short stories of the missing writer

compromising

"if you promise you won't hurt me then and only then will we be able to talk and I only will talk to you if it's on my side of the safe place, if this is the case then follow me if not you can stay here and leave me alone in the real world" I said and as I did I went on to my side and waited underneath my tree the demon didn't come in right away so I knew he was really and thoroughly thinking my offer through. I decided to climb my tree and wait up there soon enough I dosed off in my tree in my safe place. It was the only place I could remotely sleep with what the demon had been doing to me in the real world. The real question is, is it just going to try to use me for its own personal gain or is really going to make a deal with me, a serious one at that.

Soon enough it came to my side the way all the colors of my world reflected off all it's black, white and grey parts. Let's just say it was eye opening. The only reason I knew it came to my side was that I could feel its presents and hear it, it wasn't exactly quiet. It was looking for me its void like eyes scouring the area I then sat up and began.

"So, you want to make an arrangement?" I said the demon finally looked up at me as I hopped down from my tree. It looked at me with a soft like expression on its face. "What Do you want?" I spat its way and it just looked blankly. I sat quietly awaiting an answer for a while.

"I don't want to hurt you, at least it's not my intent" the demon said in response I simply replied with another question. "What are you and what is your name?" I asked staring intently at it. He replied after looking at me with an expression I'd never really seen before I believe it was a cross of disbelief and distain for my questions.

"To put it simply I am a type of demon that can live within people and my name is Nuru" It said and that arose more questions for me but I was gonna be satisfied with what I got.

"One more question, what gender are you?" or not

"rude" he stated I just gave him a tilted head stare. yes, it was a burning question that I felt like I needed to ask no matter how rude it may seem then again if you think about it this demon is using me as free real-estate without my permission which is also kinda rude. I kept staring until I got my answer. He sighed knowing that I wasn't gonna let it go without an answer.

"Sigh, as a demon I don't really have a gender it depends on how I feel But I mostly feel like a male so you can use the pronouns they/them and he/him. I was satisfied with his answers and didn't really have too many other questions. I grinned at him.

"Your turn to ask me questions" I said, and he thought for a moment then asked

"Are you scared of me? Do you want me here? And what's your name?" he asked kinda all at once, but they weren't really hard questions.

"no I wasn't and I am not scared of you, I was just startled by your existence within my safe space because it supposed to be well safe" I said with confidence and a hint of arrogance.

"I don't really know if I want you here, I mean I know you said that you weren't going to hurt me, but I can't shake the feeling of uncertainty. But as far as my name goes you can call me Angie" I said, and I was pretty honest I really don't know about living with a demon inside me but I don't think it could hurt too much but I have a question before I answer his question about if I want him here or not.

"I have one last question this question will help me determine if I want you here or not" I stated and he asked, "what is it?"