His second chance at a happy life

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Entry 88

Well, I had an interesting day, few days. I know, I should have typed about it when I came home to get it over with. I just couldn't find the strength to do it, so what happened was unreal, and I don't think anyone will believe me, but that's not why I am writing on here. I went to the mall with Ellie, her brother and Trevor. It started out amazing. Emilio was going to get a ring, Ellie knew where all the sales were, and Trevor was Trevor and flirted a lot. He had not only picked a beautiful dress, but he also bought the whole outfit with accessories, and shoes, but he did it all before we even got to the mall, so I couldn’t say anything it was smart. Ellie had found many more things on sale. It was amazing. I had fun shopping, eating, possibly starting a thing with Trevor, but it was one of those normal days like other people have that it didn't last. Those days never do. The pale man showed up.

He was stronger this time. I could see him getting closer as the temp dropped with his every step he looked like a glitch in time, freezing and unfreezing with unnatural movement towards me. It's summer, so people around us were weird out when it was getting cold, but it was more like a strong breeze for them, however, it was raining, so they just shrugged it off. I on the other hand, was so cold my teeth clenched shut, and my arms were wrapped around me but did nothing to warm me up. I couldn't breathe without feeling like I was being stabbed. I really don't know what happened, but I was bugged out. This was new, strange things obviously have always happened to me since I saw spirits and all, but time has never stopped. Let alone stop multiple times in a row. Ellie and everything around me looked as if someone hit the pause button on the world. When time stopped for the seventh time, it had stopped for how long. I don’t know but it felt like forever. When it did, the pale man's eyes narrowed and moved to the sky. I looked and saw something. It was only a glimpse of black in the cloudy sky. Then the pale man vanished, but he was still there. I knew that much, since the cold was in the air, but it had lessened. Moments later, I started to hear screams of pain and anger. It was a mix of confusion, two voices shouting, both deep, and both coming from every which way. It was as if I was amid a battle that I couldn't see. I wanted it to stop and with a lesson from Andrea, one of Gigi's old friends from Scotland, I used the pendent I was wearing to cast the magic of protection that it was infused with around me, hoping to cast away any evil. It had responded, and everything was gone and time resumed, but it had taken all my energy that I had passed out. I didn't wake up for two days, so the pure shock paralyzed me that I couldn't get out of bed for the rest of the week. I honestly didn't want to think about it again, let alone believe it happened, but if I don't get it out I will go crazy. The screams echo in my head sometimes while I am alone in my house. It was as if they were bouncing out of my walls. I felt like I was going crazy. Gigi had to go about my whole house cleansing it with different rituals and prayers until evil no longer lingered around me. Today is the first day I felt the heavy air lessen, but I couldn't leave my house. I can't.

I look over my writing and then post it. I sit in my comfy swivel chair knees to chest. I sigh and rest my head on its side.

"…..oing to school." I hear Gigi slam the door open as she enters. Then something hit my chair and shoulder. I looked down and saw my bag.

"What?"

"You're f*cking going to school!" Gigi glare softens as she speaks again. "Honey, I understand what happened was traumatic, but you worked your ass to get there, and I'm not going to let you waste it." She stomps over and turns me around. "You have an hour to get ready, go." She turns to leave yelling behind her, “Food is on the table!” Her long salt and pepper braid flying behind her as she walks out. I picked my bag up and tossed it on the bed. I go get dressed and half an hour later I am heading to school.

It was a trying first class. I almost fell asleep twice. I sighed, heading down the hall to my next lecture. Math is my worst enemy, but thanks to the heavens for the tutors on campus. I leave one building to go to the next. I really don't like how big this college is for being a community college. I force myself not to sigh again as I maneuver around groups of people and others walking. I get to class in surprise peace. I spotted Ellie sitting in the middle of the classroom. She waved at me with a big smile.

"You don't work this weekend, right?" She asks as I set my bag down. I nod, rummaging through my bag for my pen, paper and glass case. "Then you're my plus one." She chirps. I look her,

"To where?"

"My parents are having their annual fiesta." I made an oh face and smiled at her normally.

"What about the boyfriend?" I asked, leaning back in my chair and eyeing her. She shrugs,

"In Montana." She grumbles.

"Why?"

"Work, he was chosen to be the representative of his department." I can tell she was both proud of him and missing him. The class went by fast, but I retained nothing useful.

"Hungry?" She asks as we leave the room, eyeing me up and down, worry flashes across her face. I nod. "Good! Let go get some fries." We headed to the food court in the next building, Ellie trying hard to act the same and not ask a million questions. I'm grateful, but I know the incident at the mall had freaked her out. She might have been frozen, but she could hear everything. I didn’t talk to anyone after waking up in my room the next night. Ellie texted me so many times along with calling me, but I didn't leave my room. I couldn't even talk to Gigi about it. She had told me that Ellie called her a dozen times to check on me and stopped by, but I refused to see anyone. So, after day three she would just call Gigi, she didn't complain or whine. She just accepted it.

We get our food and find a table, we got fries and chicken bites to share.

"Hey," I start in a quiet voice, but she hears me and looks up from her phone. "I want um, I just..." I take a deep breath, "I just want to say I'm sorry for acting like a child, and thank you for being such a good friend, really, I, I appreciate it so much." As I talk tears start to trickle down my checks, at the end my voice even cracks as if I am holding back a sob. She stands up and sits next to me giving me a big hug and I really do start to cry.

"Shh, Shh, sweetie, it's okay, shh. I don't know what happened, but it'll be okay. I am here for you if you need to talk about it. Do you?" I whip my tears and nod.

"But not here." I said in a hushed tone. She nods.

"Okay, we can go talk in my car." We packed up our stuff, and we headed to her car. There I spill everything,

"When we were leaving the mall, I had one of my time laps, but it was different from before. I don't why, but it was stronger, and it was as if the whole world froze in time. I could move, but everyone was as if they were paused mid-action. It was so cold I could see the pale man. He was getting closer and closer. He was so close. I swore he was going to touch me, but then he vanished, but nothing went back to the same as usual. Instead, I started to hear a fight, but I couldn't see it, but I could hear it like it was in my ears, the screaming, the pain, the fight felt like it was going to shake the earth. I could barely stand up right. I didn't know what was happening. I could feel the pale man's presents and someone else. It was a male. I know it because..." I paused, not sure if I should tell her what happened. In the end, I didn't write on my blog or tell Gigi, when she asked what happened, I breathed. Continuing, "He spoke to me right before I passed out. It was deep and raspy, so I knew he had to be the person that saved me. I couldn't see his face. It was like he wasn’t there, but I knew he was there! He talked to me, whispering that I was safe, that he would always be there to protect me, but he..." I started crying, thinking of how he sounded in my ears, the pain clear in his voice. He got hurt, because of me he was in pain, and it kills me knowing that. "He was hurt. I know it he was in so much pain. I’m scared that the pale man might have injured him badly. I don't know who he is. I don't know what the pale man wants, and I don't know how much longer I can do this." At this point I am full on balling my eyes out. She doesn't say anything. I don't think she knows what to say, and I don't blame her, I don't even know. Instead, she wrapped an arm around my shoulder and just let me cry, we sat there for a while, an hour, I think, since we had to get to go to our next class, a friendly reminder dinging from Ellie's phone reminding us. I haven't cried that much since the night my mom died.

"We will figure this out." She says finally after I stop crying. I nod, not sure how that is even possible. We head to a bathroom, so I can wash my face before class. "Want to come to my house? We can watch your favorite chick flick and eat stove popcorn." She wiggles her eyebrows and smiles. I give a small one back,

"Sure." After class, went to her car, then headed straight to her house.

"Yo, where's your beer?" Emilio was in the fridge when we opened the door to her apartment. Her eyes narrowed at him,

"What the hell are you doing here?" Ellie tossed her bag on the floor and the keys in its bowl on her corner table.