It's Okay to be Different

35

"And the second option?" Mitch asks.

Why the hell are they talking about me like I'm not right here? And what the hell is this invisible force around me? It's like I'm in a glass box and I hate it. I can't believe Avi did this. I feel like a caged animal.

"We'll have to kill Scott."

If I had water, I would spit it out right now. Instead, I choke on my own air. Kill me? I don't want to die!

I feel a cold rush of air hit me. It courses through my entire body and when it leaves, I feel weak. I immediately collapse. The black dots around the perimeter of my vision makes me nauseous and I black out right before my head hits the floorboards.

****** (Scott's "dream")

It's dark. Like pitch black dark. I usually find the dark comforting but this is just... eerie. I feel something wet on my forehead. I reach up and touch it and wince as soon as my hand makes contact with my head. I hear a small grumble right behind me and I whip my head around, despite the fact that I can't see anything.

"Scottie..." I hear the familiar voice call my name and it sends a shiver down my spine. Alex.

"Stop it..." I murmur.

"Scottieeee..." He drags out the end of my name and my breathing quickens as my mind races. Where is he?

"I said stop!" I say a little louder but it's still just over a whisper.

"Just give in Scott. You had your turn." He says. He sounds needy but still emotionless, dead almost.

"Stop it... Stop!" I clutch at my hair roughly and grit my teeth. "Get out of my head!"

"But Scott, we're in your head. Do you see that light?" I whip my head around to see a bright white light pouring through a tiny hole in this black abyss. "Why don't you go look at it?"

My mind blanks. "Okay..." I say unexpectedly as my feet drag me unwillingly towards the light.

The fucking cliché "don't go into the light" is seriously about to get me. Kinda shit is this? I was just compelled by a dead person. Why is he back? Mitch ripped his head off. All I know is I don't want to go to this light.

I don't want to die.

"Don't worry Scott... It won't hurt. Keep going."

My feet pick up the pace a little bit. The tiny whole has become the size of my entire body but it's still a bit away.

"Scottie..." I turn my head towards his voice as my feet continuously carry me towards the light. "I just want you to know..." I look forward and the start of the hole is directly in front of my feet. I see a flash of blond hair in my peripheral vision and I turn to see Alex smirking at me. "I never loved you." And he pushes me in.

I fall...

And fall...

And fall...

And then I'm gone.

****** (Back to reality)

Alex's POV