Lies

"Stop crying over this living thing. In due time useless things die." The young boy said, scratching his head angrily.

"He's right, Tiann" a young girl walks up behind him.

I began crying seeing the rabbit was hurting from the Bibi gun I shot earlier. "Shion, Tara… what should I do? Will daddy be mad at me?"

They both looked at each other and were puzzled. I kept sobbing, Tara put her hand on my shoulder and gave me the "let it go" look. She grabbed my hand, and we took a few steps back. Shion did the honors of ending the rabbit's life. His eyes turned red. I screamed and pushed him down. Shion slaps me after he picks himself up, then demands Tara to hold me down. She hesitated at first but nodded. All I could hear was the shrieking sound from the rabbit.

"You're a bully, no wonder they kept a monster like you locked up!" I yelled, freeing myself from Tara's grip.

Arguments broke out between me and Shion. Tara just stood there watching us. In the distance, a whistle was blown, and our argument quieted down. Tara pulled on Shion, telling him it's time to head back. He clutched his hands into a fist and stomped back in the direction of the facility. Shion's eyes were red with madness when he looked back at me.

Chills ran down my back.

"NO!" I jumped up. Turning my head and looking around the room. I was lying in my bed instead of my parent's room. Trying to figure out what happened. I slid out of bed and stumbled towards the door. I slowly touch it, but someone on the other end beat me to it. It was my dad, who popped his head through the door and asked me what the screaming was about. At first, I didn't have anything to say because even I was still puzzled at what happened. I just scratched my head and replied saying I didn't know maybe it was just a nightmare. He looked at me and forward his hands for me to come down to breakfast closing the door behind him. I turned and placed my back against the door and began freaking out, touching every part of my body to make sure I wasn't over exaggerating. I lifted my shirt and there was nothing. I ran into the bathroom to look at the mirror, still nothing. I pushed everything to the back of my mind and slipped into the shower.

I sat down at the kitchen table; I could smell the frying of eggs and bacon. Dad placed a plate of scrambled eggs, crispy bacon, and two sides of the toast.

"Oh, sorry forgot your drink."

"Don't worry about it. I'll fix my own." I said, jumping up from my seat. "By the way dad, where did you go yesterday?" I open the fridge and reach for the fruit juice container.

"Yesterday?" he said, with a confused look on his face. "I was working on my new test subject in the lab with my coworkers."

"Oh…" I didn't pay much attention to what he did in the lab, so I left it at that. "You've been staying at the lab for a rather long…"

He threw some papers my way across the table as he sat down. He shifted his glasses and placed his right elbow on the table and heard his foot began tapping up and down.

"Do you know what this is?"

I grabbed the papers and gave a glance at them. I just remember last week was a grade report. I didn't do so well on two of my tests. Seeing these papers put a big dent in my heart and at that very moment, I wasn't thinking about school. "I'm seventeen years old, and in the eleventh grade. I have one more year before I shift off to college." I made a face. "These grades mean nothing; I can always improve them. So…"

"Not enough!" He slammed his fist on the table. "Right now, a lot is going on at the lab and, and I need you to stay focused this year. I…I don't even know if I can take care of you any longer." He shakes his head, "No, I don't know if it will last."

I stayed silent.

"Is this about what happened to mom? I mean I can take care of myself." I guess I'm not even strong enough to have a good mindset. "Do you even think I can get in?"

"Forgive me. My mind isn't right. Please, dear, eat your breakfast and get ready for school."

I don't understand why he keeps avoiding questions or conversations about my mother. I feel like he's hiding something from me that I shouldn't know about. He might be scared it's going to frighten me. This might put him in the spot, where I, no will be upset with him for the actions he has done. Aside from that, I guess I must ask him at a right time, next time. I quickly gobbled down the breakfast and drank the last bit of juice. I glanced at the clock on the wall it was around 7:45 AM. With a big sigh I quickly got up and softly spoke the words, "I guess it's time to go to school now, dad."

We were both quiet during the ride to my school. I looked out the window and sighed as I watched everything move by fast. I put my hand on the window, for some reason, my mind always tends to slip out of the real world into my own. I tend to drift off into this dream world where I felt like I will be saved, and nothing in the whole world would even matter anymore. I didn't have to deal with problems hardships and the life that I was surrounded by. Every minute and every second I think about the thoughts of my mother and who she could have been or what she was when she was still living.

"Ding ding."

My stomach began to feel terrible; I clutch on it. I keep hearing this strange sound just like yesterday. I made a face as if I was about to throw up. Turning to look at the reflection of myself in the window, I looked fine. It was weird I wasn't turning any kind of color. So, what was it? Why am I feeling like something is wrong? Someone is watching me from somewhere. I felt this dark energy surrounding me, choking me, and yet I still couldn't identify it. The eerie feeling stopped, and everything went back to normal.

"We're here," Dad said, firmly. He didn't even look back at me, only to feel like he was rushing me. I only mumble bye under my breath as I open the door to leave. Finally getting away from the awkward silence dad was giving me. The atmosphere felt so refreshing yet not so great.

I am not a fan of my high school life from the bottom of my heart. From all the tests and quizzes are given out to test your intelligence, to the labels people put you under. I guessed this was the norm for every high school you would go to, though.

I slap my cheeks, there was no time to think about such negativity, only positive things. I slowly walk to the entrance.

"Urgh"

I dropped to the ground holding my stomach with a fierce grab. "What the hell is wrong with me? Now that I thought about it…it was that situation that happened last night. For some reason, all of it was a blur. I could've sworn I was dead for sure. Please don't tell me that THING did something to me." My body started feeling hot, my eyes were watering, and felt like I was burning inside. I felt like I was spiraling out of control intense heavy breathing and having my mind not focusing, it was like I was losing myself.

"You should have been dead by now."

I turn my head to see a black figure standing over me. It showed me its huge smile. "DIE ALREADY." I couldn't move my body as it shoved at me with its hands and began choking me. "I stabbed you for a reason. He promised me a body that I could live in for a long period."

I shut my eyes and started screaming.

"Are you okay?" Someone said in the distance. I open my eyes to a crowd of students starting at me with a disturbing look. I turn around to see Mimi staring at me, she reaches out her hand.

Mimi was a childhood friend since I was six years old, and I can't remember a time when she was always there for me no matter what. I know that I always tend to cry from time to time and she was always there to cheer me up.

I grabbed her hand and stood up brushing myself off. She asked me if I was okay for the second time. I didn't respond. I felt embarrassed and quickly turned around and began walking fast towards the entrance of my school. Mimi followed me to homeroom class pestering me about what happened earlier. I tried changing the subject, but she kept insisting to know more. Was one thing about her that she wanted to dig deeper into someone's problems, and she would never let it go until she solved it.

"Why were you screaming?" Mimi said, poking me as I sit down at my desk.

I grabbed at her finger and pulled it toward my mouth indicating to Mimi, I was going to bite the shit out of her finger. She exaggerated by pulling back hitting a student's desk. I laughed.

I thought to myself: "how could I possibly tell anyone what I just saw? Shadows, a necklace, and my dreams, all felt like it happened before. Where though?" Come to think about it, I felt like I was in a crazy supernatural show.

"I think you hit your head." Mimi looks at me. I stare into Mimi's eyes and then at my hands. Thinking maybe I should tell her later, but not until I fully know what was going on with me. Before I could get another word in to tell her, the bell rings and everyone comes rushing in.

It won't be long before my good day was about to be ruined by the popular trio's perfections. All three just so happily bumped into my desk and began giggling away with their little chit-chat.

"Did you see what happened earlier, Dani? She flipped out in front of everyone, what kind of person does that. A crazy weirdo." supposedly who is the leader of the group, Hollin. She glanced back at me and then back at her friends. She reached over the girl's shoulder and whispered into her ear. "Seems like someone had an embarrassing moment. Probably trying to draw attention to herself so she can get attention, too bad it backfired on her." I guess Hollin seemed to notice or watch me in my breakdown of something I couldn't explain. I dislike her so much. In my head, I thought this situation has nothing to do with you, yet you tried to indulge yourself. I had the irritation of wanting to slap the mess out of her. But I couldn't do that because I'm a sweet person. So, therefore she will always be a bitch?

"OMG totally!"

"The ugly weirdo was going all haywire, lol." said the third one, named Nev, in a high and annoying voice.

"Urgh, I keep telling you not to use lol, it's when you are laughing stupid."

"Sorry"

"Oh man," I thought, "are all girls who want to be popular is this stupid?" I rolled my eyes, knowing each of their pasts was completely different before coming to high school. It's like everyone has become brand new. To think, back then I was friends with each one; before they threw me out of the picture, or maybe I was just more into myself and didn't care much about friends like that. I need to get out of here.

The professor walks in clapping his hands "Alright you little brats, we have a lot of events coming soon and exams. I hope all of you consider what college you're going to in the future." The whole class let out a huge sigh. I slumped down in my seat hoping today would go by rather quickly, maybe I can just drift off just a little bit.

Three Hours Passed By.

BLAM.

"Aha!" I jumped and fell from my seat.

"Wake up, sleepyhead class is over, and you slept through," Mimi said.

"Urgh, didn't have to hit my desk like that, you know how much I hate loud noises," I said, rubbing my butt.

"You didn't miss much just the trio talking through the whole class about voting for President or after school work. Remember we must do community service, and everyone must put their votes in data. Just a lot of gibberish school stuff so you're pretty fine."

I grab on Mimi's skirt and jump up, taking my work and we, both walk out of the class. We made a few conversations here and there about what we were going to do after class. She was mostly making all the plans, but I turned her down half of the time. She kept asking what was more important than her. As usually I just wanted to be left alone for now, I didn't even feel like going to the rest of my classes. After I walked her to her next class, I waved my goodbyes and slowly switched directions to the school's exit. I was tipping and ducking my way through the halls.

"Why can't you be like your brother?" a male voice said behind me.

I froze hoping he didn't see me.

"You're such an imbecile, even if you froze, I could still see you."

I turned around knowing it would be Noah. The male president who seems to be the honor of trying to flag-people-down-who-didn't-really-want -o-be-flagged-down-so-mind-your-business Person. He has the looks and the body of an athlete. I can see why people love him so much. Anyway, let's not forget he just mentioned my brother. I will not on this planet ever list him as part of my family. NOT EVER. He wasn't even living in the same household as I, let alone remember who he even was. To be honest he just up and disappeared after that incident of whatever happened to my mother. Well, at least that's what my father told me. For some reason, there's a lot of unanswered questions and cut-out memories.

I looked at Noah with a serious look on my face and walked towards him with no hesitation. My reaction caught him off guard taken a few steps back. "I don't know what you are talking about. Don't ever speak of that person ever again."

He was silent for a second then turned around leaving, a concerned expression on his face.

"Ahaaa," I was so scared for a second, I didn't think I could get serious without crying. "Be like him, huh?" Staring at my palm, everyone wants me to be like someone. I guess I'll never be good enough for anyone to be myself.

I stumbled to reach the door, running through the schoolyard to the front gate. Somehow, I tried to get past security cameras but that was impossible, so I struggled my way of getting over the gates.

"I am so f..." Blood spilled from my mouth. I trembled towards the ground while my body was feeling heavy. "No, not again." I had a hard time breathing that I was gasping for air like I was simply into a deep-deep shallow of water but burning. It was like the heaviness of a 50-pound dumbbell with the serious pain of someone digging themselves inside of my body. Ripping parts of me from limb to limb until there was nothing left.

"I finally found you." A creepy voice said in front of me. I had enough will of force to pull my head up to see a grotesque man looking down on me. He was dressed in a black hoodie with dark hair and red lazy eyes. I tried to move, but I was thrown back by an unknown force and sent smashing into the side of the school building, right into a nearby classroom. A group of students were injured, others were screaming and running. Warning signals were set off in the whole building.

Everything was blurry and my body ached with pain. I felt like I was punched hard in the stomach. I started crying seeing nothing but gore of blood everywhere. One student's head was smashed in by a pillar. I thought what I saw it couldn't be unseen. I lost all reasons to breathe. I tried clutching my throat, grabbing the air, and crying but nothing…nothing could get rid of whatever I've just been through.

"Ack!" I gasped for air.

"Forgive me, were you laying here?" the creepy man laughed as he stepped all over me. "I need salvation and revenge. All you fuckers need to die!" He threw his head back and laughed. I was losing consciousness fast as he was smashing everything to pieces. Something that was attached to him was rather familiar. He was a huge shadowy figure that was reaching over him as he pursued to kill and destroy everything around him. because of my faintness I could barely see or make out what it looked like but all I know is that it was something from a terrible nightmare. It hovered over him as if it was controlling him like a puppet and whatever energy he had it seemed to consume along with it. "What the fuck is going on here?"

I felt my eyes roll in the back of my head.

I blacked out.