Finally... The weekend of the Harvest was coming up. The Harvest festival was always my favourite time. We would have a night to ourselves, with fireworks. The first time I went was the same year my parents had died... I made it a tradition to go every year since then. As chaotic as it was, being around people who call us Nevermore students 'Outcasts' and 'weirdos'. I felt sort of at peace with it. I knew of a few people who were going, there was Enid, Xavier and Wednesday... That's all I knew. The only people I really talk to. Well besides Wednesday, I just heard she was going because of Enid.
"Thorpe? you in there?!" I questioned knocking the door of his dorm... He opened the door and quickly pulled me inside, a strong grip on my arm. "Lynd, you can't just show up like this." He whisper shouted... As if someone was with him. "Woah woah, listen I get the whole 'no girls allowed' thing okay." He let out a breath of relief. I let my arm free of his grip. "Listen... I had a dream..." He looked at me with a raised eyebrow expecting me to continue. I sat on the side of his bed, "Go on.." He says, looking at me dead in the eyes. "Xavier... something bad is going to happen at the festival." I blurted out... I couldn't keep it in any longer.
Last night I woke up in a cold sweat... I saw something with huge ugly eyes and Rowan... lying on the floor... dead.
"It's about Rowan." I said looking up at him. "I had a dream and I get this feeling that it wasn't a dream at all. But a telling of the future." I went on. He still just stared at me. "Could you draw what you're talking about?" He asks me. I nod eagerly. He hands me a page and a black pen.. I begin to sketch out the details of the thing that I saw... For some odd reason I had a feeling this 'thing' might be connected to the death of my parents. I didn't want to tell Xavier that though. I couldn't and didn't even want to tell myself that.
"Are you sure this is what you saw?" He questions me. I looked at him with an offended gaze. "Alright just making sure." I laugh at his statement. "There's also something else." "What?" He questions looking from the drawing straight into my eyes. "there'sapossibilitythatthisthingalsohassomethingtodowithmyparentsdeath." I blurted out, without taking a breath in between my words. "Okay. Again. But slower, maybe?" He urges me to tell him again... I let out a sigh and just let it come out. "There's a possibility that this thing also has something to do with my parents death, Xavi." I say. Slowly. He studied my face. For some reason... I wasn't sure he believed me. "Here's the plan." He starts...
Reaching the festival, our plan was to stick by each other. Close to the forest near by and to keep a good eye on Rowan. We said not to leave each other alone for longer than 5 minutes... and that didn't last long... did it? I lost him in the crowd a while back. How can I lose someone taller than a fucking gate with long hair? I have no clue. But my other problem was Rowan... he was nowhere in my sight. I was just hoping Xavier had some eyes on him.
Looking around some more I saw Enid. "Enid thank god have you seen Thorpe anywhere?" She looks at me confused. "What's up with you two-" I interrupted her "No time to explain, please have you seen him?" She nods and points in the direction of Wednesday and Xavier. Of course. It seems like both of us has decided to lose the main part of our plan. Rowan. I walked up, then stopped. Tyler Galpin? He walked towards Wednesday, Xavier saw me. He looked back towards Wednesday. He looked awfully annoyed. He backed off and walked in my direction. "Hey, Thorpe. We've lost our target." I say to him. His mood had changed a lot though? Did he have feelings for Wednesday?
Shaking that thought from my head he shouted "He's over there." Pointing towards the fireworks. We ran towards him. Following close behind Tyler and Wednesday who had also been running. Wednesday bumped into Rowan. Shit.
He said something to her, running into the forest. Wednesday took off after him. "Stay here!" I warned Xavier, I began to run forward but his hand caught mine. "I can't leave you alone out there, Lynd." I sighed. I knew he was right. I just didn't want to admit that to him... They had been gone quite a long time at this point. Wednesday was running back and said something to the first person she saw. Who happened to be Bianca. Me and Xavier watched this happed. He looked at me with one eyebrow raised. "I'll ask Bianca later." He nodded. "I think we should get out of here, Lynd." He said softly to me, releasing my hand. "I think so too." Then I realised. "Rowan didn't come out after Wednesday, Thorpe." I said. He looked at me. We both had some sort of fear in us. Exchanging a scared glance, he said, "Definitely time to go." I nodded, my breath started to get heavy. He noticed this and quickly put his hands on both of my shoulders. "Lynd, look up at me. Please." He asked and so I did. "It's going to be alright okay."
"You'll never guess what that Addams girl said to me." Bianca started. The only thing I was glad about was that I didn't have to worry about asking her about it. "What?" I questioned back "She said she witnessed the murder of Rowan." Immediately I felt my face turn white. Could I have stopped this? If I let go of Xavier's arms would any of this had happened? All these type of questions were playing in my mind I hadn't noticed I had already collapsed on the dark, hard, wooden floor that I was just standing on a second ago. It all went by so quickly. I woke up in the nurses place. Shit. Looking around, I didn't see any signs of anyone. So I decided it would be best to just leave. I hoped no one else knew about this besides Bianca. Who I'm surprised even made and effort to get me here...I knew there was something off about what happened. Rowan not coming out, and Bianca telling me Wednesday witnessed his murder... I knew...
A/N: I created a spotify playlist for this fic. It's also what I've been listening to while writing <3
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