Prey

Chapter 2

"I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, I shake it off, shake it off." I hum to the beat of the T-Swizzle song. I don't know all the lyrics but it was caught in my head somehow. Maybe from earlier this evening. My friend had a birthday party, she played tons of music. "I never miss a beat-ah." I giggle as I walk down the road.

"I'm lightning on my-" I froze where I was. Oh my gosh, that's sick. What are they, carnivores?

There in front of me were three guys tearing apart something with lots of blood. I gulped, I'm pretty sure I don't want to know what that is. I stepped back, my eyes never leaving the backs of the slurping men. I saw a flash of white as one of them tore the skin off the thing. I stepped back again, but my foot had other ideas. My ankle struck the foot behind it, making me trip and land on my butt. "Oof!" The gravel shot up at me, stinging the skin that was now covered in dirt.

I looked up through the hair that had fallen over my face and saw the mangled body just laying in the alleyway. The men weren't any where to be seen. I looked around, fear stripping my all other emotions away.

"Well, well," I heard someone mumble behind me. I whipped around to see only one of the three guys standing beside me. "What do we have here?" He looked at my awkwardly angled body and suddenly felt... Awkward. With a side of awkward. Oh, and a whole half of fear.

"Hey boss, can we eat it?" Someone else squeezed behind me. It was a curly redheaded kid with big glasses, freckles, and braces. He looks like a dork. He sneered down at me, as if knowing what I had thought. I gulped.

The first one that had spoken moved incredibly fast. He yanked back my head forcefully, and set his teeth to my neck. Except they were incredibly sharp. I could feel two stabs of pain. Then it seemed I was in a dreamy state. The clouds didn't look so grey, this small part of town was bustling with people. They didn't smile at me, but there was something off about them. Maybe it was their necks with two red holes not too far apart.

Or maybe it was how pale their skin was, how sunken in their eyes were. Or the two sharp teeth that were extending and cutting their bottom lip. One of them peered down at me, it's eyes turned black and the skin was showing all its veins.

"No." A woman's voice said. It sounded distant. Then I awoke out of my stupor as my neck was released and I fell to the ground. I could feel something wet oozing down my neck. I reached where it was dripping from and touched it. There was bright red blood on my fingertips. When I looked up, I could see the guy wiping his mouth that was dribbling blood from the corners. I gasped.

They were- they were- b-b-but... And with that I fainted.

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