The sun hits her in the eyes and she squints, through a thick a fog that clouds her mind she can see them, she can hear them but not well there is a blow, a whistle in her ears making her want to screen, it is all what she gets now… no sense, the world is upside down and she is fighting to stay on foot while the emptiness of an open and dark sky threatens to swallow her whole just as it did with her life.
She can see Blake Holt, the man who should have been dying somewhere inside a weird man’s house, the same who murdered his mom standing next to her dad, the man who feed her with lies and rose her faceless both staring to a third, Matt. Her friend is there with his eyes lost in the lake she can almost see the engages turning inside him, he is the boy who makes the spark burst inside her, the one with who she has an odd connection that everyday seems for rare to her, he is the boy who saves murderers and casts binds and holds…
He holds Seth who eyes are on the floor, on the snow the red stained ice, drenched with blood, his blood and Matt’ he stares at it and don’t moves, he is shock his body doesn’t even shake though the air is brisk and his body is naked, long lines of fog rise from his shoulders, from his face and she can see the hand with which Matt holds him, burning red by the heat of his body because Seth is no a normal boy, he is twisted demon brought from the darkest nightmares that haunted her once. He is the most dangerous thing a girl could in the world, a fanged beast with a beautiful smile. And she fell for his game, and for his dad’s game and Stile’s all the people she once believed and trusted weren’t real anymore, now she only can see this slender dark shapes looking into each other’s eyes, exchanging unintelligible information, plotting about something without worrying that all of them lied, lied and pretended to be someone else in front of her.
Just steps from her is a crumbled body, what remains of a mother, she is now just a human, Nichole could hear the exact moment when her heart broke, it was in the exact time when her eyes swept over the naked body of the boy she used to love… Love how funny world, the thought of it makes her feel weird it has an odd spelling and it is supposed to be greatest feeling in the world and from which all the others are reign, and she loved that boy, no, now she knows she never did, because she doesn’t know what love is, because she never has felt love in her life, at least not from her dad not from Matt and definitely not from Seth.
He was the thing now she knows, he was the thing she saw in the woods in that rave party months ago, he was the beast that hunt her and Matt that distant and scary night, and chased her in her dreams and nightmares, he is the creature who took her here today and threw her inside that cave as a feral animal in a cage –how ironic- He is the monster and he is the body, is it possible to crave for something? And be afraid of it at the same time? It doesn’t make sense but there is only one place where she would like to be right now and it is at the same time the thing that frightens her the most.
She failed her shot, and she is alive but he was going to kill her, he was going to kill her as the way he killed those boys, no… Matt just said it is a misunderstanding, he just said it was a mistake, but it is impossible there can’t be any more surprises awaiting for her, she feels like she just shipwrecked that nothing can get worse but it keeps doing it and she keeps falling all this journey is taking her to a place where is no turning back.
Seth rises his head and she can see his eyes, amber glowing inside the shadow casted from his own head back to the sky, and Matt’ slender shape that holds him while he talks with the murderer and the liar, there is a gleam inside the boy-monster eyes that she doesn’t understand far beyond from his shining eyes there are some tears about to slide down his cheeks and then he parts his lips and a raspy voice comes out of his mouth.
“Mom” He says hoarsely, half of his naked body is sunk in the snow yet Nichole can see the shame on his eyes while he speaks to his mother.
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THE THING IN THE WOODS
غموض / إثارةMatt and Nichole lost their moms. Her mom died when she was four and his just six months ago. Things have changed now that they're back in Windswood. The first time they meet a spark bursts inside them, a weird connection they both try to ignore. Bu...
