Demonic

Chapter 16

Sage's car drives passed me. I lift my hand in far well as his four wheel drive speeds off and disappears.

"This has been a fun night," Ivy sighs.

We both walk side by side under the street lamps. It's quite, not a sound to be heard, the silence only broken by mine and Ivy's footsteps and idle chatter. Instead of finding it spooky, I find tranquility instead. It's peaceful.

"Yeah. I suppose it has been," I lie.

In truth, I'm not sure what to make of tonight. It was amusing, no doubt, but it's hard blending in with a different species. Their culture and behaviours are as foreign to me as an ugly angel. Unheard of.

I had to keep reminding myself that punching, kicking, scratching and biting are all gestures that are highly unappreciated and inappropriate.

"You're coming out with us tomorrow right?" Ivy asks.

"Sure, I'll be there if I can find the time."

She beams at me with teeth as white as snow. Ivy smiles so much I'm not sure how her face doesn't split in half. One day her jaw is going to drop off.

She throws her arms around me. I stiffen like a board. Before I can pry her off she lets go.

Apparently they want me to come out with them tomorrow. What they are doing, I'm not sure but it should aid me in finding out information. After all, with them I did discover that angels lurk in this town and the forest supposedly haunted.

And also because I don't really have anything better to do. I find them entertaining.

"Incase you can't make it, what's your phone number?"

Ivy whips a phone out of her pocket with an expectant look on her face.

Well shit. I don't have a phone. It didn't even occur to me.

"I forgot my phone. I'll give it to you tomorrow."

Those two sentences added with an apologetic look, and Ivy falls for the lie like a mouse to a trap.

"That's fine." She stops walking. "My house is right here."

A one story house perches near the road with grass as green as stained glass and a small garden out front.

"You don't need me to walk you home?"

"No, that's fine. I'll crash at my aunts place and I can walk there by myself."

If I had a dollar for every time I have lied tonight I'd be buying sports cars and living in a million dollar mansion.

"I'll see you tomorrow, Ivy."

"Bye!" Ivy calls as I walk away.

I turn around and wave at her over my shoulder.

When everyone wanted to go home, they all piled up in Sage's car. Ivy lived not far away so she offered to walk home instead. Sage offered me a ride home as well which I declined.

I couldn't exactly tell him I lived in the abandoned house so I said I'd sleep at my nonexistent aunts place not too far away.