You know those moments when you look at the time and think, has somebody stopped the time or something? That's how I felt in detention. School had ended at four and I had to stay in detention until five. Just two minutes left.
I held in a deep heavy sigh while I look up at the wall clock impatiently tapping my foot in the floor. Mr. Wendell looks at me with glee as the clock seems to reluctantly move.
I had a date with Charlotte. Date? Sounds weird even in my head.
The clock hits five and I wait for Mr. Wen's confirmation to leave. He locks me in his gaze and I stare at him in question.
With a defeated sigh he says "You can leave"
A smile crosses my face as I head out of the class my backpack strapped on my back. I smiled as I walk through the empty halls. After multiple lefts and rights I finally stepped out the doors that led to the bleachers. For a moment I don't see Charlotte and I dread the thought that she might have changed her mind and ditched me. Those thoughts are pushed out of the window when I see her staring at the field.
She was wearing a pink crop shirt that slightly showed her cute belly button, blue skinny jeans that really held out the outline of her hips and a pair of light blue kitten heels. Her flawless long curly brown hair was fitted with blue ribbons here and there. She had worn red lipstick ,some slight mascara covered her eyelids. She looked like a goddess.
Now I felt underdressed for the occasion in my white uniform shirt, blue trouser, white Nike sneakers and of course a backpack. Talk about underdressed am I right.
I was tempted to turn around and run. In fact my feet were about to execute the command but abruptly stopped when she faced me, flashing a pretty smile my way and I just pulled myself together.
Onward
"Hey," she met me halfway.
"Hie…you look great but I guess I'm a little underdressed aren't I?" I said
"Oh don't worry about that," she giggled. "How was it?"
"It was brutal. As if I was trapped in another world where time moves relatively slow," I reply which earns me a genuine cute laugh from her.
"Well then I guess we'll have to make the wait a lot more worth it right?"
"Uh yeah of course," I didn't understand what she meant at first but she grabbed my hand and ran dragging me behind her as I was forced to run.
We ran for a few minutes and walked through the park all the while holding hands. We stopped infront of the only amusement park in town.
"You ready?" she asked
"As long as I'm with you," I replied and together we went in. It was a Tuesday so there weren't many bystanders which worked for me because I honestly didn't want people from school to spot us and gossip about it all month. We started with a game where I knock down a pile of stacked tins with a baseball. I threw the ball and we laughed after I missed all three tries.
"You're horrible," she laughed
"I know," I joined her. She took the ball and I was surprised when she knocked down all three stacks which won her a teddy bear. She gave it to me (I know that they guy gets the girl the doll but still).
"Thought I was the one who was supposed to give you this," I said and tried to make a puppy face.
"You look like a cat on drugs," she teased.
We spent the next two hours going around the park. Cotton candy, bumper cars, roller coasters, haunted house and now we were on a slow moving Ferris wheel that was raising us up above the ground that. When it we reached the top it stopped moving so that we could have an aerial view of York town which was shining with lights now that the sun had set. I looked towards Charlotte. She was looking up at the stars that shone in black veil of the night. The moon was also out, it was beautiful night.
"It's beautiful," she whispered in a way that I could hear her.
"Like you," I said and slipped my hand in her's looking at her as her face turned to look at me. Her face looked ten times prettier with the moonlight that danced on her skin. Her eyes studied me softly.
"Do you really think so?" her cheeks were flushed red as she asked this.
'So cute!' Tyler said internally.
"I really do," I said softly as we held our gazes. Her face drew closer to mine. Or was my face drawing closer to her's? It didn't matter.
Our lips brushed ever so lightly as if testing to see if they could meet and not startle the other and before I knew it our lips were embracing each other moving in sync and rhythm as a warm fuzzy feeling built up inside me.
'Am I really kissing her? This better not be a dream otherwise I'll kill myself.'
It was six thirty two when we finally walked out if the park hand in hand.
"We should do this again soon," she suggests and leans her head on my shoulder. Causing her sweet fragrance to enter my nose. Why do girls smell so good? I couldn't help but wonder.
"Yeah for sure," I smiled at the memories we had made today. We were walking past the entrance to the woods. Charlotte tugged my arm. "How about a short stroll through the woods?" she said and I couldn't help but look past the trees and saw that the moonlight provided some light but I couldn't see beyond the darkness that lied ahead.
"Are you sure?" I asked, suddenly having a bad feeling in my guts.
"You may have a chance to see…me…naked," she whispered in my ear, "but you're gonna have to catch me first."
She ran off and it took only a few seconds for her words to sink in.
And me being me. A teenager no less and having those obviously suggestive words whispered so close to my ears was like the devil's temptation. One that had my active hormones on over drive. A single thought running through my mind.
'If I do good tonight I could actually lose my virginity outdoors!'
That thought alone drove my mind off into space and without any hesitation I followed after her.
In the former silent woods, grass and twigs could be heard being displaced as Charlotte ran with me not far off behind her. It failed to register in my head that we were actually going deeper and deeper into the woods but I didn't think much of it.
My judgement was being severely clouded by my lustful imagination. I could hear her giggle a few feet infront of me that just gave me more strength to give chase some more. I didn't notice but as I went deeper, the air was feeling slightly heavy, thicker, making it difficult to breath.
A few minutes later Charlotte suddenly halted at what seemed to be a clearing in the woods. Her magnificent figure illuminated by the moonlight. I stood behind her. The sight leaving me breathless, or was it due to all the running?
I took shallow breaths. Only now did I realize that something was wrong with this place.
"Hey…Charlotte" I said in between breaths. "I think we should get out of here"
To response from her. I stepped closer to her but she still didn't look at me. I stood directly behind her. I saw the subtle shaking of her shoulders before I heard a low sob. Completely at a loss for what to do, I tried to place my hand on her shoulder only for an unknown force to known into me.
My body was sent flying like a kite with a broken string, before my back knocked into a tree before landing on my side on the ground. I coughed as blood violently spilled out of my mouth. My internal organs were completely shaken and worse some of my ribs were completely snapped making every breath labourous.
The pain was something I had never experienced before and the fact that my mind was slipping in and out of consciousness did nothing to help with my confusion.
What was that? What is happening?
Even through my fading vision I could see Charlotte's figure finally turn towards me. But her eyes were giving off an ominous dark glow as dark clouds shrouded her body. I could see tears streaming down her eyes as her body physically changed right before my eyes.
Her once flawless white skin turning a shade of black. Her flawless face gave way to two horns that protruded and extended from her forehead. From her back, two midnight black fleshy wings emerged just as all her clothes burst into ash. A thin long tail extended right above her butt. She resembled what I could only describe as a demon.
As she looked, I could see more tears streaming down her eyes.
"Why?" her voice was low but it managed to reach my ears. It was a voice filled with sadness. "I thought I may have been mistaken at first. I hoped I was wrong but…it hurts me so much that you could actually have it"
As she spoke a foreboding feeling overwhelmed me. She flicked her wrist. I could feel the subtle shift of something in the air before a spear made of complete darkness formed in her hand.
"I'm really sorry Huey…I truly liked you but I have to do my job" she raised her spear wielding arm and immediately I could tell what was coming next. "I'll make it painless…I promise"
'Fuck you!' I screamed in my head I was unwilling to die like this. No I was unwilling to die at all.
I wanted my body to move, I willed it to move. No matter how painful it was, I would rather take this pain than die at the hands of the demon before me.
'Charlotte' hauled the spear at me, aiming to eliminate my head in an instant.
At that moment something within me shifted. I could suddenly see through the structure of the spear. Energy swirled and whipped around me and without even knowing what I was doing I punched out with my fist.
'Charlotte's eyes narrowed. One thought coming into her mind. 'He can use mana!'
Boom!
Immediately a small explosion rang out, my body sent flying once more. My injuries increased. My arm was all mingled up and half of my face was covered in my own blood. As I landed on the ground I could feel my entire body protesting.
The pain multiplying by tenfold and my consciousness threatening to slip away. I propped myself up. My legs shaking. I truly had nothing left. That strange sensation I had felt before was gone.
"WHY!" Charlotte shrieked. "Why won't you just die painlessly!"
"It seems I dated a wackjob" despite what I said heart was thumping rapidly. The fear of death looming over me as her wings stretched and flapped. She was now hovering in the air. Her arms raised above her head as streams of darkness converged above her figure.
"[Blackhole]" she muttered under her breath and I could feel energy rising through the dark basketball sized swirl of darkness above her figure.
I could tell immediately that this would be the death of me. Suddenly, I heard movement behind me. I turned weakly only to see a very familiar large green serpent. At this moment I suddenly realized that the moonlight, the way the trees were and even the serpent before me. It was all similar to my dream…no similar would be an understatement.
Hiss!!
The giant snake hissed causing the trees to tremble. And just like in my dream it shot down towards me with its mouth wide open.
Usually, this would be the part where I would scream my lungs out but I didn't have the energy or strength to even do that. I could only watch helpless as the serpent shot towards me from the front and 'Charlotte's' [Blackhole] spell came at me from behind.
There was only one thing certain/
At this point there was only death at two fronts