Dreams vs Nightmares

I do not own HOA. I only own the plotline and made up town and original characters. Enjoy!

I used to have nightmares when I was younger. Not too scary but equally horrifying. I dreamt about that monster hiding behind my closet because I ate too much candy. I dream about me losing my family and becoming some orphan living in a nightmare home. And then I dreamt about this person. So scary and freaky. I saw his face before but I just can't picture where I saw him before. Weird? I know.

Nina couldn't sleep. She kept turning and turning. Everytime she closed her eyes, she got a picture of that person that attacked Mara in the woods three days ago. Nina sat up straight in her bed and rubbed her eyes. Nina wasn't scared of most things but that person scared her greatly. She wished she could talk to her gran about this but she doubt her gran will think she's serious. Nina got up from her bed and quietly opened the door. She walked past her grandmother's room and heard the faint sounds of snoring. Nina quietly walked down the stairs and hated how much it kept making noise everytime she walked. She walked to the kitchen and flipped on the lights. It was three in the morning and it was pouring outside. Nina listened to the rain and remembered the time when her life was normal. She opened the fridge and got out a bottle of water. Before she can drink it, she felt a flash of pain on her arm.

"Ow!" Nina cried out. She lift up her sleeve and almost gasp. It was the mark of the lightning bolt. The same bolt she got when she first met Fabian.

"What is going on in my life?" Nina whispered.

The following day at school Mara closed her locker and leaned against it. She didn't pay attention to any of her first three periods class and her mind was obsessed with what happened in the woods. Fabian, Nina and Ricky has been avoiding her and today Jake gets out the hospital. Jake had a concussion and Nina,Fabian,Ricky and Mara had to lie and said that Jake accidentally tripped and fall. Thank heavens that the BellsWood Police Department was clueless. Now today Mara wanted answers from Fabian and Nina.

"Miss Jaffray." Mara turned to see Daphne Andrews. The English & French teacher of BellsWood High School. She had a weird look on her face.

"I read your article about the BellsWood family." Mrs. Andrews said. She looked at Mara carefully.

"Did you like it?" Mara asked. She almost forgot about the article. Mara wondered if she should tell Mrs. Andrews about what she found out about the BellsWood family but decided against it.

Mrs. Andrews didn't answer her question. Instead she let out a weary sign and walked away.

"Mrs. Andrews!" Mara called out but Mrs. Andrews marched right into Mr. Sweet's office. That was strange, Mara thought but she had more important matters to discuss. The bell ringed and she rushed off.

Fabian walked to his drama class with a growing headache. He didn't had his coffee this morning and he felt like he'd just died and his spirit is still on Earth. The class wasn't as packed and the drama teacher Ms. Holland was not present.

"Hey Fabian!" Mara pushed past a poor bystander as she took the seat next to Fabian.

"Hi." Fabian mumbled. He felt awkward about avoiding her lately but he couldn't tell her the truth.

"So, I wanted to talk about w-" Mara was cut off by Nina walking in. Nina gave the pair a curious look and sat far away from them.

"Tell me what's going on with you and Nina?" Mara asked. Just in time more students walked inside. Fabian checked his watch. Where the hell was the teacher?

"Hello." A young man walked inside the classroom closing the door. Students looked at him curiously and Mara finally stopped looking at Fabian and turned to the man.

"My name is Jason Winkler. I'm your new drama teacher." Mr. Winkler said. He flashed a smile showing perfect white teeth.

"Damn. Talk about sexy." Avery BellsWood said loudly. Some of the girls in the class started laughing.

"Let's not talk about sexy and talk more about the arts." Mr. Winkler said smiling at everyone.

"Mara Jaffray wrote a article about the BellsWood family?" Mr. Sweet asked.

"A really good article using facts and important information. Why is she all of a sudden interested in learning about the BellsWood family?" Mrs. Andrews asked. She looked worried but Mr. Sweet didn't get what she was worried about. He was more worried about Nina Martin, Fabian Rutter and Victor. Nina and Fabian are up to something. Mara was just a clueless girl.

"Daphne you have nothing to worry about. Mara's just curious. I mean everyone is curious about the BellsWood family." Mr. Sweet said in a dismissal tone. Mrs. Andrews still had the worried look on her face.

"I pray to the gods that no one ever knows anything about the history of this town. And if I were you, I'd be more worried." Mrs. Andrews left and Mr. Sweet grumbled. He had to do something and it had to be quick too.

"Hey!" Fabian rushed by Nina's side after Mr. Winkler's class was finished. Nina gaved him a little smile.

"Why were you talking to Mara?" She asked as they reached her locker. She opened it but her eyes were on Fabian.

"She wants to know what's going on and I think we should tell her." Fabian said very quickly. Nina closed her locker and glared at Fabian.

"Tell her? Are you crazy?! We can't tell anyone about this." Nina demanded. She crossed her arms and looked very strict.

"Why not?" Fabian asked a little harshly. He suddenly felt bad because of the hurt look on Nina's face.

"Because of this." Nina looked around to see if anyone was paying attention and then rolled up her sleeve. The mark of the lightning bolt was there and Fabian gasped.

"The mark came back! How?" Fabian asked.

"Whoa." Mara said appearing out of nowhere. Her mouth hunged wide open. Nina quickly rolled down her sleeve but it was already late.

"How did you get that mark? Was it the same person that attacked me that did that to you?" Mara asked. Nina and Fabian share a quick nervous look.

"Ms. Martin, Mr. Rutter. My office please." Mr. Sweet said walking up to the trio. Nina and Fabian rushed to follow Mr. Sweet leaving Mara all alone.

"Ugh!" Mara yelled out. She ignored the looks she received and walked to the newspaper room hoping to see Ricky or Jake.

"Take a seat." Mr. Sweet announced. He took a seat on his chair and faked smiled at Nina and Fabian. Nina and Fabian both take a seat but looked uncomfortable.

"Enjoying your classes?" Mr. Sweet said tapping his fingers. Nina couldn't take this anymore. What did he want now?

"Mr. Sweet, what do you want?" Nina asked hoping she didn't come out rude. Mr. Sweet's smile faded away and he glared at Nina.

"I hope you two stop snooping around." Mr. Sweet harshly said.

"What do you mean by that?" Fabian asked.

"I mean that I hope you two stop sticking your noses into other people's business!" Mr. Sweet's face was a harsh shade of red and Nina was shocked to see him so angry but that didn't mean she was going to back down now.

"You can't tell us what to do." Nina reply sending him her own glare.

"I know I can't. But if I find out that both of you guys are disobeying me and not listening. Well let's say you'll be gone from BellsWood Highschool. " Mr. Sweet smiled.

"Are you threatening us?" Fabian asked. He never seen Mr. Sweet so angry. He was sweet like his last name.

"Yes. I am. Now you can leave now. " Mr. Sweet announced. Nina and Fabian got up to leave. Once outside of his office, Fabian noticed how frustrated Nina looked.

"I can't believe the nerve of him." Nina had her arms crossed while walking with Fabian.

"So what are we going to do?"

"We are going to work harder to find out what is going on in this place." Nina felt determined and fearless even through she felt the exact opposite.

"Hey Jake! Welcome back."Mara smiled brightly at Jake while walking inside BellsWood newspaper room. Jake ignored her as he packed away his things.

"What are you doing?

"Packing. I'm transferring schools." Jake did not meet her eyes when he said that. Mara gasped.

"Why?" Mara asked moving closer to Jake. Jake looked stressed out and dark circles was all over his eyes.

"Ever since the attack, I keep having these dreams... Do you know how hard it is to lie to your parents? I don't feel safe in this school." Jake muttered. Mara felt bad for him but not too bad. Instead of wanting to find out what is going on, he was being a little baby and running away. How immature.

"What school are you going to?" She asked.

"St. Davis Prep." Mara rolled her eyes. He was leaving to go to one of the top school all the way in London.

"I'm going to miss it here. I hope you and Ricky will do a good job ruining this place. Jake smiled at her one last time and then walked out the room.

Mara signed. Jake left, Ricky is MIA and Nina and Fabian kept avoiding her. She needed answers. She wanted answers. And she knew just the thing to get it.

"Hello?" Nina called out. She looked around and saw that she was at the BellsWood gravestone. She shivered in fear. She tooked her time and walked slowly.

"Is anyone there?" Nina yelled. Her hands were sweating and her throat felt clogged up. She turned around and a figure wearing all black attacked her out of nowhere. She screamed and screamed but all she felt was pain.

"Nina! Honey." Nina got up to see her gran looking at her with a concerned expression. Nina looked at the watch she had on her wall. 2am.

"Are you okay?"

"I just had a nightmare. That's all."

"What was it about?"

"I- I don't remember. " Nina lied. She hated seeing the concerned look on her gran's face but she was fine. Super fine.

"You had nightmares?" Fabian asked her. It became morning time real fast and Fabian and Nina were talking in an empty classroom.

"Yeah. It was really bad and now my gran is worried about me." Nina couldn't help but let a few tears stream down her eyes. She's been holding her tears for the longest.

"Nina." Fabian moved closer to her and gave her a awkward hug. He didn't know what to do. He never saw her look so distraught.

"It's not getting better and I don't know what to do anymore.." Nina moved away from Fabian and wiped away her tears. The hug with Fabian felt nice. Just thinking about it made her blush.

"Hello lovebirds. " Mara walked inside the classroom with a determined look on her face.

"Lovebirds?" Fabian repeated.

"I'm sick of asking nicely so I'll do this my way. If you don't tell me what's going in this town or about the BellsWood family, I myself will have a chat about you two to Mr. Sweet." Mara smiled at the frightened looks on Fabian and Nina's faces.

"You won't. "

"Trust me. I will." Mara smiled happily at Nina.

"Fine. We'll tell you." Fabian couldn't look away from Nina as she said that.

"But you have to swear not to tell anyone about this. Ever!" Nina put in.

"I swear I will never tell anyone. Now tell me!"

"There's strange things going on around here." Nina rolled down her sleeve so Mara could see the lightning bolt mark. Mara looked fascinated seeing it. Nina prayed to God that she could trust Mara.

"When Nina and I first met, we had this connection. As soon as I layed eyes on her. Time stopped. It was weird." Fabian said remembering that day.

"Really weird. And then we both had this lighting mark. I still have mine but Fabian don't. " Nina told Mara.

"And then we heard Victor Rodenmaar talking to Mr. Sweet about how cursed this town is." Fabian added.

"And after what happened in the gravestone, I've been having nightmares since. The nightmares revolves around the person that attacked you." Nina finished off. Mara was silent for a long while absorbing everything they told her in.

"Wow. And here I thought living in BellsWood was perfect." Mara muttered.

"So do you have any ideas on what to do?" Nina asked her.

"Nope." Mara mumbled. The three teenagers let out a sign as they sat down.

"So Mr. Sweet, what do you need to talk about?" Mr. Winkler asked curiously. He sat down on a chair in front of his boss.

"I need you to do me a favor." Mr. Sweet grinned.

What does Mr. Sweet want? What will happen to Nina,Fabian and Mara? Where's Ricky?! What do you want to see happen? Thanks goes out for KiwiSaladFace for the reviews! Hope everyone enjoys this chapter and please spread the word about this story!