Dont Be Afraid.

Chapter 9- I was too late.

Lilli is gone. Liam is gone, too.

Lilli and I have had many arguments, but we always made up. She was always my friend.

Liam was so funny... he was so sweet, too. He was like a little prince charming.

Now they're gone. I'll never see them in person ever again. They're just a memory.

I already want to give myself up to that beast. He took Jasmine, Lilli, and Liam. Who's next? Brianna? Jordy? Justice? My other friends? Who's he going to take next?

I want to just give myself to him already. I don't want anyone else to die because of me. Brianna wouldn't let me, though.

"Hey..." Brianna muttered while sitting down next to me at lunch.

I didn't say anything. I just.... I don't know.

"You okay?"

"Brianna, we found their dead bodies, headless only two days ago. Our friends, Brianna. I don't think anyone could ever be okay after something like that." I said, ignoring the stray tears on my face.

She didn't say anything. Just looked down and wiped some tears away herself. It was quiet between us. There was nothing to say, really. After finding two friends dead bodies, you're just not the same.

Sad people walked by, giving us sad sympathetic looks. They looked like the felt sorry for us. Sad expressions everywhere. I didn't like it. I sad enough already, and I caused three deaths already. I don't need anyone's sympathy. Not now, not ever.

"You know how me and Lilli were in the middle of that argument?" Brianna sniffled. I nodded, remembering how mad they were at each other.

"We didn't talk for a month. The last thing I said to her was so mean... and it seems so stupid now. I didn't talk to her for a month because of something so small, and so unimportant. Now she's dead. I'll never be able to talk to her ever again. And Liam..." she paused for a moment to let out a small sob.

"Liam... every time he had a problem, every single time, he'd come to me, and I'd help him. He was such a perfect person..." she finished, now completely crying, and she managed to make me break down in crying also.

"It's my fault..." I croak out.

"No, none if this is your fault." Brianna assured.

"Yes it is! If it weren't for me, they'd still be alive! If I just turn myself into that beast, no more people will die! I caused this!" I sobbed.

Brianna brought me in for a hug and let me cry on her shoulder.

"Shh... don't say that. Thats not true. It's not your fault. You didn't kill them, that thing did. Not you. It's okay... it's okay." she cooed.

That night I had another nightmare. Not the same one, though, which surprised me. This one... this one was a flash back. A flash back of when we found Lilli and Liam.

I was running, with Brianna running close behind me. I was breathing heavy and I had only of thing on my mind.

Find Lilli.

We ran through the entrance of the woods, pushing through branches and hopping over rocks. I slipped on the fallen leaves at one point, but hopped back up quickly, and continued to run. Brianna and I hopped over little running stream using the rocks pointing out the water. We kept running, when everything suddenly felt like we were in slow motion. The only thing I could hear was my heavy breathing, and my racing heart beat. Nothing else.

We kept running, and we found them. We freaking found them. That... that thing stood there. Towering over their slump bodies on the ground. It looked directly at us, smiled, and ran off farther in the deep part of the woods that no one dares to enter. I stood frozen in my spot, as Brianna rushed over to Lilli and Liam.

"Oh my God... " she sobbed, starting to cry.

I soon rushed over too, and saw them both, lifeless on the ground, heads missing, and blood everywhere. Suddenly every single memory I had with them flashed through my mind in a heart beat.

They're gone.

I let out a blood curdling scream, while Brianna just silently cried. I fell to the floor and buried my face in my hands and kept repeating to myself, "no... no... no..."

I was too late.