Evil Lives Inside (boyxboy)

Make You Mine

"There's a monster living among us." Tommy says as I sit under the bridge watching the rain pour down and filling the creek into a swollen river full of raging water flowing by. I ignore his comment, my attention on the rain and not a jerk like Tommy. "He comes here all the time and brings people here he can slaughter and feed off of."

"You're full of shit." I retort, getting up to leave even though the rain hasn't let up and that's the main reason I came here.

"I'm not lying." he pulls me back from walking away. "I seen him come here at night dragging bodies with him to fill the creek."

I stand shorter than him at five foot five while he is three inches taller than me. Always has been and always will which is why he finds it easy to partonize me at school and out. "Why can't you leave me alone?" I ask, tempting to loosen his grip on my arm he is holding tight.

"I'm trying to protect you." his words rush out and trigger a laugh to escape out of me.

"Protect me? When has bullying me been considered protecting me or anyone? And why follow me here to tell me tales I know aren't true?"

"How do you know it isn't true?" he whispers before letting go of my arm, "But by all means stay here and let the monster find you. Have him kill you or force you to suffer forever waiting for someone to save you but no one ever will. You're lucky he hasn't taken you already to add to his collection of dead bodies."

"If monsters existed wouldn't you be the first to be taken?" I counter.

He smirks, "I'm not innocent like you are Colby." he turns to leave placing his hood up to shield himself from the rain as I watch him walk away.

I can't help but ponder, wonder about what he's said as I look around. Everything near the creek is dying or dead but that's how life is isn't it? Everything living must die eventually right?

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His footsteps step closer to where I am. He isn't as quiet as he believes he is sneaking up to catch me by surprise but why would he assume he isn't? He thinks I'm lost in my head, thinks I'm listening to music with my earbuds in and not paying attention to the world around me. He doesn't know the music is off and I've been expecting him sooner or later to find me. Come here to bully me once again like he always does.

I stare straight ahead, eyes on the dead tree as the water is calm on a day like today with no rain or wind. The water is but a creek again with the silence echoing in my head along with thoughts.

He stops walking and stands in front of me blocking everything in my sight. I don't say anything and neither does he as a smile forms across my face wondering the thought process he went through to decide me he wanted to bully. What is it about me he found appealing for years? Is it my constant need to be alone and not have friends? Is it my presence he sees as easy to break? Or am I just his hobby he just happened to pick at random to follow around?

"What are you doing here?" he asks but it isn't Tommy.

As I glance up it's someone else. He's older, maybe in his late twenties and he is no one I know or remember seeing around our small town before today. My body trembles at the thought of what Tommy said trying to scare me. "Why are you here?" he asks again more stern and serious.

"I-I was just leaving." I reply as I get up from sitting.

"No, stay. Stay here with me."

"What?" Does he not see I'm terrified?

"I said I want you to stay." he repeats himself.

"I can't. I should get home before it gets later." I lie in a sudden hurry to escape the fear he is causing inside me. \

Damn it Tommy! Why did you have to scare me? Why did he have to tell me a story I didn't believe a  month ago but am now wondering is true? Is this person someone I should be scared of? Someone to be worried about more than Tommy?

"You've been here before haven't you?" he asks stepping in my way to leave. "Now how did I not see you?"

"I don't know." I answer unable to hide the fear.

"You don't have to be scared." his voice is as sinister as the grin he is wearing. "I'm not going to hurt you." he says but at the same time his brown eyes turn blood red and back to brown in a second.

I try to shake the thought of what I think I may have seen knowing that isn't possible. It isn't real but a figment of my imagaintion while my fear runs wild.

I take a step back until I'm stopped by my sudden shock to see everything surrounding us change. This once peaceful calm creek, with no one in sight, is full of bodies. Dead bodies filling the creek with some alive clinging onto life as they struggle to get up out of the water that isn't clear any longer but dark as blood. Everything around is dead, ten times gloomier than it was a few seconds ago.

"Wha-what's going on?" I dare ask.

"This is my home, this is what it really looks like but humans can never see it. I hide it but I'm tired of hiding it. I think I'm tired of living in solitude as well."

"This isn't real." I say out loud but my words trying to reassure me don't wake me. Nothing does not even shutting my eyes and opening them again. I'm still here. I'm still staring at the bodies and now an ugly monster staring back at me.

"I don't think I want to kill you." he whispers into my ear stepping closer to me. "I think I want to keep you, make you mine in every way possible."

I try to step away. I try to run but he grabs me into his arms and I can't move. I can't escape him.