My Real Life Nightmare

Chapter 4

Chapter 4

Two weeks today Conor was killed. I feel so lonely without him, he was my other half after all. Then I remember the note that was left with him that night. What was that? Who did it? Why are they looking for me? All these questions float around my head. The police can't find the murder, there was no evidence left.

I think Luke reads my mind because right as I think about the note he asks "Shauna you never actually told us that was on that piece of paper that the policewoman gave you.... can we know now?" I was hoping they had forgotten about it but as soon as it left Luke's mouth Amy and Shannon's heads snap up looking for my answer.

"Oh ehm... Well you see... OK so there was a picture left on the wall that didn't get broken, it was of Conor and I." I began and they nodded their heads for me to continue. "Well I thought that was weird but then I got that paper... It said 'Come and find me Shauna... It wont be hard, I'll give you hints and stuff and you'll keep getting closer' with a winky face at the end, someones out to get me." I shiver at the thought. I don't see why they couldn't have just came and killed me instead of Conor.

"That's not going to happen Shauna, we're here and we're sticking together, no ones gonna hurt you." Shannon reassures me. But Conor was tough, he was tall and muscular, it sounded like he didn't even give a fight to the person who murdered him. That's what scares me the most.

"You guys don't get involved... They killed him and they wont be afraid to kill you." I whisper, tears starting to form in my eyes. "It's nearly impossible for me to get over the fact he's gone, but then you three as well. And all because of me? No please don't get involved."

"Shauna you're our friend, we'd go through anything to help you." Amy also whispers. It's like we're almost afraid to talk out loud, personally I am.

"Who's turn is it to stay with her tonight?" Luke asks. Oh yeah I forgot, they have little shifts now because I can't sleep during the night anymore. I wake up with nightmares of the person coming to get me. But of course I never told them my nightmares because I didn't want to bring the note up.

"It's mine." Amy tells them. Amy and I had the best sleepovers but this isn't going to be a good one. I don't think I've so much as smiled in the past two weeks.

"You guys, the note is why I cant sleep anymore." I'm now beginning to cry. I do alot of that now but it's only because I'm scared. The picture of Conor and Marie's bodies keep flashing up in my head. They had been slaughtered, so much blood...

"Shh, Shauna it's OK." Amy whispers. "We're gonna go to bed, we'll see you in the morning." Luke and Shannon get up, understanding. Luke kisses Amy goodbye, it breaks my heart, I'd kill for a kiss off Conor right now.

"Bye." Shannon and Luke say in unison. I just wave, not having the energy to say anything.

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"There you are!" A vicious voice shouts out from behind me. I turn around to a person all covered in black with an axe in their hand.

"I told you that you'd find me." The person laughs with pure venom. Before I knew it the axe is stuck into my chest, then took out and forced into my head. I drop to the ground, blood spilling out of the two holes created in my body.

I wake up screaming and drenched in sweat. OK I've had nightmares before where there was a person coming to kill me but they never actually got me, it was just a big chase where I'd fall flat on my face and then wake up jumping from the fright but I was never actually caught. That was the worst one yet.

"Shauna? Whats wrong?!" I hear Amy panicking looking for the light.

"B-bad n-nightmare." I cry. The light flicked on blinding me, Amy comes over to my bed and sits on the side, giving me a pitiful smile.

"It's 5:30 in the morning, you were asleep for seven hours so it's OK." She hushes me, pulling me into a hug. "Everything is going to be OK and no ones going to hurt you. I promise."

"OK I believe you," I lie, I know that someday someones going to hurt me. "Can we not tell the others about the screaming? They'll get alarmed and I don't want them to be."

"If you don't want too then we don't have too huney."

I was just dreading about the next sleep I was going to have to take, tonight....

A/N Picture of Conor on the side, even if he's dead... ------------------------->