Madder than Hatter [Wattys2017].

_Friendship!_

The twenty Five and twenty six Acts ~

•Kyle POV •

He was standing still staring at my soul, a full mask covering his face yet not his heated eyes, people around him were walking left and right only he stood motionless in the middle of the crowd not merging with the flow of time and place. I was staring back at him behind a thin window glass, breath hitched, my eyes were burning. I blinked.

Then I saw him.

He knocked at the window three times cocking his head to one side, my breathing stilled, it was then when I could hear his raspy voice saying through the glass, four simple words.

Long. Time. No. See.

I rose from bed gasping for air, closing my eyes I run a hand over my face trying to calm myself, 'it was just a nightmare!'.

I kept repeating it like a charm till my drumming heart calmed down a pit. Sighing, I got up from the bed dragging behind my feet to the shower and the heavy chains of unwanted memories. Since I saw Shane on Keith parent's party, he became a relentless visitor in my dreams.

I guess the fact that I didn't meet him when I went back to Boston is making my situation worse, I need to face him so he would disappear from my nightmares and teleport to my reality, handling real life turned out to be way easier than dwelling in the maze of fear inside my own mind.

The warm running water washed my body and mind, taking deeper breaths I was able to gain control over myself.

' I won't waver, not anymore' I talked to the reflection on the mirror, and I liked the blue determined eyes peeking from there more than the sullen worried ones I used to see in the past.

Splashing my face few more times, I trudged outside draping a towel over my black tank, skimming through the closet my eyes fell on an army-patched long sleeved shirt, wearing it over my black tank I left it unbuttoned and rolled the sleeves up.

Shoving my dark jeans inside my black timber I stood straight ready to go, out of the corner of my eyes I glanced at the wall watch so I cursed under my breath since I was obviously late, Ivan will slaughter me without mercy!

Lately, my life has become a repeated tiring loop, waking up ...attending all the lectures like a decent student since I was given a final notice after which I will not be allowed to sit for my final exams, they usually don't do this and according to rules I should repeat this year for skipping 2 months straight, but with my previous good grades, tear-jerking story and my lost puppy eyes I was able to convince them to give me another chance and sure thing this time I am not letting my new chance slip by, even if it meant my end from the lack of sleep. I have already repeated a year once in high school I am not going through that trauma again.

So I was trapped between going to the drama club and doing my researches not to mention the Japanese class homeworks, to be completely honest I am one hair away from the verge of collapsing and if it wasn't for my good physique I would be a dead man by now!

I have been sleeping less than five hours every night after which usually the loop starts again, I sighed from the abdomen thinking about 'Ivan Henderson' the guy who knows how to work people like slaves, he must have been a cruel aristocratic king in his past life.

I was about to leave when my eyes fell on a familiar skinny figure, sitting on the rocketing chair on the balcony corner, a distant sad look conquering his eyes as he stared at the clear blue sky.

'Oh shit' I ruffled my hair, nervously standing on the tip of my toes then down then up again, a fierce battle was wagging inside me, I must leave if I don't want to be a dead man but I can't leave because my conscious as a man will be dead.