Day 50
"So... what do you do for fun." I don't about everybody, but I know most people did the shadow puppet thing. So, I'm talking to my socket puppet.
Tori was supposed to be sleep one night and she took the lamp off the dresser. She took the cover off the lamp and turned the light on and she put the cover back on the lamp upside down, so she could hover her hands over it and it would cast shadows on the ceiling.
So, she's playing with her hands over the light and she starts making loud ass dinosaur noises playing with my shadow. She's yelling, "Kill Cedrica! Kill her!" and the dinosaur is like, "I hate her! I will kill her!"
She gets up and smacks me in my sleep. She's pulling on my nose and I swing my legs over the bad. Suffocate her with the pillow and kick her. I FUCKING HATE TORI!
I'm in prison just remember stupid shit I shouldn't even be thinking of. Repentance? What about Tori dipping her toothbrush in the toilet to brush her teeth? What about that? What about the time she put a crayon in her ear too far IN THEORY. She just conjured the fucking thought to do some dumb shit and write with a crayon in her ear. Or the time she put dirt in her ear because that's where butterflies came from.
I'M ABOUT TO HAVE A HEART ATTACK!
"Cedrica?" I hear Vijay. "Can you move it?"
"My shadow?" she waves at me. "You might be a fairy."
"Wow... I'm a faggot?" my brow crinkles. "No." he chuckles. "Vampires have certain control over their shadows. After the split happens, the shadow is a fairy. The Miaibu." he explains. "That's the name?"
"They basically become their own self. Some don't carry the vampire personality, They build themselves."
I might have to die. My shadow looks at me smiling. "Am I splitting now?"
"Well, from what I can see, it doesn't have wings yet." How ironic. "Well... I'm a blood drinker." I whisper. I'm in jail; it doesn't matter. "I don't know what to do with her."
She wiggles. "What if I name her--"
"NO!" he yells. "Don't name her!"
"I'll call her--"
"ALEXIS!" he screams. "Rude!" What happened to Cedrica? "You are an idiot!" he says. "RUDE!" I sit up in bed. "I'll name her Cedrica! That's my first name!"
"Oh my god, what is wrong with you!"
"It's a fucking shadow!"
"Druggie!"
"Fuck you nigga!"
"C̴̲̝͐̓ë̵͎̯͜d̶̞͊̄͝r̶̨̻̼͛̽͠į̵̛͕̳̆̌c̴̬̬̫̋a̶̫̿ ̸̻̺̞̥̤̭̹̆͋̽̏̈́͋̍" my shadow speaks. "That's right. Your name is Cedrica McCoy
"Harper!"
"McCoy. Ima give you a full name. Cedrica Alice McCoy."
"NIGGA!" I hear a thud in the cells. "Ạ̶̰̖̃̿̌ḻ̸̯̇̀i̷̹͕̱̾̊͂c̷̳̹̃̈̕è̵̞̥̻̅."
These long black hands come off the wall and grab the bars of the cell. She struggles to pull the cell door but they end up bending. I don't think a mere shadow can break the door, but she does. I hop off the bed and limp to the exit.
"ALEXIS!" I halt and make a full U-turn. "Vijay!"
"What has gotten into you!"
"I've thinking about stupid ass Tori!"
"You are an idiot!" he looks pass my shoulder at my shadow. "You'll be a fucking fairy by the end of the day."
"T̵͇͉̓͑͒O̸̯̹͒͊́D̶̟̭̥͝A̵̹̒̿̓Ȳ̸̼̙" says my shadow. "At least she's good enough to let me out." I say.
"G̸̠̻̣̒̾̈o̴̢̠͛ŏ̸̡͇͘͜d̸̫̳̝͗̈́."
"Lord..." Vijay mutters. I turn to the wall. "Let V out." I point. "Lord..." he gasps. He looks up then to the side, "Are you fucking kidding me?"
"What's wrong?"
"The Ghetto is loud."
"Then we doing a good thing." I smile. "Let him out, Cedrica."
"Á̶͓̀l̴̫̂i̴͔̿̃͘c̶̤͗̿ē̷̗͚̭͗͠." it furrows. "A̴̪̋̈́́l̴͚̤̏̈́̉i̸̝̙̗͆͝c̸̹̠̺͋e̷̠̝͕͗̀͘ ̵̨͇̺́M̸̠͙͖͒c̵̜̩̉̈́͒ͅĊ̸̘̩͜ò̷̰̰̊͆y̸̘͍͇͒͌."
I roll my eyes. "Fine. You be Alice."
She tilts her head. "What--What is wrong with you?"
"We gettin' out this bitch! Alice, get the bars!" her arms extend out the wall and hold the bars. Just like before, she rips it off. Vijay scratches his nose. "Shottie." he speaks and a gun formed by the word comes to his hand. He looks up again and looks at me. "Come on, I gotta shoot Tori."
"For real?" I jog behind him. "That's what the ghetto said?"
"Yeah..."
"Damn, so like, is the ghetto like the devil?"
"That's the snake. You heard of Nahas?"
"No..."
"You know how you have crooked niggas?"
"Yes."
"That."
"Damn, So, like, Nas is the snake?"
"Are you high?" he turns with his eyes wide. "I mean... I did lick a little blood off the sink. It was mine."
"What in fuck's idea is wrong with you?"
"I don't understand, like, we friends."
"You are drunk, Alexis."
"Cedrica."
"No! You literally just named the damn thing now you want your name back!" he racks his hand over his face. "It better not grow wings."
"That means I'm a butterfly--OOOooo, let me tell you what Tori did when we was little." I grab his arm. "One time she was crossing the street and laid in the street. She said she was going to rob the ice cream man. And the ice cream man barely come our way. So this car... this car..."
"Alexis what are you talking about?"
"Tori got kidnapped..." I can't even get the words out. Did I do something wrong? "Vijay... what--you said, Tori put hands in your pants."
"She did."
"Are you sure?"
"I know better, and the Ghetto is talking to me. Tori put hands in my pants, on my dick and everything." I slap his arm, "Don't say that!"
"She did... Tori is Mable's kid with her own son."
"What about her daddy?"
"Jesus, Dareion."
"No!" I bounce on my toes. "Like, what does he do. What did he do?"
Vijay squints. "He beat Torielle."
"But you said--" it's like I can't breathe. "Tori is my aunt cause you said Dareion--"
"Chauncey is your daddy. He is dead, Alexis." he puts his arm against my chest. "You are Mable's granddaughter."
"What in the fuck?" one of the imp guards appears with a cigar in his mouth and left eye on his cheek. "Y'all supposed to be locked up!" a gun comes to his hands. Vijay shoots him in the torso then in the head. He only wobbles. Once this green booger finds his footing, he lifts the gun. "PAUSE!" Vijay shouts. He grabs my hand and we exit the cells. There are five imps ahead of us. "Oh no..." a dark green imp swollen to the point his neck is invisible, holds a minigun.
They carry those in police stations?
He opens fire on the both of us. "BLOCK!" this invisible wall comes and the bullets fall to the bottom. Vijay reaches in his pocket and snaps a coin on the ground. I saw the world speed by me and we were at the front of the station.
He looks right then left. "We have to go to the school."
"We can't go to the damn school! They was there!"
He's not listening to me, he's listening to the hood and I start to think to myself, the ghetto isn't talking. It's the damn snake.
We run off the police station grass and down the street. While running, he hands his hands in his pocket and pulls out another pop rocks, but he throws it at a car. The driver's side opens. Vijay pushes me in the car and I slide into the passenger's side.
The back window shatters and I duck. "GO!" he speaks and the car pulls off with speed. He's not driving, and he hovers his hand over the stick shift. "Four..." the number floats before my eyes and the gears changes without him having to do anything.
"Vijay!"
"Hush!" he swipes two fingers above the wheel and a hole opens. I think this is the Ghetto. We speed pass buildings and a memory flashes across my mind.
I have the strangest urge to look up. I hear something heavy, and I pick up the sound of squealing tires. I look back at a large imp riding on of a limousine. The car bounces as four heads come out the window and launch bullets at the car.
"I thought we was going to school!"
"We are! I'm taking the alley!"
He takes a sharp turn to the left and the car has to balances on two wheels before straightening out. I have to look at what these green thugs is doing.
The big imp on the limo licks his top lip like a dog. He has a shotgun and takes the time to load it.
The bullet flies through the car into Vijay's shoulder. I scream. "Should have picked a better car."
A vampire crosses the street and ca't decide weather to go right or left. It doesn't matter, Vijay hits him. His body sticks to the hood of the car until Vijay sewers down the road.
I haven't even thought about street lights. But fuck them too, it's three vampires fucking around in the middle of the street, the car goes through them. I bet that's how they died.
Vijay makes another sharp left. The big imp shoots out the right back wheel. The rubber can't stay on. What I see ahead is an incline to the freeway. I didn't know the Ghetto had things like this.
I don't think the freeway is used, in fact. It's just a large truck toppled over, cars abandoned on the side of the road and I start breathing heavy.
"Vijay!"
I look in the side mirror and see the back wheel catch fire. "VIJAY!" The car shakes and I view the back window. The trunk pops opens. "GET CLOSE!"
Oh my god, they can talk.
Vijay keeps straight and the car sinks. The back tire is gone. "FUCK!"
"Vijay!" another hole opens in the road. This is Virginia. I look at Vijay huffing and puffing. "Get out..." he rushes to escape the car. I get out, struggling with the door and look at the back wheel. The truck has bullet holes. The tire is gone and low to the ground. "Come on..."
I look at my feet. My shadow is frowning at me.
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