sleepover pt.3

And so I'm back to square one. Lying on my back below Yuta who's snoring peacefully after the traumatic night, sweat sticking to every part of me and fear clinging to my heart with such a tight grip that I can't breathe.

I want to get out of here. I promise myself that I will get out of here, to save Adam...even though something is nagging at me that I'm too late already.

I start to pull myself out from under him once more, making all sorts of different stupid decisions as I do so. Fight Yuta. Just fight for your life, since you're going to end up like Adam anyway.

Or just run to save Adam, he may not be dead yet.

As soon as I get myself up I creep to the bathroom, feeling like it's my last chance to stop being ignorant and turn a blind eye to bad happenings because of a teenage crush.

Adam is still lying on the floor, parts of the towel now drenched scarlet… and I carefully unwrap him and discard of it to put him in a new one.

All the while I can't control my shaking hands and jagged breathing, and I can't get that "drip drip drip" noise out of my head. That'd been Adam's blood, and there I was taking it lightly like some guppy guy might be taking a shower at 3am in Yuta's house. I have so many questions swirling. When did he do it? What did Adam do to be receiving constant torture from Yuta? Why did Yuta deny having any relationship or connection with Adam?

I finally get to the point I've been avoiding to do… checking Adam's pulse. I hold my breath and check for it, knowing that he's unresponsive and lifeless but hoping hoping hoping that somehow he's still alive. Yuta's words echo in my head.

"This is all your fault you stupid fucking manwhore…"

Accompanied by the unsteady, weak and gentle "thud,…thud,…thud,.."

From Adam's heartbeat. Making another stupid decision, I swear to myself that if he doesn't survive, I will murder Yuta.

I think it's the guilt that made me think that. The belief that all this time Yuta is making me make sacrifices by following him up. The feeling that Adam wouldn't be in this position if I had never trusted Yuta and kept going back to him after all the experiences.

Mindlessly I start to perform CPR on the dying body. Counting in my head and blaming myself for everything, I have no idea how long it takes before I hear a weak splutter and Adam's blinks his eyes rapidly, starting to panic.

"Hey Adam," I whisper. "It's okay.. you're okay.."

"No," Adam wails faintly reaching out to grab my arm. "Go home, H-Harris… please run away.."

"Why??" I demand, now starting to feel weakened and frustrated by all the strange happenings with no explanations. "Why, Adam??"

"He'll kill you," Adam tries to sit up, to no avail. "Run away, I beg you.."

I start to consider it. But then how would I take Adam?? I can't leave him here at all, I'd never forgive myself again.

"A-Adam.." I call him, not because I have anything to say but just because I'm finding comfort in having something coming from my mouth. "I don't know what to do…"

My eyes are focused on the ground infront of me and upon no response, I look up to find

Adam changing. He sits up abruptly and his eyes start to fade… into pitch, demonic black. He has spidery veins spreading all up his chest, down his arms, all over his neck and making his skin tinge a little blackish red, like he's covered in blood all over again. Is this hell?

I'm terrified. Absolutely terrified. I cant even move, I've never believed on creatures and whenever strange things spark thoughts that they exist I contrast them with my beliefs that I'm just stupid, lonely or using too much imagination . Adam now stands up, too tall and unsteady, crushing against the walls and causing havoc in the room. There are soap dishes and shampoo bottles crashing down all over the place, and I get back to my senses enough to dart out of the way just in time as a shelf collapses fatefully.

"H-Harris," this growling creature that used to be Adam now tells me, panting as if every word brings it pain. "G-go home. Run away.."

Abiding for the first time, I make to run out of the room and am just stumbling over the bathroom threshold when out of nowhere, Yuta is standing infront of me and blocks my escape.

"Will you just do something I say for once?" He murmurs to me, and I notice that something is amiss with his voice. I can't bare another transformation. Mindlessly I grab a piece of debris from the bathroom, which is a sharp bent metal from what used to be the shelf. Yuta seems puzzled for a second before I plunge it into his arm, and some inky-like blood substance spurts all over my face and hands. Yuta just let's our a short groan before seizing me by the neck and ramming me into the towel cabinet. There's blood everywhere, I can't even tell from who- or should I say what- anymore.

Yuta is just watching me calmly while I struggle for breath, as if there isn't an 8ft demon towering behind him. Secretly I wish Adam would kill Yuta and me. And just end this nightmare. I start to scratch at Yuta's wrists and fingers to let me go, colours and shapes blocking my vision and starting to taste blood in my mouth.

"Just die already," Yuta adds more pressure and rams me again, causing me to gurgle as blood drips out of my mouth.

"Beg for your life, you fucking manwhore. Go on, beg me to spare you or spend eternity in hell."

I can't even talk, I just let out a series of noises pleading for my life because I have no choice. I don't want to die in his hands at all… and it even feels so empty and stupid saying that after following him so many times into all sorts of loops of chaos.

Not even I see the Adam thing grab Yuta from behind and start to choke him. I'm on the verge of losing consciousness when suddenly Yuta's hand lets go, and through my half closed eyelids I see the Adam thing ruthlessly slam him onto the side of the bathtub. That same substance starts to pour all over the floor, a deep deep deep red that is so dark it's almost black. I can't move and have to watch in horror as the Adam thing bashes Yuta into all sorts of surfaces like the walls, the ceramic sink, and the tiled floor… and I hear the faint "crack… crack.." from Yuta's skull each time.

It's faint, though. I pass out.