Chapter 24: The Big Day
(2 Months later)
Jenn had been dream less for about four months. But she never forgot about them, they were too brutal. Isaac was still constantly touring. He had barely enough time to sleep, let alone call Jenn. But she didn’t mind she was busy with Sizzle to miss him terribly, but she still did. Amy had cut her lovely hair and tinted it a rose color for a play that she was heavily involved with. Jenn and Isaac had successfully kept their relationship away from the media. Poor Amy and Taylor, girls had seen them kissing and took pictures and posted them on the Internet. But they kept it as a rumor and everyone wondered who started it, because Amy denied making it up. Sara still bothered Zac, but he had a girl that he fancied, but he didn’t talk about it, it wasn’t his nature really. Her name was Beth.
Sara, Ike, Tay, Zac, Amy, Mom… Josh…Not again, please not again.
"How ya doing Jenn?" Josh asked with a slight note of sarcasism. "You know what’s going on, I know you do, but you can’t stop me. I’m more powerful than you’ll ever be. See? I can gather all your friends in here, and I can kill them one by one. And you can’t stop me."
"I’m gonna stop you. I won’t stop till you are dead."
"That’s going to be a while." Josh said, as Amy, Sara and, Jenn’s Mom were bound together and Ike, Tay and Zac were the same.
"Stop it, Stop hurting them! Let them GO!" Jenn rushed towards him, but was pushed back by an invisible force.
He laughed evilly, "Go ahead, try it. I DARE YOU!"
Jenn rushed over to her mother, Sara and Amy. She began to tug at the bounds as Josh laughed. Jenn went sailing across the never-ending void that was in her mind that Josh had created. Josh had waved his hand and the ropes were sparked to life with flame. They all began to scream as the flames grew around them and burned away at their flesh. Jenn tried to get up, but an unbearable weight was being pressed on her, she felt like she was being pressed to death to confess of a crime she had never committed. She felt a sharp pain across her face. Her eyes shot wide open.
"Amy? You’re alive!" Jenn said, embracing her cousin.
"Yes, I am… The last time I checked I was.. So I still hope I am. You were screaming, and you wouldn’t wake up. So I had to hit you… Sorry." Amy explained.
Jenn’s hand reached up to the newly formed welt on her face. She now remembered how she had been awoken. "He’s back." Is all she had to say and Amy turned solemn.
"Are you ready to do it? Do you think you can? Should we call Ike?" Amy’s questions started.
"The answers are, hopefully, I dunno, and no. I think he’ll worry to much and I don’t need that."
"But he said.."
"But he didn’t think he would still be touring."
"I think someone should know."
"You know don’t you?"
"But Jenn."
"Amy, I can do this on my own."
"I hope so."
"Trust me."
With that Jenn rested her mind, lying back against her pillow and Amy went worriedly back to her room.
Josh, Josh, Josh. Jenn’s sleep-filled thoughts chanted until Josh’s form slowly appeared and looked startled.
"So you finally decided to try and beat me huh?" Josh said, laughing.
Jenn said nothing, just started to chant in her mind "Gun, gun, gun," Until a 9mm appeared in her hands. She gave Josh a slight smirk as his face turned angel white in this deep red world that Jenn had created without even knowing it.
But as she cocked the hammer Isaac appeared in the dream in front of Josh. "Try and shoot me now, you gotta go through lover boy to get to me."
"Jenn? Why am I here? And why do you have a gun?" Isaac spoke, looking at her quizzically. He didn’t notice that Josh was behind him.
"Josh is…" –BANG- Jenn started to tell Isaac, but he collapsed to the ground with a pool of blood coming through his stomach, "Behind you." Josh had caused enough time of a distraction to get a gun for himself. It was also a 9mm.
"Ha, what you gonna do now?"
"This." Jenn said and fired the gun. Josh fired at the exact moment and Jenn awoke screaming again.
"Jenn? Jenn what is it?"
"I dunno if he’s gone Amy, I shot him and he shot me, I dunno if I killed him. Well the "him" that haunts me."
"Well you’ll just have to wait." Amy said, looking at the clock, it read 3:45 am. Good thing it’s Friday. She thought to herself, as the phone rang in Jenn’s room.
"Wonder who that could be…" Jenn said picking it up quickly to bother Aunt Cathy. "Ello?.. Oh God, Ike. Are you okay?"
"You did live through the dream?"
"Ya Josh brought you in it… Okay, ya I tried to do it on my own."
"Yes I know I was supposed to tell you. But I just didn’t want to worry you. DON’T WORRY ABOUT ME."
"I know, I love you too, but I don’t want you to love me for pity."
"Okay, next time I’ll tell you. Yes, I will, I love you. Bye." Jenn said replacing the phone to the cradle.
"Told you, you should have told him." Amy said sitting on the bed.
"I didn’t need to, he was in both of them. Josh must like makes sure he sees all of it. I don’t like this Amy, not one bit."
"I don’t either."