Hannah
I haven’t been to school in three days, and I’m pretty sure everyone, teachers included, are shocked that I haven’t been turning up. I drove myself to school, parked in my usual spot, but as soon as I saw Jimmy… stumble out of his truck, I couldn’t take it and tore out of there like a bat out of Hell.

“Baby,” My dad’s voice came from outside the bathroom door.

“Yeah?” I asked over the running water that was quickly filling the tub “What’s up?”

“It’s time for you to take your meds,” I sighed heavily and unlocked the door, opening it a little and sticking my hand out of the gap.

“All of them?” I asked, dropping my forehead against the wooden door.

“All of them,” He replied firmly “And that doesn’t mean flushing them, sticking them down the drain in the tub or shoving them in your pillow case, take them now,”

“I will,” I turned and tried to close the door, but he stuck his foot in the door and stopped me.

“Now, here, in front of me,”

I opened the door all the way, tossed the pills into my mouth and took the glass of water he was holding out for me, swallowing everything at once.

“Open,” He commanded. I opened my mouth and tipped my head back to show him they were gone “Lift your tongue,” I did as he said and once he was satisfied that I had swallowed everything, he smiled, kissed my cheek and left me to my bath.

I slipped out of my t-shirt and shorts, wrapped my thigh to keep water from getting into my stitched up wound and slipped into the hot water, no bubbles, just the way I like it.

I hummed to myself in contentment as I slid further into the water until it reached my chin. The mix of painkillers and other meds that my dad had me taking again to keep me under control, for fear that I would go nuts and burn everything to the ground again, were making me petty drowsy, and the calming water and the sound of my own breathing allowed me to enter my own little bubble, forget about everything crazy going on in my life; Dad having a serious girlfriend and her own kids, Jimmy, Sebastian and
Christopher.

As I started to doze off, my head filled with memories of life when my mother was still around, when I was such a happy little girl with the perfect life, the water started to get really, really hot.

My eyes opened quickly at the sound of bubbling, and when I looked down at the water, it was bubbling, steaming and starting to boil.

“Fuck!” I yelled in pain as the water scalded my skin. I tried to pull myself out of the tub, but the meds had made my muscles weak, but I used everything that I could, gripped the right side of the tub, pulled as hard as I could and threw myself over the edge and onto the floor with a grunt of pain.

The water was getting hotter and hotter, the steam filled the room and was burning my lungs as I inhaled it, and despite the fact that
I was scared, terrified that I was going to be burned to death in my own bathroom, I grabbed the door handle, wincing and pulling away at the temperature of it.

Grabbing a towel, I wrapped it around the handle and tried to open the door but it wouldn’t move.

“DAD!” I screamed as loud as I could “Daddy!”

“He went to work, remember?” A voice asked from behind me, I whipped around quickly and backed up against the door, hugging my knees to my chest, coughing and gasping for air through the steam.

“Please,” I whispered “Make it stop, I don’t want to die!” And just like that, the steam was gone, the bubbling in the tub had stopped and I could see and breathe clearly, and the first thing I saw was Sebastian sitting on the edge of the tub “Why did you do that?” I asked, wrapping the towel around myself.

“Some like it hot,” he shrugged.
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Tori
Hannah has Jimmy alone, in the middle of the school football field. They’ve just finished with a heavily passionate make out session. Who knows why they’re at school at this time of night, but the flood lights are on and they can see each other.

“I love you so much,” Jimmy whispers to her.

“She loves you too,” Hannah replies, but it isn’t her voice, and it isn’t just one voice. It sounds like more than one person talking.

“What?” He asks, confused “Are you alright, Hannah?”

“Hannah isn’t home right now, but she’ll get back to you as soon as she can,” The voices all say at once, but her mouth moves and she smiles a sick, twisted smile, and in one swift movement, she has him pinned to the grass and straddles him, leaning in close “I wanted her to be the last thing you see as you draw your last breath and your heart stops beating,” That time, it was her voice, but darker.

Her eyes flash to black holes and Jimmy screams in terror and pain as she ducks her head and rips out his throat with her teeth.

Every time I close my eyes, I see the same vision, and the closer I am to Hannah the stronger it gets, I see more detail, I can sense more things and it’s almost as though I’m standing on the field with them. The past two nights now, I’ve sat on Hannah’s front lawn after I’m sure she’s gone to bed, I lay back on the grass and close my eyes and watch the vision just one more time.

Johnny decided to skip lunch with the guys and Erin today and help me out in the library. I brought every book from home that I could find that might help, I stayed up late last night printing out pages off of the internet, but I needed someone to babble all of the information to and maybe he could help me make sense of it all and work out a way to warn Hannah and Jimmy.

“Hey,” Johnny whispered as he dropped into the seat across the table from me.

“Hey,” I smiled.

“Want one of my fries?” He offered with a wink, making me laugh a little louder than I meant to.

“Sure,” I smiled, taking one of his fries out of his tray and shoving it in my mouth.

“So, what are we working on here?” He asked, taking one of the books and turning it to the first page I had marked out.

“If I tell you what happened the other night at the masquerade when we were staking out the place, do you promise not to freak out?”
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Jimmy
“Dude,” Matt said in a warning tone, clapping me on the back as I tossed back another swig out of my flask “You’re going to get caught and suspended again, your mom is going to kill you if that happens one more time,”

“What does it matter?” I slurred “Hannah doesn’t care about seeing me like this,”

“She isn’t going to, doesn’t look like she’s coming back to school,” Brian muttered from across the circle.

“She will,” Erin snapped at him “She just needs… time,”

“Time?” He scoffed “Time for what? She didn’t get her heart broken, she broke Jimmy’s and left him stranded in the middle of a maze,”

“For his own protection!” She spat, raising her voice.

“His own protection, yeah right,”

“That is right,” She stood quickly “You don’t know half of the shit going on in our lives, and Hannah ended things before they could get too much worse for him,”

“I’m right here!” I slurred, trying to stand but losing balance and falling back to the ground.

“They weren’t officially a couple, they were… well I don’t know what the fuck they were, but if they were together for real it would have been a whole lot worse,” She grabbed her back and threw it on her shoulder “She may have just saved his life,” With that, she stalked off, Zack calling out her name.

“This drinking bender has to stop,” I groaned, dropping my head into my hands “Take it away,” I held my flask out to Matt and he quickly took it from me.

“Thank Christ for that,” He groaned thankfully.

“What does Johnny have to do with any of this?” Brian asked and we all laughed.

The trouble of the girls seemingly gone, for now. I still hoped Hannah was okay, no doubt that’s where Erin was headed.

Notes

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