Pretty poetry

Neil (chapter 7)

I wake up in the middle of the night to hear restless tossing and turning across from me. I look up at my surroundings as my eyes adjust to the darkness and I turn to face Todd's bed. He's murmuring something in his sleep.

"No..n-no stop-"
He jolts up and starts gasping for air.

"T-Todd?" I whisper, but he doesn't hear me over his panic. His eyes dart around the room and they start to tear up.

"H-Hey, Todd, it's ok, you're ok." I say as I hesitantly get up and walk over to his bed. He then notices me and open his mouth to say something but no words come out.

I sit on the edge of his bed and gently put my hand on top of his.
"Ok, just, uh, just look at me and try to match my breathing ok?"

He does so and we eventually end up sitting next to eachother on the edge of his bed in silence.
"I'm sorry. I was freaking out over nothing.' 
Todd's tone tells me that it wasn't nothing though. 
'You can go back to bed."

"It wasn't nothing Todd. Do you..do you wanna talk about it?"

Todd sighed and looked down at his lap, trying to put his thoughts into words.
"I had a nightmare-and I know that sounds stupid but-"

"It's not stupid at all."

Todd pauses to look up at me and continues to talk.

"And I was at my parents house- but across the road from their house was just a wide field.
I was in my room, then I had the sudden urge to go outside and I told my parents but they barely acknowledged me, which is normal, and I ran outside.'

Todd pulled his hand out from under mine and started motioning to things as he continued talking.

'I just stopped in the middle of the street and looked at a sunset- it was so beautiful, Neil. I've never seen anything like it in real life. But then a car came outta nowhere and killed me. I screamed- I screamed really loud, but no one heard me, or cared. Then I just saw my parents, and they were still reading and working as if they didn't just hear my cries. Then I saw you. You showed up at my door and turned around to see my guts on the street. You just stared at the road blankly. Then I wandered around as a ghost and saw everyone I know continue their lives like it didn't matter. I screamed at them and shouted and tried to get anyone's attention but they didn't even care!
'No one even missed me, not even you or my parents!"

Once Todd finishes his ramble he drops his hands back onto his lap and tears up again.
I put one arm around his shoulders, pulling him closer to me, and tell him:
"I'd miss you! All of our friends would miss you. And you can just forget your parents! They don't know you like we do, ok? You're sweet and kind and great at poetry and they're blind for not seeing all that in you."

He looked at me in a slight daze before he tightly hugged me and rested his head on my shoulder.
"I'm sorry.."
He must've been really tired because he almost never hugs me.

"There's nothing to be sorry about, Todd." I wrap both my arms around him and yawn.

We stay like that for a couple minutes until he moves away from my touch and yawns too. I smile softly at him and get up to let him get back under the covers. Without saying anything he does exactly that and lies on his side to face my bed.

I don't want him to wake up again and freak out, but I don't know what to do. So I just sit down on the wooden floor next to his bed and let my head fall back onto the mattress. He moves his arm so he can reach me and begins to mess with my hair.

Eventually his hand in my hair makes me relax and I fall asleep on that cold floor.

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HIIII

IM SO SRY I JNOW ITS BEEN FOREVERRR BUT IM BACK ONCE AGAIN

I'll get a schedule for this I swear

I missed writing but I feel like a suck at it😭😭

This chapter did kinda suck so I'm sry :(

Thank you again for reading, I love y'all!!
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