BLEEDING HEARTS.

Mark looks at me and moves in on me, he asks what is wrong as he puts his hand around me, nothing is wrong I reply – you I am the one with the huge crush on you, I tilt my head and raise an eyebrow – oh yeah one of the trio has a crush on me how pathetic. He replies I don’t seem to like your tone, I can tell you a bit about yourself, you are a little girl chosen to be … and you have the power to see visions, and manipulate humans and objects.

Wow, so if I have those powers you talk about, you also have powers to make people believe they are crazy, no wonder girls can’t say a complete sentence while around you and they act like Barbie dolls.

We both laugh and start to chat about school work, and we get a little dipper with questions about our personal lives and relationships.

I am quite astonished when I realize we are both Latino Americans, he is from New Mexico and I’m from California we do have a lot in common.

We make a stop to get a gas refill near a Welcome to new-Mexico billboard, I soon realized I had spent over 13 hours in the car talking to Mark.

I started questioning why they would plan a party in New Mexico. – I notice Mark pacing to and fro, self-talking angrily. I ask him what is wrong. – he says in a whispering voice “I think I need to go to the bathroom” – his eyes are lying and his body says otherwise. Stacy and Chi also look a bit off, I am hoping I didn’t make the mistake of a lifetime.

We get back on the road, a few minutes in, and the car breaks down.

The trio gets out of the car and begins to say, ‘ he is going to be mad’.

I try to puzzle up all my clues but still, I have evidence for their suspiciousness.

I start to feel a little drowsy as I place my head on the door, I can feel the presence of someone standing behind me.

I am shaking all over, and as I turn slowly I see the image of a man with a pale body covered in hay I see droplets of blood around him, he looks like a lunatic ghost from scary movies I watched when I was a little girl.

I start to feel cold and my temperature is as high as ever.

The freak has a thick and husk voice, he tells me I am his chosen and I would be his forever wife. Wife! I am way too young to marry a freak – his face turns red and a plank of wood fixed with nails appears in his left hand, as he steps closer I start to shrink into my skin.

My heart beats a million, I take a hard swallow – screaming at the top of my voice.

The trio does not look afraid, it's like they are playing a character, a second later they jump in the car and zoom off on the freak.

Who the hell was that? – I ask. The trio tells me he is Erebus [pater tenebrarum] the father of darkness, he has chosen you to marry next. Well, he was to marry your mother but she ran away, and then he killed her.

I realize there was never a party and the trio was sent to stalk me. I am really stupid and naïve. I am full of regret and hate, I have been deceived.

The trio is his minions, I walked straight into my trap. Now is my only chance to escape, I opened the door and jumped out as quickly as possible. I stand with a bruise on my hand and run fast into the nearest building “a high school”. I am in a state where no one knows who I am, how unfortunate can I be, I feel pain from the bruise as I run up the staircase tirelessly, I am short of breath as I take my last step, the freak is in front of me, my heart jumps out my chest, I run back down the staircase to see the trio with knives.

My whole life I did good and now, I listen to my parent, I don’t cheat my way around things, and I don’t deserve any of these.

I notice a room by the right corner of my eye, and I break the door open, locking it behind me. I carry a cloth material and crawl under the desk to bury myself.

Big bangs come through the door, and my eyes shut as I pray my last prayers with no breath left, please no please no. I open my eyes to rise from my bed sweating profusely.

Oh, thank goodness it's just a nightmare.