Sean's POV
After the breakfast I went to my room and opened my diary, I flipped to the day of my birthday in the corner of right side of the page, in that was a small button and pressed and spoke a password. Then the whole room was soon covered in a large screen. In it was a picture of me, Nova, Chris and Ara. We were in a picnic under the maple tree and Ara was running while Chris chased her, we were sitting on the blanket laid out and laughing.
I try to dismiss the incoming flood of memories as I have an important job at my hand. I opened the folders and I looked for the photos taken at last few weeks and days before the camera stopped. In it was a group picture that was taken on the first day of the opening of the beach resort. I was skimming through the photos when something got my attention, in some of the photos the people faces seamed to be blurred and doubled making it to have an glitch effect.
It looked like a pattern as I saw the same effects in several photos and in always the same person without affecting the backgrounds. Then it hit me that the person who seem to be have been affected by the whatever reason had already been dead. I froze at the spot when I was also affected by it and moving further through the images it kept blurry and at some point I was not even visible, just a light. I can't even know what this all means and it doesn't even make sense. If I was supposed to be dead why was I even alive and Noah was not affected but he still got lost. No, I would never say he's dead, no, he just missing, waiting to be found. Wait, if I was supposed to be a target then he got trapped by that monster because of me.
All of sudden my vision turned black and I couldn't breathe, it felt like I was drowning deeper and deeper and my lungs burned, when I felt like taking my last breath someone tugged at my hand and when I opened my eyes, there was this girl that pulled me out.
When we were out of the water she was pulled into the water once more and that's when I saw Alice. And then suddenly Nova appeared beside me and said that he can't help but asked me save her. As I jumped into the water I heard him say " it's all in your hands now"
There I was in my room staring intensely at the screen and when I saw myself in my eyes I was in my body again. When I looked at the time, it was already noon and I wanted to make sure that Alice is fine. I nearly sprinted towards her room and went to knock when I noticed the door was closed.
I went to search for her when felt a sudden headache that was so unbearable that I felt like someone had hit me with a rod and I felt something oozing out my nose and ears, it had a metallic smell and with a shaky hands I touched it and realised it was my blood. And then memories that I never knew were pouring in my mind and then my whole body was engulfed in pain that felt like my bones were broken and remodeled. Then I saw that. The pitch black mass was surrounding me and felt myself getting lighter and lighter. And then everything went dark.
" -sir, sir wake up. Sir, are you alright"
Groaning, I opened my eyes to see a crowd around me, they must be the staffs as they were wearing uniforms. Then I when someone touched me, something like a memory flew by. It wasn't mine, it belongs to person who is trying to get me up. I stood up unsteadily and made towards a sofa and sat there, I turned down their concern and lied to them that I was fine. It seems like I fainted near the lobby.
They informed me about the party that had started and led me to dining room and made some food. I ate hurriedly and left to find Alice and went to the party area and when I saw her again, I can't help but to hug her tightly in my arms and never let go. I can't help but to stay away and watch her, during the entire time she would look around in suspicion and that made me worried and I would look at the same spot and find nothing.
But sometime during the evening, she looked at the corner and I too turned to look when I saw the shadow. When I look at where the eyes should be I saw Nova helplessly looking at me. And then the lights began flicker off and everything slowed down.
I had an ominous feeling and ran towards Alice and when I got near, I shouted her name and reached out when she was pulled into the darkness and at the last minute I caught her hand. I was also pulled into the darkness and suddenly everything came once in my mind and I blacked out.
Alice's POV
When I came to my senses I was lying in a hallway and when I tried to stand up, something held me down that's when I realised someone was holding me tightly and at first I panicked then I felt the same familiar feeling and looked up to see Sean. Just then all my fear and worries suddenly vanished without a trace and exhaustion crept over me, I felt drowsy and closed my eyes.
But before I could do that I felt a chill down my spine and something told me to run away and I tried to wake him up. Fortunately he woke up and looked confused at the moment and something akin to recognition passed in his eyes before stood up and helped me up. Without a word he started drag me and run, I was confused but kept on running never questioning.
Something in his eyes told me to trust and I did, sensing my unease he tried to explain something but none came out, I shook head telling him to talk later about this and kept on running. We came to a stop at near the room. It doesn't has a number and we slid into it and closed the door.
He began to speak when blood dripped from his ears and fainted and I stood there in shock. It took sometime to come to senses and I crouched down and with shaky hands I checked for his pulse. I felt beyond relief when it steady and strong, before I could breathe I was sucked into memory.