Nightmare

Part Two: Him Chapter 18: Before Life before my best friend's death was wonderfully normal. Wait, did I say wonderfully? I meant to say mind-numbing normal. After his death, though, life became exciting....

Chapter 16: In Sheltering Arms I don't remember anything about my first night at the doctor's house. After my day of torture and the day of walking, I had nothing left in me. I had given everything I had to get to safety.... Chapter 17: The Eureka Moment Newly spurred on to find the key that would allow me to awaken from this endless nightmare, I redoubled my search for a mistake....

Chapter 15: Walking to Civilization The small break allotted to me made the subsequent pain worse than before. I could tell he gloried in my agony. He wanted every ounce of satisfaction out of this confrontation as humanly possible....

Chapter 14: An Appointment With Death Peacefulness. That's the first thing I remember feeling. A profound sense of peace and rightness with the world. Here there were no killers, no minions, no unending hunt....

Chapter 13: The Search The weeks of silently daring him ended one dark summer night. I'll start off by admitting that I got careless. Well, maybe careless isn't the right word....

Chapter 10: Rebuilding It took me the next six months to recover from the fire.... Chapter 11: Increase in Heat While the time immediately after the fire was peaceful, I was not suckered into thinking that the abuse at his hands was over.... Chapter 12: Enmity Like all good things, my vacation had to end sometime. I couldn't stay on the sea forever, even though sometimes I wanted to....

Chapter 8: Knowledge Put Into Action I left that wedding as fast as humanly possible. I drove home, making sure I wasn't followed, but I knew that that wouldn't stop him and his henchmen.... Chapter 9: Slowed I stayed outside on the sidewalk in front of my burned house until one of my fellow PI's came and dragged me away. I had no home, no possessions....

Chapter 5: Graduation The end of our senior year was a happy and scary time all wrapped into one big ceremony.... Chapter 6: Training During that summer after graduation, except for one event, I didn't hear a word about him.... Chapter 7: Acquiring Knowledge More time passed. I learned how to be a better PI and gradually took on cases that were more difficult....

Part One: Her Chapter 1: Before I started noticing something was wrong when his best friend died.... Chapter 2: The Trigger That February night I don’t know what I was doing. Probably what I did every night: homework, family time, sleep. Nothing real exciting.... Chapter 3: The First Death Up to this point, I haven’t properly explained why he and his eyes bothered me so much.... Chapter 4: Failure and Its Price I know, I know, you think up until now that I’ve been making things up or reading into the situation way too much....