"Wake up, Maxine." Have I blacked out again? After allowing myself to wake I look around my surroundings in shock. Blood dripped from my fingertips as I stepped away. "This isn't my blood." I eventually found a person covered in this same liquid. When I leaned closer to the body laying down on the kitchen wood floor I screamed, horrified. "What did she make me do?!" After dropping the bloodstained blade I try to remember what had just happened. Every time I fail to do so I hit myself over and over again. I scream at the crimson puddle until I hear her voice in my head. "He had to die, max! We have to go!"
"No! You can't do this! What have you done?! Is this the end of me?" Feeling as if I was unraveling into pieces I lay beside the body. "Alex? You killed Alex?!" My best friend from high school. He understood what I was going through, and now he's gone. I grab onto the rim of his Jacket pulling him towards my chest, sobbing in panic unable to breathe properly.
"You killed him, Maxine! Not me!"
Ignoring her I hold him close as tears fall onto his now still chest. "Please, don't leave me alone with her! She took over...Alex, I'm so sorry...I'm sorry for all this." I plead.
"You are my puppet! Of course I took control of your weak, pathetic mind! You are mine and I will have you in the end! Just you wait and see!" Her voice swarming through my head like a hurricane.
Holding Alex's cold body as I drift in and out of control. The feeling becomes worse when I screamed one last time.
The sirens came on at midnight. Flashing red and blue lights illuminated the darkness around the two of us. "I have to go." I gently put my dead friend on the floor and stand up. Accepting that I can't run from this for long I walk out to the driveway. Closing my eyes to breath in the brisk autumn air I wait for her to speak. Nothing? After years of torture and pain she finally refuses to talk? This is the moment she decided to leave me be?
I watch as the three officers surround me with their guns and handcuffs. "On the ground, now!" Oh, they must have noticed the blood on my nightgown. I comply to the order and set my knees onto the concrete. The youngest man placed the cuffs on my wrists and leads me to a car.
"Ma'am, you wanna tell us what happened?" I agreed. When I told him about Lilith he looks at his buddies and all nodded. "Right, we will be taking you to a safe place for a while. Is that okay?" I smile. Later that morning they took me to a beautiful place with caring people who will cure me. Finally, a calm, silent night.
"Maxine..Maxine." Suddenly everything is dark once more.
