61. "I'm having nightmares"
62. "Will you stay with me"
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TW: death, guns, robbery (attempted)
For the fourth night in a row, Anthony woke up to his girlfriend tossing and turning all around in their bed.
She had been tossing and turning in her sleep, a lot like she had these past two weeks, and it scared Anthony a bit. Not knowing what was going on with his girlfriend.
"Y/n, honey wake up." Anthony said softly as he shook her shoulder.
She only tossed and turned harder, which scared Anthony. He didn't know what to do.
He knew that he shouldn't do this, but he shook her, hard, to get her awake.
Y/n awoke startled, looking at Anthony with wide eyes. She grabbed a pillow and a blanket and started making her way to the guest bedroom before mumbling an 'I'm sorry' and 'you have to get up early, I'll leave'.
Anthony felt really bad, but whenever his girlfriend did something, she didn't change her mind.
Anthony hesitated before rolling over and going back to sleep, not wanting to pester y/n anymore.
When he woke up early, he went to go check on y/n. He walked to the room slowly, to not wake her up. Looking into the guest room he saw his girlfriend asleep, with the blankets fallen off the bed and her body sprawled out.
Anthony's lips tugged into a smile knowing she at least got some sleep last night.
When y/n woke up, she knew that Anthony would be gone, so she just stayed there. Not really feeling doing anything, so she stayed in her room, in her phone; like any other day.
Anthony had come home for a quick lunch before he had to go back to the arena for his game.
"So", Anthony broke the silence."Are you coming to the game tonight?"
"No, I'm not feeling too good, I don't want to get you or anyone else sick." y/n answered back.
Her statement wasn't entirely false. She really wasn't feeling good, but it wasn't physically. She wasn't sleeping and just wanted to get some rest. She was exhausted.
"That's perfectly ok baby. I don't want you doing anything that you don't want to. Please, get some rest. I'll see you when I get home. Love you." Anthony said as he got up to leave."
Y/n stayed home on this nice Saturday evening, and when the game started at 6 she decided to watch it.
Nearing the second period, y/n was dozing off, not really paying attention to anything as she fell asleep. Her bed was too comfy not to resist sleeping.
*dream*
I was running away from someone. Of course it was in my own house that I was going to be killed in.
Running into the master bedroom closet, I locked myself in there, finding Anthony, who had looked like shit after doing the same thing I was doing.
Before long, the people had started beating on the door.
911 was down because it was a whole town massacre. They had started at the call center and made their way through town, so people wouldn't have any means of help. Stupid nice houses next to call centers.
They had finally gotten the door open and Anthony sat in front of me, as to block me from anything bad, even though what was going to happen was inevitable.
"Show us where the money is, and we won't hurt you!" One of the robbers yelled.
"It's in the safe, but I don't know the password, I swear. It's my parents'!" Anthony called out to them.
They then moved towards us, Anthony whispering a soft 'I love you' to me before standing up and trying to fight them off.
Even though Anthony was strong and was able to fight for long, he was no match to the people who had knives and guns.
He was gone almost as soon as he made his way to them. They had shot him in the head.
I made my way to him, begging and pleading for him to be alive.
Just as I was about to yell at them, one of the guys raised the same gun that he had killed my boyfriend with, to my head.
"I swear to god if you don't give us the money right now, I will blow your head clean off so you can be just as dead as your dumbass boy toy over there!"
"Please don't hurt me! It's in the safe like he said, but I really don't know the code! Just shoot it off, I don't care, but please, you already killed my boyfriend. I won't press charges if you just take the money and go!" I was trembling as I spoke, sitting next to the dead body of the man I once loved and pleading for them to just leave.
The man didn't listen, as his finger moved towards the trigger my eyes closed, preparing for what was about to happen."
*end dream*
Just then y/n was awoken to Anthony shaking his girlfriend awake. "Baby come on, get up."
"Oh! There you are, I've been trying to get you up for the past 5 minutes. Are you ok?"
Him asking her if she was ok was what made her break.
"No actually, I'm not ok. I've been having nightmares for two weeks straight." She told him, sitting up on their bed, starting to sob.
Anthony made his way to her, holding her and rubbing her back, telling her that everything was going to be ok.
"Aw honey. Why didn't you tell me? I just thought that you were having trouble sleeping, and that it wasn't this bad. I'm always here for you, I can help you."
Y/n just pushed him away a bit. Staring at the floor. She was ashamed that she didn't tell Anthony what had been going on, but she didn't feel the need to tell him at the same time.
"Do you know what caused them?" Anthony asked, looking at her with concern.
"Maybe. I think it might be all of the stuff I've been watching lately, and then the stupid criminal justice class that we are required to take for any degree dealing with the help of other people. That professor just keeps showing us these horrific accidents and we see people die so much. It kills me, my brain is like going a million miles an hour every single day and it won't stop."
"Baby, it'll be ok. I promise you. I will do everything I can to help you." Anthony said, embracing y/n.
"We can call tomorrow to get you the help you need ok? And we can get everything situated from there, that sound good?"
Y/n only nodded in response, she was tired, and maybe with this new found information, she could finally get some rest.
"I'll leave you be to get some uninterrupted sleep, ok?"
Anthony got up off of the bed, giving y/n a kiss on the forehead, before trying to exit the room.
"No, will you stay with me?" She reached out for Anthony with one arm. "I need you here tonight and every night after that."
"Of course baby. I'll be here with you forever and always."
A/n: hey y'all! I hope you liked this chapter! I decided to bring a little bit of personal things into this story because it felt good to write about my experiences. This chapter goes pretty heavy into stuff, so I hope you're ok with that. Anyway, with that being said, I hope you liked it!💕
