Most people didn't see last chapter coming and this is going to follow the trend as we finally get to find out what Kevin has planned… Is it deadly or just silly string? That would be such an anti-climax wouldn't it? Anyway some people are asking me why Mariah used Vodka and Salt with the cotton pads well I just thought they use alcohol in the hospital to heal wounds so why not use Vodka, that has large percentage of alcohol that is legal if not it would have been MOONSHINE. The salt is to clean out the wounds after Kevin-Beast in the form of Gehmora attacked her. I also got the idea for the boat 'Mariah's Hope' from the Jaws 2 boat called the Jennifer's hope in which Eddie and Jenifer were making love and the shark kills Eddie. By the way the Glass in her back is quite important so if you don't remember that really well then please read the chapter now. Finally I am looking for ideas on the Ending. I have some good ones but I want to know what YOU think the ending should be. Thank You Kuzon98 And SuperMan23 for reviewing my latest chapter as well nick and x-x666x-x. I really appreciate people and any other reviewers are welcome to get their name in the "BADLY and IRRITATINGLY NAMED STORY THANK YOU BIT!" or the B.I.N.S.T.Y so come on ILVMariah you used to review? So onward with the chapter! And yes these intros are getting longer and longer each time this one is a record 271 words at the end of this full stop.

"Would you like to know your fate?"

The sun rose and allowed a tender amber light to pierce through the crack in the curtains to land upon Mariah's face. She stirred slightly before opening her eyes slowly to reveal her soft golden eyes under the pink tinged eyelids from the night before. She sat herself up to wipe her eyes free of the coarse dust the sand man left behind.
"Morning, Ray" she offered, but no one answered. Mariah began to worry when she looked over to the side of the bed and there was just an indentation of Ray slept but no Ray to fill the valley in the sheets. Her feet dangled over the edge of the bed trying to the slippers she always kept at the wall side of the bed. One she found them she poked her feet in to the pink fluffy bunnies' backs and ventured into the bathroom. Mariah stared into the mirror and tried to tie her hair back in the usual fashion.
"Under…over…around and in" she murmured as she tie the bow into the typical 'cat ears' shape. At that moment she felt a strange feeling come over her, like she was going to be sick. She flung herself over to the toilet and hung over it like a vulture for rotting meat. She blew her guts, the vomit spewed everywhere like a fountain of yesterday's dinner. Mariah rose up from the rim of the loo and looked in the mirror again, and noticed the mess now in her hair.
"Well nothing else for it!" she said as she turned the knob on the shower onto power mode. Mariah began to undress herself slowly, the pain from the night before was still with her. She first took her arms out from the sleeves and grabbed the inside of the nightgown and pulled it over herself. She then reached for her now blood stained knickers that were put on in such a rush the night before they actually made the wounds deeper. One around her ankles Mariah stepped out of them and into the now warm shower. As she stepped in the warm water pounded at her ankles when she turned around. There was a look of horror and shock on Mariah's face as she caught sight of herself in the mirror, there before her was a body that looked like her own, the wounds from the night before matched her memory, apart from two. Stepping forward Mariah noticed that there was an odd mark on each of her breasts below the ovrils. She looked closer and closer until it made sense to her. It was Kevin's signature that was sprawled across her otherwise sheet of perfection that she had worked so hard since Ray left to achieve. Mariah screamed as loud as she had ever screamed before. Ray came charging up the stair case at break neck pace to the bathroom door and stopped in his tracks when he saw Mariah.
"Mariah what's wrong?" he asked trying to stay calm.
"Can't you see it?!" she replied
"No, you look fine, apart from all the…um…the, you know the err" Ray began to stutter like a geeky teenager trying to chat up his very first girl, tripping over every other word.
"Not these cuts, this one here" Mariah pointed to her chest. This of course was Ray's fantasy all that was missing was the rose petals. He came closer to have a look and he too recognised Kevin's signature that he put down to get items through the post for. Ray clenched his fists and gritted his teeth before turning around.
"Put some clothes on and stay in here no matter what. I am going to go and have a word with our little friend" Ray left abruptly leaving Mariah, wet from the waist down standing in the bath room, confused and worried.

Ray charged through the hall way down to Kevin's room. Grasping the door handle Ray ground his teeth together to the point of breaking the tops and leaving nothing but nubs in their places. Mariah emerged from the bathroom (dressed fully) and ventured outward towards the landing to look down at Ray who was now shoulder bashing the locked oak door. Just then Mariah heard something behind her.
"Mariah. Mariah! Mariah" the whispering sound was calling her over to a mirror. Once she reached the mirror the sound stopped. Her face began to morph and change. Her hair began to change from the usual pink and become blood red. IT did not stop there though, it continued to change to a dark to a unique blend of green. It looked like a cross between dark spring green and Pakistan green. The let-down look became a ponytail and the pink bow simply disappeared. Her fangs became smaller and the nose further shaped than before.
"What's happening to me?" she cried as she could only watch in horror at the creepy show before her. The shoulders became pushed back into her torso as though Mariah's reflection was going backwards through puberty into a body of an 11 year old. Suddenly her breasts began to disappear and her chest became flat. Each pink item on her body suddenly changed into a sky blue shirt with matching shorts and a white criss-cross style bandage across her torso. The white trainers became brown boots from last season's horror convention until the reflection she saw before her was no longer Mariah and it was now a reflection of Kevin
"Hello, Mariah." It said.
"Kevin, you stop this madness right now! I kissed you after you saved me wasn't that enough for you?" Kevin shook his head violently and smiled.
"No. Mariah I loved you and opened myself up to you. You took my heart as the offering I gave you and you stomped it into the dust."
"Kevin, I didn't mean…"
"Well you still did it didn't you!" Kevin looked in the direction of his bedroom door. "it's a shame too."
"What do you mean?" asked Mariah.
"That Ray can't ever know about the homa yado history!"
"Or her dies?" she whispered
"Well I have posters and objects that depict the homa yado history in my room, if Ray goes in there then he is finished!" Mariah's heart sank and her mind went blank. "Nothing can stop him now Mariah, so what are you going to do about it?" Mariah darted down the stairs and got in front Ray.
"Stop!" she asked "Please, there is no need to continue this!"
"Kevin has hurt you in your sleep and that is nothing to worry about?" Mariah bit her bottom lip and had to lie again.
"No, there is no reason to continue this foolishness" Ray clenched his fists further and further so that you could hear the bones buckling under the strain.
"Mariah, I am going to go fishing on the lake for a while. While I do, you take care, if you need me just call" said Ray as he disappeared out of the back door towards the small wooden walkway that had been built to access Ray's little boat, Mariah's Hope. Mariah grabbed the buckled door handle herself between her cold cut hands. The knob twisted slowly and opened the door ajar.
"Do I dare go inside?" she asked herself. Mariah gulped hard as she entered the room slowly. True to his word Kevin had posters and books, and plans and drawings over each of the walls and every spare area that wasn't covered in furniture. Mariah's eyes began scanning the room uncontrollably. She heaved the breath that filed her lungs but still it was only shallow. She sat down in despair and began to cry.
"OKAY KEVIN…YOU WIN! You win" screamed Mariah, she didn't know what to do.

Suddenly a mirror on the wall came to life again.
"So Mariah, have you figured it out?" Mariah sniffed and wiped her red raw eyes.
"Figured what out?" Kevin smirked maniacally,
"The fiendish master plan." Mariah could only shake her still taking in the horror around her. "Well then I'll tell you. Do you remember that dagger from last night? It had a beetle on the handle right? Good. The blade is empowered by the Gods of the Sacred Asylum. This is why you managed to defeat the Gehmora beast last night. The blade though is as cursed as it is blessed, the one who uses it will have everything they have ever wanted fall apart before their very eyes. So I don't know about you, but I am looking forward to this wedding in a week's time." The image of Kevin began to fade into dust which flew out of the window lazily. The room made Mariah cringe, the thought of the wedding that she had waited for since she was 7 years old and now someone with a grudge and a score to settle was going to take it from her.
"How's he going to do it?" She thought.

(Hours past)

Mariah stood tall and proud with a large black bin bag full of books and poster that no one needed to see.
"It's been a while since someone cleaned that room" Mariah said ironically. She dragged the bags out towards the back garden where Ray was just bringing the Mariah's Hope into the garage that stood out the back of their house.
"What's that Mariah?" asked Ray.
"Nothing, she said, just some old junk around the house." Ray looked at her oddly like she had something stuck on her face. Mariah sensed that another argument was about to in sue so she changed the subject.
"I see you'd calmed down" she tried to keep a smile on the exterior but inside she was kicking herself, "That's only going to make him mad she thought".
"Well that's what fishing does to you I suppose" Ray smiled instead as he sensed that he was making her feel awkward. Mariah stood there before him and dipped her head downward towards the ground. Ray took Mariah's hand in his larger hand and smiled. Ray was always the forgiving type, it was one of the many qualities that she loved him for. Ray took Mariah inside the house and sat her down at the table as he walked over to the kitchen counter.
"I am going to try my hand at cooking" he said. Mariah just watched as Ray darted around the kitchen, grabbing the mince and the tomatoes and other vegetables before dumping them all into a giant bronzed pot on the hob. "So What was in those bags then?" he asked
Mariah gulped hard.
"Umm… just some old things in Kevin's room, I managed to get in there after you left" she replied. After a while, Ray placed two glorious looking plates of spaghetti bolognaise before them, the steam rose slowly and hugged Mariah's nose on the way up.
"Smells good." She complemented.
"Oh almost forgot the salt" said Ray as he got up again to retrieve the condiment from the cupboard on the other side of the room.

Just then Ray placed his hand upon his head.
"Uh, I just feel suddenly faint." He said. Mariah put her fork down in confusion.
"Pardon, Ray?" she asked. Without another moment's notice Ray fell to the ground bringing most of the innards of the cupboard down with him.
"RAY!" Mariah screamed as Ray lay still on the floor. The screaming alerted Lee and Gary as they came running to the scene.
"Mariah, what did you do?" asked Lee as Gary tried to pick Ray out of the wreckage of glass.
"Nothing, he just felt faint and he went." Answered Mariah. Lee gave Mariah a ghastly stare as he followed Gary out into the lounge. Mariah got up to clean the mess. She cried as the glass became lodged in her fingers as she picked up the broken jam jars. Just then she heard a voice.
"I bet your getting used to glass by now, aren't you, Mariah?" she turned around and there in the doorway was Kevin, the real Kevin.
"Kevin, if you have any love for me now you will stop this right now." Shouted Mariah.
"No, Mariah. I no longer have love for you not anymore!"
"But you did once, please Kevin. Understand what you're doing."
"I do understand, I know that I am ruining your life!"
"Kevin, I…"
"Save your words, I just wanted you to know that… It now begins" Kevin smirked once again before gliding down the hallway towards his bedroom door. He suddenly appeared back again to say, "And by the way, stay out of my room!" and he disappeared again.

Kevin is close to having his revenge, the wedding is just down the road and Mariah is thought to be the cause of Ray's unusual injury. What's going to happen next, who knows? And yet another longest chapter!

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