Parallel

Chapter 26: Confessions

Will's POV:

"NO! STOP!" Other Will yelled as he jumped forward and grabbed my arm.

"Why? That was Emi! You know, the whole reason why we're even IN this dimension?" I replied in an accusing tone.

"Because...because..." Will stammered, he still wasn't letting go of my arm.

"Let. Me. Go." I seethed. "I'm going to find Emi."

"N...no! You can't! I won't let you!" Will cried, realizing his game was over.

I glanced over at Sophie, who nodded and bolted past Will and I. Will freaked out and lunged at her, while I stuck my foot out so that he tripped over it and went sprawling onto the ground. Will leapt up as quickly as he could, but me and Sophie jumped him and pinned him against the alley's wall.

"What's going on here?" I asked him. "Why won't you let us find Emi? I thought that was why we came."

"I...I...I'm not telling you!" Will cried, his eyes darting back and forth, wild with fear.

"We're not going to let you go unless you tell us!" Sophie exclaimed. 

"Well I guess..." Will looked directly at me. "I...I guess I'll be here for the rest of my life."

"THAT'S IT!" I yelled. I shoved him further back in the alley and cracked my knuckles.

"Will! What are you doing! We need to find Emily!" Sophie called.

"I've been holding this back for a long time." I snapped at Will. Then I let all my anger out. I flew at him and beat him up. I heard Sophie gasp at first but she didn't stop me, not that she could have if she wanted to...I was too angry.

"YOU'RE HURTING ME!" Will yelled.

"EAT PEN IDIOT!" I barked in return. Of COURSE I was hurting him! What did he think I was TRYING to do!?

He tried to block me, but most of my punches struck home. 

"STOP STOP!" He screamed. "OKAY! I'LL...I'LL TELL YOU!"

I paused mid punch and released his shirt. "You better." I growled and shook my hands. They would probably bruise, but so would Will's face.

"O...okay well...I think you may have figured this one out but...but I'm your opposite." Will stammered, wiping some of the blood off of his lip. "Just like the Sophie you met was this Sophie's opposite. We're from the same dimension."

"YOU KNOW EVIL SOPHIE!" Sophie shrieked. 

"Yeah..." Will smiled a little dazedly. "She's nice."

"NICE!" Sophie choked.

I nudged her and put my hands into a heart. Her eyes widened but she nodded to show she understood.

"So uh...you guys are the originals." Will muttered. "So you get all the benefits..."

"What benefits?" I asked.

"It's too hard to explain right now." Will ran his hand through his hair and sighed. "What I can explain is that...if you guys were to uh...die...we would become top dog basically. And we would get the...benefits."

"What do you mean "if." I don't like the way you said "if."" I became worried, was their plan what I thought it was?

"So we...that is...Emily and Sophie...they uh...they said we deserved to be the originals. Then we had to start looking around for you guys. We thought maybe we could sort of just get rid of you easily. Like get you to commit suicide or something...we tried driving you guys mentally insane by making you think you were hearing and seeing things..."

"THE EYEBALLS!?" I exclaimed. "YOU WERE THE EYEBALLS!?" 

"More like my iPad was..." Will nodded.

"AND THE NOISES!?" I jumped to my feet. "ARE YOU FLIPPING KIDDING ME!"

"Emily probably would have killed herself if I hadn't accidentally dropped some of my beads when it was my turn to "haunt" you guys." Will lowered his head. "I think I dropped some in her room, and probably on your stairs by accident. Then you guys probably stepped on them and they broke."

"What about me?" Sophie asked.

"Well I did actually mean to take you, so you probably didn't get that hurt." Will smiled sheepishly. "Sophie said that if we brought you to that dimension, where your family was dead, that you wouldn't be able to live anymore and you would give up."

"Well Emily and Will cheered me up." Sophie snapped. "Thank goodness."

"Yeah, then Sophie and Emily, er...MY Sophie and Emily got mad at me and said I always screwed everything up. So Sophie went to get Will and Emily said she would take herself. Then you would probably commit and then we could be the originals." Will sighed. "I...I'm so tired of all this. I wish I had never agreed to it. I thought maybe I would be able to get you guys by myself back at Auntie Kim's but...you know." 

"Oh my gosh...WILL THEY'RE GOING TO KILL EMILY!" Sophie jumped up and screamed.

I grabbed Will's shirt again. "Take us to her NOW. Or whoever comes after you will find themselves taking YOUR place!"

Will nodded. "Okay. I know where they were headed. They won't be happy though..."

"That's okay." I smirked. "I think I've got a plan."

Apparently my opposite is a weak, whiny, stupid, and crybaby version of me. Who also tries to kill people. 

Good thing I'm the smart one!