Out of Time ❧ Kai Parker ✓

Chapter Nine

Since I am not alone anymore, I haven't seen any hallucinations. It has been a few months since he first arrived.

With each passing day, he seems to get more angry at everything. He still has the spell over the house, but I have made my peace with it.

Kai tried to do it yesterday. One of the many ways that I did. He stabbed himself. But much to my relief, he came back. I don't know what I would do if he didn't and I had to spend eternity alone again.

He spends most of his time up in his room. I'm not sure what he does up there, but he almost never leaves.

I spend all of my time in the house that I now live in. I am trying my best to contact the real world. I've been trying to contact Klaus, as Kai called him, for the last couple of months. But nothing.

After the centuries in this place, I found my mother's grimoire again. I showed Kai some of the spells. He seemed interested in them. We have been trading spells, trying to see a way out.

Each day our hopes fall apart. There is not much to do to entertain ourselves. I have resorted to going to the local library and reading the books, while Kai watches 80's movies.

We have come to an agreement. Kai can siphon from me once a day. He seemed happy with that. I could tell by the look on his face that no one has ever told him that he could take their magic.

The thousand years in this place has taken its toll on me. I hear voices in my head, I used to see things but don't anymore, and I'm paranoid all of the time. I feel like there is someone always watching me.

I am losing my mind. The voices in my head tell me that I can't trust Kai, they are probably right but I can't ignore him. They tell me I am never going to get out of here. I will forever repeat the same day, same full moon every night. Same transition into a wolf every night.

I close the book. I started keeping a journal a long time ago, so if I were ever bored enough I could read through them and see how boring my life is.

I check the time, one in the afternoon, magic training with Kai. At two escape planning, three free time. Four prepare dinner, five eat dinner. At six we go to our houses and research through the spell books, at seven tries to make contact with the real world. Eight try to get sleep before midnight. At nine sleep, ten get up and prepare for transformation. Repeat.

That is the daily routine that we have been going through for the past months. I place the book under my pillow and stand up.

I walk to the closet to search for clothes to change into. I finally stocked the house with female clothes. I settle for a grey T-shirt, skinny jeans, and some boots. I walk into the bathroom and quickly brush my hair and teeth.

I exit the house and walk to Kai's house. We do our training in his backyard by the pool that he drowned his brother in.

When I approach it, I see Kai standing there staring at the water. "Hey," I say as I get closer. He turns to look at me and smiles.

The sun was shining causing it to begin to get hot. There were beads of sweat in his hair. I held my hand out to him. He grabbed it and I felt the now familiar pain as he siphons some of my magic.

When he is done he releases my hand and I drop it to my side. "Now, let's get started." He states as we get in our spots and proceed to practice magic.

This is how the day plays every day.

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I look at my journal trying to decide if I should write about what has happened. I decided against it and instead outside.

I sit down on the grass in the front yard. Everything is so green out today, it seems to be greener than usual but it is probably just me. I lay back and lay on the grass. I stare up at the clouds.

Four years. It has been four years since Kai has been here. This world has gotten better with him being here, but I still hate him sometimes.

We still have our daily routine, but on Saturdays, or what should be Saturday, is our day off.

Nothing has really happened, besides us wanting to see the world. We both agreed that we would travel the United States first and then we would go to another country.

It was scary, we were both learning how to drive a plane. We crashed a lot and died plenty before we figured out how the controls work.

The world has changed so much since I was last out there. After the United States, we went to France. We climbed the Eiffel tower, which frightened me. I found out then that I was afraid of heights, and Kai will not let it go.

Right now Kai is in some place called Mystic Falls looking for different grimoires, he told me that I should stay here.

Kai and I have gotten really close over there years. I still haven't told him how isolation here for a thousand years has affected me, but I think he understands. He hasn't told me why he hates his father.

We all have the masks that we wear. We still have secrets that we will probably never tell each other.

Kai has introduced me to all the things that he used to love to do in the real world. He's shown me his favorite movies and had me try his favorite food. I wouldn't consider pork rinds my favorite food, but they were good.

Kai makes this place bearable. He makes me have a reason to stay alive so that we can get back to our families since mine is apparently vampires.