Book 1
Not all love stories have happy endings.
"It's me, it's me Stiles...your best friend." Brooklyn's stepbrother Scott returns to live with them and from then, her whole world turns upside down. Her life is suddenly filled with werewolves and th...
It's quiet and I open my eyes to see my bedroom door, I'm back in my bed. That's odd, something still doesn't feel right. I get up for school anyway and check my timetable but I can't seem to read it...weird. It's probably from sleep deprivation, I start doubting myself about going to school but I remember that I haven't been there for a while with brook. I wonder if she's doing alright. She's completely clueless about everything that's going on around her. Everything that she should know about is so close yet still so far.
I drive to the school and text Scott while walking down the hall.
"Are you coming to school?"
"How the hell do you know I was asleep?"
" I didn't say that. Anyway, get your ass up, you moron!"
"You just told me to wake up."
What on earth is he on about? I scroll up to the text I sent him and it writes, "Wake up." What the hell! That couldn't have been the autocorrect, but I'm sure I didn't type that. I forget about it and head to class, my friends were already there
"What's up," Isaac says while saluting. I sit beside Brooklyn and she was already having a conversation with Allison. The professor starts to write on the board and I am trying to understand it when I hear Lydia call my name, I turn around and she looks strangely at me. "What?" I mouth.
She raises an eyebrow, "Hm? I didn't say anything."
"You just called my name."
"I didn't."
Isaac faces me, "Dude...no one said anything."
Scott sneaks into class and I shake it off asking brook for a pen, taking out my notebook. I can't seem to hold my pen straight, my hand is shaking like crazy and I drop it.
"Hey, what's going on?" her voice echoes in my head, she picks up the pen from the floor.
Giving her a smile, I tell her "I'm fine don't worry, just clumsy that's all."
I am copying down all this chemistry nonsense, I used to be smarter than the teachers and now... I can't even read, nor write. After writing everything down and solving the questions, the professor asks me to read aloud my answers. My heart starts to speed up and I feel all eyes turn to me, I look down at my book and see what I have written:
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What the? I've gone mad! I feel sick and I want to throw up, I hear Isaac and Allison's voices asking me if I'm alright. The teacher is yelling at me and the other students whispering about me, I'm sweating and I slam my book shut.
Scott stands up "Are you ok?"
"Is he having another anxiety attack?" Lydia questions.
I can feel the classroom shaking and as I look around, it looks like everything is spinning. I'm so sick of all of this! I've lost control!
"He's losing his mind!" A student states.
With every breath, my chest becomes tighter and it becomes more difficult to breathe. Trembling, trying to catch my breath but I don't think I'm in control anymore.
"Calm down for me Stiles," She speaks, holding my face. Everything goes silent I can only hear Brooklyn's calming voice. "I, I need you to protect me from the supernatural," she continues.
"W-what? How do you remember the supernatural?"
"You will right? Or are you too busy with Scott?"
"No, no I'm right here."
"You could have saved me, Stiles."
I back away confused, this can't be real I am just hearing things. She keeps on repeating it over and over getting louder "You deserve to feel all the guilt and all the grief!"
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry Brook."
"We used to be so happy Stiles, and now, you will never be happy again! Everyone you love is going to leave you and you are going to be alone forever!"
Her voice is getting deeper and I am dreading the anger in her. Trying to stand up, I start to panic and I lose my balance. Is this all an illusion? Is this a vision?
"Stop!" I shout, "Shut up! Shut the fuck up!"
Her voice shifts and there is now some person or-or creature in front of me hissing, "Chaos... Strife... Pain."
My ears start ringing and my head is aching, and I try to run but I can't, I'm frozen as he repeats, "CHAOS!"
"Get out of my head!"
"STRIFE!"
"WHY ME?"
I can barely get any words out and the only thing I can do is whimper and cry knowing there is no way out of this. There never was.
"PAIN!"
I yell at it, the terror causing me to scream myself awake,
"Make it stop!"
My dad rushes in and tries to calm me. The fear controls my whole body and he holds me down,
"It's ok son, your safe it was just a nightmare."
"No! Dad... dad," I sob. "He's coming for me dad."
"They are gone now Stiles, you're with me, shh."
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I-I don't even know if I'm really awake this time, it could still be a dream inside another dream.
"What the hell is happening to me?" I whimper making eye contact.
"It is probably because you are sleep deprived that you having all these nightmares."
"These are not nightmares dad! It- it's night terrors and sleep paralysis, that is why I can't sleep!"
"Is this what's causing your insomnia? If there is any way I can help just tell me."
"You know what, you're right. It is because I'm not getting enough sleep, you go I'll be fine."
"Try to take some deep breaths, we have sleeping pills if you need. You sure you're alright?"