The Shadow Man

At the party

"Hey do you want anything to drink..Clair."

"Um-no thank you." I try smiling and pretending everything is fine. Just then in the corner of my eye I see Adria. Her beautiful face is replaced with a frown. Just then Trey reaches out for my hand. He knows she's watching us. I'm stupid. I'm stupid. He strokes my face. His face is so close to mine and I can smell his minty breath. I can feel his lips slightly touching mine. I'm caught off guard and I turn away. Right then Adria is right in front of us. I try not to blush but I feel the heat rising . What did I agree to?

"So ..hey Trey nice to see your into nerdy girls now."She looks directly down on me. My lips start to part open.

"Stop it Adria. We are done. And its your fault that our relationship ended. You know I saw you making out with Adam. Don't deny it we both know."

I see Adria slightly hurt by this. I leave. I head to the bathroom. I wait in there for a while. I don't want to face Trey or Adria.

I come out and find Trey drinking a lot. I guess I'm going to drive him home.

"Hey---um-Clair." I sense that he is really drunk. How much time did I spend stalling in the bathroom?

"We should head home Trey...I look at my watch. It's 10:30 pm. My mom probably wants me home at eleven. We should go."

Out of nowhere he moans no.

He grabs my wrist. I'm like a small doll compare to Trey. He drags me up the stairs into a bed room.

"Trey please don't do this." My attacks are nothing to his muscular body. I'm too tired to fight him.

He is on top of me.

"I love you Adria."

"Trey...I'm not Adria! Help me!" No one can hear us...my guess is every one is drunk...high.....making out...or the music is too loud. I'm slightly hurt by this confession but somewhere I already knew that he would never fall in love with me.

He tries to kiss me and I hear a big noise and I see Trey on the floor.

I see him. I know who he is. I recognize him. He knows that I know him. He smiles. He looks nonhuman and beautiful. His white blond hair is comed back perfectly. His blue eyes are a contrast to his pale gray skin color. His lips are full and intense. He laughs.

"You know Clair I can't let you first kiss be that of a drunk boy. " He looks me up and down. I'm in shock of what just happened in five minutes.

"I'm glad to see you. And by the way you don't have your glasses on. Why is that? Oh..." I know..he looks down at Trey who is knocked out. He frowns and says," Oh this kid, right?"I feel my self getting flushed. I feel my lips quiver at the sight of him.

He then starts to smile and says," He doesn't deserve you. and you look cute with them on. I love the way you crease your eyebrows when your mad. It makes me feel like I've done my job, right. Do I not deserve a simple hello or a thank you for saving your butt."

"You are him...THE SHADOW MAN."

Maybe I'm just imaging all of this.

I manage a sigh. There is no such thing as the Shadow man. So much information to process and then I say all in a rush.

"How do I know you are real and not a figment of my imagination. I'm not Crazy, Right?"

Then he says,"Okay, babe but I'll explain this later because I need to get you home right now and face it, you had a pretty long night ."

" Um, what are you going to do to Trey's body? You didn't hurt him badly, Right?"

After all of just happened, my mind goes to Trey, the guy who just keeps breaking my heart.

" Oh , this kid right, let's say that this kid is just unconscious. He deserves worse you know. " He says as he points Trey and I blush. He then pauses and says," What makes you think that this kid is better then me, Here look, You have more things in common with me than this kid. Look at him he is drunk. You can't possible like him?" He looks at Trey with disgust.

He grabs the key out of Trey's pocket and hands it to me. He heads down stairs. Nobody notices us and we make it to the car.

We make it to Trey's house with silence. He is sitting in the passenger set with his legs on the dash board and his arms behind his head. We are lucky that Trey's parents aren't home and he takes Trey upstairs into his room. I wait outside and he comes out. Great now I'll have to walk a mile down to get to my house. The shadow man grabs my hand and embraces me in a hug. I can't help but think that I fit perfectly into his arms.

" Hold on tight Clair.." I feel my self covered in darkness.