I'm not over who?

Chapter 50- She has an excuse to cry. You don't.

Alesa's Pov-

We finally had some sort of lead on who had taken Elise. But no one knew where she could be.

There was now 4 suspects, Seto, Dawn, James and Mike. I'd heard of Mike before and I knew James obviously. But the names Seto and Dawn were unfamiliar. "Adam who's Seto and Dawn?" I asked him.

His face dropped from his smile of finding leads and he looked over at me. "Just some old friends that aren't friends anymore."

"But why would they have anything against-"

"Look Alesa, a lot of stuff went on after Elise came to live with me. I don't want to bring all that up again."

I nodded my head. I'd never seen Adam like this. It was strange, he didn't seem like Adam anymore.

"I did it!" A shout cried from the other side of the room. We all looked that direction to see Emily hugging Mitch and high fiving the technicians next to her. "Guys I hacked in to Elise's phone!"

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Elise's Pov-

I couldn't stop. I screamed and screamed and screamed. James laughed and removed her blindfold to reveal eyes frozen wide open, her mouth slightly parted in a silent scream. Her blood was on my face.

He removed the axe and her head dropped onto the floor and rolled to my feet. Her blood was spewed all over the place and I gagged, trying not to be sick. I continued to scream and started to thrash around in my chair. I wanted to be free, I wanted nothing more then to get out of here and go back to Team Crafted.

Yasmin's frozen eyes seemed to almost look up at me, pleading for me to help her. I sat there, bound to a chair, helpless. I could of helped her. But no, like everyone of my dreams I watched a friend die. Except this wasn't a dream. She really was dead this time.

"Please... Please" I whispered under my breath before looking up at James as he started to laugh.

"Guess I had no need for Yasmin after all. You're much more fun to toy with."

I closed my eyes and drifted off into unconsciousness. My eyes opened but I wasn't in the same room as before. The images flickered in front of me and I screamed. Why? What had I done to deserve all of this?

Elise...

I looked around, it was pitch black in here, but there was a small white glow flickering in the distance. Attempting to move hurt. A lot. Some invisible force field shocked me back into the spot I was in before.

Elise...

I heard it again. The white glow was growing closer, providing a small light.

I'm here to help Elise...

"Who are you?!" I screamed in to the darkness. "Because I swear if this is my unconscious beings doing I will slap myself when I get the chance!"

You don't remember me? I don't know if I should feel offended by that. Although it has been quiet some time since we last met.

The light got closer and closer until I had to shield my eyes from it's intense glare. But then the light died down and I removed my arm from eyes and let it drop to my side as I saw the one person I never thought I'd see in this world. "What are you doing here?" I asked.

I told you I'd always be with you somehow. I wasn't just about to let our friendship that we had created go to waste.

"But why are you here? Yeah I get all that friendship and shit like that but why have you shown up now?"

It doesn't matter why I'm here. Just know that you can't give up. Not just yet. A world you love is in danger, and that danger might possible destroy everything, including me.

"I can't be dealing with this! Not now anyway!" I shouted in frustration as I gripped my head. "You're not real! You're just in my head and that's how I can see you!"

He walked over and placed his hand on my forehead and smiled at me sadly. This is for the best Elise. You must do whatever you think is right. Maybe I am just in your head, but I promise you I am very much real.

He started to fade away as I felt a sharp pain ricocheting in my head. The sound that left my mouth was a scream that sounded too animalistic to be mine. But it was.

"Screw you too!"

My eyes opened wide and I was back in the room I was in before. Yasmin's head still laid at my feet and her blood was still splattered over my face. "Hope you enjoyed that private viewing!" James grinned widely as he swung the axe around.

"I- I-" I trailed off into silence. I didn't know what to say. I couldn't find the words to yell at them for really killing my friend this time. They didn't deserve my words anyway.

And for the first time in a while, I started crying. I didn't scream or hysterically sob over some stupid thing like a nightmare. I cried over my friends death. I cried for the things that had been dealt to me that I didn't deserve. I cried for all the times I'd lost.

It was only a matter of time before they got bored of me and it was my blood that was on the floor and the walls. But that didn't matter anymore because I'm already dead.

When it death does come for me, I'll be at least able to say "I'm ready."

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No one's Pov-

The girl was broken. She sat tied in the chair as they removed the body of one who she had cared for and cried.

She had been broken many times in her life, by those who were close to her and those that she distanced but couldn't control.

Life is only a series of disappointments after all, broken by dark spells of depression.

She wasn't the only one crying, but she had the excuse to.

Sitting on a park bench, drenched from the recent downpour of rain sat a boy, who was aged 18. He'd lost everything because of stupidity and seemed to regret every decision he had made. "I'm so sorry" he cried out as he hugged his knees to his chest. "I was stupid, I shouldn't have done that. And now you're gone and I'll never get to apologize."

His hair stuck to his face and his clothes clung to his body. He had nothing, yet wanted everything that he had taken for granted before back.

No one could tell who this unfamiliar boy was due to the rain, and no one went to ask if he was alright. He wasn't alright. He'd screwed things up and had no way of fixing them because the one who could solve things could be dead and it was ultimately his fault because of his words and actions.

"I could have been happy. She could of been happy. We all could of been happy" He cried. "I ruined it all for you. You didn't deserve this, you still don't. So I won't come back, because I'll only make it worse, I won't get the forgiveness I want because you won't give it. I don't mind, as long as you're safe... and happy."

Someone eventually stopped in the downpour and asked if he was okay.

"Am I okay? I don't know. How can I be okay? Because I'm Jason."