The Chosen.

An Offer

Crawling through the door frame into the bathroom adjacent of where i was just slammed into the wall, i thrust the door shut with a heavy thud. I snap the lock shut as i start to see the handle wiggle, Tom on the other side trying to get to me. 

"June! Open the door!" He demands. Although his voice sounds nothing like it did before, i still refuse to open up. I know he's worried for me, i can hear it in his voice, i can feel it through the thick wooden door that keeps us separated. 

The empty pit of depression caves in my chest leaving me unable to breathe once again. Choking on my sob, i gasp for air coughing against the tile floor. I am distraught at myself for being able to move on from him so easily, but also at the fact no one has ever made me feel those sensations but Bill. To know that i so effortlessly felt that way about another makes me feel tainted, like i can no longer feel myself pure of Bill's love.

His eyes depleting of life sticks in my mind, refusing to leave no matter how hard i plead to myself. 

"NO! NOOO!" i scream into the willing to listen bathroom floor, my tears smudged against the black tile. My shoulders shudder with my gasps as i kick my legs against the unforgiving wall.

"Shhh.." i feel a sharp point tracing itself down the back of my arm. My eyes fly open to meet the flood, my jaw falling ajar. I feel the looming presence behind me. My tears cease to fall but the ones already in existence continue to blur my vision. Sharpness digs into my fragile skin dragging up my arm once more.

Feeling the trickle of my blood smoothly running down my arm, pattering onto the floor, my breath starts to shutter. I feel the adrenaline being dumped into my body as i lift my tear stained cheek from the ground where it once stuck. Turning i am greeted by a face, a face devoid of all life.

Its eyes, though sunken down into its sockets, pierce through me like shards of glass making me shiver. I trace my gaze down the face, skimming past where a nose should lie, but there isn't one. It smiles at me so my stare may meet the daggers of teeth drenched in blood it holds behind its pale thin lips. A long, black skinny arm reaches for me once again placing a thin, sharp pointed finger underneath my chin. My gasp shutters, as it lifts my swollen face towards it.

"What do you want?" i whisper as tears of uncertainty escape my frightened eyes

"I can take you to him." It licks its teeth with a long black tongue, sizing up my body once more

"I'm not going anywhere with you." I spit, knowing what this creature did to my precious Bill, his throat sliced open with the daggers of fingers that touch firmly against my neck.

Rearing its massive hand back, a slap is laid on my delicate face slicing it open with ease. I let out a shriek, my hand flying to my face to stop the bleeding. 

"June?" asks Tom directly outside the door, I make eye contact with the demon trying to assert my dominance. I know it has watched me, i know it has heard my cries for death, I am unafraid.

"Tom, it's in here with me." i say blankly surprising the tall dark figure in front of me.

"WHAT? ARE YOU.. JUNE??" the vibrations of his kicks against the door ring out in the small room. Gritting it's teeth, i feel the small blade tipped finger with-drawl from my supple skin. With a turn of its body it vanishes from in front of me, leaving my blood and I all alone.

The heaviness of the door crashes in, Tom grabbing me and dragging me away from where i was just attacked. 

"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT NOISE?" Zeke and Mia come running down the hallway to find me lying injured.

"JUNE!" Mia screams as she throws herself to my aid, like she has many times before.

"I'm okay. I'm okay. I promise." i mutter trying to comfort my distressed friends.

"What-?" Zeke asks his hands motioning to my bloody beaten body.

"It was in the bathroom with her." Tom murmurs, his hands hands flying above his head seemingly upset at his inability to protect me.

Mia tenderly touches my black and swollen eye making me wince "Damn, it got you good." she says. 

"Yeah..." I whisper unable to admit it didn't do that to me... Tom did. 

"Alright, we can't split up anymore. AT ALL." Zeke lays down the law, very fatherly i might add.

"It told me... it could take me to him..." i bite the inner side of my cheek as my eyes meet the rest of the groups. I can't tell them how badly i wished to take the offer just in hopes i may see him again.

"He's dead... that's..." Tom murmurs

"OH MY GOD... I- I THINK I KNOW."