The Night's Young

Chapter 7

As Delilah walks with Paul, holding his hand, Dwayne's looking at them smirking.

"What?" Paul asks him.

"Oh, nothing," Dwayne laughs to himself.

Delilah looks up to Paul, giving him a questionable look. Paul shrugs since he doesn't know either. They both think, "Whatever, it is what it is."

Eventually, Micheal, Star, and Laddie show up. David looks at them, "I thought you were done with us?"

"Well, Star calmed me down about what happened between me and Delilah," Micheal looks down, slightly timid.

"I see good for you," David eyes Micheal, noticing how timid he looks.

"David, I wish you weren't so controlling of me when it comes to making my first kill," Star says, standing up to David.

"Watch it, you were broken when I brought you in," David's getting frustrated.

"Yeah, but what if I wanted it that way? What if I still wanted to be a normal person? I thought it was over for me when you took me from my family."

"Your dad was abusing you, don't think I don't know that, Star. You tried hiding it, which made it more obvious to us."

"How do you know that? I never told anyone." Star as well is also getting frustrated.

"We have our ways, I thought you would have found that out long ago," David shrugs. "I brought you in to protect you, to protect you from your abusive father. It seemed to us like your mother didn't even care what happened to you."

"Don't speak about my family like that! They-" She gets cut off by David.

"Ah-ah, they weren't good people. Especially to you, Star. They loved your little sister more than you, and you know it."

"No, that's not true.." Star is starting to cry. "They loved me, I just made my father angry, that's all.."

"No, Star, when someone loves another person, it could be a daughter or a wife, they aren't abusive to them."

"But I truly made him mad... It wasn't his fault."

"Star, no, that's not how it works," He embraces her as she cries.

Micheal's looking at them as she cries in his arms wishing she would have gone to him instead. He sighs, but not loud enough for the rest of the guys to hear him.

"Well," David says. "Delilah made her first kill, tonight, what about you? You want to?"

"What?" Star stutters.

"Did you want to do your first kill?" David repeats himself.

"I... Yes, I do," She sighs.

"Let's go find another teen booze party then!" David's excited.

"Are you going to do your first kill, Micheal?" Marko asks him.

"I don't know," He replies.

"Just do it, Mikey."

"Yeah, Mike, do it," Paul eggs him on as well.

"It's not as bad as you think," Delilah laughs.

"You're one to talk after what you just did to me," Micheal rolls his eyes.

"You can't still be caught up on that, are you?" She says unimpressed.

"You beat me up with no remorse!"

"Oh, Micheal, it wasn't that bad, for fucks sake," She rolls her eyes.

"You gave me a black eye, my mouth and nose were bleeding!"

"So what? I was protecting myself. You grabbed my wrist, I just wanted to go see Paul after we ate."

"Yeah, protecting yourself."

"Look, if you're going to be a complete fucking ass about it, how would you have reacted if that was Star? Huh?" Delilah's pissed about what he's going at.

"Don't bring her into this conversation!"

"I never did. I'm just asking what you would have done if you saw her how David saw her, what you would have done. That's all that I'm simply doing."

"I don't know."

"See, you don't know, she would have done the same thing, maybe not to the extent I did."

Micheal huffs.

"Told you I was right to beat you up," Delilah mocks.

"Good job on handling that," Paul whispers.

"Thanks, babe," she whispers back with a smile.

Paul has his arm around her and smiles. "How did I even land her? She's the best thing that's happened to me since David brought me in."

She reaches up to Paul's hand on her shoulder and puts her head on his side while they're walking with the rest of them.

"They've gotten real close, eh?" Dwayne says to Marko since they're walking farther behind.

"Yeah, sometimes I think a little too close," Marko replies.

"What do you mean by that?" He asks.

"Well, they just met right? And she's already like... all over him," He sighs. "She's sleeping on his chest, he has his arm around her."

"I think you're overthinking things, Marko," Dwayne tries to comfort him.

"Yeah, I guess so," Marko shrugs. "Thanks, Dwayne."

"No problem."

Marko wishes that Delilah wouldn't have gone with Paul. Why couldn't she have chosen Dwayne? It doesn't matter to him, but it bothers him how she chooses Paul instead of Dwayne or even David. He sighs getting lost in his thoughts.

As they reach another teenage booze party, Star starts to feel regretful. She pushes it aside.

"Come on, Star, make your pick. Lure them into the shadows if you have to," David says to her.

One guy is already staring at her as she walks up. She goes to grab a drink. "What do you think you're doing?" A guy asks her, putting his eyebrows up.

"Grabbing a drink," She rolls her eyes at him.

"Not unless you were invited," The guy says with attitude.

"Yes, she was. She came with me," The other dude says, who staring at her when she walked up.

"Thank you," She smiles at him.

"Oh, okay."

"You want to go somewhere? Maybe behind those trees?" She says biting her lip.

"Sure," He puts his hands in his pockets thinking he knows what will happen.

As they get there, she pushes him against the tree, and goes straight for his neck. As she starts to nibble on his neck, he gets the chills down his spin.

She full on bites his neck, she puts her hands over his mouth to prevent him from screaming for help. "You aren't going anywhere, pretty boy," she laughs.

She pulls out a knife, and slashes his throat on the side, which will damage the trachea as she does so. She goes straight where she slashes his throat, and she does it.

"Holy fuck, where did you learn that?" David asks.

"My dad would tell me that stuff before my sister came along," She shrugs. "Damages the trachea, so he can't yell or scream."

"That was badass, holy christ," He laughs.

"Looks like I will have to try that," Delilah laughs along with David.

"You're up, Micheal," David smiles.

"Yeah, Mikey, go do it," Marko entices him.

"Micheal, Micheal, Micheal, Micheal," They all chant in unison.

"Don't be afraid, become one of us," David says over the chanting.