I push the scratching corn aside, preventing it from gouging out my eyes as I stumble into the valley of ashes showering on me. The repugnant tree with its diabolic branches jerking at me no longer stood and it had dragged the girl down with it into the very depths of hell. Sweat would pour on her face from the unbearable heat; the waves of fire will singe her face marking itself with excruciating blisters that shall remain there to inject her with anguish for the rest of her cursed eternity there.
"Sierra" a low voice snarls, I hear the snapping of teeth trying to chew me up; I dig through the ashes helplessly trying to find the girl without luck "I'm coming to get you Sierra" it viciously promises me.
Frantically I search for any remains of her charred body, still no luck. The rain was like the tears running down my face like a waterfall that never ended, it batters me weighing me to the ground. The ashes turn into a thick black liquid; from the gloopy liquid arises a frightened face with her identity not shown from the tar like substance that made me gag as its reeking smell of ancient corpses decaying replaces oxygen. She breaths desperately for air, her hands grabbing onto me, smothering my face with the disgusting bleak fluid.
"Help...me!" she begged before a clawed hand rose up and congested underneath the drowning pool of black, her screams echoing for miles long.
My eyes shoot open, fresh tears scorching my cheeks and my mind disordered from my transition from a terrifying nightmare to the real world. My head is bursting with questions; who is that girl? Why did she deserve such a brutal end to her life? Did that menacing voice want me as well? It's just a dream though. The beast will never kidnap me to its gruesome lair. I sit upright with the worn blankets that insulated me throughout the frigid atmosphere of the night, dressed in my band t-shirt that Dwayne had given me for my birthday last year. In the corner of my eye, I can see a figure in white with a long bush of dark hair disappearing past their back and a cloudy mist forming around them. I slowly move my eyes to see their true state. I have to blink twice to adjust to the fact that this costumed guardian angel is really my Mom sitting on the edge of my bed, her smile broadened flashing her stained teeth with a fuming joint in her hand.
"I heard you got yourself a boy, looks like my baby is growing up!" she wails dramatically wiping away the tears with her white organic nightgown that she had been attiring for at least a month now.
I stare weirdly at her, my brows knitted together as I frown indicating my displeasure at her being one of the first humans I have to view today.
"Mom, are you high?" that was the most stupid question I could ever have asked, of course she is high - she always is.
Before I could click my fingers, Mom changes her personality once more from a flustered mother who weeps because her only daughter whom she has contact with has made one of the many milestones in life to a delusional being as she gets up merrily skipping whilst humming a gleeful tune from the 60's. My estimate is that she has taken extra pot and Dad has consumed more Viagra then planned.
In the disregarded corner of the comic store, I stand in my sleeveless, soft grey chambray playsuit patterned with white polka dot that admires my hourglass figure eagerly waiting for Michael to come and rescue me once more from the uninteresting surroundings of petty comics. The door groans with creaks as it opens, the open/closed sign flapping as it slams shut. Michael saunters over to the counter where he greets me with a light kiss on my blushing cheek. Edgar and Alan glare at me with disapproval but are soon distracted by the fair haired boy from yesterday who I assume is Michael's brother.
"Hey" I breathe, awestriken from his enticing demeanour.
"Hey, where'd you like go?" Michael offers me. I suddenly remember walking here and how beautiful the weather was on my voyage here, the cloudless sky letting the dazzling blue show and the birds chirping cheerfully. However, the sun still taunted me with its hot rays beating down on my body.
"We could just walk around the arcade for a while, if you want?" I suggest, I can't see the sun, not again. I can't bear to see that menacing sphere threaten to flick cannonballs of fire at me.
"Yeah that's cool, as long as I can spend time with you" Michael lovingly replies without a delay. I can't help but feel some deep affection for Michael, whenever his voice says even a single word I can feel my stomach flip. My heart staggers when Edgar and Alan or the boys interfere between us in fear of losing him forever and I have this uncontrollable emotion leaping over hurdles that is indescribable it's so strong.
Our fingers are intertwined and retained together as Michael and I wander around the packed arcade with thriving people unknown to me. Through the jostling crowds of ferocious ramming bodies who are determined to be first in the elongated line of the most popular game in the arcade, Michael protectively squeezes my hand and hauls me to safety in one of the rare secluded corners. Michael loosens his grip, his thumb fondly stroking my cheek and his eyes seriously looking into mine.
"Be my girl Sierra" Michael whispers in an essentially meaningful tone of voice. I'm breathless, Michael's facial reactions are at a halt, completely still as if time has frozen. My heart, defaced by trauma from the unwanted resident of the daytime and latched away by the control of Daytime Sierra, begins to repair itself. The malicious events that have scarred me under the feverous daylight will not force me to collapse this time. A smile starts to spread along my face, the corners of my mouth dashingly uplift.
"I'll be your girl Michael" I agree with every bit of happiness inside of me. Michael's lips form into a beautiful crescent like the moon that I treasure; he bends down and our lips blissfully join like a moth to a flame as the fire ignites in pure undiluted passion. We are one.
I know it's short but I thought it was a good note to leave it on. Finally they are together! YES *casually jumps for joy* hope you guys enjoyed! :D