Dream Nightmare

Chapter 24

Chapter Twenty Four

          “Where’s the calculator?” He asked me again.

          “I told you! I don’t have it, and I don’t know anything about it!” I pleaded. I couldn’t see who was talking to me because I had a bag tied over my head just loose enough to allow in some air. I was sitting in a chair, my hands tied behind it, and my feet tied at the bottom. I had already tried my best, but there was no way I could escape this.

          “Wrong answer, girl.” My head goes flying to the left as a fist hits the jawline on the right side of my face, then it goes flying to the right as a fist hits the other side. I wish I could describe how bad it hurt, but words can’t even begin to explain.

          They wanted what Envy had, but I guess they assumed I had it. I knew we should’ve gotten rid of it before it was too late. I really missed him, and I may never be able to see him again. It hurts. Losing the love of your life, I mean. It hurts a lot worse then what this guy was doing to me.

          Right before I’m hit in the stomach with what feels like a metal baseball bat, I hear, “You’re a worthless cheater.” I’m coughing up blood and my face is soaked in tears. Desperately I try to pull some oxygen into my lungs, but they aren’t working.

          I knew I was about to die, yet the only thing on my mind was him. Shy, adorable little Envy. I never thought I’d like him, it just kinda hit me, and the next thing I knew I was completely and irrevocably in love with him. I was almost certain what I felt for him was love. I had to stay alive. It wasn’t even about the four quests anymore. It was about finding him.

          Laughter, then his voice again. “You’re lucky we didn’t kill you on the plane. So, so lucky we had the wrong person. But we have you now.” Brass knuckles hit my left eye, leaving it unable to be opened. Half a second later I hear my nose crunch, broken.

          The way Envy makes me laugh and smile when I’m in the worst of moods. No one else has that much control over my emotions, and I knew I would never find another person like him. He was a once in a lifetime kinda thing. “Please… Please let me go…”

          “No one’s going to let you go. We’re going to kill you. I can guarantee you that. But first, Principle Sanders wants to talk to you alone.”

There’s the sound of a door opening, and someone saying, “I’ll take it from here.” Footsteps make their way towards me until I know there’s a person directly to my right. I feel someone mess with the rope that fastened the bag around my neck, and hear him curse, struggling to get it undone.

“Ewe, Christina. You look so ugly. Not to be mean or anything, but you’re missing like three teeth, have two black eyes, a broken nose, and there’s some mix of blood and snot all over you,” he says once the bag is off my head. It was Principal Sanders, the principal from my school.

Looking into his eyes with the one eye I could still open, I comment, “The vampires are the ones who did it. Listen, you have to let me go. You have to,” I begged. I had to see my boyfriend again.

“I can’t even take you seriously with a face like that. Let me fix it.” He snaps his fingers, and my face is instantaneously fixed. My black eyes are gone, my nose is fixed, and I got all my teeth back. The blood and snot concoction covering my cheeks vanished. I was brand new. "There, that’s better.”

I didn’t know how he did it, I literally had absolutely no clue. Ever since I started going to that school I knew something was off about him and his teachers, I just didn’t know what. They weren’t normal people that was for sure. Whether they were aliens, wizards, gods, spirits, whatever, I definitely wouldn’t live to find out. All I knew is that that they were trapped within the pyramidal dome. It was there prison, and not even the vampires could teleport them out of it.