stay with me

Chapter 9

Grey:

After Hunter walks me back to my apartment I go inside and when I walk in I see that Sam has finally woken up after her long night of partying. She is sitting in the living room watching TV and her hair is wet so she must have just taken a shower.

"Hey" I say as I make my way towards my room but I stop and go sit on the couch in the living room instead.

"Hey" she calls back to me and I notice how her voice sounds light which means she must not be too hungover. "You left pretty early this morning."

"Sorry did I wake you?" I ask inwardly cringing. I hate Sam knowing how bad my sleep patterns have gotten.

"No I was actually just going to bed" she says. "Do you always get up that early on a Saturday?" she asks and I can tell she is fishing for info on how bad my nightmares have gotten.

"Not always" I lie.

She sighs and I know she doesn't buy it. "Grey, why didn't you tell me that you have been having so much trouble sleeping again? I thought it was getting better not worse." I can hear her concern for me in her voice and it nearly rips me in half. This is why I don't tell her because I know how much it hurts her for her not to be able to do anything to help me.

"It is getting better" I lie again but this time I sound more convincing. "I just have bad nights every once in a while and last night happened to be one. Don't worry Sam" I say trying to make her feel better. I don't need her worrying over me. She stuck by my side and helped me recover after the accident the best she could and I would be forever grateful to her for that.

"I'll always worry about you, you know that" she says back to me but I can tell she is beginning to relax. "Next time you have a bad dream come wake me up and I'll sit with you until you can go back to sleep."

"Alright" I say because I know that's what she needs to hear.

"Good so now that that's settled we can discuss plans for the evening" she says as she turns to look at me suggesting that I don't have a choice on whether I'm partaking in tonight's festivities or not.

I surprise both of us by saying "I had a feeling you would be dragging me out this evening so I was thinking we could go to that bar you took me to a few weeks ago". I can't remember the name of it but I know she will know which one I'm talking about since I never go out so there are only some many places I could be talking about.

"Really?!" she squeals excitedly. "Oh I'm so happy! You need a fun night out away from all of your studying."

"Speaking of I'm going to go shower and then go do some studying before we go out" I say getting up from the couch and heading towards my room.

"Alright" she says sighing. "I'll allow you to get some studying done. I guess its best I pick my battles and getting you to go out so easily is definitely a victory so I'll quit while I'm ahead."

I let out a small chuckle as I head back into my room and close the door behind me. As I gather my shower stuff I try to ignore the true reason I suggested we go to that particular bar because the truth feels like a betrayal and betrayal is a knife that cuts way too deep.

Hunter:

I managed to get about three hours of sleep before I woke up screaming. As usual I didn't save her or any of them. I couldn't. I never can. All I can do is lie next to her and watch her bleed out and pray that the same thing happens to me because I know that I don't want to live without her. I don't die though I always wake up right before and the last thing I see before I do is her taking her last breath and the light leaving those beautiful light blue eyes of hers.