The Many Secrets of Woodland Hallows

Chapter 5

It's Monday afternoon, I finally got back from work. Today the students were a lot more talkative, which made class difficult. Ombra and I haven't talked much since Saturday morning, before my sister had picked me up. She lives about 20 minutes away from me or so. We don't really talk much, so sometimes I forget she lives near. Luckily we have been talking more. She knows about my new job, new house, and Ombra.

I sit down on my couch and hold my cat, Sage. She purrs in my lap as I turn my TV on. I flip through many channels and decide to turn on Animal Planet, since nothing else was on. Just as I get comfortable, a ping comes from my phone, awakening a now grumpy Sage. She looks at me before jumping down and walking towards the kitchen, probably towards her food bowl.

   I sigh and grab my phone from beside me and read the message. It was from Ombra. I read it before deciding to answer back and surprisingly, she answers quickly, starting immediate conversation.

Ombra💚: can I stay the night?

                         Me: we have work tomorrow tho?

Ombra💚: I called in for the both of us, I said u were sick and got me sick 😬

                          Me: I can't believe u... fine.

Ombra💚: good girl🖤 now let me in dumbass

I blush grows as I read my phone confused before I hear a knock on my door. I look over to the front door and see Ombra standing there, waiting me to unlock the door with an impatient look on her face. I giggle and walk to the door and unlock and open it, helping her in with her duffle bag.

"What if I said no?" I say with a giggle. "Hm well I'd still come in" she says with a smirk. I blush and lead her to my room where she puts down her bag beside my bed. She looks around admiring my room. "Your house is beautiful" she eventually says. "Thank you!" I say with a smile. "I have some drinks in fridge, how about we dress comfy and watch a movie!" I say with a smile. She gives me a nod of okay and I head downstairs. I open the fridge and grab two bottles of my favorite, salted caramel vodka. I then grab two glasses and head upstairs.

"Hey so I found this, I hope you like.." I stop in my steps and stare at her. She had a horror movie ready, lights dimmed, and lying across my bed in black booty shorts and a red laced top. I audibly gulp and admire her, the tattoos along her thighs, her arms, her curves... I was mostly stuck on her thighs. I giggle interrupts me and I quickly look away and up at her.

"Hm... curious I see?" She says as she gets up and grabs the glasses from me and then sits back on the bed. She pats a spot beside her as she looks up at me. I sit beside her and sit one of the bottles on the nightstand, opening the other and pouring it into our glasses. "Let me change real quick." I say with a smile and get up and sit the bottle on the table beside the closed one. I grab a pair of boxers and a crop top and I walk to the bathroom that's attached to my room. I put on the light pink boxers and a yellow and pink striped crop top. I admire myself in the mirror and decide to take my hair down, fixing it a little. "Alright... a few drinks and some movies, everything will be fine." I say, hyping myself up.

   I exit the bathroom and go back to the bed. Ombra hands me a glass and eyes me up and down. It looks like she is already on her 2nd drink. I take a few drinks of my drink, then I press play onto the movie.

   "I notice how you look at me Clementine." Ombra suddenly says in a husky voice. I feel the heat rise to my cheeks and my eyes widen as I look over to her.

"What do you mean.." I stutter out and slowly lift the glass to the lips, the caramel alcohol hitting my lips. Suddenly she crawls to me and takes the glass from me.

"Admit it." She says sternly and climbs into my lap, sitting down roughly. I try to look away but her cold slim hands aggressively grab my face and make me look into her dark eyes, the tv light making her piercings shimmer. I refuse to give in. She deserves better.

As if reading my thoughts, she pushes me down and pins me to the bed. She sits my glass off to the side and slowly moves down to the stomach. "Ombra! What are you doing? Stop!" I whimper out, trying to hide my stomach but not being able to break her strong cold grip on my wrists. "I won't until you admit it, until you do, I'll show you just how much I deserve you, unlike what you think." She says nonchalantly.

How did she-

I suddenly feel cold lips press against my stomach and along my curves. I look down and see Ombra kissing my stomach and curves, leaving black lipstick prints. I let out whimpers. I would soon to regret that.

   Suddenly something ignites within Ombra. She roughly wraps my legs around her waist and uses her tongue and slowly drags it up to my ribs. I shiver and whimper as I watch, not being able to move. That's when I notice something. Well, some things. First of course, her ears. I always noticed her ears were oddly pointed but I ignored that, same with her constantly being cold. This though, this scared me. Her tongue and her teeth. She had extremely sharp canine teeth, almost like fangs, but as she licked me, they grew in length.... And her tongue, it was a dark red and long, abnormally long. It was obvious it could hang way past her chin.

    This is a stupid thought but.. all of that added up, the bandages on her back, the door? Is she... no. She is human. What am I thinking.

  Plus... the teeth and tongue are kind of hot.. I think I'm getting used to this. Maybe a little to used to this.

"Fine! I'm kinda interested in you!" I randomly whimper out, without thinking.

Oh god.. I shouldn't have said anything.

I don't know if it was the situation, or the wetness in my boxers, but I gave in. That was a big mistake, as I earned a husky growl and a dark feminine giggle.

"What a good girl, giving into your desires..." Ombra says with a smirk and leans in close to my face, brushing her soft black lips against mine. They were cold, just like the rest of her.

"Ombra I.." I don't finish. My body aches for her. I NEED more, I crave more, I know she does too, judging by the look on her face. Just as I go to lean in, suddenly the house begins to shake, drowning out the pitter-patter of the rain that was falling from the pitch black night sky. The floors creak and moan as they spread apart, breaking, growing. A light glows from the once dark abyss and black shadowy tentacles start to crawl through the abyss and make their way to the bed. My eyes widen as I see Ombra's jump off of me.

"It's happening.." she says in a serious tone. Panic begins to set in.

"What is happening Ombra?!" I shout and she sweeps me off the bed, almost effortlessly. We sprint to the kitchen and she sits me down.

"Stay." She says and runs off. I do as I'm told and stand there, scared.

What the fuck is happening. I better get an explanation.

Tears fill my eyes as I see my cat run up to me. I quickly grab her and hold onto her tight. Finally after about 2 minutes, which felt like hours because of the stressful scenario, Ombra comes running back with what looks like a black goo on her cheek.

"I tried to grab your rats, I'm sorry, the floor knocked the cage open and they ran off." She says sadly as she picks up me and Sage. Tears fill my eyes, unable to talk.

   She takes us outside as the rain drenches us. It's pitch black and hard to see.

"Do you trust me, Clem?" She asks me.

Do I trust her..? My house is being destroyed, she is hiding things, I don't even know what to think. I just need to leave.

I silently nod as I cry into her chest. I hear a screech come from Ombra, a screech so strong and high pitched that the windows in my house rattled then immediately shattered and the leaves of the trees rustled. Suddenly, black feathered wings push their way out of Ombra's back. I watch in paralyzing fear as they grow.

The last thing I see is my house being swallowed up in a black goo like fog and Ombra flying sage and I to her house.

Then I passed out.

My world is changing rapidly in front of me... what is going on?