Amber couldn't believe what just transpired with what Sam said to her inside the house just a few minutes ago. She walked back and forth on the patio; trying to put all of this together. After an hour of pacing, Sam came outside to check on her.
"Hey Amber, can we talk?" asked Sam.
She looks at Sam, as she stood there in the doorway of the house. "I don't want to see you right now Sam" shouted Amber.
"I understand that you want your space, but I think we should talk about this," said Sam.
"There's nothing to talk about Sam, you hurt my feeling. Like seriously."
"I'm sorry..."
"Sam stop it! Sorry isn't going to cut it. I think it's best that you should leave right now."
"But Amber…"
"I told you to leave Sam, get out of here now!"
Sam started to tear up, "fine, I'll see you around then Amber." Sam walked past her and stopped at the end of the pathway and turned around. "I guess I'm the one to blame for expressing my true feeling towards you. Deep down Amber, you feel the same way about me." Sam turned back towards the street and walked back home.
Amber walked back inside the house and closed the door behind her. She looked in the living room and saw Amy sitting there with a confused look on her face. She started to walk towards her, as Amy grabbed her knife from her holder.
"Back off girl, you don't want any of this," said Amy, as she directs her eyes down towards her knife that is next to Amber's stomach.
Amber steps back and walks away from her, as she walks back upstairs to check on Jackson.
Meanwhile, as Samantha walked towards her house, a couple of random blackouts were occurring all around her. She walked a little faster as the blackouts were catching up to her. She looked behind her as she saw a dozen of hands reaching out from the darkness. The hands were getting closer to her as she picked up the pace as she fell, hitting her head onto the ground.
Back inside the house, Amber was upstairs with Jackson; as he continued to sleep. Amy walked inside the room and checked on her brother, and saw Amber sitting there with anger on her face.
"You don't look so good. Are you feeling okay?" asked Amy.
"Yeah, I'll be fine, I just want to forget what just occurred outside. I don't need someone like that in my life" said Amber.
"Look, I know what you're going through and its tough, but you got to stay strong for my brother right now."
"Yeah, your right Amy. I'm sorry you had to see that happen."
Amy walked towards Amber, and sat beside her, "You don't have to say sorry Amber, it's quite alright."
"Thanks for understanding Amy," said Amber.
While the two of them were chatting, Jackson opened his eyes and looked around him, "Hey, what's going on here?"
"Jackson, your awake," said Amber, as she gave him a hug.
"Okay, take it easy Amber. I just woke up."
(while inside of Jackson's mind) "She will never know that I'm controlling the real Jackson. She will become mine forever more" said Moore.
"She will never believe you. She will see through your lies," shouted Jackson.
Moore turned around, and grabbed him by the neck, "She will never know that I'm in control of you, she's going to be mine and that's for sure."
(back outside of Jackson's mind) "Are you feeling alright bro?" asked Amy.
"Yes, I'm feeling fine. I just need some time to rethink about what happen," said Jackson.
"Alright bro takes as much time as you need, and if you need us; we'll be downstairs. Let's go Amber, let's give him some time to think" said Amy.
"Okay… (Amber got up and walked towards the bedroom door with Amy) I love you Jackson" said Amber, as she left the door open a little.
As they walked downstairs, Jackson got up from the bed, and walked towards the window. He looked outside and saw that half of the block was pitch black. He walked away from there and reached for the door but didn't turned the handle. He just stood there and laughed.
"Everything is coming to plan. With that little pest of a friend is now out of the picture, I'm one step closer to getting her forever more" said Moore.
Jackson struggled in the chair, as he watched this evil figure control his body like a puppet.
While downstairs, Amy and Amber were discussing about what transpired between the two former friends.
"So, Amber, how are you really feeling about that your former best friend had feelings for you?" asked Amy.
"To be honestly Amy, I'm still kind of shocked about it. I couldn't believe it that she had true feelings for me. If she wanted to tell me between friends, then she should have said it before all of this was happening to me. I don't know if I can forgive her, or even look at her the same way again" said Amber.
"I can't believe that I'm saying this, but I think you should forgive her. She's basically going through a tough time in her life. I should know, because I saw her future and it looks grim. If I were you, I would go and find her; before it's too late" said Amy.
"I'm not going to rush after her, when I'm ready to forgive her; it will be on my time, not hers" said Amber.
Meanwhile at Samantha's house, she wakes up in her bedroom and looked confused. She slowly gets up from her bed and walked towards her bedroom door. As she walked towards it, the door kept pushing away from her. She started to run towards it, as it continued to move further and further away from her. From behind her, the shadows crept up from behind her and grabbed her; pulling her into the dark void. She screamed and cried for help, but no one was coming to her aid. The darkness sucked her in as she screamed her last breath.
Samantha woke up again, but this time she was inside of a scary room that looked familiar to the room that her former best friend was kept in. She got up from the floor and walked towards the bars of her new room.
"Hello, is anyone there? what do you want from me?" shouted Samantha.
With her cries for help, a door opened with a figure standing inside of it. Slowly, it walked towards her and smiled.
"Who are you? Why are you doing this to me?"
The figure approached her as it walked into the light, and what she saw; she couldn't believe her eyes.
"Ashton…"
"Hello there Samantha, did you guys miss me or did you both forget that I was still alive!" shouted Ashton.
"No, we didn't forget you. It's just a lot of things were happening with Amber."
"You care more about Amber, then you cared about me! I liked you Samantha, really, I do. But now, I can truly see that your feelings have changed and you're in love with your best friend. I should have seen this coming, but I was so blind to see it" said Ashton.
"Well actually, me and Amber aren't really on talking terms because I kind of confessed my love for her while she was standing by the staircase"
"Oh well, I'm sorry to hear that… NOT!! I'm not sorry because you're finally getting what was coming to you in the first place. Now you must suffer for your sins in the same place where your former friend sat in here for the rest of her days. Your trapped from within Samantha, and there is no escape" said Ashton, as he walked back towards the doorway.
"You can't keep me locked inside of here forever Ashton, you'll feel sorry for me and you will set me free…"
(she got cut off by a dark figure that stood near the door)
'you'll never get to see the light of day ever again. You'll final days have been sentences. This will be your grave' *the figure disappeared*
"You heard it first from the dark figure that welcomed me with open arms. This is your resting place Samantha. May you rest in peace..." *Ashton then grabbed the door and slammed it shut*
Samantha screamed and cried, while Ashton walked away from the door that sealed her fate forever. He walked inside of a room with another familiar face that was waiting for him.
"Is the job done, and we don't have to worry about her anymore Ashton" said Kim.
"She's in good hands with our new best friend, he'll make sure that she will suffer for everything that she did" said Ashton.
Kim walks towards Ashton and gave him a kiss on the lips, "We can now finally live our lives without dealing with that worthless bitch anymore."
"Indeed, we can. Now, let's go out and celebrate, shall we?"
"Yes, we shall"
Samantha circled around inside the room; pacing back and forth, trying to figure out how to escape or get the word out that she's trapped inside of this room. She looked for anything that she can write or grab, but everything was removed from the room. She tried to reach for the nailed-up window and get a piece of wood from it, but the shadow figure grabbed her hand and pushed her back. She gets up and shouts in the darkness towards the figure that lurks in the shadows.
"Why are you doing this to me? I did nothing wrong," said Samantha.
"You know the real reason why you are here Samantha; you have hidden secrets that hide inside of you that you're afraid to tell your former best friend. It eats deep inside of you each single day. You don't want to face this demon alone, it wants out. I'm here to set it free," said the shadow figure.
"I don't know what you're talking about. I don't have anything inside of me?"
"Oh yes you do Samantha, you just don't know it yet."
Samantha started to pace back and forth, as she thinks of what this thing can be that's floating inside of her. Until she started to get a deep, dark feeling inside of her that started to kick her. She gasped as she fell onto the floor, as the thing kicks her again.
"What did you do to me?" asked Samantha as she got up from the floor.
"Oh nothing, just that I impregnated you with my shadow spawn."
She gasped again, "You did what to me? How?"
"Remember that dark cloud of darkness that attacked you when you were walking away from your former best friend's house? Well that was me. You were so easy Sam, and from the looks of it you wanted it. You even begged for more, and I gave you more," said the shadow being.
She couldn't believe it that she was raped inside of that dark cloud of darkness by that thing. She wanted to save herself until she meant the right guy; to take away her innocents, and to have a happily ever after with them in the fantasy stories that she read. She didn't expect this to happen to her, not like this. The only think that she can do is just crawl into a ball and die slowly from breaking her own promise that she made to herself when she was in ninth grade, in her other high school before she was transferred to Amber's high school. While she was falling into a deep sleep, she started to think of that moment when she first made that promise to herself with her old high school friend Brittany.
-Flashback-
At Gordon W. Miller High school, Samantha's old high school.
"So, Samantha, are you ready to get yourself out there? I mean what you are waiting for?" asked Brittany.
"I don't know if I'm ready to have kids yet, I mean I'm only fifteen. I'm not thinking of that sort of thing now. I mean do you want kids someday Britt?" asked Sam.
"Of course, I do silly. It's just I have to find the right guy that will treat me right and will be there for me, because I don't think I'll be able to take care of a kid on my own. My mother will kill me and tell me to get a job. I'm not ready to handle that just yet," said Brittany.
"I agree, why we don't here and now make a promise to ourselves that we won't let no man take advantage of us and wait until we find our Prince Charming."
Brittany giggles, "Oh Sam, it's so cute that you're still living in a fantasy after all these years."
"What? I'm being serious here Britt. I want to find that right guy that will be my one and only. That will be there every morning when I wake up. I want a guy that will lift me off from my feet and take me away from everything," said Samantha.
Brittany looks at Sam and smiles, "Okay, have it your way then Princess Samantha. You can wait for your prince to show up and I'll wait for my mister right to take me. Agree?"
"Agree," said Samantha, as they both shook hands.
-Flashback ends-
As the evening rolls on towards the morning hours. Kim and Aston are sitting at there usually dining area, as they discussed future plans for Samantha. They exchanged ideas back and forth in which ones will work and which ones won't go so well. From across the diner, a friend of theirs spotted them and walked over towards them.
"Hey guys, fancy bumping into you here? So, how's things with you?"
Aston looked up from his plate and saw that it was their friend Carter; a junior from their Psychology class.
"Can we help you with something Carter?" said Aston.
"nah not really just wanted to say hi that's all"
"okay then, hi and now please leave us be."
Carter turned his back and started to walk forward, but suddenly stopped and turned back towards Aston and sat down near him and Kim, "what is your problem bro? all I asked you how's things with you and you decided to blow me off just like that. What the fuck is your problem?
Aston got up from his chair and got in his face, "if you leave now, your life will be spared; but if you don't leave this table right now, your life will be in jeopardy. The choice is yours Carter."
Carter got up from his chair and proceeded to walk towards the exit of the lunchroom without looking back at them. Aston returned back to his chair and looked at Kim's face, "What's wrong with you?" asked Aston.
"You should have made him beg for his life; you're becoming weak again Aston. The dark one isn't going to like this if you start acting soft now" said Kim.
"He wasn't a threat that we should be worried about. The main threat that we should be on the lookout for is Amber and Jackson. The dark one wants those two alive."
Kim got up from her seat and got in Aston's face, "Listen to me right now, we need to stay strong and the only way that we're going to stay strong is by getting rid of the problem at hand. Now I'm going to take care of your mess again" said Kim, as she walked outside of the lunchroom, and spots Carter by his locker.
She walked up from behind him and wrapped her arm around his neck. Carter started to struggle and looked for a way to break her hold. The more he struggled, the tighter the grip around his neck became. Carter's eyes started to roll behind his head, as his body fell to the floor. Kim got up and dragged his body towards the punishment room, in where Samantha was being held.
Samantha started to hear a loud noise coming from the tunnel, as light filled up the dark tunnel with a shadow figure coming towards the prison. She ran towards the cage door to see that it was Kim, as she continued to drag Carter's body towards the empty room. She walked back out and slammed the door behind her. Sam walked towards in where Kim was, as she tried to form words to speak, but Kim stopped her for saying one single word, "You didn't see anything, got it!" said Kim. Sam just stood there and shook her head. Kim walked back down the tunnel and closed the door behind her.
Sam walked towards the other end of the cell to see inside the other cell across from her. Suddenly, Carter got up from the floor; confused and scared. He didn't know where he was. He looked around and spotted another person in the room with him, "Hold on, do I know you?" asked Carter.
"My name is Samantha, and I have seen you before, you're Carter Wilson, a junior and you're friends with Kim and Aston" said Sam.
"Well, they aren't my friends anymore. Where am I?
"Well, that's the thing. I don't know where we are anyway. I don't even know if we're even on the school grounds anymore" said Sam.
Carter started to panic and quickly shouted for someone to respond back to his cries. Sadly, no one answered him, as he fell down towards the ground, "If I stay in here any longer, I'm going to lose my mind. I think that's what those two psychos want me to do" said Carter.
"Dude shut the fuck up for a minute," said Sam. "If we are going to get out of this in one piece, we need to work together instead of killing ourselves to show them that we are the weak ones."
Carter looked up at Sam and smiled at her. He slowly got up and walked over to where she was standing in her cell, "Sorry Sam, I got carried away."
"It's okay, I was the same way when they threw me inside of here as well. In order to get ourselves out of these cells, we need to outsmart them and get a key from one of them so one of us can go and seek help."
"Okay, and how are we going to outsmart them? They seem pretty smart from what I saw on the outside of this cell Sam" said Carter.
"Don't worry about that, I have my share of reasoning with other people. I mean if it worked on you, then it can work on one of them" said Sam.
Carter looked puzzled well she said that, and finally caught on to what she was saying and wasn't very happy with what she said, "Hey, that isn't fair. You should have told me that you were using me as a test subject"
"Nah, I wanted to see you freak out"
"So not cool, but very tricky indeed"
Suddenly, the door to the entrance opened and it was Aston that came down the tunnel; to check on the two victims, "You two seem to be plopping something and I'm not leaving here until someone tells me what it is right now. Or face the consequence" said Aston.
Sam walked over towards her cell door and began to make her move on Aston, "Hey Aston, do you remember when you me and Amber had that party at my house, and you got so drunk on my mom's wine coolers"
"Oh yeah, now that was an awesome party," said Aston. "That was the day I lost my V ticket with this amazing red head inside of a bread closet. Boy let me tell you, she was the best. I wish I would have gotten her name and number.
"Well Aston, that amazing red headed girl that stole your heart and ticket, that girl was me your sick fuck"
Aston's face turned completely white, as he fell to his knees and proceeded to vomit on the floor. He looked up at her and began to get up slowly from the floor and walked over to her cell with a gun in his hands, "I could kill you right where you stand you fucking bitch. I was saving myself for someone special and I wasted my ticket on you!"
"That's funny Aston; my sweetie, I remember correctly that you told me that I was your everything and you couldn't wait any longer to remove my clothes. I wonder, how Kim is going to take this when I tell her that her boyfriend cheated on her with me. She is going to kill you."
Aston pointed the gun right onto Sam's forehead, "If you say one more word, I will blow your brains all over this god forsaken cell"
"You don't have the balls to pull that Aston. Just like I took your manhood"
"Sam, shut the fuck up, or I'll do it" shouted Aston.
Sam leaned in further into the barrel of the gun, as it pressed onto her forehead; breaking the thickness of her skin, as the blood ran down her head"
Aston pulled the gun away from her head and dropped it onto the floor. The gun suddenly went off as it hit Aston in the leg. Sam then reached her arms through the bars and grabbed Aston and pressed his back towards the cell; crushing it as she searched for the keys. She searched in one of his pockets and found them. Aston's body hit the floor, as his back was broken. She rushed towards the cell door and opened up the door. She was free.
Carter stood there inside of his cell, and couldn't believe what just happened, "Um, did you kill that dude Sam?" asked Carter.
Sam walked over to Aston's body; to see if he had a pulse. She felt that it was very faint, but she didn't kill him, just paralyzed him.
"Carter I'll be right back; I'm going to get some help. You stay here if Kim comes."
As Sam was walking towards the tunnel to leave, Carter ran towards his door, "Sam, hand me the keys, I want to help you."
"Sorry Carter I won't do that; I don't even know you that long to trust you" said Sam.
"I understand, it's okay that you don't fully trusted me yet to hand me the keys to freedom. You are indeed the true person to survive this hell. I guess this is where I'm going to die. I won't see the light anymore."
Carter looked back at the tunnel and Sam wasn't there and the light at the end of the tunnel was gone. Carter was right about one thing, that he was never going to see the light of day ever again. Sam closed the door of the punishment room and locked it behind her, as she walked out into the hallway of a weird and unfamiliar place that wasn't the high school. She stepped outside of the building and looked up at the sign, "Dawnwell Psychiatric Hospital for the mentally insane"
-Side Chapter- Dawnwell
Monday, January 16, 1984
4pm
Five hours until the doors close.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, please return back to your rooms for your meds. This is the last warning before the hounds are released from their cages. Thank you for choosing Dawnwell Hospital, your care is in our hands."
"Last Call everyone, head back to your rooms right now or face the consequences!" said the night guard.
All the patients hurried back inside their rooms; waiting to receive their treatments, as a couple of people were too slow to make it back inside their rooms as the hounds barked and attacked those who didn't make it. As all of this was going on, the warden of the hospital was getting his stuff together to leave for the day.
"Excuse me sir, just letting you know that all of the patients are back inside of their rooms. Only a few didn't make I'm afraid. They have to been removed their rooms by body bags" said the worker.
"Sigh, you know Jenkins, sometimes I wonder why I'm here in the first place? All the times I can remember, I wanted to pack up all my stuff and walk away from this place, and never look back. Sadly, that didn't happen. I'm still here; dealing with the same shit each and every day. For once in my life, I want something good to happen to this place. Something that will make headlines. You know what I'm saying Jenkins"
"Um yes sir, I do know what you're saying" said Jenkins.
The warden stepped closer to him and grabbed him by his collar, "I'm afraid that you don't know what I'm going through Jenkins. You don't see the dark circles that are around my eyes. You don't know how hard it is that I have to lie to my wife and tell her that my day was perfect, in which it wasn't perfect. My life isn't easy Jenkins. It isn't. I want something to happen right this very moment."
Just like that something did happen, a fire started to engulf the west wing and it was spreading towards the east wing. The fire swallowed up each doctor and patient that was in its way.
As Samantha starts to walk around the burned down mental hospital; to see if anyone was still alive or even still trapped inside of their rooms to rot. Each stepped she took down the hallway, she saw the same thing in every room, a bunch of burned bodies, a few bloody claw marks on the walls and all the windows were boarded up. She starts to panic, as she follows the signs to the warrant's office. Finally, she approaches the room, in where there was nothing left; just a burned table and file cabinets that were in good condition.
She opens each of the draws; to find a bunch of files of the patients that were kept locked inside of here to die. Until she came across one name that looked familiar.
"Banks, C: Gender: Male, age 21, Blood type: A, Height: 5'9, Weight: 167lbs. Whoa it is intense, that one of Amber's family members was in here, "said Sam.
She looked further down the paper and found something shocking.
"Relations to the patient: Banks, S: Mother, Banks, F: Father, Banks: T: Brother, Banks, A: Sister. What! Amber has an older brother!!!