Dad looked us, a little confused and a little mad. All the shadows disappeared out from under everyone and I moved closer into Nico who had eyes shut tightly, panicing because his time with me was all used up and now he was going to die. Stupid, overly, protective fathers. A large, shadow had formed on the wall. It had very sharp teeth and horns sticking out, all the way down, from his back. A monster, a shadow monster. I closed my eyes, knowing that even though it was a shadow it still could hurt him. It melted out of the wall.

I didn't know what I was thinking but I flew out my hand on an impulse. Black material pieced itself together, making a form of a wall. The creature threw itself at the wall and I strained to keep it intact. It hurt me, sweat flowed down my face in little drips. Nico wrapped his arms around my waist, squeezing me gently but firmly. I closed my eyes, letting myself relax as Nico made his lips rest firmly on my neck, his breath tickling in my ear.

Dad let the monster go when he realized that I was never going to let go and I fainted in Nico's arms, the one place I was enjoying most of all.

- Dream -

I was staring out the bedroom window of my dorm. It over looked a large, clear-blue lake. A small forest surrounded it. I watched as two men walked outside holding the arms of a little girl I recongized to be my friend, Brianna. The held her up against the tree and stab her repeatedly with a switchblade. Lots of blood poured out of her chest and the men dumped her by the tree they had killed her at. I stared at her and didn't care. My friend had been stabbed with a knife and I didn't care. On top of that, I had witnessed the whole thing and didn't do anything.

All I did was go back to sleep, not caring. At all.

*In The Morning*

Waking up to the feel of someone constintly poking you in you arm is not the way you'd like to wake you, especially when the child is a kid who is on the wrestling team and has mustles in her finger bone. I groaned and rolled over, pulling my blankets over me. She dragged me out of bed. Stupid, wrestling girl. A man in a nice suit was standing in front of the door to the science room. He walked in, looking a nervous. I smiled. Science was my first subject so I'd have a good reason to be in there. Maybe I'd figure out why people were looking so damn nervous. Slipping into my clothes, I rushed to eat breakfast.

*After Breakfast*

I walked into the science room. Here's of what I saw. Brianna with her body cut open, some creepy looking men standing around her and a few teachers too. They saw me and pushed me out.

- Scene Changed -

My cousin was holding a knife to her throat in the living room, my grandma was threatening to kill herself in our kitchen, my grandpa was strangling himself in his bedroom and my mom was running around, trying to help them out of depression.

Me?

I was in the corner of my bedroom with my eyes shut, tuning out everything that was going on, prentending that I was invisible. I had a black tablecloth strung over my head, my lights off, my window shades closed and black cloths stranded every corner and hung over my bed so I could hide whenever I wanted to and whenever I needed to.

- Scene Changed -

My mom was crying in her room. I walked in, a little nervous. Her head moved up a little bit. I froze, scared at what she might do to me. She got up and walked over to me, pulling me into a warm hug. I didn't do anything except stay as still as I could be. She gripped me tighter crying into the top of my head. I never understoood why.

- End of Dream -

For the next chapter there's going to be a huge suprise. Hope you like it!