Humanity

I woke up in a panic once again after having another nightmare, but unlike all the other times I had nightmares I woke up with Isaac curled up next to me in bed. I looked over at the clock to see that it read four in the morning. I knew that I shouldn’t bother getting up. I twisted my head back as far as it could go to find Isaac not too far behind me with his arm swung over my waist. I couldn’t help but get butterflies in my stomach at the thought of Isaac cuddling me in bed. I don’t know what it is about him that just seems to leave me nervous and flustered. I guess you could say I have a crush on him.

I didn’t want to go back to sleep because I didn’t want to have another nightmare, but I didn’t just want to lie in bed forever. I looked around the room for a few minutes before I made the brave decision to scoot back and little and curl up a little closer to Isaac. I was worried that I would wake Isaac as I moved. Once my t-shirt covered back was lightly pressed up against his shirtless stomach, I felt as if my freckled covered face was on fire. I felt like I was invading his personal space, but I couldn’t help it I just tended to feel safe when I’m around him.

I stared out the window that face the strip and could see the bright lights even through the thick curtains. As I closed my eyes I felt Isaac tighten his grip on me and pull me closer to him. I stayed completely frozen not exactly sure if he was sleeping or awake. I heard him let out a little groan letting me assume he was asleep.

I laid completely still against Isaac for like what forever before my eye grew to be too heavy to hold open. I finally gave up fighting and just let them fall shut.

I looked over at Derek who was yelling at Isaac about something. I looked around to see that we were in some type of warehouse. I looked at the ground to see it was dark concrete, and I looked at the ground by Derek and Isaac I noticed that there was huge blood stains on the ground. I looked at Isaac with a panicked look as I ran towards him. I got to him and Derek, but before I could get to them Deucalion appeared behind them. I tried to scream but nothing came out. I threw my hand up to my mouth, but was left with a terrifying feeling in my stomach as I felt a cold liquid around my lips. I stopped dead in my tracks, and I pulled my hand down to see that there was blood dripping off my fingertips. I felt a panicked sensation course through me. I looked over at Isaac and Derek to find Derek on the dead with blood coming out of his mouth. I looked at Deucalion to find him with his hands wrapped around Isaac’s neck. Isaac had a panicked look in his eyes as he stared at me.

I didn’t know what to do then I wasn’t sure if I should run, or if should go try to help Isaac. I didn’t know if I could do anything to help Isaac or if I would just get both of us killed. I tried once again to let out a scream, but once again nothing came out.

“They’re both dead and you’re next,” I heard Deucalion say as I took off running.

For some reason I was having a hard time getting my legs to move fast enough. I probably went five feet before I felt warm hand grab my wrist. I was flipped around quickly and came face to face with the blind Deucalion. His eyes were bright glowing red and they seemed larger than normal.

“How should I kill you?” he said placing his warm hand on the side of my face.

I started crying, I couldn’t help it. I mean he had just killed Isaac and Derek right in front of me, and he planned on killing me next.

I abruptly woke up and breathing heavily and looked around the room to see sunlight peeking through the curtain. I wasn’t sure if I was more relieved or nervous that Isaac was still holding on to me tightly. I looked over at the clock to see that it read ten in the morning. I think that’s the latest I’ve slept since I started having nightmares.

I laid there for a minute before I felt the need to use the restroom. I looked over my shoulder towards Isaac with a panicked look on my face. I made the quick decision to try to move Isaac’s arm off me and try to go out of the bed as quickly as possible. I tried moving his heavy arm, but was stopped when he gripped his arm around me tighter. As much as I enjoyed cuddling with Isaac I had to use the restroom, so I knew I was going to have to wake him up.

“Isaac,” I whispered rubbing his arm gently.

I waited a minute, but no response. So I started rubbing his arm a little harder and spoke at normal tone, “Isaac please let go of me.”

Still no response.

“Isaac I need to get out of bed,” I said louder than normal as I tried to pull his arm off me.

I was caught a little off guard when Isaac quickly pulled his arm off me and sat up abruptly. He stared at me with a slight panicked look on his face. “How long did I have you trapped?” he asked me almost as if he was hurting me.

“I wouldn’t exactly say you had me trapped, it’s more like you were holding me,” I said crawling out of the bed. “And you I’m not sure how long we were like that,” I said lying to him. I didn’t feel like I had to tell him that I moved over to cuddle up with him at four in the morning.

“Did I hurt you?” he asked as I walked towards the bathroom.

“No not at all, we were just cuddling.” I said stopping in front of the bathroom door. I felt my cheeks heat up at the mention of the word cuddling. “I’m going to use the bathroom real quick,” I said opening the door.

I walked across the cold tile and used the restroom as quickly as I could. I looked in the mirror and tried to fix my messy strawberry blonde hair. When I got it to get slightly presentable I quickly brushed my teeth. I’m not exactly sure why I felt the need to try to make myself look pretty, like I knew nothing was going to happen between me and Isaac, I still wanted to look okay.

I walked back into our room, and found shirtless Isaac sitting on under the covers. If I didn’t know any better I would swear he was naked. It was the way the covers sat right above where his shorts were.

“Did you have any nightmares last night?” Isaac asked as I walked over and sat on the edge of the bed.

“Nope,” I lied. I don’t know why lied, but I think it’s because I thought maybe he was getting tired of hearing me complain about my nightmares.
“Do you think that might have anything to do with sharing a bed with me about with me last night?” he asked tilting his head slightly the side.

“It might,” I said still lying. I guess I was lying again because I liked the idea of sharing a bed with him again. There was this part of me that just to seem to have a school girl crush on him. It probably psychologically something to do with the fact that I’m a damsel in distress and he’s my savoir, or it might have something to do with the fact that he was extremely good looking. Also his amazing abs didn’t hurt at all.

“Did you feel okay waking with me holding you?” he sounding slightly embarrassed.

I felt my cheeks heat up and I couldn’t help but smile, I looked at the floor trying not to look at him. So he wouldn’t notice me blushing. “Yeah it was nice,” I said feeling awkward.

“If I would have been awake and knew what was happening I probably would have enjoyed it,” he said running his fingers through his curly hair. “So what do you want to do today?” he asked walking towards the bathroom and changing the subject.

“Maybe walk the strip after grabbing some food,” I said before he shut the bathroom door.

While Isaac’s was in the bathroom I went over to my duffle bag and pulled out some clothes to wear. I found my coral colored sleeveless blouse that had a cream colored peter pan collar. I continued to look through my bag and found my favorite pair of blue shorts. I grabbed my pair of lace off white sneakers and zipped up duffle bag. I turned around to see Isaac walking out of the bathroom.

“I’m going to go get dressed real quick,” I said giving him a smile.

“Alright I’ll get dressed in here while you get dressed,” he said walking over to his duffle bag.

I walked into the bathroom and stripped off my shirt and sports bar, and pulled on my nude bra and my coral blouse. I slid off Isaac’s boxers and pulled on my blue shorts. I walked out of the bathroom and found Isaac sitting on the edge of his side of the bed putting on his shoes. I walked over to by my bed and grabbed my shoes. As I walked over to the bed I saw Isaac s stand up. He was dressed in a pair of grey skinny jeans, and white v-neck that was loose, but tight enough where I could still see the outlines of his abs.

“You look nice,” Isaac said giving me a smile as he walked passed me.

I felt little butterflies form in my stomach at his simple compliment. “Thank you,” I said softly as I started putting on my sneakers. I tied up my shoes and walked over to the sink and stood next to Isaac as he finished brushing his teeth. I reached over and grabbed my toothbrush, and before I could grab the toothpaste Isaac was holding it out for me.

“Thank you,” I smiled as he put the toothpaste on my toothbrush.

We both brushed our teeth and Isaac walked over to the bed and started messing with his phone, as I brushed my unmanageable strawberry blond waves. As I set the brush down Isaac walked over to me sticking his phone in his pocket, “ready to go get some food?”

“Yeah,” I smiled.

We walked out into the hall and walked over to the elevator, and I pressed the down button and looked over at Isaac to see him getting nervous. I was going to ask Isaac if he wanted to take the stairs but I remember the last time I asked him that he got mad, so I just decided not to say anything. We got into the elevator and Isaac pressed the main floor button. I leaned up against the wall and stared at Isaac’s back as we the elevator went down. The second the elevator doors opened on the ground floor Isaac walked out quickly like he always did. I followed behind him trying to catch up to him.

“Isaac, slow down,” I said speaking up.

“Sorry,” he said stopping and turning around to let me catch up to him. “Do you want to eat here or do you want to walk on the strip and find somewhere to eat?” he asked as I caught up to him.

“Why don’t we walk on the strip to find something to eat?”

“Okay,” he said leading us out towards the exit towards that led us out on to the strip.

When we got outside I was once again hit by the warm heat air. I don’t think I could ever get us to the dry air, I much rather prefer the weather in Beacon Hills. We started walking towards the side of the strip were Treasure Island was. We started walking and I followed behind Isaac as he led me down the busy sidewalk. We walk passed a bunch of hotels before I knew it we were in front of Caesar’s Palace. I couldn’t help but admire how beautiful the building looked.

“How about we eat here?” Isaac asked.

“Okay,” I said following him as he led me towards the entrance.

We walked through the beautiful hotel and stopped to look at a map that listed all the places to eat and where to shop. “What about Serendipity 3?” he asked pointing at the map. “It says they service breakfast,” he said looking at me.

“That sounds nice,” I said smiling.

We walked across the hotel and ended up in front of the Serendipity 3. I loved how cute the restaurant looked. We walked up a few steps and walked inside the double doors. We walked straight to the host and Isaac told him there were two of us, and we were led right to our table.

“I am totally getting the banana cream waffle,” I said looking up and giving him a smile.

“I think I’m going to get the Bigger Than Your Head Pancakes,” he said smirking.

“Is that what they’re really called?” I said with a small laugh.

“Yes,” he said giving me a small laugh.

We really didn’t talk about much a breakfast we got our food pretty quickly so we exactly have to talk much. After breakfast we decided to walk back to New York New York and watch a movie in our room. For some reason the walk back seemed longer the actual walk to Caesar’s Palace. We walked through the wonderfully air conditioned casino in New York New York and headed for the elevator. When the doors opened we walked in, but were quickly joined by a large group of seven people. It left me and Isaac squished together faced to face.

“What floor?” I heard a man ask.

“Fourteen,” I said staring at Isaac’s t-shirt covered chest.

The elevator seemed to be moving so slower than normal, I think it had something to do with the fact that the elevator was crowded and also how closely I was standing to Isaac. I couldn’t but look up at him and bite my lip. He looked down at me and gave me a look I really couldn’t figure out, but the next thing I knew I was moving closer to his lips. My lips were a mere inches from his when the elevator doors open and he rushed out. I was left in the elevator with seven strangers feeling reject. I shook my head and walked out of the elevator right before the doors started to close. I walked far behind Isaac towards our room. When I got to our room Isaac was holding our door open. I couldn’t even look at him I just felt completely rejected.

I walked inside and sat on my side of the bed. Isaac walked over and next to me on the bed. He reached over onto the nightstand and the TV remote. He started randomly flipping through channels, and I just kind of blankly stared at the screen. I felt even more sitting next to Isaac then I had at all during this whole trip. I kind of just wanted to go to sleep and pretend I never tried to kiss Isaac.

Isaac finally stopped flipping through channel and left the TV on the channel that was playing Fight Club. I didn’t really pay attention to the movie I was just kind of lost in my own thoughts. I just tended to stare at the screen blankly. Every so often I would Isaac staring at me, but I wouldn’t bring myself to look at him. After we watched a few more movies Isaac suggested we order room service. I agreed and he ordered us both cheese burgers. We ate them and watched the movie Zombieland, and still every once in a while I would feel Isaac staring at me. After a few more movies it was already eleven o’clock.

“I’m tired I said standing up.”

“I am too,” he said looking at me and giving me a smile.

I walked over to my duffle bag and grab my oversized shirt and Isaac’s boxers I had worn the night before. “Is it okay if I wear your shorts again?” I asked.

“Of course,” he said looking over at me.

I walked into the bathroom and got dressed for bed. The whole time I was alone in the bathroom I thought about how I was sure if I was happy or if I was annoyed Isaac was acting like nothing ever happened. I walked out of the bathroom and found Isaac dressed in a pair of workout shorts pulling back the cover on his side of the bed. I slowly walked over to my side of the bed and pulled back the covers on my side of the bed.

“Goodnight Lennon,” Isaac said as he turned off the lights.

“Night,” I said crawling into bed.

I wasn’t sure if Isaac and I were going to cuddle tonight and I wasn’t exactly sure I wanted too. I hated that I felt rejected. I was stupid to think that Isaac would want to kiss me.