Midnight Obsessions Novels & Stories

"She doesn't know about our world. It's better this way." "She's so perfect. So fragile." His voice broke with agony. "If she finds out what kind of monster I really am, she'll be terrified." My heart almost stopped. Ryder... wasn't human? "Bullshit," one of his buddies jeered. "If you’re so tough, then stop whining on that encrypted forum every night. 'Midnight_Howler'... real creative." Midnight_Howler. I memorized the ID. I slipped back to my room and opened my laptop. I found the hidden forum called "The Den". With a few tricks, I registered and got in.

The Black-Glass Flats didn't reflect the moon; they swallowed it. At midnight, the scorched obsidian desert outside Neo-Tokyo was a sea of absolute shadow, broken only by the occasional, jagged shimmer of a tectonic crack. But tonight, the silence was vibrating. A low-frequency hum, like the sound of a thousand hornets trapped in a jar, rolled across the glass.

Safety is assured while unfinished business is handled elsewhere. Sleep last night came in broken pieces. Short, shallow, useless. Dreams kept dragging her into them anyway. Her voice. Her weight beside me. Her warmth close enough to reach for. Waking did nothing to dull that need. Last night ended alone. Tonight will not. Something shifts tonight, something permanent. Obsession has had too much time to grow unchecked. Each hour sharpens it, pares away hesitation until only intent remains. One simple truth stands out above all others. Only preparation stopped action last night. The house wasn’t ready then.

SHE CALLS AT MIDNIGHT Dominic is finally falling asleep on the couch because the bed feels too empty and too full of memories and the couch in the living room at least doesn't have the weight of their shared history pressing down on him and his phone is buzzing and it's past midnight and he's reaching for it without fully waking up and he's seeing her name on the screen and his entire body is jolting awake because she's calling him and she's breaking the silence that's been stretching between them for five endless days.

He went over to Mickey. "Hey, move away. Let me do it, it seems as though you're planning to take my mom away from me" he muttered. Leah laughed from where she was. She's glad to see he's finally the cheerful Jaime that she knows. She looked around the restaurant worriedly. "Where are you?" She asked, referring to her husband, Sebastian. **** MONTERIO'S INVESTMENT*** Hailey shut down her computer as she was through with the day's work. She stretched her shoulder tiredly and yawned softly. She's suddenly feeling hungry.

Although, that was not intentional. Sighing, I glance at the clock and almost cursed in my head. It's fucking one at midnight. One o'clock is exactly the time of the night. No wonder the silence in the air was peaceful. No chirping of birds, no honking of cars, and no pedestrians walking on the streets. It's midnight. I shake in fear as the moment of those monsters is relived in my head. The day that causes all of my pain. The day I encountered the monsters, in the dress of normal beings ready to plague my life.