每天读一篇英语小故事：Bad Dreams

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　　“I had another bad dream,” she told her fiancé. “It was about you again.
You and your ex-girlfriend were kissing. I yelled at you to stop it. You looked
right at me, and then you laughed at me! She laughed, too. Then you both went
back to kissing. I tried not to watch, but when I covered my eyes, something
pulled my hands away. I tried to leave, but my feet were glued to the ground.
Finally, I woke up. Of course, it was very difficult to get back to sleep.
        　　“I had to drive home from Las Vegas this morning. It’s a wonder I didn’t
crash 50 times. Instead of seeing traffic in front of me, all I saw was you and
her. I can’t take any more dreams like this. We’re going to have to break up. We
can be friends, but just friends. That way, I won’t be jealous anymore, and I
won’t have these bad dreams anymore.”
        　　“Why didn’t you call me up and tell me about your dream?” he asked. “They
say that the more you talk about bad dreams, the sooner you’ll stop having
them.”
        　　She disagreed. She thought that the only solution was to break up and be
just friends. She loved him, but these dreams had become so frequent that she
was actually afraid to go to sleep. She was losing weight and having
stomachaches from the stress.
        　　He didn’t know what to do. He wanted her to have pleasant dreams. He wanted
her to have a life without stress. He wanted her to be his wife. This was it,
she repeated; if she had just one more bad dream, they were through. He squeezed
her hand, but said nothing.