Bad Blood - (Fransykes)

Chapter six

A/N: Hey my lovelies because the last chapter got such an overwhelming feedback/reaction I was so motivated to update this again and here we are! Just please don't hate me for this...you all sort of asked for it... 

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Josh's POV

I fling myself up from the bed as I woke from my frightening nightmare gasping desperately for air. My body trembles violently in fear, my heart thumping aggressively against my chest and my body soaked in a hot sweat as wet salty tears run down my cheeks. Frantic eyes search the room hopelessly but I'm surrounded by utter darkness, it was still late.

The hospital sheets were tangled around my shaky limbs from where I was most probably thrashing around in my sleep. My breaths were still rapid, shallow, as adrenaline continues to race through my veins.

I've woken plenty of times in the night from various nightmares but none were like this. This... this felt so real my heart aches in immense sorrow making me clutch on to my gown where it covers over my heart.

Pieces of my nightmare linger around in my mind still painfully raw, haunting me like a ghost. I shudder from what I saw behind my closed eyelids and whimper when I relive the horror which woke me.

Oli.

He was who I saw.

I lay alone peacefully out in a meadow gazing up at the brilliant white clouds against the blue sky. The cool breeze felt nice on my warm skin relaxing me as I lie amongst the long grass and bright yellow buttercups.

I felt so content in this moment until I witness something fall out of the sky. I push myself up on my elbows as I try to figure out what the black dot was which had broken through the clouds above. My eyes widen in utter dread when I soon discover that the something was in fact someone. All the air left my lungs when I realise that someone was Oli.

My heart leapt up into my throat as I gaze up in pure horror. I try reaching out my hand but I can't reach him. He's too high up out of my reach but he's falling faster and faster and I can't do anything but watch.

I open my mouth to scream out his name but not a single sound left my lips. I had become a mute as I screamed and cried out his name a thousand times but my voice had been taken away from me. I stood amongst the forest of buttercups helplessly as I watch him fall to his death with him crying out my name.

I let out a strangled sob when the memories of the nightmare slowly fade making my eyes fill with tears. I drop my head in my hands as I burst into tears, terrified by what I saw in my sleep. I shook in hysterics not able to calm myself down. It just felt so real.

I fall back against the bed and bury my wet face into my pillow and cradle my head with my arms whilst I rocked myself backwards and forwards, mumbling;

"It was just a dream, it was just a dream, it was just a dream..."

But was it? Something was trying to tell me it was more than just a dream... The bloodcurdling scream when he called out my name as he fell... I've heard it before... The day I was shot. I knew what reality sounds like and that was it. 

I whimper into the pillow desperately trying to block the images and sound out so they would stop from torturing me. There's no way I'd be able to fall back to sleep now, not now I knew what waited for me on the other side of sleep.

"Y-You said you'll s-stay, why did y-you leave me?" I swallow thickly through unstable breaths.

He left me alone when he promised he'd stay by my side and now I was abandon with nothing to show for us but his screams of my name living inside my head.