/sus/ - red skies

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>It has been about two weeks since I had gotten out of that friggin hell hole of a bunker and I still see red skies whenever I close my eyes.
>It's funny, since I could have sworn to Angel that nothing longer than a week had passed, When I kicked open those stupid heavy doors only to be met with the warm air of the summer night not to different from when I went into the bunker with Kris, almost like it was the same exact day.

>It was supposed to be simple.
>After being missing for a week (Stuck in some hellscape version of the town, where the sky was blood red and instead of all my friends and family, there were only bloodthirsty monsters that were only slightly worse than mom on a bad day. But that’s a story for another day.), I come home, tell everyone I'm not dead, get a bunch hugs from everyone, then after the waterworks from mom, she starts chewing me out, I get grounded for a week, I’m forced to apologize to Mr. Dreemurr for making them look for me, I let Kris know that I’m fine and maybe give him a big hug if he’s been good to Noelle, check in with Az, and bam. Everything is back to normal. With the exception of a permanent 9’ o clock curfew until I move out and a crippling sense of unease around red lights.

>At least, that’s how I thought it would go.
>Instead, It turns out. It’s been five years since I’ve went missing and everyone with the exception of Noelle had thought I was dead. Dad’s stuck in the hospital because of some condition he inherited on his mom’s side of the family, Mom had basically locked herself in her office, only coming home late at night to drink herself silly off of wine and apparently there’s talks about them separating as well, Everyone blames Mr. Dreemurr for my disappearance for some dumbass reason. (I guess for a small town where nothing goes on, people needed a scape… uh… “goat” to blame the first serious incident in god knows how long on.) and Mrs. Dreemurr divorced him over it. Azzy then left for college after a year...
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>I couldn’t help but feel bad for Kris as Noelle told me all of this, on top of whatever the hell happened with me and him in the bunker, he also had to deal with his parents divorcing, his brother leaving for college, and apparently him and Noelle had barely spoken to each other until around a year ago.

>“Ow! Dess! What was that for!” Noelle had whimpered as she put a hand over the spot on her head that I had bonked with my hand.
>“That’s for neglecting your best friend you dummy.”

>It was at this time that I noticed, Noelle was nearly the same height that I was, if not a few inches taller. It was only what felt like a couple months ago that she was clinging to the back of my dress to hide from Kris holding a bug on a stick. Now Noelle could pass as my fraternal twin. Only more proof that five years really did pass in the week that I was stuck inside that bunker, as if Noelle’s extremely thin phone and strange looking tech wasn’t proof enough, but I shook my head and got back to Noelle trying to defend herself.

>“I-it wasn’t my fault!” Noelle sputtered out as I rose an eyebrow at her, causing her to sheepishly rub the back of her head. ”w-well maybe it was a little bit… B-but even so! Kris was avoiding me for months! I couldn’t talk to him even when I wanted to! Eventually I just stopped bothering to try…” A sad frown grew on her face. “I just wish I…” Noelle trailed off before shaking her head and stuttering. “N-never mind that! L-let’s just-“

>“Noelle?” I felt like I needed to say something.
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>She froze for a moment.

>“Y-yes Dess?”

>“Where is Kris?”

>Noelle noticeably tensed up, I didn’t really pay too much attention to it, but my brain did, and I felt an unease. Only amplified as Noelle began to look down at the ground, a frown beginning to grow. It was probably nothing I had thought, so I let out a bit of a chuckle.

>“I mean, me being back is already town wide, even Az found out (boy was THAT a long phone call) you would have thought that he would be one of the first people to want to see that I’m a-ok, y’know? Especially considerind that he was there when- Oh! He’s probably in his room drenched in a cold sweat wondering how he’s going to-”

>“He’s gone.”

>I almost didn’t register the words Noelle had spoke, my eyes darting from the tears welling up in her eyes to her hands balled up so hard I thought I had seen blood staining her furred hands.

>“Huh?”

>“K-Kris is dead.” She said hoarsly, as if she was a moment away from breaking down into tears.

>Her words slammed into me, hurting harder than the monsters in the other world ever did.

>“H-he passed away four months ago…”

>And in that moment, it was like I was back in the bunker, the familiar feelings of dread and hopelessness returning to me twofold.

>It was like I never left.

>Maybe I should have never left at all.
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Holy FK I f-ked the posting of this up so bad in so many ways.
Anyways, sorry to leave off of a cliffhanger, but I need to run errands and I thought here was a good place to leave off. I'll be back in a bit to continue. I'm really sorry so you'll guys have to wait for a bit (hopefully)