Dissolve by Andrea Heltsley Read Free Book Online

honey blond so I call dibs. You can be the burnt auburn.”
     
    Too tired to protest, I nodded in agreement. I didn’t care if my hair was Martian green at this point. I sluggishly pulled myself up and retrieved the hair colors from the bag. It took several hours for the whole process to complete.
     
    We took turns with each other’s hair, until we stood there with the end results. Nessa was a honey blond and her hair was cropped into a tapered style. She looked beautiful actually. I gave her a pleased grin and then turned to look at myself in the mirror. The burnt auburn looked so drastic with my porcelain skin and she had cut it straight at my shoulders. There was no way anyone would recognize either of us now.
     
    “We both look so hot! This was a great idea Cora!” Nessa exclaimed.
     
    “I agree no one will even recognize us now. We look pretty sexy.”
     
    “I can’t wait to show off my new look tomorrow. I look so different,” she said.
     
    “Hmm, oh yeah, sorry I am just so tired. Let’s pick this up in the morning if that is okay?”
     
    “Yeah sure, let me just set the alarm for the morning,” she replied.
     
    It was only a matter of minutes before I crawled up underneath the cheap comforter and my body began to un-tense. I soon proceeded to drift off to sleep.
     

 
     
    Chapter 5:
     
    Through all the mess, I managed to actually have a peaceful dream. I dreamt I was an incandescent purple butterfly floating lightly through the summer air. I reveled in the warm night and the soft breeze I was encompassed in. Looking up, I revealed a gibbon’s moon waning in the inky night amongst the twinkling stars.
     
    Gentle as the breeze itself, I landed on a blade of grass. I was surrounded by an entire field of swaying grass and I sank down to the soft earth. Time seemed to stand still as I took in the warm peaceful night.
     
    That was when I woke up, and I meant that I really woke up. I was lying in a meadow, the cool earth beneath me. My blue eyes snapped open in panic. I soon realized that the moon, the breeze and the grass were no figment of my imagination.
     
    Naked and panicked, my mind began racing as all the thoughts course through it at once. Where was I? How was I going to get back to the motel? Naked and exposed, I tried to steady my breathing for fear of the panic. I stood up, looking around under the cover of darkness. My heart raced and then skipped a beat as I saw the motel just off to the left of my field of vision.
     
    Knowing that I couldn’t walk back there naked, I chose the option to dissolve. I was shaking and it was hard to gain my bearings. Sinking down to the ground, I remembered the trick Nessa taught me. After a few tries, I managed to succeed. I was a dandelion and my particles were molecules floating carelessly on the wind like fluffy bits of seeds.
     
    Once again, the feeling of the soft breeze surrounded me. I swirled with the flow of the air towards the motel and soon I was seeping into the corners of the mildew laden door. Wasting no time, I reformed on the other side and quietly slid on my clothes. Too freaked to process any of this, I climbed back into bed and slowed my breathing to a steady rhythm.
     
    When I woke the second time, Nessa was already up. She was standing over the bed, peering at me with concern. I didn’t understand why until I looked at myself and realized I had dirt smeared on my arms. Damn, I was going to have to tell her.
     
    “Nessa, don’t freak out, but I sort of dissolved in my sleep last night,” I said meekly.
     
    “What?” she replied, uncomprehending my confession.
     
    “I dreamt I was a purple butterfly floating in the summer breeze. Then I woke up in a field of tall grass in the dirt.”
     
    Her features crumpled and she threw her arms around me. “Oh Cora, that must have been awful. How did you manage to get back here? You didn’t walk back naked I hope. We don’t need the attention.”
     
    “Luckily I was just off