Chapter 4: Haunted
It was Vlad who caused me to stumble back in horror.
" Was this what you were looking for?" he said as my locket hung between his fingers.
" Give me that!" I said as I tried to snatch it.
He moved his hand and his eye narrowed at me.
" I will awaken your power and it will be done," he said as he crushed my locket.
" No!" I screamed at him. " You jerk! That was my mother's! I hate you like the devil!"
He laughed at me and then lifted his arm to grab me, but I walked back out of his reach.
" You'll never get me," I growled at him.
" That's what you think…" he said as he faded away.
I scrambled for through the pieces of the broken pieces of locket. I found my mothers picture, but it was all crumpled. I grabbed it and ran back for the car. I met up with the Aeris, Brad, and Leon.
" Lets go," I said.
They started the car and drove out of the parking lot. I stared back where my locket was broken into bits. I still had one thing left to remember my mother with: this photograph.
" So where should we eat?" Leon asked.
" Hmm… I don't know, cause I don't remember what we had here," I said.
" Lets go to Subway," Aeris said.
" Alright, sounds good with me," Leon said.
" Me too," Brad said.
" Ditto," I said as I began to look out the window.
I watched a biker go by, but she seemed so familiar. She looked at the car. Her face was my mother's. That couldn't be, she was dead. I looked away for a moment and then looked back, but it was only someone else's. And so I looked down at my feet the rest of the way to Subway.
We all walked into Subway and decided our orders. Leon paid for them all, and Aeris and I got to choose the seats. I sat down next to the window, and so did Aeris. She sat across from me. Leon sat next to me and Brad sat next to Aeris. I looked at the person, who was sitting at his own table across from us. He was munching away and didn't seem to notice me staring. Then he looked at me, but before I looked away I noticed it was Vlad.
" Can you excuse me, I have to go to the restroom," I said nervously.
" K," Leon said as scooted out of the seat.
I quickly ran out of my seat and walked hurriedly to the bathroom.
" I guess she really had to go," I heard someone say as I walked in the bathroom.
I was panicking. I don't know what to do. Vlad keeps haunting me; he won't leave me alone. He's going to keep at it until I give in or I'm vulnerable. No one else was in the bathroom.
"Vlad! Come to me, to my face!" I screamed.
I looked around; he wasn't here yet. Then I looked at the mirror. He was inside of it.
" Vlad… could you just leave me alone, just for a day?" I said.
" I haven't bugged you all day. OR have I?" he asked, with a hint of sarcasm.
" Could you just leave me alone?"
" Of course not. I suppose to awaken your powers," he said as he disappeared.
He was going to continue to haunt me, until I gave in or went insane. I didn't want that to happen. I ran out of the bathroom and out of Subway. I was shaking my head and cried as I ran past Brad, Leon and Aeris, out the door.
" Kiri!" I heard Leon call said as I ran further away.
I kept running. I couldn't take it. Every time I looked up I saw someone that wasn't really there, like my mother, Vlad, my "step-father", and Aeris. I couldn't take it, so I hid myself behind a dumpster. It was disgusting and smelled a mix of molding food, and crap, but it was the only place I wouldn't go insane (actually I might go insane smelling this for a long time. I heard footsteps, so I held my breath.
"Kiri?" I heard some one say, it sounded like Aeris.
I let out my breath, and poked my head out. She probably was the only the person who understood what was going on. I stood up into her view.
" Hi, Aeris," I said quietly, but there was something wrong with her.
Her eyes were pale as they could get. She looked like a doll, like a rag doll.
" You should let Vlad awaken you, he would leave you alone," she said in a monotone voice.
" You're not acting like yourself, Aeris…" I said nervously.
" I'm all right, now let him-" she said as I cut off her.
" Vlad, leave her alone… you don't need her for anything, its just between you and me…" I said stubbornly.
Then he appeared behind Aeris. His hand was in her back. All of the sudden I felt something enter my mind, something was going through my mind. He was trying to erase my memories. I pushed him out.
" I' m not going let you get me that easily!" I yelled.
Then he dropped Aeris; she was unconscious. He grabbed he my wrist and pulled me in to him.