Date to the death

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I tried to hide my horrified expression, as I watched my family eat with happy smiles, I look down at my own plate and contain the urge to devour the meat like a beast. I distracted my self by glaring at the wall next to me, out of the corner of my eye I saw my dad look up, "Honey, this is wonderful,"
"Thank you sweetie," Carol said with a grin,
"Yeah, this is amazing!" Karen shouted with a mouthful of meat.
Oh my god, please stop
I felt my self carefully eat the rest of the meat, then rise up, thanked Carol for the food, and stiffly walked to my room.
I shut my door and held in barf, my family just ate human meat, they have bits of people inside of them, digesting, oh god. I slid down the door, trying to calm my self, when I saw glowing eyes staring at me though the window, we have a staring contest until my eyes drooped, and I nodded off.

I woke up to see it was morning, and my body was stiff, I stretched my legs and got up, then glanced at my clock, it was almost noon! I rush out of my room to take a shower and to brush the horrid smell out of my mouth and once again saw the odd figure in the mirror. We stare at each other before I spoke "what are you?"
It moved its mouth as if it was speaking but I couldn't hear it, "What?" It face palmed then pressed its hand to the mirror, like yesterday, and I slowly press mine over it's.
My eyes snap open, my head aching and my body arched, my limbs felt on fire, I felt my mouth open to scream but no sound came out. After a minute of this horrid feeling it stopped, and I fall to my knee on the floor, I glance up at the mirror to yell at it for doing that, but the surface of the mirror looked to be covered in black slime, I stand up, and slowly reached to touch the slime, my hand shaking, Afraid of what might happen. My hand was an inch away from the slime before a slimy hand gripped mine, and used it as leverage to pull the rest of itself out. After it pulled itself out of the mirror it fell with a splat onto the floor, the slime on the mirror slunk with it, I stare at the form on the ground, it was a human like figure, female most likely or a guy with really nice hips, in upper part of the body had long tentacle like strings wriggling around. It looked up, and stared at me before grinning, showing me many rows of sharp teeth, it stood up, towering over me, "There, that's better," it said in a static filled voice,
"What the hell?"
"Oh yes, introductions!" It nearly shouted, "I am Madam Madness, or at least yours, and I'm the mad side of you!"
"Mad side of me?" I ask, confused as hell,
"Yes, the sweet madness everyone gets when they come back, their sweet brains rotting like the rest of them, oh by the way, ask the twins or Z for something for rotting your smelling pretty bad-"
"Hey!"
"-Anywho, I'm here to help you cope with your new found insanity! And now that you've given me a form to use on the outside world you'll have the pleasure of seeing me everyday!"
"Hold on, insanity? I'm as sane as ever!" I bark, crossing my arms, Madam Madness giggled behind her hand,
"Oh sweetie, do you not feel it? The urges, the delusions? I mean, only insane people can see me in the mirror dear," she said as she slithered over to me, I shiver as she placed a cold hand on my shoulder,
"I don't understand," I sigh, and try to shrug off her hand but she held firm, my mind felt kinda hazy,
"You don't need to, that's why I'm here, now let's fix you up for your date!"
"Date?" I ask then remember, Dan asked me out! I didn't really care about it to much, I mean, I barely know him, but still,
"Now let's get you cleaned up," Madam Madness cooed as she turned on the shower for me, and allowed me to wash myself, then held me as I brushed my teeth. She followed me to my room, the handed me a black shirt with grey sleeves and black pants, then lead me to my bed, "Now hush child, sleep until the hunt begins,"
"The hunt?" I ask but Madam had placed a large hand over my eyes.

I woke up for the second time today by soft whispers in my ear, "Wake up dear, it is time to go," I sit up to see Madam laying above me on the ceiling, mirroring my body, only her long arms shook me awake. I look at my clock, seeing it was 5:30pm I jump up, a new spring of energy shook my system, I heard Madam slithering behind me as I rushed out the door, not even bothering to tell anyone where I was going. I had an odd feeling in me as I ran down the street, like I was chasing something, and I was a bit more jumpy as well, but I ignored the feeling till I got to the movie theater. When we got to the theater I imminently saw Dan I front of it, fidgeting with something in his pocket, he glanced around and saw me, then walked over to me.
"Hey vampire chick! Ready for the movie?" He asked, a goofy smile played his lips, I see his eyes move behind me once, he meet mine again,
"Yeah, what are we seeing?" I ask,
"Oh, it's a horror movie, hope you like zombies," Dan said, chuckling, I swallowed hard, oh boy this is going to be a long night.
We enter the theater and sat down at the back, Madam floated above us, I sipped my soda as the movie started. The first scene was a zombie getting their head blown off by a shot gun, sand I heard Dan chuckle before he continued to watch. During the middle of the movie I felt an arm go around my shoulder and my head whipped over to see Dan leaning in, I glance around nervously before Madam spilled his drink on his pants leg, causing him to cuss quite loudly, which caused us to get kicked out of the theater.
We walked over to a park by the woods and sat down on the swings, "Sorry I got us kicked out of the movie,"
"Nah it's alright, the movie was lame anyway," I say, Dan chuckled,
"Was the big bad vampire chick afraid of a little zombie?" He said in a funny voice,
"You have no idea," I say laughed along with him, I saw an odd look cross his face for his normal grin returned, we swung in silence before a breeze brushed past us, pushing his scent right in my face, did he always smelled this good? My body felt off, tense, ready to spring at something, I glance at Dan to see him staring at me, I turn away and cover my nose and mouth. I herd the sound of a blade being pulled out of its sheath and turned around confused, "What was that-"
"By the law of the Holy Grave I slay you beast of the night," Dan said in a loud voice, he was standing now, a large glowing grey knife pointed at me,
"Holy shit! What are you talking about?!" I shout, then fall out of the swing, Madam had moved to my side, but didn't help me up,
"Don't play dumb, vampire wench, I am here to send you back to hell," Dan said, shifting to a new stance,
"You thing I'm a vampire?" I ask, Dan growled, he dropped the stance,
"The blood you took? And your sire tying me up to feed you?" Dan pointed out, "so by law I must kill you,"
"I'm not a vampire," I say, trying to get up, but of course my legs stiffen up,
"Oh really?" Dan said, stepping over me, placing a foot on my left hand, "then what are you? Because your not human,"
"How do you know?" I ask with a wince,
"Because you have a Madam Madness behind you," Dan said, pointing to her with his knife, I glanced wide eyed at her for a moment, Dan growled and moved his foot my wrist, making cry out, now struggling, He didn't expect that, so he took his foot away, "what are you,"
"I'm a zombie," I say holding my wrist, which was now aching, after a few second of silence i look over to see Dan's horrified face, he dropped his knife,
"W-what? B-but you only drank blood," he stuttered, I finished stretching my legs, and stood up, Dan rushed to pick up his knife, cutting his hand in the process, the smell hitting my nose in a second, Dan made a scared sound as he  looked at my face, "l-look, I'm s-sorry f-for trying to k-kill you, n-no hard feelings r-right?"
"Marry, do you feel it," Madam spoke in my ear, I nodded, "you see your prey, you smell it, you will get it,"
"H-hey, what are you doing?-"
"Run boy, for this is her first hunt, and you have the honor of being her first kill," with a shriek Dan ran off into the woods, and I ran after him.

I hear breathing near me, I glance around swiftly, then growl, he's close, but I can't see him, but at my growl I'm hear something move above me, my head snapped up, seeing a terrified Dan clinging to a tree breach for dear life, I felt my hair move, and stretch towards him, one grabbing his leg, he gave a scream as I yanked him down, the pounced on him. "P-please don't kill me!" He pleaded, but all I head was muddled noise as I watched him squirm under me, pressed a hand to his neck and felt his fast pules, and the sweat the had formed as he ran from me, I slowly brought my face close to his neck, nuzzling it, before bringing my other hand to clamp around his neck fully, squeezing as tightly as possible. Dan writhed beneath me, his arms beat against me as I felt the last drop of life slip from him, I keep squeezing till I hear a crake of bones, the let him go, I hear clapping from beside me, "That was beautiful! Absolutely wonderful, now dig in!"
I'm numb body agreed with her and brought an arm to my face, my hand gently tugged his sleeve away from his arm before my teeth clamped down onto his arm, and tore a chunk off.

I stare at the remains of Dan, bloody clothes and a few bones, everything else I ate, though my stomach was happy I wasn't, I just ate some one I knew, a person I could have called a friend. Madam wasn't helping with my mood, the was busy gushing about something about a plan, but I ignored her, and dug a shallow grave, a flash of light caught my eye, it was Dan's knife, now that I noticed, he was talking about a law or something, I grab the knife and set off to the only people I would think would know about this. The twins.

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