DEAD BROTHER

Chapter 1

The school bell rang, causing me to flinch out of my thoughts. "Are you okay?" Noah, my best friend asked noticing my disturbed face. "Yeah... I'm fine" I said completely lying "Are you sure? You look a little pale and scared". " I saw him again in my dreams" I admitted as Noah was not goona leave it until I say what's wrong. "Your brother?" " Yeah my DEAD brother!"
I whisper shouted, not trying to get other's attention. "Isn't that happening for a few days now, Will?" Noah said packing his things. "Yeah. And he keeps saying that he's gonna come back because I miss him! And that's when I wake up sweating". "Maybe you should tell your mom" he suggested. I picked up my bag and started walking out of the classroom and towards the hallway, "Are you crazy? My mom's gonna freak out and think that I'm losing my mind or something like that. Eventually, I'm gonna end up seeing a psychiatrist". Noah laughed and said, " Yeah. No one's gonna believe that your dead brother is coming back just because he said in your dreams!" " Wait.... I thought you believed me?" I said stopping on my track, waiting for an answer. " I mean... I- I ummm" Noah stuttered trying to find an answer, I just rolled my eyes and scoffed. Lucky for him, Allen and Lia interrupted him. " Hey guys! Wanna hang out on afternoon today,at the café?" Lia asked enthusiastically. " Yeah sure" Noah said, I just gave them a smile, trying not to think how my best friend doesn't even take me seriously.

I walked home by myself as I didn't want to talk with my friends at the moment. I opened the door of my house with the extra keys that my mom gave me. No one lives in our house except for me and mom. Mom is at work most of the time, I only see her at night. She has to work really hard to pay the rent of our small, yet beautiful house and my school fees as well. As for my dad, the last time I saw him was 1 years ago, at Steven, my brother's funeral. Dad doesn't even try to contact us anymore, it's like Steven was his only responsibility and now that he's gone, he doesn't even know if we exist anymore. Anyways, I ate some leftover from yesterday's dinner and took a nap. And I saw the same dream again, but this time Steven said something different and it was way worse than before, " Guess what?! I came back for you, Will. Open your eyes!". I woke up shivering and sweating. I looked around my room and there was no one. But the dream felt so real. In fact, it didn't even feel like a dream, it was more like..... I was closing my eyes but I could see what was going on in my surroundings.

I was trying to calm myself down by reminding myself that it was okay. That's when I saw a shadow through the bottom crack of my room's door. I started panicking, I could feel my heart bursting out of my chest and  I started breathing heavily. That's when the door knob started turning. The door creaked open and I couldn't believe my eyes......