Desire of the Soul

Chapter Twelve

Ethan stands there staring out his glass doors and into his now soaked backyard. It’s been a few days and Ethan could still hear the slamming of the door ringing in his ears as his heart breaks at the footsteps of the woman he loves leaving his house. She went from this sweet and innocent girl to this sex-craz-obsessed girl. He didn’t want to break her heart like he did in 1987 so he was doing all the things he could to not have that situation all over again. If only he could make his mind stop racing. He stripped down to his boxers then put on a pair of pajama pants and got into bed.

Ethan heard his bedroom door slam and He couldn’t control himself. Standing there alone had made a difference. It was all like an Eminem moment. He ran after her and dragged her back up to his room by her hair, kicking and screaming. He threw her on the bed then used his powers to make the handcuffs restrain her themselves and conjured some hot body oil. Scented lit candles appeared all around them as he used his powers to snatch her clothes off. “You wanted me now you have me,” he says to her in a low voice. Ethan takes the oil and drips it down her body, rubbing it in ever so slowly, caressing her every body part. “No, you can’t do this.” “I can’t? But you were the one begging me to do this, remember?” he lifts his eyebrows as he looks up from kissing his tummy. She squirms a little under him from the tickle of his breath as he talked. He grinned as he got up off her. He stood at the foot of the bed; arms crossed looking at her admiring her figure. “Look Ethan, you’re mad! I’m leaving you, you can’t do this to me now, it breaks all the rules.” “But you wanted all the rules broken,” Ethan says profound at how calm and smooth he was in his anger while she was barely breathing. Christina tried to release herself from the handcuffs, he tighten them more, “Uh un uhn,” he says shaking his head, “You’re not going anywhere.” Christina screams out in pain and her fangs extracted. Ethan quiets her scream down with a ball and rope in her mouth. “Shhh, Chrissy. This is what you wanted,” he says a finger to his lips. Christina continued to attempt to escape. Ethan shouted fangs now extended, “Stop! If you try to leave me, I will set you on fire! I will make sure this is the end of your existence and mine.” Christina stopped. “That’s better, now play with me if you want.” I’ve been trying to play with you Ethan, but you wouldn’t let me, Christina thinks. “And I’m sorry about that honey but you really are something to work with and there’s more to the story than you know.” Ethan climbed on top and kissed her neck; she lets out short breaths as he goes inside—Ethan opens his eyes to a very familiar face.

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Christina walks in the door and past all the broken glass, up to her room. She shuts the door, locks it and dives onto her queen size bed. She buried her head in the many pillows surrounding the pillows she actually sleeps on. She listens to the rain dropping at a heavy speed now, soaking the ground. She got up off her bed and took a shower. She dressed for bed, and then dried her bed sheets from her wetness when she was lying on the bed before because she had run home and she was soaked then. She snuggled under the covers and went to sleep. Ryan comes barraging in seeming like as soon as she goes to sleep. He begins yelling at her, “Where have you been? Hopefully not with that guy that’s suppose to be your teacher?! Get up!”

Christina looks at him, cocks her head to the side in disbelief, back to him, and then back to the side in disbelief. I know good and well this dude IS NOT interrupting MY sleep about another guy he could never be, Christina asks herself. Christina decides to rip the bandage off his wound, “Look Ryan, this thing between me and you, never was real. I just needed to replace you until that ‘teacher’ got here. So like I always tell you, you have no right or opinions in my decision making and I mean that from the bottom of my heart. I tell you I love you because that’s what you want to hear and you should get that you’re a dude. You knew I didn’t care about you when I told you that at the beginning of the school year. I’m tired of pretending and since you not giving out any Oscars for this performance, I’m going to need you to turn around and walk out my room and lock the door behind you, make sure you put my key on my dresser too.”

“Wait, Christina,” he says his pride hurt yet confused, “But I love you. Look if it’s about the abuse, it’s not my fault. It runs in my family. I was always taught that a woman should obey you and if they didn’t you had to the right to discipline them. I mean if Rihanna can forgive Chris you can find it in your heart to forgive me, right?”

“Hell no! Excuse my French but you will never have my forgiveness because unlike Rihanna your abuse didn’t hurt and I have fangs, not a figure of speech.”

“What?!”

Christina extended her fangs. His mouth drops in awe, “You mean to tell me, all this time I’ve been living with a vampire?” Christina nods. “But you aren’t evil well what you told me was but I can excuse that because I love you, you go out into the light, you eat normal food, act like a normal teenager just with a banging body, you have a tan for Christ’s sake!”

“Well I’m different from the rest obviously. Now that all this is cleared, you can leave now.” Christina says pushing him out the door.

“You do know I have to kill you now, right?”

“If you could, I still wouldn’t let you.”

“So who turned you? Him?.....I’m going to kill him.”

“Oh calm down, I’ve been like this, since birth.”

“Wait, what?”

“Yeah. It’s whatever. But I’m done with you,” She says then slams the door in his face.

“And I’m tired of you slamming shit around here.”

“Stop cussing! You don’t run me, my parents are only God knows where!” and off to sleep she went.

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“Funny seeing you here, “Ethan says to the fellow standing on the opposite side of his room.

“Bad dream?”

Ethan chuckles, “Hardly, well until you woke me up.”

“Sorry about that but we need to talk.”

“About?”

“Chrissy.”

“Oh yeah, that’s right. So what’s up?”

“She’s crazy man.”

“Don’t I know that?”

“No I mean like on a power trip, crazy.”

“Okay? She has always been in charge of everything.”

“Yeah but if she keeps this up she’s going to freak up the world. Like I mean bad, she controls a lot of what the humans need and you can’t just let that happen. Do you know that it’s been raining all over the world?”

“So what do you want me to do about it?”Ethan asks.

“Look, I didn’t erase her mind in ’87 and save the world just so you can mess it all up again. You know you’re her only weakness and vice versa so why don’t you do what you do best and fix her heart.”

“Well see, here’s the problem, we aren’t exactly talking right now. After she left, that was it. She left me, remember that?! Not once but more twice plus this time that’s……….what? Three times? What do I look like running after a chick who left me three times, every time about something different.”

“Man, get you stuff together! You are not a female.  Man up and handle your business or I will handle you.”

“But Salem,”

“No butts, except hers. Do what you have to do. You have until 8pm Friday. By the way you have company.” He vanished into thin air after that. Ethan grunted under his breath. He scorns himself, “Why me? Out of all the females I could have dated back in the day I chose the one that controls the center of the universe and she doesn’t even know it. I sure know how to pick ‘em huh? Why self? Why?”

Bam, bam, bam, bam went the door. “I’m coming!” he yells. Bam. Bam. Bam. Bam. bam. Ethan snatched the door open to see her standing there soaking wet. “Stacey?”