Wake Me With The Morning Light (ON HOLD)

Chapter 2

For Cass, @cassandraevans0 (that's a zero) Twitter profile picture above
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Sawyer Fredericks POV

I was only strolling around the farm at night since I couldn't seem to get to sleep. But out of all the wild things that have happened to me, I never expected this! There was a girl. She looked around my age. She laid on the grass sleeping in this shape that made her seem so small. Maybe she really was though... It was quite awkward... She definitely wasn't some crazy fan... I'm not any kind of doctor or anything, but surveying the condition she was in right now, it didn't look too good. She had countless scars and bruises and scratches covering her face, arms and legs. On her forearm, there was a torn piece of cloth and blood was leaking out from it. Worried about the state she was in, I tried to kneel down beside her and try awakening her without scaring her. She didn't need anymore problems by the looks of it. But as soon as I tried to kneel down, she started to groan in her sleep.

"Uhnn.... F-father.... please!" She was sleep talking. "No please! Please! It wasn't his fault! It was only mine!" This... is getting a little too frantic... "Father!!! No!!! SAWYER!!!" I almost jumped when she screamed my name. Holy crap that freaked me out! This was starting to get a little weird... I never thought she'd be dreaming about me... She started to sob... She was croaking out words now "S-s- Saw-yer... I'm s-so s-sorry..."

Like an automatic reaction I replied with "It's ok! No need to worry about it" followed by clamping my hands over my mouth. Dammit! Leaning over her trembling body, I tried to see if she had woken up. When I stared down at her eyes, I found fearful, blue eyes staring right back at mine.
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Akane's POV

I woke up to these soulful, blue eyes staring at me oddly. I've seen that look, those eyes before... it was... Sawyer?!

God no! This isn't gonna end well...

An uneasy silence streamed between the two as they still into one another's eyes.

"So ummm... what are you doing here?"

Breaking the silence, he replied with "I was taking a little walk since I couldn't sleep then er... I saw you.... and you were screaming my name..."

Instantly my face heated up and turned a bright red. I was sleep talking about Sawyer?! I know I was dreaming about him like I always do but...

"So umm... I'm gonna go now...."

"Wait!" His voiced echoed throughout my mind. "Just... wait here... please?"

"Ummm... ok?" He left me alone at that. Wondering if he was going to come back, I sat down in silence, unsure of what to do.

He returned sooner or later with a tray of food in his hands. Uneasily, he bumped me with the tray without peeping a word. Trying not to laugh at him, I tried to hide it with a smirk and took the tray from him. Nodding my head in a "thank you" gesture, we both sat down. He just sat there looking the opposite direction from me. I ate in an odd silence. It was only around seven minutes or so but it felt like seven hours.

Eventually, he took the tray from my hands and gestured for me to follow him. I decided to follow him. If I was going to die from this, it wouldn't really matter since I would've died either way. On purpose or not.

He led me into his room and handed me a pair of far too large pajamas. Pointing in the direction (of what I thought was) the bathroom, I followed. After changing into the pajamas, I re-entered the bedroom only to find Sawyer asleep on his bed. Looking at the second bed, I found a note hanging down from the bedpost. It read:

You can sleep on this bed for tonight. Tomorrow I'll talk to my parents about this if it sounds ok to you. Goodnight!

-Sawyer (Aka the guy who let you in)

Slightly smiling as I read the note, I felt a little guilty inside. He did not know what he had just done. He had just taken in one heck of a teenager and probably didn't know it.

Subsiding to the bed, I fell asleep gazing at the blank ceiling. The last thought I recalled crossing my mind, Does he always bring strangers home?
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3rd Person POV:

Sooner or later, Akane fell asleep as well. Unaware of the fact that she had started to scream and cry, only a couple of hours later.
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Thanks for reading! Please give me feedback and I'm always open for respective criticism. This chapter is a little short, I know but I'm trying to make the subsequent chapters longer. Huge thank you to Cass for being such a great, kind, funny and loving friend and person! Follow her on Twitter: @cassandraevans0 Instagram: @cass_1505. Thank you Cass! Thanks again for reading!