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Chapter Six: Admitting What You Really Want
"Wow…" Angela said trying not to laugh after Kali finished telling her everything that she just went through in the dream world with Freddy. "… That's kinda funny."
"How is that funny?!" Kali was becoming annoyed. Angela didn't seem to understand how serious all this was to her.
"Oh come on you can't tell me that you didn't see this coming. It was going to happen sooner or later. I mean come on, you're obsessed with him." Angela explained casually.
"That was different that was before I knew he was real, this is completely different." Kali tried to explain.
"Oh whatever you're just in denial." Angela teased.
"No I'm not! I can't like him! I like Wes…" Kali knew Angela was right but didn't want to admit it to herself.
"I know you like Wes, but that doesn't mean that you don't want Freddy." Angela pointed out. Kali ran her fingers over the cut on her cheek and gave Angela a scared look.
"What the hell is wrong with me?" Kali slumped down and held her head in her hands.
"Oh come on it's not that bad. So what he's a demonic dream killer and you kinda have lusty feelings towards him." Angela put a hand on her shoulder in an attempt to comfort her.
Kali exhaled loudly. "Let's just not talk about it anymore, I don't want to think about it."
"Alright, if you say so… so how are we going to get rid of their bodies?" Angela changed the subject.
"Just gotta get the truck going in the right direction and let it drive itself into something." Kali explained trying to get Freddy off of her mind.
"Sounds easy enough." Angela jumped up and out of the bed of the truck followed by Kali. Angela opened the driver's side door and quickly jumped back putting her hand over her mouth. "Holy shit…".
Kali looked inside and Trudy was a bloody mess. She rolled her eyes and ignored the metallic scent of blood that was filling her nostrils. Reaching over Trudy she turned the key in the truck and put it into neutral. "You can push from the back." She ordered and Angela gladly walked towards the back of the truck happy to be away from all the blood.
"Hold on a sec." Kali said and ran up the driveway to an old pile of bricks and grabbed two before heading back to the truck. She set them just inside the cab on the floor. They both pushed and Kali steered. They ended up pushing it down the street and turned it onto the main road. Luckily Kali lived in a neighborhood that was so far from the main part of town that there were no street lights making it easier to get away with what they were doing.
Once the truck was aimed in the direction of the freeway Angela helped Kali to put the truck in drive and they both stood about two feet from the truck each with a brick in hand. Angela tried to throw her brick on the gas pedal first and barely missed it. Kali threw hers and it landed right on top of Angela's and it gave it just enough height to help it hit the gas pedal. They both jumped back as the truck took off down the road.
Neither of them looked back. Kali walked Angela to her car that was parked a few houses down the street from hers. "So when will I get to see you? I'm going to be so lonely at school without you!" Angela gave Kali a hug.
"I have to go and get my assignments that I'm going to miss, so I'll come say hi to you. I promise. Now go get some sleep!" Kali hugged her again.
"I will, but so should you." Angela winked at her.
"Naw-ah, no way, at least not tonight… Dammit this sucks, every time I fall asleep I'm going to have to deal with him. There's gotta be a way around him." Kali groaned.
"Well since he's real and he obviously hasn't had any victims in such a long time, maybe Hypnocil exists too, but I wouldn't do it. You'll probably just piss him off if you use it." Angela warned.
"I'll look it up. It'll give me something to do tonight." She sighed.
"Ok… I'll see you tomorrow then?" Angela gave her a hug before getting into her car.
"Yep. Have fun dreaming with Jeremy." Kali smiled at her and she blushed. She closed the door to the car and watched her drive away.
Kali returned to her room and sat at her computer. She spent the next hour looking up Hypnocil and trying to find anything on Freddy. It turned out that Hypnocil really did exist and was easy to get. She was surprised that it was so cheap and was considered an over the counter drug like Tylenol or Cough Syrup.
Desperate to stay awake and curious to see if she could find any Hypnocil she drove herself to the nearest twenty-four hour Walgreens. She grabbed herself a Redbull and searched the medicine isle for some Hypnocil. There was a small bottle of it hidden behind the sleeping pills.
As the older lady rang her up she stopped and squinted at the bottle of Hypnocil. "Darren!" She yelled eyeing Kali up and down.
"Yes?" An elderly man came around the corner.
"Need to put another bottle of Hypnocil on the shelf." She demanded.
"Again? That's the second time this month!" A man called from the back.
"Sorry about that dear. There is this strange law that all drug stores anywhere in the US must have at least one bottle of these pills on the shelf. I don't know why, but I don't make the rules, I just work here." The lady explained as she finished ringing her up and handed her the bag.
"If you don't mind me asking, who else bought some?" Kali asked curious as to who would want to be rid of their dreams besides herself.
"I'm sorry but I'm not allowed to disclose that information. I can only tell you that they come in and get some every few months. It's so strange we never sold any until a few years ago… Oh well I better stop talking now before I get myself fired." She motioned to the camera and Kali nodded and left the store.
When she got home it was only two thirty in the morning. Kali sighed and downed her energy drink. After playing a few videogames she could feel the energy drink wearing off and she was slowly starting to crash. She looked at the clock and it was only five. On a normal school day she would wake up at seven. She was tempted to try the Hypnocil, but was more curious as to why it was required to be kept in stock at local drugstores. Was it their way of defeating him? And who in the state of Arizona would need to take it as often as the store clerk had described?
As much as she didn't want to deal with Freddy again she needed to talk to him. Get all the real facts about everything that was going on, and learn about what had happened. Setting her alarm for seven she got undressed laid in bed under the covers and drifted to sleep.
She found herself standing in an empty room that was dimly lit by light filtering in through the windows. She quickly had clothes appear onto her and called out. "Freddy?" No response. Looking out the window she saw streetlights lining the street. Rather nice looking houses all the way down the block. The lawn of the house matched all the others, green well kept grass and a few hedges. The room shifted and she stood in the middle of a child's room. A small boy was asleep in his racecar bed with his spinning dinosaur nightlight on.
"What the…?" Kali said to herself as she walked out of the room and into the hall, which was lined with family pictures. She made her way down the stairs to the kitchen. It had pots and pans hanging over the island in the center of it. Everything looked and even smelled homey, friendly, and completely unlike Freddy's house.
She sat on the light brown leather couch in front of the large TV and looked around trying to find some sign of Freddy. "Where are you?!" She screamed starting to get impatient.
The room suddenly grew warm and everything morphed around her into Freddy's house. She was now on his battered couch and felt hands on her shoulders.
"That's what Springwood looks like now… what I showed you, that's what they did to my house, my town. They've erased me completely." Freddy growled as he moved his hands from her shoulders and sat on the armrest of the couch.
"They tore down my entire house, rebuilt it, and renamed the town, the street. Everyone there is on Hypnocil, but none of them even know it. Only a few remember me. But for the ones that wouldn't keep quiet they went as far as brainwashing and erasing memories. Those it didn't work on they killed or had committed. They completely rewrote the town's history even made fake old newspapers." Kali looked up at him. He looked almost… sad.
"This is how they beat me. Not only do they just take Hypnocil, but they also developed a version of it that lasts for week's even months. They mix them in with other drugs. No one has a clue I even exist anymore. They beat me… very rarely does anyone not get enough Hypnocil to keep me away." He turned to her a looked directly into her eyes. "This is why I need you."
She stared back at him and felt bad for even thinking about taking the Hypnocil. Freddy growled at her. "You got Hypnocil?!" He was instantly in front of her and lifted her off the couch by her throat. "How did you get it?!" He demanded.
After reading her mind he dropped her to the floor at his feet and she rubbed her throat. He paced back and forth in front of her as she sat up against the couch on the floor watching him in fear. After a few minutes he stopped and quickly and straddled her holding her hands together with his unbladed hand. He raised a blade to her face threatening her. Her breath caught in her throat.
"You better listen to your little friend and stop testing my patience. If you ever take any of that Hypnocil I will torture you in ways you can't even imagine." He brought the blade closer to her skin and quickly flipped it around and gently stroked her cheek and lower lip with the back of the blade.
"Now you're going by your school tomorrow aren't you?" He asked as he slowly lowered his blades from her face and tilted his hat up out of his eyes. She nodded quickly. "Good. I'll go with you." He smiled to himself.
"What? Why?" Kali asked confused.
"That doesn't matter… don't worry you'll be in control most of the time." He leaned in closer to her. "I'm just as curious as to who else around here is on Hypnocil. It could be someone at your school."
"How do you know? It could be anyone." Kali stared into him.
"Someone else must know I'm here…" Freddy explained and sat next to her on the floor.
"But how would they even know?" Kali was confused.
"Could be one of the surviving brats or their kid, but I need you so I can find them. I can't do anything from here. Plus… I'll get choose my next victim." He chuckled going through the list he had already made up in his head.
"Alright, but no killing at school." She looked over to him for a response and he was suddenly on top of her again. His hands were on either side of her head gripping her tightly.
He was staring into her eyes. "Time to wake up!" He screamed demonically.
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!
Kali quickly hit the off button on her alarm clock and looked around her room them put her hands on her head where Freddy's hands were just seconds ago. She quickly jumped out of bed and went and looked in the mirror only to find Freddy staring back at her. "This is just creepy." She said aloud.
"Shut up, get dressed, and get your ass to school." His voice demanded in her head. Looking down at herself she remembered she was only in a pair of underwear. She blushed and quickly got dressed. Freddy forced her to put her fedora hat on that she had bought last Halloween for her female Freddy costume. She rolled her eyes at him in the mirror but left it on glad that it covered the bruise on her head.
When she entered the kitchen she found a note on the table from her Mom. It said she was off looking for Cindy thinking that she ran away since Trudy left. Kali shrugged and went into the pantry.
Too bad she doesn't know what really happened to the little brat. Freddy said in her head.
"She'll be so upset when she finds out." She answered aloud grabbing a box of cereal. As she ate and finished getting ready doing her best to ignore Freddy's snide remarks. On the way to the school she passed a car accident involving two semis and a truck. Trudy's truck was barely distinguishable.
Nice work. Freddy laughed as they passed it. Kali turned up her music the rest of the way to the school.
So many little brats with no one to terrorize their dreams… Freddy rasped as they pulled into the parking lot.
"So what is it that you need me to do?" Kali asked aloud as she undid her seatbelt and grabbed her backpack.
Unless you want to seem like an insane person I suggest you talk to me in your head… Freddy laughed. I can hear everything that you're thinking even more now that I'm in your body. Too bad you can only hear what I want you to… Kali could almost feel him smiling to himself. She shot him a scared look in her rear view mirror and shuttered slightly imagining the awful things he could be thinking.
Go and do whatever it is that you need to do. Just make sure you touch things and people along the way. If there is an Elm Street brat anywhere I'll be able to sense them. Freddy explained.
Kali was locking her car when a hand rested on her shoulder. She turned to find it was Andy. "What are you doing here? I thought you were suspended." He asked eyeing the hat on her head. "You're such a weirdo." He smiled at her.
"Yeah I got suspended for breaking Gwen's nose. But that bitch gave me a concussion!" Kali lifted the hat and showed him the bump on her head. Andy lightly touched it and she put the hat back on her head.
He wants you. Freddy laughed.
What? No, he's my best friend. Kali thought in disbelief.
Keep telling yourself that. Even if I didn't just read his mind it's completely obvious. She could practically feel him rolling his eyes at her.
Kali ignored him. "I'm just here to get my work that I'm going to miss this week." She explained to Andy.
"Oh…" They started walking towards the campus together. "So I heard about what happened between you and Ethan."
"I know who hasn't. Everyone seemed to know only minutes after it happened." Kali explained.
"Yeah…" Andy scratched the back of his head. "… High School kids the fastest information highway." He laughed and Kali smiled at him.
Wow he's pathetic… Freddy laughed.
Shut up. Kali spat back at him in her mind.
Make me. Freddy taunted. Kali made an annoyed face and Andy looked at her strangely.
"Are you ok?" He asked and anger shifted in his eyes as he looked behind her. Kali turned to see Julia and Ethan walking towards them. "Speak of the devil and he'll appear with his banshee." Andy said under his breath.
This could get interesting. Freddy chuckled.
"What are you doing here?" Julia snorted in Kali's direction as she wrapped her arms around Ethan who was glaring angrily at Andy.
"I'm just getting my books and my homework for the rest of the week. Why do you care?" Kali shot back.
"Come on Julia let's go." Ethan said never taking his eyes off of Andy. Julia gave Ethan a strange look but walked away with him. Before they rounded the corner of the building Julia shot a dirty look at Kali.
Andy exhaled loudly. "I fucking hate them. And the rest of Julia's little followers."
I choose them… Freddy rasped.
Both of them? Kali asked.
Yes! Freddy insisted.
I'll think about it. She replied.
I can be very persuasive. Freddy laughed evilly making Kali shutter.
"Hey you guys!" Kali turned to see Angela walking in from the parking lot holding hands with Jeremy with a huge grin on her face.
"Hi…" Kali and Andy said in unison while staring at the two hand in hand.
"Hey, you must be Kali…" Jeremy shook her hand. "… And you must be…"
"Andy." Andy shook his hand. The four of them walked and talked together to the lockers.
"I'm going to borrow Ang for a moment." Kali grabbed her by the arm and dragged her over to her locker with her. "Ok don't freak out…" Kali lowered her voice. "… I've got Freddy with me."
"What?! What do mean? He possessed you again?" Angela asked confused.
"For the most part. He's letting me be in control. He's trying to find someone." Kali explained.
"Well that explains why you're so warm." She squeezed Kali's hand. "Who the hell is he looking for at our school?" Angela asked eyeing the hat on her head. Freddy growled at her as she explained everything about the Hypnocil and what Freddy had told her the night before. "Wow that's weird. I wonder if there is an Elm Street kid here. So did he…"
Kali's eyes grew wide and she knew what she was going to ask. "No." She replied quickly wishing she hadn't asked. Freddy laughed in her head as she thought about it.
Don't you worry I haven't forgot about that. He warned her. Kali gulped as she opened her locker and put all her books into her backpack.
"Dammit Ang now you reminded him about it." She whined.
"Sorry… But I mean it's bound to happen eventually." She smiled and Kali made an un-amused face at her as she closed her locker.
You know I think I'm starting to like her… Freddy said as she zipped up her backpack.
Kali was getting annoyed. She just wanted to get her schoolwork and maybe run into Wesley and leave. Freddy growled when she thought of Wesley. Kali noticed that Angela was staring at her strangely.
"What's wrong?" Angela asked trying to read her expression.
"Nothing, Freddy has taken a new liking to you and he doesn't like it when I think about Wes." Kali explained.
"Can't blame him for hating Wes…" Angela shrugged and Kali glared at her. "Ok, ok I'll stop." Angela promised opening her locker.
"Stop what?" Jeremy asked wrapping his arms around Angela from behind.
"I'm just teasing her." Angela replied leaning into him. Andy appeared behind them and making a disgusted face at them that only Kali could see. Andy cleared his throat loudly and they both turned to him and then moved to let him through.
Kali and Andy waved goodbye to the lovey dovey couple and walked to the science building together. "So what are you going to do the rest of the week now that you're stuck at home?" Andy asked.
"Well my Mom doesn't even know that I got suspended. Paige was the only one home when the principal called so she covered for me. I just have to hang out somewhere away from home during school hours so my Mom doesn't know." Kali explained stopping at the steps of the building.
"Oh that was nice of Paige she's always looked out for you… well maybe you could come over and we could hangout like old times now that you don't have to give Ethan all your time, and Angela is obviously going to be busy with Jeremy…" Andy asked hopeful.
This is just sad. Freddy laughed in her head.
Shut up! Kali screamed back at him.
"Sounds good to me." She agreed and the first bell rang. "I'll give you a call tomorrow or something."
"Ok see you later." Andy waved and walked in the other direction to his class. Students were now rushing to their first class of the day and some stared at her as they walked past her. Ignoring all the strange looks she was getting for wearing her hat she went into the science building.
She had gone to all of her classes and collected all the work she'd be missing the rest of the week. Luckily she hadn't run into any of Julia's friends or Ethan again. Obeying Freddy she purposely ran into several people through each classroom and ran her hand along the walls as she walked. He hadn't found anything yet. She could feel him getting frustrated and it was making her warmer than usual. Dammit calm down! You're going to kill me! We're in fucking Arizona it's hot enough as it is already! Kali screamed at Freddy in her mind.
Do I need to take over? Freddy threatened.
No! Kali screamed back at him as she saw Wesley walking towards her. Freddy hissed at her as she walked right up to him and gave him a hug. She could feel her scarred arm burning beneath her arm warmer.
"Getting all your homework?" He asked eyeing the hat on her head strangely.
"Yeah I'm just about to leave actually…" Kali noticed that he had a black eye. She reached her hand up and lightly touched it and the burning in her arm ceased. "Did Evan…?"
"Yeah this morning in the parking lot. It's no big deal." He shrugged.
"I'm sorry, he's such an ass hole." Kali apologized and Wesley put his hand on her cheek touching the cut Freddy left the night before and she leaned into his hand.
Don't eventhink about it! Freddy hissed, but she ignored him and leaned in and kissed Wesley lightly on the lips. She fought Freddy for control and won. Wesley smiled back at her.
"Well I've got to get back to class… maybe we could hangout later this week." He suggested and Kali nodded as he waved and walked off into the nearest building.
If you ever do anything like that again while I'm with you, you're going to regret it for the rest of your pathetic life! Freddy yelled in her head and a sharp pain went through Kali's body and her arm started to burn again. She found herself walking back towards her car. Freddy had taken over. Once to her car he slammed her into the side of it. Just get me out of here! He demanded and the pain and burning subsided as she searched for her keys in her pocket.
Kali threw her backpack in the passenger seat and rolled down her window. Sitting in the driver's seat she pulled the little lever on the side and laid back closing her eyes. It only took a few minutes with Freddy willing her to sleep and she found herself sitting on his couch. He was standing in front of her with his arms crossed.
Kali stared back at him unsure of what to say. She knew he was angry, she could feel the heat radiating off of him and his eyes seemed redder than usual. There was no taking back what she did. She didn't want to admit to herself why she did it, but she knew she only did it to try and convince herself that she didn't want Freddy.
Freddy let his arms fall to his sides as he read her thoughts. He could sense her fear. Only now she wasn't afraid of him she was afraid of herself. Smiling to himself she eyed him carefully. He quickly grabbed her by the throat and pulled her closer to him so her face was less than and inch away from his her feet dangling off the ground. He wanted to mess with her head. Taking in a deep breath he let their lips barely touch for a second before quickly throwing her out of the dream world.
Kali hit her seat hard and she took in several deep breaths to calm herself. She licked her lips and sighed. "That bastard… dammit…" Kali finally said it out loud. "…I want more."