My Exact Opposite | Jachary AU

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1 week later

"Dude, I'm so tired you have noo idea." I groan, rubbing my eyes.

"As long as Gabbie doesn't try to kill anyone, you can sleep during lunch." Corbyn jokes.

"Shut up, Corbs. For all we know she could put the whole world in a trance just to kill me." I yawn.

Dani cracks up and we all look at him.

"You legit just said that like it was nothing!" He says, and I roll my eyes.

We're sitting at a booth in the ice cream place, just talking about life. Oh, and Corbyn finally grew a pair and asked Christina out. I'm so happy for them, but this means I'm the only one in the group that's single, but I don't really mind.

As if she sensed my thoughts, Christina looks at me and puckers her lips as if she'd just had something sour.

"So Zach, you're the only single one in this group...." Christina trails off and Jonah nudges me playfully and I shake my head.

"C'mon guys, I like being single, an -" My sentence gets cut off when I feel something shift outside the store.

"Holy fuck, someone's outside the store." All the guys look alarmed, and Christina just shrugs it off.

"It's natural for a Shade to be able to detect changes in shadows, especially when a person steps in one." Christina laughs at the shocked expressions on the guys' faces.

"See you tomorrow guys!" I say, and travel just outside the store.

But it's not Jack.

It's not Jack at all.

It's Gabbie's best friend and the most annoying person in the world, Liz.

Her fake and girly laugh makes me grind my teeth together.

"Oh my god Zach! I totally wasn't expecting you!" I catch a glimpse of the tattoo on her right wrist and groan because she's a Duplicator.

"What do you want, Liz?" I sigh exasperatedly.

"Oh, nothing. Except to maybe kill you." She convulses and there's two of her, and in a heartbeat there's four, another heartbeat, there's eight, until there's hundreds of her surrounding me.

"Jesus, I'm gonna go blind. How does the mirror not crack at the sight of you?" I taunt.

"Oh, honey. You don't wanna know the things I could do to you." Suddenly, Jonah, Corbyn, Christina, and Daniel are dragged outside, their faces bloody and bruised. One of the Lizzes slaps Corbyn across the face while another pulls a knife on Daniel.

Another one of the Lizzes socks me in the gut and and I bend over, gasping for air. Rage starts to build up, and even more starts to gather when I see the knife cut across Daniel's cheek.

"If they retaliate, they're dead. And you don't want that, do you? They're the only people in this world who accept you, but without them you are nothing. You're a nerd, a fag, an outcast. So, what's it gonna be, Zachy?" All the rage I've been holding back bursts out of me in one scream.

Then everything goes black.

***

My eyes blink open, but I'm not in my room. When they focus, I see a face looming over me.

"Holy mother of God!" I jump and the face that belongs to Jonah looks offended.

"My face can't be that bad...." He frowns, and everyone else laughs.

"Don't worry, Daniel doesn't think that." Christina pipes up, and both Jonah and Daniel turn a nice shade of red.

"What happened?" The minute those two words escape from my mouth, the whole room get quiet.

"Well, how much do you remember?" Jonah asks, scratching his head.

"Screaming. And then I don't remember anything." I sigh.

"So after you screamed, you basically radiated fear....anyone within a 1 mile radius would've felt it. It was the worst feeling in the world, 'cause somehow you managed to plant the image of our worst fears in our heads and - and it felt like I'd never be capable of feeling happiness again - it was horrible." Corbyn shudders and I look down at my hands. You really are a monster.

"All of Liz's duplicates disappeared and you said something like: 'you'll never wanna mess with me again after this', and she started begging for you to let her go but you didn't listen. You backed her up against a tree and this little wisp of shadow traveled from your palm and into her ear. And then she went mad, clutching at her head and mumbling nonsense and she turned around and walked out of the park." Christina finishes and shoots me a sympathetic look.

"Also, you were in a coma for a whole day." Daniel adds.

I put on my best acting job and say, "Well, I better go home then, see you guys at school tomorrow!" And shadow travel back to my place.

What I did is tearing me up from the inside.

Just another reason for you to kill yourself. 

Not edited lmao.

So sorry i've been MIA.....