Nightmare Story - Chris Williams (good book club books txt) 📗

going to touch me or not?” Vixen said sounding older now. “Don’t make it sound so dirty you pervert” I said smiling. She giggled, it made me feel more confident. My hand cupped her cheek and rubbed it, I felt her smile and she rubbed back like a cat. Then I moved gentle over the rest of her face. Painful memories filled my head of a girl that I loved, I dropped my hand in shock and anger, I knew who Vixen was! I closed my eyes and opened them again…”please let me see” I thought to myself. I opened my eyes and saw…

Chapter 2

There stood the person I’ve been dying to see, now that I saw her I don’t even want to look in her direction. Her yellow and black eyes glowed in the dank and depressing room. “Why have you come you demon? To torment me all over again?” I said with a chill that made my heart and soul go missing. “I missed you and I’ve always missed you. Can’t you accept that?” Vixen said kid like. “Vixen, I hope you weren’t thinking you were smart by using that Staci.” “Don’t call me that, that’s not my name anymore. After I left you I wasn’t called that anymore. I couldn’t be called that, not after what I did to you.” Vixen said teary eyed. “Don’t give that bullshit Staci!” The room fell silent again, the silence I was growing hatred toward. “It worked.” she said. “What did?” I asked without thinking. “Using Vixen as my name, it worked right?” she said. “I don’t care, just go away.” “I’m sorry how thin-” she said but over thrown but my outburst. “Shut up, I don’t want to go down memory lane if you don’t mind.” Although I was already doing it.

Staci Morgan, my very first true love. We were in junior high and the envy of student couples all over the school. We were to most popular kids there. We were both athletic, over achievers; we always did the right thing during school and turned into total nut cases when the final bell rang. We were loved by teachers and students alike. We were the dream couple, never fought, always cheered each other up and backed each other up; when we actually did have a bully or two to deal with that is. Our 3 year relationship suddenly ending was a mystery of the school. People after people came to us asking the same questions, “Why?” It really started to bug me to the point that I didn’t want to be around people. The truth of the matter was that those years of happy faces and loud laughter together was nothing but a sham. Our relationship was built on founded lies and secrecy, but only on her part. My status as a popular kid dwindled in no time, and that went for Staci as well. After we divided my friends didn’t look so trust worthy anymore. We both were out casts, our friends long gone, but we were divided for a time, a long time actually. We started talking to each other again, but the damage was dealt. We were never the same again.

We both knew that we couldn’t be together again, but we somehow found ourselves being alone almost every day after school or calling each other and hanging out. We still had feelings for each other obviously, even though we fought every time we saw each other. We were junior high kids thinking we would be together for the rest of our lives, a family, nice house, perfect kids…that is a perfect example of how dumb kids can be at that age.

“Chris! How many times do I have to say that “I’m sorry” for you to understand that I had a few issues that I had to deal with before we could be together.” Vixen said in a sincere way that made me want to kill her. She has lied to me in the past and it has not changed at all. More flash backs came to me, reminding me about all the times she did lie to me and making sure I never found out until she wanted me too. She manipulated my friends and family into not saying a word, a con artist, and I was her main target every time. “You know that what ever you say I won’t believe you. It’s in your nature to lie to me.” I said with a bitter taste in my mouth. “Why? I haven’t lied to you in years.” Vixen said in a way that made her seem like she was in the right. It made my blood boiled over at that instant, my body felt like was filled of energy at this point. The cold sheets that were still tucked under me loosened, the cold spring “bonged” as my back slowly came off it. The bandages tugged on my skin as my arms moved forward to help me up. The tug of the bandages made me more cautious about moving. “Don’t strain your body.” Vixen said with a softness that made me want to throw a chair at her, and her expression did not help the situation.

As I sat there staring into the eyes of my old love, I started to think of a way to hurt her so I wouldn’t feel so angry. All I could do was sit up, moving anymore would really hurt. This was all in theory though; I haven’t used my body in years so moving to much might hurt me I thought to myself again and again. And I didn’t want to hurt myself, I wanted to hurt her. So I started to think… I looked directly into her eyes and smiled. She looked so happy to me, as she smiled. I had almost forgot why I was wanting to hurt her in the first place, while I sat there gazing at her. Her long dark hair mingled in with the darkness behind her. Her eyes bright and yellow fixated on me; they shimmered at me with a desire and passion, I knew all to well. I looked around and she was not that far way from me, her heartbeat was loud and strong. “Will you listen to me?” I tried to smile my evil smile, and apparently it worked because Vixens eyes stopped shining. “I will always listen to you.” She said with a serious face that made my smile grow. I lean as far as my body would go and she instinctively did the same. Her breathing becoming harder and faster, her heart accelerating, I almost wished we were still together. The thought of kissing her came to mind, while she closed her eyes and stopped right next to my ear. Her mouth was closed, but her nose released all her breathing. The heat radiating off her body was warm and inviting, it made me feel okay…but that’s her way of getting me; every, single, time. It was time. I raised my left hand up to the bandages on the rest of my face. The tugging on the left side was tighter then the right, so my skin tore a little. Vixen opened her eyes, and mine widened as I turned to her and pulled. “THEN LISTEN WELL!”

She pulled away fast, but not far. By that time the blood swapped across her face. “Stop it…” She said with a face that has seen a familiar desire to it, it was too good for her own good. “Stop it…” She said again, her eyes growing wider as I pulled more of my own flesh off my own face. Each tear didn’t faze me, the sight of her uncontrollable desire was the only thing I could feel; and it felt good. I stopped pulling the bandages from across my face and moved down over my neck. She stepped over to me and reached over the bed and grabbed my arm. “What’s wrong, you’re not liking it. Any other time you would be head over heels for the day I shed this much blood.” She shuddered at my comment and let go of my arm without a word. I smiled and laughed, “I knew you would never change, you always loved to see me in pain didn’t you! That’s why you lied to me constantly, that’s why you were the biggest masochist I’ve ever known, that’s why you broke up with me; I finally said no!” She was biting her lip and shaking in anger. Her arms to her side and her head slightly down. I’ve tasted revenge!

I let go off the bandages, “You are so sick, you were enjoying it so much you wouldn’t have cared if I stop are not. Would you?” Vixen was silent. I stared into her eyes and heard a creak that apparently she didn’t hear. I looked over to the door and saw a nurse staring at us, more so Vixen then me. I smiled and wondered if Vixen was still into making bad messages that people wouldn’t get until later. I looked Vixen dead in the eye and said,
“May you move fast and graceful for friends are with you,
But enemies watch closer.
From the rooftops, to staircases, windows and cracked doors.”
She looked at me and her eyes glowed brighter and a gentle breeze swiped across the room and she was gone. Vixen had disappeared for three whole seconds then reappeared as the nurse dropped to the floor. She pulled her arms and her body into the room then on the other side of my bed. The nurse made a high pitched grunt as she dropped her arm. Vixen looked at me and said, “I have to go.” “Good”, I said. She looked at me with hurt filled eyes; she wasn’t going to let this visit end with a bad note. She leaned over my bed and came close. I blur air into her face. “I love you to demon.” She said low and smiled and leaned in to kiss me, her breaths where warm. However I saw her cold, so I shifted around her approaching head. She made a sound, “Why would you accept me back?” “Well, let me think-” The thing is that everyone I know has the impression that I can’t hold a grudge. She may think I’m playing hard to get, or busting her chops. I’m actually very serious, I don’t love her. “Because not only did you leave as if I was the one that fucked up and did nothing to fix it. You also made the choice to do it on Valentines Day in front of the school’s love fest assembly.” The silence wasn’t bad that time; I could feel the words stabbing her heart. It made me feel better, a lot better and I wanted to keep going. “Besides, I have someone else in my love life.”

I think that sent her over the deep end, her response was very hard and eerie. “What’s her or his name…?” She asked me. I smiled and said, “I call her Raya…” I started feeling a little cold. I turned my head to the window, it didn’t seem to be open. The thick tan curtains were not moving, they were very still. I could see street lights, dim, very dim though. It made me want to look out at the world, to the creatures I despised so much. To look out and see that the “end” that they deserved was finally coming to pass. “I bet she has forgotten all about you…” Vixen said, breaking my realization thought. Before I could let out my come back she said, “Don’t you remember your own words about people;
They all forget about the love that you made to them
They all forget about the time