Night at the Dells
The full moon floated idly by on in the star strewn sky. Tiki torches flared and the scent of brimstone mingled with the salty air. The throbbing instrumental of Going Under by evanescence, filled the air, growing thick with music. The sisters could hear it from atop Old Dell peak, where Bella paced back and forth, dragging her feet in the dirt.
Carmen sighed, her nostrils flared as she breathed in the air and the lingering scent of power left behind by the Sons of Ipswich. Bella scrunched up her nose as if smelling something foul, " How can you stand this air?" in reality, Carmen was having an even worse time adjusting to Boston air as her sister did. Yet, she kept it quiet, eyeing the harvest moon.
It was a enthralling sight. Even in their country of Europe, it never seemed so mystical. Bella held her stomache, feeling it churn. Too much of this sulfur and salt air and she would vomit all over the damn place. The sisters were of French and Italian descent, though actually birthed as cousins, they were just as close. Born within the same day, though it was Carmen ill-lucked to have been born first, right after midnight whereas Bella was born closer to mid-day.
Bella stared up at the moon, both sisters donned in their respective gowns. Ice blue and Crimson red." It's chilly tonight." the October had grown colder as the days grew shorter." You'll have to take control tonight Car." she said.
Carmen sighed breathlessly," As you rise with the sun, I rise with the moon. I understand..." she murmured listlessly," When it reaches midnight, we'll begin."
Bella grinned, shooting her hand in the air in triumph, " Yesssss!!!" she strecthed the word out into three syllables.
"First thing's first though." Bella said. In unison, the sisters snapped their fingers. A dense shroud settled over the peak, cloaking them fully from prying eyes.
They snapped their hands, not once but twice more. Their gowns faded into glittering dust, being replaced by casual-wear.
Bella's hair unwraveled from the braid, flowing in whisps over her tattered jean-jacket, cut at the mid-driff and buttoned around her bare breast in a too-much, but never enough sort of way. Stunning in tight-fitted jeans that laced up the side and black converse tennis shoes, she wore a chain linked about the loops of her pants and showed off the diamond dangling from her navel.
"How do I look?" she asked, turning around once.
"Missing something." Carmen snapped, chains dangling tiny skulls fell from her sister's ears." There."
Bella blinked heavily, smokey shadowed eyes, " Thank you." she smiled, showing off her even teeth." Tonight's gonna be fun." she said, grabbing her sister's hand and looking her over.
Falling long in it's usual dark waves, Carmen's hair was captured in loose tail over her shoulder; A pale, faded pink shirt with the words FALLEN ANGEL in flourish at the chest, the hem barely touched her leather belt; Tempting in her black low-riders, torn at the knee, she flauted fingerless, fishnet gloves; angel wing earrings and diamond studs. She rocked black hi-tops in the same color as her sister's tennis shoes.
She stared at her sister with bedroom eyes, shadowed with deep blue which added to their seductiveness, " He's here with his girlfriend..." she said,in piqued curiousity not nervousness.
"Like we should care." Bella scoffed, knowing Carmen meant Pogue."C'mon."
Dropping her sister's hand, Bella took off in a run. She dove straight off the cliff, flipping into a swan dive and vanishing into the dense shroud. Carmen grinned before following her sister into the mist.
XXXXXX
Reid curled his fingers around his cigarette, taking a long heave and slowly exhaling. Tyler glared at him, still stung from Reid's words earlier that night. In Reid's opinion, Tyler would'nt have been so sore if the words didn't have some sort of truth to them. Yet that was a different story. They all sat on logs around a bonfire.
Kate curled up in Pogue's arms, losing herself within the new song, immersed in it's lyrics.
Now I will tell you what I've done for you...
Voices fell to a hush as Bella strutted onto the beach, rolling her hips in rhythm with the music.Carmen swaying fluidly behind her, both dancing in the dim light of a torch, slowing intensely. Carmen closed her eyes, her arms flowing in the air, beckoning the mist to part and give way for the harvest moon.
50 thousand tears I've cried
Screaming deceiving and bleeding for you
and you still won't hear me (I'm going under)
Don't want your hand this time I'll save myself
Maybe I'll wake up for once
Not tormented daily defeated by you
Just when I thought I'd reached the bottom
I'm dying again
The tides picked up, ebbing then washing over the white sand. Pogue met her eyes through the gathering crowd. Reid noticed the glint in his eyes, recognizing it from the night before. Grinding his cigarette into the log which they sat and turning to stare in the direction his friend was. Tyler and Caleb soon followed suit, staring curiously, intent on seeing what it was through the crowd that caught people's attention so raptly.
I'm going under
Drowning in you
I'm falling forever
I've got to break through
I'm going under
Kate stirred as Pogue stood up, gently setting her aside and walking towards the raving crowd. Tyler and Reid followed suit as Caleb stared at Sarah, " Stay here." he whispered as he got up and followed.
Blurring and stirring the truth and the lies
so I don't know what's real and what's not
always confusing the thoughts in my head
so I can't trust myself anymore
I'm dying again
Kate watched, slightly offended by Pogue's leaving without speaking a word. She thought to go after then, but the look on Sarah's face told her to stay put. The sons dissolved into the hyperactive crowd, drifting towards the center where punk, goth, prep and spoiled rich kids meshed.
I'm going under
Drowning in you
I'm falling forever
I've got to break through
Pogue surfaced from within the crowd first, meeting the star-crossed gaze of Carmen. He felt as if he were at the Red Room once again. The same fire-light in her eyes, flickering Wonderment, Carnal passion and Sexual experience. Experience that rivaled his own. She had dominated him, in a world between fantasy and reality. She posed a challenge and he readily accepted it.
So go on and scream
Scream at me I"m so far away
I won't be broken again
I've got to breathe I can't keep going under
The music altered; Ethereal and melancholic. Time seemed to flow ceaselessly, and the crowd danced as one, moving in rhythm with the ebbing of the violet tide. All were consumed by it, still Caleb knew it for what it really was. An enchantment. Only, he knew not who cast it. Lost in the crowd, he caught sight of Tyler as the youth walked out into the open, taking the hand of a flamboyant red-head.
Reid watched, half in jealousy, half entranced, as the girl in the mid-driff jacket pulled Tyler closer to her, rocking her hips against his as he pressed his thigh in between her leg. Caressing Tyler's chest, neck and face as she grinded into him. However, the other girl danced alone. Men watched, longingly, wanting to join in, but did not wish to ruin the sanctity of her dance.
It was Pogue who gave tongue to her identity, " Carmen..." he exhaled, his chest tightening as she sighed out in passion, tracing her hands over he curves.
Caleb snapped back into reality, still feeling the affects of the spell like a drug. Carmen? Pogue had spoken that name only hours earlier. What could this mean?
Carmen held Pogue's gaze and the Biker advanced; he was on her in two strides, circling in front of her, his body still and chest heaving. His hand moving over her in reverence as his breath became quick, yet he did not touch her. Twisting her lithe body, she moved against his chest, but remaining distant. The skin on on face grew hot and he had to have her.
She licked her lips and Pogue found himself pressing her against a hard surface. He stared around. Just like at the club, the dancers had vanished and he found himself in the living room of his family mansion. Empty, save for the two of them. No longer in jeans and a top, she wore a red night gown. Pogue himself, was pure naked.
Pogue wasted not time, twining his fingers into her hair, drawing back her neck and sucking at her skin, his mouth hot and laving. She moaned, feeling him lift up her skirts, her cheek pressing hard against the table as he surged into her drenched core, thrusting long, hard and a torturously slow as he could.
She whimpered, his teeth baring down into her flesh, only easing when he reached his brink, thrusting faster some odd more times before releasing himself. She swam in the depth of his eyes, whimpering in delicious pain. Like a lover would, he comforted her, stroking the side of her face as he made a point of kissing her, slowly, reminding her who reigned in their sex affair.
The soom was spinning and Pogue found himself back on the beach, Carmen still dancing in front of him. The music had disapeared and the crowd had begun waking up from the dream this enchantment delivered them to. Carmen stopped and met Pogue's exhausted eyes. She touched his face as if it were fragile. Tyler drifted back, holding fast to his partner's hand.
"What's your name?" he asked dreamily.
"Bella." she replied, eyelashes fluttering.
It was then that they heard the sirens. The D.J. blurted out, " 5-0!" and the crowd scattered. Pogue was carried away, Carmen and Bella disapearing within the frightened students. Feeling someone tugged at his leather jacket, he whipped around to see Kate at his side, " Come on!" she urged as he spied his brothers retreating up the hillside.
They took off after the others in a mad dash, coming quickly into the forest. Pogue could not help but notice dampness in his boxers and he ran faster, hoping it didn't show through to his jeans and if it did, that Kate would not notice.
Tyler and Reid were already in the front seat, buckling their seatbelts when the two arrived, " C'mon, let's go!" Reid called out the window as Pogue opened the door and hurried Kate inside, slamming the door behind them.
" Everyone strapped in?" Reid asked, adjusting the mirror and turning the key in the ignition. The engine roared to life as he spotted blue light in the mirror. Putting the clutch in reverse, then drive, he floored it, bolting out of the forest at breakneck speed. The power of all four Sons of Ipswich enough to keep them high above the speed limit, without getting caught up in the traffic of fleeing students.
Pogue faltered, feeling weaker than usual. It went unnoticed by the girls, but the boys could feel the difference in power. When they returned to the dorms, It was Caleb who offered to take Pogue home.
In a half-hearted goodbye, Pogue left Kate standing awkwardly with Sarah, Reid and Tyler as he climbed into Caleb's Mustang. The drive to his hard was silent. As Caleb pulled up to the entrance, he put the car in park, turning to stare at his best friend and brother since the day he was born.
"Pogue..."he began, slowly and cautiously, knowing all too well how quick Pogue's temper flared," Was that the girl that..."--'Claimed' wouldn't be a good choice of words--" Saw at the club last night?"
Pogue said nothing.
"Pogue, answer me." Caleb said in the kindest tone he could muster, " You know you can tell me anything."
Pogue ran his hand over his face, breathing deeply, " That's just it...I don't know what's going on. Until tonight, I thought she was only something I dreamed up while I was drunk...but she--" he trailed off. There was no way he could voice what he thought. For the past two night, he possibly cheated on his girlfriend with a girl he never even met and that she maybe possessed eldritch powers similiar to their own.
" I don't know, I guess my power's evolving." Pogue brushed it off, putting his hand on the door handle and prying the car door open.
"Wait." Caleb placed his hand on his friend's shoulder," You know I'm here for you."
Pogue smiled, " Yeah, I know." he punched Caleb in the arm, " You're gettin soft on me man."
Caleb smirked, rolling his eyes, " Whatever man. I'll see you in the morning."
They shook on it before Pogue slid out of the Mustang, walking around the front of the car and up the stairway to his enormous front door. Caleb waited til Pogue disapeared into the house before he pulled off down the road.
The door creaked shut behind him and Pogue slid his arms into the pocket's of his jacket, lowering his head and heading for the staircase, leading upstairs into his room. His hand shot out onto the banister. Looking up, he saw Carmen sitting some few steps away from him. Smiling and winking before she vanished into thin air. Whether that was an illusion of grandeur or a trick played by an unknown force, he did not know.
Keeping his head bowed, he treked upstairs. A cold, empty bed awaiting him.
Lyrics " Going under" by Evanescence.