Another World || Aiden Clark x GN!Reader

Episode 4

Y/N's POV

"Didn't we already get off at Savannah?"

That's what I told myself. This has to be a dream, right? There's no way I'm back on the bus. Not after everything that happened today. I gathered my thoughts and got off the bus. I explored the place a bit, but not a single person was there. I found myself in front of that house again. What was it called? The Sorrel Weed House. I blinked, and I was somehow back on the bus. This dream felt far too real.

I took a seat on one of the bus chairs, trying to figure out what was happening. Maybe if I slapped myself, I would wake up. 

"OW-" I yelled when I did. "Why did that hurt so much?!" I scoffed. I looked around my surroundings, before feeling something grasp my ankle and pull me. I looked down and saw... that creature again.

I let out a scream, and suddenly, I was back in my bed again, which I fell onto the floor with an 'oof.' The person next to me jumped up, leaning over the bed. "[Y/N], are you alright?! Why are you on the floor?" 

"Yea, yea, I'm fine." I scoffed, trying to dismiss the embarrassment I felt. "It was just a nightmare." I said, trying to push the blanket off me so I could get back on the bed. And what did I see under the bed? That thing.

I immediately kicked it with a scream, to which everyone else came into the room. "Isn't that the thing from the Sorrel Weed place?!" Taylor exclaimed, to which Ashlyn agreed. "Whatever it is, we need to go before it gets up again." She said, grabbing my arm and helping me up. Tyler ran to the front door, kicking it open, to which someone on the other side got hit. Aiden, of course, who now had blood dripping down his nose.

"What's happening?" Logan, who was in the other room, asked. I simply responded with "something's in the-" before I got cut off by Ashlyn, who turned around with her eyes widened in fear. We all looked to where her eyes were, and coming out from the corner was that thing.

"Go." She commanded. "Go, go, go!" She said, trying to push us out the door. That creature lunged at us , trying to grab us. However, just before it could get its hands on one of Ash's long braids, Aiden and Ben slammed the door shut. We could faintly hear the sound of scratching from the other side, other than the sound of us all panting.

"W-what is that thing..?" Logan said, the fear evident in his voice. However, Aiden came up with a snarky response. "According to Tyler, that would be the 'prank' from earlier today." And that reply earned Aiden a dirty glare from Tyler. The doorknob slowly wiggled, before opening a small bit, which Ben slammed the door shut. "Close one. That could've been bad." Aiden joked. However, I didn't think any of this was a joke. Especially not when Tyler said, "Could've? Stop taking this as a joke! It's been bad! The sky is red for crying out loud!"

 Especially not when Taylor called for us.

"Look.. down..."

Especially not with the crowd of those things watching us, waiting for their next move.

And it didn't make anything better when they started charging at us, all at once. The thing is, we couldn't move. If we did, then the one behind the door would get us, but if we didn't, then the ones on the street would kill us. We were stuck.

I thought to myself: "If this is just my schizophrenia acting up, how can others see it too? Are they also schizophrenic?" Of course, it's just a thought. There's no way that all 7 of us had the same problem, right?

"None of you have schizophrenia by any chance, right?" I blurted out. Fuck, that was a stupid move. Before anyone could say anything, Ashlyn spoke up. "Aiden, give me the strings from your pants." She commanded, which Aiden was confused about. But seeing that we had no other choice, her pulled out the strings of his smiley shorts and handed them to Ashlyn. She tied them together, and tied one end to the doorknob, which Ben was still holding down with his life, and the other to the pole nearby.