5.8.10

She snuck out. She snuck out of her house to hang out with her friends. She was grounded. It was a full out war in the Margo house. Her parents had grounded her for a ridiculous reason and they battled for hours. They tried every reason in the book, for seemingly endless hours. Then they gave up, they went to bed and expected she would too. But no. She just left. Why did she do it? Did her parents know what horrors were in store for their rebellious daughter that night? Did they know what world of mythical creatures she was pushing herself into? Did they know what really went bump in the night? She didn't know, so she went out and partied like a teenager should, but left alone like a teenager shouldn't. I can take the short cut, she said, the alleys are quicker, she said. Down that dreaded alley awaited a man with glowing red eyes that cut into her soul like stems of a rose. They stared at her and watched her move. "What's a pretty little thing like you doing out here?" His voice rang through the streets like wind chimes, an inviting, bone-chilling siren.

"What's a perverted creep like you doing out here?" She asked in a loud bold voice. She shows no weakness, when inside she's freaking out.

"Looking for you, anyone else would run, so why aren't you?" He said with a sinister smile.

"I'm not like anyone else." She smiled back.

"You shouldn't go lurking around in the dark, the big bad wolf might come find you." He barked out the laugh of a killer.

"I'm the big bad wolf, you should be running from me." She said and arched her left brow.

He walked around her, circling her like he was the lion, and she was the gazelle. She was ready. Ready for anything he was ready to give. He didn't even respond before sinking his teeth into the flesh of her neck. Her screams filled the night air and faded into sky. She fought until she felt her heart slow. Three days later in the same spot, she awoke, pale and bloody. Disoriented and lost in a daze. Fuck, I was bitten. What the fuck? It ran through her mind numerous times before it fully comprehended. She, for the first time in her life, was scared out her mind. In the distance she heard the familiar sound of police sirens closing in on her. So she gathered up the little dignity she had left and ran. Away from the present, into the future, to escape the past.