The Progeny

The Progeny - Part 4

She slowly begins to walk towards me, her eyes never leaving mine, she stops just in front of me, the only thing I have over her is my height, she's faster and stronger than me, she looks up with her blank expression, "So what now?" she questions me.

"So now you give me some answers, starting with who you are and then maybe why you've been stalking me?" she let's out a small fake laugh at my statement,

"Stalking you? Don't flatter yourself".

Her beauty is intimidating, it's making me break into a nervous sweat, I've never really spent much time with girls and I've never had a girlfriend, yeah I know what you're thinking, don't make me admit it, it's embarrassing enough for a guy to still be, well you know... "So can you at least tell me who you are?"

"Who I am? What about who you are", I close my eyes and pinch the bridge of my nose with my fingers, "Look, I just nearly jumped off a fucking cliff, I don't have time for your games and riddles right now, can you just tell me", I instantly regret my tone and use of curse words when her eyes widen, she reaches her ice cold hand forward and grabs my shirt, shit is she going to hit me? She rips the material clean off my body, leaving me naked from the waste up, her eyes rake over my toned torso, she starts to slowing walk around me, examining every inch of my body as she does, "there" she points to the birth mark on my lower hip,

"ok, I have a birth mark, what does this have to do with you following me for the past few months?" I asked confused,

"You really don't know? Nothing at all?" she looks puzzled,

"Let's just go with no, as I literally have no idea what you're talking about", I'm either going mad or I swear I just saw a smile trying to break across her lips,

"ok then, I'll show you" she turns and begins to walk away, I swiftly follow her,

"Show me? Can't you just tell me?", she turns back to face me,

"Look, if you want answers then you need to listen to me, this shit is serious stuff, I mean just look at what happened to your mo...", she stops before she can finish and my eyes widen, "my mother?, you know my mother" I shake my head to correct myself, "I mean knew, my mother", her blank expression burns into me,

"I had no idea how clueless you were about it all, I don't have the words to explain all of this to you, but I know someone who can help you see for yourself", her monotone voice almost a whisper, I let out a deep breath, "ok, then show me."

Before either of us can move the ear-piercing scream from the other night rings through the shadows, my new acquaintance looks startled, this is the first time I've seen her show any emotion, unfortunately for me it's complete and utter panic. "Remember how you were going to jump earlier," she pants, my eyes widen, "I hope you can swim," she grabs me and throws me off the side before I can even register what the hell is going on, I'm falling fast, so fast that the air is taking my breath away, I hit the water and it hurts like a bitch, thank God it's deep enough for my tall frame to not break against the bottom. I thrash my arms and kick my legs, trying to bring myself to the surface, as my head breaks through the barrier of water I gasp, taking in as much oxygen and I can before another wave drags me back down. Where the hell is she? Fear has taken over my entire body, yeah that's right, I'm scared, I'm scared because for the first time in my life I don't think I'm going to survive. I'm running out of oxygen, the small breaths I'm able to take before anther wave attacks aren't enough, my body is giving up, I don't have the energy to fight to the surface anymore, my eyes are also giving up, they're slowly closing as I feel my consciousness slip away, is this how it's really going to end?

I wake up coughing, spitting water out in bucket loads, I franticly look around to observe my surroundings, I'm alive! I'm lying in the dirt, still shirtless from my earlier assault, I bolt up and notice the pale girl is sat only meters away, she's as soaked through as I am, she must have jumped in behind me, seconds before my unconsciousness became a permanent state. She's gathering her long black hair into her hands and twisting it to strain the water out, she notices I'm awake and drops her hair, letting it fall down her back in a wet mess, she still looks hot as hell though. Christ what am I saying! I just nearly died because of this girl and here I am ogling over her! She gets up and walks over to me, "lucky you could swim hey?" she's back to her emotionless state, I stare back at her, not knowing were to even begin, "ok look, I have too many questions and the more time I spend with you the more questions I seem to have, like now I would also like to know what the hell just happened and why you threw me off a fucking cliff!" I'm angry, but more confused, she doesn't flinch at my harsh tone,