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(One-Shot)
I wake up in a sweat, showing evidence that I've experienced a nightmare. My eyes scan the dark bedroom that surrounds me as I am in a frenzy between wanting to clear the recent images in my head and wanting to revive them in order to verify what I was watching unfold. The images are gone though, and all that remains are my thoughts that can scan back over what I saw through blurred memory.
My two best friends, the ones I watch make each other miserable on a daily basis, had been standing over a baby carriage. That wasn't the worst of it, no. They were also holding hands and looking on in adoration at the young child. When my mind questioned how this could be possible in its dream state, the scene was replaced with one where Sam was pinning Freddie to the wall of an unrecognizable room while kissing him senseless.
That scene was cut off too, replaced with one I was actually in, where we were back in the school hallway and I caught them kissing in front of Sam's locker. We were obviously rewinding in time, because all of us appeared to be our current ages, and their relationship was just beginning. I didn't get to see what happened after that because I was cut off in the middle of my shocked response to catching them.
I attempt to calm myself down, gathering the strength to turn myself sideways and close my eyes again. I can hear the pounding of my heart as if it is inside my head instead of my chest. None of my visions make any sense. They cannot connect to reality, can they? Sam and Freddie are barely friends, forget them dating each other!
...but what if something does happen between them? What if it already has? They'd never tell me straight because I wouldn't understand. And I really don't.
Freddie still says and does stupid things to convince me to go out with him. Is it still serious, an unbreakable habit, or do they have him keep it up to fool me? I can't count how many times I've rejected his advances. Perhaps if I said yes, and they are hiding that they are together, it'd force them to come clean.
I'm crazy. I was overdue for a nightmare, wasn't I? And my brain simply knew how to scare me worse than a horror flick. Nothing can horrify me worse than Seddie. Our web show trio must stay strong, immune from the crumbling fate of disposable teen romances.
Too bad what was depicted did not suggest that it stops at a teen fling.
My best friends are going to fall in love with each other and leave me behind. Sam will no longer need to spend the night with Spencer and I. Freddie will no longer live across the hall. They'll move across the city, or maybe the country, then raise children that I'll never meet.
I can't let that happen. Not when Freddie belongs to me. I've never wanted him, except this is a sign, I need him. The boy/girl next door is a safety cushion. However, mixing together a bloodline criminal with a technical genius would give birth to dozens of successful heists. All of Seattle, along with the lonely, grown-up version of myself, could be robbed blind by a force that strong.
Despite already being awake, my eyes are just now opened.