Deamon within

~4~ Return

Bzzzzzzz bzzzzzzzzzz, I wake up from my phone. I must have fallen asleep last night. I grab next to me to get it, but instead of the shelf next to my bed I feel water. Huh, where am I?  Then it all hits me back at once. The forest, the fire, police... I ran away, Sophie is dead, my fake family. Demon... I turned into a demon. I try to stand up so suddenly that I feel stinging in my wrist. "Oh yeah, that also still was there..damnit I still had small hope this all was a dream".

"You're awake, great. You have to return to the city today. We need to go see someone and we need to get you clothes to hide your identity if you wanna go to Sophie her funeral. Oh and uh maybe find someone to fix that wrist of yours"

Funeral...hiding.. "How is this even possible, how am I going to live like this. I mean.. I can't be seen like this?!" I stare to my reflection, I still see my left orange coloured eye and my other one is a greenish colour, like how it always used to be. A few veins still look bright orange trough my skin. "Didn't you say, this would go?!" I start to get angry, and tighten my hands, I look down again and notice, the colours got brighter when I felt the anger rage inside of me.

"Try to relax"

"RELAX?! is that all you have to say?! I got to hear I'm some sort of monster, my life turned into a nightmare within 24 hours, I look like a fire and it gets worse now, you obviously lied and you just tell me to..." that's when it hit me. Oh.. relax.. calm your mind Ava try it. I take a deep breath and close my eyes, I listen to the water and the birds singing, I smell the nice scent of the leaves around me. I slowly feel the anger and stress leave for a bit. This is stupid, what if it doesn't work. I get a little nervous again and feel my body tighten up.

"It's okay again, open your eyes"

This time I listen, without any argument I open my eyes and look in the water. My left eye turned brown, my right one still is green and my skin, looks perfectly normal if you don't look to the burning traces on my cheek from the tears I've cried. I look..normal, human..

"I look nearly normal now.." I could just walk around like this and nobody would notice a lot of strange things about me. Although I am a wanted criminal by the police now.

"So now we have figured out you will be looking, pretty normal when staying calm. Let's go to the city, we need to visit someone"

"Uhm, what if they find me? People will maybe recognise me! They might have my face all over the internet with wanted above it " I nearly lose my control again. No.. not now Ava. I need to keep control. Deep breaths.

"Ava, the face in these pictures online has two bright green eyes. You've a brown and a green one. And your hair turned dark from the flames in your demon form. They won't recognise you soon enough to catch you. Let's go to Virnastreet 15"

I take a look in the water again. It's true, I don't look like myself anymore, that one eye changed my look pretty much and my hair is ash black instead of the light brown it used to be. Even my friends won't notice it's me.. "Alright let's do it.. I'll go there"

"Great, just remember to show him your eye when you get there and go fast, we don't have time to lose"

Am I really gonna listen to some voice I hear, telling me I'm actually some kind of monster? Telling me, it's my second soul? I keep thinking about it. But finally I decide I'll listen. My feet start moving and I keep going faster until I'm running towards the city. At the edge I put on my hoodie, just to be safer. Virnastreet.. I know where that is. It's some creepy part of the neighborhood, not a lot people live there. I start walking and sigh, not sure what to do. Everywhere around me I hear people talk about the girl who killed her family, about the two fires. How innocent people died and how this murderer deserves dead herself. Before I know it I'm standing before the place I was told to go. Windows closed with wood, like there's hardly any light allowed in. I knock the door and wait.

I can't do it.

"Yes, you can"

I'm an awful person. I do deserve pain, I do deserve dead. People are right;

I'm a monster...