My Short Stories

Chasing the Breath

It was a cold winter night as a lonely girl walked the streets with no one around her. She was just walking forward with a dead look in her eyes as she stopped at a crosswalk.

She was wearing a long pitch black winter coat with her gray winter boots that sunk into the snow as she walked, a t-shirt, and a pair jeans underneath her coat.

Also her long blonde hair was in a high ponytail so that it wouldn't get in her way of seeing as she moved forward.

She said nothing as she waited for the crosswalk light to turn green so she could go across the street so she could continue on with her walking.

As she was waiting for the light to turn green; a cold wind blew through the streets. Once the wind reached her, it sent a chill down her spine as it passed through her coat and her hair.

But even after the wind was gone, the chill in her spine didn't go away and for some reason that caused her to look up to her right. 

That was when she saw a face hiding in the pitch black night but she couldn't make out what the face looked like, although, she could see the outline of the person's body.

So she definitely knew that this mystery person was a male and also that he was just standing there in the open with nothing on to keep him warm from the cold winter weather.

He wasn't close to her but he also wasn't that far from her either and for some reason, she wanted to go towards the mystery man to see if he is okay or cold.

But she felt like she couldn't move from where she was; all she could do was watch as the man got closer and closer to her.

Due to him getting closer to her, she could make out what he looked like. He had pitch black hair with bright blood red eyes and his skin was pale like the snow that was around her. He then finally stopped once he was about two feet from her and he just looked at her without saying anything.

As they looked at one another, it was like time itself had stopped, there was nothing else in the world but them at that very moment.

The man then reached out and put his right hand on her right cheek and she jumped at little at the freezing feeling of his hand. While all of this was happening, they still didn't look away from one another.

But then that same cold wind from before came back around like a boomerang and she had to close her eyes as the wind passed through. While the wind was passing through; she felt the hand leave her face.

She then quickly opened her eyes after the wind was gone to see the man was no longer standing there in front of her and that she could move again.

So she turned around and looked forward again to see that the light for the crosswalk just turned green.

She ran across and once she made it to the other side of the crosswalk, she looked back over her shoulder to where she just was to see the man standing there again but this time he was smiling at her.

She got to see his sharp teeth that looked inhuman to her and just like that she was frozen in her place once more. The man then walked forward; across the street and he still had a smile on his face as he did so.

Her eyes no longer had that dead look to them; they now had a look of fear. She was scared but she couldn't find the will in her to run away from him.

Once he made it across the street and was standing in front of her once more; he leaned down so that his mouth was next to her ear.

She could feel his breath on her neck and also on her ear as he said, "Now where do you think your going?"