Unmasked

Chapter One

Seventeen year old Patricia heads home from her now ex-boyfriend's house.She was going to stay the night but after getting into another argument for the umpteenth time she was too tired to bite back. 

"C'mon,Trish you guys are made for each other",Lilly,her bestfriend,says on the other line of Patricia's cellphone.Patricia pulls the collar to her long black trench coat up to protect her ears from the cool October air before answering. 

"He isn't honest with me anymore,Lilly.We can barely talk to each other without jumping down each others throats".Patricia feels a lump in her throat and bites down on her lip to stop the tears from spilling over. 

"Trish? Are you still there?",Lilly askes sounding a little worried.Patricia heads down Shadow Creek road,a dark road that leads up to her parent's four bedroom house,before answering. 

"Yes,I'm here.I just wish you were here that's all". 

Lilly left the small town of Somerville,Seattle to visit her grandparents in Idaho for two weeks,because her parents broke the news to her that they were going to retire and move to Florida. 

"I'll be back in a few weeks-" 

"Wait",Patricia cuts her off, a little taken back by Lilly's reply."I thought you were coming back next week".Lilly responds with dead air for a moment. 

"Well...We were-".The sound of a snapping twig catches Patricia's attention.She turns in the direction where the noise is coming from.The only thing she sees is a dark winding road. 

"Trish? Are you giving me the 'silent treatment'?",Lilly askes when Patricia doesn't respond after she explained why she wasn't coming back next week.Patricia's eyes are still locked on the darkness of the road when she replies. 

"Lilly,let me call you back",she says and and hangs up before Lilly could respond.She inches over towards the darkness of the forest on the right side of the road.She sees something shift slightly and she moves in a little closer to get a better look.When she moves in closer a pair of fluorescent yellow eyes opens and looks directly at her.She jumps back shaking uncontrollably. 

"Trish?Honey, is that you?",Patricia's mom,Katherine,shouts from the porch steps.Patricia looks towards the house and shouts "Yeah it's me,Mom.I'll be right in", and looks back to find that the set of fluorescent eyes were gone.She frantically looks around to see if anyone was behind her or trying to prank her.She comes to a conclusion that she is pretty much losing her mind..

Chapter Two 

Later that night Patricia climbs out of her bedroom window and sits on the roof and looks up at the crescent moon.This wasn't the first time she'd seen those hypnotizing eyes before.She'd seen them on various occasions,but tonight was the first night she'd ever seen them that close and that frightened her. 

"Trish?".The sound of Blake's semi-deep voice catches Patricia's attention.She looks down at the tall oak tree that stood proudly in her backyard and there he stood.His short, dark hair and the darkness of the night shielding his hazel eyes that she loves so much. 

"What is it Blake?",she askes trying to sound annoyed but failing miserably because she was missing him so much.He sighs before saying anything and stuffs his hands in the front pocket of his denim jeans. 

"I need to talk to you,Trish",he says with sincerity in his voice. 

"About what Blake? I thought I said I was done talking",she says even though she so desperately wanted him to hold her tightly in his arms like he was before they started arguing a few hours ago.