Fake Friends = Fake Dreams

My earbuds were blaring out lyrics to help me understand what was going on. Fall Out Boy. Fall Out Boy always cheered me up. I didn't do anything since my friends left me. She was the only person who cared.



I think I fell in love again.



I never hung out with them but, they felt like family.



I've read about the afterlife, but I've never really lived.



She used me. Em had used me. I swore she actually liked me. I guess she uses all of us.



So douse yourself in cheap perfume. So fitting, So fitting.



My thoughts began to fade along with the music. Soon my eyes were closed.



I woke up it was bright. The good kind of bright. Sunny, birds were chirping. I felt amazing. Then I heard a sound I hadn't heard in a long time.



Buzz--- Buzz.



I picked up my phone.



"Hey get up sleepy bones, today is the picnic" From Em.



The last thing I remembered me and Em hated each other. But, who cares I was friends with her again!



"Who else is coming" I typed.



"Ummm... Jacob, Gavin, Kelsey and, yours truly." Em texted.



I sat up.



"Also, if we're lucky we can find someplace we can be alone." followed by a picture of her winking.



Me and Em had an unofficial thing. I later figured out she used me because Jacob didn't want a baby.



I put on some clothes and brushed my teeth.



"Hey, we're outside, come on!"



I got that text as soon as my shoes were laced up.



"Bye mom, Love you!"



I ran out the door. I heard the quiet voice of my mother. "Have fun."



There they were. Gavin, Skinny as ever (I think we were switched at birth). Jacob, my first friend in Junior High. Best friends since. Well, until recently. Emily. Perfectly curved. I seriously thought she was Indian for like 6 years. Kelsey. She was my favorite. She wasn't pretty, smart, I just liked her. A lot.



"Hey." They all said at once. "Wow. That was creepy." I said. "Well, don't just stand there, dope." Gavin smirked. I ran to them.



"I missed you guys." I almost cried. "So did I." They said not together but, one after the other. At the time I didn't think anything of it.



Soon, we arrived. We sat by a tree. The were golden as fall had just arrived. We laid down a lavender blanket and Kelsey brought the food. It was all my favorite stuff. But oddly there were some things that they hated hated but they acted like they acted like they loved it.



I noticed something odd. A part of the sky was red. Like a glitch in a video game.



"Hey what's wro---" Em's voice became broken. The grass become grey. Everything was grey except for the blood red sky and Em's eyes. They were black. But, only from a second.



That's when I noticed IT.



Em had always had this thing. A dot on head. That's why she was Indian.



"You guys are real... Right?" I said nervously.



"What do you mean?" Em said.



"No, we're spooky ghosts. Jacob said sarcastically.



"Ummm... I think, Silly." Kelsey did that adorable smile she always did.



"EMILY! WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DOT ON YOUR HEAD?!"



"What do you mean---?" Her voice became broken again.



"You--- Have--- To Stay--- Forever." Em's eyes went black and what seemed like tar began to spill out--- Like tears.



When I turned to look at them they looked the same. Black eyes spilling tar.



But, oddly enough I notice Kelsey wasn't there. She had disappeared.



Soon, the grass turned grey along with everything except for the sky--- It was blood red. The birds chirping turned to what sound like screams--- distortion--- static.



I snapped back to "reality." I ran as fast as I could. I turned to look back, only to trip. They stood staring. with those cold, black eyes. Their faces crumbled, like a piece of paper.



I got up and kept running Until I spotted it. My house. I saw them. I realized if I stayed in my house I'd be stuck forever. So, I ran to the cliff.



There it was. A color other then grey or red. Blue. There was a sea over the cliff. Somehow it just formed.



I jumped and grabbed a hold of a branch. Jacob jumped after me I let go--- It hit him--- His face seemed to crack.



As, I fell I closed my eyes.



When I opened them I was standing. In white fog. The screams to rising sounds. I saw grey figures in the fog. I swear there was a figure with two glowing red eyes.



I soon heard crying. Then a female figure with her hands on her face.



I ran to her the figure became closer--- clearer.



"Kelsey." I said nervously.



"I want to go home. I want to be with you." She said trying to clear her voice.



"Kelsey... This is just a dream."



I paused.



"I want to leave." I said to trigger a response.



"You cant..." Kelsey mumbled.



She pulled her face away from her hands to reveal black, tar spilling eyes.



Her skin became grey.



Her teeth became pointed.



I ran until I fell into the sea closing my eyes trying to see what Hell had in store for me next.



I began to swim upwards.



Soon the hands gripped my leg.



I looked down to see all except for Jacob gripping my leg.



It was stay with them or drown.



I barely kicked them off. They kept gripping.



My leg began to bleed.



The grip just got tighter.



I just kept swimming up.



I heard under water screams telling to go down.



The sky became so clear.



I reached the surface...











I jumped out of my bed.



I needed change.



I pulled out my phone. typed the number of Kelsey.



"Hey would you like to go out sometime?"



"Sure. "



And, that was when I untied the weight drowning me.