Coraline woke up with Wybie's arms wrapped tightly around her. It was the middle of the night and the crickets were chirping . She smiled as she pulled herself free. She cricked her neck and looked around her room. Her old night light was burning brightly making it look like stars were glittering on the ceiling. Wybie wined next to her and was reaching around the bed his hands searching for her once again. She laughed as he shivered and she placed the old quilt over him.
She tried to ignore the squeaking. She tried to dismiss the shadows that danced along the baseboards. But as she was trying to lay back down she couldn't see anything else. She groaned and reached for her meds and opened the first bottle of anti-psychotics. She shook out one pill and was just about to pop it in her mouth when she thought it over.
"Just one more time." she said sitting back up and putting her feet slowly down on the floor.
"Corey," Wybie moaned wiping his sleepy eyes "what are you doing?"
"I'm getting a glass of water," she hissed "go back to sleep."
"Corey there is a glass of water right next to the bed...what's really going on."
"Nothing why-were you-born. Go back to sleep." she said walking out of the door and quietly down the stairs.
Wybie groaned and hit his head against the pillow again. "You know I actually had full nights sleep while you were gone." he threw the covers from his and stood up following her "Oh how I missed this."
He found her follwoing something into the famiyl room, the one with the little door. He gasped and ran silently to her making it to the door just in time to see a white mouse sneak under the little door that Coraline was kneeling at.
"Holy shit," he whispered causing Coraline to jump and look over her shoulder at him. "it's real. It really is real."
She raised an eyebrow her brown hair falling into her eyes. "Are you saying that you didn't really believe me?"
Wybie shook his head and came to sit down next to her "No I believed you but after you were taken away I kind of started to doubt it. Like maybe, because I was a little kid, I imagined it with you."
"Well if you are seeing it then I guess that I'm really not crazy." she said handing him the pill bottle. "I didn't take them. Just in case that if I did they would disappear. I wouldn't get my chance to tell the other mother that I wasn't afraid of her anymore."
Wybie reached out a hand and pulled her into him. She let her head rest on his shoulder and sighed as he smoothed back her brown hair. "You're not crazy Jonesy. If anything I am even crazier than you."
She laughed and lifted her head up "Well you are my personal stalker so you would know." SHe stood and offered her hand to pull him up with her.
"Oh ha ha ha you're slaying me." he said putting an arm over her shoulders and walking back up the stairs and back to bed.
