I hope you like this next chapter. I wanted to put this up before I go out of town

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Let Him In?

The sip of raspberry tea tingled my taste buds as it slid smoothly down my throat. I placed my white coffee mug on the wooden table in front of me as I rested my head in the palm of my hand. I subconsciously thought about what been appearing to me every few days as I fell asleep. The feeling of darkness is something to be feared, but doesn't happen as often as it should.

Darkness was all that my eyes could see as I floated like a feather down a breathable ocean. Landing on a solid platform, the touch of bullets hitting my body makes my arms land over my face as doves burst from under me. I unsteadily look up to see them flying in mid-darkness away from my shaky stance. The elimination of light directs me to see the portrait of a woman, a beautiful fair-skinned woman who appears to be asleep elongated on the ground before me. Tension stirred in my frightened heart as to what to do next, though, I willing but curiously stepped into a walk on the platform to see little men and animals with their eyes opened. Every time I dreamt this scene, I already knew what would happen next. I open my eyes to see the evaporation of heated tea disappear before my downcast eyes.

" Dreams…can be quite an enigma." I huffed a chuckle as I sipped and sniffed my mouth-watering tea.

Morning passed by so fast. Being the lazy person I know I can be, I've been doing nothing but acting like a couch potato all morning, even adding a little nap in. My head rolls to the side where it rested on the shoulder of the sofa to see the kitchen come into view, a brown table and white fridge in its rightful place, giving it the touch of old cabinets under the counter and on the walls. My eyes wander up toward the ceiling to see a peach atmosphere above that I've seen all my life. My mind spoke negatively.

"Some plan I have, just that it's not much of one…" I rub my eyes to find crust in its corners as I sat up to lean back on my soft couch. "Mmmmm…stupid plan, I don't know how's this gonna work," I said with a huff. "I got no one to help me, it's just me, alone…how can a seventeen year old pull this off." I chucked as I rubbed my temples.

A growling sound ruptured from inside of me, making me wake up from my frustration. "What?" I unsurprisingly looked down at my stomach. "Hmph, it looks like I forgot to eat breakfast, great."A sigh came forth as I used the side of the couch for support to get up.

I strode lazily towards the kitchen, which was across from the living room that held no barrier from the others' presence. Passing by an unclosed white curtain near the entrance of the house door, a brown speck caught the corner of my eye from outside. I stopped in my tracks and went back to what could have caught my attention. My eyes widened at the presence of a creature that it dared me not to make a flinch. The chestnut colored deer hungrily nipped the grass away as I watched in awe, watching its full grown body go from one area to another. My fingers longed for the soft touch of such an animal that my fingers touched the glassy window, imagining me out there with it. The grazing deer brought its head up in mid-air as if to notice something. Turning its head in my direction, it sprung back into the forest where trees and bushes consumed. 'Shoot! It probably saw my face like I was about to pounce on him or something or am I that ugly?' I brushed that silly thought out of my when mind. When I catch a deer grazing in front of my house I wouldn't want to go outside in case it decided to come back, which never happens. So, why wait for it now when it won't be coming back any time soon. I made my decision clear as I opened the front door.

My bare foot stepped on the hard feeling 'Welcome Home' mat on the doorstep. My eyes focused on the brown trees and bushes where the deer escaped to, but decided to ignore it and focus on what ever else caught my attention. I held my arms behind my back and breathed in the air of the environment. The butt in of a startling itch crept up in my nose, as I knew what that meant. I closed my eyes and roughly rubbed my nose to get rid of the sneezing itch. I failed as I breathed in to make a horrid sneeze. Sniffling continued as I rubbed my irritated nose again to say, "Excuse me." I bowed my head forward to rub my face when an unexpected voice perked my ears from behind.

"You're excused." The hearing of a human voice had my heart rate sped up as I unconsciously turned to see a face."Boo!" A face spoke.

"Ahh!" I yelped as I tumbled backwards into the dry grass behind me, making me anchor land on my butt.

Ignoring the pain that shocked my pelvis, I looked up to find an entertained face looking down on me. "Oops-uh-sorry?" said the red head. I couldn't hardly swallow as my mind stirred to the realization of who this person was. It was the guy from the other day. 'Great, it's that red-headed guy again…'

I took notice that he was wearing the same black cloak from before and almost cringed. 'I had a feeling he wore that cloak all the time, does he ever take it off to clean?' The pain came back to my senses as I clenched my teeth that he should have taken the audacity to notice. "Wow, you really had a hard fall there huh?" the redhead, or should I say, stalker-boy said as he came forward. Using my hand to support my back, I rose up and looked down at my pj's to dust them off. My eyes looked up to see the tall redhead with a, rather worried expression on his tattooed face. Not very surprised about that, he should be sad about what he did.

I summoned a groan. "You could have at least helped me up!" I folded my hands swaying my hip to the side. His eyes went big and a mild grin came up. "Oh, well I did try to help you up by putting my hand out, but you didn't see it when you got up on your own." His arms folded and cocked an eyebrow at me. "Oh and by the way nice pajamas." 'Oh shoot,' I thought. I tried not to look down at my blue paw-printed pj's as little titters came out of his mouth. "So I guess you're a dog lover? I don't really mind them much," he said as he placed his hands on his hips. "They look nice on you." I gave rise to a sigh and raised my hand to my forehead in perplexity.

"Okay, you know what whatever." I looked up at him and my eyes looked passed his soul. " The main thing that I've been wondering is how did you know I lived here?" My arms crossed waiting for an explanation to ease my nerves, which probably won't happen either way because there's a crazy guy following me around. A sly smirk crept onto his lips that I swore I could have ripped off.

"How do you think? I followed you home the other day. Got a clue?" he said still simpering, but soon faded as my body turned hot with anger. I waved my hand in the air assertively and gave out to a roar. "Okay cut the sarcasm what do you want from me!" I leaned forward and he backed away, putting his hands in front of him in shock. He must have no idea what females are capable of when angry.

"Whoa-whoa now I'm sorry-sorry," he said waving his hands in front of himself trying to distance away from me. "Uh-It's nothing!" "Uh-what's nothing?" "It's nothing, I don't want nothing from you at all, just your-uh-uhm I don't know!" He waved his hands in front of him. Air came up in chuckles as I lowered my head to give them out. Placing my hand on my hips, I looked at him, this time grinning. He looked unsure of himself. I pointed my finger in his face. "You're a confused man."

He gave into laughter. " You wish!" I grunted and steamed past him to enter my house. "Wai-!" I slammed the door in his face. I went toward the table and sat down in a seat. My hands held my head in support as I thought about this bizarre situation. 'This guy just can't get off my back!' I looked up, though, rather surprised that I don't hear him making any noise from the outside trying to get my attention. 'Maybe he left? Not a chance,' I thought. My body twisted around to see what's up, but found the redhead by the door, in my house. He looked at me uncertainly as I glared at him.

"Hey…" he said, rather smoothly waving his hand, as if he's really trying to cover something up. Why me? Why now? Seeing him now, I would have gone ballistic on him about being in my precious home, but I didn't. The wooden chair skidded on the floor by my weight as I got up with a grunt and walked towards his stance by the door. He looked at me with his emerald green eyes, still with uncertainty in his tattooed facial features which I took notice of. Trying to hold myself together, I continued with my slow approach and asked the question that I wish I knew the answer to.

"What do you want really?" My arms crossed waiting for his answer as I gazed up at him with the patience that I could only bear for a crazy stranger. His eyes closed and sighed as he cocked his head to the side. "I-I guess I just want someone to talk to…" he rubbed his chin with his finger, well knowing that I would not take an answer that did not make sense. I never did avert from looking into his eyes, really wondering what should I do now.

'Is that really the truth?' Giving him the edginess of my thoughts, I walked back to the table with seldom steps and sat in the chair facing the opposite wall. My head turned right. The cool actions I displayed must have sprouted a question mark on his fiery red head; just if it would really catch on fire I would like to see him laugh at that. 'Does he have any friends? Is he bothering me because of that? Just nagging strangers because he's lonely? Or maybe he is a perv or something else…. If that really is the case, maybe there is something I can do to lift this tight chain.

Minutes passed as I just starred at the opposite wall while looking back at him standing at the door. Practically wondering what I should do. He had his arms folded just standing there, looking down at the floor. I was surprised; thought that he would be walking around my home just to do it. A few more minutes passed by and I finally decided what to do. 'I can't believe this…but…I'll take my chances with him' ' I'd rather not think negatively about a person anyway.' I'll just talk to him and see what happens. From that thought, I turned to look at him.

"Okay then," I began. He looked up with his arms still crossed. "I'll take my chances with you." I stood up and rested my hand on the table. "But if you are to do anything funny, there are weapons in here that I can get my hands on."

He gave me the usual grin. "Alright, I guess I just have to convince you that I am harmless in every aspect of myself." His arms relaxed and fell to his sides. "Hmm-right sit down already 'cause you standing there is making me feel a little bit uneasy," I motioned him to sit down in the chair I was sitting in.

"Sure, I wouldn't want my new friend to feel uncomfortable now would I." He walked to my seat as I stepped away to stand by the door. "Yeah, now this is how you're supposed to treat guest!" My body leaned against the door as I gave in to that comment. "Yeah, well your more like an unwanted one," I smirked.

"You sure are an aggressive one." A chuckle came forth. "And you wonder why, which reminds me…" I paused to look at his bothered expression. My arms folded.

"Do you have any friends?"

His eyebrows rose as to be astonished by my question. He turned the other way as if it was a hard question to answer. "Yeah…" he faced me once more. "I do, but…there gone…can't find them," he said scratching his chin. I leaned off of the door, feeling a lodge settling in my throat. My eyebrows furrowed. "What do you mean by you can't find them exactly?" My arms fell as I stepped up closer to the table, really wondering what he was saying to me.

His eyes turned up to me and he began to speak. " Well, it's like we sorta' lost each other, ya'know…?" From that, I began to feel empathy for him, for the lost of his friends. 'I guess I can understand how he's been feeling all this while. It must hurts…' My arms rose into a cross at the feeling of Goosebumps covering my exposed skin; I let my head fall. " I see…" A silent pause came up in the kitchen.

My aura felt him move so I looked up to see him looking at me with a bleak grin. "You don't have to feel bad for me. I mean it's not like it's the end of the world, besides…" he leaned back in the chair with his arms up behind him. " I'll find them sooner or later." He grinned. "Got it memorized?"

I huffed a laugh at his silliness. For some reason, I believed what he was saying to me was true; but not just the way he said, but how he responded. "Okay, well I hope you do find your friends." I held my hands as I put them behind my back. The lodge disappeared.

"Well thanks…and what about you," 'Uh-what?' 'What are you doing in this world besides jumping off of cliffs into fish water?" He raised an eyebrow as if to be really curious. My feet stepped to my left as I began to get the urge of telling him about myself. "What a nosey person you are, but if you must know…" I looked down, "I'm on a mission to find my sister." That felt weird saying that to him.

"Your sister?" My eyes gazed up. "Huh-I wouldn't not thought you had a sister…" he looked away.

I crossed my arms. "Well-uh-yeah-surprise?" My muscles tensed. 'As if he were to know that anyway, but wait that doesn't matter he knew that or not!' "Well like I said, I'm searching to find my sister." My nose turned up trying to get yet another reaction from his apathetic attitude.

He turned back my direction. "What happened?" A sigh came forth, regretting of even opening this subject up. I rubbed my temples. "A lot happened, but I don't want to delve into much detail…but," I paused and rested my hand on the table to support my weight. "All I'll say is that, we all got separated and-"

"All?"

"Oh yeah, including my mother and father and, well… it happened almost a year ago and-." A lodge came up as my muscles tensed. "And when my parents disappeared, they told me to look out for me and my sister…but I failed on my sister's part…" Tears came up in my eyes, but I refused to let spill in front of him. Mucus made me sniff and rub my nose, so I sat down trying to build myself up with my head hanging low. There was yet, another long pause that filled the kitchen.

'So sensitive I am…I can't believe I almost broke down in front of a stranger. This is too awkward for me.'

Soon after that, the red head broke the silence."There are a lot of bad things in this world that make people sad and miserable y'know? Your not the only one that have had bad stuff happen to them…" My head came up slowly to look at him with discernment in his features.

I shot him a glance. "You don't think I knew that?" He chuckled as he shook his head to raise his hand upon the table. "Of course you do, but do you know what's the worse?" he leaned back with a smirk as if he knew something classified.

A huff of irritation showed in my voice. "If you know, what is it hot shot?"

He leaned back in his chair with now a serious display of emotion. "Becoming a nobody or a heartless."

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