Original Stories Fan Fiction ❯ EMOtional ❯ Chapter 4

Then: Nice…-As two bright red eyes emerged from out of the trees she took one step back. She took one step back and all she could make out was a dark figure behind the penetrating eyes it looked human enough and it had the shape of a man, but it had the claws of a bear. As the girl watched its mouth slowly open to reveal sharp whit teeth a cry came from in front of her. "Hi Stacey it's been a long tike hasn't it?" she heard in her head but the thing's mouth wasn't moving. Stacey watched with wide eyes when the creature's eyes lifted from her and onto the other helpless girl. The creature blurred out and reappeared in front of the other girl. Its long sharp claws dug into her neck and blood oozed down the side. He bent down and placed a single black rose on top of the girl. Stacey heard her cries wanting nothing more than the beast to stop. They kept coming and as each cry escaped they hit Stacey like needles to the heart. They slowly came to an end and by then the beast were swallowing mouthfuls of blood. Again Stacey heard "Oh how I've waited for this moment." It was either the thought of the beast killing her or the voices in her head told Stacey she had to leave. If Stacey were to scream no one would hear her and if she were to fight-- well there was no way she was stronger than he. Stacey managed to get five steps in before the thing stopped her; the dead girl hanging from his mouth like a favorable chew toy. A weak cry was making its way up Stacey's throat; it would have escaped if not for a bloody hand that came up to cover it.

"Shh Stacey, don't do anything you'll regret." he spoke.

His voice was about as pleasant as scrapping your nails along a blackboard. As he talked Stacey was surprised he could even talk. But, this was not the time to think how well educated the thing was nor was it the time to look at him directly while he bit off a piece of the chew toy. Her heart skipped a beat and she then froze. Her mind went blank but not because of his actions but because of his eyes. They pierced through her like thorns, just like the ones on the black rose he held out for her. Instead of taking it that weak cry that was contained spilled out, a big mistake.

“I thought I told you not to so anything you'd regret! I guess you don't mind dying now do you?" he asked taunting her.

Stacey's eyes strayed from his and locked onto another figure behind him. It brought a finger up to its mouth indicating her to be quiet. The figure blurred and stood atop the creature a few feet away from Stacey. With a blow to the neck the creature was gone. The other figure took the rose and crushed it in its hand

"Indigo?" he asked in a hushed voice.

What? Her name was not Indigo it was…it was…

The last thing Stacey saw was a pair of luminous silver eyes.

Now: Silver Nights-I closed my eyes and leaned back into his chest letting all my worries out. The sun was almost gone and the moon was now in sight. A feeling I used to feel back then came back and, I started to sing.

"The moon has rose way up above the ocean's nose, all is calm with a silver gleam, the night has secrets that we can't see, and the grass is dry and soft as breeze, those lyrics that fill those reams."

"What's that?" he whispered in my ear.

"A song that I made up the other day."

"Oh"

I kept on with the second part and, well, the song only had two parts.

"The melodic sounds of the ocean's waves fill the air with silver rays, rays that move from place to place, leading the silver along the way."

The song was over and Alexi kissed my cheek.

"It was nice, and you have a very sweet voice." he complimented.

"Thanks…" I mumbled embarrassed from what I had just done.

"So what now?" he asked resting his chin on my shoulder.

"A million" I said smiling to myself.

"Of course, whatever you say." he said.

I could hear the smile in his voice. It felt good, being with him, he was happy and so was I. It was such a long time that I hadn't felt this way. The sun was now gone and it was time to head home. To my home, this was practically his too.

Then: Resemblance-The next day I was also in the hospital. Alexi came by after school, to give me our homework and to bring me chocolates.

"Why the chocolates?" I asked

"Well it is Halloween." he told me.

"Right."

"I'll be back, I got to pee." he said leaving.

When he came back we talked and we talked a lot. Alexi seemed to care more about me than my own mother did. And that's when I learned that Alexi was completely on his own. His parents wanted nothing with him so he survived on his own. I looked up to him and I thought I could be like him. So I started to act like him. When out of the hospital I realized why I was there. I was diagnosed with anorexia, but I never knew that. Alexi pleaded with me to eat but I just wasn't hungry. I went to visit him often and that one time I will never forget, I saw him, cutting for what his father did to him. I wanted to feel his pain, to know what he went through so I, too, began that obsession. The signs of getting better were no where in sight. I fought with my mother more than ever. And my father let so she blamed it on me. That night I slit my wrist. Alexi had just stopped in to say hello when he saw me on the floor crying, blood oozing down. That was the night he yelled at me and made me promise that I wouldn't take my life. And the only way that I could keep that promise was because he himself threatened to kill himself if I ever were to hurt myself. So for the fear of loosing him, I did nothing but stay by his side.

Now: All Broken-The phone rang once I stepped in the door, it was for Alexi. It was his mother and she yelled at him or not taking care of his brother. I heard the yells from my room which I had fled to give him time. He stormed back in the room and roughly sat on the floor.

"Alexi? Are you okay?" I asked sitting next to him, pulling my knees up to my chest.

He didn't answer which meant he was mad. I let him steam off and ran in to the kitchen to make something to eat. I heard footsteps approach and then stop before he was in sight.

"Alexi?" I called out waiting for him to poke his head out.

"I'll see you later." he said in a sad tone.

"Where are you going?" I asked following him to the door with the glass in my hand.

"I don't know."

"Wait, are you running away?"

"You could say that." he said grabbing the knob.

"You can't leave!" I yelled out pulling him back.

"I have to." he said.

"Take me with you." I said.

"You can't go."

"Why?!" I demanded furious now.

"Because Cecilia! You don't know what its like and I don't feel like taking you."

"What do you mean I don't know what it's like?" I asked pulling him back further.

"I mean that it's too dangerous for you." he whispered harshly.

"But, Alexi I…"

"Listen to me; I don't want you to get hurt. You are too important to me." he whispered softer.

He pulled me into a hug that was too long for a simple goodbye. Something was wrong.

After the five minutes that he left I followed after him. I kept running trying to find him but he was no where in sight. I kept walking and I finally found him. Beneath a tree, sitting.

"Alexi?" I asked softly as I approached him. "Alexi?"

That's when I knew that's when it all broke down. He had taken my knife that was under my bed. He had done what he wanted me to avoid. He lied to me.

He hadn't answered and all I could think of doing was something that made him smile. Something that I would feel better off with than just leaving him there.

"The moon has rose way up above the ocean's…nose." I whispered my head lying on his cold chest. "All…is…is cal…..m…with a sil…"

I couldn't do it. The tears were in the way and there was a knot in my throat, killing me painfully. I kept thinking of his smile, his beautiful gentle smile. I knew I had to finish…for him. So with my voice breaking and my tears flowing I finished it, for him.

"Ver gleam, the night has secrets that we can't." I buried my face into his chest mumbling the words, keeping myself from exploding into an outburst of uncontrollable tears. "Grass is dry and soft as breeze." I inhaled sharply keeping my promise in mind. "Those lyrics that fill those reams, the melodic sounds of the ocean's waves fill the air with silver rays, rays that move from place to place, leading the silver along the way."

Everyone showed up. There was commotion and sayings that I had done it. His mother defended me, she told them he had problems with drugs and alcohol but none of that was true. I allowed the tears to flow freely now and I lay there with him. His mother came over and pulled me away leaving her son in the hands of the doctors. I attended the funeral, how could I not? I didn't cry, at least not right away. I got home and collapsed on the floor, hitting my head, hard. I didn't care. I could be bleeding and I wouldn't care. It was 4: 00a.m and I had not eaten anything for over 30 hours. I lay on my bed thinking. About him, of course. Only his promise kept me from acting, but thinking I could do. It was hard not to act when there were knives in the kitchen, rat poison on the floor, and rope in the garage. There was a razor in the bathroom, and a gun in my father's drawer. I hated my life and I hated my house, so I left. I ran all the way across the bridge I had walked so many times with Alexi. I had to leave, to forget. I never turned in that paper, but my story is still out there.

The next day I left, I left to a place I never heard of and got a job as a novelist when I wrote my life story. I told of Alexi and my relationship with him. I told of my mother and father. All I felt I told. So that everyone would understand that some teenagers do go through fazes but some never get out of them until something happens. I wrote a few more books and by the time I was 20 I was pretty well off. I went to book signings and met a lot of new people. Everything was the way it was before but of course he was missing and I would sing that song to him everyday, to keep him happy. The days got better and for the first time in years I finally smiled a true smile. A smile that meant a lot more now than it did back with my friends. A smile as pure as water. I was on my way home, in the rain, of course. The road was terrible and the cars swerved from side to side making me feel uneasy. All I saw were the lights now I sit in the hospital, kept from everything that was mine, once more. I thought about the book he had given me, and that I never finished. That night I went to sleep, and I dreamt of Alexi.

 

*All has a meaning and all is meant to be, but the whole of depression in which we exist pulls some of us deep enough to kill But when times seem dead, even an immoral promise can give hope…

-Silver Nights-

The moon has rose

Way up above the ocean's nose

All is calm with a silver gleam

The night has secrets that we can't see

Grass is dry and soft as breeze

Those lyrics that fill those reams

The melodic sound of the ocean's waves

Fill the air with silver rays

Rays that move from place to place

Leading the silver along the way