Life Bites Sucks and Kills

Life Bites, Sucks and Kills - Chapter 2

I felt like I was going to explode from the feelings that ran through my body, they were so strong and painful. People walked by Jakes door, saw me gripping the windowsill so hard it looked like it would break and continued passed like nothing was happening.

When my eyes grew sore from looking out into the now dusk sky, I trudged down stairs to the officer I spoke to earlier.

"Excuse me officer?" He turned to look at me. "My brother has run off."

"Have you checked everywhere? Inside the house or around outside? His favourite places to go and stuff?" He said in a tone that I didn't like.

"Well not yet I thought I should tell someone first." I shrugged and turned for the back door.

"Jake? Hey Jake, you out here?" My voice drifted in the wind.

I started to walk towards the shed when I heard a quiet snarl in the darkness. "J... Jake?"

As darkness covered the sky on this August night, I rubbed my arms to keep them warm

I heard panting then paws pounding against the earth, my breath was caught in my throat and my eyes widened to look out for where the noise was coming from. I heard a bark, although it was an unusual bark that didn't come from a dog but something else. I started going through all the animals I had seen on our land; rabbits, foxes, snakes, feral cats and a few stray dogs but the sound didn't fit any of them.

Everything was silent again and goose bumps rose on my arms. I stumbled inside, shook my head to the officer and went to my room.

I sat in front of my mirror; I grabbed my brush and started combing through the tangle of my dark blonde, wavy hair. It calmed me a little but I was frightened for Jake. He did seek out a lot with his friends but why tonight!

I heard the tune of 'Sk8er Boi' and reached across my bed for my phone. I flipped it open and saw a text from Jake... Why didn't I think of calling him, duh!

The text read:

Allie, Sorry I had to go sort some stuff out and take my mind off of everything before I came home to help. I'm fine and I'll be home soon. Sorry love ya sis. <3

I fell on my bed; as long as he was alright I could relax. I ended up falling asleep from exhaustion.

"MUM!" I ran into her arms and embraced the feelings of hurt and grieve to show her how I felt about her passing. Hang on...

Memories of my day flashed in my mind. "Mum your dead right?"

Her blue eyes looked deeply into mine and nodded sadly.

"But why are you here?" I thought quickly and pinched my arm "Oww! I thought that wasn't meant to hurt or wake you up!" Although I did know this was a dream because my Mum's clothes now had chocolate and blood on them which weren't on them before.

My mother wouldn't say a word; I was getting agitated because I wanted to leave this dream.

The surroundings suddenly changed to trees and I could see our house out in the distance. I took a few steps in the direction of the house and spun around to see if my mother was following.

Hands grabbed my shoulders, the finger nails were cracked and broken and arms a sickly pale. Clothes at the shoulder and around the neck were torn and stained with blood.

I then looked at the face, tangled hair full of leaves and twigs, no colour in the cheeks, bloody lips and fangs. But the thing that scared me the most was the eyes, they kept changing from pitch black to the unique blue colour of my mothers.

"NO... No this just can't... No mum...NO!" I tried to get out of her grasp but instead she pulled my head aside to reveal my neck and my mother pieced the skin with her fangs. Blood started leaving my neck some escaping and flowing down my chest. My visioned blurred but all I could think was 'Why mum? Why?'

I woke screaming in the now empty house. When I quieten to just sobbing I knew that Jake wasn't home yet and that I couldn't sleep alone in this house again tonight.