As we left the library, the moon shone down around us, illuminating our surroundings. "How lovely," Gina breathed. Her feet never seemed to touch the pavement...it's as if she floated above everything- detached from anything considered 'normal'. It made me feel somewhat uneasy. It's as if her sweet demeanor had drugged me...I felt my body being tugged in some direction, I'm not really sure where I was going.
Suddenly, Gina giggled from beside me. Startled, I looked at her. She looked up at me, slyly. "I was just thinking...could I show you something? Something...special?" Her hair swirled around her face in a tangle of dark strands.
"Sure, I guess. I need to get home soon, though." I began to feel a little unsure of this situation but still hypnotized and foolish.
"Oh, wonderful!" She exclaimed, brightly. She grabbed my hand (god, her flesh was so cold!) and started to walk faster...her dress swishing around her ivory legs.
The stars stared at me, cold spectors in the heavy night. She was taking me into the woods. Deep, deep into its shadowed depths. The only light came from the many eyes that winked and glowed in between the overgrown trees and grasses.
I thought I heard a child's laughter carried somewhere on the wind. I shrugged it off...Gina was moving faster and faster now...the sharp undergrowth along the path whipped at her bare ankles and left wounds- blood oozed from them and ran down her leg. The branches tore at her dress exposing part of her breast...I felt myself blush. She didn't even notice. Didn't even slow her pace. We came to a clearing. Nothing was there...save for a black ring...where a fire had once burned. Gina turned to me, her eyes flashing red...mirrors in the stillness of the forest. They reflected nothing...emptiness was there. Glassy nothingness.
"I know about your dreams, Kyle. I know what you really are." Her voice ripped through the silence. It had a rough quality, now. Not lilting like before. Her hand on my arm tightened then released its grasp. She ran to the edge of the clearing then turned around quickly, her hair a curtain behind her. "You see things. How special you are." She started to giggle again...god, how i hated that sound by now!
"What's going on? What the hell are you doing, Gina?! You're crazy!" I started to back away slowly.
"You remember those red eyes, Kyle? The one's in your dream...Oh, I know those eyes. They belong to...him." She pointed behind me. I turned and caught my breath and almost choked on it.
A man was standing there, his body tall and straight. His cruel mouth and glittering eyes were smiling brightly. It was quite unsettling on such a figure. He strode over to where Gina stood and grabbed her roughly by the arm...yanking her towards him and kissing her savagely on her open mouth. When he pulled away a drop of blood fell from her lip. "Is he the one?" He asked in a lazy voice. "The one who sees things in his dreams? Such a delightful talent to possess...sometimes."
As the man's arm reached possessively around her waist, Gina responded, "Yes. He's the one. I could tell. You know how I always had an eye for these things." She smiled up at him wistfully.
"Good job, pet." He released her and walked over to me.
"I suppose you're wondering what's going on, lad?" I just stared at him in disbelief. Was I really witnessing this madness? What the hell was I doing here? I replied in a somewhat shaky manner, "Yeah, that kinda crossed my mind. Not everyone gets dragged to the forest in the middle of the night...so, yeah, enlighten me, here."