Eternal

Chapter Five - Learning to Remember

                                                             Chapter Five

                                                      Learning to Remember

I spun around in his arms and gaped into his eyes. He was so close to me that I swear when his eyes locked with mine, they changed to a different color with every breath he took.

Electric tingles ran from his hands on my lower back and through my entire body and it made me shiver. In that moment I wanted to kiss him.

Lost in the moment, I saw his eyes oddly change from a gray, to green and then to a strange blue... His eyes were so familiar, but yet I didn't know this man. I backed out of his arms and ran my back right into the dresser. I winced at the pain in my back and I suddenly didn't like how close he was.

"I want to go home." I mumbled as I started walking towards the doorway. A few steps down the hall and I paused at a wide double stairway to my left. It went both up and down at least a story either way. That meant there were a few floors to this house.

'What if I'm underground...oh god, what of this guy drugged me or something...urggg, I can't remember anything!'...My thoughts raced at the possible ways this guy could kill me. I suddenly remembered every horrific horror movie scene where a girl got killed by some stranger. I needed to leave. Now. 

If I continued going forward, I would probably get nowhere.  I decided to take the stairs down. He was still behind me saying nothing.

At the bottom of the staircase I paused again, because I was now standing in a spacious room that had hallways branching off in all directions. It was a beautiful and expensive looking room that was filled with art. I took in my surroundings quickly and efficiently looking for the first way out.

Art of all kinds hung on the many walls, and each wall was painted a different color. There were also windows everywhere, at least four on every wall illuminating the intriguing room. And he was no longer following, where had he gone? to get a gun? A knife?

I briskly walked around the banister to my right to see there was a beautiful black grand piano sitting unplayed and polished. Behind the piano there were intricate, French glass doors leading to a porch with lawn furniture on it.

The porch was mere feet away from a thick forest and it seemed very peaceful there, but running through a forest never worked for the girls in the horror movies, I discarded the option.

I turned around and went in the other direction, past the stairs. I had to go through an archway to get to the next room; the living room. It had huge black sofas on either wall, a fire place and again there were windows everywhere. I felt trapped inside this maze of a house.

I felt that he was now standing in the room, which made me nervous.

Not scared nervous, but butterflies nervous. Except these butterflies were made of electricity, and they ran through my veins, making every inch of me tingle. I thought about the memory where we had been under the willow tree on the cliff, I thought about that kiss. It made me smile a little.

I shook my head. I didn't know this guy.

I spun around and threw my hands up. 

"How the hell do I get out of here?!" I asked him frustrated and angry.

He was leaning against the frame of the archway, looking me straight in the eye then asked,

"Your going to leave like that?" He looked me up and down quickly, with a cocky little smile threatening to show on his lips. His eyes lingered on my legs for a second longer than needed then his eyes snapped up to mine.