Alice Kills

Chapter Seven

My heart stopped. I swear on my parent's lives my heart stopped. Blood ceased to rush in my veins, my body must've gone cold. The only warmth was Nick's soft lips against mine and his hands on my cheeks. Awkwardly, I placed my hands gently on his chest and let the kiss happen. It was so right, so soft and sweet and perfect. Yet, so wrong.

My hair was soaked in blood and his knuckles were bloody and his muscles still slightly tense from fighting. My face was moist with sweat and his neck had blood smeared across it. Those girls were helpless in the car and would wake up to three lifeless bodies, and no memory of what happened. This wasn't how kisses were meant to happen. So why did it feel so awesome? His tongue asked for entrance and I didn't know any form to say no. I gently put force on his chest and pushed harder with greater force. "GET OFF!"

In the darkness he stumbled backward, "Alice?" I approached him "You don't go up and kiss people Nikolai! How dare you do this? What makes you think I wanted that?" I unconsciously threw a punch to his face and hit his jaw. "What's wrong with you? We're best friends and you just seriously did that? I've had a deep crush on you ever since we became friends and I buried it so far down my feelings pretty much didn't exist anymore!" I spin kicked his stomach and he fell to the ground, in the darkness I heard him feeling around to stand up.

"Stop playing with my emotions! One minute you're my brother and the next you're my boyfriend! Stop it!" I angled my leg and kneed his chest and loud wet coughs erupted from his body. "Screw you, Alice! Stop this and just accept it! You love me." I felt a hard kick against my ankles and I fell to my knees and a large amount of weight tackled me. "Stop fighting! Just stop pushing all feelings away. Have fun! Be happy! Love me! or love somebody for Christ's sake!" Two large hands firmly gripped my shoulders and tossed me against the wall.

My back hit the wall hard and I positioned my legs against my chest and kicked out, planting my barefoot on Nick's face. "You don't know how I feel or what's going on in my mind!" I lunged myself at him and punched his chest "I have one goal! Save girls! I don't ever feel!" I got up and kicked his ribs before a strong arm knocked me back down on to my knees. I reached for the door knob of the front door and shoved the door open. "Get away from me! I hate you!" "Aaah!! Stop this façade, Alice!" I felt his rough body land hard against my back and we fell onto the porch. I jumped onto the porch swing and jumped down onto his back. "All I want is to save the girls!" Nick placed his hands on my shoulder and knocked me down the porch steps onto the soft grass, "Stop lying to yourself!"

He jumped down and kicked his shoes off and threw his shirt onto the ground "If getting your butt kicked is what will wake you up, then so be it." He picked me up and pinned me against the side of our country house, bruises were surely forming on my arms. I kneed his stomach and with a fling of his forearm his wrist hit my nose with hard intensity and my eyes automatically watered. I launched my leg out for a hard kick to his chin before he grabbed my ankle and shoved me away. Within a few seconds a massive kick was buried into my stomach and my mouth opened into an O shape. My body was defenseless against gravity as my back slammed into the ground. Nick approached me with a hand going for my throat in the same instant I punched his fingers with all my force sending them bending backward. "Why won't you just stop already, Alice?"

"I'll never stop! I'll never stop fighting! I'll never stop doing what I do! This is what I am and you won't stop me! I'm done!"

I approached him with fists balled up, sore and shaky. I sent a right hook to the left side of his jaw, with the impact of my punch his face turned abruptly to the right. I coiled my left leg and sent a high kick straight for his face. A crunch like noise was the product of my kick to his nose, followed by a shout of agony. "No, I'm done!" He stood up erect and approached me without hesitation. I sent a kick his way and he shoved it down. "Aah!" with sheer anger within me I sent punch after punch soaring his way. He smoothly dodged and blocked. With his hands on my waist he lifted my small frame high above his body and threw me. Within seconds I was sprawled out across the front porch. My back hurt from the impact of the hard old wood surface. I didn't know if I was ready to get up, but Nick wasn't about to wait. He ducked down and reached for my shoulders. I shoved my feet against his chest and kicked him against the wall. I managed to stand up before he tossed me over his shoulder and carried me inside the house.