Out Of Our Control (High School Shoey)

Ch 39- Babysitting

"NO!" I scream and throw my hands up. A streak of black smoke swirls around Joey, traveling up his body to wrap around his throat. The dark smoggy entities lifts him off the ground as he struggles to get air to enter his lungs, but he soon crumples to the ground silent and motionless.

"JOEY!" Shane screams out. He runs over to the still boy and checks his pulse, but it's no use. We all already know he's dead. Shane looks up at me with so much fury and rage burning in watery eyes. "YOU KILLED HIM! HE'S DEAD!"

"Of course he's dead; you're all dead!" I snap. Silence. Silence is the guest of honor, but all the attention is on me.

"What do you mean we're all dead?" Lisa asks me."

"Now look what you've done, Ten!" Lux yells at me, hopping out of her chair. She stomps up to me and sizes me up. It's like looking in a mirror. The only way you can actually tell us apart is from our very separate fashion choices and her blonde hair compared to my black hair. But of course I'm the pretty older sister. Not that much older. Just 137 years age difference.

"I didn't do anything!" I snap at her. "They're going to find out the truth one of these days so why not today?"

"Because they're not ready."

"Or you're not ready to let them go." She stares at me with so much shock and realization surfacing in her eyes. She knows I'm right and there's nothing you can do to change that. I step away from Lux, leaving her, staring at the ground as tears splash onto the hardwood floor. "Lisa you've brought up a very good question. What I am about to tell you will be very hard for you to process and understand, but it will all make sense when the time has come. Joey is dead. Not only is Joey dead, Sawyer is dead, Lisa is dead, and Shane is also dead. You all died when you were infants. Never had the chance to live your life. The life you have right now is a lie. A beautiful lie. This is the ugly truth."

"But in the vision I had, you brought baby Joey back to life." Shane states, wiping tears out of his eyes as he kneels next to Joey's body.

"I didn't bring him back to life. I reaped his soul and replaced it with a dash power. You're neither alive nor dead. You have no soul. You're just a living corpse, clueless and lost. You're hollow. Empty. And that's all you'll ever be until you return to where you belong."

"Where do we belong?" Sawyer asks me.

"Here."

"That's bullshit!" he stands up and runs up the stairs before I even have time to react.

Oh no

~SAWYER'S POV~

I slip past Tenebris and run up the stairs, entering a long and dark hallway. The sounds of an infant crying gets louder the further I go down into the dimly lit corridor. The agitating cries are uncomfortably loud, but I can still hear my racy breathing and my speeding heartbeat pounding in my ears.

I take in a shaky breath and push open one of the black wooden doors to find something that I probably should have expected.

Babies.

This is a nursery. The walls are painted a dark shade of purple with white rocking horse adorning it like stars lighting up the night sky. 2 baby cribs lie in the middle of the room, but there are 2 babies resting in each crib. They look to be around the age of 2. Maybe even a little younger than that.

"Where did you little cuties come from?" I ask them in my baby talking voice.

"I'm surprised, Sawyer. I thought that since you're in high school, you would know where babies come from by now." I spin on my heel to find Tenebris standing in the doorway. Lux and Lisa are standing behind her. Shane is probably downstairs with Joey still.

"Are these your kids?" I ask her.

"Two of them are, yes. The ones in the black crib." I turn back around to look at the tiny unencumbered humans in the black crib. They're both boys, but one of them has brown hair and the other has black hair. The girl baby in the purple crib has blonde hair and the baby boy lying next to her has reddish brown hair. They look oddly familiar... "Do you want me to introduce you to them?" she asks me. I just shake my head slowly and look her straight in her blood red eyes.

"No. Why would you introduce me to someone I already know?"

"Oh look! Mr. Hartman catches on really fast!" she says sarcastically.

"How do you already know them?" Lisa asks me.

"Because they're us."

Omg omg omg omg omg I am so freaking sorry. I didn't even realize i haven't updated this story in 10 days until last night. I've just been so busy with school because i'm stuggling with my grades and attendance-fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck i am really sorry. I'll try to update later in the day and if i can't I'll update tomorrow. I promise, you won't have to wait 10 days to find out if Joey can be saved or not again.