Sleep now young guardian

Sleep now young guardian. Soon you will be mine.

Cornelia's POV

"But Mom I can't help work in the shop, it's raining cats and dogs out there, and I don't want my friends to have to go out there in that. What kind of host would I be if I left them alone?"

"Hay Lin you have to get out here, we need your help, your friends will be here when your done. We just need you for the rush honey."

Hay Lin shot a desperate look at Taranee, and Irma who were getting off the phone after having similar conversations.

"I have to go home and help Chris, I want to stay here with Will, but I have no choice. My mom wants me home and she said that she would send my dad to come get me if I wasn't home. Cops right?"

"My mom wants me home, she just had a major court case and she wants me home. She's happy that it's over and wants me home to celebrate. So who is going to stay here and look after Will? She was so scared! We need someone to be here if something goes wrong, and here we have three guardians. When she wakes up someone should be here to walk her home as well."

They all look at each other, wondering which one is going to blow off their other duties. It is so not going to be Hay Lin, she's already here. They are so ready to stay with her, they all want to be there for her. And I know that if I was on that bed instead, they would be doing the same thing. We would be there for any of us, that's what friendship is.

"I'm here, I can stay with Will. My parents are out of town with Lillian. So I can stay here with her, if she needs me."

All of them look at me, except for Will, who passed out on the concrete the second that we had made it out of the school. She has bags under her eyes and looks so sick. After all that we have been through how could I not realize that something was wrong with her? My friend and leader needs me, and for once I am going to be here for her.

"You guys can go, don't worry I have Will here, and she's going to be fine. I promise, and like Taranee said, we will have three guardians if I stay here to watch her."

They smile at each other and then at me, then Hay Lin is the first one out, to help her parents. Irma smiles at me then shoots Will a worried look as she's walking up the stairs, and she walks into the closed door.

"No one saw that!"

Taranee looks at Will, she doesn't want to leave Will. None of them did, but they trust me to look after her. And I would trust any of them to look after me, even Will.

"Go. Taranee, I promise that nothing is going to happen. I'll be here when Will wakes up."

She nods, squeezes Will's shoulder, then walks up the stairs, throws us one more look, and walks out. She worries about us way to much. If she worried any more about us, I would have to call her mom.

Woe. I have to be careful, I almost sounded like Irma there.

Well I might as well do my homework, Taranee may be the smart one, but that doesn't mean that I can't study. With all the work, I do with fashion magazines my teachers have finally given me an assignment. I have to do a paper on how fashion has changed in the last five years for history. I have to a biography of any person that I want for English, and so, it's safe to say that my grades aren't hurting. I have both of those classes taken care of; the class I need to work on is math.

Hay Lin keeps her books down here so I might as well get problems one through infinity done. She even used that sideways eight to show infinity.

Will's been out for a while now, I've finished the two pages that she gave us, and eaten dinner and Will is still conked out, now Hay Lin is sitting there looking like she is trying to perform brain surgery.

"What do I do here? To find x? Do I use sine, cosine, or Tangent?"

"Which problem are you on Hay Lin, If you tell me I can walk you through it."

"Number fifty two, the one with the circle with a right triangle in it, and x is the diameter. We have to find the circumference. And what do we use for pie on that one? Twenty two over seven, or three point one four?"

"Well you use cosine, then use the chart since you don't have a scientific calculator, and then cross multiply, after that you use three point one four. Then round your answer to the nearest tenth. Would you like to borrow my scientific calculator?"

Will, groans and opens her eyes and looks from me then to Hay Lin.

"I swear I had a worse nightmare then the ones that I had with Nerissa. I had a dream about math. There was sine, cosine, and tangent, and there were circles. What is with that? It almost was like number fifty two on the homework we had to do tonight."

Ok I swear, Will hates math so much, we should have known that just talking about math would wake her up.

"Will, your up, we called your mom and told her that you were sleeping over tonight. She was happy that you were actually sleeping. It seems like you've been screaming in your sleep. And she's worried about you."

"No, she just wants to have the apartment to herself tonight to be with Mr. Collins. Three guesses to what she wants to do with him tonight."

Mr. Collins had answered the phone when I had called Will, but I am never going to tell her that. Why would I do that to her? Why can't her mom balance between Mr. Collins and her daughter.

"Will."

My heart is breaking for her. She knows her mom loves her. She also knows that Mr. Collins is at her apartment tonight. Why dose everything have to be so hard?

"Hey guys. I finally was able to get off babysitter mode, and my dad felt bad enough to let me come over at midnight. With a police escort."

"Irma I always knew you needed a parole officer."

Will has her moments of greatness. That comment was one of them. There's the Will that I know. I was beginning to think that she was gone forever.

"Thank you Ms. Vandom. You know I was on the phone with yours. After Corny called she called me to make sure that you were with her and not lying. I remember something about letting you out for good behavior…or was it good grades?"

"Would someone mussel Irma, please! I'm trying to do number fifty two."

"That problem? You use cosine, then use the chart since you do not have a scientific calculator, and then cross multiply, after that, you use three point one four. Then round your answer to the nearest tenth to get your answer. Hey is that Corny's calculator?"

"You did the home work?"

"We had three days to complete it. When Will came over to my house yesterday, we finished all of the problems, even though it's not due until tomorrow."

I am surprised. They did the math homework before it was due, and knew what to do. Somebody pinch me…wait never mind. I so don't want to be pinched, glad I didn't say that. Irma would have taken me literally.

"Will are you ok? What is Nerissa trying to do in your nightmares? We need to talk about this. Will we are here for you. You don't have to go through this yourself. I mean it, you have four people here for you. You have more than just four. You have me, you have Cornelia, you have Caleb, you have Blunk."

"Irma we're trying to help her, not scare her."

"Will what's said in here will stay in here, I promise that what ever you say, we will still love you just as much. Just tell us so we can show Nerissa how much better you are than her."

"She thinks that I am a younger her. She wants me to join her. She says that together we will be unbeatable. She also says that no one loves me, that no one wants me. That my mom has already forgotten about me, that she's to busy with Mr. Collins. And a few days ago she was so busy that she forgot to pick me up from swim team practice. That didn't bother me. My dad came and got me, then when we got back, my mom was at the apartment with Mr. Collins. Nerissa keeps telling me that if I join her I will get Matt back, that I will get Wendy back. But I know the truth, the truth is that if I join her she will do to me what she did to Cassidy, and the others. I don't want that."

"Will. We love you, and I don't care if we have to move in with you, never do this again. Tell us the next time that you have a bad dream, I promise that what she says isn't true, because I know Taranee would freak without you here."

"Will for once I agree with Irma….my mouth burns, but that's not the point. The point is that we will always be here for you."

"Yes!"

"Hay Lin?"

"I just solved number fifty two. The answer is point eight right?"

What will happen in the next chapter?

Will will continue to get nightmares?

will the guardians finally beat Nerissa?

will Blunk take a bath?

Is Hay Lin right on number fifty two?

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