Anything is possible

chapter 4

Dylan woke up at 1 am. He was sweating and noticed the computer on his lap. He closed it and put it away. He turned around in the bed. After a couple of seconds he stood up and started pacing around his room. He wouldn't sleep. Dylan wasn't going to do that. He ran downstairs and grabbed a bottle of water. After that he walked upstairs. The bottle still in his hand. He entered the room and closed the door behind him. Something on his bed caught his eye. His phone light up. He grabbed it and saw Luis' name on the screen. He swiped his finger across the screen and held the device on his ear.

"Hello, what's wrong?" Dylan spoke softly.

"Hey, I couldn't sleep." Luis responded.

"Neither did I." Dylan said.

Luis sighed. "What would make you happy, Dylan?" He asked after a couple of seconds.

"You know what I'm gonna say."

"Yeah but something I could do."

Dylan stayed quite. He didn't know what to say. "You could get me tickets to the neon lights tour."

After that Luis said goodbye and hung up. Dylan threw the phone on his bed. He sat down after.

Dylan stood up and checked his watch. 7:27. Time to get up. Finally. He quickly got dressed and walked downstairs. He made breakfast. After eating it he grabbed his book bag and walked to school. He remembered his aunt telling him never to walk to school alone but what could really happen. Well...

"Hey, LOSER!!" Stan yelled. Stan never liked Dylan. He had been his personal bully ever since kindergarten.

"Awww, Loser doesn't have any friends." Stan said. Dylan just ignored him and kept walking.

"And he got rude to, or can't you talk because of the accident?" Stan continued. Dylan just kept walking. Don't let them get to you. He thought. Stan and his friends laughed after making another comment but Dylan had just blocked them out.

"Watch out big boy, you might get hurt." Stan whispered and then ran away with his friends.

Dylan arrived at school short after. Both Ashton and Luis had been scared something had happened.

"Why didn't you waited for your aunt or at least called me?" Luis yelled in the crowed hallway.

"I must have forgotten." Dylan responded sassy. 

"Don't sass me like that." Luis screamed angry.

"Guys, stop it. It's not the time nor the place for a fight." Ashton said coming between the two boys.

"Dylan, you scared all of us. We thought you ran away or worse..." Luis had calmed down a little.

"I'm fine, I didn't ran away, I didn't die." Dylan replied calmly.

"Yeah, but you shouldn't just leave and scare all of us. Everybody was so worried."

"But nothing happened." The bell rang and Dylan made his way to his first class of the day.

The first couple of classes everything went okay untill.... "Hi, loser. Can you talk now?" Stan mocked him.

"Nope." Dylan said and walked to his seat. Stan laughed.

"He said something!!" He continued mocking. Dylan just faced the front and waited for the teacher to arrive.

"You should leave Dylan alone." Ashton said. Stan chuckled.

"And why's that?" Stan asked. Ashton got angry.

"We don't want anyone to get in trouble here do we?" Ashton had an evil smile on his face.

"No one will." Stan said and patted Dylan's shoulder. Ashton grabbed Stan's arm and held it on his back. "Don't touch him." Ashton spatted. 

"Let go." Stan sissed between gritted teeth. And Ash did.

"Don't touch my friends, next time I'll actually hurt you." Ashton said and sat down next to Dylan.

Lunch came fast. Ashton and Dylan waked to the lunchroom together. "So, how did you sleep?" Ashton asked.

"Horrible as always." Dylan commented.

"Did you have a nightmare again?"

Dylan nodded and they both sat down and an empty table.

"I hate reliving the accident." Dylan said after a short silence.

"I know." Ash said. "But isn't there a way you don't have to. I mean that you don't get those nightmares. It's not healthy, you barely sleep and I'm noticing that you don't pay attention anymore. You barely hear what people say to you. I just... I wish I could do something."

"Well, listening to music always helps me sleep." Dylan stated.

"Then why don't you do that?"

"During the week I have to wake up early and then I won't hear my alarm." At that moment Luis, Drew and the others joined them.

"Did anything interesting happen?" Luis asked.

"Dylan got bullied by Stan." Ashton announced. Luis looked at Dylan.

"God dammit won't that guy ever stop." Luis said and was ready to attack the guy once he spotted him. Which he did only seconds later. He was about to stand up.

"I don't care, he's stupid and I don't care." Dylan muttered and Luis turned to look at him.

"You're right Dylan." Luis spoke.

Luis opened his front door and threw his bag on the floor. He was pissed off. How dare Stan just go and bully his friends. He has no right to do so. Luis quickly ran upstairs and opened his computer. He looked threw his pictures and videos. It seemingly always calmed him down. And it did so right now. Videos of kindergarten and the Christmas of 2002 passed by. The last video he found was from one night that he was making homework with Dylan. Well, Dylan was still in the hospital so he was mostly just trying to annoy Luis. In the video Dylan talked about 5H. And that's when Luis came up with the idea. He put the video on a memory stick and wrote a letter with it. He looked for an envelope and placed everything in it. On the front he wrote.

To Lauren Jauregui