
Time: Yeah... but...
Nadia: But what?
Time: But you'll miss out on the other lessons in life. Because the only lesson you'll be interested in is how NOT to die.
Nadia: Oh - hey come on, you were the one who offered to show me my future.
Time: Okay fine, I take that offer back. Listen woman, maybe I shouldn't have come to you.
Nadia: Yeah maybe you shouldn't have. But...
Time: I know, you just want to slow down sometimes, even though you have the urges to speed up.
Nadia: Yeah, because there are somethings I just don't want to lose. I like having some of these things. And I have the feeling I won't have them once I go.
Time: Only I can tell (: Don't worry. If those things are meant to stay, they will stay. If they're meant to go away, I'll be here to help you heal.
Nadia: But I'm so happy with these things.
Time: Well, there's a reason for those things to exist in your life. If it has no reason to stay - it will not stay.
Nadia: SIGH.
Time: Stop sighing!! Look, I gotta go you know, or not, those farmers won't be up to milk the cows and collect the eggs. The fishermen won't be out to catch the fish. The chefs won't be up to cook the breakfast. The papparazzi won't be up to stalk Britney. George Bush won't be awake in time to -
Nadia: Yeah, I get it - I get it. Bye.
Time: Take it easy okay? And I'm sorry if there's not enough of me...or too much of me. I try to run as smoothly as possible. It's not easy being me.
Nadia: It's not easy being me either.
Time: Oh please, I would kill to be you. I mean, not just YOU but I would kill to be ordinary with your ordinary problems. Do you know what it feels like to be me? Oh, I have seen the Tsunami...both the World Wars and -
Nadia: Okay, I get it! Get going already...I want to catch up with my sleep.
Time: Fiiine. I'll see you around my friend. Stop complaining about me.
The conversation ends. Nadia falls back into sleep and when she wakes up, the sun is in the sky and it's a new day. At least one of her friends, she knows is out there being productive.