Hello! Here's the sequel of 'Stuck in Love'. You might need to read at least the last chapter of the previous book to understand the beginning of this story.
This prologue will be done in Alison's POV. In italic we will see moments of the past. Hope it's clear. Enjoy...
Prologue – Alison's POV
Hero... Villain... savior... monster... how will you call me? How will you define me? We're a complex duality. Fated to choose between good and wrong. We define our own fate...
A decision made in a fraction of a second can define your entire life... And, that's what happened to me back then...
(In an ambulance)
"Drive faster!" The paramedic yells while his partner drives us to the hospital. He looks back at me, and, he knows just as me that I'll not make it.
Funny right? The girl who has escaped Death so many times has chosen death this time, by her own hands. What is the meaning of living a lie? No one will ever be able to say 'I put down Alison DiLaurentis!' because it's me who's choosing to end my days by my own hand. Or, at least that's what I thought till something hit us hard... really hard...
Something fell from the sky. A rock...? Lights... pain... screams of people around me, it's all I can sense till I succumb into a big darkness... It's this how Death feels like? It's this the end? It's like falling into the emptiness... it's cold... really cold... till it doesn't... till something feels warm... till something embraces you, giving you life again...
"AAAAHHHH!" Taking a big breath, like a newborn. I come back to my senses, sitting on the ground, still feeling dizzy, like if a truck hit me. But, it wasn't a bus what crashed against the ambulance, it was something else...
"It's that a meteor...?"
Whatever it was, it created a big crater in the middle of the road. Splitting the ambulance in half... so, how is that I'm alive...? Looking at my chest, I'm not just alive, I'm completely healed. No bullet wounds, no... nothing! How is that possible?! I wonder till I sense something around me...
"Who's there?"
No one replies. This is why I never liked horror films...
"I will not ask again! Who the hell is there?!"
I might look unprotected, without a weapon to defend myself, but, I'm Alison DiLaurentis! I'm the Queen Bee of Rosewood, I'm the one who put an end to -A. And, no one will make me shiver! No one will make me kneel by fear... maybe that's why he chose me... maybe that's why...
"I don't see you as a snack... and, the question is not who I am, but, whom we can become...?"
The voice is cold, strong, vicious. Anyone else might want to run away, afraid. But, not me... I'm intrigued...
"Show yourself..."
It wasn't a question, it was an order. Just me, dares to give orders in a moment like this. And, my arrogant attitude doesn't make him angry, in the contrary, it makes him smirk. Because this creature, it's smirking when he steps out, into the light...
"What the hell are you...?!"
"I am Venom..."
Still sitting on the ground, I move backwards. Anyone would have had the same reaction than me in the presence of this amorphous black, gigantic liquid-like form. Is this how aliens look like? Or I'm in hell, in face with the devil? Alien... demon... however you want to define him, he has a proposition for me...
"I want you as my host..."
"What...?"
"Listen carefully, Alison..."
"How do you know my name...?" I ask, because I haven't said a word about myself in front of him, so, how does this creature know who I'am? I wonder, and, he smirks, with a devious smile...
"I know everything about you, Alison..."
"You do...?" I find that hard to believe, not even me know everything that's happening with me. But, he has been in my head, I can feel it now, the warm darkness that embraced me, and healed me, it was him... it was Venom... but, why? Why, me?"
"I find humans very basic. Driven by their desires to satisfy their hunger, thirst, lust... but you... oh, honey... you're one in a million... you got my attention the 1st second I tried to eat you..."
"You did what?!"
"Do not look so shocked. I ate first the other two humans who were with you..."
He was talking about the paramedics, and, I get chills just recalling their screams...
"Do you want to know why I didn't eat you? Why I decided to save your life?"
"Even if I say 'no', you'll tell me, so go ahead..."
My sassy attitude doesn't seem to bother him, in the contrary, he seems amused by it...
"While other people might spend their lives trying to feel something. You, Alison. You want the opposite... you don't want to feel a thing..."
I gulp hard, because he couldn't be more right. I was stuck in love... in a love story that just broke my heart... and that pain... that love... it was worse than hell... so, yeah. I don't want to feel... I don't want to feel anything at all!
"Human emotions, it's your hell. And, I might be able to help you with that..."
I don't care about living, I was fine with dying. I chose Death before, when I shot myself to kill me and, Cece as well, because I didn't want to live in pain, I didn't want to live feeling the sorrow that Emily's betrail has brought to my heart. Because I don't want to feel the pain of a broken heart... but.. if there might be another way to live without pain... without any emotion at all... why I should turn down such offer?
He needs a host to survive on Earth. And, I need to rip out of my heart all these feelings... all these emotions... It's a win-win deal, right?
"So... what do you say Alison? Do we have a deal...?"
"Do you really can turn them off? All my emotions? Can you really make me free of feelings?"
"Cooperate, and, you'll find it out..."
"Okay, let's do this..." As soon as I agreed, he threw itself towards me, and, like the rain that fall over you, Venom's liquid form, it soaked me, till he penetrated my skin, and, found his way to run through my veins... through my blood..
A choice made in a fraction of a second, it created a new partnership... a new me. I reborn that night when I decided to become one with Venom...
"I feel stronger... invincible..." I say while my blue eyes become completely black. It's a new day, a new me...
"We are stronger. You have no idea of how much power I can grant you..."
"Then, let's find it out..." With a big smirk, stamped on my face. My eyes become blue again, showing that I'm in control now...
"Good, lead the way. I'm getting hungry..."
"You eat just humans...?"
He doesn't reply, but, I can sense that I'm right. I might be heartless, but, I'm not willing to feed him with inocent people. If we're doing this, we will do it, my way...
"You want me to eat just bad people...?"
"How do you know? I haven't said a word?!"
"I'm in you, Alison... we are one now..."
"Right, right... uhmmm... well, yeah... I have enough regrets already. I don't want to add more to the list..."
No one deserves to die, but, if they're bad people, it's like karma was coming to them, right?
"Where do we find bad people...?"
Rosewood is full of bad people, if you ask me. But, this is a new me, a new beginning. Looking into the local news, everyone thinks I'm dead, that I got killed by the meteor that crashed on Earth. And, this time I have all the intentions to keep it that way. For the entire world, Alison DiLaurentis is dead!
Like any new path, you need a new city to start over, and, what better city to start again than...
(At a bus station)
"Welcome to NY!"
The driver announces, and, everyone gets out of the bus...
"I'm hungry..."
"I know, I know... hold on..." People see me talking to myself, and, they freak out. Great, now I'm looking like a crazy person. Anyway, it's time to find bad people, and, what better place to find bad guys than in the alleyways of night clubs.
Drug dealers, thieves, rapists, I'm sure we will find someone to feed Venom in the big apple. And, to my surprise, when we walks into the alleyway of a plush night club, we find a ganster's pawn, bulling someone...
"Perfect..." I say with a devious smirk. And, my eyes become dark again when Venom takes control of my body...
(In a lonely alley)
"Where is the money, Kahn!?"
"I don't have it yet, but, I'll get it, I'll pay my debt, I promise, I just need a little more time..." Noel begs for his life, but, the only thing he gets, it's a punch in the stomach which binds him to lie down on the ground, crumbling in pain.
This wasn't going to end well for him, especially when the other guy shows a knife in his hands. Why I should save Noel Kahn's ass? I have no reason to save him, but, I've a very hungry symbiote to feed, so, I let Venom do its thing, and, before knowing it, the ganster gets eaten by Venom...
Noel hears the screams of the man, he sees how a dark form drags him into the shadows of the night, flying him away in the air, like if it was nothing. Noel is so scared to be the next, I can see it, in his face, so, before he runs away, I tell him to stay... after all, any Queen needs some pawns...
He recognizes my voice, and, he's really shocked to see me alive when my silhouette emerges between the shadows and the fog of the dark night...
"Alison...?"
Alison was my name when I was stuck in love, foolish in love with a girl who just played with my heart. I'm not anymore that girl, I'm...
"AD... You can call us AD..." My lips twist into a big devious smirk when I rename myself, when I rename 'us', venom & me as AD.
And from now on, you'll hear about me, as AD. The beautiful angel of darkness who rules the underworld of NY with an iron fist. It's easy to be ruthless, fearless when you feel no emotion... no feelings for those who are there to serve you. And, like any story, this is the beginning. But, you should know one thing about making a deal with the Devil, It never ends well...
*** Sneak Peek of the futur***
"You're going to hell! AD!"
She says with anger while I lay down in a pool of blood. My deathbed? Maybe... and if it's, I just laugh, coughing blood from my mouth because once again, I might die because of love...
*** End of the Sneak Peek ***
By choice... by sorrow... by fear... in a fraction of a second, the course of our life can be defined. For better or worse, we choose our own fate...
Follow me into the darkess, or, fight me for the actions to come... either way, our destiny has been already defined. And, like the rest of the world, you've no choice, but, to fall in love with me... to fall... In love with the Devil...
Are you ready to start this ride...?