FallOut (BOOK 2)

-01-

To my mother, to my father
It's your son, or it's your daughter
Are my screams loud enough for you to hear me?
Should I turn this up for you?

I sit here locked inside my head
Remembering everything you've said
The silence gets us nowhere
Gets us nowhere way too fast

The silence is what kills me
I need someone here to help me
But you don't know how to listen
And let me make my decisions

I sit here locked inside my head
Remembering everything you've said
The silence gets us nowhere
Gets us nowhere way too fast

All your insults and your curses
Make me feel like I'm not a person
And I feel like I am nothing
But you made me, so do something
'Cause I'm fucked up because you are
Need attention, attention you couldn't give

'Cause I sit here locked inside my head
Remembering everything you've said
The silence gets us nowhere
Gets us nowhere way too fast

I sit here locked inside my head
Remembering everything you've said
The silence gets us nowhere
Gets us nowhere way too fast

-Staind-For You-2001-

-JAYDA-

"Again," I insisted, out of breath.

"You sure?" Mai asks, a little hesitant.

"Yeah," I replied. "Just one more time."

"Jayda, you already look like you're gonna pass out," she comments. "Maybe we should call it a night so Jason doesn't bite my head off again?"

"Okay...yeah, that's fair," I sighed. "We'll stop."

"You've been doing a lot better," Mai remarks. "Synthesizing the demon blood has helped a bit, but it still weakens you after a while."

"Yeah," I murmured. "We'll have to figure something out...I can't let that happen again."

"I know," Mai sighed, handing me a water bottle. "I'm sorry it happened, and I'm glad you're okay...But for now, let's take a break. Once we start this case, we have to focus on that."

"That's true," I murmur after taking a drink and pulling up the files that Joey sent us. "Dr.Blackwood would use that against me in the sanitorium. He's on another level of evil."

"We've faced worse," Mai assures me. "You're right, though. While you, Jason, and Salim hunt him down, Nick and I will free his trapped souls."

"This is Alice's origin story case," I marveled. "For as long as we've known her, we never thought to ask how she got into all this."

"What fascinates me is how the haunting has progressed over the years," Mai mused, looking over the information we have.

"Right," I agree. "Usually, spirits repeat themselves, trying to deal with their unfinished business. This entity has gotten stronger somehow..."