Chapter 1
"Run!" She screamed at me with tears streaming down her face. Yet... I couldn't...no... It's not that I couldn't but it's just that I didn't want to. I stood frozen in the same spot watching as she fought him........no not him, that vile THING couldn't be considered a person. I watched as IT picked her up by her hair, groping her with it's filthy claws, and taunting her, molesting her. I watched as IT sucked the life out of her when IT was done enjoying her and still I didn't move. Oh no, I stood stock still in the same spot as IT turned it's blood red eyes towards me.
I trembled as IT took it's first step towards me. The air leaving my lungs in frantic pants as IT got closer and closer still, then bending over and reaching for the cabinet door where I was hidden, while smiling with her blood dripping from it's mouth.
"Get out of here!" A voice inside my head screamed at me and like that I was pulled out of my terror induced trance, but it was already too late. Before I could sneak away he had me by the neck bringing my tiny body towards his and the only thing I could do was scream.......but no sound came out.
I screamed a soundless scream and cried while struggling to get out of his grasp all the while bracing myself for my inevitable end. At this point his face was at my neck, his hideous fangs ready to pierce my skin...
Like a bucket of cold water being thrown on me, I sprung from my sleep heaving like a fish out of water. My lungs greedily feeding on the air, my heart beating rapidly in my chest with a cold sweat running down my face. It took a while but my surroundings finally registered on my muddled mind. Wrapping the sheets around me like a cocoon , I repeated the same words over and over in my mind forcing myself to believe them.
"He won't find you here."
"You're home."
"You're safe."
I repeated those words like a mantra, until I was calm enough to move.
Removing myself from the comfort of my bed, I walk in the darkness of my cave until I reached the outside, letting the moon bathe me in it's light. Taking one last breath to calm down I walked around my garden, touching each petal of every flower within my fingers reach.
Following the familiar flower path, I walked slowly towards the lake with a beautiful water fall stopping at the water's edge and admiring the reflection of the moon on the water's surface. Stripping myself of my dress, I slowly lowered my body into the clear water and swam towards the waterfall. Standing beneath the cold showers of water while dragging a hand through my silver hair, letting the cool water wash away the uneasiness still stirring within my body. Closing my eyes I let the memories consume me. Her laugh the most beautiful melody I had ever heard, her beautiful angelic smile, the soft feeling of her hands whenever she caressed my face. Her eyes that always shined with all the love she held for me, then like a broken dam the huge weight of the loss I felt as the life was gone from her eyes consumed me. I broke down and cried letting my tears wash away with the water of the water fall and into the lake. I cried until I had no more tears to shed then slowly removed myself from the spray of water, to stand in the middle of the lake watching the lonely moon in the dark sky.
This had become my daily routine since the day she died. I slowly adapted to my situation, slowly let the loneliness and guilt consume me letting only the moon get a glimpse of what it's done to me. I found peace in the moons light, knowing that she too knows and understands the loneliness I suffer. The moon became my one and only friend....my only source of comfort along with the lake and waterfall.
I bathed in the moons light enjoying the peace of the night until I was suddenly alerted to the sound of twigs snapping and finally taking note of the presence of a being coming out from the forest a few feet away from me.
