Death with a kiss

When a dream turns into a nightmare

"Bah ha ha!!! " I shouted, giggling as I jumped unto Adrian's back. He laughed and twirled trying to get me off of him.

"Ok! Ok, you won!" he exclaimed after he got tired of trying to get me off of him.

"Of course I did, I always do." I laughed, ruffling his hair and resting my head down on his shoulder as I hugged on tightly. "I love you, Adri." I whispered as I felt tears starting to form in my eyes. I wiped them off and hugged him tighter as he started walking. We were going to his favorite part of the park, it was always alone and he always said the grass was truly greener there. Before we had been playing a silly game that was about spotting the other person first and basically jumping on their back without letting go. I don't remember exactly how that game came to be, but we were some crazy kids so...

I snuggled in closer to feel his warmth. "We're here Kim." I heard him whisper. I opened my eyes which I had closed only to feel his being more. Without sight you felt more, you heard more. And that's what I wanted to feel every moment like it was the last. I slipped off his back slowly only to trip on some rock that I hadn't counted on being there.

"Eeep!" I yelped as I fell back. And once I hit the ground I just kind of started laughing. Of course this would only happen to me. He smiled down at me and offered his hand. I took and pulled him to the ground next to me. Well I planned it to be next to me but he ended up on top. I squeled as we hit noses. Both our hands went directly to our noses but he sat up while I still layed on the ground. With him being on top of me and all gettitng up was pretty hard, not that I don't have anyone to blame but myself for that. We laughed and he came down so that we were forehead to forehead, his hands on the ground keeping him up. He looked down into my eyes and I just looked back into his. They were Adrian's eyes, Adrian's beautiful blue eyes.

I was getting lost inside his eyes when he suddenly he closed them. And before I knew it he was bringing his lips down to mine. "No!" I yelped, pushing him off. He landed on my right side, his eyes open wide in confusion. I covered my face with my hands, that had been to close. I turned to him. "Adrian, we can never kiss again. Don't you see that if we do you will be gone." I explained, as tears started forming in my eyes again. I didn't even know what was right anymore, to keep Adrian alive or to bring Luke back to his rightful body.

He laughed. I opened my eyes which had been closed by worry and confusion. He was looking up at the blue sky, his arms behind his head. He laughed again. It sounded cold in a way, not like Adrian. "What's funny?" I asked, I sounded hurt, I was hurt. He sounded like he was laughing at me. He turned to me then.

"You really do care about me don't you Kim?" he smirked.

"Of course I care about you, you idiot!" the way he said things, the way he looked at me, this wasn't Adrian. He was making me so mad, I don't even know why but he was, it was how he did things.

"Good, then maybe you'll understand." he said with a serious face this time as he sat up. I sat up as well, what was he talking about? Understand what?

He took my hand and looking down at it started to speak. "See, you don't really have the power to steal people's souls or whatever it is you've been thinking it as." he said, gently stroking my hand with his thumb.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"I mean... I have that power I guess..." he said, letting go of my hand to rest upon both of his as he looked up at the sky. "With a kiss, I can inhabit anyone's body and choose to either eliminate their being completely or just live beside it until I find a more suitable body. That's why you felt like kissing guys around you so bad, because I wanted a body already, you took forever you know." he said nonchalantly, shrugging his shoulders.

I gasped. "All this time? Me thinking I was the problem?! Why?!" I was crying now, does he know how much pain he's caused me? And... and... he's a murderer a real one, he said so himself he eliminates people's beings.

"Oh please, don't be so selfish will you?! I didn't kill you did I? And what about all the pain I went through? Waiting was torture.."

Before I knew it I was pounding him on the chest and yelling at him. "How can you be so uncaring?!! You killed Luke!! You killed Luke and you had me thinking I was a monster!! It's you, it's you, it's you, it's you!! You're a monster!!" I wailed. I felt so broken, so lost, so dead, but at the same time I was burning, burning and alive and filled with pure red anger. Bitter anger from betrayal, from lies, and decievment. I cried... Had I ever really known Adrian? The Adrian I thought I loved, did he exsist? I pounded and pounded as much as I could. Disappear monsters, disappear!! I thought. This was all a bad dream, this had to be a bad dream.

He grabbed me by the wrists, stopping my pounding. "I don't have to inhabit your body to eliminate your being you know." he warned, glaring at me. "All it takes is a kiss..." he smiled.

"Let me go!" I screamed. How had I ended up here? In this situation with this... thing? He let go.

"Fine, I'll leave you be. For now." he smiled and with that he walked away.

I dropped to the floor then. Hugging myself. I needed myself now, if that made any sense. I couldn't let myself fall into this darkness, all this confusion... I hugged myself tighter and cried.