15/09/2007
Dear Hailey,
Nilly is quite an adorable dog and she was friendly when I accidentally entered her apartment instead of yours. I've been having a busy month so I am quite tired. Why do you call your neighbor Bee, he doesn't look like an insect, and is your knee okay? I saw you limping so did you hurt yourself bad when you tripped? My favorite ice-cream is Lemon sorbet by the way, you should try it.
I don't know why your father is so mean, but I do know he is an alcoholic, that means he drinks so much beer that he looses control to his anger. The reason he hasn't been back for the past few days is because I'm not letting him back inside your apartment or anywhere near you and your mother. I cannot read minds but I know your father is not good for you and her so forgive me for protecting you.
A cat is going to show up in front of the building in three days. It's black cat with purple eyes and black toe beans, just check under his paw. His name is Castiel, I'd like you to keep him for me. Thanks Hailer.
Lots of Life
Grim
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*Hailey's POV
"NO!! WHAT THE FUCK!!!" I shouted throwing my hands in the air in exasperation. Freddie had left this morning cause his parents were worried and also cause Jared and Felix said they'd come get him if he didn't go. I was currently sitting on the couch, watching a horror movie "did she go into the basement?" Tyler asked, poking his head out of the kitchen.
I glared at him "yes. Shut up" I muttered, watching her scream and get slaughtered "don't you have your first class tomorrow?" I asked "yep. starts at 1:30 so I have loads of time to prepare. When's your first class?" he walked out of the kitchen holding two glasses of water and passed me one, plopping down next to me "Tuesday. At 11. What did you wanna be later?" he asked, taking a sip of his water.
I shrugged "English teacher for French speakers in a secondary school" I replied, then scoffed when the door of the basement slammed closed in the movie. That's Cliché. Tyler chuckled "That sounds oddly specific. Why to French speakers though?" He wondered, reaching for the remote to lower the volume a bit.
"Car, je parle le Francais parfaitement" I replied. Tyler paused and slowly turned to look at me "Say the what what now?" He wondered "I said "Cause I speak French perfectly"" I grinned, taking a sip of my water. I choked at the sudden burning sensation, quickly swallowed it and started coughing "wtf" I managed to choke out before coughing again a bit and finally turning to him with shock after my fourth and last couch.
Tyler burst out laughing after he placed his own glass down and literally slapped his knee with entertainment. It took me a second but after my mind set itself straight I finally understood that the idiotic asshole, had put vodka instead of water, in my fucking glass. I can't believe it.
I stood up, chugged the whole glass down and glared at him, smacking the glass down "oh. It. Is. On" I threatened before walking out the living room. He was no longer laughing. He just looked confused and slightly scared/worried, after I left. Nah I'm kidding, he looked worried and amused. Basically challenging me.
I got to my room and paused. Shit, I was in the middle of that movie. Oh whatever, it was probably gonna end with all of them dead like usual. Ugh, all these damn horror movies are so repetitive. Move into new home, home is haunted, don't move out even when weird shit starts happening, die.
I heard a knock at my door and in came Tyler, covering his head in case I tried to throw something at him. He was grinning "by the way. Where's your friend, Freddy?" he asked "he left this morning, you were still sleeping" I answered, opening my curtains and going to my bed to fix it up "ah, does he live far?" he asked. I stopped and frowned "pretty far...why?" I looked at him weirdly "oh no reason. Just wanted to get to know your friends better since you haven't told us that much about yourself" he grinned.
I raised an eyebrow "okay? Why not just ask me questions?" I asked. He nodded "good point. What's your tattoo mean?" he asked, pulling my chair out from my desk and sitting on it with his hands behind his head "what tattoo?" I smiled sweetly "the one on your collar. We can see it when you wear that loose PJ of yours. Is it an upside down heart?" he asked.
I pulled my collar down to reveal the tattoo "Nope. It's a spade. From the deck of cards. It matches my friends" I smiled, going back to making my bed. He frowned "Freddy too?" He asked. I nodded "yup. There's four of us, we've known each other since we were tiny. We each have a deck family.
"Freddy's the heart since he's the nicest of us all, Felix is the clover cause he's always seriously lucky. I'm not even kidding, it's weird how lucky he is. Jared's the diamond cause he's freaking fabulous and he stands out a lot. He's the tallest. Then I'm the spade cause I'm a piece of shit and I know how to metaphorically stab people. My insults can hurt. The guys can confirm it. According to them, I'm quite colorful"
I smiled and Tyler smiled back, leaning back in my chair "so you guys are each a card family. That why you weren't afraid to play against the guys the other night, and why you beat their ass's?" he asked. I nodded "yeah. We don't really know which of us is the best player overall but Freddie is amazing at poker, Felix can beat anyone in chess, I'm really good at Magic the gathering and the eights game while Jared is very good at all those games that include stripping or making out and shit. He's extremely perverted when it comes to games" I chuckled and Tyler just looked at me like Jared sounded weird.
I sat down on my made bed and rubbed my face a bit "got anything else to ask?" I smiled "Yeah. You got any sibs?" he asked "two older step brothers and one younger step sister that I've never been allowed to talk to" I shrugged "why not?" he asked "cause my dad left us and never came back. Gives my mom updates every once in a while to "show her he's much happier without her" or some shit. Honestly we're a lot happier without him. He wasn't very nice from what I remember" I grinned "oh. That's nice..I guess" he didn't seem to know what to say.
I shrugged again "yeah. It is. My mom cancelled the wedding and moved apartment. With me obviously. Few years later, cause of me, she met my step dad. Who is the best honestly" I puffed my chest out, proud of myself. Tyler laughed lightly "how'd that happen?" he stretched his arms above his head and made himself more comfortable in my chair "well. I must have been eight or something, almost 9 and one of my neighbors had this dog.
"He used to leave his apartment door open so his dog could wander the halls. It was a safe building so no one would go into his apartment, and if they tried to, his dog would just scared them out. She was really nice, she just didn't look like she was. Well everyday, before I went to school, she'd wait in front of my door, walk me out of the building then at the end of the day, she'd do the same thing but other way around. Every week, even during weekends, me and her would hang out in the hallway.
"Except every Saturday, the owner would take her out for a walk, buy his groceries, then come back. I would follow him out the building, the whole way to the grocery store. Always just kind of stalking them-" I laughed lightly at the memory "-Since I was no threat, Nilly, the dog, would never bark or anything. He would leave her outside the store and I'd pet her, then hide when he came out. Well one day, I tripped on my way to hide and hurt my knee. So he bought me ice cream and carried me all the way back to my place. on the way I found out that he had known the whole time, that I was following him to and from the grocery store.
"Said he would see me outside, petting Nelly. And that he would see me play with her in the hall during the weekend. He brought me home, met my very surprised mother and after a few weeks of talking they had date number 1, which I helped him organize actually" I grinned, stretching my arms "that's actually adorable" Tyler laughed "You literally stalked your mothers future husband. It's probably more hilarious than adorable actually" He shook his head, a grin spread across his face.
"What about you? Got any sibs?" I asked "yep. One older sister, and older brother and a younger sister. They're all annoying" he rolled his eyes "So are all siblings" I laughed "You ever had anyone ask you "would you slap your brother for 1000$" or something like that?" He asked. I nodded "It's always those without sibs who ask that. Like dude, I would shoot Kyle in the leg for a taco. Ad I don't even like tacos that much" I shrugged.
Tyler gasped like I had told him the most terrible news in the world "YOU DON'T LIKE TACOS?!?!?!?" he practically screeched. I burst out laughing cause his voice cracked halfway through the sentence "Bro, what the shit was that?!" I asked, still laughing. He glared at me and mimicked me with a high pitched voice "you don't like tacos" he huffed "yeah, we all have different tastes. Do you like Indian food?" I asked. He made a sort of 'eh' sound with a shrug of his shoulder "point proven".
We went quiet and sort of just sat here, thinking. It wasn't awkward as far as I could tell. Well that was until I heard Tyler tapping his foot, looking at him he looked kind of nervous "You okay?" I asked. He looked at me like he was surprised, looking like he had forgotten I was there for some reason "yeah..Can I ask you something?"
"You just did" I said with an amused smile.
He glared lightly "Can I ask you two more questions?"
I grinned "Your sibs did that to you too?" I asked. He nodded "yeah. anyway. umm...Do you remember anything from last night? Or the night before?" he asked, definitely looking awkward.
"uhh, no. Why?" I looked at him weirdly and inched closer to the edge of the bed so I could man-spread, placing my elbows on my knees and my chin on my right fist.
He frowned "Wait seriously? You don't remember anything?" he asked, sounding way too surprised for this to just be me like falling off the bed or something "yeah...I seriously don't. Why? Did something happen?" I asked, straightening my back so I wouldn't hurt it.
He kind of nodded slowly "you don't remember what your nightmares were about? Cause I'm kind of curious to know what could wake you up so damn violently" he kind of muttered the last part "Nightmares? What nightmares...I haven't been-I've been having nightmares?" I looked at him like he had grown a third head. I didn't tell you? He has two heads (nah, I'm kidding, that'd be weird).
He threw his arms above his head "yeah. They're pretty damn terrible too. You woke up screaming, both times. Like you just wouldn't stop. Darren and I ran in at the same time and you were lying there, screaming like someone was ripping your skin from your body. You were trashing around and we were scared to wake you up cause we didn't know what you would do" He said. I frowned "What about Freddie? What did he do?" I asked.
"Well the first night it happened he was in the bathroom so when he came back he told us not to touch you and just ran over and grabbed both your arms so you would stop scratching at your own skin. You had scratched so much your arms were literally completely red. You stopped struggling after he called out your name like seven times and you just didn't move until the next morning" he said.
I stayed quiet, trying to remember but it was just blank, no memory at all. I felt a slight itch on my shoulder and started scratching a bit "what about last night?" I asked slowly.
Tyler kinda looked up, biting on his bottom lip. He hummed lightly "well you screamed out a really loud "please stop" or something, so I went to your room to see what was happening and you were in your bed, crying. Freddie was sitting next to the bed in this chair. He told me he didn't want to touch you in case you freaked out and that you had been crying for the past 20 minutes or so. Like seriously. It was freaky cause your eyes were opened but you weren't answering us and even though you weren't making any sounds your pillow was covered in tears" he said.
I frowned "oh, that's why it smelled like salt this morning.." I muttered "then what happened?" I asked. He shook his head "you just sat up slowly, turned to us, said "they're behind you" and fucking fainted. Like girl. That is terrifying as shit. I barely slept that night. You just made the creepiest expression, like bruh-" "Tyler. You're rambling" I said, cutting him off.
He glared at me "shut up. You freak me out. I'm allowed to ramble" he muttered "oki doki. Go ahead. I'mma go get some food while you do that" I answered, standing up and leaving the room to get to the kitchen.
I got there, started heating up some leftover pizza from yesterday and sat at the counter when I heard the front door swing open and laughter come from there. A girls laughter. I took my pizza with me and went into the living room to see who was there.
Darren was taking his shoes off and some other girl was doing the same with her black, high heeled, ankle high, boots. She was laughing lightly and then stopped when she saw me "oh hello" she said "waddup Hail?" Darren asked, walking towards me. He reached for my pizza and I held it out of his reach "go make yourself some if you want it" I glared.
I leaned to the side to check the girl "well hello there, and who might you be?" I asked, walking over and extending my hand to shake hers. She looked amused as she took my hand "Hannah, a friend of Darrens" she smiled "ooh, just friends? Well I'm Hailey, nice to meet you" I grinned, wiggling my eyebrows. She laughed a little and I paused "oh shit. Dude, I like her" I said, turning to Darren "Can I keep her?" I asked with a light laugh.
Darren glared at me "I saw her first. She isn't a dog" he crossed his arms. I pouted "ah damn. Well then, Hannah, it's very nice to meet you" I turned back to her as she tilted her head, still looking amused "you guys here to study or something?" I asked, taking another bite of my pizza as I walked into the kitchen "well actually no. We're here to drop off our stuff. We're going to get coffee together" Darren said.
If I had still been eating, I would have chocked "a date? But..a date?" I've come to learn that Darren is the biggest man-whore I've ever met. The other day I woke up to a girl walking out of Darrens room with no shirt on. Let's just say I didn't look her in the eyes and she left the dorm almost immediately, saying she couldn't live with a lesbian. Girl, nobody wants you to live here.
Darren nodded and rolled his eyes "yes, a date. Get over it" "CAN I JOIN YOU!?!" I heard Tyler scream from the hall as he ran towards the kitchen "bro what? No, it's a date" Darren laughed "damn. Hail, let's go out then. I'm bored" Ty said, turning to me. I rolled my eyes "K. Let's have a date too then" I muttered with a chuckle.
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