You Again |Klaus

Chapter 19 Part 3

Alice greets me at the door, she had made a late dinner for Hope herself and I. I mumble a hello as I take off my jacket to hide the dirt I had just rolled in. My head was racing with questions and concerns, but they all disappeared form my mind when I notice a mark on my right arm.

Examining it closer, I remember that Hope had drawn a picture of it in her last drawing. A dark black X on the inside of my forearm Running my hand across it, it feels like my normal skin. Shaking my head, it must be a joke Hope played on me with a sharpie and I must have just noticed now. Sitting down at the table I put some food on Hopes plate and then dish my own plate. Alice gives me a weird look from across the table, before I am able to open my mouth to ask her, she asks, "Did you get a tattoo?" She says pointing to my arm. Shaking my head, "no" I laugh "Hope drew it on me." I say looking at Hope.

Hope looks at me wide eyed and shakes her head "I didn't do that mommy." As she shovels a spoonful of peas into her mouth. Alice is now glaring down at my arm, I look down at the mark too, how could I posibbly have gootne this thing then, I think.

All of a sudden it starts to burn, almost as if I had a bad sun burn in the exact area of the X. Taking my left hand I try to rub whatever the mark is off, but it continues to stay as if it was tattooed on. "Ouch" I mumble as I continue try to rub whatever this mark was off of my skin. Looking up from my arm, I see Alice standing up, and as if in slow motion she flips the table over and jumps on top of me. Food falls allover the room peas, carrots, mashed potaotes all smothered in my hair and on the walls. Hope screams, and jumps off of her chair and runs to my side continung to scream for me. Completely caught off guard I don't know what to do. Alices hands wrap around my neck trying to suffocate me. I struggle to kick her off but her weight feels as if it is crumbling on top of me. My lungs are now heaving for air I try to use my vampire strength to push her off but I think she may have put something in the food because I feel so loopy, my strength feels as if its draining from me. My vision dstart to tunnel and all I can hear in the distance is Hope screaming. I use all my strength and give her one last hard push and she loses grip of my throat. Rregaining my breath I kick Alice off of me, and tangle my hand in her hair, smash her head against the table. Running over to Hope I grab her hand and we run to our house next door. "Hope you need to pack your things, we have to hide for a while." I say winded using whatever energy I have to help her. She grabs my hand tighter, "Mommy I'm scared" she says tears filling her eyes

"Why did Mrs. Alice do that?" Hope continues to ask.

"Hope I don't know but its really important that you get your stuff so we can hide." I tell her again, shaking her grasp on my hand away.

Running up to her room to help her I start to get light headed. My vision starts to blur into a tunnel again not able to focus on whatever was in front of me. The temperature in my head start to heat up at a remarkable pace causing sweat to start dampening my skin. Now my hearing starts to go into that irritating squeal and I feel like I am a million miles away from Hope. Now crawling up the stairs I use both my hands and feet to carry myself up the stairs to reach Hope. My stomach begins to churn I feel so very nauseous to the point where I just wanted to scream out in pain. It felt as if every part of my body was slowly shutting down on me. Crumbling on top of my self on the stairs my hands go up to my neck, and where once a necklace with a very important crystal lay was now gone.