This Means War

Trust me

A gentle hand stroking my cheek wakes me. My eyes slowly flutter open, Chase's writing something down in the notebook. He looks back over at me and quickly removes his hand from my cheek

"Sorry" he mumbles,

I sit up and eye the book skeptically. He catches me looking at it and hastily stashes it on the other side of him

"You alright?"

"Yeah"

"That doesn't sound like your okay. Is something on your mind?"

"Yes as a matter of fact there is, Whats that book for? You've been writing in it lately."

"Oh nothing" he replies,

I stare him down. H. e grabs the book out again, he jots something down then places the pen in the spine and sits it in his lap. I look him in the eyes and quickly snatch the book off him.

"I wouldn't read that if I were you, it would probably tell you stuff you don't want to know"

I ignore him and open the green binder. Page 1, written in hasty grey lead read:

Wednesday 21st March 6:00pm

Blue eyes, pulse racing, sharp k-nines, fuzzy ears after she woke up from a dream.

Thursday 22nd March 2:20pm

Blue eyes, sharp k-nines after black-out, good.

"Good? What the hell? What is this?"

I shut the book and hand it back

"Just notes"

"On me?"

Silence

"I'll ask you once more. What the fucks going on?"

"I can't tell you, not yet"

"Not yet?!"

"Look I think you need to spend these next few days...away from me"

My jaw dropped,

"What do you mean away from you?"

"Its just going to be hard with me around"

"Whats going to be hard?"

He doesn't answer

"Just trust me"

I grab his hand, he shrugs me off and walks out. Just like that, I've lost my only friend. I curl into a ball and pretend that the last few minutes didn't happen. That I still have the one that cares for me

🐾

I'm standing in the fair grounds, buying toffee for Uncle when the guy with the pea-green eyes and the perfect teeth appeared about a hundred meters away. I stare in his direction trying to catch a glimpse of his other facial features, when the beast jumps into the quadrangle. Everyone runs but I don't, i throw a rock at it and jump, an adrenaline boost and a need to attack it takes over my whole body. The beast tosses me onto my back and stands over me drooling saliva onto my face, fangs bared. Suddenly its knocked right off me, a midnight black beast takes it on. The grey beast goes scurrying away scared. The black beast stands before me, morphing into the perfect guy I saw. But My stomach did somersaults. It was Chase.