CHAPTER 1

"BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!"

"Skyler GET UP!" mom yelled from her bedroom.

I wake up to a cat on my face, ugh I hate this stupid animal. Mom really likes cat so that why we have this stupid feline that coughs up hairballs so gross. I push the cat off my face and onto the floor where it belongs. I drag myself out of my comfortable (twin or queen) sized bed full of throw pillows and walk over to my bathroom and switch the light on in my bathroom there's a long counter full of hair and makeup supplies and my nail polishes at the end of my counter there's your normal white toilet across from my counter on the other side of my bathroom is my bath tub with a shower over the bathtub again white, I turn on the hot water than I get into the nice hot shower. After my shower I step onto my fluffy purple mat and wrap myself in a soft fluffy purple towel. I walk out of my bathroom and over to my closet full of band posters I pull out a black V-neck and a pair of blue wash jeans that are pre-ripped I threw a light pink fashion scarf around my neck. I'm not into fashion I just decided to look nice for my first day of school that's all. I go back into my backroom and I start to put my eyeliner and mascara on my hazel eyes, and some Revlon lip gloss on my lips.

"makeup…check" I say out loud to myself reaching over to grab my hair brush to brush my wet light brown hair. When I was done brushing my hair I grabbed my backpack and phone with earbuds attached and headed down stairs.

"Sky you can't sleep in anymore summer is over" mom said while handing me a plate with eggs and bacon and a cup of hot tea, she's tried to get me to drink coffee but I dislike the stuff.

"I know I just couldn't sleep last night" I was looking at my plate full of food.

"more nightmare? "she asks "I thought they went away"

"they did go away but they came back" I sighed "I wish they would go away and never come back"

Macy is my adoptive mother because when I was little my father took off so I don't remember him and it doesn't matter and I don't care. My birth mom killed herself for some odd reason, I think it's because my dad left her but I don't care. They didn't want me and I don't want them either. Macy has been my mother for a long time since I was little she's raised and she's cared for me since I was little. I call her mom because that's what she is to me she's my mom, and I'm comfortable calling her mom. Most kids would call her by her first name…but I'm NOT most kids I'm different. I don't look like my mom she's got blonde hair that almost looks white and she's blue eyes as blue as the sky and she's got the prettiest smile a smile that could light up the sky. Moms in her early thirties but she looks like she my sister. She's very beautiful, people say I'm also beautiful. I'm only 16 but turning 17 in May.

"Sky let's get you to school you don't want to be late on your first day of school do you?" she's already standing up ready to get me out of the house.

"I guess not but I don't really like school" I answer putting my empty plate and mug in the sink.

"I know you don't" she chuckles.

We climb into our big black 4X4 ram pickup truck and pull out of the gravel driveway and head down the street to my school. the school day hasn't even started and I'm already thinking about dropping out. I turn my music on and put my earbuds in my ears. My second year at Spencer High school in the town of Taylor Oregon. Taylor is surrounded by vast forests and lakes and towering mountains. I'm Skyler Rose Hathaway by the way. I'm not really a people person I'm the 'lone wolf' type.

"Sky are you going to have a good day?" she asks voice serious "I don't want a call from the school telling me you got into a fight and that your suspended for a month."

"that only happened three times and I didn't start two of those fights" I say "it was Sam-."

"that won't happen will it?" she interrupts and her voice is dead serious. I roll my eyes and climb out of the truck. When I get to the school's double doors I'm greeted my Ashley my best friend, Ashley stands 5'5 compared to my 5'4 so I feel a little short next to her. She was wearing some shorts and a crop top. She's a rich popular girl who everyone loves, which makes me wonder why we are friends. Ashley has hazel eyes and wavy brown hair and she's thin and has perfectly tanned legs.

"Sky!" she hands me my class schedule. "we have the same classes."

"How do you know my class schedule?" I ask spuriously staring her up and down.

"when your popular you well…" she trails off.

"Fine don't tell me" I glare at her. But she shrugs it off.

I follow her upstairs to our first class which is chemistry, ugh I don't like chemistry it's not my thing.

"I am your new teacher" she is writing her name on the white board in very sloppy handwriting I can't even read "I will not allow playing around if you want to play around you can go bath to elementary school" she's looking right at me when she says that.

She's tall and has cold dead blue eyes and her hair is in a messy bun, which isn't very attractive.

"Can I go to the bathroom?" I stand up and walk to the class room door, I need to get away from this teacher every instinct in my body is screaming run away run far away, and the bathroom is as far as I can go without ditching school. If anyone asks why I didn't come back to class, I will say I didn't feel good and I think I might be a little sick.

"Is it an emergency?" she asks raising and eyebrow at me.

Well duh if it wasn't I wouldn't be asking, does she think I'm 5 and want to meet my friend in the bathroom or something? As soon as I leave the class room and start down the hall to the stairs I hear running but when I turn around I see no one there, once I get to the top of the stairs I hear giggling of a little boy. Then I felt a sharp pain in my head and in my side. I must have been pushed down the stairs or something, but before I could get up I'm in total darkness I must have passed out. I hear soft beeping and I open one eye but close it quickly because a light is so bright. I hear soft talking in the room. so I open my eyes shield my eyes with my hand.

"Sky your awake" my mom's rushing over to the side of my bed. "are you ok?"

"I have a splitting headache" I put my hand to my forehead "how did I get here?"

"You don't remember how you got here" her voice has gone worried.

I don't like hospitals they are full of death and I can feel it. Then 20 seconds later two police officers walk into my hospital room. I don't like police either. One was in his late forties and the other officer was in his early twenties, the older police officer had gray hair and gray eyes he was shorter the younger officer so I would say he stands around 5'9, the younger officer had beautiful kind brown eyes and brown hair and he looks strong and he looks around 6'1.

"Skyler I am officer Richards I need to ask you some questions" the older officer was walking towards my bed. I sat myself up so we weren't at odd angles, I just sat there looking at him. "Skyler do you know where you are?"

"yeah I'm a flipping hospital" I snap at him. Then he steps away from my bed and he and my mom go into the hall outside my room to talk about something. Leaving me alone with the cuter younger officer, strangely I feel safe around him and I don't even know him.

"Skyler you were found in the woods" he says slowly "Do you know how you got there?" my eyebrows shoot up.

"I wasn't in the woods I was at school" I try not to sound freaked.

"what do you last remember?" he walks to the chair by my bed and stands behind it.

I remember someone or something running and laughing but if I say that well…I'm sure you can imagine, I got a one-way ticket to the Loony bin.

"I asked my teacher if I could use the bathroom"

"Can I call you Sky instead of Skyler?" he's taking a seat in the chair next to my bed.

"Sure" why on earth would he ask me that question? We may never know the answer to that question.

"OK great" he smiles at me "Did you see anyone unusual."

Well duh the school year just started so well there are new faces. Where does he think I was?

"Yeah the school year just started" I say tapping my head like he should have known that.

"Oh…" his eyebrows shoot up, and he just sits there for a minuet with a blank face. "great way to start the school year" he chuckles.

"It's not funny" I snap my head the other direction to hide my crimson face.

"Your right" he stops chuckling and I turn my head back his direction, "How you think you got to the woods?"

"I've got some ideas" I smirk.

CHAPTER 2

I was about to open when the Doctor and my mom and the other officer walk back in. My doctor has gray hair and blue eyes with glasses on them and he gives me a crooked smile.

"OK kiddo it is time you get some rest" He's about to put something in my IV

"I don't want to be here alone" I say quickly. he stops and gives me a worried look and looks over to my mom.

"Sky I'll stay with you" she walks over to the hair next to my bed, kicking the younger officer out.

"you have paper?" he turns to my mom. She reached into her blue was jeans and pulls out a piece of paper and hands it to him. He pulls a pen out of uniform shirt. The writes something down and hands the paper to me.

"It's my number if you remember anything" he smiles at me. I look down at the paper with his number and under his number it says: Chase.

"your names Chase?" I say looking up.

"yup" he winks at me closing the door behind him.

Then I full into darkness, the doctor must have put that liquid in my IV because now I'm in complete darkness. I wake up to a loud CRASH! But couldn't move but I'm still in compete darkness, I hear laughing from the darkness and I feel a sharp in my back I try to move but I still can't I must be tired down to something I feel a sharp pain in my hand I want to scream but I can't nothing is coming out. SKYLER! SKYLER! SKYLER! I open my eyes and see my mom and Chase standing around my bed.

"Skyler" my mom lets out a sigh, she lays her head down on my bed. Chase looks like say a ghost. He must have been holding me down so that's why I couldn't move. I let out a sigh.

"Mom please get out of here" my voice shaky. I don't like hospitals I HATE them a lot.

"Chase?" my mom looks up at him with tears in her eyes. "can you get them to release her early?" he nods then walks out of the room. once he's gone my mom looks at me.

"Skyler are you ok? What was your dream about?" her voice is sad, so sad that it makes me want to cry. But I don't cry. I don't remember the last time I cried must have been years, I know my mom's cried because she's been in a lot of good relationships and they ended pretty badly I'm the one to protect her from them it's become my job, to protect her from the assholes who want her as a stupid toy.

"I was in utter darkness and I heard laughing and I was tied down and someone was…hurting me" I shudder it was a bad dream but not my worst.

My mom was about to say something but Chase walks back in with my clothes and a smile on his face. I wonder what he's happy about. And a nurse walks in behind him. She goes straight to work and starts taking all the IVs out of my arms and helps me out of the bed and to the bathroom so I can change. I'm in there for a couple minuets I want to get out of here as soon as possible. We walk out of the room and to the parking lot. Once we are in the parking lot I feel eyes on my back I turn around but see no one. I try to shrug it off but I hear a little giggle in my ear this time it's a girl. And I scream.

"SKYLER!" my mom and Chase scream at the same time. "WHATS WRONG!?"

"Let's just get out of here" I start walking fast to our black truck.

"Skyler you're going with Chase I have to go to work and Chase is off to day and I think its best if an officer looks after you while I'm at work." She says pointing to chase who's standing there smiling. I feel like she's ditching me, we are always together no matter what. She walks to me and kisses my forehead and walks to her truck and gets in and drives off. I cross my arms and scrunch my face and turn on my heels towards Chase who has not wiped the smile off his face. We walk over to a rusty old pickup truck. And climb into the passenger's side not getting buckled. Chase is getting buckled and starts the car we sit there for a couple of seconds I thinks he's waiting for to get buckled but knowing I'm not going to do he shakes his head and we pull out on the street. We drive straight to my house but my house is on the other side of town so it would take a while to get there. The whole time the truck is bone chilling cold I think my lips are going to turn blue.

"Sky are you cold?" he turns the hot air on full blast. But it's not working in still so cold but bone shilling cold. "what was your nightmare about?" I tell him about my nightmare and how I felt and he seems pretty freaked. "Kid you have got some scary dreams"

"I know I wish they would go away for good" I look out my window.

"You've had theses nightmares before?" he's very curious and a little worried. "you said had some ideas about how you got to the woods what are your ideas?"

"Yeah they stopped for a while but they are starting again" I let out a sigh. "are you a see it to believe it kind of person?"

"I guess so… what are you getting at?" we stop at a red light. In the car next to us a little boy is staring at me with a smile.

"Well I don't think I got there alone" looking away from the kid "I think something… unexplainable took me there"

"something unexplainable?" he looks at me with worry in his beautiful brown eyes.

"yeah something…. supernatural" I whisper I look away from him; I don't want to look at him. He clenches his jaw and starts the truck because the light turned green. The rest of the car ride was in silence. We get to my house a couple of hours later thanks to all the red lights.

"Sky are you Hungary?" he closes the door behind him as he walks in. I walk into our living room and sit on our love seat.

Our house is kind of small it has two floors the top floor has my bedroom my mom's bedroom with three bathrooms one in my room one in my mom's room and one bathroom between both our bedrooms, an open office with my mom's work all over the desk, and on the main floor there's a spare bedroom with a bathroom and a bathroom next to that bedroom, yeah lots of bathrooms in one house that is only a home for two people, there are stairs with ten steps for the first floor then a landing in the middle of the steps then ten more steps that lead up to the second floor, the dining room table is on the right side of the stairs in the dining room table is a big oak table with matching oak chairs, across from our dining room table is our kitchen it's an open kitchen with an island and around the island is the counters that are also white oak, an oven and refrigerator and microwave and other kitchen stuff one counter only has a sink instead of having a wall in front of the sink its one giant window and in front of the island are some sliding doors, our living room is on the left side of the dining room table and it has an arm chair and a small couch and a love seat and a coffee table and a big flat screen table, behind the love seat are some windows with some cream colored curtains that match the furniture in the living room.

"You cook?" I kick my shoes off, and turn the TV on so I'm not sitting in silence, that one thing I don't need right now.

"I'm not useless in the kitchen" he laughs. and stars going through our cabinets looking for things to cook for our lunch.