Hi, I did have another story called Endlessly. Long story short But someone, who shall not be named, got on and erased everything from the doc manager and my computer because she was mad at me. I was pretty bummed...well Livid. Silly teenagers. so here is another side story I was working on...Hopefully i can get my other story back.
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Rey was pretty sure that her neighbor was a vampire.
Well she was 99.9 percent sure he was.
She could count on one hand how many times she had seen this mysterious fella in the last two years he had lived next to her. Well she had not actually seen him just a dark shadow at night and his car leaving. Most days she wouldn't really think much of her neighbor. He was not loud nor was he all up in her business like the crazy Pug lady living on the other side of her property. Rey couldn't even sneeze outside without the woman popping her head over the fence to yell at Rey for one thing or another.
Rey had lived in this Victorian two-story house for almost three years, it belonging to her adoptive mother who currently was living in Spain right now leaving this massive house to Rey. Nothing much happened here besides the Crazy Pug lady, that Rey couldn't for the life of her remember her name, that would ride Rey ass every time she stepped outside or headed to her large shop behind her house. Rey could have sworn that lady was out to get her and had no life of her own and just sat on her back porch watching Rey house all damn day. Watching and waiting to pounce. Rey home sat on a small little over half a acre lot just on the inner part of town with enough distance between the houses that it was tolerable. Most of the days.
A Six-foot-tall fences surrounded her property as large willows lined the property between hers and her phantom neighbors house. Which his house that slightly sat on a hill towering over her home was like a fricken stone castle. She hardly ever saw his lights on and if she did it was random rooms and maybe some front windows of the huge house. and the only time she had caught sight of the man was at night driving away in his dark car. This Only added to the fact that this man was a vampire.
If anything, she avoided the stone house next to her. she didn't like to mingle with others and since she had not met her neighbor in the last two years she was pretty sure that he wanted nothing to do with the people around him.
But that was about to end today.
"Bernard Bryan the 8th get your ass back here!" Rey yelled over her fence into her neighbor's side of the yard as a huge orange and white Maine coon cat sitting on the roof of her neighbor mini castle. All morning she had been looking for this stupid cat that her friend had begged her to let him live here until he got a new home that allowed animals. That was two fucking years ago she took in that cute little fuzzy kitten and she soon realized he was personally made by the devil himself. After two hours of searching she finally found him chilling on the neighbor's roof once more.
"BB8 get over here! You need to go to the vet today whether you like it or not!" Rey yelled out waving the can of tuna in the air as she leaned over the fence a bit more trying to coax the stupid feline into coming back. The cat looked tiny on top of the huge house, but it was two and half tall as she could see his overly fluffy tail waving back and forth in a mocking manner at her.
"I swear to God if you don't get back here I will make a fucking coonskin cap out of your fur!" she yelled waving the tuna back and forth. The cat didn't seem to buy the bribe as she watched him walk along the roof of the house. BB8 wouldn't even stop as she was quickly banging her fork against the metal can trying to get him excited for the yummy treat. Rey could tell he really didn't give two shits about her or the fucking tuna.
As Rey was still leaning over the fence she watched as the stupid cat walked along the roof edge before jumping down onto small patio of the upper level of the house as he looked back at her tail swaying back and forth as if waving to her like saying "Pssht, you don't control me."
"Don't you think about it you fucking asshole!" Rey yelled at the cat. "I'm not going to come save you if you go in there! You hear me?! You're on your fucking own!"
The cat just stared at her before turning with sass to his walk into the open door of the upper bedroom. Rey crushed under her breath shifting her weight to jump down from the high stone wall that her neighbor built against her fence last year.
Landing on her feet she walked through her large garden beds she been cleaning to get ready for the winter back towards the back patio of her house as she tossed the can of tuna into the table. Opening the screen door to her sun room she slammed it behind her as she walked through the sun room full of plants as she opened the door to the house walking into the kitchen. She rounded the large kitchen island to where her phone was plugged in on the counter picking it up as she saw that it was almost nine.
The vet appointed was at 9:30. She had a half hour to get that stupid cat to the vet. She was almost half tempted to canceling it again as she tossed her phone down walking to where the coffee maker was as she opened a cupboard to pull out one of her coffee mugs that had deadpool riding a unicorn.
She grabbed the handle to her coffee pot dumping some coffee in as she weighted the pros and cons of going over to save the cat. If she let him go she wouldn't have to get woken up at three in the morning with a ballistic car running though her house or pulling some shitty ninja move attacking her face while she slept. But if she let that cat die she would have to feel the wrath of the owners boyfriend and the thought of getting attacked by two gay men at once with their verbal assault maneuver just didn't sound pleasant to her.
Rey groaned out as she walked out if the kitchen coffee in hand as she walked through her house to the front door to go save her damn cat from her vampire neighbor. Shoving the front door open she stomped down the wooden steps of her front porch and down the pathway to the sidewalk. She sipped on her coffee eyeing the large house wondering just what her neighbor looked like. She had no clue on how old he was or if it was even a man. She began to imagine some older creepy bald guy with a fat gut one the bribed kids in to a van with candy and ate them for dinner.
Taking in a deep breath she walked up the stone pathway as she saw the large three car garage doors sitting closed so she didn't know if he was home or not. Once she made it to a long winding pathway leading from the driveway to the front door she shoved one hand into the front of her oversized black sweater as she held her unicorn coffee mug tighter as she got closer to the large entryway of the house. the seven-foot-tall dark wooden door. the closer she got the more she started to think that this place had a dungeon and she was going to die the minute she knocked on the door and the vampire was going to suck her dry.
Did she have an overactive imagination? Yes she did. Some of the shit she spout out growing up caused concern for Maz who sadly had her tested if she was crazy or something. thankfully that came back negative.
She walked up the wooden steps towards the large doors as she came to a stop looking it over before she saw a large button. Pulling her hand out of her front pocket she reached out Hesitating over the button for a long moment before she finally pushed it.
Rey about jumped out of her skin as the loud chiming echoed through the house. it was a daunting sound that made the hairs on the back of her neck stand up as she pulled her hand away from the doorbell like it bit her. she stood there for a long moment both hands wrapped around her coffee mug as she waited to see if someone was going to come to the door. She must have only counted to three before turning around to walk away quickly figuring he wasn't home as she made it to the top step as she heard a loud click of the lock on the door turn.
Rey came to a stop as she looked behind her to see one of the large door swinging open. A tall man filled the open door as Rey even felt short from this distance. He must have been over six two and had long shaggy black hair that rolled down onto his wide broad shoulders that seemed to stretch the black v-neck shirt he wore. Even from here she Could see his muscles under his arms. His long legs were covered by black and grey plaid pajamas bottoms as he was barefoot.
His face was long but strong with a wide mouth and his lips proportions just think enough. He had a mustache above his lips as it curved down to a short beard on his chin. He had a long nose that curved up to two of the most haunting dark eyes Rey had ever seen. All together the mental look of a creepy man flew out the window and she was staring at a tall dark mysterious stranger that she had no flipped clue was this handsome and mentally kicked herself from coming over sooner.
"Um…" Rey drew that word out a bit longer then she needed too as this man stared at her one brow slightly going up as he lifted his hand holding an apple that Rey didn't even realize he was holding seeing his large hands circled around it as he took a bite of it quickly.
"Good morning." Rey said finally with a wide cheesy smile.
"Morning." He said slowly after swallowing his bite he chewed quickly. His deep voice making her slightly week at the knees.
"um I don't mean to interrupt or bother you so early but I live next door and came over to see if you would let me hunt my cat down in your house." Rey said quickly.
"Your what is where?" he asked brows coming together.
"My cat. Huge fluffy orange and white demon from hell." Rey said quickly waving her hand before her. "he was on your roof and I tried to get him to come back to my side and he went through your open glass doors upstairs."
He stood there for a moment a slight smile curving over his lips leaning up against this other unopened door.
"so that's why you were hanging over my fence whistling and banging that annoying can for the last half hour." He said with a snicker. "I was beginning to think you were crazy and trying to summon a lost gnome back to that garden of yours."
"No, not exactly." Rey gave a awkward laugh rubbing the back of her neck feeling the heat rush to her face that he had been home and watched her pathetic attempt to get her cat back. "he's an asshole and thinks he's king of the mountain. So I wanted to come save you before he broke something expensive that I would have to pay for. So if you are okay with it can I hunt him down and get him to the vet?"
The man stood there for a moment staring hard at her as he took another bite of his apple chewing for a moment as he pushed off his door grabbing his door knob to the open door.
"Upstairs room on the south with the satin glass doors?" he asked.
"Yeah the one right over here." She said pointing to the side of his house facing hers. "he's a mean fucker when cornered so I don't want you to lose an eyeball.."
"Be right back." He said suddenly shutting the door on Rey. Her mouth dropped open at the sudden slam of the door in her face as she saw his dark form move away from the door. She couldn't believe the asshole had done that but then again, she wouldn't want a stranger that's claiming their cat is in their house coming in. She stood there for a moment taking a quick sip of her coffee not sure what to do with herself while she waited for the man to return.
It was then she heard annoying barking as she looked over her shoulder to see Crazy Pug Lady walking her army of pugs past the man house. She could see the woman slowing her dogs down with a tug of the seven or so leashes in her hands as the old woman placed a hand to her forehead to block out the sun to obviously see who the hell was standing on the mystery neighbor front door. Rey knew this lady would sacrifice one of her dogs to get some juice details on this guy.
The front door swung open once more causing Rey to jump turning around to find the tall stranger standing in his doorway again.
"I checked the whole room. I had the door closed. No cat but," he paused lifting up a small blank canvas that has perfect little red kitty paws that stepped in paint walking across it. "he left a little messy surprise for me all over my floor."
Rey mouth dropped in horror as she looked from the canvas to him.
"I can clean or pay for anything he ruined." She said quickly.
"Don't bother." The man snapped tossing the canvas at her as she tried to catch it one handed as she shook her mug harder then she wanted too as it spilled coffee down the front of her. Rey gasped in shock as she looked up to the man as he stepped back into his house.
"Keep that fucking thing in your yard or I'll make a fur hat out of him." The man snapped before slamming the door right on Rey face again. She took a step back holding the canvas and half empty mug in her hands as she looked to down at her soaked front then to the door.
"Fuck you too! I hope my cat steals your soul when your sleeping!" Rey snapped tossing the canvas to the wooden ground before stomping away from the door down the pathway as she held her mug out dumping the rest of her coffee on the grass as she passed it. She didn't even walk down the driveway as she walked right through his yard towards her property.
What a fucking asshole!
She noticed Crazy Pug lady watching her stomp away from his house mushing her dogs to quickly catch up with Rey to get the details on the mystery neighbor. Rey ignored her stomping up the steps of her porch as she opened her door slamming it behind her. She walked though her house and back to the kitchen as she grabbed her phone picking it up to call the vet and cancel the appointment. As she placed the phone to her ear she saw something out of the corner or her eyes as she turned her head toward the window of the kitchen door seeing the satanic demon in an overly fluffy coat had jumped up onto the table and was eating the tuna. She quickly hung up her phone as she slammed it down on the counter.
Rey walked out of her kitchen and to another way out into the back yard through her dining room as she had a bunch of laundry sitting on the top of the table as she grabbed a pillow sheet. She opened one of the French doors slipping out onto the small wooden patio that surrounded the sun room. Slowly she inched her way toward the corner of the sunroom glass windows looking around it to seeing BB8 face shoved into the large tuna as she could see from here his white paws were a deep red.
She slowly stepped around the corner keeping her hands with the pillow case behind her back as BB8 looked over to her instantly as she walked to a table covered in empty pots touching and moving them like she wasn't interested in him. He stared at her for a long moment before going back to eat. Rey slowly inched her way towards him as his head jerked back to her as she turned to another table with gardening tools on it as she moved a few around glancing out of the corner of her eye at the cat. If he caught wind of her trying to do he would book it again.
BB8 went back to eating but his tail swayed back and forth knowing that she was up to something. Rey inched closer to him on the far table until she was fully behind him. Pulling the bag out from behind her bag she slowly took a step towards him. She held the bag out before her ready to bounce as BB8 was almost done with the tuna.
Before she could bounce the sudden sound glass shattering behind her made her squeal jumping away from the noise as something hit her back. Rey body hit the table hard which scared the living shit out of BB8 as he leaped skywards about three feet above the table and basically flew though the air vanishing. Rey whipped around at the noise searching for what broke as saw her empty black planting pots in pieces on the wooden patio. She looked to the table where they were sitting seeing about four of her pots were literally shattered like someone had thrown something at it.
She turned around to look for BB8 only seeing a settling dust trail of orange and white fur. She turns back to her table walking over to it to see what the hell had happened. She dropped the pillow case and began to search for anything that could have fallen or hit the pots as she saw no rocks or if they somehow fell over. But by the sound of them breaking it sounded like something had basically made them explode. She looked to the pieces of the pot all over the patio as she saw most of the larger pieces were flying down the table away from her like something had come from the south of her house. she glanced to where her stone neighbor house was not seeing him anywhere.
It didn't make sense in her brain. Sighing she knew that this house was haunted or something and figured it was a ghost on BB8 side and helped the fucker escape once more. And for some reason she could hear someone hysterically laughing at her in the wind. She tossed a piece of the broken pot back down on the table as she turned to walk off the patio to go grab a trash can to clean up the mess.
She needed to get to work anyways and didn't want to waste her day hunting down BB8 knowing the fucker was long gone after that shit.
After cleaning up the mess on the patio she moved to the table using a hand broom to sweep up the smaller pieces when she noticed something that didn't belong on her table. She ran the small hand broom over it as she leaned over the table seeing a very large hole on her brand new wooden table she built this summer. Reaching out she was able to fit her pinky finger into it. Leaning over the table she saw the hole went straight through her table as she saw it was curved as she quickly dropped to her knees under the table placing her finger to the hole and follow the angle of it to the wooden floor under her as she searched finding another perfect hole sitting in the wooden flooring.
"What the actual fuck?" she whispered out as she ran her finger over the hole before climbing under the table to look through the hole to see where this shot came from. Looking with one eye she was able to see the side of mister angry pants next door upper French doors that sat open still. She climbed back up looking at his house then back down to the table as she tried to figure out what the hell this was.
Her mind screamed one thing. A bullet hole. She jerked her head back to the open doors not far from her as she felt her brows coming together. A smile curving over her lips at the crazy thoughts that flew past her brain.
"nawwww." She said waving a hand before her as if to dismiss the idea that her mysterious neighbor had actually shot her table. That was crazy talk. He may have been an asshole but she couldn't see him trying to shoot her. The table was a good distance from where she was standing anyways when she was trying to catch BB8. If he was he was a shitty shooter.
Rey dismissed the idea thinking it was something freaky that happened as she tossed the hand broom onto the table dusting off her hands as she walked down the stairs to the garden pathway toward her large shop in the back of the property. She had orders to fill and she had to get cooking.
Rey came to the large shop grabbing the level holding the tall doors open as she yanked it loose and began to shove the door open.
"REY!" a cranky voice yelled out as Rey groaned out rolling her head forwards as she was pushing the door open as she tuned to see the Crazy Pug lady sticking her head up over the fence to glare at her.
"You know I rebuilt that fence higher to keep you from looking into my yard." Rey snapped walking over to the other shop door to push it open.
"Are you going to be playing that blasted devil music again?!" the woman yelled at her.
"Woman you think Queen is the devils music." Rey laughed at her shaking her head as she finished sliding the door open.
"I will call the cops again if you dare to play that awful music all day again!" the old woman snapped hands gipping onto the fence.
"Between the hours of eight to ten you are not the boss of me." Rey mocked at the old woman. "Go inside if you don't wanna hear my choice of music." Rey waved for her to leave as the woman lifted up a hand to wave a finger at her.
"You think I wont call Maz and tell her what you are doing?!" she snapped at her as Rey wished she would just fall off the damn stool already that she knew the old bad was standing on. "I know you don't just makes sculptures in there! I know you are making those pipes thingy for all the crack heads secretly!"
"I have never made anything like that you crazy woman. And Maz makes money on my art so I don't think she really going to fucking complain but go head call her. She already blocked your number and enjoys listening to your voicemails over a glass of wine." Rey laughed giving the old bat a mocking wave as she walked into her shop.
"Why cant you just let a old woman live in peace?!" the old woman yelled at her.
"Why not kind your own business!?" Rey yelled back.
Rey ignored the ranting woman as she walked over to where her stereo was as she plugged in her computer to it as she searched for her playlist on YouTube finding the most annoying music she could as led zeppelin began to rumble through the shop. It was loud don't get her wrong but she had it low enough that the cops couldn't do anything about it and they knew she worked with heavy music blasting around her. Rey had lost count on how many times the cops had showed up and to the Crazy lady next door horror she had made a few glass sculptures for a few of them over the years.
Rey walked over to the side of her furnace she had turned on a few days earlier as she saw it was at the right temperature to start her work. She walked over to a bench flipping open a sketch book as she flipped though a few pages until she found a piece of art work she wanted to make. Walking toward some shelves she grabbed small totes full of broken glass pieces of every color you could think of and began to set up her large station to start blowing the sculpture.
Putting on her heavy-duty gloves and safty glasses she grabbed a new pole as she walked over to the furnace opening it as she fell the 2000 plus degrees of molten glass flowing out sticking her pole in slowly she began to gather up the molten glass on the tip. She had five sculptures she needed to make for an upcoming show at an art gallery opening and needed to get shit done in two weeks.
Several hours later and losing her sweater Rey was sitting before the halfway done sculpture as she was held a touch against the black and red swirled grabbing it with some heavy pliers to pull at the raw glass to twisting it higher as she was quick to run a wet newspaper over it to help cool it down slowly.
Stepping back she looked over the odd art that looked like the beginning of coral reef she had in mind. She walked over to where a she had her thick leather padded jacket that she put on backwards to keep her arms and the front of her body safe from getting melted off from the intense heat of the glass. She pulled on thicker gloves that could withstand the heat as she grabbed the glass piece walking it to the annealer to slowly cool the hot glass down.
Once shutting the lid she stepped back yanking off her gloves to run her hands over her forehead feeling the sweat caked on her. Pulling over her protecting padding she made sure to secure all her furnaces, so they wouldn't blow up on her or anything as she felt her stomach letting out a dying whale sound for her to feed it.
Shutting off her music and shutting off the lights she walked in the dimming light of the evening back towards her house. Rubbing the back of her neck she was ready for some dinner and a long cooling shower. Maybe a bubble bath if she was feeling up to it.
Once inside and raiding the refrigerator she found some left overs take out from the night before tossing all the orange chicken and fried rice onto a plate throwing it into the microwave to reheat.
Rey couldn't cook worth shot and if she had to call Maz and tell her she caught the kitchen on fire again she was dead meat.
Sitting at the island she held her phone in her hands seeing she a handful of missed calls and text messages. She saw one from Finn asking if she survived the visit to the vet as she texted him back saying she couldn't catch the little demon and rescheduled. She saw she had a message from her friend Rose who ran the art gallery where Rey was going to be showcasing her pieces of glass art. She saw that Rose wanted her to call her saying that another person was going to be showcasing their art work as well that night. Rey hit the call button as she placed her phone to her ear listening to it ring.
"About time you called me." Rose voice laughed into the phone.
"Sorry been working on some new pieces for the show." Rey said as she heard her microwave beep saying the food was nuked to mouth burning temperatures. She slipped from the stool at the island as she walked over to it opening the door as she grabbed the plate out. She cursed dropping the plate back down forgetting it got ungodly hot.
"you okay?" rose asked quickly.
"yeah just forgot that my microwave turns my plates into flaming discs from hell." Rey said blowing on her burned finger tips as she grabbed the hot pad to pull it out. "so what's up? You found another artist for the grand opening?"
"Yes and you are not going to believe who it is." Rose said all excited.
"You know I suck at guessing." Rey said setting the plate on the island as she began to wave her hot pad at it to cool it off.
"Paige was able to pull a few strings and got Kylo Ren." Rose squealed as Rey had to hold the phone away from her ear at the volume of her squeal at the end.
"Who?" Rey laughed. There was a long pause on the other end of the line.
"You're shitting me right?" rose snapped into the phone shocked.
"Nope. Who is this guy?" Rey laughed jumping off the stool to again to grab a fork from the drawer.
"Kylo Ren, his art work is up there with the masters." Rose said. "he's like one of the best painters in the world right now."
"Well good for him." Rey snickered. "I think that monkey riding the bike I painted for you last summer was a master piece."
"Honey I love you and you are an extremely gifted at making some of the most beautiful pieces of glass out there.." rose began to say.
"I feel a 'but' coming." Rey laughed out.
"but I swear to God I still think that monkey looks like the bike is fucking him up the ass. I didn't even realize it was a monkey until you pointed it out. Paige thought you tried painting bigfoot from harry and the Hendersons or something." Rose laughed out.
"Ouch." Rey said in a teasing voice.
"Just stick to the glass work and doodles. You are good at doodling." Rose said quickly.
"Feelings are already hurt. Now I'm gonna go and get some sleep. I've got a busy two week ahead of me. go be all giddy about this Mylo Jen guy." She said into the phone.
"Kylo Ren." Rose corrected.
"That's what I said." Rey laughed into the phone.
"no you said.." Rose began to say as Rey cut her off quickly.
"Good night Rose. Go have fun." Rey snickered pulling her phone away from her ear to hang up. Letting out a sigh she looked down at her plate as she began to poke her fork at it as she looked around the large kitchen and let out a loud sigh. She hated sitting here alone in this big house. She felt lonely as fuck. Besides the stupid cat that roamed around she was mostly by herself and missed her friend. She looked to her phone thinking of seeing if Finn had texted her back, but she didn't want to sound sad in her responses. It would only make Finn call her and her feel even more lonely.
Most of her friend lived in lower part of Maine in Portland, about an hour drive and she wished she lived closer but she moved here for a reason. And not many even knew she was here in Waterville and both her and Maz wanted to keep it that way.
Sighing once more she quickly ate her dinner and dumped the dishes into the sink before retreating upstairs to take a quick shower. Once done with that she walked into her room drying her hair as she found BB8 had finally showed back up and was lounging on the foot of her bed. Rey shot him a dirty look as she climbed into the best and pulled her covers up over her shoulders.
She felt BB8 walking up the side of her as he came to cuddle next to her head. His body curled up against the back of her head as she could hear him purring.
At least this cat knew how to make Rey feel a little better.
As she drifted off to sleep she thought about today and what she wanted to do with the sculpture as she wondered about the crazy shit with the pots and her moody neighbor she had finally met. Hopefully she didn't have to cross that asshole pathway again.