"Oh my baby, please don't cry. You will feel better soon." My mother smiled down at me while brushing away my tears. I shook my head weakly. I was on the verge of dieing, and we both knew it. Everyone knew, and all I could do was lie on this uncomfortable hospital bed and suffer in pain until my body can't take anymore experiments. I am once again slowly wasting away due to some unknown illness. I had just gotten over my battle with cancer, and now was fighting off something different. The doctors didn't know if it was because of the chemotherapy, or what, but I was once again bedridden in the hospital my father worked. Whatever was happening to me baffled everyone. Not even my father (the best here in New York, and four other states) knew what was wrong with me. Neither did the best doctors or scientists from around the world. They called what I was going through a novel, a mystery. All I can do was lay in bed, not moving and pray that the pain wasn't so bad. "I'll come back t
"Is everything set to go to that filthy place?" My gruff voice asked."Yes, sire, the Fates gave clearance a few seconds ago.""Very well. Let's get this over with. I don't like being in that place for too long," I said.Imagine me, King Alistair, having to go in search of my bride. I had expected to see her laying on my bed, naked and ready for me to take her.The two of us stepped through the portal, only to come out the other side at a hospital."Is this it? My bride is a nurse?""No, sire. She is a patient here.""What!?" I rage, causing the place to shake and the idiot humans to think it was an earthquake."She is sick, sire."Instead of arguing, I passed myself off as a doctor and made my way to the room the idiot told me my bride was in."Excuse me, but I have never seen you two before.'' A man stopped what he was doing to ask."Mind your business, human." I waved a dismissing hand.The doctor nodded, then went back to his task as if nothing had happened.When we entered the ro
"Why is this happening to you? First me, now you grams. It is like our family is cursed." October said, taking a seat on the chair beside the bed. She began singing, after praying for the woman that lay in the bed. ''I love your voice,'' A deep, smooth voice said. October looked around the room, startled as to who the voice came from, but she couldn't find the source. Her eyes zoomed in on the corner, thinking that maybe it was one of the shadows that seemed to always follow her around was finally speaking. She went back to singing to her grandmother, who had a late, advanced stage of cancer and was hooked up to several machines. The old lady looked a lot worse than October did a few months ago. Her eyes had sunk into holes, with large black bags under her eyes. Her lips were chapped and blue. She looked like a bag of bones, with sagging skin. Even though her father, one of the best doctors in the USA, did all he could, they knew that these were Mrs Summer’s last days. It was li
October woke up from her sleep with a stare. Ever since her strange encounter, it seemed to be all she could dream about. Or just one other dream, one where she had the same face but a different name. She knew that it was the other her, but there was something different about the girl this time. "Rose, who are you?" October sighed then rolled over to look at her ceiling, which had water marks from the constant leaking of a pipe in the attic, the one for whatever reason her father never got around to fixing it. A knock at the door startled October. She nearly jumped out of her skin, but her heart settled after hearing that it was her father. "October, are you up?'' Her father called, giving another knock at her door. October laid there for a while. He knocked on the door again. October made a small noise to let him know that she was. October groaned after peeking at the alarm clock. "It's way too early to get up!" She yelled out, then lay back down. Today was her eighteenth birt
October, her two siblings, along with her two best friends, stayed at the mall because her father had to go to work, to much of their relief. His idea of fun was taking his eldest child to build-a-bear and the zoo for her birthday. Daniel had left them early as well, because he had to go get prepared for the game later. Even though October was trying to enjoy herself, she couldn’t help but keep glancing around, because she had the feeling of being watched. The feeling came right after her father and boyfriend left, but no matter how much October tried to search the small space of the pizzeria for an unfamiliar face, she couldn't find one. She knew everyone in town, and no one seemed suspicious either. She signed, then took a bite out of her broccoli, cheese pizza to take her mind off things. But her thoughts still drifted to what that man had said in the cab. Their entire exchange came back to her like it always did. The faceless man with his deep voice would also often times appear
October leant on the wall, waiting for Daniel, mostly because she was too afraid to walk back by herself."Hey babe, how is my good luck charm?" Daniel asked, as he pushed the door open and stepped into the halls.He bent to kiss October, but she backed away."What's wrong? No kiss before the game?""Didn't you already get one from Gem? Yeah, I saw that. I hope you two are enjoying your time together," she told him, then walked away."October, it isn't like that.""The game is starting." She called over her shoulder.Daniel hurried over to her, but settled on walking closely behind, not saying a word or even feeling an ounce of guilt. Thinking that she wouldn't understand his reason for being with Gem."October, I-''"I really don't want to hear it."Daniel shook his head, then ran off to the field.When October got to her seat, Gem gave a smirk, then held up a banner that said 'Go Daniel!' Instead of 'Go team!' Like everyone else's.October went to sit directly behind her two-timing
"Is there a reason I'm being interrupted!?" Alistair roared, as he burst through the doors of the meeting room.The few members that were present flinched, while others avoid the crazed eyes of Alistair."Yes, we have knowledge that your bride is here. Not only are you holding her against her will, but you are torturing her as well." A woman spoke up.Alistair hissed at her. "I am King. I can do whatever I like."The woman shook her head. “It is against the law, and the council have decided to take action.""Take action!?" Alistair yelled.The woman nodded her head. "Under the act of--"In no time, Alistair had the woman pinned to the wall by her neck, cutting off what she had to say."This will be the last ever meeting. Consider this ‘council’ no more." Alistair threw the woman across the room."You can't end the council! It is not your place to do so," Claude, the head of the council, said.Alistair gave the man a smile while advancing on him. His fangs lengthened. The only thing th
Alistair sat bored on his throne, waiting for his brother to arrive. He soon switched position in his seat, with one hand under his chin and the other swirling around the drink in his glass. He was thinking of ways to make October love him, but all he could think of was torture."Brother," Onyx said, pushing the doors of the throne room open. ''What? No music for my grand entrance.'' He opened his arm as a twisted smile formed on his face."Onyx." Alistair greeted him bluntly, then downed the rest of what was in his glass in one big gulp."Is that anyway to greet your older brother? We haven't seen each other in a while. I wasn't expecting you to run in my arms, but to at least be more... welcoming," Onyx asked as he walked over to look at a painting of their parents."What do you want, Onyx?" Alistair asked. "Make it snappy, even though this place has nothing to offer you."All Alistair wanted to do was go watch his bride, even from a distance. He was slowly becoming obsessed with he