Psycho Dreams//Tate Langdon X Reader

Chapter 2: Moving In

You toss and turn in your sleep, while you have another nightmare. This one was different though, instead of you being shot, you had shot someone else. This caused you to panic and jolt yourself awake, almost falling off your bed. You gasp and wipe the tears away from forming in your eyes. You turn over to the clock and realise it was 7:30 am. You sighed as you got up to get a drink of water from downstairs.

As you're walking downstairs you hear your mom yelling at someone or something. As you get down to the kitchen you see your mom standing I'm front of the sink holding her phone. She did not look happy. She looks over and see's you, then hangs up the phone.

"Who was that?" You ask curiously, rubbing your eyes.

"Oh it was just your father complaining and bitching to me about custody and such"
she says rolling her eyes as she pours more coffee.
"Just don't worry about it, okay sweetie?"
She finishes and takes a sip from her hot cup.

"So today is the big day huh?" You say breaking the silence.

Your mom shows a happy expression across her face.
"It is! In fact, we should be heading out now" she says as she checks her watch.
With this you both head out to the car. You sit in the front with your mom, but pop your earbuds in so you don't have to listen to her awful music.

The car ride to California was long. You look out the window as you watch things fly by, already missing your friends. You look down at your phone to change the song, when you look up you see a tall, old, creepy looking house.

"We're here!" Your mom says excitedly as you take out your earbuds and gaze at the creepy house in awe.

"Welp, this house looks creepy" you say with your gaze still on it when something catches your eye. You look up to one of the windows and see what looks like a figure of a boy appear, but then quickly dissappear.

"Great, haven't even went in yet and I'm already going insane." You say to yourself as your mom calls your name.

"Here (y/n) come bring your boxes inside so you can pick out a room!" Your mom says handing you a big box of your stuff.

As you walk into the house you smell a old and dusty scent that makes your eyes water. You set the box on the table as you're looking around at the walls.

"Well, I guess it's actually quite beautiful." You tell your mom, but she is still outside.
You walk over to the railing of the stairs and go up to find a room that you like. When you get upstairs, of course you walk to the room where you saw the figure first, and something about it made you want this to be your room.

After you and your mom brought everything in, you decide to check out the rest of the house. You walk to what seems to be a basement. As you open the door, you get a strange heavy feeling surrounding you. Something weird was in the house and you could tell, or maybe it's just the medicine your counselor put you on.

You quickly shut the door to the basement when you hear the doorbell go off. You run to the front door to see who it is. When you open it you see a older lady with short blonde hair and a cigarette between her fingers.

"Um, hi? Who are -"
but before you could finish your sentence the lady walks past you into the house and looks around.

Startled, you ask her again.
"Excuse me? Who are you and why are you in my house?" You stammer as she jerks her head around in realization.

"Oh, my bad" she laughs. "Where on earth are my manners? I'm Constance, your neighbor."
She finished,holding out her hand but before you could shake it, she pulls it away.

"Oh, well I'm (y/n) and I live here with my mom Julie." You say still confused as Constance continues to walk around and admire the house.

"I'm so glad to see new people have bought this old dump" Constance says laughing as she starts puffing on her cigarette.

"Well, I must get going. It was nice meeting you (y/n) I just wanted to stop by to introduce myself, tata." She said as she walked out, leaving behind a trail of cigarette smoke.

"Sweetie! Was someone here?" Your mom asks as she makes her way downstairs.

You pause, still in confusion from Constance's visit.
"Uh, yea. Just the neighbor" you finally say.

"Oh! How sweet of them. Do they seem nice?" Your mom asks in joy.

"They're um..interesting." you reply as you walk up to your room to finish setting it up. You pull out the picture from yesterday and sigh as you hide it in your dresser. You know your mom would get upset if she seen it, so you put it away to avoid that.

After you finish setting up your room it's about 8pm and you have school in the morning so you decide to take a shower and then head to bed.
You go to the bathroom and turn the water on so it's not to hot, and not so cold. You forget you are wearing a necklace so you use the mirror to take it off. As you walk to the mirror you hear a strange sound from behind you, you look and see a nurse, who is all bloody in the bathtub and all you hear is
"Can you help me?"
Frightened, you scream for your mom.

"MOM! OH MY GOD" you scream out.
You hear rushed footsteps from down the hall and soon after your mom bursts through the door.

"What is it (y/n) is everything okay?" She asks concerningly.

You point to the tub and try to explain what had just happened, but you realize that the girl was gone. You look over at your mom who was shaking her head in disappointment.

"Honey. I'm going to find you another counselor tomorrow while you're at school. I'm worried about you (y/n) I really am." Your mom says as she goes back to her room.

Well, this is great. You think to yourself as you get in the shower. After you get out of the shower you go back to your room to get ready for bed but after what just had happened, how could you? Are you actually going crazy? Or is what you're seeing real?

You sigh at these thoughts and roll over, trying to fall asleep. And eventually it worked.

*Authors Note*
I hoped you enjoyed this chapter, keep reading to find out what happens next and even vote for it so I know you want more chapters. Like I said, I've never really written a X reader before so please bear with me I really am trying. Also, the rest of the chapters will be fairly longer and have more details unlike the first chapter did, so keep reading for that too! Thank you so much!❤