(Don't) Go To Sleep

Final Warning

'Jeff!' I yelled, not caring who heard. This town was probably too run down and tired to care, they probably didn't even have a police station. He was so fast I couldn't process where I was or where I was even going all I knew was I had to get him. I focused on the white blur ahead of me and copied his exact twists and turns with Smile right at my heels. I pressed on faster, I would not lose him this time. My lungs burned, screaming for air but I ingored the pain. He ran into a park and all the children ran away, screaming in terror after seeing the killer. In his rush he tripped over the see-saw. He rolled on his back to get back up but I was too fast for him. I sat on him and pressed the knife on his neck. 'J-Jeff... Stop. Ju- Just stop.' He looked at me and his eyes were so intense I could feel his emotions trapping my soul. Hate, and love. 'No.' he growled and tried to push me off, I pinned one of his wrists down. I was still exhausted from running but I could mange to get out a sentance. 'Jeff, we can run away together. I don't care what happens. I love you.' He turned his head to one side so he wasn't looking at me but as he turned his head the knife sliced a shallow cut on his neck leaving blood tricking onto his shirt. More blood. I pulled the knife away and he looked back at me, his eyes reflected my teary face back at me. 'I'm a monster Jane. We can't be together.' he said, a brief moment of sanity. I couldn't lose him, 'No you're not a monster and I came all this way for you and I'm not going to give in,' I begged, 'You can't make me leave.' My tears spashed on his face mixing with his own. I knew I'd lost him when he smiled at me. Not the nice smile, the creepy one that stretched his fake smile. Before I could reach my knife, he rolled over pinning me underneath him. Smile came to attack him but I told him not to. The palms of Jeff's hands were pressing into my shoulders painfully and I wriggled around. 'The only way we can be together,' he grinned, 'Is if you become like me.' By the time I saw the knife, it was too late to react. He pressed it into the flesh of my cheek just at the corner of my mouth. I felt the biting sting of the knife and groaned in pain. That was enough for Smile. He came forward and bit Jeff's wrist. I could feel the blood running from my cut and licked some off my cheek. It tasted metallic. It tasted nice. Smile had Jeff pinned on the floor and looked at me questioningly, he knew I didn't want Jeff dead. The wail of some sirens rang in the distance. Looks like they had a police department after all. Smile moved over and I dragged a heavy protesting Jeff into the forest. He got up and I got ready to chase after him again however he just slumped against a tree. 'I told you, I can't control myself, you need to stay away from me.' It was old Jeff again. I didn't have time for this. I grabbed him and kissed him. It felt weird to all the other times. His skin was rough and waxy and he tasted like blood. He didn't even kiss me back, not at first but he ended up doing. It wasn't even a proper kiss it was a sad one. I don't even know how you can describe that but you'd know if you had one. It was like you were losing the person you loved the most in your life and you had no control over it. He pulled away and looked at me, eyes completely blank. 'Police, we have you surrounded. Come out with your hands up, resist and we won't hesitate to shoot you.' It was true. They were going to take him away from me, I couldn't let that happen, I know Smile didn't want that either. Suddenly, thankfully old Jeff snapped back, he grabbed my hair and pulled me against his chest, holding a knife pointing right at my heart. I wasn't scared, not for me but for him. 'If you come near me,' he growled, 'I will kill her, the person I love.' I couldn't see his face but I imagined his crazy smile and malicious eyes. 'Jeff,' I whispered. 'Shut up!' he yelled. He wasn't playing along but I had a plan. The surrounding police looked indecisive and off guard. Seeing their hesitation I took my chances in trying to pull off my plan. I grabbed the handle of the knife and flung it straight at the officer in front of me with enough speed that they wouldn't have seen me do it. The knife wedged in his skull, right between his eyes, with a thud. The police looked at him in horror and readied their guns to shoot at Jeff but I pulled his hands onto my neck. 'I'm trying to help you.' I said quietly enough that the sentence will have only touched Jeff's hearing, nobody else heard a thing, maybe Smile but he was on our side. I think he got the message because his grip on my throat got tighter and tighter. By now the police had all started shouting things at Jeff telling him to let go and other things they'd say to a psychopath. I couldn't hear properly because Jeff was actually strangling me. I couldn't breathe. I clawed at his hands but he didn't let go. Black spots played around in my vision and got bigger and bigger until they consumed me.

'Jane,' the voice was fuzzy and unrecognisable. 'Jane!' A sharp stinging sensation woke me up completely and staring into my eyes was Jeff. Out of shock and self-defense, I punched him in the face. 'Ouch,' he said, coverin his eye and glaring at me. Sat up and rolled myself into a defensive ball. 'Jane, I'm leaving you here, stop following. I will hurt you if you keep doing this. Everyday another piece of my sanity slips away from me,' he walked out to leave and left me brokenhearted on the cold wooden floor of the shack he'd brought me to. 'But I love you...' I cried. Jeff turned back around and snapped, 'Well I don't love you.'