Electric Wings

Chapter 5

AN: This is what I imagined Day to look like. Happy readings!

The whole afternoon turned out to be stressful. After getting lucky on the lab website, we hit dead ends after dead ends. Day was stress out to the max and I was just plain confused.

On our way home from the library, we were once again silence. Certain types of silence can be good, even beneficial. But not today. The silence is about to crush me and then spit me back out onto the cold cemented sidewalk. Not something I would want any one too see. I can't stand this silence anymore. "So what are we going to do? It's not like we can go to the police and tell them that we got assaulted by an old man who gave us mysterious shots! They will think that we are getting high on unicorns and sunshine! I can't go home and act like everything is peachy!" I exclaimed.

Day, who was a couple of feet in front of me, froze on the side walk and whipped his body around and was in front of me before I could even comprehend what was going on. When my eyes had finally registered, he was standing two inches away from me, his height making me have to crane my neck to look at him in the face. Imagine my surprise when I saw anger written across his face.

I took a few surprised steps backwards, but he kept on advancing at me like he was the hunter; and I was the prey. He roughly grabbed my shoulders and shook me a little. "What makes you think I have the answers! In fact the only reason why I am at this library is because you got me into this pile of crap! If you couldn't have been paying attention, we wouldn't have to go to the nurses office! It's like you and the old guy had set this whole thing up! I honestly wish that I took Eliza's suggestion to stay away from you. You are just a mess."

With every word that came out of his mouth twisted the knife in my heart. My eyes welled with tears that I refused to shed in front of him. I took a few blind step backwards and fell onto the ground with a dull thump. I got up slowly and looked up to see horror written across Days face. Why he looked like that was a puzzle to me, but the damage was already done.

"I-I'm sorry that you feel that way. I'll stay out of your way." I chocked out, my voice thick with tears that finally gave up and streamed down my flushed cheeks.

I turned around and ran as if my life depended on it. I could hear Day yelling my name and his foot steps pursing my. Why couldn't he just leave me alone? This is what he wants.

I darted into strangers back yards to escape him, pushing branches out of my way and leaves getting snarled into my fiery red hair. I ran faster, all of the leaves and their rich green colors blurred in my vision as I ran as fast as my legs could carry me. After about five minutes into the chase I slowed, hearing only the nature sounds.

I collapsed in the clearing in a pocket of the forest, finally letting go on the reign of my emotions.

Why did Day say those things? I know that this situation was partly my fault, not being able to walk properly, but I would never hurt anyone on purpose! And when he said the tid bit about Eliza, the was the deal breaker.

Eliza and I use to be thick as thieves. We would spend the night at each others house and ride our bikes through our neighborhood looking for mysteries to solve when we went through our Nancy Drew phase. But then we entered high school with high expectations, partying all weekend, having boyfriends and sitting at the popular table, but then Day came along.

Eliza was always the prettier one out of us, with blond hair and baby blue eyes that could melt any heart of stone. So, she became Days girlfriend of the week. I was happy for them at first, but something happened to Eliza. She grew distant and cold, ignoring my smiles and wave in the hallway. It made me more shy, always afraid that people might hurt me, she was the one person that was suppose to have my back at all times.

But I never knew that she warned people to stay away from me, it's a miracle that Katie is friends with me still. But even then, I don't let her in.

I was broken out of my depressing thoughts when I heard a branch snap behind me. I turned around ready to chew Days head off, no more weak me. But it wasn't Day staring at me with an amused expression on his face, it was a stranger.

It was a man, maybe early twenties. He was tall, almost seven feet and slim, not one ounce of fat on him. He had milk white skin and dark brown hair that was buzzed to his scalp. His cheek bones, jaw and nose were so straight, that it seemed like you could cut a piece of paper just by looking at them. But the one thing that stopped me from moving was the look of hatred and cruelty in his slanted black eyes. .

He tok a step towards me and I could feel the electricity in the air, making the goose bumps on my skin prickle in its announcement. I somehow knew that being here alone with him was a dangerous fact.

I swallowed, trying to get rid of the nasty lump in my throat, and said with all of the fake confidence that I could muster, "Can I help you?"

The snake like man threw his head back and barked out a harsh laugh. "If only you could help me!" But then he froze, and it looked like he was contemplating something. "Well now that you put it that way, you could help me. You see, there is nothing more that I like then a game of hide and go seek. It makes it so much more fun to kill you once if find you, if you provide that you are a good hider. You can't make it to easy for me." He said with a sneer, reveling his sharp and deadly teeth.

"I-I'm not going to play your wicked games Count Dorkula. Don't make me go and call the police on you!" I said, hoping to scare him away with the empty threat. But somewhere deep in my thick skull said that he wasn't going to give up. Ever.

"And what will you tell them? That a boy wanted to play hide and go seek with you?" He said with fake innocence. " They will think you are on drugs and they will force you to give a blood sample. But, oh no! What will they find in your blood? Or more importantly, you DNA?"

That statement threw me off. "Um, they will find that I am a human being that isn't on drugs?" I said.

Like Day, he was in front of me in a flash. "No Electra Lux Martin, not even close."