Lil Inferno

Friend

The time was 8 am, the bright fall sun peering through kevins window and the cool breeze brushing against his ears an neck making him shiver but slowly wake up, as he sat on his bed he heard the sound of his phone buzzing, it was going crazy unlike any of the other times it would. When he checked it he had multiple texts from his friends saying happy birthday!! One in particular made him chuckle and smile which was at midnight which said. "Happy shitling day! Ill talk to you later to see how it goes" he smiled knowing his friend was still asleep and wouldn't be up till a bit later due to them being more of a night person, so kevin sent them a thanks and began to grab his things to start the day. He grabbed a normal blue t-shirt jeans and sneakers, just about when he was gonna leave his room he almost forgot to grab his lucky red zip up hoodie, he almost never forgets it even on the hottest of days. As he opened the door a huge cloud of tobacco smoke rushed in removing all the clean cold air from his room and pushing it into the living room/kitchen. "Close that god damn window of yours! We aren't trying to heat up the fricken outdoors!" Kevins stepfather shouted from the living room couch. He sighed knowing that he most likely already had a small glass of scotch already poured into his hand and inside his system. He walked back to his window and closed it like he asked kevin to do. He carefully made his way down the stairs and walked into the kitchen where his mother was cooking breakfast his back turned to him as she was working on the stove. "Morning sweetheart! And happy birthday, I'm making your favorite! Ham egg and cheese on a hard roll with hash browns on the side" kevin smiled again knowing that his mother always cares for the best in him. But. The smile soon faded when his mother turned around, she had dark bruising around her neck and a bad bruise just underneath the right eye almost making it look like it was black. Once his mother saw the disappointment and anger in his eyes she tried to reassure him. "Don't worry.h-he wasn't as bad as last time..w-we just got into a tiny discussion about what were gonna be doing today thats all" she smiled placing his plate in front of him with the ketchup she put on his ham egg and cheese as the number 18 to celebrate his 18th year being here. Though for him he counted it as his 7th year of hell ever since his stepfather came into there life. As his mother started to leave her phone starting buzzing as she was receiving a phone call she answered it and kevin decided to eavesdrop a bit of the conversation as he was eating. "Hello?....wait t-today?....well you know i cant my sons birthday is to-......yes....okay...alright ill be there soon" she sighed as she placed the phone on the counter. "Which work was it?" Kevin asked in a somewhat depressing tone knowing he'd be left somewhat alone. "The grocery..they want me to come in and stay till closing.." she turned and looked at kevin with sorrow in her eyes. "J-just stay in your room for the day. He's already not in the best of moods so just let him be and do what he asks..." kevin nodded as he continued to eat knowing he was gonna get in trouble some way shape or form even not for doing anything. "Hey if you want i can get you your birthday present though" kevin smiled lightly nodding knowing his mother always got him the best ones. Kevins mother chuckled. "Alright well hold out your hand and close your eyes" he listened to his mother and did what she told him, he felt a small cold object press against his palm and opened his eyes seeing a silver zippo lighter, he smiled wide knowing he really wanted one of these for a while. "Unfortunately the zippo has no fluid in it, i was gonna get you some tonight when we were gonna go out, but ill get you some when i come back okay?" Kevin nodded and hugged his mother but not to hard due to the internal bruises she had from the less recent fight his stepfather and her had."thank you mom." Kevins mother smiled and hugged back. "No problem sweetie, now i gotta get ready, finish your breakfast and then head to your room" he nodded sitting back down and finished his breakfast.
Afterwards he grabbed his plate brought it to the sink and started to head to his room when a thought came to his head, "stepdads got a shit ton of lighter fluid, and knowing how drunk he is already he probably wont even see any missing." So he walked a bit further then where his room was and quietly went into his stepfathers smoke room quickly grabbing a container of lighter fluid and heading and rushing into his room closing the door quietly enough to seem like nothing happened. He sighed and took out the zippo his mother gave him and unscrew the cap to fill it up and began to pour it in, unfortunately though while he was pouring a couple drops hit his flouring leaving the smell of the lighter fluid in his room, not knowing what to do he covered it with a rug and quickly opened his window back up so then the air could clean out the lighter fluids smell, not 15 minutes later he heard his mother talking to his stepfather of her leaving for work and that shed be home late, he retorted with some drunken comment before his mother left and drove away. The day went like it would normally for kevin, every fifteen minutes he heard the glass clanging noise of the cup and scotch bottle his stepfather had been drinking, the sound of the glass cup hitting the table getting louder and louder till...it stopped, for too long..what he heard next made his heart start beating his eyes going wide and his skin turning pale, he heard footsteps, they became louder and louder outside his door then faded away..to the smoke room. Most of the time it only for five minutes then he left but for him it felt like hours waiting to hear the footsteps go back but never happening till they slowly and heavily walked back to the living room where he heard him pour another glass but almost slamming the glass down to the point of it breaking. "This was it" he thought, he knew his mother and kevin himself would both be attacked due to what he did, so he waited, and waited. And he waited, but..nothing ever seemed to happen, just the sound of his stepfathers glass smacking the table. He thought maybe it'll be best for him to get some sleep then and see what happens later in the day.
A few hours past as kevin was sound asleep till he heard a loud bang startling him and waking him up, when he sat up he noticed two things, his bedroom was allot darker then it was supposed to be since it was only 3 O'clock and it was allot hotter then what they set the temperature to. He quickly got on the same clothes he did the day before and went to grab the doorknob, when he grabbed it with his hand he immediately pulled his hand back in pain as it was scorching hot. He crouched down to look under the door crack and saw to his horror the whole inside of his house was set ablaze, panicking he tried numerous of times to break the door down by running himself into it till it finally broke the hinges and sent him flying into the hallway, smoke burning his eyes as he stood up and slowly suffocating him with each breath he took, he rushed not caring about his own safety looking for his mother, he ran into there bedroom but it was empty he then darted down the stairs where he saw his stepfather crushed by already burnt debris and his mother..she was bleeding on the ground already dead...she had a bullet hole in her forehead and tears streaming down her face as if she begged for her life but no mercy was given to her, kevin collapsed pained seeing his mothers life taken, for his own fault, "it should've been me." he kept on saying to himself as he stared at his mothers now lifeless body. Debris falling all around him till one landed on top of kevin pinning him to the ground, he gasped as the debris poured into his mouth burning his insides immensely and suffocating his lungs, he tried as much as he could to push the debris off of him burning his hands in the process to the point where they were passed third degree burns he tried to cry out in pain or for help was no use due to his mouth in an immense amount of pain and soon laid there, knowing there was nothing left for him to do...but just wait for the house to collapse and crush him wishing there was some way he could be save or anything like that, he could feel his eyes becoming heavy it becoming harder to breath and the pain just being to excruciating begging to black out...but then he felt,nothing..he was able to breath his eyes werent getting heaving and he didnt feel any pain. "My my my, what a interesting conundrum i appear to see you in my child~" a voice could be hear everywhere around him almost mockingly and demonic "w-w-whos there?..." kevin said feeling his heart sink in fear. "Oh no need to fear me, im but a friend and im here to help you~"the voice cooed, "a-a friend? Y-your gonna h-help me?" "But of coarse~! All you have to do my child is one tiny favor for me after i help you~. Sounds simple enough doesnt it~?" "U-u-um..." kevin started to say completely unsure. "Well i mean if you wanna die here knowing you still have a chance to survive and live with your whole life still ahead of you fine by me~. Im not here to protest~, i shall leave you be my child~." Kevin quickly responded scared pleading to the mysterious voice. "N-no no please! I-i wanna live...i-i want to live.." he could hear the voice chuckle "gooood~ thats all you needed to say my child. Now sleep, ill come see you again when the time is needed, but till then, rest~." Kevin tried to ask more questions but soon felt his eyes get heavy soon blacking out.
As he began to wake up he heard people talking above him. "Time of death? 3:56 pm broken ribs with swollen lungs mainly due to ash debris and the amount of smoke sucked into them, no signs of blood forced trauma and any bullet shots like his mother." "And the stepfather?" "Deceased as well, his alcohol level was at a 29.5 he started the fire as well as killed his wife in cold blooded murder" Kevin heard this making him enraged the people above him noticed something happening. "Did you turn up the temperature? Its getting fricken hot in here like its an oven" before the other doctor could speak kevin grabbed one of there mouths as it slowly started to burn melting the skin as hot bubbles formed around the cheeks sending tons of pain to a point of immediate death. Kevin slowly sat up, his grip tightening on the poor doctors mouth almost crushing the bone cooking his tender muscles to well done, eyes were now amber instead if the warm brown his hair charcoal black he had fire burns covering his entire lower face and body leaving horrible burn marks and scars, he removed his hand from the one doctor as he dropped on the floor dead instantly the other just stood in horror not knowing whether to scream or just run. Kevin slowly climbed off the surgery table and grabbed his clothes from the other table, each one having dark black spots in specific areas almost as if they started to burn but no burn wholes on them, as he got his jacket on he walked away to the door setting the other doctors clothes immediately a blaze due to the heat Kevin was eroding. Every step he took another object or life being set on fire bloodcurdling screams growing more and more as he walked towards the entrance and exit of the hospital knowing from that day on he was no longer the person he was...from that day forward he was...Little inferno.