A/N - Sorry I haven't updated in a while, I've been really busy! :( Please review any encouragement would be great 3
*My eyes fluttered open trying to quickly adjust with the light that was coming in from the window. I really didn't want to get up I threw a pillow over my head. I hear someone walking down the hall. I couldn't tell who it was though, my door was open and yet I still could not tell who was walking around. My mother? A random? Something else? A sigh escaped my throat, the pillow fell from my head as I slowly got to my feet from my bed. The thudding of my feet dragging on the ground was a signal to whoever was walking around that I was awake now. The railing going down the hall was my crutch as my legs started to adjust to my weight once again. It feels like I have bee sleeping for days, when really it has only been about 7 hours.
"Mom?" I called down the hallway hoping to get an answer from her. ... Nothing, not even a sound, no floor boards creaking, no birds outside nothing. Everything seemed to die all at once. The hallway felt like it was getting longer with every step that I took towards the end of it. Never ending. When I finally got to my moms door, there she was just sitting on the bed starring at her feet. Slowly, cautiously I walked over to her side, her shoulder felt like ice when I touched it. With a little shake she moved her head a little but not much. "Mom are you okay?" I knelt down to look at her face,I could tell when she was feeling if I could see her face. I brushed her hair behind her ear and moved in some more to look at her face. A low growl came from her. Her entire body was still, nothing moved, not her chest her eyes, nothing. It was so surprising to me that i let her shoulder go and fell backwards. I was frozen on the floor with a puzzled look on my face, I wanted to question it but I couldn't speak, no sounds would come out. Al I could hear was my own heartbeat and breath. At least I was still breathing, I couldn't hear my mom's heartbeat but I could see her pulse in the artery on her neck, at least she is still alive. Standing was a bad idea I figured, I didn't know what that was but I didn't want to startle her or make her angry. I have never heard my mother do that before. Even when she was really angry and yelling at other people she has never done that. Once I finished inching out of her room I got up. I tried not to look in as much as I wanted to, I walked back down the hall, this time it felt like it took 2 steps and I was already at the stairs. I shook my head, this was starting to feel like every other day but that clock was different. The kitchen was where I found myself, I started to make some breakfast when there was a knock a the door, as soon as I turned from the kitchen the feeling of eyes digging into my back made my arm twitch up to rub my shoulder. There was no one at the door when I got to it, but there was a package sitting on the front step. It was addressed to Layne, Layne doesn't live here, who would send him a package here? This was just a little to weird. I pulled out my phone and started to dial his number.
"Hey Hun, can you come over please, I really need to get out of this house, I think I'm starting to see things, its driving me crazy!" I let out a little chuckle, I have always been crazy so it was nothing new for him to deal with. "Thank you so much Hun, I will see you in a few minutes." with my phone back in my pocket and package in hand the kitchen was my return destination. My toast and bacon was done, now I just needed to cut up the tomatoes and I had myself breakfast! I couldn't wait I was starving, I couldn't remember the last time I ate an actual meal.
When Layne strolled into the kitchen the mood in the room felt like it instantly lifted. It was as if everything negative that I was feeling just went away, was no longer on my shoulders. It was just the feeling that I needed for this morning that I have had so far.
"You have a package" Half with food in my mouth I pointed to the box that was sitting on the table, his eyebrows crinkled together and looked very confused,
"Who would send something here? This doesn't even have a return address on it" He must have looked on every side of the box multiple times before he put it down. There was no sound of anything moving around in it. Whatever is in there must be packed very well. "Who gave this to you?" His eyes turned to me and I almost melted, they were curious, confused and beautiful. Just having him look my in the eyes made a shiver go up my spine, but it wasn't a nice sensation, it was cold, it felt like it didn't belong in the moment. Once again my hand found my shoulder and brushed off my back. I bit my lip and looked away from his gaze, it was making me feel uncomfortable. He seemed upset. There was a thump from upstairs. Mom. I turned back to Layne and we had the same looks on our faces, we ran upstairs practically on top of each other. He ran to my room thinking it was there, I ran to my moms room knowing that's where it came from. When I got there she was on the floor. On my knees so fast I didn't even notice the carpet burn, I pulled her head up on my lap,
"Mom!" I grabbed her chin and pointed it to the ceiling, her eyes were still open, which scared me, "Mom can you say something" Layne was beside me in a matter of seconds and was panicking.
"What happened?" He grabbed her wrist to check for a pulse.
" I don't know, I was downstairs with you and before that when i came to check on her she growled at me and wouldn't respond to me so I left her and was downstairs until now!" So many things were going through my mind, was my mom overdosing? Was she just on a bad trip? Was her psychosis coming back? What was happening with her I wanted to know. When Layne finally found her pulse it was really low.
"We have to get her on the bed" I had one of her arms and Layne had the other and we lifted her to the middle of the bed so we had room to sit on either side of her. She was still unresponsive, what was going on? I sucked back a sob and tried to get my mother to even look at me. Her eyes were just black, her pupils were so dilated that you couldn't see her iris anymore, it was empty, soulless. Layne ran downstairs to get something from his back pack. As soon as he left the room my mothers head slowly turned towards me, above and below her eyes started to grey, and slowly turned black, it startled me so much I stood and backed away almost tripping over my feet. I backed into the closet door. I gripped the handle to try and keep me up.
"Mom" My voice was so shaky it almost didn't come out audible. Her body snapped up and her empty eyes just looked at me, it was like she was pulled off the bed on wires. Her legs didn't move and she was standing right in front of me. I sucked back tears that were starting to form in my eyes. Her hand moved up her side away from her body until it was right across from my face. every time she moved I winced thinking she was going to hit me. Her cold hand flashed towards me and her cold fingers grasped around my neck, it hit me with enough force that I almost lost my breath, I let out a small shriek. I could hear Layne from downstairs yell my name and then thudding up the stairs. About halfway down the hall my moms head shot towards the door and it shut on its own. By just her looking at it, she closed it, I could no longer fight the tears they started to flow down my face. Her grip slowly started to get tighter, her jaw dropped slowly, but there it should have stopped that line that a human should not be able to surpass she was doing effortlessly. I grabbed her wrist with my hand to try and get her to let go. What is going on? M mind was racing, My first thought was, Is she going to kill me? then my thoughts turned to Layne, please come save me. I have started to rely on him saving me. My mothers face started getting closer and closer, I used my free hand to push her face away, when that didn't work I panicked and slapped her. "Mom I'm so sorry, please stop, please stop" I cried with the little voice that I now had. I slapped her again, The growling started again, from deep in her chest this time, it sounded like it was coming from a big cat, nothing like a human could sound like. "Layne!" I screamed.
"Jay open the door" He was banging on it so hard the hinges were unscrewing themselves. "Jay" His voice shared the worry that his face could not. I heard him run down the hall and take a running start at the door. As soon as he hit the door my mother just went limp, her hand was no longer at my throat, the growling sound had vanished, and I was left standing there gasping for air, this all happened so fast my brain almost couldn't keep up. The door fell into the room a couple of feet, I looked over and Layne was running over it, "Jay" He ran to me, he didn't even look at my mother who was motionless on the floor, "What the hell happened?" His hands were on either side of my face and his forehead against mine. I just breathed a couple times before even thinking about saying anything.
"You walked out the door and my mom... Her eyes... Black... She flew, like flew out of the bed and... Her jaw... Choking me. Holy shit" That was the best explanation that I could come up with. I let him go and looked down at my mom, I dropped to my knees and turned her over. Her eyes were closed, normal color, her jaw was closed, not dislocated, he skin was normal temperature. Layne checked her pulse and it was normal. He grabbed her and put her back on the bed.
"Ok we are getting you out of this house before something else happens" He was serious, his eyes were stern yet loving, his expression showed worry yet his voice was steady. I didn't bother with clothes this time, Layne's grip on my hand wasn't showing any signs of loosening up anytime soon, we walked down the street towards his house. The first person we passed on the street had the same eyes my mom had, no iris, just black, looking like a raccoon with black bands on their eyes. I whipped my head into Layne's shoulder and clutched his arm. The next person the same thing, raccoon banded eyes, the next couple people the same, the growling sound started to come out of the next few. When we were at the intersection waiting for the light the person beside me started to look at me with those soulless eyes, just empty blackness, when her jaw started to slowly move down I let out a scream and started to run across the street. Once on the other side Layne grabbed my shoulder and swung me around so I was facing him. I tried to fight it, when the person next to me already had her mouth open and was starting to slowly move towards me, I looked back at Layne,
"Please make it stop" Tears started seeping out of my eyes again,
"Make what stop?" Layne couldn't see what I saw, they were just normal people to him, When I opened my eyes Layne's eyes weren't icy blue anymore, they were getting darker by the second, turning black, the back soon showed on his face. My body started trembling. My eyes closed and I just went limp*
Jay. My name echoed in my head.
Jay. It was louder this time, I felt a hand on my shoulder. When my eyes peeled open I saw Layne's face, I screamed and as fast as I could backed away from him.
"Jay its ok, you're fine" He moved closer and I held up my foot to stop him, "You are okay, it was Just a dream" As soon as I heard the word dream I started crying and lunged at him to hug him and cry into his shoulder.
