(I Do Not Own Any Images)
He then led me to the "Fun House"
"People were going in."
He went to the entrance and looked at me one last time.
He then went in and disappeared
I followed the entrance had a big scary clown, he was huge
I went in. There was smoke all around there were doors and mirrors. There were people dressed in costumes trying to come up and scare me
I gasped and wanted to run but I backed away into someone.
I turned and it was him.
He grabbed both of my arms and I turned and looked at him. He smiled. He had the face of Eros, he was Cupid with wings. I wanted to be Psyche. I wanted to touch his face because it was of a celestial being. I wanted to hold the candle as he slept and get close to reveal what was in the darkness I couldn't see his face because it was forbidden, Psyche was forbidden to see Eros's face. That was my favorite story in middle school, I remembered in the first grade reading the story by myself. This was real, I felt something but it was dark, I couldn't see his face.
He was so close to me, bringing my body close to him
He slowly inhaled and smelled my scent, and my hair, then grabbed my arms and slammed my body into him. "What was his problem?" He was being too rough with me. He was mean and acted like the Phantom of the Opera. Phantom of the Opera loved Christine but wanted to have full power over her. I didn't like what he was doing. And these thoughts of mine were filling my head, and I wanted to get away from him, and leave.
He brought his head close to my head and closed his eyes and I closed mine the sound of screams and people running near us chasing each other were all around us. And they brushed and hit against our shoulders. We both ignored these sudden touches.
He then took my hand and led me to a room full of mirrors
I held my bear tight in my hands, staring at the boy
I backed against the mirror afraid of him, he came closer
As if suddenly I was out of the daydream he just stood there and looked at me
"Who are you?" "What do you want?" I said
He looked at me
He then was now coming slowly towards me.
Now in front of me facing me
He touched my bear, his fingertips touching the bear's ears and hat then running his fingers to its arms.
"This is a cute bear." "It's really cute," he said looking at me seductively looking at me. "How did you get it?"
I looked at him.
Why did you bring me here?
"Is that why you brought me here?" "To ask about my bear?"
He was looking at my bear, eyes lingering at it, then the eyes looking up at me at my face
"My brother won it for me, at a game here," I said
"That's nice of him."
"He's probably looking for me as we speak, I really should go."
"Wait." He said
As he made me go back against the mirror.
"Do you believe in fate?"
"Fate?" I asked
"What do you mean?"
Like when something happens, and you don't know why it happens, sort of like the unexplainable.
Sorta like, when two people meet for the first time, and they don't even know each other, but they're destined to suddenly meet and be together.
"I don't know." "I mean, I have read a lot of books about heroes in mythology and Arthurian legends tasked with doing tests and having to overcome obstacles and then sometimes they fail or succeed. But usually, their journey happened for a reason or no reason at all.
So yes, I guess I do believe in fate"
"I don't have the answers though."
"What about love?" "Love?" He asked.
"You're asking me a lot of questions, I don't think I am the right person to ask and help you."
"No, I think you are wonderful and you're answering my questions perfectly."
"You don't even know me."
"No, I don't."
But I would like to know you, I'd like to be your friend if you would like.
Or….
Or? I asked. Looking at me with a little spunk.
A boyfriend.
"WHAT!" I said. I was shocked, he was putting moves on me and asking me a girl he didn't even know. Let alone, trying to be intimate with me.
"Was he a pervert?" "A pedophile?"
"Does this bear have a name?"
"What?"
"Did you name the bear?"
"Yes, I did."
"What's his name?"
I looked at him He was definitely strange and weird, especially for a white boy, he was asking me a lot of questions, not to mention he was touching my bear a lot, and had touched me.
I wondered if he was some kind of homeless person or person with a mental health issue.
"Or if he was crazy?" "Could he be a killer? "A psycho?"
Whatever was going on with him, I had to be calm, and smart in this situation. I did not want to make him angry or have him lose his temper. That is If something was wrong with him. I wanted to go to my brother. I wanted Lorenzo, he was my protector and my shield, and he always knew what to do in a bad situation. And not to mention Darius, my second oldest brother. Lord knows if he was here too and Nike know what this boy was doing, they would kick his a'''. I did not want that, I didn't want this boy getting hurt and I didn't want my brothers to get in trouble and make a scene on the boardwalk. My brothers were teenagers but they also could fight street-style fights, they had witnessed and been in the streets and knew how to fight. But my brothers were from the good streets, which meant they weren't into gangs or anything but knew boys from the streets who were in them, and these boys, protected my brothers because they knew they were special and they knew my family in the community back home. They knew my uncle who was let's just say a bad seed of the family, but he protected our family.
Marko's Point of View:
Marko could hear the thoughts running in her head, he could feel her heartbeat, which was beating fast.
Thump Thump Thump
He knew she was scared of him, he knew that she thought he must be crazy or insane
He just had to be smarter and try and get her to get to know him and use his vampire skills to try to win her over and calm her down, she was a strong human, a strong human that he felt different from the other humans. Her scent and strength were intoxicating and she was very smart in her senses for a 13 or 14-year-old. Beautiful, very beautiful Marko thought.
"I named my bear Marko," Justice said
"I knew it," Marko said
He hit his hand against the glass, and it shattered.
"Aww," I screamed
The noise, unfortunately, didn't stir the attention, of the screaming guests in the Fun House.
Marko looked at the shattered mirror and the broken glass on the floor
He made sure that she wasn't hurt or that any glass had hit her or harmed her "I'm sorry," he said
"Please, don't hurt me," I said
I was shaking and trying hard not to cry
"I'm not going to hurt you." "I promise." "It was an accident, my strength is more powerful than regular humans."
"What do you mean, what are you talking about?"
"I'm different, but that is not a concern right now."
"Different," I said
"What are you a superhero?"
He laughed and chuckled.
"You are so funny and really smart, you special." He said this as he brought a hand to my face, but I tried to not let it touch my face because I really didn't want him to touch me, because I was scared of him, and he shouldn't be touching me, even if he was handsome and charming." "He should know better, I thought, not to touch someone my age, don't he know he could go to jail or prison?" "And what people do to pedophiles in jail?" "Boy if the blacks in my community saw what he was doing, he would be dead!" "Listen run away while you still can." "Save yourself, I said in my head."
"It would be worth it to go to jail, for you!"
I looked up at him shocked and scared. And "What the hell, he knew what I was thinking and saying!"
He must be a superhero, there isn't any way anyone can do that! "God is the only one who is strong and holy over all humanity and humans."
"Was he the devil?" "Was he Lucifer?" "Was he the angel Gabriel?"
I looked up at him.
"Can I go please, can you let me go?" I won't tell anyone anything.
"What are you?" "What are you?"
"Are you from heaven or ….. Hell?"
"Or you an angel?" "Are you a superhero?" "Please tell me which one?"
Marko smiled and looked at me.
"Which one would you like me to be?"
"A Superhero!" I said
"Then a Superhero it is!" That is so Awesome, I said.
"Wow!" "Are there bad guys?" "Are you brought here to save the world, like Superman?"
"You like Superman?"
"He's cool!"
"But I like Wonder Woman!" "I love Princess Diana," I said
"Why do you love Wonder Woman?"
"Because she is soooooo beautiful and the fact that she is so strong like Superman, she matches his strength, their like a pair that goes together like glue, but they have their own strengths and weaknesses. Diane has super strength and fights like a warrior, she is the princess of a queen, and she has fought so many battles, and kicks a'''. "Oops." I covered my mouth." Marko laughed and held his head back.
"I'm sorry, I don't curse, my brothers are the ones who curse a lot, this is my first time saying the curse word." "I'm sorry, I'm not like that at all."
"It's alright." "You don't have to hide none of your personality from me." He winked.
"Anyway, all the men bow down to her, because she is sexy and she holds the Lasso of Truth." Which makes those tell the truth to her face, even when they are lying. It reveals everything from that person when she wraps it around them."
"And you like that don't you?" Marko said
"Yeah, that is an awesome weapon." "If I had that weapon, I would make sure to use it on everyone in the world, especially boys in the world, because, no offense they can be such liars."
"Really?" Marko said
"Yes, I have these boys in my class, and they like to tease me and say that they like me and blow kisses, but I tell them that they shouldn't lie because it's in the Bible." "And they like to pick on me, the girls are mean too, they pick on me, but I don't care, because I know that I am smart and better than them."
Marko looked at her. He turned away from her and was angry. He didn't like anyone messing with her. His hands were against some glass that was still there, but that was cut, and balled his fists in a ball and started bleeding.
"What superpowers do you have?" Marko wasn't paying attention
"Are you, okay?" she asked. He then turned and looked at her
"I want to know your name," he said
"It's Justice."
"Justice"
"Yes, Justice."
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Justice," he said
He grabbed my hand, lifted it to his lips, and kissed my hand.
And kissed the other one the same way.
I stared at him.
He was being very passionate with his kisses on my front hands and then he took one and turned it over and brought it to his mouth
He looked at me and then brought it and slowly started kissing and licking and sucking on my wrist.
This wasn't right, this was weird.
He had his eyes open looking at me.
I just stared at him, I was shocked to try and move my wrist away from him.
I wanted to leave now because what he was doing was wrong, I knew it and knew that he was kissing me like a woman, and I wasn't a woman, I was just a child, still in school.
Marko knew what I was feeling, but he ignored it, and he was still staring at me. He was smiling a grin of a Cheshire cat grin. It was an evil grin a dangerous grin, that of, let me guide you to the dark side, like Darth Vader.
I was in a trance, what he was doing felt good, which was not right, I didn't like it, I was dizzy very dizzy
He then started to use his teeth, I felt them, they were not biting me or hurting me they were just grazing against my skin.
Then all of a sudden, I felt the teeth change to sharpness against my skin, they felt like razor-sharp teeth.
I screamed, I tried to move my hand away.
The piercing of my wrist, the skin being torn and ripped into, exposing an open wound,
I see and feel blood dripping.
"Let me go," I said
"Please don't, Stop!"
Just then, he saw that I was screaming and panicking, and he brought a hand over my mouth and we both fell on the floor
He was on top of me
His face wasn't human anymore, he had gold-red eyes
Do NOt Own Image
And his face was that of a monster. It wasn't an angel anymore.
I was kicking and screaming
My screams were being muffled by his hand, which had long fingernails.
Suddenly
"Do you hear that? Someone said
Was that a scream? "What the hell is going on?" People said
"Everyone out of the Fun House." Security called
Marko then stopped, what he was doing he knew he had done, what he never thought what he intended to do.
He broke a rule.
He was out of control, he didn't want to hurt her, he hadn't intended to feed on her, and he had almost killed her.
He morphed back to normal
Everyone was screaming and running out of the Fun House.
He was on top of her touching her face
"What have I done?" He asked himself
He hit his head with his fist.
The Bear was still being held by her
Tears were streaming down her face
She was barely breathing, he knew she was still alive, but barely
She was still heaving, like she couldn't breathe
Paul rushed in, followed by the screams of people running
Dwayne was behind him
They forced their way inside
They looked around sensing where Marko was
They cut corners, and then they found him
He was touching her face, holding her while he was crying, he was rubbing her face
Sniffling
"Shit," Paul said
"Marko we have to go," Paul said
"I can't leave her here like this?"
"Marko, we have to go, she will be discovered and if we are here with her, then we all are in deep shit," Paul said
"Dwayne, we have to help her." "Please."
"I didn't mean it and didn't want it to go this far!"
"I know you didn't." Dwayne knelt down with him, Marko holding her in his arms
She still had the bear
"She's dying Marko," Dwayne said
"Can she be helped?" Let the humans help her.
"You took a lot of blood from her."
"What if we turn her?"
"You know we can't do that," Dwayne said
"Why not?" Marko asked
"We don't have permission and we don't have orders from David."
Paul was looking around
"Besides, her family is looking for her," Dwayne said
"You know David would let it happen."
Dwayne looked at him
"She's not dead yet Dwayne."
"No, she's not, she's barely holding on."
"We can't let her be discovered. " Dwayne said
"Then we take her with us."
Police sirens were in the distance
"Marko, we have to go, now!"
Paul looked scared.
Paul left, and Dwayne had to bring Marko with him forcefully, Marko trying to fight him.