•| Nefarious |•

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I woke up back on the seat of the bus where I fell asleep before we shifted. I felt sick to my stomach, my whole body ached with pain but I was still able to move.

"Tyler!!"

His twin yelled making everyone turn their heads toward them. Tyler laid on the floor seizing out while one leg rested up on our cooler,

"Wake up! Wake up!"

Taylor yelled at him again sobbing beside him.

"What do we do?! Tyler!"

She cried harder latching onto him trying to get him to wake.

"Mom!"

She yelled out into the bus, the parents came rushing in as fast as they could, Taylor's mother behind the first.

"Taylor"

she yelled out rushing to her children,

"Tyler, Sweetheart?"

She called to him. Everything happened so fast, Ashlyn's dad picked him up, him body twisting in ways it shouldn't. I couldn't focus on anything other than the pain coursing through my body and Tyler's face. His eyes were black and he had a look of shock like something possessed him.

My dad grabbed hold of my shoulders and looked at my face,

"Honey! What's going on are you okay?!"

He freaked out looking around my face for any signs of injury. My arms latched around him as I dug my face into his shoulder crying,

"I tried to help I really did. But I failed him dad, I failed the one person I vowed to save."

My tears kept falling as my arm pounded with pain, my dads arms flew around me as he rubbed my back slowly,

"Shh shh I'm here, let's hurry to the hospital with the group and you can tell me everything."

I gave him a quick nod as we rushed out to our car, me more like slowly ran because every step made a new shock of pain course through my body, and sped to the hospital.

We all stood around the waiting room while Tyler was rushed to the back, Taylor bounced her leg up and down nervously staring at the floor. I wish I could be there for her but I have no idea what to say. She's got hit the worst with all of this and I couldn't imagine what she's going through right now.

My dad walked up to me with a cup of water handing  it to me,

"Let's go get some fresh air chap."

He gave me a light smile, helping me up we walked outside and found a dim lit area.

"What happened?"

He said calming as he studied my face,

"You're going to think I'm crazy or on drugs-"

he cut me off before I could finish,

"What ever you have to say I will believe you I promise."

He lead me to a bench and sat me down, his body faced towards me ready for my story. I explained everything, how we are stuck for 7 hours in another dimension, how phantoms attack us all the way up to Tyler falling out the car.

"And then the car spun and we crashed causing me to fly out the car, I had glass all in me and I thought I would die but I'm okay. I still feel the pain now but everything just looks normal."

I finished, my eyes tearing up as I looked over to my dad.

He wrapped his arms around me as he nodded,

"I'm sorry you've had to go through all of this without me, I wish you would've told me sooner but I see why you didn't. It actually explains all the figures I've been seeing here and there, I thought it was just my imagination but now I know the truth."

His arms tightened around me as he kissed my head,

"I will do what ever I need to do to help you guys, let me get a doctor to look at you, maybe they could do something, okay?"

I nodded at his question, my phone buzzed in my pocket making me take it out.

Ashlyn
Me and my dad left to go get weapons, all the parents know about the phantom world I'm pretty sure.

I put my phone away and looked up at my dad.

"Thank you for not thinking I'm crazy, I relived to get it off my chest I was so worried no one would believe us."

My dad stood up and held out his hand for me to grab. We both went back into hospital, I went to the group to see Taylor absolutely freaking out.

"...Tay, take a breath."

Logan said as he put his hands up to grab her,

"We need to-"

He tried to continue but was cut off my arm big scream. The scream sounded like Tyler, everyone's heads jerked to the doors that lead back to the rooms.

"Tyler..."

Taylor mumbled. The lights flickered and before we knew it they blew out, the atmosphere was back to the phantom world with phantoms scattered outside the windows. Everything went back to normal before we knew it. Taylor tried sprinting for the door but Aiden and Logan got a hold of eat of her arms,

"Taylor stop!"

Aiden yelled trying to get the girl to calm down.

"We..can't go back there...not right now!"

Logan panicked struggling to hold onto her.

"You need to let the doctors handle it! If we go back there, then we're going to get kicked out!"

Aiden's voiced filled the room,

"Let go! He needs me! Tyler!"

Taylor yelled out trying to pry herself out of their grip. Everything felt weird, just like it did when we fought off Barren and his friends. It's like we were turning back into phantoms.