Broken

Chapter 3: Nightmares Can Walk

Jonathan perspective:

Mike and I decided on going to a nearby mall that has a semi decent food court and we get into my truck and drive off. Mike still has that slight blush off setting his light skin tone. He might still not have gotten used to me being around."So, what are you doing at UMKC?", I suddenly pop up the question startling him a little bit."Oh, I want to work for Human Rights and help", he says with a small smile. "I came here to be a lawyer. I would like to be able to send a criminal to prison and save the innocent." Mike looks at me wider eyes,"That sounds like it's going to be difficult". I laugh a little bit and respond,"It's no easier than trying to change the morals of people and bring awareness to the bad things that are happening in this world". Now it was his turn to laugh and his blush gets a little deeper,"I guess you can say that. So we both chose things that are hard to achieve and do correctly".
"But isn't that the fun of it. To go through hard ships but have a greater  pay off".
"I guess that makes sense. There is going to be many speed bumps but what you said makes them seem easier".
"I hope so and we're here", I park the truck and we head get out to go to the mall.

Mike's POV

We walk side by side towards the mall and my face was still warm. This is another case of "I can't control what my body does", for my face doesn't seem to want to go back to normal no matter what I do. We reached the doors and Jonathan ran up to hold the door open, so naturally I said,"Such a gentleman aren't you."
"Only to highest of royalty my good sir", and he does a bow. With that I start laughing, and when I started laughing he started laughing which caused me to laugh more and I turned into a cycle to where we are now bending over and it stopped finally because people looked at us like we were crazy."So what do you want Mike, there are a lot of choices here and we have only a few hours of daylight". I look around us and make it seem like I was being indecisive when I actually already knew what I wanted. I wanted this to go on longer because this has been the most fun I've had in a while. I point to a Panda Express and say,"Quick! We must make haste before the wall is breached!" and we start dashing to the small restaurant and get in line."Bloody hell! The gate isn't rising fast enough!" Jonathan says acting frightened."When then we must hold them back!" I then start taking a plastic fork and pretended I was swordfighting with another thing and Jonathan follows my lead. We both did this until we were at the front of the line where a lady was chuckling and does a semi yell,"Do these knights bless with their presence", but I detected no mocking in her voice so I proceed,"If you would be so kind". She then she sweeps her arms over the food and says,"Well, then choose what you need". With that we order our food and go take a seat,"We narrowly escaped that my friend", Jonathan says in a deep voice. I just laugh and start eating as well as Jonathan. I here him stop laughing and look up at him with his smile gone and his face very pale."Jonathan?"

Jonathan's POV

"Jonathan?" I heard Mike say, but I didn't react to it. I couldn't process what I saw and my mind played it over and over again. The platinum blonde hair, the wide sky blue eyes, and the thin frame. But the biggest thing that reminded me of those six months was that crazy look in her eyes and the wide smile. I felt my heart pounding, the blood rushing in my ears, and I couldn't look away but I wanted to. She didn't look away either and looked me straight in the eye and her smile got impossibly wide so that it was almost ear to ear. She brings up a plastic knife and licks it, and I still can't look away. It seems that fear is paralysing my body and making me look into my nightmares. She was suppose to be dead! They found her body all cut up in the asylum and blood was so low it was impossible that she could have a chance of living. The thing that get me out of my temporary paralysis was Mike shaking my body. I looked​ straight in the eye and I saw his face fall. I stand up and whispered,"We need to go now". I grab his arm and almost drag him behind me, my feet guiding me, my heart pounding, and my mind repeating a message over and over, she's here, she's here,she's here. My heart is still thudding in my chest but I hear a wince and look back to see Mike's face showing he's in pain. I look down and see the my knuckles are white and let go, seeing a bruise is already forming."Oh my god Mike I'm so sorry" Mike starts rubbing his wrist,"I'm fine, but tell me what's scaring you Jonathan". I look at him in his eyes, there was some fear there also. I take a deep breath,"Not here mabye soon, but not here". Mike looks at me for a second and nods. I grab his hand, but not hard. This makes Mike go almost scarlet, but I pay no mind to it and go to the car and drive back to the college dormitories. "I'm going to drive around then go back to the dormitories. You can get out if you want to". I look over and see Mike shaking his head. I didn't say it, but that made me feel better and less vulnerable. I put the truck back into drive and make random turns and go about no where for I don't know how long. All I know is that when we got back the moon was high up. My shaking has gone down a little and heart stopped pounding. I turn off the truck and we both get out. Mike was standing really close to me, almost touching, but I still payed no mind to it. We got to our room and Mike unlocked it because I was still shaking. "I'm going to go take a shower Mike". He looked at me with a little bit of worry,"I'm going to be in my room if you need me", I nod to him and go to the bathroom. I spend most of my time in the bathroom just letting the water fall down on me, I only get ready to wash up when it was like a sauna in there. I exit the shower, brush my teeth, and leave to go to my room. I heard the scream as if I was someone else.

Mike's POV

I hear Jonathan scream and I sprint over and slam the door open. Jonathan is sitting on the ground and holding his knees, I follow his line of sight and see "J and C 4ever" scratched into the window with a heart around it. I crouch down and hold Jonathan against me, he was shaking so much I sit down next to him and we fall asleep like that.

There it is, that was the surprise and I REALLY hope that you liked it as much as I did writing it. See you in the next chapter!