Dylan laid in bed staring at the ceiling. Standing up made the room spiral, and the corners went flimsy, stretching out into a void. He moved his hand up to his bare chest and rests it on his moist skin, and he felt his heart beating and the air he breathed making his hand move up and down in an even slow pattern. He reached for his cellphone on the bedside table and checked the time.
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He's been in his room most of the day, hiding and scared to face what would kill him. Losing Melissa. He sat up on his bed, skin glowing in a warm orange tone from the sunlight now vanishing to a sunset. A hand slides into his hair, moving the loose good strands of hair to the back of his head. He breathed out deeply, then said something to himself for motivation. "Okay Dylan. You have a show tonight. You're going to kill it."
He gets up, changed and leaves stumbling down the stairs. He grabs his guitar from the wall, and opens the front doors. He drops his guitar and falls down to the floor, his eyes nearly popping out of his head. "Jesus, Melissa!" He puts his hand on his chest swallowing his saliva. "What are you doing?" Melissa crosses her arms, her lips straight into a thin line. "I would have laughed if I wasn't pissed off with you", she looks at the guitar and raised an eyebrow at it. "Going somewhere?" Her gaze falling back on Dylan. As he sits on the floor, his eyes tremble on her body, and his eyes glow in thought. He shuffles his way back to his feet. He grabs his guitar and looks desperately at Melissa. "Listen, listen, listen I need your help. After you help me I promise I will explain everything." Melissa looks up to his eyes, then to his lips. "Dylan I—" she gets interrupted by Dylan's hand that intertwined with her fingers practically dragging her away. They arrive at the venue, water sprinkling from the ceiling. They were late. Negan was already beating the drums while the singers jumped up and down with the audience. Melissa opened the curtains, peeping out. She closes it soon after, trembling back to where Dylan had been setting up his plan. "Dylan, I am not doing this. Stop!" She says looking down at him. He ignores her demand, stands up, looks at her hair, removes her ribbon causing her to gasp. "See that behind me?" He asks keeping his hands in her hair, "your guitar isn't connected."
Melissa panics, shaking her head repeatedly. "Dylan, I cant! Did you see all those people out there?!" Dylan grabs her shoulders tightly, looking down thinking of words before looking up against "All you gotta do is pretend. I need you more than ever right now. Please. My solo is coming. I will explain everything after. J- Just go out there and pretend!" He screams this out, and his demand echoes in Melissa's head, removing everything else from there like a plague. Her pupils grow bigger, then a bright green colour fills inside. Dylan steps back, unable to speak, he just watches in shock. The green surpassed, and her pupils lose shaped and slowly start liquifying out stretching and turning.Melissa picks up the guitar, turns on her heels, walks out and starts playing. No facial expressions, and her head not rotating around her neck. Dylan picks his guitar up, his eyes fixated on her, his mouth still a gap. He plays while Melissa mimics her actions. Negan had stopped playing the drums. The crowd behind jumping, and screaming. Cheering and whistling. Oblivious to Melissa's eyes, with the lights now a deep red. Dylan starts laughing, jumping in the back while his fingers move with ease between the chords.
The solo ends, and the pupils absorb its shape again, Melissa trembled back with a big breathe of life. The crowd behind clapping and chanting, "Red moonlight! Red moonlight!" Melissa makes eye contact with Negan whose face resembled both anger and confusion she runs out the back, passing Dylan. Dylan follows whilst laughing. "We killed it!" He screams, but Melissa turns with tears hanging from her eyes. "Were you screwing her?" She asks, moving her wet hair out of her face. Dylan looks at her eyes, then away and before he can interject, Melissa starts up again. "Oh my God!" She screaming falling to her knees. "Melissa I—", Dylan tried to speak but is interrupted with another interjection. "Oh my God! You're such an idiot. Wait, don't tell me that was Negan in there. You're dealing again, and that's why you braided your hair."She stands up, Dylan tries to help her up, she hits his hands away before screaming. "Don't touch me! He looked at me like you-like he knew me", she looks up at Dylan, "did you tell your drug friend who I am?" He turns around, crouching down to his knees holding his hands in his hair. "Dylan! Answer me!" He stands up, his face now red, and chest on fire. "I did. Okay, they asked for people who I needed to protect and I said your name. Showed a picture too." He rests his hands on his hips.
She scoffs, turns around and begins walking away. "Melissa please, just wait", he calls out. "Dylan man what the hell?" Negan walks from behind him, wet and with his arms open spread out. From behind both Negan and Dylan, a group approaches, whistling and laughing. Bobby's jaw is tense, and walking in front of the group dragging a baseball bat on the street.Negan walks to Bobby trying to calm him in his tracks. "Bobby hold up man, he's just a kid. Negan holds out his hands. "Move your bitch ass before I hear you too, motherfucker." He shoves Negan. "Dylan run!" Melissa screams from where she now stopped running, and watched in terror. A black vehicle comes in full speed, screeching against the road and stopping next to Melissa. Two men begin forcing Melissa into the vehicle. Dylan held out a hand and began running. "Melissa! No!" He sprints. They get her into the car, that is now shaking up and down. Dylan I'd almost there, but then falls to the ground when one of the men fly out of the car, smashing himself into a window. A member from Bobby's group stumbles back removing his hat before saying, in a scared fine, "Man what the fawk?" He starts running, and some join him.
The car drifts and drives away into the night. "Dylan run!" Negan screams, as Bobby chases after Dylan with the bat. Dylan gets back on his feet and starts sprinting. Jumping over fences, running in red lights. He then turns down a silent street pacing and passing the street lights on either side. He thought about nothing other than the fact that he just lost Melissa.
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Children of the New Dawn n-logy: Book 1 - Facilitated.
Fantasy"Walk in the world of those gifted, and live life as they do with what may be a curse. Years later, children have been diagnosed with strange abilities and live their lives serving for others. Forgetting and leaving their old selves in the past. Unt...
