Broken Dreams

Chapter Two- Lost Cause

~Lillian's Pov~

It's towards the end of the day now. Leo is still upset with me. I understand why, but it's almost like he isn't forgiving me. He's been distant all day. I'm going to confront him. "Hey, Leo. You okay?" I say softly walking up to him slowly. Leo says "Hey Lillian, can we talk about something? Privately?". My heart sank to my stomach. Does he have feelings for me? Is he going to confess? We go to an empty classroom and I sit in one of the chairs. He is pacing back and forth in front of me. Is he okay? Is something the matter? I was just about to ask but he suddenly says.

"I know you have feelings for me... I love you, Lilly...That's why I'm doing this... Lillian, we need to stop being friends.. we.. we need to stop talking to each other.." He sounds like he is about to cry.

"Why... Leo why?.." I said sobbing.

He slowly backs up and says "I.. I'm sorry".

He goes to open the door but I quickly grab his hand and I say still sobbing, slightly yelling "Answer me Leo!...Please...". He comes close to me and hugs me. He kisses my forehead and then before I could open my eyes he's gone.

I'm crying profusely. As I scream and cry I go to pull my hair. "WHYY?!.." I scream. I almost didn't realize it but when I walked out of the classroom everyone stared at me. A few people even put their hands over their mouths. I felt fine, why were they?... I looked at the floor and I was surrounded by blood, my legs were torn apart and my hands were covered in cuts. I looked back in the room and saw all of the sharp things I managed to grab and hurt myself with. I didn't feel anything... I ran out of the school with a blood river following me. I ran out in the woods and didn't stop.

~Leo's Pov~

I didn't want to leave her. But he told me to. I can't say who. He'd get angry. I miss her already... I love her... I wanted to be with her but he told me we can't. I don't understand why he said that we can't. Didn't tell me the reason just told me to do it. I've never seen him, I've just heard his voice. Even if I wanted to ignore him, whenever he told me to do something it was like a command I couldn't ignore the voice. It felt like I was obligated to do whatever he said. I was walking outside to go home when I heard screaming. It.. it sounded like her.

"Don't go to her. Leave her. Don't help her."

I was going towards the screaming until I heard that voice again. Almost like he was pulling me away... I guess I'll just go home...

I went home and decided to take a nap, all this drama just wasn't making sense. Nothing was adding up.

~Lillian's Pov~

I was running through the woods, I didn't stop. That's until I tripped over a root. I fell to the ground and when I looked back to the sky there was nothing around me but trees, and a large lake. I struggled to stand back up, but I managed. I slowly limped towards the lake, when I finally got there I looked into the water to see my reflection. I started to cry and fell to my knees. I looked in the water but saw a face other than my own. He looked like a demon. He looked like he was really in the water. When he started to form a grin on his face I jumped back and screamed in fear. Because hands and arms were slowly coming out of the water, they looked like they were going to grab me and drag me underwater. When I looked again he was gone. The blood stopped following me so I decided to head home. There are woods behind my house so I went through the woods to my backyard so no one would see me. On the way to my backyard, I saw that face everywhere. Like he was following me. Eventually, I found my way back home, Climbing over the fence the metal cut my hands. I limped to my backdoor and hit my fist on it weakly.

My mom opened the door and looked around in confusion. "Mom... help.." I said weakly. My mother looked down and saw me on the ground covered in cuts and dried blood. She covered her mouth and quickly grabbed me and took me to the living room. The living room was nice, it had two love seats on each side of a coffee table. In front of the couches and table was a fireplace. Behind one of the loveseats was a large window that was placed next to the door on the right. The living room reminded me of all those good family game nights. Meaning me and my mom game nights. My dad left when I was three but my mom had pictures of him, she told me about him, told me he was a good man but she was hiding something.

She placed me on one of the loveseats and I saw her rush to the kitchen. She comes back with a wet cloth and some bandages.

"Lilly darling what happened!" My mother said in a grief filled tone.

I said weakly "Leo... He told me that we can't talk anymore.. he just left without saying goodbye mama... I loved him. I freaked out... I hurt myself. I didn't know I was doing it. When it happened my vision became blurry and I... I'm sorry mama..."

She hugs me and sighs. Finally, she says softly "it's okay darling, I understand love Is hard. I'd just wish you hadn't hurt yourself. You're not going to be able to go to school for a little while. And I have to work tomorrow. So you might be on your own." She kissed my forehead, she finished wiping off all the blood and bandaging my wounds. Once she is done she gets up and gets a blanket and tells me to rest.

I fell asleep on the couch, but my dream was not at all pleasant.