Keep your distance love

Chapter 9: Grim's message

That morning Jake woke up on his couch naked with a blanket over him. He wasn't alone. Ash was laying there naked as well right next to him. Her eyes were closed and she looked peaceful, a little too peaceful. This caused Jake to panic. 'Oh no-' he thought, 'She can't be..' "Hmm.. shhfflo.." Ash mumbled gibberish in her sleep and then turned onto her side, burrying herself into Jake's chest.

She's alive! But how? He took away her virginity thinking that it wouldn't matter if she was dead. Now that she is living and breathing.. he feels that he has made a terrible mistake of injuring someone he cared about internally. He started to think about what he was going to do once Ash woke up. Would he let her stay longer? Would he ask her to hang out another time? Would he kick her out and cut all strings with her, making this no strings attatched?

Before Jake could pick which option was the best one he felt Ash wake up in his arms. "Jake." She rubbed her eyes and sat up. Noticing that she was naked Ash quickly brought the covers to her chest. Jake smirked thinking 'it's nothing i have not already seen before.' She smiled at the pale boy who's face was blankly starring back at her. " My dad is getting back soon.. I should probably go." she whispered. She brought her hand up to Jake's cheek and gave him a quick kiss. "Thanks for last night. I had fun." without thinking Jake watched as she got up and began to gather her clothes. He felt a beat in his chest and grabbed a hold of her hand only to guide her back to the point where her naked bum was settling on his morning wood. He grunted at the bare feeling and involuntarily nudged his hips into her a bit while asking in a soft voice. "When will I see you again?" She giggled, giving him a longing kis this time while grinding her hips back into Jake before standing back up again and saying. "Meet me tonightt at 7 behind the huge tree past the entrance.." She gave him one more quick kiss before putting on her clothes and closing the door behind her.

After Ash left, Jake kind of just sat there. It was difficult to wrap his head around what just happened. Once he found the strength to get up, continuing to wrap the blanket around his lower waist he felt a cold breeze pass by him. He looked around, frightned, to try and search for the place of the airy sense that was now surrounding the space around him. "Jake..." Said a faint mysterious whisper. "Paul, is that you? When did you get back?" He frantically turned but there was no Paul. "Jake... How could you?" "Paul stop messing around.." Jake is starting to get used to the sound of his own voice. Talking to Ash is the most he has ever used it since he was a boy. "Jake.. She wasn't a part of the plan..." That was when jake realised that the whispers could not be coming from Paul because Paul was not there, no one was. "Who is there?" Jake asked in a fearful tone. "Hello?!" He screamed. "Love is for the weak.. WHY CAN'T YOU BE GREATFUL?!! WHY IS NO ONE EVER GREATFUL" Large thundering vibration run through Jake's shed at the sudden scream that filled the room. Swirling winds and cold air tangled around the young man's being until they setled onto the couch in front of him and formed into a dark robe. There seemed to be a man in the robe. Once Jake glanced at the staff that the dark figure was holding he noticed that the man had no skin, just bones. His face was covered.

Jake thought it could not be a man that had just appeard of thin air. Must be a demon of some sort. Was Jake dying? Was he already dead? This must be a dream.. he was sleeping. With that mindset in place Jake reached out his hand in attempt to remove the demons hood until.. "I wouldn't do that boy. If you want to live. One touch from me and you are finished." Jake jumped back at the satirical voice that erupted from the the dark figure whom still sat on his couch. "Do you not recognize me boy? Oh, thats right, we have known each other for quite a while yet you never had the chance to make my proper aquaintince. I go by many names but you can call me grim." Jake was confused. "This dream is by far the weirdest-" "This is not a dream Jake, care for me to explain?" Jakes eyes widened and he felt his body go weak as he fell back onto the hard wooden floor.

"It all started with your father.. I just wanted to show the world that death is a gift. When I take bodies I am doing you a favor. I put a curse onto you when you were born that everyone you loved would die. I was doing you a favor! Every time those words left your lips another person fell into my arms. But Ash... She was not a part of the plan. Okay? She is not meant to die at such a young age. Teenage deaths are complicated and a real shame. So do us all a favor and end whatever this is before it gets out of hand." Jake sat silent for a while. "You- Your.. and my father, sawyer, my uncle, my grandfather.. that was all you. You killed them!" Jake bolted up and stormed to punch grim until the figure looked up and showed his hollow face. Jake sat back down in fear at the sight before him. "Listen here you little shit. You either stay away from her or stay long enough to see her die. I warned you." And with that, the grim reaper disappeard just as fast as he came.

Well at least it all made sense now.