Arista

Coffee Shop

I need to run. I can hear them right behind me. They're there, I know they are. Their breath chills the back of my neck as I turn around and run. They're feet stomp on the ground in a fast paste. I run as fast as I can.
My feet start to feel numb as they pound against the forest floor again again, in hope to get away.
The smell of rotting flesh comes from behind me, telling me that they're gaining on me. I push my legs further.
Something touches my back in a hope to grab me. My feet push further.
Tears sting my eyes at the thought of what they would do to me. I keep pushing further.
I realize that there is nothing I can do. I will never get away from them. My feet stop running as I crumple to the ground.
Their feet slowed for a second until they completely stopped. Not wanting to see my tormentors, I squeeze my eyes shut. As the smell of rotting flesh makes me gag, a large, cold hand grabs ahold of my arm. Another hand touches my faces and my eyes.
"Open your eyes" I hear from inside my head. The voice is loud and demanding. I refuse to see the faces of what now holds me captive.
"Now!" The voice rings inside my head. My head pounds at the sudden force. Dizziness pours over me as chills run up and down my body. The hand on my arm, squeezes tightly. "Open your eyes,now!" The voice rang again. Unable to control what I do, my eyes slowly open. Its too dark to see the faces of those who controlled me. "It's her." I hear from what sounds like a distance. Another large hand grabs me and picks me up. I feel like I should be screaming and kicking but I can't. My body won't move. The only thing I can control is my eyes, as I squeeze them shut once more. I imagine me screaming and kicking at a force. Nothing happens. I just lay there, limp. I keep imagining it, running the scene through my head.

I hear my screaming before I feel anything. A light blinds me as I sit up. Still screaming as my eyes get used to the light. A door opens as my best friend runs into the room. My screams get cut off at the sight of my bedroom and everything normal.
"Hey, hey. It's okay. It was only a dream." I heard Cindy whisper as she runs over to me. "What? What are you doing here? School. We need to go to school." I say as I start to get up. Cindy places a hand on my shoulder and pushes me back toward the bed. "No. You're sick. You are to stay home and I'm here to take care of you. Deal with it." She says with a smirk on her face.
"Oh. Aren't you just glad to miss school." I say with my breaths still coming at a fast pace. Sarcasm dripped from her words as she said "who? me? no, I love school. I'm furious that I'm forced to stay here with free wifi and free will." Rolling my eyes at her and letting out a slight chuckle, I roll around on my side and sigh.
Her smile drops. "hey, how are you feeling?"
I nod my head and advert my eyes in hope she'll understand that I didn't want to talk about it. She didn't get the hint and said "what was the dream about this time?"
This isn't the first time I have had a nightmare but this one was by far the scariest. They were always the same but they have never caught me. The creatures have never talking inside my head or forced me to open my eyes and they have never picked me up. Where were they going to take me? Why?
"Arista? Did u hear me?" Cindy says as she waves her hand in front of my face. "Are you crying?" he voice rises above my thoughts as she rans to kneel in front of me. She wipes the unknown tear from my face and lays her head on the edge of my bed. "Tell me about it."
I tell her every one of my dreams. She's the only one who doesn't think I'm weird or psycho for them. I tell about this one. I tell her every detail. I told her about how they caught me, and how I gave up.
Seeing how stressed out it made me to go back over the details of the nightmare, she said we should go for a walk.
I get dressed in a big Twenty Øne Pilots tee, skinny jeans, and my black vans and meet Cindy outside. "You still have a fever." she said as we started walking. "how can you tell?"
"You're sweating yet it's 50 degrees out. This walk can't last long, you need to rest."
"Yes, mom." I replied as I rolled my eyes at her. I didn't feel like I had a fever but I felt pretty warm while she was wearing a thick hoodie.
"I am your mom, while your mom is at work. Which reminds me to call her. She wanted to know when you woke up. She was hoping you wouldn't have another nightmare but..." She trailed off and pulled her cell out of her pocket.
Thinking she would call my mom but instead she put on music to make the walk more relaxing. Cry Baby by Melanie Martinez was playing. "You're a good friend." I say as wrap my arm with hers.
"The best" she replied and continued to walk side-by-side with me.
"How about Coffee?" She says as we get closer to a Starbucks. I nod back and forth to the music. (Aka: aggressively plays fake guitar so she probably didn't even see me nod. ) Laughing she said "I take that as a yes but that would mean I'd have to turn off the music. So DJ Cindy out." She said as we walked into the coffee store and turned off her music. "I guess you're feeling better, so that's good." She said Ashe walked up to the counter and said both of our orders. "Maybe I didn't want my usual today." I say as I wait for her to receive the coffee. "Yes you did. I'm your best friend, I know you wanted it. Don't even." She says as she gets both coffee cups and hands one to me. We sit in the corner booth we always sit in and silently sip on our coffee. The heat warms my cold hands and the feeling of the hot liquid soothes my sore throat from the screaming. I practically melt as the heat runs down my throat. "I told you, that you wanted the usual." Cindy says breaking the silence. "Shush small child." I whisper to her. "Okay but just know that I'm older than you so you're the child." We stare at each other as if we were enemies instead of best friends for about 1/2 a second and then somebody caught my glance.
Looking up I see Josh, the new guy at our school. He had a black fringe and dimples and bright blue eyes that squinted up every time he laughed. He had on mostly black clothes which only made him look hotter. Why isn't he at school though? I mean I would understand if he skipped.
I look at Cindy with a questioning look. I then look outside and realise how dark it's getting. "What time is it? Why is he out of school?"
Smirking Cindy replied "it's like 5 and I saw you checking cute Josh out, don't try to hide it."
I blushed seeing that I was indeed caught but I tried to recover. "5? We're getting coffee at 5 pm? Wait, I slept until 5pm?"
Cindy dropped her smirk "Yeah. You've been really sick. Whenever i came over this morning to pick you up for school, your mom was freaking out because she couldn't miss work yet again. So I offered to watch over you while she works. I popped some drugs into your system and now ur feeling better."
Her smile reappeared as she turned toward Josh. "I bet I can make him come over here. Maybe introduce the two of you since you don't have any classes?"
"What? No, I bet you could because you have 3 classes with him but I don't even know him. It'd be awkward. Come on, Cid-" before I could even finish my pleads, she had already got his attention and motion him toward us.
He grabbed his coffee from the barista and walked to our booth. Cindy looked up at him and said "Hey, Josh" in her extroverted way. I mumble a "hi" beneath my breath. Why did he make me so awkward? Is it even possible to be that cute?
"Hey, Arista and... I'm sorry. I don't know your name." He sat down beside me and directed the last part to Cindy. Looking shocked, Cindy told him her name and the three classes that they share.
I was shocked myself. How did he know my name? Im a loner who doesn't even have a class with him. Even if we did have a class, I never talk in my classes, I'm usually sketching my nightmares.
"Well the plan was to introduce you to Arista but it seems you already know her. How is that?" Cindy says, breaking the awkward silence that had found itself among our booth.
Josh turns his ocean blue eyes toward me and coughed nervously. "A friend told me about you." Another silence spread across as i was wondering what friend would've been talking about me. The only person who even talks to me is Cindy.

More awkward silence until Josh spoke up and said "Well, i hope you feel better. I got to go, so I'll see you guys tomorrow at school." He got up from the table and left out the door.

After taking a breath a relief, Cindy said "Well, that was awkward. What friend do you think was talking about you?" I shrugged my shoulders and took a sip of my almost empty coffee. Me and Cindy finish our coffee in silence as we head back to the house.

A/N: Okay so i tried to get this to 2000 words but its just not gonna happen. sorry if it seems short i will update this story (not regularly as you can tell from most of my other stories) This one is not a phanfiction it was basically just a weird story i made up in my head but it does have some references to Twenty One Pilots and Dan and Phil because I'm trash. If you caught all references than you, my friend, are also trash. Don't try to deny it.

But when it comes to updating this one, i will start writing while on the bus so that people think I'm texting my frens instead of being a nerd who just listens to music and doesn't talk to anyone. okay, okay. Well, *connor Franta voice* Check out my other stories and fanfictions and such and things and yeah. ily all so you can always messages me whenever you need it. okay byyyyyyyyyyye.

(hi Linda)