I died today. Or yesterday maybe. I can't remember. I can only remember the cold air working it's way into my lungs. It didn't hurt. I became nauseated as the poison entered my veins and I fell cold and limp. I slipped into darkness as she walked away. Then I stumbled home. It was eleven fifty at night. The days won't matter. The days are innumerable, but the hours need to be remembered. I found my way home to John and Kate. They were my family, but not in the normal sense of the word. They were my friends I guess. John was my roommate and Kate was his girlfriend. He was average height, but he had thick bones and muscles. He had a weird way of saying things. He didn't say anything without an insult of concern added in. However, he was always helpful in a physical sort of way. He was good at helping you move out of your old house. His girlfriend? Hot. But an egocentric snarky bitch who had an attitude that made you want to line her head up on one of those kick off stands and watch a kicker on a football team make her head fly between the posts. The crowd would cheer. I tended to avoid her. She was on one side of the war. But John and I were neutral. We didn't want to follow anyone blindly, but we knew what would happen if our species lost. But now I had to follow one person without question. At least until he died a second time. But he walked away like it happened to Kate. But now she was free of mind, yet she thought everyone should be controlled at least once. But I stumbled to the door. I felt a numbing pain. I was hungry. I knew I had to eat or I would die. But it was getting late. It hit midnight. I sat on the porch and felt the warming light of the moon flood my skin with heat. It felt nice before it started to blister and burn like hot oil pouring over my body. I was going to die again. Then I was pulled into the safe darkness. I gathered my thoughts and lost them as my face stretched and ripped and all I felt was a constant repetitive thump. Johns breath was steady. He already knew what I was. But Kate didn't think it was good. I figured that out by how she launched me through the wall and into the bathroom. My forehead hitting the sink from the opposite end almost severed my neck. I realized what had happened, and I asked Kate if she would help me. Kate and I were part of the family from then on. The only family that consumed the very air humans breathe. I am now a Reevet.
