VALVES OF VENGEANCE
CHAPTER 9: Retrospect
By, Kim.
Edwin peevishly threw himself onto his lounge chair, combing Anthony's old left hand through his black, greasy hair. Although the hand was paralyzed (He had yet to master how to connect the nerves) he was elated to know that he looked normal. The girl to his right, lying on the bed trembled, staring at his… hand. Edwin could feel her stare. It was the same stare he had received from everybody else. The stare didn't pierce him like a needle; it hit him as if someone was shoving a twelve-inch-thick rod into his very being. It made him feel listless, yet somehow motivated to complete the cause of his unwanted existence.
"I was beautiful once you know." He said, deep rancor floating from his words in the form of his exhaling breath.
"I was a stud. Yet somehow people can mix the unfamiliar, twist their thoughts into dark, hateful perceiving. Somehow, the ugly and the insane go hand in hand."
He poured himself a glass of absinthe and drank it down slowly, savoring its taste.
"Oh yes, Deemed insane, insane… A menace to society."
Lorelei shivered when she heard his words. All Edwin did was sit, drink, and talk. Every conversation he attempted to start was killed by her. She could not speak back to him. But now, it was covenanted. He released Anthony…
"Yes, I see." She choked.
Edwin shook his head, throwing his plastic cup at her. "No, you don't see! You don't know. You don't know of the cruelty of others like me!" In a rage he kicked over his chair, knocking his books filled with mellophone music to the floor. "You were never ugly. Tell me this girl, have you ever been committed?"
Lorelei was shocked, unable to move. He frightened her stiff.
"WELL?!"
She shook her head no, and whispered "No sir."
Edwin smirked. "Yes, after the accident, I was still forced to go to school by my strict, bastard parents. I was spit on, kicked, beat up… All because they thought I was a freak. They thought I actually WANTED to have my instrument PERMANTELY WELDED ONTO MY BODY! Oh, but my parents never listened! They said I needed to grow up. Ha! If only they hadn't caught me. I invited my girlfriend over after the accident. She took one look at me, and attacked me. She grabbed a knife, deemed me a monster, and tried to take a stab at me. Haha, too bad I got her first. My parents walked in right as I was stabbing her for the fifty-sixth time. Then, I was locked up. They wouldn't even let me testify. However, I was too clever for them as well. I ran! Every night I would work on making my tunnels and passages, where I could live a lonely, safe, existence."
Lorelei didn't know what quite to say to him.
"I'm mad. I'm so fucking off the wall, I'm surrounded by nothingness." He cackled. "Oh yes, my girlfriend by the way was the aunt of one of your old classmates. Oh yes, Rudy… I remember him. Short little guy… He and Spills didn't see it coming."
"You sick bastard!" Lorelei gasped.
"Yes I am… And always be."
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Eric and the rest of the live horns sat in a circle doing their homework. AP
Calculus, Chemistry, you name it, they were doing it. Suddenly their attention
directly shifted from their studies to the two feet by two feet grate in the
center of the quad. They heard a woman, screaming something unintelligible.
"The monster." They said in unison.