Taste The Blood

"Sweet as sugar,cold as ice,hurt me once,I'll break you twice." 

 "He's hot."
 "More like a blazing inferno."
 Highpitched giggles came from the two women sitting on stools and sipping Coke next to Eve.How annoying.Picking up her cup of coffe, she made her way to the table where her friends were sprawled, laughing and headbanging like crazy.Crossing her legs, she eyed the dancefloor with faked interest;only kiddos and bitches swinging their hair and jumping up and down were flooding her precious stage.The one place she felt at ease.Where the colored lights and good music made her blood boil.She let her gaze trail slowly towards the man those hoes from the bar were mentally undressing.W.Her ex-boyfriend and potential love interest.His lack of resolve is what made their frequent relationships not work;that jerk just wouldn't make up his mind already.Tonight started so well,he acted so loving and interested that she thought they were finally on the same page.No such luck.He fucked up everything with stupid questions and retarded answers. One last chance to settle everything it's what she'll give to him and if he pissed on this one too,then he'll have to pay.
 His dark eyes focused on her with wolfish interest and she beckoned him to come as she headed towards the door.The music blaring from the speakers helped calm her nerves and the rain outside felt like it was washing away her sins. She sat with her back to him and he embraced her,planting a kiss just below her right ear.She wriggled free from his arms with a scowl on her face.
 "Alright,what's going on?" he sounded annoyed.
 "What am I to you,W.?Do you love me?"
 "What's with that question Eve?I thought we spoke about this earlier.I just can't afford a serious relationship right now-"
 "Because you want to go study outside,bla bla.I know." she mocked him in a bored tone. "So what?You still have one year left until then.What,do you think I'll try keeping you tied to me forever?"
 "Who knows what you're thinking," his voice edged with something between sarcasm and suggestiveness.
 "Say what?!Who are you taking me for?Seriously W., if you think you're so important to me, you're clearly mistaken," she was poking her chest with her right finger as her voice rised an octave.
 "Hmm,I wonder about that." His arrogance simmered her blood and, inhaling deep,she took a step back and closed her eyes.This bastard had never been worth the stress and tears.Clenching her shoulders and arching her spine,she opened her eyes,now a dark purple, and stared at him hard.He flinched once at the sight of her but put the blame of what he was seeing on the mix of beer and weed.Even so,the murderous glare mirrorred on her face was clearly real.

The flinch in your eye calls your bluff
Feel free to die when you've had enough
Useless cause is breaking your back
Your life will end when you attack.
 A sick beat seeped from under the door and settled in her blood.Oh,how fitting were the lyrics;it was almost ironic.She approached him leisurely,like a predator cornering its prey.He saw him gulp once but he didn't draw back.She spoke in a sugary tone,her purple eyes twinkling mischievously.
 "Hey,did you know- she traced one sharp fingernail across his chest- that I have a very special power which helps me get rid of...unwanted trash?Did you know it can make anyone I want succumb to my wishes?"
 "What,seduction?" W. tried to laugh,but it came out strangled.
 "Nu-uh,sexy.It's something so awesome,you'd be dying to have it too." She pronounced dying like she was purring."What do you say,wanna have a look?"
 "You're showing me your boobs?" his wolfish grin nagged at her nerves.With a swift move,she scratched his chest,her nails drawing blood.
 "Ah,you bitch!" he raised a hand to his wound and felt the wetness there.
 Her lips turned to a savagely sweet smile."What did you call me?"

Make your move
Make your stand
Make the win
(ha..) Like you can.
 Terror sharpened his gaze.Maybe what he was seeing wasn't the effect of getting high at all.He watched her lick the blood coating her fingertips and barking a sharp laugh.
 "Have a couple of screws in your head gone loose?" he shouted, fear begining to crawl across his skin, making the fine hairs on his back stand.
 Eve continued laughing like a madwoman."Come,hit me.Hit this bitch that loved you and will now kill you!"
 "What the hell did you smoke,Eve? Come to your senses already!" W. made a move as if to slap her but before his palm could make contact with her cheek, a fiery agony shot from his shoulder blade to his spine.His knees folded under, slamming him to the wet cement.He attempted a scream,but the pain gored deep and sucked the air from his lungs.Above him, Eve was holding her face in her palms, laughing and staring at him with jeering eyes.
 "That's a nice expression...That one like a cornered small animal...It's a wonderful expression!"
 "What did you do?I can't feel my arm!"
 "And you also won't feel your legs,ahahaha!" Her eyes flared and something in his knees and calves crackled, sending waves of hot pain throughout his body.His screams were defeaning but no sound made it inside the club.Not when death metal was being played.Eve absently thought that his shouts actually matched the ones from the song.Ah,how marvelous!She created her own song."More!Scream more!"

To take me out you must fight like a man
You've yet to prove that you can
I see your might and it compares to something
That is if something is nothing.
 "Isn't it delicious?The taste of licking the floor!Ahahahaha!" Eve circled restlessly W.'s collapsed,bloody form.Fingers were missing from his left hand and his cheeks had purple blotches of skin were his blood imploded.
 "I'm gonna rape your sorry ass and then I'll carve a dick onto your body with a piece of dirty beer glass,you bitch!" He meant to sound menacing and defying, but his voice came out like a mere whimper.
 "Whaaat?You want to kill me?Please be quick about it then.I'm getting bored here,ahahaha." Eve was hugging her sides and laughing at the pathetic sight in front of her.
 Was there any mean of rescue left for him?He thought bitterly when she dragged him behind some stone columns half an hour earlier.Or maybe it happened only few minutes ago.When in pain, time seems to slither forward like a snail,mocking you and laughing at your suffering.The trails of blood left from him were already washed by the rain and his broken voice couldn't bark one more scream.Even if someone went outside and, by some miracle, found them, this psychotic bitch would kill them in no time.She was a freak and she was hell bent on making him suffer.And for what?He laughed tiredly inside as he thought that he did nothing to her.
 "Hope you burn in hell,Eve.It pissed you off so bad that I didn't want to fuck you and only you,huh?"Even near death,the arrogance didn't leave his eyes.
 Rage coiled inside her stomach at his words.Growling under her breath,the woman sent him a murderous glare and her words dripped poison. "You are so fucking dumb, you smug son of a bitch!You messed with the wrong person,do ya hear me?!Ooooh,I wanted to let you live,I really did.After all,you're such a fun toy to play with! But did you know?It's the best when you break them to bits!" Taking his head in her hands,she slammed it on the cement repeatedly until no sound but her labored breaths and the pouring rain were left.Taking a step back,she eyed the corpse with a serious look plastered on her face.
 "You thought I was going to chase after you like those thirsty hoes?How cute."

Burn With Me

 His presence triggered a memory from her childhood.
 She was five.In the garden of her house,on a late summer afternoon,Shirley was playing with her older sister.Her small,white dress was fluttering around her in the before-the-storm wind.The clouds were rilled up in the horizont,ashen and fierce looking and the smell of rain was already pungent.She was laughing,feeling exhilareted by the fun time she was having with the ones she loved so much.And then it happened.A big butterfly like she had never seen before landed on the grass in front of them,blown by the harsh wind.Her sister screamed;she was scared to death by insects.Taking a shoe,she raised it over her head and slammed it on the small creature.Shirley watched transfixed the scene unfolding before her,pain filling her innocent,unknowing heart.In a matter of seconds,she threw herself over the butterfly as her sister striked again.Her fear-driven blows didn't stop;she was too blinded by her phobia to notice she was actually hurting her precious.Shirley took the injured insect in her hands and brought it to her chest,tears of grief rolling down her cheeks,not for the pain in her back from the hits she was taking but for the poor creature in her hands.It would surely die;she didn't want that to happen,she didn't want to see anything suffer in this beautiful,beautiful world.She ran towards the fence and settled the wounded butterfly at the base of a Forget-me-not.

 Fifteen years later,there she was,sipping a cup of steaming hot chocolate in the middle of winter,watching the busy street from inside her favourite cafe when a stranger stopped by her table and simply stared at her.He was tall,lean and clad in a long,black coat.His dark bangs covered half of his pale face as he leaned over her,hands in pockets.He had a familiar aura to him,soothing even though she was sure she never met him before.His eyes had a peculiar colour,a deep orange,like the sun at dusk and he gazed at her with something akin to longing and adoration.Even though she should have felt creeped out of her senses,Shirley was oddly at peace,only if a little bit confused.Her wide,chicory eyes stared back at him,her gaze mirroring the curiosity she was feeling inside.
 For five minutes straight he didn't move,nor did his eyes falter from hers.She didn't dare break the silence as she was transfixed by the encounter.Suddenly,moving too fast for her to comprehend anything,he cupped her face with his hands,lowering his head towards her,a soft,sorrowful smile spreading across his lips.His voice was deep and full of emotion as he spoke.
 "My love,we finally meet again."
 Her breath hitched.His touch made her vision bleary and for a second,Shirley thought she saw butterfly wings on his back.And then he kissed her,softly,yet with such love and desperation that her heart wrenched tightly and tears slipped down her cheeks.He draw back and she locked her shocked eyes with his.Who was this stranger and why did her insides feel crushed by anguish?When he took her hand in his and beckoned her to come with him,she went without saying anything.The staccato beat of her heart slowed.

 The setting sun was giving the park an eerie,golden hue.The stranger kept holding her hand all the way from the cafe to where they were now,not saying anything.She didn't ask anyway.
 "Aaah,so little time.If only I could have come back to you sooner."His voice trembled and his hold tightened.Embracing her,he murmured a foreign word and everything around her went black.Memories of a forgotten,past life hit her as hard as thunder and settled in her brain.Two kids holding hands and running happily through a field of wheat;two teens weeping at a funeral;a woman and a man fighting for their lives in an apocalyptic world;the same man crying tears of blood while hugging the headless corpse of the woman.And then,the memory of her saving the butterfly from her sister's hits.
 Shirley gasped and opened her eyes wide,taking in the burnt sky and the feel of the stranger's arms around her.No,not a stranger,but someone she knew all too well.Someone she loved for a lifetime.
 "How?"she uttered as they both collapsed to the ground in a fierce embrace.He spoke in a hushed,almost defeated tone.
 "After I lost you,before our world ended,I prayed to God to meet you again.I pleaded and pleaded,until the Earth imploded and everything vanished,I pleaded until my last breath and a miracle happened.I got the chance to meet Him.The God of Time,The Creator,the one who controls and resets the worlds when their time is up.He granted my wish.I traveled and lived through six timelines to meet you,but you weren't in any of those.Man,woman,animal,I've been all those.Past and future,I've lived through both.Yet,my hope never faltered.I will chase after you until the end of time if I have to,that's what I thought when my lifes reseted and once again,you weren't there.You are such a rare and precious being,my love.And when I finally found you,I had the misfortune of being reborn as an insect.It pained me more than I thought it would to be near you but unable to touch you.That fateful day when you saved me from being crushed by your sister,I did something unforgivable.Seeing you get hurt for me made me force fate once again.I asked to be returned to my original form but I asked the wrong person.You see,The Creator is a just being;favoring a mere human would unbalance the Laws of this world.It took me years,but I managed to find a way to return to what I was once.Or so I thought.There is no light without darkness;no world free of evil exists because that would also unbalance the Laws.Without realizing it,I made a pact with the devil.He asked for a soul in return for what I wanted and I foolishly agreed,not once considering the fact that it may not be mine I sold."
 Shirley felt hot tears wet the skin of her neck as he burried his face there.
 "I will save you from the fate I brought on you myself.This will be my final act."
 She swiftly detangled herself from him and looked him and kept him at arms length with her hands on his shoulders.Staring at him with a mix of determination and dread in her cicory eyes,she spoke:
 "No!You have suffered enough.If I'm going to burn,then so be it.I love you too much to let you sacrifice yourself for me!No more!"
 "My love,how could I live without you?How could I live with myself knowing that because of me,your spirit is agonizing in the depths of Hell?I haven't lived all of those lifes to hand your pure soul to the devil."
 It happened without any form of foretelling.The wind picked up at high speed,swirlling around them,the sun blackened and the earth split open.Crimson flames flared through the cracks and scorched the grass and a huge crater formed in front of them.Nightmarish yells clawed at their ears and horrific,shapeless shadows danced in the air as they stared in fear and shock at the scene unfolding before them.Soon enough,the wind picked her up and threw her towards the flames but he didn't let go.He hold on to her hand with everything he got,even though he was also dragged into the pit.
 "No!Let me go!I don't want you to burn with me!Please,please live!"her desperate cries fell on deaf ears.With a last surge of power,he changed their places,his soul already detaching itself from the body.
 "You saved me once.It is now my turn to protect you."His smile was sad and it pierced right through her heart.Without other words,he let go of her hand.
 His adoring eyes never once left her as the flames engulfed him.Her outstretched hand tried in vain to reach him;the raging wind threw her back on solid ground and the gap closed,leaving only a patch of burnt grass as evidence to what happened.Her cries of his name didn't stop for a long time as she pounded the soil with her fists,her tears leaving traces on her ash poudered cheeks.Only when her broken throat couldn't utter a sound more,did she collapse,her face buried in her hands,silently crying.

I want to see you so much that my tears would not stop flowing.

I do everything in order to return to you. 

I will love you until the very end.