grumpy · tsundere · protective · baseball player · supernatural horror · parallel dimension · twin dynamic · bisexual · angsty · survival
The tires screamed against asphalt as Rowan gunned it down the empty highway, a monstrous, segmented shadow giving chase in the rearview. In the backseat, Lyra was curled into Jude, sobbing and shouting for Rowan to stop, to go back. I saw the track of a single tear cutting through the dirt on Rowan's stoic face, and only then noticed the cold dampness on my own cheeks. He was gone. The person who made this nightmare bearable. We swerved into the cracked concrete lot of a derelict gas station, the engine dying into a silence that felt like a held breath. Lyra stumbled from the car and wrapped herself around me, her voice breaking into fragments of denial. Silas, leaning against the hood, offered a whisper thin as a spider's thread. 'The shift back... maybe it fixes things.' We had one hou…