:::Chapter 1:::
I let out a scream as I jolted awake. Again this thing was in my dreams; stalking me, hunting me and, wanting me. It has appeared and the disappeared for a long time. But right now it has come back, night after night with me waking with an anxiety attack. It could be a peaceful dream to a freezing nightmare but one glance, one single glance and I’m trapped. It comes towards me to attack me but I’m always pulled out. I’ve always said that I have something watching over me and, heck I’m probably right. This night though wasn’t different from the others. Three AM rolled around and I was pulled out from my dream.
“Liv, Liv! What’s wrong!?” My fiancé Colby asked, taking me into his arms.
I heard myself sobbing, whenever I wake from this I feel like I’ve been out of my body. It can take my body a bit to get into sync with my mind.
“It came again…it tried to attack me but I was pulled out”. I replied to him.
“Liv, it was just a dream. You’re safe, I’m here baby”. Colby said trying to comfort me.
I looked around the room, Colby had turned the light on and I mentally thank God for that. I knew this thing couldn’t attack me in the light…or so I think. It has attacked me in the light of my dreams though. The white walls of our room shined as Colby came into my line of vision. I could feel his emotions, he was scared and worried.
“The man in black came back”! I screamed.
I felt myself slip into an anxiety attack. My heart was beating like it was about to explode in my chest, my head was starting to feel dizzy and all I wanted to do was to scream out. Scream for mercy that these dreams stop. Slowly I grabbed onto the bed, lifting myself up. Colby said something to me but I blocked him out. I dragged myself out of the bed room and into the bathroom flipping the lights on. I grip onto the sink and turn the water on.
I looked up at myself in the mirror. My eyes bloodshot with tiredness as my hair a mess. My energy felt like it was just dragging till I passed back out. My hands cupped the cool water as I splash it against my face. My face felt like a summer’s rain storm and it made me feel good. I turn the water off and slowly look up at the mirror. Out of the corner of my eye I see a black figure standing at the window. Again I scream loudly falling onto the ground in fear. The lights start to flicker like in a horror movie.
“Colby! Colby! Colby help me”! I screamed for dear life.
I heard Colby scrambling up out of bed and running down the hall. I still couldn’t see its face but it was starting to walk toward me. The lights turned off and Colby opened the door, he flicked the switch and the lights stayed on, stable. I looked up at him and he lift me up.
“Liv what the heck is going on”?! Colby asked.
“It’s here! It’s over on the other side of the room”! I screamed pointing over.
“Liv, nothing is there”. Colby replied.
I turned and he was right. The man in black was gone. I blinked in surprise but turned back to Colby. Colby sighed and put his arm around me.
“Liv it was just a nightmare”. He said.
I knew the truth, it wasn’t. No way in heck could that be a nightmare and feel so very real. What just happened now how was that a nightmare? I was awake and I knew that thing was real.
“Let’s just go back to bed”. Colby said strolling off with me.
For those that don’t know me, I’m Liv Lang. I’m a twenty one year old with the abilities of empathy, pyrokensis and aerokensis. That means I can manipulate air and fire and for empathy I can feel and project emotions to and from other people. Empathy is a hard gift to master honestly, especially seeing how I also have links to people. Those people though are the closets I’m to and well I have one to Colby.
Colby Kuzentsov is two years older than me. We met
Colby got me into bed and slid in next to me. His arms warp around me, holding me close enough I could hear his heart. He’s worried as always, what was it now? A month since the “Man in black” as I dub him came to cause hell. I’m honestly surprise Colby hasn’t asked me to go see a therapist or anything like that. I could tell though he’s more edgy from all of this. His brown eyes look down at me and I couldn’t smile. It felt like I’m emotionally drained.
“Liv you’re probably just getting cold feet seeing how the wedding is in a week. I know I’m nervous too but maybe once we’re at the honeymoon the nightmares will go away”. Colby told me.
No they wouldn’t. Something told me something was going to break soon and it wouldn’t be pretty.
“Maybe”. I lied quietly.
I wasn’t about to tell Colby my feelings on that subject. He had enough on his plate with the wedding coming up. Colby Kuzentsov was my two year senior. We ended up meeting during my first semester in college. By the end of the same semester we started dating and by the end of the year Colby proposed to me, that was over a year ago and now next week we’re getting married. I wouldn’t be telling that truth if I said I was calm. No I was scared and the man in black isn’t helping either. I swear we were being watched but I didn’t dare to look around, Colby was calm and I wasn’t about to alarm him.
“Who all is coming with us to Church tomorrow”? I asked.
“Michiru, Ahava, Sakina, Sotiris, Cadell and, Garaile”. Colby replied.
Ah yeah the gang, I’m happy they’ll be there at least. Our group of friends met up also at college. Colby snapped me out of my thoughts by kissing me on the forehead. I felt that he was tired and felt myself as well getting that way.
“We should get some sleep”. Colby told me.
I nodded in agreement, I laid my head on his chest and slowly like a warmth wave sleep overtook me. Outside though someone was watching us after all. Standing in the shadows was a woman in a black cloak. Her red eyes though made it stick out from the darkness.
“So…it begins”.
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