Alone in the shadows

Chapter 2

Lucy's POV

        When I heard those words slip out of my mouth, I instantly regretted saying them. What if I was wrong? What if they are human and they are going to report us? What if... Before I could even finish thinking, Beth spoke, "Wait, you guys are monsters too? Taylor! Do you know what this means?!" Taylor, barley paying any attention said, "huh, what? Um. We get free sushi?" "No you moron, it means we have two more friends! We have two more people like us!" She then turned to me and said in a low voice, "What kind are you?" Elaina answered for me, "I'm a mermaid and Lucy here is a demon." She began telling the story of how we met and I kinda zoned out. I began having a small feeling I've never had before. I felt like a wave of anxiety was pouring over me. I fell to the floor, not even realizing I had and saw my father in my head walking slowly towards me. However, just as soon as he had came he left and I regained my sight and felt my body on the hard cement. Everybody was huddled over me. When I opened my eyes, everybody started asking if I was okay, but I couldn't hear them speaking, in fact, I couldn't hear anything except a ringing. I got up and the ringing slowly went away. All the scrapes on my body slowly healed and I was back to normal. Elaina was the first to speak, "OMG, Lucy, what happened?! I mean, I see you're okay, but... what... happened?" "I really don't know, guys. I just blacked out and saw my father. After he went away, all I could hear was ringing." "Oh my gosh are you going to be okay?" Beth asked. "I don't know. All I know is that when I left Hell my father said he'd be coming for me." "So your father is..." Taylor looked at me with a weird look. "Yes. My father is the Devil, Literally." 

****Taylor's POV****

        I couldn't believe she was actually from Hell. I mean, I knew she was a demon but I didn't realize she was legitimately from Hell. It actually was kinda dumb of me to not put two and two together. Oh well, at a monsters a monster, at least she's not human! This might seen a bit weird but I have a crush on Lucy. She's so mysterious and different, kind of like my sister, Beth but more dark and intriguing. I kinda like that in a girl. Girls that you can see right through, like Elaina, are less interesting. Sure Elaina's pretty but she has no secrets. You can see right through her personality as if she was transparent. She's pretty but boring, don't get me wrong, Elaina is the most exciting person I've ever met but Lucy just makes me think about her, what she might be thinking this very moment, I have no idea. Elaina's probably thinking about how she's met two other monsters or that were starting Junior year. She's way too easy. Lucy on the other hand is not. She'll take effort to crack open and I really like that in a girl.

****Elaina's POV****

        I don't think it has even crossed my mind that I'm going to college in a year. That I just can't believe is happening. I look over at Beth whose sitting next to me and stare at her hair for like, three seconds, and I knew by looking at it she spent about ten minutes on it. I'm good like that. I live with Lucy so I do her hair everyday so that she looks presentable. She'd be perfectly content with not even brushing her hair in the morning just so she can get three extra minutes of sleep. She's so funny. Taylor looks like he woke up, ran his fingers through his hair and when to school that way. He might say it's practical, I say it's lazy. I mean, you need to look good right? I barley need any time to do my hair. I literally wake up with really nice hair, mermaid perks i guess. But whatever. Enough about my amazing hair. Let's talk about boys for a second. The bus has just pulled up and the four of us get on. I look around me and I like what I see. Too bad they're probably all human boys. Whatever. There are plenty cute mermaid boys where I'm from, but I kinda want a vampire boyfriend. They're so romantic. 

****Beth's POV****

        The bus ride is about twenty minutes long. Elaina and I sit next to each other and Taylor and Lucy are in front of us. I know my brother very well, and if he is feeling something, I see it. Right now he is feeling a strong sense of emotion, specifically towards Lucy. I'm definitely going to hold that over his head later. He's never been the romantic type but all the girls at our old school swarmed him like bees. He would just pretend he didn't notice it. He couldn't really date any of them because they weren't monsters. He knew they weren't monsters because he could read their minds. We can't read other monster's exact thoughts, we can sense emotion and feeling though. A monster can read a human's mind if they feel like it. If we don't want to hear what they're saying, we just shut them out. It's pretty confusing but literally all we do is pretend a metal wall is going over the and their thought stop coming. It took practice but now it is a live saver. You don't know how many times I've heard a human think about dirty sex. Back to Taylor, even if those girls were monsters, I don't think he would have dated them because he didn't feel a connection with them. The human thing had a lot to do with the connection thing. I can feel Lucy holding back from him, she knows he likes her, she likes him back but somethings holding her back. Maybe it has something to do with her dad and what happened just ten minutes ago. Whatever it is, she needs a big hug. I nudge Tayor gently with my hand on his back, he turns around and I tell him to give Lucy a hug. His face turns red, he knows I know about his little crush, but he turns back around and puts his arm around Lucy. 

****Lucy's POV****

        Taylor put his arm around me. I could feel his muscles against my back. I looked at him and studied his face. He was glowing. I searched my heart for a bit, tried to get my emotions on track, but I can't my head is a buzz, full of whispers that I don't recognize. My head has always been occupied by more than me. It is very frustrating. I think I start to cry a little but I'm not sure, all I know is I'm sick of me and my life. I'm pretty sure I'm sobbing by now, but I can't feel it. Taylor takes notice and pulls me in closer. It feels so nice to be in someone's loving arms, but I can't feel the love. All I feel is pain and hate, hate for my dad, my past, my mom, myself. Why couldn't I have born human, normal, happy. My life is just a giant black hole, anything that gets too close gets sucked out of existence. Elaina has been the only exception. She is my best friend ever. I try so hard to be careless and optimistic like her but I just, can't. I physically can't be happy. It hurts me to think I can never be happy, but I'm used to hurt by now. 

****Taylor's POV****

        I feel so terrible watching Lucy cry and not knowing what to do, so I just pull her in tighter in a hug. That seems to make her feel better. She stops crying. Luckily she's a soft crier and I'm the only one who saw. Not even Beth or Elaina saw. "I'm sorry," she says, " I don't know what's wrong with me. It seems every time i try to be happy with myself I start to cry. I think It's the demon in me." I feel so bad for her. I can't imagine what she goes through. I reply softly, "I have no idea what you're going through, but I promise to here for you to get through it, if you can." "Thank you Taylor." She replied in a whisper so soft it was almost as if she mouthed it, and I have elevated senses.