Penumbra:Shades Of Covet

Chapter 14: A bad dream

"Please! Show yourselves!" Alice pleaded, stopping herself from crying. She soon heard footsteps that echoes, making it hard to which way is it coming from.

The footsteps stopped and a limelight flashed adjacent to Alice's, it soon revealed a familiar face, "Who are you?"
"You heard all those voices, right?" The boy said. "Then, what is? Alice asked. "Those are what they really want to tell you." He replied.

Alice fell silent for a moment. "That's not true." She whispered.
"OH COME ONE ALICE! ARE YOU DEAF?" The boy roared, Alice can feel the wave."THEY ARE ONLY SAYING GOOD THINGS BECAUSE THEIR ARE YOUR FRIENDS!!! COME TO THINK IF YOU DON'T KNOW THEM AT ALL AND SAME GOES FOR THEM?!" He continued. The girl became vulnerable about we did the boy said. "No, it's not true."she whispered again.
The boy walked near her and so is his spotlight. " It is true Alice. You think in this kind of world, you can still find some friends which you can call 'true'?"
Alice gathered her strength, face red and eyes wet from tears. "NO!". The boy's face became unreadable, lookin at Alice with disappointment. " All you said is just a hoax! So what if I'm not like them! So what if I'm not favorable as them! I am me! No one is able to dictate who I will be!" She surged with braveness. But all of her strong emotions became null when she heard a familiar voice behind her. A spotlight flashed, "Who said your unique? Your ordinary."a voice said. Alice swiftly turned to who said it. "....no..." She saw Ley in the spotlight. "No, you can't say that?". Then another voice followed, "Of course she can say that! She's not wrong, you don't have any humor!" It was Stella when Alice turned, heart terribly shaking. "You can't even get the eyes of men or make them love you. You're ugly, and disgusting." Seline said in a cold voice.  Another followed, "You're not even smart to know what's happening to you, can't even handle yourself." Myla appeared, "You always depend on others while being selfish and insensitive!" Val cried angrily. "You...have...no....friends...at all....Alice." Cole quietly approached. "Poor bitch."said Jake.

All of them had surrounded Alice looking at her judgmentally, as for the Girl, surprised and heartbroken had fought off those wrecking words,trying to disregard all of them. " This..is... This is just a dream.... A nightmare!" She assured herself.
"Hah! You think it's a dream? Look closely Ali-"
"NO !! IT'S!! NOT!!"
The boy is stunned by Alice, which she found out who really is the boy. "Jiro....". Finally the boy, now Jiro is filled with emotion, surprised and annoyed! " You...". "What do you really want!?" Asked Alice. Then in a short delay the dark space is suddenly filled with opening eyes looking at random sights, moving without proper direction. Alice was mortified at this sighting, "...I want you to know your jealous of your friends... That you are envious of them I want your soul." When Jiro said the last sentence the  numerous eyes stopped from flailing on different directions then all of them flashed to Alice, "Soon, you'll realize...what's missing in you. That you really are useless, that you will soon look for me."after which a narrow shadow went behind to Alice's circle of friends, each of them is then impaled right into their chest. Alice was horrified that she covered her mouth with both hands, and she saw their bodies are being tainted to black and grew eyes everywhere when they all turned into shadows. " Mark my words Alice. None can endure a heart that desires strongly." A black door appeared behind Jiro, "Keep your pet to your side, he might spread his disease." He said before opening the door and entered. Alice, still fighting chased Jiro, but after she opened the door, a bright light blinded her.
For a second she could hear some voices echoing from afar.
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"Alice! Oh God please wake up!"
"Alice, Alice stay with me, stay with us , please!"

Alice groaned a little, The gang jumped back to her as the heard her groan. "Oh glob Alice are you alright? What happened!" Val asked her as soon as she heard her groan too placing Alice's hand to her arms, gently slappibg her cheek.

"You guys...looked so panic...what happened... Is there an earthquake? Fire?" Alice weakly said.

"Stupid hoe we thought you were dead!" Seline exclaimed, bringing Alice awake even more.

"What?" She sat up,"what do you mean you thought I'm dead!?"

"Alice, Ley was wakin' y'up for thirty minutes, so she thought y'might be jus' in a deep sleep, but after an hour , when Myla went to wake y' up she ran to us outside saying y' gon' cold n' lifless." Cole quickly explained it to me.

"So you guys mean...I'm almost dead?"

All of them replied "YEAH!"

Myla went near to Alice and hugged her, the girl can hear she's sobbing. "I thought we'd really really lost you Alice..."

"Man we panicked so hard we forgot to call 911, you were a close call. But thank God you. Y-your still a-alive!" Jake said.

Even Alice cannot believe what happened to her, all of her friends are ceying around her, telling her "I really thought you left us unexpectedly."

"I've been dead for one hour?" Alice asked to herself. "But how?"

After everything and everybody has settled the gang packed their things up, given they helped Alice pack her things up. The girl was very pale and not interactive in that moment, that none of them get to talk to her a little bit. Just "yes" and "no" was her response.

Alice can't still figure out why she went dead for a short time. Contemplating about the commotion she caused. Looking at her friends walking back and forth.

While on her pondering, she  noticed, she cannot recall her dream.

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So that was it guys! Chapter 14! Hope you enjoyed reading. Oh and please bear with my typographic words (or in some case, the whole chapter) I am trying to remodel my story to make it better for reading.

So what do you think will happen next to Alice in the next chapters? Will she remember her dream? What happened to her mom?
You can guess or suggest what will happen next.

Thank you so much!
-duo_tempt-