Him and other stories

free hugs

the drain was dark and dingy, it use to be apart of the sewage systems under the city but now it lay abandoned,  newer drains taking its place. I stood outside of it with my friends, I had been dared to go inside and I wasn't one to chicken out. as I took it in I noticed all the graffiti, most of it was unintelligible scribble but in bold capital letters was the words 'FREE HUGS'. I shivered and stepped inside eager to impress my new friends. it was dark darker than it should have been, my torch barely shinning through the inky blackness. inside there was no graffiti and it was eerily calm so calm infact that I felt I could just lay down and fall asleep. I did. k didn't know how long I slept for but a shuffling in the darkness aroused me, red eyes floated mere inches from my blue ones and a stinking hot breath grazed my cheek. I didn't get time to scream before it clawed it's way into my mouth and down my throat, the inky blackness eating into my soul and the cold, so cold that it froze my heart. the pain came next like being burnt multiple times with a soldering iron, over and over again until I couldn't take it anymore and scratched at my eyes until the leaked and I bled. only then did I find relief. once he had seeped into every pore in my body and the possession was over I felt angry but at the same time full of murderous glee. I stood up and dragged myself to meet my new friends, they were dead ofcourse, the life strangled out of them. oh he was a sneaky bugger, he wouldn't give me the pleasure of killing them so I'd have to kill someone else. I took one last look at the frozen expressions of terror on my ex friends faces and smiled before carving with my bloody,broken nails, FREE HUGS on each ones cheek. once the deed was done I liked my fingers and headed off to find someone else to cuddle.