Never Ending Nightmare (I still love you)...04:39 Mar 10 2009
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Walking quietly down the road passing a park, your eyes came upon a small boy crying with no one there to comfort him. He looked about six to seven years old; such a young age for being alone in a park close to midnight it was a dangerous place especially at night when the moon is full. The naked eye won't be able to see what's in the dark shadows, only a flicker of light. You walk up to the crying little boy and knelt down saying "What is wrong and why are you out in a lonely place like this at night?" The little boy looked up with fresh tears falling down his face like rain poring down form the sky. "I-I can't find my m-mommy, she told me to wait here for her b-but she never came back" he said stuttering crying harder. "What is your name?" you said as you picked up the little boy and walked to a wooden bench close to them and sat down cradling the kid trying to comfort him. "M-my name is Seth Clint" he said still crying but he was starting to calm down a bit. "What a nice name my name is Kairi" you said smiling at him, he stopped crying but only sniffing a few times. "You should not be here all alone especially in the dead of night" you said sternly looking around. "But, I have to wait for my mommy she will come for me soon" he said knowingly though you knew it was not true. "I am sorry but I don't think your mom will ever come back" you said trying to be as calm as possible. But he only started crying again and yelled at you" That's not true she will come she will, she will, she will!" he started to cry. You just hugged him giving him cooing sounds to calm him assuring him that everything was going to be alright. Still crying he then said "I am scared of the dark" "Its alright there's nothing to be afraid of," you said in an assuring voice, but wait! What's that! Is it a flicker of the light? Like I said, it is dangerous at night even if you have company. You jumped up and looked towards the movement and to find nothing was there. You new after that day you still would not be safe any more just like you were not before you met him, only now they are searching for you, wanting you. "Come on we must get you to safety" you said hearing your voice sounding frightened. "Why, what's going on?" said Seth. "Don't worry about it ok just keep quiet and we won't be harmed…we are being followed by someone and they might hurt us" you said. You heard him whimper but he stayed quiet.
As you ran trying to reach your house for safety it seemed as you ran that the street became much longer. Finally you reached the end of the street still holding on to Seth you were almost to your house then out of nowhere someone was there in front of you and you almost ran into that person. You stopped in time to not fall down and started to back away but the person, who was a guy, stopped you by grabbing your wrist pulling you towards him. You put Seth down and out of the way so he does not get hurt and as soon as you dropped him to the floor the stranger lunged at you. You saw something sharp, pointy and sparkling as the moon reflects it but before you can make out what it was all went dark and you woke up from your bed screaming.
You finally stopped screaming to figure out you were in your bedroom and had a bad dream. You were thinking about your dream when suddenly your door swung open that made you jump thinking it was the guy from the dream but looking up only to see Seth in the door way looking at you concerned. He came in and sat next to you and hugged you saying "Did you have that dream again, sis?" he was talking about the nightmare you kept on having about since two years ago, it was the only dream you had dreamt since then but this time there was more to it then you ever dreamed in the past. "The dream was different from before Seth I noticed something else in it" you said to him in a daze. You were still not used to the dreams because it still scared you. "What was different this time" asked Seth. "What's different was that at the end of the dream I notice something sharp and sparkling in the moonlight, and…and…I can't remember the rest" you said curling up in a ball on your bed; it had been two years since the attack and it still haunts you.
You are 19 now and you took care of your step-brother Seth, who is now 12, of course you had lived with your foster dad for a while until you moved out with Seth, having taken two part-time-jobs as a maid for a fancy hotel in the city of L.A and, since you don't go to school, your other job next being a maid for the hotel is cleaning houses in the neighborhood only if the people in the neighborhood needs their houses clean other than that you'd stay home in your apartment.
You looked up and looked at your clock and saw it was 4:14 A.M fifteen minutes before your alarm goes off. You got up and got all your bath utensils and headed for the shower. Seth saw that you were going to the shower and said "Hey, sis I'm going back to sleep have a nice day at work ok?" "Ok then good night Seth" you said in a tired voice and closed your private bathroom. You looked in the mirror and saw your tangled short brown hair all messy and your skin a little pale form your nightmare your hazel eyes had turned bluish/grayish and, your eyes had a distant look in them and a hint of sleep. Seeing yourself you thought 'Man I really do need a shower because I look like Frankenstein's daughter right now'. After you got out; you got dressed in your uniform that you had to wear for work. As you finished you looked back in your mirror your face was more awake now and your eyes turned to a brownish/greenish color this time and your hair was darker almost black from your morning shower. You looked back at your clock and saw that it was around 4:54 A.M and it was early for you to go to your jobs so you went to and got some breakfast. As you sat there in your kitchen thinking about your dream you felt someone staring at your piercing there eyes into your back like burning firewood, so you turned around looking out your window and saw that nothing was there. You gazed at your backyard; it was very short and small with a small metal gate that goes up half the height of a person's body. Looking at the big forest part from behind the backyard you saw movement you gasped and quickly stood up but to only see that it was only some birds flying around form there nests. You were very paranoid in the mornings especially when you're alone. You put away your dishes and your food and headed of to work. You had to get there by 7:00 A.M sharp or else your pay check would get hurt. You had to take the train to get to LA since you lived in ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Pomona I was an hour or so away to get there.
You were riding the train looking out the window and again you felt someone's eyes on you, you turn around and saw that there was no one there, you looked everywhere but there was no one there. You just shrugged it of and went back to staring out the window watching, just watching. Watching people live there lives happily not knowing that there is someone, a lot of someone's, there to hurt you; people who… I wouldn't call them people, perhaps they should be called…
The train jerks to a stop and you get off your stop and made your way out of it and went to wait for the bus at the bus stop. After waiting there for a few minutes the bus came and on you went to work.
Before the attack you had some friends but not close enough to trust with secrets. You were mostly alone the rest of your life until your parents died, which you did not care to much for, because they usually used to ignore you by putting there work first then you. So you did not know them so much. You kept being passed to foster home to foster home till you settled down.
In the middle of your work time you listened to some gossip as you cleaned some fresh blankets for a new guest that was coming in later that day. "Hey, did you hear that girl Kairi who works part-time here?" said one of the leaders of the gossip club, not waiting for anyone to answer she kept on talking "Well she's the one who is tending to that rich new guy that is going to come stay here" she stopped and looked to see if the manager was coming in to check on them like she does every once in a while making sure we get our work done, then she went on talking "And I hear he gives big tips to his maids that tend to him and if they, the maids I mean, do a good enough job he gives some surprise for them and he rarely gives surprises out to the maids because they tend to mess up and such, I heard that one time he got so angry with a young girl, I think her name was Linda Clint, just because she left the windows open when he pacifically told her not to for he likes to sleep late and we never heard of that young girl ever since and even I don't know what happened to her" you heard most of the older maids murmuring and saying "Poor girl" others saying "What a shame" and so on. "Did you know his name is Mr. …" the leader of the maids stopped dead in her sentence and you looked over to see the manager was standing in the door way, hands on her hips and an angry look on her face. She was dressed in a fine green suit with white pants and black shoes much more better then the ugly blue plain uniform the maids had to where. Her golden mid length hair and bouncing up and down in its curls much better looking then your short brown hair plain and flat with some waves to it. She was barking orders at the maids telling them to hurry up and get to work or there fired then came strait up to me. "You need to report to room 230 to clean up the place quickly because our good guest is coming earlier than expected so get his room ready" after saying that she went on to some other things.
As you came upon room 230 you felt like someone was watching you again but this time the person felt closer then the last few days. You walked into the room, and once in the room you still felt those eyes on you but you quickly forced yourself to shake that feeling and get back to work. After you were done with your work, you headed out the room still with watchful eyes on you as you left.
The whole week during work you have not seen your customer, the only thing you new that showed that he was within the room was the messy bed and restroom and the big tips, like you heard and you had never seen him once. And from what you heard you did not want to see him. You still feel watchful eyes looking at you like trying to burn you alive and you still had your dreams from last week that keeps on repeating again and again still stunning you from and not getting use to it.
As it was almost time for you to go and you thought you could check out early today since you finished your cleaning of your assigned rooms. You packed all your cleaning supplies away and headed towered the door just when it was opening up a man in his twenties, so it seems, came in. It seemed that he notice that the lights were on for he was alert and looking around franticly until his eyes rested on you. It seemed that you were looking at each other, trying to comprehend what was going on. You finally broke the silence by finally you realizing you were not breathing you breathed in a sharp breath and found yourself with wide eyes, mouth open and frozen. You could almost feel yourself flush and see yourself looking pale. All the things you were holding dropped to the floor when he came in. It was him; he was the one, from your dream… wait… no… your nightmare.
He just stood there and stared at you, malice in his eyes, a mischievous grin planted upon his face and with arms crossed. "Well, well, well we meet again…Kairi" he said with content venom dripping in every syllable. "No…" you whispered, "no…not you again" you said still whispering and filling yourself shaking like crazy. "I thought you would have been dead!" you shouted at him, "I thought he killed you!" you couldn't feel your body for it went numb, but you could feel yourself shaking even more. "The hell he can, HE was the one who died not me" he said smirking; you froze, eyes widened wider. You could not believe what you heard; you started to back away form him. "Oh, don't be scared my little Kairi don't you want to remember that night?" he said feeling more and more content every second they stood there. Had brought back memories, memories that you wished you could have erased.
You had a flashback back when you met James Morales; as you ran trying to reach your house for safety it seemed as you ran that the street became much longer. Finally you reached the end of the street still holding on to Seth you were almost to your house then out of nowhere someone was there in front of you and you almost ran into that person. You stopped in time to not fall down and started to back away but the person, who was a guy, stopped you by grabbing your wrist pulling you towards him. You put Seth down and out of the way so he does not get hurt and as soon as you dropped him to the floor the stranger lunged at you. You screamed seeing something pointy, sharp and sparkly but before he got a foot away from you and for you to recognize what it was someone knocked him out of the way. It was this guy that had dark shaggy black hair, blue eyes that were familiar, too familiar; it was…
Before you could remember the name James lunged at you but this time there was no one to help you so you dodged him and tried to run out the door but he suddenly appeared in front of you blocking you from escaping. "What is he, I know it but I can't remember?" you asked yourself out loud. You heard James laugh then he said "do you still not remember, I thought you would have guessed already by my speed" he jumped at you again but this time he got you pinned. You started to kick him were you learned to defend yourself but I didn't faze him at all just made him laugh harder. 'Man this guy is a maniac' you thought then out of no where the where the window shattered, and it was a big window too. James then suddenly shouted "NO! You are supposed to be dead" he said with panic in his voice. And in came the man I had forgotten yet not, the same familiar short dark shaggy black hair, those same deep blue eyes, it was him, it was Justin.
Flashback to where it all began when you were 14 after you had entered, hopefully your last, foster home; your foster dad came to greet you and took your bags putting them in what was your room. You had not liked him at first but his looks deceived you, he was wearing a thin muscle shirt over his small round belly with jeans and a broken belt, with his half bald head and bad breath he was much more than what you had expected from your thoughts about him. Since you had a lot of bad experience with the other foster people, let's just say that you thought very, very differently about this guy. He was nice and friendly, and also stayed out of your way most of the time when you did not want to talk to him. You went to a high school that mostly ignored you but you had a few friends anyways, enough for you to get help with homework or help on stuff mainly form school. There was this new guy that showed up to school a week after you showed up in the middle of the semester. His name was Justin Dante. He interested you somewhat because there was something about them that just sparkled, something that you could not resist about him.
A loud scream escaped from James's direction that snapped you out of your memories. You looked to see that Justin and James were fighting but something was different about them both, their eyes were not their original color and had a hint of red and their nails were longer, their face was much more fierce and focused. It scared you to see Justin like this, fighting. They were fighting none stop in big blurr but then you saw again that sparkly shinny thing, and it was teeth. You couldn't believe it then you fell to the floor in shock you could barely breathe. You knew what they were, they were the immortals. As they fought you remembered something, on how the fighting went on in from your dream.
Again into you flashback from two years ago; it was Justin, Justin came to your rescue not only once but twice he had longer nails and a red glint in his eyes, and his face, his face was different from his soft and kind face that you loved so much he was a different person now more like the opposite. As the fight continued you just stood there waiting for them to stop fighting. Seth came up to you and held on you crying and so scared. Eventually the stranger came to a stop and fell down not moving you were holding Seth and you both covered your eyes form them so not to have nightmares. Justin came up to you guys all bruised and somewhat bloody because he was healing up faster then a human should have and so you realized he was not human. You remembered all the times he smiled at you but always a short amount of time, what was he? He finally told you what he was but right now you could barely remember what it was that he told you.
You heard another agonizing scream from James, boy he was getting beat up fast, but Justin was getting injured too. Soon enough James was right next to the window right next to all the shards of glass that would kill him easily. Then James said "you haven't seen the last of me Justin" and, to your horror he was about to jump out the window to escape, but Justin, he was to fast for him and took him by the shoulders and dragged his knee right into James's spine hearing a loud crack, it was so fast you barely knew what happened. You turned your head just in time to not see Justin take care of the body. You turned back to see him leave, he did not even acknowledge you, but you stopped him, you haven't heard or seen him so long, treating you like a stranger..
Justin had your every class and was the popular boy in school and on some occasions you tried get his attention and sometimes it worked and sometimes it worked for the wrong reasons. Like one day when you were walking past him with a plate of Sloppy Joes, a milk and apple sauce, you were walking to fast and someone tripped you and you had fallen face first into your food and everyone in sight burst into laughter. You had your best clothing on for a speech that day in front of the school after lunch and since you got all dirty you left school and did not return after a week. You were so embarrassed because Justin was right in front of you when it happened and you could not look at him after that even when you ran from the lunchroom hearing your name being called but not really hearing at the same time. You prayed everyday since that incident for your life to change, asking why you had such a bad life. Well… they didn't say 'be careful what you wish for because you might just get it' for nothing. Because one day, the day that made your life change, you were going to the 7/11 down the block to get some milk for tomorrow, at 10:00 at night, when some thug pointed a gun to your head pulling you into an ally next to the store and told you get give him your money fast, threatening you so much you were sobbing hard.
As you were pulling out your wallet you felt the gun and your attacker come off your head with a thud you screamed but at mid scream a hand came over your mouth and some person from behind you said "Shh, it's alright now, are you okay?" you nodded your head with his hand still covering your mouth. You had stopped sobbing and silently crying, the hand removed from your mouth and you turned around to see who your rescuer was only to find out it was Justin. You where speechless of what he had done so you just cried on his shoulder; he was soon leading you into the store and buying your milk for you and giving you some water to calm you down. You were sitting next to him on a bench out side the store and you guys talked about stuff and to find out you had a lot in common with each other. As he was walking you home after an hour of talking, he asked you "why didn't you turn around when I called to you after you tripped?" you looked at him and as you passed a streetlight you really started to notice his short shaggy black hair, his soft blue eyes that always held something to hide, every inch of his body, then you answered not looking at him saying "I don't know, I just thought it was one of the kids there trying to take a silly picture of my embarrassment" "Well, I do guess that is good for you to not turn around" he said stopping in front of your door. You slowly walked up to the door and opened it, you turned around to look at him, and he smiled at you with some teeth showing making you smile back at him. You saw something in his smile but soon shortened his smile. After that day you guys were in unseperatlable for two years falling for each other without realizing it. Finally, until the day that incident that you had always been dreaming about started.
He turned around looking at you a small smile creeping up and soon up to that friendly smile that you know and loved, you're smiled back in response. "It's been so long Kairi hasn't it" said Justin his sweet voice you missed for so long. "Yeah, it has. Where were you Justin?" you said walking closer to him till you were a foot a way. "I have been looking for James a long time…for you" he said, tears slowly came up to your eyes. "Thank you…again for saving for the third time" you said then he said in a sad voice "I must go, I have to leave I can not interferer with humans" you stared at him in despair. "Please don't go I-I…" you could not finish your sentence you started to cry again and Justin closed the gap between you two and gave you a hug. You hugged him back and then after a while he let go and gave you a kiss on the cheek then turned around and walked away. You were still crying as he walked away watching him walk up to the window and stop. The more he walked away it was like torture to you, 'is this all a dream, no, is it my nightmare that will never end?' You could not find anything to stop him. And before he jumped over the window, and without turning around he said "I still love you". As he jumped into the darkness, you smiled, knowing that one day you'll see him again and saying above a whisper not caring if he heard and with a tear.
You said "And I to you…my love…my Vampire."
Then he was gone, gone forever wondering the dark streets never to return to you.
'But still knowing he is still watching over you.'
COMMENTS
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wayne
03:50 Sep 30 2009
awsome story you are a good writer