Insanity

Nightmares

Rowan drags me into her room and starts throwing questions left and right about the date, and I being the wonderful friend I am, gave her the shortest answers as possible.

"WHAT ALL HAPPENED?!"

"Nothing much."

"DID YOU GUYS KISS?!"

"No."

"WHAT DID YOU EAT?!"

"Food."

"DID HE PAY FOR YOU?!"

"Yes." I wanted this to end as soon as possible.

After about two hours of this, Rowan gave me a break. We went downstairs to make popcorn, and watch some scary movies.

After all of the Paranormal Activity movies, we were pretty tired. We went upstairs and git ready for bed. I had this nagging feeling that someone... No. Something was watching me. I brushed it off. It must be all of those movies just giving me the creeps.

"Are you ok Niyah?" Rowan asked me with a worried look on her face.

"Uh, yeah. I'm fine. Just tired I guess, haha. Let's go back to your room!" I say running up the stairs past her. I feel her grab my wrist, and I know that I'm not going to get past this without talking to her about it.

"Niyah... Whatever it is, you know that you can tell me. Right?" Rowan says it with her voice steady. I start to get the feeling that she asks me this not because she wants to know, but because she needs to know.

"I know..." I say looking ahead, at her door. I'm ready to go to bed. I don't want to talk about this anymore.

"Just... I want to know... Do... Do you, feel anything? Right now? Like..." Rowan trailed off looking around her. I can tell she is too embarrassed to finish the question.

"Rowan..." I turn around to tell her the truth and tell her that she doesn't need to worry. That it's probably just nothing. But as soon as I turn around, in the window behind her is the silhouette of a wolf. And two glowing eyes. I stop what I'm saying and I can feel the color drain out of my face.

"Niyah? What's wrong?" Rowan starts to turn around, but I grab her hand and drag her upstairs to her room. I don't want to worry her, but I don't want to lie to her either...

"Yep! Just got tired of standing around. Let's go to bed, yeah?" I say hoping she will agree. Not the complete truth... But not a complete lie either.

"Right... Ok." she says back.

We get into her room, and Rowan sits on her bad as I turn off her light. Once the lights are off I run over to her bed and hop underneath her blankets. I pull the blanket over my head, and close my eyes. I try to forget the horror that I just saw. Memories of my dad beating my mom, memories of my mom's death, memories that I cannot get rid of Flood into my brain. All of the horrors that I have grown up with. Learned to cope with. I let out a muffled whimper. I bury my head into the pillow so Rowan can't hear me. I try to stop crying, but it all just pours out. I cry so hard that my head starts to pound, and eventually my eyes get heavy. It's been a very long time Wselfwulf. I was hoping I would never have to see you again... I feel myself start to fall into sleep, not knowing that when I woke up, it would be the worst mistake of my life to let myself drift off again.

I wake up. I can't breathe. I can't move my body. I can only move my head. I open my eyes, and look over at Roman's alarm clock. 2:46. Please, please, please, no... I don't want to look up. I don't want to be haunted again with the image of Wselfwulf burned into my mind. But. This time she won't just haunt me. This time she wants to hurt more people. She wants to hurt... A lot of people... I can feel it...

"Niyah~!" I hear her sickly sweet voice coo at me. It persuades me to look, but I can't... I need to focus... On something else... Rowan. Where is Rowan? What if she hurts Rowan?

"Niyah. Are you ready? Let's go play! I've been waiting so long... I'm so lonely! And you spend all your time with these other people!" She says it right next to my face and I can smell her sweet breath.

"Niyah~! ANSWER ME! I AM SO ALONE AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!" She screams at me and let's out a low growl. I want to look... I want to look so badly...

"Niyah... What... What is that?!" I hear Rowan jump out of the bed and run into the hall. Good. Rowan needs to leave. Just until Wselfwulf goes away.

"Who's your new friend Niyah... WHO IS THAT GIRL!" Wselfsulf screams at me.

"N-no one. She's no one, Wselfwulf. Just... Just..." my voice quivers.

"JUST WHAT?!" she screams louder now.

"JUST LEAVE HER ALONE!" I yell back. Wselfwulf let's out a horrific cackle.

"JUST LEAVE HER ALONE! NIYAH SHE WILL OBVIOUSLY GET IN OUR WAY! SHE MUST DISAPPEAR!" she laughed with that awful cackle.

"LEAVE HER ALONE!" I hear Rowan. And then I hear a shotgun cock. No. Stop! Rowan! Run! GET AWAY! NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO! PLEASE! Please... Please just stop... Stop it all... Just go away... Leave me alone... Leave my friends and family alone... I want it all to just... Just...

BANG!

I hear Rowan pull the trigger on Wselfwulf. I can move now. She's gone...

"AAAAAAAAAHHHH! NO! STOP! DON'T COME NEAR ME! NO!" I hear the most blood curdling scream. Rowan. No. No, no, no, no! Why not me?! Why her?! She did nothing!

"STOP! NO!" I hear Rowan scream as she runs former life. I hear her go out the front door, and start her car. The last thing I remember is getting her car drive off.