Chapter 6: Unsettling Truths

“Your eyes,” I gasped as I stood. The shock made me stand and back away. “They’ve…what the hell are you!?”

“Sit down,” he commanded, “and I’ll tell you.”

Again, I was left without a choice. I had to sit down and do as I was told because I was already here and there was nowhere to go. I sat down but my body was inched away from him. My skin was crawling. I was more terrified than ever because I knew that he truly wasn’t human.

No human could do this.

No human had eyes like this.

He raised a finger and showed me a contact lens. A brown one so brown that it was almost black. I didn’t even see him remove them. “First of all, I didn’t change my eye color, not the way you think I did.”

I felt stupid but I knew I was onto something. “Why are your eyes that color?”

“You already guessed it,” he dryly informed me.

“How do you know that?” I asked in disbelief. There were more questions I wanted to ask but for now, that was all I wanted to know. I felt that it would perhaps help explain all o