The Sarcastic and The Mute [Ben Clark x OC[A SBG story]]

[S1] Episode Eighteen & Nineteen

Present Day

"I still think we should go back to savannah." Tyler  said looking down at his lunch tray.

Ashlyn rubbed her head, "...Alright, let's take some time to think on it again and have a group vote later tonight.

Charlie had put her head back on the table, ignoring the two arguing with eachother. Ben looked down at her and followed suit and rested his head on his arm, closing his eyes to block out the pair squabling.

"Why not after school?" Tyler argued with Ashlyn, wanting the vote to happen sooner rather then later.

Ashlyn rolled her eyes, "Because I have ballet class today."

Tyler looked at her with a pointed look, "So what? Skip it." He said this like it was no big deal but to Ashlyn it was. It was Taylor who broke up the argument.

"Uh, Ty..." The female twin pulled her brothers attention away from the ginger girl, "We have stuff to do after school too. You have baseball practice and I have a mechanics meeting."

Logan also interjected the argument aswell, "I um, I have to help with the flower shop today."

Tayloe gestured to Logan, "See? Logan's busy too." Tyler gritted his teeth, not looking at his sister, "Even with what's happening, we can't just neglect school and our future. You need baseball. Let's just wait till tonight-"

She was cut off by Tyler snapping and hitting the table, "We aren't foing to have a 'future' if we're dead!"

Charlie lifts her head at his loud voice, "Yeah nice job asshat, shout about it to everyone in a 10 meter radius of us that we are gonna die." She rolled her eyes slightly, looking directly at Tyler, "Because that's not a safety concern."

Tyler looked at her with an annoyed expression when Ashlyn dragged his attention back to her to continue there argument.

"It's not just our future. If we drop everything to focus on fantasy-like events we can't prove, we're going to end up in a psyche ward." Charlie cocked her head to Ashlyn, agreeing with her, "Do you think that's going to make it easier or harder for all of us to have meetings during the day?"

"She's got a point, y'know." Aiden spoke up, "Generally we're what people would call 'crazy'." He spun his finger around the side of his head.

This seemed to finally set Tyler off as he stood up and grabbed his tray, "Whatever."

He started to stomp off before turning around and grabbing his sister, glaring at Ashlyn and Aiden before dragging Taylor away with him.

Charlie just looked at the pair walking off before rolling her eyes and putting her head back on the table.

04:47PM

When Charlie got home the first thing she did was get her homework out.

Boring, I know.

But, by getting her homework down as soon as she gets home, perferably before midnight, it means as soon as she gets back from the phantom place she can do straight to sleep without a care in the world.

"Mum?" The brunette girl shouted through the house, "I'm home!"

There was no answer.

She walked through the living room to the kitchen, stopping at the fridge when she saw a sticky note stuck to it. Charlie pulled it off the fridge.

CALLED INTO WORK
BE BACK LATE
DONT WAIT UP <3

She sighed as she put the note in the bin, opening the fridge and grabbing the pasta she had made the day before to eat while she did her homework.

11:58PM

Homework done, Charlie was in bed scrolling on her phone, knowing it was pointless to try and sleep if she was just gonna wake up in the other world at midnight.

11:59PM

With one minute left, Charlie lied her head down on her pillow waiting for  the final minute to pass.

For some reason, she couldn't shake the feeling something was wrong, or missing.

But as the clock turned midnight, she remembered...

Oh shit...