Nocturnal Beasts

Chapter 1: Arrival

Alexander

My name is Alexander Tate, 23 years old and I've just became the new deputy of this small quiet town. I moved to America at age 12, lived half of my life in a peaceful place in London before I left with my mother to America, taunted by bullies for my English accent, my only true friend I made over those years was Aries; tall, dark brown to black hair, I would describe him having a light brown skin tone for being part native American. We planned to get this house together though at the moment he's been caught up back home settling up some last minute things for someone to keep track of his 'from the ground up' business then he'd make his way here. But after all our trials we been through look at us now fairly successful, law enforcement, a nice house we can call my own. A single bachelor with his shit together, not many can say the same.

As I pulled up to the new house I was astonished by the sight of it, it looked even better in person than how it looked in the pictures; a two story home with a very antique look to it so it must have been pretty old even with the recent renovations it's had. I got out of my car and looked up at the house taking in all the features from the faded red roof to the spiked black gates that surrounded the entire house. I start walking to the door and I stop for just a moment feeling like someone was watching me, I look around but there's no one to be found or seen. Continuing to the door though I still feel like I'm being watched I unlock it and walk inside, the smell of old furniture and wood hit my face as I breathed in, I don't know why but the smell brought comfort to me and felt like home.

I walked about the house checking out all the rooms, checking to make sure everything still works as I notice the huge fireplace in the living room. With about a 6 ft. wide and 6 ft. tall I would guess, made out of complete stone mainly. I'm snapped out of my thought by a knock at my door, probably some neighbors welcoming me to town as I open the door I am met with a woman with raven black hair, fair skin with piercing blue eyes, my attention brought back to her when she spoke up. "Hi, I saw the U-Haul parked outside so I thought I'd come say hello and introduce myself." The unknown woman spoke. "My name's Evora, may I ask yours?" She asked giving a gentle warm smile. "Alexander, Alexander Tate; you've got a pretty interesting name to say the least." I say as I raise a brow which received a light laugh in response. "Not really that interesting honestly, it means 'yew tree' funny as I'm barely over 5'3." She lets out a laugh as she says this but before I can say anything else her friend she was with called her back over to her home. "I gotta go sorry! nice accent by the way it defiantly suits you!" she yells as she runs back over to her house almost in a cloud of dust.

The next few hours I sit in the dining room drinking a cup of coffee as I break from unloading a few boxes when my phone begins to ring, I look down at the caller ID to see it was Aries so I pick up. "Aries, mate has you're business been settled yet?" I asked waiting for him to answer "Almost, I'm just making sure Carrie has everything covered then I'll be on my way!" He says enthusiastically "So how's the place looking so far Zander?" He asks suddenly serious now "It looks great mate, better than the photos we seen of it for sure, your going to love it." I say as I look around the room taking in the sight of the home again "I'll just have to speed up getting things settled then! Cause we know you barely take a liking to many things." He said with a laugh before saying his goodbye.

As the day moved on I started to grow hungry, so I make my way to the fridge an opened the door to find nothing I had completely forgotten to go to the store but now it's a bit late to do any real grocery shopping. I thought to myself if I should go over to the neighbors to ask about places that may deliver but I didn't want to come off as that type of new neighbor in the neighborhood, I thought long and hard but the growling in my stomach became more than I wanted to bare, so I slipped on a pair of shoes and walked over using my phone as my source of light, the feeling of someone watching me waning over me once again but I choose to ignore it and walked on and to the door.

Once I made it up to her porch I gently knock on the door waiting in silence as I hear a pair of heavy foot steps walk down to the door, expecting to see Evora but I was met with a man just a bit taller than myself. "What can I do ya for?" the man spoke in a flirtatious tone looking me up and down. "Oh erm..I was wondering if Evora was home? I wanted to ask her something-" I said in a cautious tone as I was cut off by the yelling of Evora coming to the door "Danny who's at the door? Oh hiya neighbor!" she says in a cheerful voice making the man known as Daniel laugh in response. "Was Danny here trying to scare you off?" She asked jokingly as he made an offended face as he retreated back into the house. "No, just kind of caught me off guard to be quite honest with you." I said rubbing the back of my neck. "Oh? How so?" she asked me raising her brow "I just thought you lived alone is all, but I came over to ask you something if you don't mind?" I say as I sort of just look down at my shoes to excuse the embarrassment I was feeling in the moment.

"Oh! Pft Danny is my bestfriend, he gets pretty protective of me around strangers you got nothing to worry about. But what's your question?" as she says this she motions me into her home "Well I was wondering if you know of any places that deliver? I seemed to forget to go grocery shopping today amongst the madness of getting my things moved into the house." I say as I take a seat at her dining room table as she searches her drawers "Hm is that all? Well there are a few places that deliver, take your pick." She says smiling handing me a pile of food place flyers. "If you'd like my opinion Savoni's has the best pizza around." She says giggling pushing the hair from her face. "I think I'll take your word for it, would you and Danny like to come over and eat as well? It's just gonna be me tonight till my friend gets here in a few days, I could use the company and some friends here." I say as I flash her a smile but before she can answer her friend comes back "Of course we would love to pretty boy!" He says in a loud cheerful tone putting his hands on both her shoulders as she laughs. "I guess it wouldn't hurt right?" she said shyly smiling as we all got up and walked back over to my house and start ordering the food as she tells me all about this little town called Wake forest.