The Night's Young

Chapter 8

"Just do it, Micheal," David's on his last nerves.

Micheal is feeling too much pressure. He runs away.

"I always knew he was weak," David rolls his eyes.

"Hey, don't say that about him!" Star defends Micheal.

"Why not?" David challenges her.

"I told you to leave him alone multiple times, but he'll have to come around," She shrugs.

"You're right. He will come back for you, though," He says smiling.

No matter what, David wants Michael's first kill before the sun comes up. "Go get him, Star. Make him get his first kill."

She listens to him. As she tries to find where Micheal is, she bumps into someone. Someone she never thought she would ever see again. Her father.  She keeps walking, hoping he will not see her or notice her.

"Star," He says sternly. "Where do you think you're going?"

"To find someone. It isn't your business," She says as she turns back around, but he grabs her shoulder to turn her around.

"I didn't say you can go," He's getting mad. "All these weeks, we figured you were dead, now you show up out of nowhere." He slaps her.

"What the hell was that for?" Now she's starting to feel frustrated.

"We all have had enough of you. You left us, now you show up?"

"I was not expecting to bump into you, nor even talk to you."

"Do not, I fucking repeat, do not speak to me like that."

"What's it matter to you, huh? All you did was abuse me, and I blamed myself for it when it really was your fault that it happened."

"So, what? You did deserve it."

"I did not. I found myself caring friends, and a caring boyfriend. None of them abuse me either like what you have done to me. None of them. You're dead to me, father."

He goes to slap her again, but she ducks it and punches him. Everyone around says "Oh!"

"You did not just punch me, little girl." He stands up fully after being buckled over.

"I did, and you can't do shit about it. All these years you have abused me, you never cared about anything!" She yells.

"I don't know why you came into our lives. We never wanted you, but felt too guilty giving you up for adoption." He yells back.

"Boohoo, you still kept me anyway. You better watch yourself," She flashes her fangs at him.

His face completely drops. "You... You're a..." He couldn't finish his sentence, but he fled.

She rolls her eyes and laughs.

"Why would they think I'm dead? I come to the Boardwalk every night," She whispers to herself.

She finds Micheal with Sam and Lucy at the Comic Book store. She walks up to them, "Hey, Micheal, I need to talk to you."

"There can't be anything else that you could talk to me about, Star," He says sassily.

"Micheal!" Lucy snaps. "Sorry about that, he's just been in a bad mood."

"Micheal, we seriously need to talk. We need to go see David."

"Like hell, I'm going to be going near him."

"Micheal, he expects you to.. You know." Hoping he will get the message.