• Run Away


    I ran off. I took a bus that went out of state. I went to Manhattan. I can't explain it but I decided to go. I was almost raped and my girlfriend cheated on me. I just couldn't stand living in the disgrace of Jersey anymore. "Maybe I can start a new life here." I grabbed my bag and got off the bus. I lit a smoke and wandered a bit. I have gone to Manhattan before it's just that someone was always with me. When I was a kid I remember having animals follow me, they just seemed to enjoy my presence, but when I hit ten I started chasing them away. When this stray cat started to follow me I made nothing of it, but after a while it got annoying so I turned around and shooed the cat away. I came to this bookstore and went in. Low and behold guess who followed me, that stupid cat. The manager walked up to me.

    "Uh, animals aren't allowed in this facility, Ma'am."

    "Hey, it ain't my cat. I don't care what you do to it, but I ain't leaving. I am a paying customer." I said and pulled out my wallet. I walked to the fiction section and started to look at the books when I heard a meow. I looked down and there was that stupid cat. Man was it starting to get annoying, but what I did next was to prevent me from getting kicked out. I picked up the cat and put it in my purse. "Be happy I am being nice, cat." I continued to look when I felt something on my purse.

    "Aw, it is so cute." a chick with long dirty blond hair and plain blue eyes said.

    "You want it, take it." I said taking the cat out and handing it to her.

    "Are you serious?"

    "Yeah, just take it."

    "Oh, you are so nice." The chick started to leave.

    "Make sure you don't let it leave you." I smiled, "Cause I swear if that thing comes back..." I said under my breath. I was glad that the extra weight was gone I continued to look for a few hours. Then someone touched my shoulder, "The store is closing, Ma'am." I turned and headed to the door. When I left, I opened my purse, I stole three books. "Now where am I going to stay?" I saw the blond chick again with some guy. The chick ran up to me.

    "Hey, thanks for the cat."

    "Your welcome."

    "Is there any way I can repay you?"

    "Actually, do you know a place I can stay?"

    "Well, I don't think Darren will be happy, but you can stay with him."

    "Where do you live?"

    "He lives...I'll show you. Oh, I'm Dani."

    "I'm Jaimie. You can call me Jay though." Dani ran, as I watched her run the guy she was talking to from the corner of my eye didn't look human he had vines and moss all over him, I thought nothing of it and I followed her. She pulled up a fence and I squeezed through and Dani followed me. She then hopped a fence and ran up to this abandoned looking house, "Is this where you crash?"

    "Yeah, Darren found it, he has a knack for things like that."

    "Who is Darren?"

    "Darren is my friend, he has a brother who is kind of a junkie and he has a girlfriend with him who is just like him, their names are, Ray and Ellie." Dani opened the door revealing a dusty and dark house. "Home sweet home." She said smiling, "I'm back Darren, and I brought someone."

    Out came a Spanish looking boy with long; dark shaggy hair, snake fangs (it's a piercing where there are two lip rings on your bottom lip so it looks like snake fangs.), a gauge in each ear, and an eyebrow piercing. "What the hell Dani we ain't runnin' a homeless shelter! I expected Ellie to do something like this but not you!" Darren looked at me quickly and went to another room.

    Dani looked at me and said, "I'll calm him down. He'll warm up to you, eventually." Dani lead me to the other room where there was a guy and a girl passed out on the floor. Darren was sitting in the corner, the cat I gave Dani lying on his lap while he read. "Darren come here. Jaimie just sit tight okay." Dani and Darren went off into the room I just came from. I went into my pocket and changed out some of my new jewelry for the older steel ones. I changed my lip ring and my nose stud. When Darren came back I heard the front door close.

    "I don't like your kind, Jaimie." Darren stared at my lip ring. "Doesn't that burn."

    "What? My lip ring...why would it burn? You have one too you would know if it burned. And why don't you like my kind? What kind am I that you don't like, because me and Dani have the same skin color."

    "Don't play dumb faery."

    "What? Faery...what the ******** are you talking about?"

    Darren grabbed my shoulder and pushed me against the wall, "Glamour or not I can see what you truly are faery."

    "Get the hell off of me. I've had a hard weekend if I have to I will take it out on you."

    Someone came up behind Darren and grabbed his shoulder, "What the hell are you doing, bro?"

    "What does she look like, Ray?"

    "A human girl, with piercings, short brown hair, and green eyes."

    Darren looked at me closely and let go of my shoulder. I went into my pocket and pulled out the switchblade Sam gave me. Ray came toward me, "NO! Don't touch me!"

    "What did you do, Darren? This chick is scared s**t-less."

    "All I did was push her up against the wall. And told her not to play dumb."

    I got up and ran toward the door, but was grabbed by the shoulder. I turned around and sliced someones arm. I tried to run off but someone grabbed me by the waist and brought me to the floor. I hit the floor I blacked out.

    Faeries


    When I came around I heard Darren and Ray talking. "Dude, this chick is hot."

    "She is not what you think, Ray. She is one of them."

    "But how can she wear metal?"

    "I don't know. It doesn't even burn her flesh."

    "Maybe she is different from the others."

    "No, they are all the same. She is starting to move." I tried to move my hands but my hands were cuffed to a radiator.

    "What the..." I struggled. "I am not like that!" I screamed.

    "You are not like what?" Darren asked.

    "I don't like guys. Please. Don't."

    "Don't what." Darren looked at me studying my face.

    "Please don't. Please don't." I started to cry.

    "Ray get the keys." Ray left the room, "Tell me Jaimie how can you stand the metal."

    "I don't know what you are talking about. Please, leave me alone." I said quietly. I had no idea what Ray and Darren had in store for me, so the only thing I could anticipate was the worst. When Ray came back he had a key. I started to plan my escape. When Ray unlocked the handcuffs I started to run.

    Darren grabbed my wrist. "Where do you think you are going faery?"

    "What are you talking about?" I cried.

    "Do you know you are a faery?"

    "No."

    "She doesn't know. Huh?"

    "How do you know she isn't lying?" Ray asked.

    "Faeries can't lie." Was his simple answer. I heard my phone ring.

    "Can I please answer that?" I said trying to get out of Darren's death grip.

    "Are you going to run?"

    "No." I said. When Darren let go I headed for my purse. I answered the phone. "Hello."

    "Jaimie, I'm sorry. Please come back to me, baby."

    "Screw you, Kasey. I was never with you." I hung up the phone and sat on the floor. "What the hell is going on." I said putting my head in my hands.

    "Have you ever had weird things happen that you could never explain?"

    "Yeah, like cats following me."

    "You probably have a scent that only cats pick up on, Jaimie."

    "I what? Are you saying I smell?" I said smelling my clothes.

    "No." Darren chuckled.

    "Oh." I said looking away.

    "Jaimie, the way I see you is nothing like the way my brother described you. I don't see short brown hair I see short red hair, your skin is brown, and the non-metal piercings are nothing but wood and on your back are two huge wings that are the color of the sun rise. And your eyes they are pure emerald green not even a hint of black or white." Darren said softly.

    "What?" I said touching my back. "What are you talking about? This is freaking me out."

    "Tomorrow, I am going to take you to one of my friends." Darren sighed. "She is just like you. But she knows what she is."

    "What were you talking about when you said my lip ring would burn me?"

    "For faeries smoking and metal are poison."

    "Good thing I ain't a faery." I said and pulled out my pack of cigarettes. I lit one and inhaled deeply.

    "If you aren't a faery I wonder what you are." Darren said watching me smoke.