Fight the darkness - Lloyd x Reader (Sequel)

Chapter 1

Y/n's POV

I run faster than I have ever run before. Only one thing was on my mind: saving Lloyd. I could only save him with the help of his friends and that's who I was going to get.

Tears stream down my face as I fear that the worst has happened to him. I shake my head and take a deep breath in, attempting to rid myself of the horrible thoughts and tears. The attempt is hopeless however, as memories of the times we spent together replay in my mind.

"Ahh" I scream and jolt as a terrifying and hideous figure appears on the screen.

I immediately turn my head away, however the pure look of shock on my face soon turns to a look of anger as I hear the chuckles from my boyfriend, who apparently finds my state of fright amusing.

"Shut up Lloyd" I shout, elbowing him in the side of his stomach.

"I'm sorry y/n," he says, taking a pause to wipe away the tears of laughter away from his eyes, before carrying on "but how can you be so scared of that? It's not real you know?"

"Yes I know! It's just those jump scares, they get me every time, even when I know they're coming." I say but Lloyd is still laughing next to me like a hyena, "Well I'm glad you find it funny!" I say sarcastically, then fold my arms over one another to emphasize my irritation.

"Okay, okay, okay, I'm sorry, again. The jump scares, they get me too." He admits, "So you have a fear of things coming out of nowhere and scaring you?" He asks.

"Well yeah, but it's not my biggest fear" I say, turning my body around so that I'm now facing Lloyd.

"Well... then what is?" He asks in an intrigued manner.

"I don't think so mister, you tell me yours first, then I might tell you mine" I say putting an emphasis on the might.

He stands up and walks to the far corner of the room without a word. I give him a puzzled look hoping that he sees it, however he doesn't turn around but instead looks out the window and into the distance as if he's thinking. The silence in the room that he causes feels unbearable and unusual, so when he finally speaks up I breathe a sigh of relief.

"I don't really know" he says shrugging, then turns around to give me a smile however, it was written all over his face that he felt uncomfortable with what I asked.

"Are you okay? I mean you don't seem right. You shut up like a clam when I asked you that question and it wasn't a serious question or anything." I say while standing up to walk towards him. I gently place my hand on his shoulder and he turned to look me straight in my eyes. His face softened when he saw me but his eyes still showed me how he really felt. Pain, despair and anger; that's what I saw in his eyes till they were replaced with another emotion, love. "Lloyd" I said quietly, the name barely audible when I spoke it. Just the mention of his own name caused those emotions to come flooding back. He pushed my hand away from his shoulder and walked back to the couch.

"If you must know," he began in a strangely calm tone, "my biggest fear is my past coming back to haunt me." he says, causing that deafening silence to occur again after those words left his mouth.

"What?" I say in a quiet whisper, which I didn't think he heard until he turned to look at me with a worried expression.

"It was a joke." he quickly says "Yeah... just a joke, no need to be worried. I don't have some evil past that could come back to hurt me" he say laughing, but like that smile he gave me before, it wasn't genuine. Instead of covering his true emotions with a laugh, which was his intentions, it instead made them more apparent.