The Perfect Nightmare [On Hiatus Indefinitely]

Chapter 2-The Future

“Hey, buzz off you bastards! Give the girl some room to change,” I said, trying not to touch the three hot guys who were in the same room as me. I was sure that if I touched them, I wouldn’t be able to let go.

Andrew and Howard both dutifully got out of my room but Sam didn’t even budge. Of course he didn’t!

Sam snorted, “I don’t think it makes a difference, sis,” he continued as he nudged me, “You’re one of us.”

“Haha, funny,” I said with an overly sweet smile, “Do you ever use that line on the girls you hit on?”

“No, actually,” Sam replied snarkily, “cause unlike you, they actually act like girls.”

“Well, then I’m glad to be one of you guys,” I said with a genuine smile on my face.

Now Sam had his back to me when I said it but I could clearly see the proud look in his eyes and the smile that he was trying to hold back when he turned to face me.

“Who are you and what have you done to my sister?” Sam asked his expressions unreadable, and I felt a lump in my throat and nervous fluttering around in my stomach. But before it could get out of hand I saw a smile creeping up on his face.

“Your sister is having a hard time not trying to choke you or stab you with a knife while you’re in her room,” I replied, gritting my teeth.

“So I’m finally getting on your nerves, huh?” Sam grinned happily.

I glared at Sam and sighed as I said, “You were onto them since the moment I first woke up.” I shut my mouth before I could say ‘here’ at the end of that sentence and sat down on the bed.

Feeling the bed moving slightly, I looked up to see Sam sitting next to me and shifted to make some space for him. “So is your memory loss gone now?” He asked me softly.

I nodded my head with a sigh, looking at him. Hayley Marshall. This was one really troubled character whose really complicated storyline I had to live through. But maybe I could change things around? Maybe I could save all these people! After all, I knew all about the future of these two TV shows. It was what I spent most of my time watching.

“Hayley, what’s wrong?” Sam asked putting his hand on my shoulder. I was startled from my thoughts as I looked at the sincerity in his eyes.

“What do you mean?” I tried to put up a façade, I don’t know why-I knew that it would never work.

“You aren’t acting like yourself. This isn’t you, Hayles. I’m actually starting to like you,” Sam turned his lips up at the joke in the end.

My heart fluttered at that. He likes me! Maybe me and him had a shot….

No! He was Hayley’s brother and even though I wasn’t her, I was still in her body. But he was still so hot and I couldn’t stop drooling over his shirtless self.

“You mean you didn’t like me before?” I asked, surprising him.

That’s it. Distraction is the best strategy right now. Change the subject, turn the attention towards him and he’ll forget all about you acting weird.

It wasn’t the best strategy of all of them but it was the best that I could think of.

“No, that’s not what I meant. What I meant was that you and I have never really been close,” Sam started to explain, “You’ve always been the really touchy-feely kind of person and I’m not particularly comfortable with expressing my feelings quite as freely.”

“Yeah, I get it. You’re a more sarcastic commenting and snickering behind the back kinda guy,” I nodded my head understandingly and saw Sam agreeing with me and relaxing a little with a sigh of relief, “That’s my forte too.”

“That’s the thing. It’s not,” Sam replied, slightly frustrated, “I mean we’ve always been so different, and you were always so close to Andrew and Howard that you barely even talked or hell, even looked at me.”

As Sam explained it all to me, I felt bad for him. Sam was a great person and I had immediately liked him waaay more than whiny Howard or hyperventilating Andrew. But the fact that Hayley didn’t, even though he was her brother, proved to me that Hayley and I couldn’t be more different. In fact now that I thought about it, Hayley seemed kind of like a bitch. Sam still seemed to care about her though.

“Well, I don’t know why. You’re awesome and I like you more than those two,” I said pointing outside.

“I like you too,” Sam said, “and I can tell that you are hiding something from me. What aren’t you telling me?”

“If I told you, you wouldn’t believe me,” I replied looking down at my feet.

“Hey, you’re talking to a guy who transforms into a badass wolf every full moon night-try me,” he said.

“Alright,” I decided to tell Sam the truth because I knew that if I wanted to change the future of these shows, then I’d have to get some help. I couldn’t do it all alone. “But first tell me-”, I paused, finally looking up as I said….

“What’s the date today?”