Calamity [Zarry Stylik AU]©️

Chapter 24: DAY 2- SOUNDED LIKE LOVE TO ME

Z,

Day 2

I stood outside on the terrace looking at the pouring rain. It hadn't stopped since the day before and it didn't seem it would anytime soon. The rain fell hard, without mercy, drowning every inch of land around us. The dirt road leading to the Centre was full of puddles, the grass was soggy and the tree I used to sit under barely danced in the wind due to the heavy water coming from above.

The day was grey, cold, and windy. I should be wearing a jacket, but I wanted to feel cold, and I wanted to tremble in the wind. I needed to feel something that could distract me from the anxiety. I was solemn today. I barely ate at dinner, hadn't slept the night before, and my breakfast had been only a cup of black coffee.

My stomach turned and turned, my breathing was difficult, and I couldn't feel calm. I was unrested and aching like the weather around me. It wasn't me aching for a fix. A pill. Or a smoke.

I was aching for Harry, mostly because I knew he couldn't be well. I could feel him hurting, just as I was. It was like I could hear him through the wind and feel him through the rain.

I place one hand on my heart, hoping it would steady. I wanted to cry but couldn't - there was enough water around me. I thought about him, repeating his name in my mind, hoping he understood that I was thinking of him as well.

I closed my eyes and remembered the vivid dream that assaulted my mind and made me cowardly from sleep the entire night.

I was atop a building again. Standing tall above the clouds, close to the stars. I thought I was dreaming of Tom - after all, being at the hospital and mentioning him had triggered his presence in many of my dreams. Standing at the top of the building, I wasn't sad, but instead confused, and afraid.

I could see the dark clouds approaching at a distance, an omen for the end of the world. I was terrified. Looking down I see him - Harry. He looked up at me, with his hands held high, beckoning me to him. A ring of light emerged around him protecting him from the clouds and a safe space amid the storm. He was reaching out to me, trying to get to me, but the distance made it impossible - it was physically impossible for him to do so. I want to. I want to fall into his arms, I want to be completely lost in him.

He would catch me, he said he would always catch me. I step forward again, hopping onto the ledge. A light flashes above me, as thunder roars shaking the world around me. I looked down again, seeing Harry reaching out with both hands now and on his knees. He was speaking to me. Moving his lips. Saying something in my direction, but I couldn't hear him because the wind was so strong, and I was so high in the air.

I open my arms, ready for the big dip without even thinking. I lean a little bit, then a bit more, then again until I am at an impossible angle that not even gravity can help me.

I was beginning to fall when something stops me. I was parallel to the ground, in an impossible position and beneath me...

Harry screamed.

His mouth opened wide with his jaw dislocating completely, his fingers curled in anger and the veins popped out of his neck. The sound didn't come at first - it was silent! A silent scream in the middle of a storm.

Then, his scream came up to me, like a hurricane going up from the ground. I thought it was going to get me, but something pulls me back and I fall to the ground. I look at my side, seeing Harry next to me, with his eyes closed and pale as a ghost. Somehow, he looked different from the one below.

"Harry?" I called. I shook him. Slapped him. Shook him again, but he wasn't awake.

The rain began to fall around us hard and another thunder roared in the distance.