#352 Him

It was dark.

It's always dark at night.

She was staring at the television like some retard,

Watching yet not actually seeing the moving pictures.

The lights aren't on.

She was alone, justing sitting crossed legged in front of the television.

All of a sudden,

She heard a growl behind her.

She took a deep breath.

Her heart pumping wildly in her aching chest.

She slowly turned and she found myself facing 

Nose to nose with a white tiger.

The tiger was sitting as it thrust it's nose onto hers.

The tiger then gave a throaty growl.

Her eyes widen and she slowly backed up from the tiger.

It's eyes were sky blue in color,

A complete different blue than her eyes.

Hers is more, well,

Midnight blue.

She slowly stood up,

Afraid the tiger might pounce on her.

Instead, the tiger placed it's paws in front

And lay it's head on it's paws.

Yet it's eyes has never left hers,

Not even a single second.

She went to on the lights 

Just so she could have a better look at the tiger.

She gasped when the tiger begun to shift it's shape.

A long white python replaced the tiger.

"What are you?" she whispered.

The snake started to make it's way to her.

She was paralyzed but it's eyes.

When the snake finally reached her,

It lifted it's upper body,

Eyes seizing her every second.

"I'm what you love and what you're afraid of,"

The snake said in a hissing voice.

It was no mistake the snake was a male.

"How can I love something I'm afraid of?"

She asked the snake,

Completely surprise at the answer than the snake 

Has the ability to talk.

The snake gave her a rather sad look and

He lay back down on the cold marble floor.

He curled himself tighter and tighter,

Until he became a tiger once again.

Filling herself with much courage,

She walked up to the tiger,

Knelt in front of  him and placed her hand on his head.

The tiger opened his eyes and he sighed.

"If I'm afraid of you, I would not have go near you," she said and smiled.

The tiger then stood her and bare his teeth at her.

"You may not be afraid of me now for I've yet to show you my true form,"

He said in a throaty growl.

He then walked towards the front door.

"Open the door, I need to go,"

"But... why?" she asked him as she stood up.

"I cannot maintain my animal forms for long,"

The tiger then shifted into a wolf.

"Quickly," the white wolf howled.

"Let me see who you really are,"

Her fingers trembled as she took her keys out from her pocket.

"No!" the wolf howled again.

She finally inserted the right key in and the wolf quickly 

Rushed out of the door.

The wolf shifted into the tiger once again.

He purred as she scratched his chin.

He then leaped over her gate into the dead night.

But she saw the tiger stopped a few feet away from 

A street lamp.

She narrowed her eyes to focus on the tiger.

He slowly shifted into a shape of a man

And she gasped.

The tiger, the snake, the wolf.

It was him.

It was him all along.

"I'm what you love and what you're afraid of."

The snake or rather he said.

And he was right.

She loved him, with all her heart

And yet she was afraid of him.

She went back to her house,

Closed the front door and she broke down,

Crying.

She was not a sentimental girl but he was her world,

Her playmate, her other half.

But she was afraid of him.

She was right.

How can she love something she's afraid of.

In the middle of her cries,

She heard someone knocking the door.

She wiped her eyes,

Afraid it might be him once again.

She opened the door, slowly and carefully.

Afraid of what the door might reveal.

A man with silver white hair stood in front of the door.

He has young and sharp features despite his silver hair

That glowed under the moonlight.

"Heya," the man said with a cheerful smile.

"How may I help you?" she asked after clearing her throat.

"Mind stepping out for a moment?" he asked.

His olive green eyes sparkled with mischief.

She took a step out from her house

And faster than lightning,

The man grabbed her by the throat and pushed her 

On the wall beside the door.

"Glad you fell for my trick," he smiled.

Her breath was knocked out from her lungs when he 

Pushed her towards the wall.

"You see, I love pretty girl's blood,

They make me, well, high."

He whispered softly in her left her.

His voice caused tiny goose flesh all over her arms.

He then took out a pocket knife from his back pocket and

He threw her on the floor.

She coughed and with wide eyes,

She saw him sat on her and his left hand held her throat

While his right hand was raised up high with the knife.

"Baby, this won't hurt one bit," 

His eyes shone with malice.

He stopped and tilted his head.

"I was lying, it hurts like shit," 

He laughed and she lay helplessly on the cold floor.

Her head was still ringing after the being thrown on the floor.

He then quickly stabbed her.

With sheer luck,

She blocked his hand by using both her hands.

They had a little tug of war

But they both know she was clearly losing

For he has the advantage.

He was a man, 

Greater strength than hers,

He's choking her,

He's on top of her.

But she will not lose!

"Are you working for him?"

She managed to choke out those words.

It caught the man with surprise.

His eyes widen and quickly turned into slits.

"I do not work for anyone!" he yelled

And with much effort,

He pushed the knife harder.

"Let her go!" 

A growl was heard.

The man then looked towards the sound.

Really, all he wanted to do is to drink up some girl's blood.

Is it really that hard?

So much commotion and resistance.

She blinked the tears out from her eyes and she 

Made the effort to turn her head.

A white wolf was baring it's teeth at them.

"I'll do anything you want," she whispered to the man.

"Let me go before you get hurt,"

"ME hurt!?"

Unbelievable.

The girl was under his control and she was

Asking him to let her go just so he won't be hurt.

What the hell?

The wolf lost it's patience and pounced on the man.

But the man managed to cut her face.

She closed her eyes with pain as she hurt 

Screams and clothes being teared.

She could not stand the yelping of the wolf

And the screams of the man.

Tears begun to trickled down her cheeks.

It's suppose to be a quiet night.

How did it end up like this?

Why?

She placed both her hands on her ears,

Trying her very best to block out the sounds.

She then felt something rough on her face.

Over and over.

She opened her left eye and she saw the wolf licking her cut on her right cheek.

The wolf licked her cut silently,

Without a sound.

She saw the wold was bleeding.

His white fur was tainted with patches of red.

"You're hurt," she said in a soft voice.

The wolf just growled as it continued licking her cheek.

That done,

He sprinted off once again into the night. 

She stood up and watched the wolf leaping away.

What a strange night, she thought 

As she went back to the house,

Lock up and went to bed.

The next morning,

She stared at herself in the mirror

And found out the incident that happened yesterday was real

For a scar was permanently attached on her right cheek.

She touched her cheek again,

Pulling forth the memory of the wolf licking her,

The soft fur of the tiger,

The sad look of the snake.

She then glanced at the wall clock and found out she was 

Going to be late for school.

She quickly washed up, dressed and grabbed her back pack.

Her shoulder long hair was pulled into a soft pony tail.

By the time she reached her classroom,

She was sweating like crazy.

She was too panting but she was safe from being late.

"Wicked scar, babe," her bestie said when she saw the scar.

"Gotta tell me how you got it,"

She slided into her sit as she catch her breath.

"Maybe later?"

She placed her bag on the floor and she caught a guy 

Looking at her.

She smiled and she saw him blushed before he quickly walked away.

Classes was boring, as usual.

But her mind was wondering about the animals and the mad man.

Finally, it was time for PE.

PE.

Her only favorite class among the rest.

She was the first to run out of class and into the open

Lush green field.

Ahh.

She loves it so very much.

She feels free and all.

She began to jog around the field,

Feeling her heart pumping faster and faster every step she took.

"Mind if I join you?" a male voice asked her.

She turned her head and saw Chong Zheng,

Her fellow classmate and nodded.

She then secretly smiled to herself.

He's cute.

He has black hair and opal colored eyes.

He was titled for mysterious and quite all year round.

Yet he was here,

Jogging with her around the field.

Finally, they stopped.

Their chest rising rapidly as they greedily fill the 

Fresh air in their lungs.

"Nice jogging with you," she said as she began to walk away.

He quickly grabbed one of her arm

And she looked back at him with surprise.

She saw his opal eye began to change color.

From opal to midnight blue, like hers, to sky blue.

Like...

Like...

The tiger.

The snake.

And her savior, the wolf.

"You," she gasped and he let go of her hand.

"Wait!" she cried as he began to run away from her.

"What did he want from you?"
Her bestie asked as she tossed a bottle of cold water to her.

"I'm not sure," she mumbled.

"I saw him held on to your hand,"

"Yeah, but he didn't utter a word,"

"Maybe you should talk to him,"
"Can we drop this?"

"But I'm trying to help," her friend was offended.

"I'm sorry, just tired, I guess. Didn't get that much sleep,"

"Well, you are forgiven provided you go talk to him now."
"What!?"

"You do want me to forgive you right?"

"Maybe now is not the best time yet,"
"Whatever. Just make sure you talk to him okay?"

She mumbled and closed her eyes.

Both of them are lying on field, soaking in the warm sun.

"Honestly, this is the best place to skip classes," her bestie said.

"Yeah, specially history," she agreed.

"Ima go sneak us some coke,"

"Ima stay here and burn myself to death,"

"Suit yourself!"

"Bring back the coke!" she yelled and closed her eyes.

Her thoughts whirled harder and harder about the shape shifter.

Not to mention the mad man too.

"Aren't you afraid of getting heat stroke?"

She opened her eyes and she saw Chong Zheng looking down at her.

She yelped and quickly sat up.

"Here," he handed her a bottle of cold water.

"T-thanks," she said and took a swing.

She then wipe her mouth and looked at him.

"How'd you find me?" she whispered.

A soft breeze blew.

"I just know where you are,"

"Like yesterday?"

The question caught him off guard and he placed his head between 

His hitched knees.

"I'm what you love and what you're afraid off," she quoted.

He then raised his head and looked at her.

"Yet, I don't feel frightened at the moment," 

Her words traveled to his stubborn brain.

He then sighed and got up.

He held out a hand towards her and saw her looking 

At him, giving him the innocent look.

"You do know teacher knows you're skipping class, right?"

She blushed and his heart gave a hard leap.

"Well, come on."

He pulled her up hard and she stumbled on a rock.

He caught her and they looked at each other, eye to eye.

They saw their past, present and future.

Just a single glance like that.

"I've loved you for so long,"

He wanted to say to her

Yet his mouth was temporary paralyzed.

She pushed herself off him and she walked ahead,

On her way to class.

She then stopped and looked at a guy walking

Past them.

He saw the way her eyes soften,

A small smile that tugged on her playful lips.

She's in love with some other guy he knows

And that guy happened to be a jerk, a freaking play boy.

"Hey," she greeted the jerk.

The jerk stopped and gave her the Colgate commercial smile.

"Hello cutie," he said and walked off.

He saw her knees almost buckled and he could hear her heart

Thumping faster and faster.

He was mad at himself.

He balled up his fist and walked away,

Leaving her once again.

He's been watching her and sure as hell the one that will

Protect her.

If you love someone, you have to set them free.

If they are meant for you, they'll com right back.

But he no longer stand it.

The love he gave her aches so much in his heart.

He hated the pain and felt like ripping his heart out,

To get rid of the pain once and for all.

She saw him walking,

Walking out towards the heavy traffic.

"Chong Zheng! Chong Zheng!" she cried when a car knocked him.

"CHONG ZHENG!" I cried while opening my eyes

And sitting up from my bed.

I was a fool to chase after someone when the one that loves me is chasing after me.

I should have turned back and see that. 

It was all too late.

♥

Queer dream I had there.

Well, Chong Zheng didn't exists.

Obviously.

I just found out I was screaming that name when I woke up (:

I am what you love and what you're afraid of.