Chapter
One:
I
remember it perfectly, my confession of love, my funeral. I pleaded
her to pick me over the leech. With me at least she would be safe,
she would be normal, well perhaps that wasn't completely true. But
that parasite must have sunk his fangs deeper into her heart than I
thought. They're to be married. What a horrible thought, it still
sends shivers of disgust down my spine.
Dreams
of her come to me every night I close my eyes. She consumes me, even
now while I run like a child from a clown in the circus, too
frightened to face fear yet too enrapturing to completely forget.
How
many days have I been running, literally running from the heart ache?
I've lost count, no, I never started counting. It seems like only
moments and it seems like days, is that possible?
I know I haven't eaten, that's beginning to set in, I'll need to eat soon if I want to stay alive....Do I? Truly, what is left to live for now? I know I'm too pathetic to kill myself; instead I feign parasuicide and run away like a coward. Stupid mutt!
Where am I-... I'm past Seattle, and Twin Falls. All the while I've been running in this large dog form, avoiding everything; simply keeping to the forests. Shades of green everywhere, trees, bushes and shrubs, grass, moss. They all have their individual smells and textures so why does everything remind me of her. Even the shadows of tree remind me of her perfect figure.
'I've gone insane... yep, now I'm talking to myself, shut up, no you.. Okay fine you win, good.. Wait a moment, what's that smell.. Is it possible, a leech?'
My
sharp eyes darted around the forest, scanning every crack and corner
of the dim, morbid earth but it was impossible. If vampires didn't
want to be seen then it was going to stay that way. The only possible
way would be to track the scent. I tried frantically to pin-point the
stench, but it was already surrounding me. Whoever this being was, it
had the upper hand, for the moment.
"Hello wolf"
The
bold yet sexless voice raised the hairs on my back.