The Vampire Inside ( 3 )
There will be no sex in this constituent and if it discourages you from reading it ; I apologize. Those of you who do n't care, I hope you enjoy. This is a myopic part.
***A alien in the Cemetery***
The sky was darker than normal as I made my way home from schooltime. The nothingness whipping and ululation, scattering dead leaf in all directions. The limb on the naked Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree waving as the brisk cool air swirled around me. A loud windfall of thunder can be heard in the draw close distance, followed by a firm mist of rain bouncing off all surfaces.
I looked into the sky, squinting as the raindrops became gravid and noticed the storm will likely intensify ; spotting the gray blanket of swarm racing though the grey sky. I needed to travel rapidly to the dry confines of my home before I got drenched. I took a left turn to the.only known shortcut ; Rivers bound Cemetery.
The hoary gate creaked when I opened it which sent chills down my spine. I hated this office as much as everyone else in the vicinity. The rumors I heard from when I was a child never left me, now filling my top dog as I looked at the crumbling tombstones and decaying trees.
It was said that on stormy nights, people that trespass into the graveyard never came back out. A inscrutable fog or mist could be seen along with the shape of a homo like silhouette of someone or something lurking the eerie grounds.. waver of lightsome only from which a dancing flame on a candle can produce would mysteriously crystallise the saturnine abandon church, causing it to glow like a jack-o-lantern on Halloween.
I walked by the forgotten and neglected graves and got the eerie feeling someone or something was stalking me ; maybe watching me. gooseflesh and cold shivers along with the instinctive iciness in the air made it appear more creepier, therefore making the expose flesh on the rachis of my cervix tingle and the pilus to stiffen. I was beginning to get freaked out. I needed to compose myself before I hurt myself from passing out.
I sat on one of the dozens of broken and crumbling headstone and just gazed upon my surround. This was n't my first time here, however as the other the great unwashed in my town did, I avoided this place like the plague because of the temperature reduction rumors. My eyes scanned the scene looking for any cogent evidence of the rumor, My eyes fix on the old run down church. Its windowpane boarded and paint peeling. I study the fix in the wickedness boarded Windows looking for any foretoken of light, and to my relievo they remained dark and spooky. My centre wandered on looking for the heavy fog or mist, the only matter I see is the raindrops falling from the sky. This position looks as lifeless as the trunk buried below.
My fears began to vaporise, realizing my mind is playing tricks about being frighten by a bunch of childhood humorous tale that are told around a campfire and sleepovers. I picked up my knapsack from the terra firma brushing the dead dry leaves off and swing over it around my shoulder joint, shaking my pass as I let myself believe this frill. The rain started to come down a bit heavier so I picked up the pace walking home.
My mind was racing with all the intellection about how I let a bunch of scraps panic attack me and I was n't paying attention as I walked with my head down when I suddenly crashed in something, knocking me on my ass to the mud. I looked up into the light fog I have n't noticed and saw a figure I could n't prepare out. I squinted through the drizzle and swirling fog but I could n't make up out the silhouette standing above me. It offered out a deal to me.
'' Sorry, '' I mumbled feeling embarrassed about my clumsiness, reaching for the strangers hand.
'' No job, but you should be more careful. You could 've hurt individual or yourself there sonny, '' He replies pulling me to my feet.
The stranger does n't let my mitt go right away but something felt secret about it. I took a quick peek at the hired hand in mine but it looked normal except for a long fingernail on his index finger which I found odd. I quickly shift my gaze to his face, and it frightened me more then I was earlier. The man had red center and his pupils were slitted like a cats. His fount was pale as the to the full moon. He has black lips with midget red discolouration randomly placed. His pilus is a pitch contraband along with alight bar of gray and white. His lips curled into a smile display chickenhearted decaying tooth, which also have red stains.
'' Forgive my thing young lad. My public figure is Fredrick Von Zepher III and I reside at this residence, '' The man said in a crackling voice, lifting an arm towards the church, gesturing he lived there. `` I welcome all visitors. ``
Fredrick has n't loosened his grip on my hand. My interpreter trembles. `` Nice to contact you sir, I 'm King John Timmons. ``
'' well King John, since we have been formally acquainted ; please care to join me inside ? '' Fredrick nods with a creepy smile, nodding towards the gloomy church.
I gave the man another quick glimpse over as millions of inquiry about his show came to heed, let alone the unfamiliar accent he spoke. There 's no way I was going with this stranger anywhere, even if his morals were good. I pulled my hand from his grasp with a jerking, making eye tangency into his unusual eyes that are seemingly hypnotizing my own. `` Thank you for your benignity and generosity, but I need to be getting to my home. ``
'' Why the kick my boy, '' Fredrick spoke almost in a whisper never breaking the eye tangency we maintained.
I did n't desire to be rude or anything so speaking in a unagitated shaky vocalism, my fear returned with a vengeance. `` It 's raining ; My parents are probably upset ; I have a massive amount of homework to action, and please do n't take this the wrong way, but I hardly know who you are. Therefore I do n't trust you. Besides, if I do n't exit now I 'll be late for dinner. ``
Fredrick nods, `` I understand your concern, but I 'd be honored if you join me. I can help oneself thou with homework because I have one C worth of knowledge. I can put a roof over one thousand head until this dismal storm bye. If I do anything that makes thou uncomfortable just let me know. Thy can trust me. ``
The moment he mentioned he had C worth of knowledge, the man in straw man of me became more creepy. His wardrobe captured my attention. It was from like a time way before I was thought of, maybe before my grandparents existence. Fredrick 's clothes looked like they were worn by the men in the pictures I 've seen of the 1700 's, possibly earlier.
'' Thanks, but no thanks, '' I once again rejected his invitation. `` Maybe I 'll see you around, '' I said walking away from the still stranger.
Fredrick grab my shoulder surprising me, causing me to rock, fearing something bad was about to happen. I 'm being kidnapped exploded my thought, causing a sense of panic to envelope me.
'' Thou is making me angry my boy. I 'm showering thou with my generous offers, yet G declines them, '' Fredrick spoke in almost what sounded like a raspberry, gently placing a cold-blooded mitt on my look and turning my head locking our centre once again. The chilling verbal expression he wore was getting uncomfortable along with his presence. `` I 'm done trying to be nice, now I demand thou to join me. If 1000 again fail to assemble my demand, you 'll stomach the consequences, '' He spoke with an evilness tone causing his hot dry breath to invade my nostrils.
The grip he had on my shoulder trauma and with a snap of epinephrin, I ripped myself from his icy hand and ran. The mud, pool and dead leaves making my dash more difficult as my feet sank in the wet reason. The bottom of my pant legs feeling heavy from the debris clinging. My horseshoe 's squeaking with every step from the moisture filling the interior. The cemetery gate is growing with each pace as it neared. My chest suffering from breathing the cold air so quick. I slowed my stride to a otiose jog thinking I 'm base free ; when out of nowhere I was tackled and crashed into the soft saturated ground. Before protesting to my capture, I feel a hot sensation on my neck, followed by a keen burning pain. My mind was pinned to the flat coat so I had no idea what is happening as my physical structure felt paralyzed for a moment.
Moments later the stranger loosens his storage area allowing me to travel a petty. `` See chiliad when thy come back my boy. I 'll answer any motion thy may ask of me the skilful to my noesis, No promises though, '' Fredrick 's representative voicelessness into my right ear before yanking me to my understructure with a strength so great.
My cervix began to blunt, feeling like somebody 's holding a bag of ice to the same stain for a while. The feeling you get when somebody places their cold script on you after holding ice cream. I place my own mitt to the side of my cervix and felt a thick wetness which caused me to pull away quickly. A sudden wave of lightheadedness washed over me seeing the dark red substance known as profligate smeared into my palm tree. I turn my eyes up at Fredrick with horror. `` What did you do to me, '' I choke out.
'' As I said before youth lad, I 'll do thou questions the next time we shall cope with. Now if I were grand, I 'd be hurrying home before the change. ``
'' Your wrong old man ! You 'll never see me again, '' I said with a sudden confidence trying to make myself look brave.
'' combine me, thou will attempt me out sooner then thou think and I 'll be here, '' Fredrick response turning and walking back towards the run down church.
My oculus were getting enceinte like I have n't slept in Day. My nerves are shaking, my brawniness began to tighten up. I 'm still lightheaded along with a hemicrania creeping in. `` What 's happening to me ? '' I yelled to the disappearance form in the length ; my own voice sounding fallible and hoarse as if I 've been in a concert. Realizing I was n't getting a reply and just standing there with these sentience coursing through my body I did n't sense a bit ago ; I gingerly began my journey home.
***
I awoke in a frigidness sweat, my consistence drenched like the dew on the aurora grass, my brass clenching to the pillow. What a nightmare I thought stealing a glance at the clock that read 4:38 am. My head playing the dream over and over like a bad re-run. I sat up with a sudden intense hunger I 've never felt before that erased the dreaming in an instant from my head. I rubbed the sopor away not before feeling the passion radiating off my face.
Dragging myself to the restroom to rinse the rest of the sleep away, I notice the house seems lustrous than normal despite the minute. I reach to remove my contact 's thought process maybe I forgot to take them out, and to my surprise they were n't there and I did n't call back twice about it.
Out of habit, I flip the can light on and almost simultaneously, let out a loud yell ; almost a riot as the brilliantly Light blinded me. I quickly flip the light off and as if zilch happened my eyes adjusted to the dark immediately. I shook it off and turned the water on, gazing at my reflectivity in the mirror. My jaw dropped as I spot the injury on the decently side of my cervix, the ambition rushing back like a lost memory. This sentence at the end of the dream, I saw the face that sent quiver down my acantha. Fredrick's.
'' No, '' I heard myself say out loud. `` It ca n't be ! '' I backed away from my reflectivity, my eyes still locked on the combat injury. `` It was only a ambition ! I 'm still dreaming ! '' I feel the wound and to my horror it 's still moist from the blood. It 's not a ambition I thought as I looked at my wear still damp from the rain with the dried mud mark on the front line of my T-shirt. I looked further down my body and I still have on the like dungaree I 've worn to schooltime, along with my sneakers, both are dirty with debris.
The spark again illuminates the vague swarthiness, causing me to holler as the burning returns to my center, basking my sight in a sheet of white. I shield the light with my arm like it was going in for the putting to death on a battle line of business. `` change by reversal it out ! turn it out, '' I yell almost in a fit of tears.
'' Bro, you alright ? I heard you screaming and talking to yourself from my elbow room, '' My sister asks in a soft representative, cutting off the light.
'' Alice, something 's wrong ! I ca n't explain it because I do n't know what exactly it is, '' My voice trembling.
'' What do you palpate ? '' Her representative never losing the softness.
'' My body feels like it 's on fervidness. The light somehow blinds me causing a searing annoyance. My ... My ... Just look my hands are shaking for no intellect, '' My voice shaky from the fear.
'' Oh my John, your head is scorching, '' Alice claims after resting a hand against my brow. `` I think you got puke, especially coming home plate in those wet clothes and sleeping in them. ``
'' Uh Alice, I do n't think I remember coming home earlier, '' I said after a prospicient silence, trying to replay the days events.
'' Yeah, you came home, mumbled something and went straight to bed. ``
There was another long pause of muteness as I again tried to remember my day, but all I can remember is the memorial park and nil after that. Suddenly a thumping haphazardness bursts out of no where as I cock my head listening to the familiar spirit phone I could n't comprehend at the moment.
'' John ... '' Alice starts but I put a helping hand up.
'' Shh, You hear that, '' I said in a quiet musical note searching for the source.
'' Hear what ? ``
'' It sounds almost like a heart beating. ``
Alice gives me a mirthful facial expression, `` I think it 's time for you to get some sleep. I 've only been here for a few min, but you are seriously acting Weird. Not only that but you look terrible. your tegument is wan, you cried when the lighting was turned on. Your hearing noises that are n't there. What else is wrong with you ? Should I get mom and dad first ?
I let out a sigh, `` Maybe your right, a little sopor will work wonder. '' As I passed Alice, I stopped cold. I caught an fragrance I 've never experienced. `` Hey you smell good by the way. Is that a new shampoo or scent you are wearing. ``
She gives me a curious stare, `` No, but you seriously require some eternal rest. ``
I just shrugged it off as Alice dragged me to my room without another parole. However sleep did n't issue forth easily due to the massive misdirection going on in my head. thought of what is wrong with me obsessed my power to log Z's. Who was the stranger in the cemetery ? Why did he lash out me ? Why am I feeling like tinker's dam ? Why ... ? Why ... ? Questions flooded me like H2O bursting through a relegate dam. One question kept coming back. What is happening to me ?
***
cockcrow came before I knew it. My alarm was beeping ; telling me that it is time to get motivated. I cracked my eyes opened slowly, but the second the twinkle touched them, it burned like hell. `` Fuck, '' I mumbled reaching to my bedside board, retrieving a pair of dark glasses and putting them on. I again undetermined my eyes slowly and the deoxyephedrine helped because I could see, and as they adjusted to the light, I looked around curiously. It seemed to me my eyes adjusted better in the iniquity the previous night, then they are doing now. The sun had a observation to it that seemed strange, but I could not explain it.
I walked to the bath to reduce the confides of my vesica, and as I 'm urinating I notice something seems out of blank space or missing. For some reason or other the bathroom looked larger then it normally does and I just could n't put a finger on it at the moment.
I left the privy without a second thinking and gibbosity into Alice leaving her room.
'' Hey, feeling better ? ``
I shrugged, `` Actually I do, considering finish night I felt like I was gon na die. ``
Alice shook her head, `` Your lying Hollywood. ``
'' Huh ? ``
'' Come on now, who in their rightfulness mind wear 's shades in the house ; your still wan as a spectre. `` She reaches up and places a helping hand on my brow, `` Jezz, you feel ice cold considering you were burning up stopping point dark, but your telling me your fine. Who are you trying to fool ? ``
When she touched my forehead, different emotions flooded my sense of right and wrong, and the hunger I 've felt the dark before came back with a vengeance. `` Allie, I 'm fine, desire me. But I am starving like you would n't believe. ``
'' John, go get some more sleep alright. ``
A sensory faculty of sadness and business coursed through me. That puzzled me because I was not feeling like that at the moment. I gazed into Alice 's eyes and the emotions I felt hit me even stronger.
It ca n't be, I thought as I could scan the emotions hiding behind her stare. It 's inconceivable, no one can record another person like this. Again that question came up. What is happening to me ?
I plopped back down on my bed after brushing walk Alice. My head about to explode until my alarm chased them away with its annoying telephone call. I looked at the clock time and I was running late for school, so I rushed to the kitchen to fulfill my eldritch thirstiness. The morning goodness of bacon and testicle did little to fill me up. The food not tasting pleasant played a small role.
'' You know you look cockeyed wearing those tone in the house ; right ? ``
'' Yeah, I know. ``
'' Then take em off dummy. Why are you wearing em anyway ? ``
'' The light-colored burns my eyes, `` I replied nonchalantly.
'' Can I see your center real quick, '' Alice says crossing the room to stand in front of me, `` I wan na make for sure there is no serious equipment casualty o.k. ``
I hesitated for a second, `` Sure I shot, but the minute I yell put them back on ; alright. ``
'' Oh stop being a big baby, '' Alice says reaching for the methamphetamine and removing them slowly.
Instantly the light-colored tan and I force my oculus shut. `` Open them. I cant see, '' Alice replies smacking my shoulder joint. I open my oculus briefly, but the painfulness is so bad, I began to displume as Alice lets out a loud gasp.
'Enough, '' I shout, my eyes feeling like yard of needles impaling themselves into me.
'' Wow, '' Alice breathes as she slips the glasses back onto my face.
'' What 's wrong ? '' My spokesperson squeaking with concern.
Alice just keeps smiling, `` Wow ! Your eyes are the most beautiful shade of bluish I 've ever witnessed. ``
'' Huh, my heart are always dreary ; I was born with them you know. ``
'' Bro, have you ever seen how blue the ocean is on a clear sunny day ? wellspring take that for an example except your centre are a lot lighter. It 's breathtaking. God I 've never seen something so elegant. ``
'' Uh Alice, I hate to rain on your parade, but you do know your describing my eyes right. Your crony. It 's a little creepy do n't you think ? ``
'' I know, but I 've never seen anything quite like it. What did you do, get new contacts ? ``
'' zilch different sis, but it 's metre to get ready for school. So lets get moving. ``
As I was making my way to the can to finish the residual of my aurora ritual I hear Alice outcry. `` You should flash those eyes at school. I guarantee the early girl will fawn over them. Maybe you could actually get a date. ``
That remark lifted my hard liquor until I gazed into the mirror. I dropped my toothbrush into the sump not believing the vista in forepart of me, and let out a terrified screech, knocking the bathroom many-sided provision to the trading floor with a clank. My horror-struck chemical reaction caused such a brassy commotion I did n't acknowledge Alice 's presence until I heard her speak.
'' What 's faulty ? '' Her voice filled with heartwarming concern.
I did n't answer. My mind was too overwhelmed with confusedness, fear, and mainly disbelief. I reached for the threshold and slammed it closed on her face, not wanting her to see the slew that will forever frequent me for the rest of twenty-four hours. All my recent fears came to life. This was not a aspiration, but the showtime of a terrifying incubus. As I gazed into the mirror the same motion haunted with me. What the hell is happening ?