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Night terrors

Aiden's POV:
"Ew, it's so boring and dull in here," Asher states as she looks around at my- I mean our dorm.

"No offense, but it looks like I need to remodel this place." She looks at me and notices my glare.

"Since this is our apartment I have a few conditions. You can redecorate or whatever the hell you want but you can't make it girly and don't, I repeat, don't touch my room or I will fucking scoop your eyeballs out with spoons and shove them so far down your throat they come out your ass." I state as I put my hands on my hips.

"Ok." She states as we hear a knock at the door. She mumbles something and goes to answer the door. Once she opens the door I see movers and assume they are here with her stuff.

"Thank you." She say after they are finished bringing in her stuff and she walks them to the doors. When they are gone she comes back over to stand next to me.

"If you need me I'll be in my room, aka let me know when you are done so I can show you around or whatever." I state and as I'm walking to my room a hear a quiet 'ok' before I close my door.

A few hours later:

* Knock knock*

I groan as I stand up, walk to my door and open it to see Asher standing with sweat on her face.

"Um I'm finished with my room and I'm ready for you to show me around." She huffs out, trying to catch her breath. I eye her suspiciously but nod my head.

"Ok follow me." I say as I head towards the door and walk out into the hallway. She follows me and I start walking towards the library since it's the closest place. As we are walking down the hallway I notice people staring at us, well more like her.

"Oh is that the new girl?" Someone whispers. I look over and see Asher scrunching up her hands into fists.

"Yeah, but I don't know why she's here, I hear that she had to get saved by the slut earlier and she probably got them off the hook by doing favors for the headmaster." Another student says.

"Yeah I feel bad for her, she's stuck being roommates with the slut now." The first person says. I look over again and Asher has her eyes screwed shut and she is breathing harshly. By now I'm used to people calling me that because I do good here and I'm in the top of my class, not to mention me and the headmaster are friends but not like they think. Asher on the other hand is pissed and gives them a glare even I am proud of.

"You know, if we wanted your shitty ass opinions, we would have asked for it but I
don't recall us doing that. Oh and another thing, I am not weak and she is not a slut, unlike some people. Now listen closely, I will kill you if you ever say shit like that about either of us again." Asher snaps at them and we all know she is telling the truth. As soon as she says that she starts walking forward again and everyone in the hallway looks at her retreating figure.

Eventually, I catch up to her and show her the library, mess hall, the training grounds, the gym, and the gaming room. After all that we head back to the mess hall to eat dinner.

I get steak, fries, and a soda while she just grabs a water and we head over to an empty table. At this point she still hasn't said a word and I'm kinda glad. Once we- I mean I'm done, I throw my trash away and we walk back to our room.

"I'm heading to my room, you should do the same." I state as I walk away. "Oh and before I forget, lights have to be out by 10, now leave me alone." I say and slam my door shut.

Just as I'm about to finally fall asleep I hear a blood curdling scream. I crack one eye open and hear some one scream again.

"No.... please don't!" Now I'm fully awake, I turn over and cut my lamp on. I start hearing soft crying coming from Asher's room and someone yelling Mommy. What the hell is going on? I jump out of bed and run into Asher's room.

I see her in bed and her body is in an unnatural state as she cries in her sleep. I sigh and walk over to her bed. I sit on the edge of the bed and shake her gently but she freaks out and tries to push me away in her sleep while she screams again.

"Asher you need to wake up, it's just a nightmare!" I yell as I shake her more violently. Suddenly she jolts awake and looks around as she pants. When she sees me she starts to calm down and breaks down into tears.

At first I'm shocked and don't know what to do but eventually I pull her into my chest in a tight hug.

"I'm sorry." She cries into my chest. I pull her back so I can look at her face.

"It's fine, but what was that?" I ask as she tries to calm down again. She looks at me with hesitation in her eyes but eventually looks down at her lap.

"I was rewatching my mother getting killed, and I couldn't save her. Those people were right, I am weak and pathetic." She states as she brings her knees up to her chest.

"No your not," I say as I move into her bed and make myself comfortable.

"It was just a dream and you are human, I'm sure you couldn't do anything to save her even if you tried." I mumble, not quite comfortable with the situation. She looks up at me and smiles a sad, broken smile.

"You don't even know what happened so how can you say that?" She snorts sarcastically.

"Okay, well tell me." I mumble.

A/n
Hey I'm so sorry I posted this late. I had past testing this week and I had to go to the hospital yesterday. But everything is better now and I'm still going to be posting the next chapter on Monday. So I hope you understand and um see you in the next chapter!