Title: Acquaintances
Genre: General & Romance.
Rating: T
Disclaimer: Nothing is mine, nothing at all, just wanted to give my own little twists and turns. Read on.
Acquaintances
Chapter 1
The rain beat down furiously down my back as I made my way to work. The morning had been shinning and the birds had been singing when I got out of bed today but that all changed when the dark clouds moved it. Just like that the birds where swallowed up in their new tragedy and I was left without an umbrella down sixth street. Signing, I brandished my arm as hard as I could, waiting for the following yellow cab to pull up, and then the next, and the next. Finally getting somewhere, I climbed in and in feigned cheerfulness I thank the driver and tell him where to go. This of course, was the beginning and ironically the ending of all my days, the sun just couldn't stay up and my suits were not surprisingly taking up whole sections in my dry cleaners. Not to mention, the Boss spit up by hell itself implanted herself into her desk every morning, late, and did what she did best, eat and yell. Normal day? I would say no, to many things happened at once to say that it was a normal day and so calmly, I sat in the taxi and waited for my cabby to pull up at my job.
Somehow I got into my cubicle just in time for the implantation to proceed for Junia Plats, my boss. At odd angles, my boss weighed probably about… enough. Sometimes she would call me into her office, spittle flying places where I wish they wouldn't and making my life a living hell. Today, however was a little slow, what with the donation we were giving to various funds were being processed and being that my boss loved money, things were being watched with fifteen pairs of eyes. Yes, today would be a slack day, and I would enjoy it to the last hour. Taking out a scrapbook that had been "working" on in my "spare" time, I started placing things here and there, just were the fit perfectly.
That's when the headaches came again, the pounding of my frontal lobe down to the bridge of my nose and back. The hide- and – go – seek game this migraine kept on playing with me was driving me crazy and no matter how much water I took nor the amount of aspirin I managed to guzzle down helped. I winced, for about an hour, holding on to the desk so I would not had the urge to grab anything sharp and chase the bastard that was running around my head. The pain subsided and I was filled with a sudden smoothness, a sudden feeling of floating. Shivers went down my back as if somewhere were running their fingers down my spinal cord. Helplessly, I waited and waited until the feelings went away; as good as they felt. Nothing came of this and they kept on coming, butterflies zig- zagging out of my veins and cells. I waited quietly, despite the urge that kept on coming to my attention to scream out, this little dance pain and pleasure kept on playing on my body drove me insane, and I doubt that I would stand much more of this game. This was the third time this had taken place at work, sometimes these sensations interrupted my morning tea or my showers at night, all in all, It was a huge pain in my ass, or rather, my head and neck.
"Are you enjoying this? " the voice in my head had turned rough, challenging, and surprisingly uncaring.
The voice invading my mind could have cared less if I was in pain or pleasure. I laughed a little thinking that I had finally gone off the deep end. My stress and work and the two o' clock meetings that just seemed to pop out of nowhere finally dug into me so deep, that I had this voice in my head and my body was feeling whatever if felt like feeling. After so many encounters with my 'problem' I let all explanations go to waste and blamed it on my work and just all together lack of a life. I continued laughing for ironically I no longer had control of anything. Junia suddenly poked her shapeless face into my workstation.
" What you laughing about in here? Are you sick, do you need to see a crazy doctor? " Questions floated by and by, her shapeless face becoming more of a blur, and finally becoming one big black hole splattered with red. That's the last thing I saw, the red painted swirled and swirled until it made a burgundy color against the black, and my mind went blank, the voice laughing, a deep raspy laugh full of malice and heaviness.
I later woke up in a hospital, IV's strapped to my arms like leeches. The buzzing of the machines in the background and a faint dripping sound that came from the bathroom were the only things I heard it the room. Sighing, I rolled over to my side, making sure that I didn't disconnect the IV's from my arms. A movement caught my eye, making my mind's eye swirl around trying to figure out if there was someone in the room. The hairs on my neck rose and the headache began again, this time for a short period, followed by the knee-weakening smoothness that played around in my veins. I realized it would not do me any good to dwell on it and after a few chaotic minutes, I won control of my body and fell asleep, the feeling that someone was running their hands down my spinal cord painstakingly palpable.
This was two years ago, before I knew what these headaches and tiny pleasures would lead to. The headaches turned to pain, when I did not follow rules; the tiny pleasures would come from following his directions. All this at the hands of a beautiful man, physically speaking of course (and only in good terms). His voice came into my mind and went, came and went, as if to remind me of whom I was and to whom I belonged. This however came to an abrupt ending as something big came, my problems seemingly trivial compared to the big bang that was coming next. The "vampire's final solution" as it was called, was underway and in the hands of a powerful man. Somehow, some way I was part of this, and I suddenly became the key to the future of these human beings. I was sucked out of my own little hell, but I knew he would return.
After all, Dracula could only keep quiet for so long.
Authors Note: Thank you all who actually got through all this, my works always turn out longer than expected. Please read and review, because that would help a lot, comments, questions, no flames (not too severe anyway) I hope you enjoyed it, and please stay locked for the second chappy. I've kept this buried, so to speak, because I didn't know if I was going to want to continue this, but I hope you enjoy it and the second chapter should be up.