Sweet Things
Fire!
Jimmy
The whole time at band practice, Hannah and I hit it off and if I didn’t know any better I’d say she was flirting with me, or trying to at least and it was super cute. I know the guys had noticed us, we weren’t exactly being discreet; when we would take a break from playing, I kept purposely sitting closer to Hannah than before, my hand kept brushing against hers, as did my thigh.
When the girls were leaving, I wanted to kiss Hannah the way that Zack kissed Erin. I wanted to scoop her up in my arms, press her against the car and kiss her until we were both lightheaded. But I knew she wasn’t ready for that, or anything close to that. When the girls had gotten to Matt’s house, I’d complimented her on the way she looked, because, let’s face it, she looked fucking amazing, but she admitted to feeling a little ridiculous dressed the way she was. Sure, I love the way she always dresses, it’s who she is, but she was like sex on legs once Erin dressed her up, and I could only imagine what she was going to be looking like at the party tomorrow night.
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Hannah’s P.O.V
I was running late today, I don’t know what the fuck happened last night but when I woke up this morning my room was a complete mess, everything was tossed all over the place, pictures thrown against the walls so the frames smashed, posters torn down and even the personal things I had looked like they’d been looked at; my birth certificate, drivers licence and things my mom had left me. It looked like someone had been in my room, but how could they have gotten in? Dad never heard anything and I slept through the whole thing, so then it must have been me in my sleep, right?
I dressed myself quickly, deciding to skip the shower and have one before the party tonight, I tied my hair up in a messy ponytail and skipped out on makeup, I hate being late to school, everyone knows that.
“Morning, Princess.” Dad smiled as I rushed around the kitchen, grabbing my lunch, a bottle of water and a can of monster, shoving the items into my bag “What’s the rush?” He asked.
“Gonna be late,” I groaned “I can’t be late, not today, fuuuuck,” I was running around the rest of the house now, looking for my shoes “Have you seen my other shoe?” I asked, holding up the only black Van I could find.
“Check the dog bed,” He smirked, looking back down at his paper. I rushed into the hall and looked under the stairs where I saw my shoe, half chewed but not completely wrecked.
“Goddamn it!” I yelled, picking the shoe up and wiping the slavery remains off of it.
“Find it?” He asked as I hopped into the kitchen, trying to put my shoe on as I moved.
“That dog is getting it later, I don’t have time now,”
“He’s taking care of his business anyway,” He told me “He’ll be free later,”
Our dog, Sherman, was the runt of a litter of puppies who were going to be trained as police dogs, but he wasn’t suitable and was going to be put down, but dad rescued him and brought him home to me on my tenth birthday, now it’s seven years later and he’s a fat old man who eats my shoes.
“Later, Dad.” I laughed as I walked through the kitchen, grabbing my backpack off the floor and throwing it over my shoulder.
“Toast!” He yelled and I turned around to him, still sitting at the table reading his paper, only one hand was holding the plate of toast in the air. I grabbed and slice and ran out to my car with it.
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When I got to school, Jimmy was standing in the parking lot at my usual space. He was looking down at his phone but as soon as he heard the all too familiar sound of my car pulling up he slipped it into his pocket and the biggest smile appeared on his face.
“Hey, Jim.” I beamed as I pulled myself out of my car, leaning back in so I could get my bag; causing my ass to stick up in the air a little more than it should have.
‘Damn it, get it together, James.’
I had to hold in the giggle that tried to escape as he scolded himself for checking out my ass.
“Hey, Hannah.” He smiled at me. When I came back out of the car and slung my bag over my shoulder I noticed that he was blushing a little and looking flustered “I was wondering something,”
“Yeah?” Oh God, this can’t be good. Why can’t I read his mind now?!
“You know how we have to write our own songs, but in like, a pair over the next two weeks for music class?” I nodded “Would you work with me?” He asked, but continued without giving me
a chance to answer him “I mean, I wanted to work with you anyway, but seeing and hearing what you can do on your own, I think we would be great together, for music I mean, like, we could write the best song in the class, I figured we could both sing parts but it would mainly be you and I’d play drums and you’d play-“
I cut him off with a soft, gentle kiss to his left cheek while my hand rested on his shoulder.
“I’d love to work with you,” I breathed. Okay, so that wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be.
“Great,” He sighed a sigh of relief “Can I… walk you to your locker?”
“Sure,” I smiled.
As we walked, side by side, in comfortable silence, people were looking, I was aware of that, usually I’m completely alone when I walk into school or I have Erin by my side, I don’t think people have ever noticed me hanging around with Jimmy, or any of the guys. I was beginning to feel uncomfortable with everyone’s eyes on me, but that all went away when I felt Jimmy’s fingers lace with mine. I looked up at him and he smiled down at me. I think we were both a little surprised that I hadn’t tried to pull away from the contact.
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“Hey,” I said happily, dropping myself into my seat beside Erin in Algebra.
“Well good morning,” She smiled, turning to me “What had you so late this morning?”
I didn’t know whether or not to tell her that it looked as though my room had been raided during the night and I hadn’t noticed a thing until I woke up.
Fuck it. I’m terrible with secrets and keeping things in that worry me, and I’ll admit that I’ve been scared shitless all morning.
“Okay, I need to tell you something but please, don’t freak out because I’m trying so hard not to freak out myself,” She just cocked her eyebrow at me “I don’t know if any weird things have been happening to you but,” I stopped myself and looked around the class as it filled with other pupils and lowered my voice to a whisper, leaning in to E “I woke up this morning and my room looked like someone had been in it during the night, but I didn’t wake up, it was like… like someone was looking for something specific and…” I trailed off as I leaned over to pull the burned picture out of my bag that I’d brought just in case I decided to show her, but as I leaned over she gasped.
“Hannah,” Her voice was a little shaky “What the fuck is that?” I felt her touch my back and I winced, holding back a cry of pain. “Miss?!” She called out to the teacher “Hannah isn’t feeling too great, could I take her to the nurse?” Miss Tate just nodded and Erin jumped out of her seat, grabbed my hand and pulled me out of the room, but I had enough time to pocket the picture.
“Where are we going?” I asked as we ran down the corridors of the school, Erin said nothing, just stopping suddenly and pushing me into the girls toilets “What is it?” I asked as she turned me around in front of the mirror and lifted up the back of my shirt where there were four harsh lines down my back, they were deep, too. I don’t know how I didn’t notice them “Oh my God,” I whispered.
“Something was in your room last night,” She told me “And whatever it was… it wasn’t human,” I could feel my breathing start to quicken and my heart pounding in my chest. My palms were getting hotter but I had do control it, I couldn’t go burning the whole school down.
“I don’t think it’s a good idea to have this party tonight, E.” I sighed as she made about cleaning my back a little “The last thing we need is a house full of people when something happens,”
“I’m not cancelling this party for anything, if the house is filled with human teenagers do you really think something is going to reveal itself?” I thought about it for a minute and then shook my head “So you’ll be safer tonight, don’t worry about it,” I could only look at the ground “And don’t worry, I have just the outfit that will keep this covered,” She smiled and kissed my forehead
“Now let’s go,”
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Erin did have the perfect outfit to keep my back covered; a flowing black top - that was light so that it didn’t hurt my wounded skin which had been getting more and more painful though out the day - and a simple pair of black skinny jeans, but some black studded high heeled boots on my feet. She styled my hair so that it was flowing down my back and a little curlier than usual, giving it some more volume again and my makeup was as amazing as it had been at the last party we went to.
The house was filling up quickly with people, some who had been invited and some who hadn’t, but some people didn’t stay long after Erin gave them a piece of her mind and told them where to go.
Doctor Alibi – Slash. Was blaring through the house, some people were dancing in the living room but I was looking for Jimmy, I knew he’d gotten here and I’d been told he was looking for me too.
“JIMMY!” I yelled over the music when I saw him. He was standing in the corner of the living room with the guys, they were all playing air guitar and he was pretending to rock out on the drums, all along with the song. When his eyes landed on me, they darkened ever so slightly and his jaw dropped open, from what I could hear, his thoughts were completely on me and he couldn’t keep playing the air drums any longer “Hey,” I smiled when I reached him “Having fun?” I asked. He just nodded for a moment before speaking to me.
“You look amazing!” He said over the music “I was really…” The music was too loud to have a proper conversation “Is there somewhere we could go to talk?” He asked. I nodded and took his hand in mine, leading him through the house and out back.
I loved Erin’s back yard. She had a tire swing hanging from the huge tree, above the small pond they had at the end of the garden. There was a table and some chairs where we always sat to eat when it was exceptionally nice outside and a cosy little bench swing.
I took us over to the table and sat down. We placed our beers on the table and forgot all about them as we got wrapped up in conversation with each other, about the party, what we were going to do after it and even a little about our new music assignment.
Suddenly, I became very aware of the picture that I’d left in my bag upstairs in Erin’s room. I became aware of the cars passing by every so often on the street and I became aware of the fact that everyone in the house was in grave danger.
‘I’m here’
The thoughts were from no one I recognized, it was a voice I’d never heard before… but at the same time it was all too familiar and made my skin crawl.
“Hannah?” Jimmy asked “Hannah, are you okay?” I tried to focus on him, but I couldn’t. I could only focus on the constant burn in both of my hands as the fear built inside of me and I knew something was about to go up in flames, I only hoped no one would get hurt and I could stop it before it got too bad. I could only focus on the fact that someone was, or had been, here when they should have been.
I let out a cry of pain as my hand burned bright red, and suddenly, the large tree over the pond went up in flames and I couldn’t take my eyes off of it.
“Fuck!” Jimmy yelled, running inside, screaming Erin’s name. I could hear his thoughts of everything he was saying to her, he was telling her that I was acting weird and freaking him out, that the tree was on fire and suddenly it seemed like everyone was gone in a matter of second, taking off down the street and the only people I was aware of still being here were Jimmy, Erin,
Matt, Brian and Zack.
“HANNAH!” Erin yelled in my face “Stop this, stop it, breathe H, please, just breathe for me and put the flames out, come on, you can do this,” She placed her hand on my shoulder but pulled it away immediately, a hiss of pain coming from her “You’re hot to the touch, Hannah!” She yelled
“Stop this!”
Everything was too blurry, but then she slapped me across the face and everything stopped. The tree went out, but I was still burning and when I looked down, my hands were on fire. Next thing I knew, I was in the water in the pond, screaming at the cold water contracting with my scalding skin.
“What… the fuck was that?!” Matt yelled.
I looked down at my hands and saw that they were burned, black and the skin was burned too, it almost looked like I’d touched the hot stove or something.
‘I knew there was something wrong with those two’
That voice was all too familiar… Tori.
I looked back up and she was standing just inside the house with a look of amazement and horror on her face all at once. Of course, the witch enthusiast had to have stuck around. Well, it looks like we have a lot of explaining to do.
The whole time at band practice, Hannah and I hit it off and if I didn’t know any better I’d say she was flirting with me, or trying to at least and it was super cute. I know the guys had noticed us, we weren’t exactly being discreet; when we would take a break from playing, I kept purposely sitting closer to Hannah than before, my hand kept brushing against hers, as did my thigh.
When the girls were leaving, I wanted to kiss Hannah the way that Zack kissed Erin. I wanted to scoop her up in my arms, press her against the car and kiss her until we were both lightheaded. But I knew she wasn’t ready for that, or anything close to that. When the girls had gotten to Matt’s house, I’d complimented her on the way she looked, because, let’s face it, she looked fucking amazing, but she admitted to feeling a little ridiculous dressed the way she was. Sure, I love the way she always dresses, it’s who she is, but she was like sex on legs once Erin dressed her up, and I could only imagine what she was going to be looking like at the party tomorrow night.
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Hannah’s P.O.V
I was running late today, I don’t know what the fuck happened last night but when I woke up this morning my room was a complete mess, everything was tossed all over the place, pictures thrown against the walls so the frames smashed, posters torn down and even the personal things I had looked like they’d been looked at; my birth certificate, drivers licence and things my mom had left me. It looked like someone had been in my room, but how could they have gotten in? Dad never heard anything and I slept through the whole thing, so then it must have been me in my sleep, right?
I dressed myself quickly, deciding to skip the shower and have one before the party tonight, I tied my hair up in a messy ponytail and skipped out on makeup, I hate being late to school, everyone knows that.
“Morning, Princess.” Dad smiled as I rushed around the kitchen, grabbing my lunch, a bottle of water and a can of monster, shoving the items into my bag “What’s the rush?” He asked.
“Gonna be late,” I groaned “I can’t be late, not today, fuuuuck,” I was running around the rest of the house now, looking for my shoes “Have you seen my other shoe?” I asked, holding up the only black Van I could find.
“Check the dog bed,” He smirked, looking back down at his paper. I rushed into the hall and looked under the stairs where I saw my shoe, half chewed but not completely wrecked.
“Goddamn it!” I yelled, picking the shoe up and wiping the slavery remains off of it.
“Find it?” He asked as I hopped into the kitchen, trying to put my shoe on as I moved.
“That dog is getting it later, I don’t have time now,”
“He’s taking care of his business anyway,” He told me “He’ll be free later,”
Our dog, Sherman, was the runt of a litter of puppies who were going to be trained as police dogs, but he wasn’t suitable and was going to be put down, but dad rescued him and brought him home to me on my tenth birthday, now it’s seven years later and he’s a fat old man who eats my shoes.
“Later, Dad.” I laughed as I walked through the kitchen, grabbing my backpack off the floor and throwing it over my shoulder.
“Toast!” He yelled and I turned around to him, still sitting at the table reading his paper, only one hand was holding the plate of toast in the air. I grabbed and slice and ran out to my car with it.
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When I got to school, Jimmy was standing in the parking lot at my usual space. He was looking down at his phone but as soon as he heard the all too familiar sound of my car pulling up he slipped it into his pocket and the biggest smile appeared on his face.
“Hey, Jim.” I beamed as I pulled myself out of my car, leaning back in so I could get my bag; causing my ass to stick up in the air a little more than it should have.
‘Damn it, get it together, James.’
I had to hold in the giggle that tried to escape as he scolded himself for checking out my ass.
“Hey, Hannah.” He smiled at me. When I came back out of the car and slung my bag over my shoulder I noticed that he was blushing a little and looking flustered “I was wondering something,”
“Yeah?” Oh God, this can’t be good. Why can’t I read his mind now?!
“You know how we have to write our own songs, but in like, a pair over the next two weeks for music class?” I nodded “Would you work with me?” He asked, but continued without giving me
a chance to answer him “I mean, I wanted to work with you anyway, but seeing and hearing what you can do on your own, I think we would be great together, for music I mean, like, we could write the best song in the class, I figured we could both sing parts but it would mainly be you and I’d play drums and you’d play-“
I cut him off with a soft, gentle kiss to his left cheek while my hand rested on his shoulder.
“I’d love to work with you,” I breathed. Okay, so that wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be.
“Great,” He sighed a sigh of relief “Can I… walk you to your locker?”
“Sure,” I smiled.
As we walked, side by side, in comfortable silence, people were looking, I was aware of that, usually I’m completely alone when I walk into school or I have Erin by my side, I don’t think people have ever noticed me hanging around with Jimmy, or any of the guys. I was beginning to feel uncomfortable with everyone’s eyes on me, but that all went away when I felt Jimmy’s fingers lace with mine. I looked up at him and he smiled down at me. I think we were both a little surprised that I hadn’t tried to pull away from the contact.
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“Hey,” I said happily, dropping myself into my seat beside Erin in Algebra.
“Well good morning,” She smiled, turning to me “What had you so late this morning?”
I didn’t know whether or not to tell her that it looked as though my room had been raided during the night and I hadn’t noticed a thing until I woke up.
Fuck it. I’m terrible with secrets and keeping things in that worry me, and I’ll admit that I’ve been scared shitless all morning.
“Okay, I need to tell you something but please, don’t freak out because I’m trying so hard not to freak out myself,” She just cocked her eyebrow at me “I don’t know if any weird things have been happening to you but,” I stopped myself and looked around the class as it filled with other pupils and lowered my voice to a whisper, leaning in to E “I woke up this morning and my room looked like someone had been in it during the night, but I didn’t wake up, it was like… like someone was looking for something specific and…” I trailed off as I leaned over to pull the burned picture out of my bag that I’d brought just in case I decided to show her, but as I leaned over she gasped.
“Hannah,” Her voice was a little shaky “What the fuck is that?” I felt her touch my back and I winced, holding back a cry of pain. “Miss?!” She called out to the teacher “Hannah isn’t feeling too great, could I take her to the nurse?” Miss Tate just nodded and Erin jumped out of her seat, grabbed my hand and pulled me out of the room, but I had enough time to pocket the picture.
“Where are we going?” I asked as we ran down the corridors of the school, Erin said nothing, just stopping suddenly and pushing me into the girls toilets “What is it?” I asked as she turned me around in front of the mirror and lifted up the back of my shirt where there were four harsh lines down my back, they were deep, too. I don’t know how I didn’t notice them “Oh my God,” I whispered.
“Something was in your room last night,” She told me “And whatever it was… it wasn’t human,” I could feel my breathing start to quicken and my heart pounding in my chest. My palms were getting hotter but I had do control it, I couldn’t go burning the whole school down.
“I don’t think it’s a good idea to have this party tonight, E.” I sighed as she made about cleaning my back a little “The last thing we need is a house full of people when something happens,”
“I’m not cancelling this party for anything, if the house is filled with human teenagers do you really think something is going to reveal itself?” I thought about it for a minute and then shook my head “So you’ll be safer tonight, don’t worry about it,” I could only look at the ground “And don’t worry, I have just the outfit that will keep this covered,” She smiled and kissed my forehead
“Now let’s go,”
~~~~
Erin did have the perfect outfit to keep my back covered; a flowing black top - that was light so that it didn’t hurt my wounded skin which had been getting more and more painful though out the day - and a simple pair of black skinny jeans, but some black studded high heeled boots on my feet. She styled my hair so that it was flowing down my back and a little curlier than usual, giving it some more volume again and my makeup was as amazing as it had been at the last party we went to.
The house was filling up quickly with people, some who had been invited and some who hadn’t, but some people didn’t stay long after Erin gave them a piece of her mind and told them where to go.
Doctor Alibi – Slash. Was blaring through the house, some people were dancing in the living room but I was looking for Jimmy, I knew he’d gotten here and I’d been told he was looking for me too.
“JIMMY!” I yelled over the music when I saw him. He was standing in the corner of the living room with the guys, they were all playing air guitar and he was pretending to rock out on the drums, all along with the song. When his eyes landed on me, they darkened ever so slightly and his jaw dropped open, from what I could hear, his thoughts were completely on me and he couldn’t keep playing the air drums any longer “Hey,” I smiled when I reached him “Having fun?” I asked. He just nodded for a moment before speaking to me.
“You look amazing!” He said over the music “I was really…” The music was too loud to have a proper conversation “Is there somewhere we could go to talk?” He asked. I nodded and took his hand in mine, leading him through the house and out back.
I loved Erin’s back yard. She had a tire swing hanging from the huge tree, above the small pond they had at the end of the garden. There was a table and some chairs where we always sat to eat when it was exceptionally nice outside and a cosy little bench swing.
I took us over to the table and sat down. We placed our beers on the table and forgot all about them as we got wrapped up in conversation with each other, about the party, what we were going to do after it and even a little about our new music assignment.
Suddenly, I became very aware of the picture that I’d left in my bag upstairs in Erin’s room. I became aware of the cars passing by every so often on the street and I became aware of the fact that everyone in the house was in grave danger.
‘I’m here’
The thoughts were from no one I recognized, it was a voice I’d never heard before… but at the same time it was all too familiar and made my skin crawl.
“Hannah?” Jimmy asked “Hannah, are you okay?” I tried to focus on him, but I couldn’t. I could only focus on the constant burn in both of my hands as the fear built inside of me and I knew something was about to go up in flames, I only hoped no one would get hurt and I could stop it before it got too bad. I could only focus on the fact that someone was, or had been, here when they should have been.
I let out a cry of pain as my hand burned bright red, and suddenly, the large tree over the pond went up in flames and I couldn’t take my eyes off of it.
“Fuck!” Jimmy yelled, running inside, screaming Erin’s name. I could hear his thoughts of everything he was saying to her, he was telling her that I was acting weird and freaking him out, that the tree was on fire and suddenly it seemed like everyone was gone in a matter of second, taking off down the street and the only people I was aware of still being here were Jimmy, Erin,
Matt, Brian and Zack.
“HANNAH!” Erin yelled in my face “Stop this, stop it, breathe H, please, just breathe for me and put the flames out, come on, you can do this,” She placed her hand on my shoulder but pulled it away immediately, a hiss of pain coming from her “You’re hot to the touch, Hannah!” She yelled
“Stop this!”
Everything was too blurry, but then she slapped me across the face and everything stopped. The tree went out, but I was still burning and when I looked down, my hands were on fire. Next thing I knew, I was in the water in the pond, screaming at the cold water contracting with my scalding skin.
“What… the fuck was that?!” Matt yelled.
I looked down at my hands and saw that they were burned, black and the skin was burned too, it almost looked like I’d touched the hot stove or something.
‘I knew there was something wrong with those two’
That voice was all too familiar… Tori.
I looked back up and she was standing just inside the house with a look of amazement and horror on her face all at once. Of course, the witch enthusiast had to have stuck around. Well, it looks like we have a lot of explaining to do.
Notes
So, this wasn't as long as I wanted it to be, but I hope I got the drama and the fear across successfully enough for you all!
Was the thing that came into Hannah's room something to do with the voice Erin has been hearing? Who was at the party? HOW ARE THE GUYS GOING TO REACT TO THIS?!
More to come from E later (: <3
- LMV x
this kind of reminds me of AHS Coven
11/16/14