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The Search

Alone, feeling weak, having walked all by himself for hours, trying to find them, having stayed where he last saw Liam and Abigail for almost an hour.

"LIAM!! ABIGAIL!!" Shouting their names, calling them. But hearing nothing from them. Wishing they respond back to him. Feeling dumb that he's in the middle of nowhere where no one can hear him. He's lost.

He shouts their names as he continues walking. But the response from them feels quiet. More quiet, only hearing birds flying from the top of the trees. Shouting their names many times, telling them he wants them to find him, in the hopes they hear him.

'Who the fuck is this kid?'

'I don't know but I know he's daddy's boy.' 

'Oh yeah.'

He looks around him, hearing voices all around him. Thinking they're near. But they aren't there. There's no one around him.

Just nothing, he continues walking, hoping to find them. But the voices keep appearing in his head. He continues to hear them.

He doesn't know where it's coming from. They continue talking to him through his mind, into his ears.

'You're such a fucking dickhead you know that.' 

'Uhh get away from me you creep.'

'Yo give this guy a fucking wedgie.' Before hearing everyone raise their hands, clap, wanting everyone to do it.

It starts to become loud, too violent. Getting more and more all around him. They're all not going away from him. They just won't stop.

"What do you want from me?" He asks as the voices get more louder. The people in his head continuing to speak insults, rejections and the pain.

"Please... just leave me alone." But the voices, all around him, refusing to stay away from him. Everything they say to him, getting more louder. More violent, to the point he tries to run away. Hoping the voices won't catch him.

But they all follow him. His face, slowly pouring sweat out of his head, looking everywhere in a frantic manner. His vision, all messy, all blurred.

Till his mind starts to change his perceptions. The maid from his dream, appearing from his left side as he runs past her. What the hell.

Another person, his face all swelled up with cuts and blood pouring out of him, on the right side. More people, disfigured, crying, hurt, suffering. All around him. He stops in his tracks as the people around him, including the voices all join together in a circle, all going close to him. Covering his ears, refusing to hear them but it starts to become too much. They're everywhere.

"Leave me alone. Leave me alone... LEAVE ME ALONE!! PLEASE JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!!" As the voices get more louder.

Till it stops. Everything, all completely silent. No words coming out, he removes his hands off his ears as he looks around. Seeing no one.

The moment he turns his head back, a figure, his own father. Looking at him. Screaming, he stumbles behind as he fearfully looks at his own father.

"You're such a disgrace to our family. How did I ever raise a son like you?" Hearing these words, making him feel afraid, sad and unsure of what he needs to say after this. To a figure right in front of him when that figure is his father.

"Dad, I didn't mean too." No words coming out of him. His eyes are fixated on him.

But in a quick glimpse. His body, already in front of his son. Roaring at him as Michael screams. Causing him to wake up, having been laying behind a tree to make himself comfortable. Looking around, he's not in the same place he left Liam and Abigail. He actually stayed in the place he last saw them for only a few minutes. Needing a time to think for himself.