Anything but This |C.R

5

The next morning sleep in and wake up around 11. Chandlers mom is at work and I walk into the bathroom. I look in the mirror and have mascara smeared across my face, and my clothes are dirty. I need to leave. I peek back at Chandler and he is sound asleep. Great. I walk downstairs and slip outside. I run to my house and my dads car isn't there. Just perfect. I walk inside my house and shut the door quietly. Sprint upstairs and fill as many bags as I can with my stuff. Lastly I go into the bathroom and get the one thing that has become a part of my life. I grab it as it was tapped to under the sink and run outside. Just as I'm jogging back to chandlers house I see my dads car coming towards me. I put my head down in hopes he didn't see me but I was not that lucky. I start in a full out sprint through yards and over bushes. Making it back to chandlers in 30minuets. He doesn't remember how to get here thank god. I walk into the door the slam into Chandler who was visibly upset.
"Oh my god Sydney. Where the hell were you. I was scared to death. What happened to your arm and hand?!?" He freaks out. "Nothing" I say brushing away blood from my other hand noticing that my blade has dug deep into my hand.
"Okay. Let's get you cleaned up." He says putting a hand on my back
"No really I'm fine. But I need to pee." I say darting to the bathroom throwing my stuff on chandlers bed.
"Shitshitshit" I say and I slowly open my hand revealing three deep cuts and the blade lodged into my palm. This. Hurt.
I quickly grab the blade from my palm and throw it in the sink. My hand starts to bleed more and more by the second. I rinse it off and grab a ratty towel from the closet. I throw the blade in the back of the closet setting some towels over it. I walk back downstairs and Chandler wasn't convinced.
"What I'm fine. I just ran into a rose bush." I say showing him my hand
"Why were you running. Why were you gone." He asks sternly.
"Wanted to get my stuff and you were sleeping. Chan. I'm fine." I say brushing his cheek.
"Can I at least help you?" He asks grabbing my hand
"I said I was fine" I say walking away.
"Stop it" he says walking behind me
"What Chandler. I said I was fine. What's wrong with that! I am fine. F.I.N.E" I say throwing my hands up in the air. Kinda forgetting about the cut and his eyes land right on it.
"Sydney. We have to go to the hospital. That's not a rose bush. I don't care if you tell me what's wrong. But we are going." He says grabbing me
"No. No. No. I'm fine. Doesn't your mom have stuff for stitches here?" I say pulling away
"Well yeah but-" I cut him off
"No. Stitch me up I know you know how" I say going to the cupboard to get the supplies
"Syd. I don't wanna hurt you" he says hesitantly
"Well. It's either this or I just wait for it to stop bleeding. I'm not going to the hospital. We can't drive." I say handing him the needle.
"Okay" he says and starts to stitch the deep cut. Surprisingly it didn't hurt very much. I sat and watched him. He had finished and wrapped my hand also.
"Thank you" I say and hop off the countertop.
-Chandlers POV-
That can't be from a rose bush. It was so deep. I've seen her cuts on her wrists. But I can't say anything. I just can't. She is too pretty to wreck her skin like that. But I can't stop her. My dad told me this when I was little
"People with red marks are superheroes. They fought too long against the bad guys and got hurt many times."
My dad was a superhero. Hem was trying to fly. But a rope stopped him.
I just now understand what he went through. What he did for me. How he put his own problems aside for his family.

I now just realized. I have to leave soon for my show. I can't leave Sydney like this.
"Hey syd?" I say rubbing my head
"Yeah?" She asks turning around
"i need to leave for my show. I will text you on the answer about the part." I say kissing her cheek.
"Okay. I'll be here" she says sadly and walks over to the couch.
"Ok. Love you. Bye babe" I say kissing her again and walking out the door. The set isn't too far. I get there and look all around for Andrew. He would give me some advice.
-Sydney's POV-
Chandler leaves for this show of his and I sit on the couch waiting for his text. I lay down and decide to take a little nap.
Dream
I was walking to the set of "the Walking Dead" and crossing a never busy street. Stupid me was texting while I walked across and halfway across a car came and crashed into me. i go flying through the air and land on my hip. I lay there looking at the set and see chandler emerge from some trees.
"You deserved this." He said and walked away.
End of dream
i woke up screaming and reached for chandler but he wasn't there. I sit up and calm myself down. Looking over at my phone and it has one new message.
"Hey. I talked to some people and they wanna see what you can do! Come down here and we can talk. Love you" from Chandler
I bust out a smile and throw on my shoes and run out. Chandler has talked about the set and I know where it is. Crossing streets I didn't really pay attention since its the middle of a school day. I walk down the street and I hear a car screech around the corner. And I turn to look. I couldn't move. Just staring at it. Luckily. It stops right at my feet and I turn and continue walking. I reach the set and see Chandler standing at the top of a hill guns pointed at a man standing on a tank with a Sword to an old mans neck. Wow. Brutal. I decide to stay back but a creepy person whom is a zombie comes from the woods and makes me scream. I walk backwards to be hit in the head with a gun and see black.