Demon/Death's Bride

Talk with Grandparents

Tamika's POV

I got home to see Grandma and Holly had returned from shopping. I looked at the time to see it was two o'clock. Holly ran to me asking if she could show me what Grandma brought he. Nodding my head I pushed the stranger and wolf from my mind. She made me and Grandma sit in the lounge before showing us her new things. Even though Grand had already seen them as she paid for it.

After that we all went to the kitchen to make home made cookies. My Grandma's secret family recipe and it has a secret ingredient. She weren't tell us want it is and always makes us close our eyes so we don't see it. But Holly is always trying to guess want it is.

Grandpa returned home as we pulled the cookies out of the oven. "Something smells good" he said wrapping his arms around Grandma. When he tried to grab a cookie from the tray Grandma smacked his hand away.

"They have just come out of the oven" she told him. "We will eat them after dinner" she informed us seeing Grandpa and Holly's longing looks at the cookies. They cheer and then Holly took Grandpa to show her the things she got. Just then her cat jumped in through the window stretching.

"Holly Cody is here" I called into the lounge and she came running to greet her cat. Cody purred as she patted behind his ears. Cody is actually a stray cat that Holly feeds and Grandma lets in during winter. Holly found him as kitten lost in the forest and brought him home. Grandma nursed him back to health with her help. Now he comes and goes as he pleases.

Once Holly and Grandma left, Grandpa entered the kitchen to see sitting at the table. "Is something wrong Tamika?" he asks sitting across from me.

"I saw a strange man in the forest today" I told him.

"Tamika how many times have we told you not to talk to strangers?" he asked.

"A lot, but he wasn't alone there was a giant wolf with him. He also said he was my fiance" I explained. Grandpa looked thoughtful, then alarmed at the information. "Grandpa did someone in our family ever make a deal with someone?" I ask.

"Yes, but your Grandma and I will tell you later when Holly is asleep" he promises. I nodded in agreement and Grandma came in to make dinner. When I went to check on Holly I saw watching TV with a sleeping Cody on her lap.

That night after Holly fell asleep with Cody beside her. I sat in the kitchen with our grandparents waiting for them to speak. "So what is this deal? And why does it concern me?" I asked them. They sighed before someone else answered from behind me.

"It was deal with Death himself" I turned to see Uncle Bob standing there. He entered the room and I stood to hug him. He returned the hug before greeting his brother and Grandma. "A little over 200 hundred years ago our grandfather" he pointed between him and Grandpa. "Made a deal with death to save our grandmothers life" he explained.

"But I don't understand, why am I involved? What do you mean by 'death'?" I asked confused.

"The deal was to save his wife the next girl in our blood line" again he pointed to him and Grandpa. "Would become his bride and he'd collect her the day after her 20th birthday. And he is Death, the Grim Reaper, Devil and he goes by many other names" he finished explaining.

"I don't believe in ghost stories Uncle" I told him.

"Best to start believing you'll be living one soon" Grandpa told me.

"No, I won't: because I am not leaving Holly alone" I said firmly.

"You won't have too" a voice said from the door. I turned to see the stranger from the forest standing there. Dexter was just behind him and Grandma backed away from the pair.

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Picture of Cody above