"Much dreaming and many words are meaningless. Therefore fear God." Ecclesiastes 5:7
Chapter One
She's beautiful. I know that much, even though the shadows cast over her face to see much of her features. All I have to see is the silver sweet blond hair and I'm hooked, I'm a sucker for blondes. She had an old style long red dress that went down to the forest floor. What? Forest floor? I looked down to see sticks and dirt; I was surrounded by a canopy of trees and that outdoor-y smell. The girl moved like grace itself and seemed to know this forest better than I.
"Come to me..." her voice swooned over me like chocolate oozing like a river; I melted into it and followed her without question. Damn blondes, no damn woman in general; they always got what they wanted when it came to men.
So I followed this girl or women I still couldn't tell there were shadows trying to cover my vision. Tiny little monsters of dark fog that clung to the girl, they twisted around her. You'd think they would suffocate her the way they were so tight on her, I noticed they were snatching a hold on me too. I tensed and felt my bones go dry with discomfort and my heart accelerate. What was going on?
"Come to me..." her slippery sweet voice moved over to me like the wind itself, I focused back to what was going on and ignored the stupid little shadows. I wanted to mutter something sarcastic under my breath but I couldn't, she was too captivating.
I looked in the direction where she was but I could see anything, the shadows tugged at my clothing hem and at my boots. I shrugged them off and tried to find the girl, she was more important than my hallucinations. One foot in front of the other I kept going straight, there was a light trail of black sticky shadows that I followed, I felt like a hound dog following a secret scent. Or a detective in my first case, I was a mess and losing my cool terrible. I wasn't a player or anything but I did flirt a bit and I'd like to think I had some charm, but this, losing a girl in the forest, was gripping at my heart and tearing it at the seams. Come on! I tried to get a hold of myself and tried to tell myself that no matter how good-looking the girl was I would've gone to this extent to try and find her.
The dark was setting and I knew my mother would be freaking out, even though she was the most lenient mother on the block. Lenient but not lacking in anything, she was Superwoman. I brought my pace to maximum hoping I would see a flash of blonde hair or blood red dress. Well, I did but not how I thought I would...
Blood....
It was everywhere...
On me,
On the ground,
Everywhere...
It ran out of me like an Olympic track star. I kept breathing though like I had heard on some TV show I couldn't think of. Slowly the pain subsided and I saw that I had been attacked. Recalling the all too traumatizing event I remembered seeing bright ruby eyes and long, slow-curling blond hair and the red dress... red eyes? How could that be? No one had red eyes, except Albinos and they were scary. Well, I hadn't actually seen one but still, red eyes? That WAS scary! I got up, slowly, trying to regain some of my... well, whatever I had lost.
"Silly boy!" Harmonic tunes played in my head as they morphed into words, seconds too late because the dangerous girl dropped down at least a hundred feet from the oak tree, right in front of me. She had a Cheshire grin on and those brilliant red eyes didn't help.
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Blood & Chocolate
Vampire"Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for thy love is better than wine." *Songs of Solomon 1:2* I thought I knew what this meant, I thought I was a good Christian boy but I was wrong. Deeply wrong in a world...
