IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD

Chapter 56- The Calm....

If I had stayed awake, if I had just kept my eyes open, I still think I could've changes things. I knew things were off but this was an extent that I hadn't predicted. And I still wonder if I could've changed something if I had just kept my eyes open.

*morning*
My eyes shot open as a panicked face hung over me. Lilly. "What the heck are you doing?" I asked sleepily. "Just shut up and get up," she whispered. I didn't feel like resisting, half because I was too tired and half because I knew Lillian could kick my ass.
I stood up and was actually wearing clothes, sure, the shirt was Rickey's but the shorts were mine. Lillian was half dragging me out the door while trying to explain the situation.

"What is going on!" I yelled pulling us to a stop because I couldn't understand a thing she was saying. She turning and looked me dead in the eyes, dropping my arm. "There was an escape from the juvi hall last night. "

My jaw dropped. "You don't mean...." Lillian dropped her eyes to the floor, nodding her head to confirm. I didn't want to admit to myself what had happened. I knew it would. I felt that unsettling feeling of change swarm me again and I knew, in that disturbing moment, that finally, The Damian Thing was coming true.

"He's finally done it." I whispered. "What?" Lillian said surprised. "I knew he would do it one day, his childhood said it all, and I knew that he would do it and now I am just waiting until...." I stopped.

***flash back**
"One day," Damian smiled, "I am going to get out of this stupid hospital and that stupid juvi building." I laughed, not even thinking about it," I would have to stop you. But that is only if you go crazy and start taking over the world." I was smiling genuinely, nothing suspicious crossing my mind.

"I might have to kill you, then. Ya know, so you and your super amazing powers don't ruin my plan." I looked him dead in the eye, smiling mischievously," ya, right after you blow up the hospital or shoot up the place."

Damian smiled, the world seeming normal and peaceful.

***back to normal time***
"Katrina... What do you know?" She must've read my face and all of the panic that molded my expression. "Lilly, it is very important that you follow my instructions."
She nodded.

"I need you to walk, not run, walk and find Rickey. Tell him to meet me in the closet; he knows what I am saying. Then I need you to act completely normal. If you even breathe in the wrong way, orderlies and nurses are trained to realize it.

"Don't panic, there is no need to panic right now." "Right now?" Lilly said scrunching in her eyebrows. " After that just do what a Lilly does and be normal." I said. "Opposed to being..." She questioned. "I don't know crazy?" I laughed.

"Hey," she began, starting to walk away backwards," there's nothing wrong with a little bit of crazy." And she was gone, acting as normal as she could manage. When I looked in her eyes, Xander could see, so therefore I could see, the fear, confusion, and unsteadiness that she held, framed in bright blue eyes.

Lilly was the oddest, yet closest female friend I had. Her bright blue eyes, yet fiery orange hair contradicted her laughable features. A small frame to her enormous curly hair. A thin jaw to her large lips. Perfect nose to her millions of out of order freckles. She was beautiful but in a way that you had to look again, only to think and ponder about how the confident voice and firm, persistent attitude of the girl could come from this tall, lanky tween.

I made my way to the closet quickly and with ease, think about what to tell Rickey. But it turns out that Rickey was one step ahead as he came barging into the closet. "I know he is out and I know all the things he has been saying. Don't call me creepy or a stalker; you are my best friend and he is juvenile delinquent from a family of druggies. I needed to know everything but trust me I don't know what you said, only what he did but I am not wasting time explaining that." Pauses and takes enormous breath.

"Do you know if he is gonna do it?" Rickey concluded. I nodded. I knew he would. I could feel it in my gut. He had it in his mind, I had dreams of it. I knew.
"So he escaped, Levi is missing, and the only other piece is.... Well I don't know, everything is kinda fuzzy." I nodded. Words couldn't describe what was going through my brain.

"What do we do?" Rickey asked. I didn't respond. "What do we do!" He repeated. I still said nothing. "What. Do. We. Do?" He said, getting alarmingly close to me and staring in the eyes.

I didn't want to say anything. All of my dreams were flowing into my mind. Reminding me of all the things the boy that I was heavily crushing on was capable of. I hurt me to think of all that he could do.

I walked out with out a word said, leaving Rickey disappointed and alone. I was done with this. I didn't want to deal with this. Damian was thing that made me smile, the thing that made me happy. And now I had to wait from him to ruin everything.

But little did I know that this, everything that had happened from when I was born until now, was the calm..... The calm before the storm.