Hi, i am so sorry i havent updated this story at all over the past few months, i told myself i was going to update during the season of House of Anubis but i just never had the time to update or write for that matter. i have finally completed chapter 6 and i had just posted a new fanfiction today, its a TeenTitans one so if you like them go check it out. i know none of my stories have been updated lately and i will be doing that to all of my stories for the most part for the rest of this month. at the end of this chapter i will post my tumblr url where i give frequent updates and previews on my fanfictions. anyway hope you guys like this chapter.
Chapter Six: Wish To be Sewn In Lace
The blood was pounding in my head, like a very bad hangover would. As my eyesight got clearer and clearer the questions in my head gathered and panic had stricken my body stiff. What had I done? Oh god, what the hell had I done? Never to this level would I think it would get. To this extreme. But, oh god, how I was so wrong. The back shelving on the left side of my bed, which was now shifted horizontally to the middle of my room, was pushed up against the wall. And the other one that was to the left of my bed was broken into large pieces on the floor with all of the contents thrown into a corner of my room. There must of been every pencil I owned was broken on the floor. Mechanical, regular number 2, drawing pencils, snapped down the center, the wood in shards and down to the nubs. But that, that wasn't even the worst part. Then I come to look at my wall, the wall behind my bed. And there, there is drawn my nightmare.
Everything. The old oak tree with its mangle twisted branches, the quarter moon that never changes in the large barren field, the forest that resides nearby and the jackal with the glaring eyes. Then, there's me, drawn five times. doesn't that number seem all too familiar. Once, staring into the mirror, wearing the long dress that I've seen most recently. Second, running, from the jackal in the long dress again, ripped and blooded and cut. Third, me staring at the sky with a bird above me. Fourth, holding the cup of ankh. and fifth, it's not just me, im with another girl and I wouldn't be too sure who it was if it wasn't for the locket that hung around her neck. It was Nina, me and her holding hands. My arm with the scar, as it is now. She wore a dress similar to mine and there was a symbol above our head, only to be the eye of Horus. pulse races. I did this. Me. I had sketched this on to my wall. But how could I've done this without knowing it. And then I stop. it's not just me who could of done this. Because it's not just me in the picture. "Nina!" I yell out. Jerome nearly jumps practically out of his skin. His eyes glowing a bright, light, neon baby blue.
"What about Nina?" he asks flustered.
"The girl, the other one." I point the picture of me and her. "That's Nina!" I bolt out of the room and down the stairs. I hear Jerome call my name out repeatedly but I don't stop. I burst myself into Nina's room and stand frozen in the door. Her room is just the same. The nailed in shelving is ripped out of the wall and thrown across the room. Posters ripped down and her clock and mirror shattered on the floor. Fabian has the same look as Jerome and Nina lays unconscious on the bed.
"I-I-I don't know what happened! I wake up to here her scream. I thought it was a nightmare and I find her on the ground, her hands all bloody, just as yours, and this all on the wall." Fabian huffs out, his cheeks a burning bright red, holding his Nina in his arms. I walk into the room and examine the drawings on her wall, stepping around the snapped pencils on the ground. She's in the field, under a fully leaved oak tree, the sun bright and a large bird above. she wore the dress similar to mine and the bird was drawn, three times as well, once staring at herself in the reflection of a lake, second being chased after the hawk, cut up and her dress ripped and the third one was with me the scar on my arm, the eye of Horus above us and the locket around her neck. The locket! Switch myself over to Nina and find the locket around her neck. no. no, no, no, no! NO! "How did that get there! And Sarah! Your scar! It came back!" Fabians eyes were wide.
"Fabian, i don't know what to do." i whimper out, tears welling in my eyes. "Nina." i gently say to her. "Nina, baby, wake up." i say like an endearing mother trying to wake up her child. "Wake up, Nina." i lightly shake her. She stirs a bit.
"Nina." Fabian desperately looks at her. "Nina, love. Its me, me Fabian. Please wake up, i needs you to please wake up."
"Fabian." she groggily replies finally, just as i had did with Jerome.
"Oh my god, thank god." Fabian engulfs her in a hug.
"What? What's going on." she goes to rub her eyes and Fabian stops her, looking down at her bloody hands. i look down at mine and mine are just the same. Caked in dry blood with wood and led under my nails. "Oh my god." her eyes make their way over to me and i nod. "you too?" she questions, i nod again, shrinking into Jerome. i point to her chest, the locket more specifically. she looks down and grabs then shakes her head. "no." she barely whispers out.
"wait till you see Sarah's room..." Jerome mumbles out.
"Your nightmares look pretty." i say to Nina, gazing over at the intricate drawings. "an elegant nightmare." Nina nods.
"they are." she finally comes to say. Nina gets up and wanders up the stairs and i follow right behind. she enters my room stepping over everything and studying my drawings sketched up on the walls.
"haunting." she whispers to herself. "Your nightmares are beautiful." i nod just as she did.
"they are." i go and push myself through the wreckage of my room.
"umm... they're very beautiful and pretty and all but i think we have much bigger problems now. Sarah, Nina, love why don't we clean you two up and try and figure things out." Fabian interjected. both of us agree and follow Fabian to the living room. "so what is this all about?"
"you think i know?" i shoot back a little bit harsher than intended. "Sorry, sorry, just all a bit... taken back by recent events."
"well Nina has her locket back and you, your scar." Fabian lists out.
"and we all know what that means." Nina rolls her eyes. "Things are about to get bad real fast."
"oh no." groans Fabian, rubbing his forehead with his hands. its true things are going to get bad real fast. Cause nothing can ever be good for too long. oh no, not in my world at least. and probably not in Nina's either. And we just drag Fabian and Jerome into it. Jerome had been quiet this whole time, hasen't said really a word. His eyes never completely calmed back down to their normal state. His hair was everywhere, constantly running his figures through it and sat hunched over, his elbows resting on his knees and shirtless, wearing only pajama pants and boxers. Fabian was opposite, he was alert and on the floor only in a tee shirt and boxer shorts. His cheeks a bright red color and hair messy as well. But Jerome, not one comment out of him. "Jerome? Are you alright?" Fabian asks. He looks up from the floor and nods.
"Yeah, fine." he says shortly.
"Well i need some fresh air or something." Nina shoots up. "Fabian come with me."
"Yes of course." Nina starts for the stairs to our apartment. "Wait Nina! Shoes! And a jacket!" Fabian calls out grabbing them for her. i hear the door shut and the air is quiet for a second.
"Jerome, are you alright?" i ask worriedly. he nods just as before. i huff out a breath. "Jerome."
"I'm fine, Sarah, enough." he growls back. i shrink back on the couch and gain a confused looks on my face. Jerome has never been that harsh.
"Jerome..." i whimper out quietly. "please. please talk to me."
"i hate it. i hate it so much. That something is hurting you. Something i can't see or hear. and every time something even remotely related to this happens I'm always in fear of losing you. that one day I'll wake up and you won't be next to me anymore. like today, when i wake up to you screaming and crying as you rip your room apart, biting pencils in half and scratching at the wall. Yanking at your hair and huddling on the floor. i see you carving these drawings, these nightmares into your wall. i could see the flicker of fear in your eyes in the drawing and when you looked at me. i could see you trying to fight whatever was making you do this but you couldn't make it stop and i tried to hold you next to me, get you back in bed but i couldn't..." tears welled up in his eyes. "i couldn't do anything to stop it and i was right there, you were right in front of me in so much pain and i couldn't stop it... and i hate it." he sucked up the tears and tried to relax himself. i say no words but stand up off the couch as does he with the chair he is sitting in.
"im not going anywhere. I'm not going to let this win." I tell him sternly. He then pulls me into a tight, tight hug.
"i will always do whatever i can to protect you Sarah. And i only wish there was more i could do." he murmurs into my ear.
"Even if there was, i wouldn't let you get involved. i don't want you getting hurt because of me. ever." he doesnt say anything, he then goes to open his mouth but i cut him off. "Help me move everything back in my room-"
"no." he then cuts me off. "We'll grab a few things, your clothes and books and moving them into my room. I'll tell Fabian to do the same with Nina and we're locking the doors on both your rooms. no ones going back in there." i don't argue Jerome. He wants to help and protect me and he's right. Those drawings that me and her did a sketchy, and not in the literal scene. something is going to happen if we dont lock those rooms down. i nod my head in agreement.
"alright." i tell him. "but later. let me make breakfast-"
"Are you crazy? No, put on your jacket and shoes, we'll go out for breakfast, get something to it. its better if we get out of here. And i think it best be off if we tell Alfie not to come anymore, or at at the least pay for them to stay at a hotel, maybe even with Amber and Brad. But they cant stay here." i also agree. No way in hell are Alfie and his girlfriend staying here. and no way am i letting Amber and Brad back here. and honestly if worst comes to worst im gunna go make Jerome go stay with his parents if this gets any worse. which i hope it doesn't. But i love Jerome too much to let this get to him and maybe hurt him. And i will not let that happen to him.
We sit in a tiny, diner and had ordered breakfast. Fabian had taken Nina out of town for the day to try and relax her down a bit. She was really riled up by all of this. Furious is a better word. I thought she might slaughter someone. I knew the real reason why she was so mad too. And I was partially mad for the same reason.
"I just cant believe this is happening in again. Really I cant. What is the point of it. I don't understand it. And why you have to be a part of it. Nina too. you two should have nothing to do with this and-"
"Jerome!" I cut him off. "its alright im sure this will all be over soon." I pop a strawberry into my mouth. "between both me and Nina, it should go away pretty quickly. I mean I know the universe hates me and all-"
"the universe doesn't hate you, and even if it did feel like fighting you, you are a force to be reckoned with and probably win hands down. Im sorry I'll try to calm down. I'm just worried, Love, that's all." He takes another bite of his toast. "Now, I have work in an hour, please stay out of trouble, go meet up with Amber, do something that your not going to hurt yourself. I would tell you to go to my Mother's but I don't know whats scarier. Her or this curse." He chuckles and giggle as well.
"Your Mom isn't scary, she's just… intimidating, that's all." He give's me a smirk. "okay well she scares me a bit." I take a sip of my coffee.
"as I said, just stay out of trouble, that's all im asking. Im going to be working late tonight, don't go back to the flat if Nina and Fabian aren't there, okay?" Jerome tells me.
"yes, yes I know I know, dear." I give a smile. "I'm sorry again… about all of this." Jerome shakes his head and leans across the table, giving me a kiss on the forehead.
"there is nothing you should be apologizing for, Sarah. You never did anything wrong." He smiles at me. I breathe out an okay and nod. "good, now I have to head off to work, remember to stay out of trouble and don't play in traffic." I laugh loudly.
"yeah, yeah I will." He drops money on the table and I stand up and give him a kiss. "Love you." I smile. Jerome smiles too. He kisses me back.
"Love you too."
"What about this one?" the bridal consultant asks, holding up a dress.
"Are you mad? That's atrocious!" Amber squeals.
"it does kinda look like a chicken.' I snicker, whispering to Amber.
"And I will never look like a chicken again! I am scarred for life after Mr. Winkler made me wear that Canary costume all those years ago!" I continue to laugh.
"I'm sure the woman will find you something, im going to sit in the waiting room, come out in the next gown I want to see it!" I call out as I leave the bridal changing room. I sigh as I sit down on the white, fluffy couch, rejoining Amber's mother and Brad's mother. Amber's looking for her wedding dress… I am actually really quite jealous of her. Amber's life as normal after graduation, completely and totally normal and all the things she dealt with back at Anubis House were by choice and how I wish mine was by choice.
"Guys!" I hear amber call out. I turn my head to see her in a long, stunning white gown. It had a tight silk bodice that pulled around her entire chest and stomach with a thin ribbon that came around the middle with a large gem on the side, with lace sleeves that went all the way down around her middle finger. Then it flared out into an extended long skirt that was satin and flowed away from her body that had a chapel train. She looked gorgeous. She is going to be a beautiful blushing winter bride. The consultant clipped the veil into her hair and stood back. Amber turned and looked in the mirror and smiled, then turning to me. "What do you think?" she asks, a huge grin painting her face. She got a muse of appraisal from all three of us.
"Absolutely stunning, Ams." I smile at her. "Get the dress." I squeaks and claps her hands.
"Okay, now I have my dress, Nina, Leelee, and Rachel's bridesmaids dresses and your maid of honor dress, now all I have to do is go place the order for the bouquet's and book the photographer and then were done!" Amber cheers. I cheer in my head too, as jealous of I am of her buy her wedding dress, she tried on like fifty gowns! And I cant take another hour of sitting here and telling her she looks fabulous. "I hope you have a good idea on who your maid of honor is going to be when Jerome proposes to you, Sarah." She gives me a wink. "Tut, Tut." I giggle.
"Amber, you already know it's going to be you, you don't have to worry about competition." I smile.
"Good, cause I already have EVERYTHING planned out." She grins. I rake my fingers my hair and bubble up another laugh. Oh Amber, I have other things to worry about then getting engaged, let alone married. Nina and Fabian will probably get married before me, so will Alfie, Mara and Patricia. Amber's children, excuse me, let me correct myself, my godchildren, might even get married before me. And I mean I don't mind it, I prefer if I wasent the last one though, that would be greatly appreciated if Jerome could pluck up the courage, go against my wishes and just ask me, but… I can wait. As I have told him, I'm not going anywhere so he has all the time in the world basically to ever ask me. But I need to take care of this stupid curse that's lurking over me, and I'm at no age for bullshit from the Egyptian gods, they can go suck it. Im done with them and will NOT let them control my life any further. I refuse to be The Scarred One. I refuse to be an enemy or a child of the gods. I will not be their puppet any longer. I just want to be free.
i really hope you guys liked this chapter, this whole story did stray away from my normal idea, it was mainly just going to be fluff no mystery so the mystery in this story will be wrapping up soon sorry.
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