My Precious Darkling

Chapter 8

After the little incident that had occurred, she left; but she didn't forget to lock the door behind her. I had tried - all in vain - to tried & get myself out of this predicament. Fuck my luck! I had been trying for about an hour and a half and I was tired. I was tired and beaten, so I pressed my back against the wall by the tight-locked door and slid, slowly, onto the floor. I sighed obnoxiously loud in hopes that someone would come to silence me; I just wanted to know that I wasn't all alone. I thought of her while I sat in the room alone - she was the only thing that occupied my mind - and I wondered how she could've survived. As I thought about what had happened that night... Every detail became a pieced image, and the further I delved into that dark memory, it became a living, breathing, movie.

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The day had been fantastic as far as I had been concerned - which I was extremely concerned. It was Terry and I's 3 year anniversary! I was planning an amazing day for us, which I was praying to God she'd love. The plan was to go around and do all the things we had done on our very first date. Our first date was at the beach - which was about a 2 hour drive from where we lived - because at the time we were on vacation from school and we were bored out of our minds. My friends had other plans so I was gonna spend my first week of vacation all by myself, until I thought about the perfect date for Terry; we'd been dating for about a month or two and I still haven't taken her on our first date, mostly because of nerves and having absolutely no time for ourselves to fully enjoy. 

 I called her up and told her we were gonna go out - to where I wouldn't say, which got her mad because she hated surprises. She came by looking excited and hopeful, before we hopped inside my Jeep wrangler. The drive was long and super boring at some point in time which made us both restless - her mostly - and in an attempt to lighten the mood, we played typical car games, like I Spy or Simon says, but she'd win at Simon says because she purposely told me to do things I was unable to do while driving.

"Where are we going Stephen!?" She had whined for about hundredth time during the ride.

I chuckled, "we're going somewhere Terry." She punched me and I feigned a hurt expression. "Why would you do such a thing? This is a surprise for you, you ungrateful ass."

She growled, "I hate surprises Stephen, you know that! So you deserve that punch you little dick."

I smirked, "my dick is anything but little sweetheart." I turned to her and winked which caused a pink shade to appear on her cheeks. We both laughed and continued on our trip in silence. She had given up asking me where we were going so she told me she was going to bed. The next time she woke up we had arrived at the beach and the sun had gone down about an hour and a half ago. I lightly shook her awake and took a groggy Terry to the sand; it took her a little while to realize she was standing in sand and was smelling the fresh sea water. When the realization hit her, her eyes lit up like the stars and the smile he produced was from ear to ear.

"Oh my god Stephen! I can't believe you." She rushed over to me and engulfed me in a hug. "You're so sweet to me."

"Anything for you baby." She pulled away from me and the little light that the moon provided, I could sort of see her little blush and her small smile - her eyes were still lit up like stars and easily visible in the dark. Before I knew it, she had ripped herself from my weak grip and darted to the ocean water; stripping as she closed the distance from her and the water. I laughed hysterically and went to join her when I regained my breath.

We had spent a lot of time at the beach just splashing each other, laughing, talking and enjoying the view of the untainted sky. We had laid down on the beach towel I brought along with us and just stared up at the dark sky. The stars were lit up and sparkling beside the moon. Terry was laying on my chest and rubbing circles on my bare chest; I felt a smile creep up on her face so I looked down at her and she turned her head towards me so we were nose to nose.