The Rivalry

Chapter 2

I wake up the next day and go to take a shower. I enter the bathroom which is very much aesthetically pleasing. I grab my bag of things that I brought with me to put into the shower I heard the boys yelling about leaving hot water earlier which makes me so excited since I haven't had hot water in a very long time.

I grab my shampoo and conditioner along with my bar soap. And a few other things before taking a shower. When I am done, I get out and grab a towel. I leave the washcloth and soaps in the shower though. I don't necessarily want to leave wet things in my bag.

I finished getting dressed and put on a simple outfit which is jean shorts and a white tee shirt. I head downstairs when I am all done, and head to the kitchen. Both Liam and Anderson are gaping at me for no apparent reason.

"What?" I say kind of annoyed. "You, uhm..." Liam starts and trails off. Anderson picks up his sentence, "If I had that much imagination in my head, I don't know what I would do." I am now confused. "I don't understand." I say to both of them.

"Your night terrors, you were speaking last night and from what we both could hear and believe me we were trying not to. They were very uhm, graphic." Anderson clears his throat. I look at Liam who is nodding in agreeance.

What both of them don't understand is that most of the things I dream about are just really twisted flashbacks. "Yeah." I say trying to laugh it off. I have lost my appetite. I go back upstairs and grab a book off of Neil's desk.

It turns out it is his journal. I don't snoop through it in fact I set it bac down immediately and pretend I never saw it to begin with. I head over to the bookcase right next to his desk that is built into the wall.

I pick out one of the books on the shelf. It looks the most used. I open it and to my surprise it's another journal. But this time below that label there is a company name Winston's Laboratory. Maybe it's a place not a company, but with my share of laboratories I won't intrude in this journal either. I put it back and end up watching tv for the rest of the day.

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Throughout the rest of the week, I just end up repeating the day over and over although Neil has a good collection of books. I have found he is mostly into fantasy but sometimes there are a few romance novels, which is kind of funny if you were to think about it.

James the guy who everyone says is cold and intolerable, and all of those cruel things, is not the Neil I know. They are two different people in the same body sadly. I have heard more and more over the weak of the horrible things he has done, it makes me hate James even more but it makes me wonder about Neil way more. It makes me wonder how can the same guy be two completely different people.

I drift off tonight knowing that tomorrow night I will be sleeping on the couch or something since Neil is supposed to come back then.

Something feels off about where I am. This is the part of the lab I had only gone in once. I had only seen once. The walls are all brick in here, different from the normal walls I'd get in the wing they put me in. I hear screaming and see blood. On my hands, on my clothes, pooling around me. I hear screaming, and I realize it is coming from my own mouth. I look over and try not to scream about what I know all too well I am about to see.

I am screaming hysterically now; I see a boy with blonde hair. He is bleeding out. Then my eyelids feel all too heavy at once to keep them open and I fall to the ground. When I wake up, I feel exhausted. My stomach now has stitches where I assume I was stabbed because I am very sore there. And I don't see the blonde haired anywhere. I get up and look around, no one is here.