From Fantasy to Reality (on hold)

chapter 5: Missing

I awoke in my bedroom, unlike the dream, and my alarm was going off. It said 6:30 a.m. Tuesday morning. I got out of bed and put on the same outfit I wore when I went to the mall. I brushed my hair and teeth then went down stairs to eat. William wasn't there because he said he had to go to go somewhere for a week. "Hello honey, sleep well?" my mom asked.
"Yeah guess so." I said to her .
"Ok well that's good." She said to me. Guardian came running towards me wanting me to pet her. "Hey girl." Petting her on the head when the bus pulled up. "Did I wake up late?" I asked my mom
"No you woke up right on time; your bus must be early."
"I guess I will get breakfast at school. Bye mom." As I walked out my door.
"Bye sweetie" my mom called to me. At school I saw Ethan walk up to me, when our eyes met we had the first vision of the day, which turns out to be the only one because I figured out that we only had one a day and every once in a while a bonus dream for me. We were siting on the floor- no we were lying on the floor, we were talking. He was babbiling on about something with a guilty look on his face. I smiled and leaned into hi. I pressed my lips against his. The vision faded away back into reality.
When he came up to me I hoped he did not have the same vision I had. "Hey." He said to me
"Hello peasant." I said back
He rolled his eyes "How are you?"
"What is wrong with you?" I said in frustration
"What, I'm just trying to be nice."
"That's just it, first you follow me, making me think you're a stalker then you try to be nice to me. What's up with that?" I said.
"Yeah sorry about that." He said as I sighed.
"Whatever."
"Anyways I just want to be your friend" he told me.
"My friend?" I said raising my eyebrow
"Yes your friend."
"Why?" I asked
"Do I have to have a reason?" he said shrugging his shoulders.
"No I guess not"
"Ok then, let's go to your locker you need to get your things before your late" "Ok?" I said as we started walking towards my locker.
"Here let me help you." He said grabbing my book bag as I opened my locker. "Thanks." I said as the bell rung
"see you second period." He called as he started going to his class. In first period Kayla sat next to me as always and we worked on a class project. Class seemed to tick by quickly. I could also tell Kayla was angry at me because I kept zoning off trying to figure out why Ethan would want to be my so called "friend." Maybe he was trying to lure me in and murder-
"Ok class time to start packing up." Ms. Joan said to us at the end of class. As we started picking up our things Kayla leaned over to me and said
"What's your problem?"
I didn't know what to tell her but I settled with "Home stuff."
In second period Ethan sat next to me, surprisingly I wasn't scared of him as much anymore. In third period I sat next to my a girl named Tiffany, She had red and black hair, green eyes, and she was very pale. Though Ethan kept quiet, his eyes said enough. Stay away from her! His eyes screamed at me. In fourth period Ashley sat with me and Ethan sat behind me. He did not bother me when I was with Kayla or Ashley. At lunch Ashley told a joke about her next two classes and how the teacher names are Long-John. Ethan sat with his group of friends which included my brother. I found it odd because William is telling me to stay away from him. Why? Sibling thing? Or not wanting me to be around whatever violence they were involved in? For whatever reason I will more or likely ask William when I get home. For the rest of the day it was normal. On the bus Ethan kicked Ashley and Kayla out of the seat again. When Ethan's leg accidently touched mine something weird happened. We started to have a vision but before the image settled the vision flashed off. "What was that?" I asked
"Don't ask me."
"Ok this just keeps getting weirder and weirder."
"You think." Ethan said
"Ethan?" I said
"yeah?"
"Can I ask you something." I whispered.
"Yeah sure."
"You are part of my brothers group, I would like to know why you guys are always beat up, and also why he is so well," I didn't know a word that could explain his attitude.
"Cross?" he suggested
"Yeah, because now that I've gotten to know you, kind of, you're not anything like him. Annoying, yes. Cross, not that I've seen."
"To answer your first question," he glanced back at the people behind us and then the ones in front of us. "Well actually I can't answer your first question. But as for the second one I can answer. William is very cross because the things we deal with make him that way. If he wasn't who knows what would happen. Anyways," he paused, "you have to get off now." he was right the bus was pulling up to my house
"Alright don't tell me just tell me how you knew where I got off on my first day."
"I've been to your brother's house before when you were gone." He said pushing me out of the seat. "Ok, ok I'm going I'm going." As I walked off the bus into my house
"Mom I'm home." I called to her, no reply, "Mom?" I called again "mom you here?" ,still no reply, I ran into the kitchen to see if she left a note, no note, I ran into my mom's room hoping she would be asleep, she wasn't there, oh my god it's happening, my mom's missing just like my vision, I thought to myself as the doorbell rang. I ran downstairs and slung the door open. Where I hoped my mom would be standing stood Ethan. I screamed so loud you could have heard it three counties over "No! No, no, no, no!"
"Shhh" Ethan said trying to calm me. He pushed his way into my house closed the front door and sat me on the couch. "What's wrong?" he asked me with worry "No! No, no, no!"
"Ashton what's wrong why are screaming?"
"My mom!" I said trying to catch my breath
"what about your mom, Ashton what's wrong?" he said yelling with concern.
"Do you remember that day at the mall when we first saw each other?"
"yeah kind of why?" he asked
"Do you remember the visions" I said rocking back and forth.
"What?"
Agitated I yelled at him. "Do you!"
"Yes, yes I remember" he admitted
"Do you remember the second to last one where you showed up on my doorstep?"
"Yeah?"
"This is that vision my mom's gone!"
"Crap, ok let me call William, he will know what to do." He said franticly taking out his cell phone; he walked out of the room
"Hello?" William said over the phone
"Shadow you need to get home now, like right now."
"Home? River what are you talking about, where are you?"
"I'm at your house and you need to get here right now."
"What? Why are you at my house is my sister there?"
"Yes she's here now get your hind legs running!"
"Not till you tell me what's going on!"
"It's your mom she's gone"
"I'll be there give me five minutes, keep my sister safe"
"Don't have to tell me twice!" Ethan said as he hung up the phone walking into the living room where I was still sitting now with my hands on my face crying. "Shhh its ok." Ethan said lifting me onto his lap, I didn't care, normally I would, I mean he's cute and all but, he creeps me out, but for right now I'm too worried about my mom to care. "It's ok Williams coming." He said putting his hand over my head trying to comfort me. I laid my head on his shoulder and looked outside my window when something large and brown ran by my window."What was that?"
"What was what?" Ethan said when William came barging through the front door. William glared at Ethan evilly "Before you start going off I was just trying to comfort her." Ethan said
"I'll deal with you later," he walked towards me. "Ashton what wrong? Where's mom? Are you ok?" Said William quickly
"Moms missing she didn't leave a note!"
"Oh god, oh god, oh god" William said
"William what's wrong?" Ethan asked him
"I can't tell her" he mumbled.
"Tell me what William, what you have been keeping from me!"
"I can't Ashton, you think you want to know but you don't!" he yelled at me. "maybe I don't but I do want to know what's wrong with you and where is mom?"
"Ethan round up the others we've got work to do." William commanded
"William we can't leave Ashton."
"Dog biscuits, I hate when your right" William griped "fine I'll stay you will find her"
"we can't we don't know her scent err' how to find her"
"ugh, Fine Jamey will watch her."
"Dude just let me stay she safer with me."
"No! I don't trust you with her"
I looked back and forth between them very confused. "Come on dude I'm not going to hurt her." Ethan said trying to compromise
"William its fine I know him more than any of your friends and plus I can take care of myself." I interrupted
"Ashton!" William yelled at me
"See, I told she's more comfortable around me."
"Fine you can stay with her but try anything or tell her anything I will hunt you down. Ashton?" William turned his head toward me, "I'll be back do not leave this house unless you're with him ok?"
"Ok." I said as William nodded at Ethan then leaving through the front door. "What was that all about?" I asked Ethan sobering from my sniffles
"Brothers love" he told me as my stomach growled "you hungry?" he asked
"No." I lied
He stood up tall then heading to the fridge. When he came back he handed me a plate of mash potatoes and last night pork chops. "Here."
I glared at him, but I was hungry and I figured he would hand feed me if I refused. I also it wouldn't do me any good if I worried. I would pretend my mother was on a little vacation -for now. "Can you tell me one thing?"
"Yeah sure"
"Why are your eyes cyan?"
"Oh umm I was born like that, my mom used to say it was a gift from God." Ethan explained to me
"Used to?" I asked
"Yeah she died of an animal attack when I was five."
"I'm sorry." I pitied him, I really did.
"It's ok I've learned to accept it."
"My mom and dad and a big fight over the summer and I haven't seen my dad since."
"That happened a lot to me when I was younger." He said
"Anyways can you explain to me why we have visions every morning?" I asked
"You have them to?" he wondered
I nodded "Yeah, just asking are your visions the same as mine?" Guardian hopped into my lap. She was growing quickly. I easily patted her head
"I don't know what was your first one?" he said to me
"my first vision was four right after another." It was confusing but true.
"Well, what was the first of the four?" he asked
"Umm you were outside my window, then a few days after you were really outside my window."
"yeah sorry about that. But what was your second one?"
"You were in a room with everyone talking and how someone, who I think was me, saw you."
"That's weird I had those visions too." He said to me
"What was your third one" I asked him
"Your mom went missing"
"And you're fourth?" I asked him one last time
"we were fighting with a cross bow and-"
"And a crow bar" I said finishing his sentence for him. We both stared in fear because neither of us knew what that meant or why it was happening to us.