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Chapter 7 - Derek

Derek. Derek. Derek. DEREK. He left me! He took me! Derek. Help me please, save me, I promise your salvation. I promise you immortality, power, beauty, just reach out.

HOLD MY HAND!

This isn't my fault! I didn't ask for this! That's why you have to help me! Oh, I wish I never walked in his direction, oh I wish I was never caught up in his gaze I wish I hadn't swum in those eyes.

EYES

Endless tunnels of hope, beautiful fields of grass, raging oceans, twirling universes, how I love those eyes. Love is tearing me apart! I still have his smile implanted in my brain, a hot mark still sizzling.

SMILE

The smile of happiness, laughter, hope, nostalgia, even a hateful smirk. Don't let me suffer, be empathetic! How can I say that? I don't even feel, well I used to not feel. Now, I am consumed by myself, I am eating myself and you are the only one who can save me!

LOVE

The only emotion I can feel, hot, burning, love! You, humans, depict love as pretty but that is only because you have other emotions and feelings to mix it with, to smooth it out. I just have cold, hard, raw and sizzling love. No hate to blur the line, no sadness to overcome it, no anger to extinguish it, no happiness to enjoy it. Only love. Love is mad, love is not pleasant, the other feelings and emotions make it pleasant and bearable, for some, it even becomes a drug. I need souls and spirits to smooth it out, but only Derek is not enough.

REACH OUT

Stretch your fingers, just a little graze can save me! All I ask from you is your understanding! You are probably asking yourself, why would I save someone who doomed so many? I can't help it! Do you know how that hunger can get? That instinct to take people is bigger than our will, we have no control over it! And humans say to embrace ourselves! Well, I can't control the need to take, so I must embrace it! Please help! I AM NOT A MONSTER!

There's nothing on me but Derek, he took all of them. The Wonders. The Sweets. The Happiness. One soul cannot replace thousands. Oh, I failed as a Muse. I

FAILED

Father must be ashamed, he must be mad, he will not... I WANT TO SEE THE SUN!

"Sweetie it is okay, shhh," a voice said, I looked up and a woman was standing a meter away from me. "You will see the sun when you get better," she reassured.

HUMAN

If you cannot save me SHE will, I stretched out my hand to touch her but she moved away. I wanted to come closer, I needed her soul, her spirit, I needed something more than Derek. I came closer just one step more...

"Do not touch me," she warned me but I lunged towards her. I grasped the air. Pain, so much pain, electrifying pain, I tried to search for the source of the pain, my hand was burning, scorching, a taser.

I am lost, I need a direction, I need to free myself, I need, I need, I NEED.

"Derek,"