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work, but her eyes show her concern.
     
    “Let’s all get back to bed, and we can talk it about in the morning, okay? When Lila and Ethan get home,” my mom says, ushering us toward the stairs. “I can’t believe you managed to turn the alarm off in your sleep,” she mutters quietly.
     
    “I’m sorry,” Ayden apologizes as we ascend the stairs. “I don’t know how I did it, either.”
     
    “Don’t be sorry,” my mother says from behind us. “This isn’t your fault, sweetie.”
     
    Ayden bites down on his lip, not saying anything else.
     
    “Are you okay?” I whisper to him.
     
    “I don’t know,” he mumbles under his breath loud enough that only I can hear.
     
    I graze my fingers along his arm. “I’m here if you want to talk about it in the morning.”
     
    He nods, and then we part ways at the top of the stairway. Fiona follows me into my room and slides back into the sleeping bag while I climb into bed.
     
    By the time I pull the covers over me, the sun is kissing the edges of San Diego and glowing across the sky, casting rays of light into my room. Restless, I stay awake to write, silently expressing what I can’t aloud, allowing myself to get lost in my words.
     
    “Lyric, I’m scared,” Fiona says so abruptly I jump and chuck the pen I’m holding like I’m some sort of spastic ninja.
     
    “Jesus, I thought you were sleeping.” I set down my journal, lean over to the side, and peer down at her. “You don’t need to be scared. Ayden’s fine.”
     
    “That’s not what I’m scared about.” She tugs the sleeping bag up higher as she gazes up at the ceiling. “I’m scared I’ll have more nightmares if I shut my eyes.”
     
    “You said you dreamed that Ayden was sleepwalking?”
     
    “Sort of,” she replies vaguely. “Then, when I woke up, I saw him out on the front lawn.”
     
    This isn’t the first time she has said something strange to me. There was an incident when Ayden was sleepwalking and screaming, and Fiona said she felt his scream, whatever that means.
     
    “Does this kind of stuff happen to you a lot? I mean, do you dream about things that happen?”
     
    “I don’t dream it . . . I feel it happen.” With her eyes opened so wide, she looks utterly horrified. She abruptly bolts upright and snatches hold of my hand in desperation. “You can’t tell anyone that. Promise me, Lyric.” When I don’t agree right away, she tightens her hold on my hand. “This is important. I need it to stay a secret, just like you need the fact that you’re dating Ayden to stay a secret.”
     
    I have no idea what’s going on. If she’s blackmailing me. If she’s crazy. If I’m crazy because I kind of believe her.
     
    “All right, I promise,” I say with reluctance. “Just as long as you keep quiet about me and Ayden.”
     
    “I will.” She releases her grasp on my hand and lies back down on the floor. “Thanks, Lyric.” She rolls over on her side, and a minute later, she’s fast asleep, breathing softly.
     
    Wigged out by the last few hours of events, I grab another pen from my nightstand drawer and return to my journal to write. My thoughts drift from what Fiona told me to what happened with Ayden. The pen floats fluidly across the paper, pouring out my soul and the deepest fears I don’t dare utter aloud.
     
How do I save him
     
When the world has so much control?
     
Spinning through life, a turbulent force
     
Sucking him down into a dark hole.
     
Sunlight spills upon me,
     
Drowns me in warmth.
     
I outrun it for as long as I can.
     
He’s falling into the dark, begging to be saved,
     
Pleading for me to save him.
     
I reach for him,
     
But the sunlight devours me
     
And burns my hands,
     
Singeing me to dust.
     

Chapter 5
     

     
    Ayden
     
     
     
    Last night was going okay until Lyric mentioned that we’d eventually have to tell our parents we’re dating. I never really thought about it too much, but once she pointed it out, I