The devil within

Just The Beginning

Every child has a monster that lives under their bed. An imaginary fear that makes your heart race and the hairs on your arms stand up. Something that makes you question every shadow in the corner of your room. My fear was demons. After growing up I singled it out to childish behaviour and my mind making things up to rationalise the everyday problems I faced . I see now I was wrong.

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My name is skylar Harris and I am harbouring a demon.
I know what you must be thinking. That I'm crazy or that I'm schizophrenic? I thought so too when I turned 17.

At exactly midnight there was a knock on my door and my mother, who had been pacing the kitchen for hours stopped pacing and stood motionless and stared at the door where another knock had just came from.

"should I get it?" I said as my mother suddenly paled "no" she said in a hushed voice
another knock echoed down our hallway, harder than the last.

One last knock and then silence.
In the silence that had swallowed up the room you could hear the sigh of relief that my mother had given out. Suddenly our front door burst open and pieces of wood from the door frame scattered on the floor.

I looked up to see who was stood in our doorway it was a teenage girl.

Tall, elegant and shockingly beautiful girl, the one thing that caught my eye though was her eyes.

They were red, bright red.

I stood there as the shock of what just happened still playing on my mind

"who are you?" I asked my voice sounding stronger than I felt

" I am you, well soon to be anyway" she said with a chuckle

I looked at my mother for any clue to what she was talking about

" I don't understand" I said with a puzzled look on my face

"oh you will" the woman said
"and now your 17 it's time for us to become one"

I looked at my mother again because this sudden news didn't make any sense, as I glanced over to my mother I realised that she hadn't said anything since the strange girl had blown our door open

"mom?"

"there's nothing she can do to change fate" the girl said still standing in our doorway

My mother looked up at me with guilty tears welling up in her eyes
"I'm sorry" she said

"I don't understand what's going on is anyone going to explain?" I said my voice breaking threatening to give away the panic welling up inside of my chest

"very well then" said the girl with a sigh

" my name is Vivian and I am the demon that has been assigned to your body and at age 17 your body has finnished maturing and is ready for a demon to be assigned, your mother should have sent forward saying your birthday was soon so the department had time to prep a demon that is compatible with you and your body but since we had very little information we had to make do with what we had so now introductions have been made let's get this show on the road " while clapping her hands together to signal the end of the story.

I swallowed the lump in my throat
" so everyone has a demon? " I said still unsure of what is about to go down

" no, just your family "

" O-oh okay... Why only us? " I questioned again
I could see Vivian getting frustrated with the ever growing amount of questions I was asking

"ask your mother" she said with a dramatic sigh

"mom?" I said trying for a response

"it's a long story little one and a story for a different time. After you've bonded with your demon you'll understand without needing to hear it from me" she said quietly and slightly breathless

" exactly" said Vivian, " don't you feel odd skylar? Like a piece of you is... Missing?"

I didn't agree but on the inside I understood. I did feel empty like I was missing something that made me... Well me

" does it hurt?" I asked in a quiet voice

"oh yeah definitely" said Vivian with a twinkle in her eyes " I have to eat you for the bond to work"

I gasped in shock " please tell me your joking!"

"of course I am" she said with a chuckle
" but I do need you to cut open your palm for me"

" wait what?! I thought you said it wasn't going to hurt" I shouted

"okay fine it's not going to hurt much, look I'll even go first to show you it's going to be okay" Vivian said already cutting her palm with a knife that had appeared out of nowhere, soon a thin line of surprisingly red blood appeared on her palm
" your turn" she said

"are you sure?" I questioned yet again

"honey it's okay" my mother said.

That's the third thing she's said at all since Vivian arrived.

With that Vivian strode into our kitchen

I thought I'd be more afraid of Vivian seeing as she's something I've been seeing since I was little but I feel strangely calm around her.

I took the knife in my hand, the coolness of the metal handle soothing any fears that had built up during the whole conversion.
I quickly slid the blade across my palm before the calm feeling dissolved and I changed my mind.
A line of blood appears on my palm, a mirror image of Vivian's

"now what?" I said gazing that the blood now spilling out of the cut I had made

" we put the bleeding hands together, this will bind us in a blood pact" said Vivian

As we put our hands together and laced our fingers I felt a tingle where the cut was. Warmness seeped through my arm and into my torso, it felt like I was soaking in a hot bath and soon the warmth built up in my chest filling every space that used to ache with loneliness. I looked up at Vivian with a smile that now sat where a permanent frown used to be.

Vivian started to dissolve into the air. I gasped in shock

"mom!!" I shouted as Vivian started to fade and not once breaking eye contact with Me

"just wait skylar it's going to be okay" my mother reasurred me

Soon Vivian was gone and I was standing there with my palm in front of me alone once more.

The feeling was still there though. The warmness that continued to wash over me
Suddenly a wave of dizziness hit me making the world around me spin

"mom I don't feel so good" I said trying to support myself on the wall

The last thing I saw was my mother rushing towards me with a worried look.

Then.
Darkness.

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Hey guys this the first chapter to my story
The devil within. Hope you guys liked it 💜 the next chapter should be coming soon 🎉
Btw guess this is unedited since I'm just trying to keep the chapters coming . Any criticism is welcome :))