The Nightmare

[Mal and Evie's dorm room. 12:38 am]

Mal's POV

I have to admit, the carnival was fun. And I guess it was nice that Ben let us have fun in it. Evie and I changed into our nightdresses and laid in her bed. Yeah, we've been sleeping in her bed a lot, but it feels nicer. We covered ourselves with her blanket, and held each other closely.

"I'm glad you had a great time today, Mal. I have to be honest, there were a couple times I was afraid you were going to leave." Evie said.

"You were?" I asked.

"Yeah. Especially when Chad showed up."

I took a deep breath.

"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that." Evie said.

"No, it's okay, Evie. I'm over it. I've been over it. I don't give a damn what he says about us anymore. He's not worth it." I said.

Evie kissed me.

"That's what I've wanted to hear." she said.

"You have?" I asked.

"You've been holding your emotions in so much lately. I'm glad to see you're finally letting them go. I'm proud of you, Mal."

Hearing those five words really hit me, but in a good way.

"Tell me that again." I said.

"What?"

"What you just said."

Evie smiled.

"I'm proud of you, Mal." she said.

She hugged me tightly and kissed me.

"I'm glad we're together, Mal. Because I can't think of anyone else to spend the rest of my life with than you."

"The rest of your life?" I asked.

"Yeah. I think it's time we start thinking about our future. We're not going to be here forever, you know." Evie said.

Oh, I know. And I've been thinking about our future lately. And it starts in Canada. I've got nearly everything planned out. But the main problem is how to get Evie onboard.

"Well, good night, Mal." Evie said as she laid on top of me.

"Good night, Evie. I love you." I said.

"I love you too, Mal."

We kissed and Evie turned off the light. Evie fell asleep before me and not much later, I fell asleep. That sounds like a good way to end the night, right? Well unfortunately, for me, it wasn't the end of my night. Because I had the most horrible, horrific nightmare I could remember to date. It's so bad, I don't want to talk about it. But like Evie said, it's never good to hold things in. So here we go.

It took place here at Auradon Prep, except it was not the typical sunny day. It was night time, but the moon wasn't out. It was dark, but there was light coming from somewhere, because I was able to see my way around, but I didn't see where the light was coming from. I stood at the front of Auradon Prep, looking at the building's entrance. It looked like it was in disrepair, but the grass or plants were not overgrown. I then looked down to my left at the ground and that's when the horror began. Lonnie was lying on the ground. I kneeled down to her and shook her as I said her name. She weakly looked at me.

"Mal.."

She was alive, but severely hurt. I got up and looked ahead. The doors to the school were opened. And it was weird, because I never recalled them being opened. I walked in. The place looked like it was torn apart. Completely trashed. I kept walking until my shoe hit something. I looked down and saw Jay.

"Jay! Are you alright? Where's Carlos?" I asked.

Jay was in the same condition.

"No." I said sadly.

I kept walking. I eventually found myself in this weird hallway. A hallway that doesn't really exist. I walked down it. Lights were flickering and trash was everywhere as well as broken windows. As I walked I frequently heard a low rumbling sound and saw others that were severely hurt. Ben, Audrey, Jane, even Chad among many others. At the end of the hallway, I saw a door. One that I've never seen before. But in front of the door was Carlos. I gasped and ran to him.

"Carlos! Oh my god! What happened to you?!"

"Mal, you must…"

"What? What is it?!"

Carlos was in the same condition as all the others.

"Save Evie. She's...inside..."

I carefully moved Carlos out of the way of the door before opening it. As I walked into this strange room I saw Evie.

"Evie!" I yelled as I ran over to her.

She was lying on a surgical bed and was looking horrible. She too was alive, but barely. She had her eyes closed and was slowly breathing. Her clothes had tears and blood stains on them as well as her skin had cuts and bruises.

"Evie, what happened to you? What happened to the others?" I frantically asked.

She didn't respond.

"Evie, talk to me!" I yelled.

Then I heard a crashing sound. I looked behind me, and walking out of the darkness were three horrific looking creatures. One taller than the other. The shortest looked about four feet tall, while the tallest looked to be about eight feet tall. These creatures, like I said, very horrific looking. Their bodies were black with no distinguishable features, but had skulls as heads with orange glowing eyes. To some, that may not look scary, but in a dream, everything feels real and can be very unpredictable. They blocked the door, so I couldn't get out. I wouldn't have tried anyway, not without Evie. But I was terrified.

"Who are you? What have you done?" I asked.

The shortest creature made a loud growling sound. The weird thing was, when that happened, I felt an excruciating pain in my stomach at the same time. They began walking towards me.

"You stay back! Stay away from me!" I yelled.

The creatures then disappeared. I sighed. But right when I turned around to look at Evie, the creatures stood right in front of me and all three basically yelled an extremely loud growling-screaming like sound right at my face which caused me to scream as I woke up. As I screamed, Evie woke up as well, startled by me. She touched me as she said my name. But I didn't know I was awake even though I was. I grabbed her and got on top of her as I had my hands around her neck.

"You will pay for what you've done to them!" I yelled as I began shaking her.

Evie desperately called my name. Begging me to stop. Still unaware I was awake, and what I was doing, I began to choke Evie. She tried to get my hands off her by trying to grab my arms. We struggled for less than a minute, until we both fell out of the bed which snapped me out of it. I shook my head and saw Evie coughing. I sat on the floor shocked at what I had done.

"Evie?"

She was able to get herself to stop coughing and laid on the floor breathing heavily. After a couple minutes, she was able to stabilize herself. She looked at me, with a confused and shocked expression. I looked at her with tears running down my cheeks. Without thinking, I quickly put on my shoes and jacket and ran out the door. As I ran down the hallway to the main entrance, I noticed everything was still the same as it was when we got back from the carnival. Which was only a few hours ago. I ran outside and out to a flower garden.

I cried as I was thinking about what just happened. What could've caused me to have such a dream? Things were going fine. As I sat on a bench and pondered, I heard rustling behind me. I turned around and saw Evie. She had a red mark around her neck. At the area I grabbed her. I was about to run away again, when she said my name.

"Mal, don't run. We need to talk." she said.

I didn't want to talk to her. I was ashamed, and scared for what I had done. Evie could tell I was. She walked over to me and hugged me.

"I know you didn't mean to hurt me. You had a nightmare, didn't you?" she asked.

I was unable to speak. Evie then gave me a kiss.

"It's okay. You're alright. I'm alright." she said, trying to comfort me.

Evie's POV

Mal was scared. Like scared for her life. Whatever she woke up from, has definitely terrified her.

"Baby, please talk to me." I said.

I pulled Mal into a long hug and she started to cry very hard. I rubbed her back, while also giving her many kisses, trying to comfort her.

"I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry." she said.

"It's okay. It's okay." I said.

Mal looked at me. I wiped some tears away from her face and gave her another kiss. She was starting to calm down. We hugged again for quite awhile until we returned to our room. When we got there, I took Mal's jacket off her and led her to my bed where we sat next to each other.

"Now, can you tell me what you dreamt?" I asked.

"Not really." Mal replied.

"Please, Mal?"

Mal sighed.

"Okay. Because it's not good to hold things in."

I nodded.

"Yes, baby." I said.

Mal moved closer to me and I held her hands.

"It took place here. And...all our friends were hurt." Mal said.

"Including me?" I asked.

"Yes. But you were barely alive though. Everyone was." Mal replied.

"What happened next?"

"There were these three, horrific looking creatures. I..I don't even know what they were or where they came from. But I think they were the ones who hurt our friends and almost killed you. They might have if I hadn't shown up when I did."

"What did they look like?"

Mal hesitated to answer.

"It's okay. You don't have to answer that." I said.

"Their bodies were all black, like one of those spiritual shadow people, except their heads was a skull with orange glowing eyes."

"Oh my god." I said, trying to imagine that.

"They made a horrible growling-like noise. A growl that didn't sound like any animal that growls. And when one of them did, I felt sharp pains in my stomach."

I held Mal close to me. I felt so bad for her.

"I don't understand what could've caused me to have that kind of dream." Mal said.

"Do you think it had any relation to the dream you told me about a while ago?" I asked.

Mal's POV

"What dream?" I asked.

"The dream you once told me about. Well, told me very little. You said it was about us, but no more after that." Evie said.

We know what she's talking about.

"No. It definitely has no relation to that. That was a good dream." I said.

"Are you sure? Cause you woke up with tears in your eyes." Evie said.

I shrugged.

"It was a good dream." I said.

"Tell me about it." Evie said.

"What?"

"Tell me about it."

"About what?"

Evie looked at me, a little annoyed about my question.

"Oh, that dream." I said.

"Yes."

I looked around the room. I really didn't want to tell her. But then, how would I get her to go to Canada with me? I couldn't just suggest it out of the blue.

"Please, Mal. You should tell me. You need to get your mind off your nightmare, and tell me this amazing dream about us. Was it an erotic dream about us?" Evie asked.

I smiled. She's trying to make me feel better.

"Tell me, baby. Please." Evie said as she played with my hair.

I sighed.

"It's time. She does deserve to know. I've kept it a secret long enough." I thought.

I looked at her and smiled. She smiled back.

"We were living in the most luxurious home I have ever seen. Somewhere far from here. I believe it was in a country called Canada." I said.

"Canada?" Evie asked.

"Yeah. We were living there. In a nice, luxurious home with lots of high end stuff. And it started with me walking into the most amazing kitchen. And you looked so beautiful. You were wearing a blue dress with a silver tiara. Similar to the dress you're wearing now. And you were making us a nice dinner."

"Wow. Tell me more." Evie said.

"I don't know how big the house was, or how many bedrooms it had, but it was one of those contemporary houses. And the house was sitting on a huge private lot with tall trees all around. Like we were living in a forest. High end appliances, fixtures, shiny flooring. It was amazing. Our bedroom was nice too. There was one wall that was blue. I think I did that for you. In fact, I somehow bought the house for us." I said.

"You did?"

"Yeah. I guess it was because I love you. And I would do anything I can to make you happy." I said.

Evie smiled and kissed me.

"So that's your amazing dream, huh? It sounds wonderful." she said.

"That's not all, there was a part two as well. I walked into our laundry room, which of course, was very nice. And you were in there, wearing only your blue nightdress folding clothes. You told me to take off my clothes so you could wash them."

"And what did you do?"

"Took them off. And you started giving kisses all over my body. After that, you led me to our bathroom and we made out in the bathtub."

Evie laughed.

"So it was an erotic dream?" she asked.

"The second one, yeah." I said.

Evie smiled and kissed me. She's been giving so many kisses lately. And I love each one of them. She held my hands and looked at me.

"How come you didn't tell me about this sooner?" she asked.

"I was afraid I might not be able to make it come true." I replied.

"But I can help you." Evie said.

"Really? You would want to live in Canada with me?"

"Well, I would have to look into it. See what that country would have to offer." she said.

"There is so much there. In fact, Carlos and I have met a few times and he helped me plan it out. I even have a plan on how to keep your business running in a place so far from here. Evie, there is so much for us there." I said.

"Coming from you, I don't doubt it. But nevertheless, I would love to help you achieve your dream." she said.

"You would?" I asked.

"Yes, Mal. I heard you say once: I'll be happy no matter where we are as long as I am with you. And I feel the same way. Now, let's try and get some more sleep. Because we're not going to get very much. Do you think you'll be alright?" she asked.

"Yeah. I think so." I replied.

"Okay. Afterschool, I will read about Canada online and perhaps even plan a trip over there."

I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I was thrilled to hear what Evie had just said. I was feeling a lot better already.

"Thank you, Evie. I can't believe this." I said.

"Believe it, baby. Honestly, I've been secretly trying to plan out a future for us as well. But you have gotten so much farther than I have." she said.

"I love you, Evie."

"I love you too, Mal."

We kissed and laid back down. Evie held me closely to her and we both fell back asleep. I guess that nightmare happened for a reason. Everything does. While I hated that dream, I am kind of grateful for it. And now my dream is even closer to coming true than before.