What did he want? All he wanted was to curl up beside her, and have her fold her arms around him... and keep the monsters away! He even leaned in, as if he was about to do it, but he wasn't ready. Yet.
"I need to tell you something," he said. He swallowed hard. "About these dreams we've been having." And although there was still some damn voice inside him, ordering him to keep his pain to himself, like always., Ben pushed on. "I think Alex is going to die."