Stuck In Neverland
Mark's POV
I can't remember what happened, or how we got here, but the first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was the man next to me, the man I had co-poed with many times. My heart was beating fast, he seemed so pale and… dead. Even though my body was screaming at me to stay still I tried to move, my fingers twitched in protest but I finally managed to get myself to sit up, I looked at the body next to me again and with hesitating movement I shook him lightly. "Aaron?" I called and held my breath; I needed a sign, anything that would tell me that he wasn’t dead! And thank god he slowly began to open his eyes. I put on my usual calm composer as I helped the other man to his feet, no way I was going to let him see how scared I was, knowing Yamimash he was a really easy person to scare so he would need someone to be strong for him.
I watched him as he shut his eyes tightly for a second and rubbed the back of his head. "What happened?" Yami asked in his heavy British accent and how I wished I could make fun of it but now wasn’t the time or place.
"I have zero idea of what happened" I looked around. "Or where we are, but… I'm pretty sure this is a dream. One of us is dreaming and I'm not sure who it is but we better wake up soon because I'm not liking the looks of this"
I gulped as a sudden breeze of cold air slapped me right in the face and directed my attention to the wall… there was something written…. In blood… and it said…
RUN!!
So I grabbed Aaron's hand and yanked him then I ran, I didn't know to where but I ran and dragged him with me, I wasn’t going to let him get out of my reach. We both played enough horror to know where this was going. God… if this was a dream then how can I feel his hand holding tightly on to mine? If this was a dream how can I clearly hear my heart pounding in my chest? Just then a loud growl interrupted my thoughts and made Aaron whimper. "Just don’t look back Aaron, whatever you do, don't look back" I whispered to him and he nodded.
There was nothing else I could say, this was a dream after all, I'll wake up before whatever is chasing us can get one of us… hopefully. But I was getting tired and I'm pretty sure Aaron was getting exhausted as well so I ran to some trees and took the chance just to lose the monster that was following us, but I could still hear him so clearly behind us. I didn’t want to turn, I didn’t want to take the chance of looking back and tripping, that mistake has been done once too many times in movies before. From a distance I spotted a small warehouse which Yami and I could use to hide and catch our breaths. So I made a mad dash to the warehouse and slammed the door behind me barricading it with everything that I could use before slumping down on the ground next to Aaron. Aaron had his legs close to his chest as he hugged them and trembled, his face hidden in his arms, he whimpered every now and then and I tried to open my mouth and say something to comfort him but the words died down in my throat and I could do nothing but swallow them. Instead I rubbed his back which only made me fear the worst as I felt him shake against my hand so I did what I could to push the words out.
"You're such a wuss, we'll be fine, besides I think we lost him. But we can't stay here forever. We have got to find a way out of here okay? So I need you to pull yourself together." I wanted to be nice but I just couldn’t, those were the words I could say and but thankfully Aaron nodded and sniffed… why was he always so… innocent? When I would insult him he would never get pissed off, I wanted to make him angry but this was the only thing I couldn’t do.
"Okay, can we just… sit here for a while? I need to catch my breath"
"Yeah, sure"
We sat close to each other as I watched Aaron calm down, I found myself staring at him and hoped to god he didn’t notice that, he was finally relaxing only to be frightened by the monster's growl again, I silenced the scream that was about to leave the English man's lips by covering his mouth with my hand.
Once the growl faded I removed my hand and Aaron quickly clung on to me. "We're gonna die Mark!!
"We'll be fine we just need to—" And before I could utter another word to complete my sentence the door was being torn off. I tried looking for another way out but the only way we were going to leave is the same way we came in… through the door that was being broken right now. "Aaron we have to run, we have to take our chance and run okay?"
He sniffed but nodded, I gave him a quick hug to encourage him before we both pulled ourselves to our feet and waited till the monster was close enough for us to escape. I ran but quickly noticed that Aaron wasn’t behind me, he had froze when he saw the monster so I had to pull him away, after a while of running I spotted light and quickly pushed Aaron in front of me that way I could ensure he won't freeze again and the monster wouldn’t get him. "Run to that light!" I hoped the light would lead to an exit or something but in horror games things were never that easy. We reached the light and everything turned white for a second before the ground under us cracked and the next thing we knew… we were falling…
With a gasp my eyes shot open and I gasped, everything was dark… Oh man, I thought I woke up from the nightmare. I heard someone coughing so when I looked to the side I saw nothing but darkness, but from the sound of it someone was throwing up. "Aaron?" I called.
There was a faint sound of a sniff. "Yes?" He replied and I sighed in relief.
"You okay?"
I felt his cold body rest against mine and he shook his head. "It was horrible Mark, the monster looked so…. Real and…"
"He's an ugly motherfucker, I know"
Aaron's hand blindly searched for something and ended resting on my cheek, he pulled himself closer to me and hid his face in the crook of my neck before he let himself break down and cry. "I just want to… I want to go home"
I said nothing, I didn’t know what to say, I couldn’t make promises. So I just hugged him tightly and kissed the side of his head to comfort him, only the sound of him crying managed to make the tears build in my eyes. I was thankful I couldn’t see his face clearly because if only the sound of him crying tore me apart then seeing him cry would completely break my walls.
Aaron had managed to cry himself to sleep, I had a bad feeling about being in the darkness with my sleeping friend, but nothing had happened in a while so maybe this was it? We're stuck here? Maybe till one of us wakes up… But what if we never did wake up? Are we just going to be here forever? I know we wouldn’t last long if that was the case; it was just a matter of time… I hope one of us wakes up soon. Let this nightmare end before it drives us both insane.
The only good thing was having Aaron here with me, in my arms, he's still safe and I'll keep him safe even if it would lead me straight to my death… He's important to me, no matter how much I make fun of him… I just wish I could tell him that I do it because… I like him, I mean like… I really REALLY like him. You know what I mean; I don't have to say it! But anyway, to whoever reads this, take care and remember to always put the life of people you love ahead of yours because one day when you need them they'll be the ones to get your ass out of trouble, and if you love someone you tell them before it's too late… maybe it's too late for me… or maybe I still have a chance. I might or might not tell him how I feel; I just don’t want to risk his life or mine. But you can since you're not being chased by a monster. Anyway… I've been going on and on for long enough, I'll end this note here. To whoever is reading this, have a good day.
-Mark Fischbach
