The Weeping Willow
By Anna R. Davenport
CHAPTER 1. The STRANGER at My DOOR...
It all Started on a Dark, Bleak night in October, it was an unusually warm night for October in Weeping Willow; the village I grew up in. It was October 17, 2127, to be exact, when my whole entire life as I knew it changed forever...
For that was the night when I met him. I remember it like yesterday; it was during a terrible storm with dangerously loud sounds of thunder crashing against my house. When I woke up to the sound of someone, OR some thing, KNOCKING, KNOCKING, KNOCKING; at my door...
I could then feel my adrenaline rushing through my body. I was breaking out in sweat and cold fear at the same time. When I met him, Seth Connor; at first I couldn’t tell who he was or what he was.
All I remember thinking before I opened my door for him is that it was probably just another Huntsman coming to buy my old families secret formula... That was known to Kill Vampires, Growls; werewolves and the like...
For Weeping Willow is not a usual place or normal in any way shape or form; everyone who is capable of staying alive around here; believes it to have been CURSED by an EVIL WITCH a LONG TIME AGO... So now our village is haunted by these unusual creatures and such; and my ancestors were the only ones to figure out how to kill these monsters with this remedy we call the Cure - T. E.
(To Evil)...
So here I was facing a monster, only I didn't realize it at the time; because of his long dark cloak he was wearing covering his tall, muscular; statuesque body... At that time I remember only seeing his GOLDEN GLOWING EYES, staring out from underneath his cloak; right at me. Then suddenly he fell on top of me, and that is when I noticed an arrow stuck deep in the, middle of his back...
As I tried really hard not to collapse from his weight on top of my own, I’d carefully threw my hands underneath his armpits and used my legs to help me drag him into my living room; on top of my sofa... I’d first placed him onto his stomach, while I reached for the arrow stuck in the middle of his back and pulled it back; while trying to stop the bleeding from gushing out of him at the same time; with sheets of cloth that looked sturdy enough to do the job... Like a tourniquet…
I was about to tie it around him when I remembered that I had a brand of healing remedy in my bathroom…
Once I was able to get the arrow out, I immediately ran to the closest bathroom for the healing remedy...
As I said earlier my family is famous for the CURE T.E. Remedy; and we are also famous for many other remedies as well... Such as this Healing remedy I was going to grab as soon as I made it to the bathroom; as soon as I did grab it; I immediately ran back hoping for him to still be alive...
He was, indeed still alive, so I immediately threw some of the healing remedy on him and placed the tourniquet cloth sheets around his wound and tied the ends of his tourniquet cloth to his stomach as I asked him to sit up carefully so I could reach the cloth around him to his stomach; and knot the ends of the Cloth nice and tightly there...
That’s when he took his hood off and I saw Him for the real first time...
His Hair, as black as the night, his eyes as golden as the sun almost but more like the pure gold that you see in those jewelry shops through the windows…
I have never seen such handsome eyes in my life before; until now. His lips full of warmth; small yet doll like lips; they had a little pout of puffiness to them that I can only describe as kissable...
When he smiled his little wiry smile at me as if secretly thanking me without even having to say the words aloud, and some how at the same time suggestive of so much more than just a thank you; as if his mouth alone in itself was inviting me in; as if it was screaming kiss me...
I almost thought I was going to collapse on my butt, while almost slipping off of my own couch, while shocked by how incredibly alluring he was; when he was able to catch me midway of my fall and ask me if I was ok... "Yeah I'm ok, I guess." I said...
I'd wanted to slap my head right then and there, realizing how stupid that sounded; what was I in kindergarten again; who even responds like that any ways? No one except for me that’s who...
And it was then that I noticed the bite marks on his neck and the blood oozing out from his neck; that I began to go into some kind of frenzy... I was indeed in a state of shock, after realizing he was not a human, or not going to be human for long and I had nothing to defend my self with at all...
Expect for the CURE T.E…
However that was in my bathroom ; and lets face it he was a monster &and would be much more quick on his feet then I was; so the idea of even trying to get to my bathroom again was most defiantly out of the question. I think???
As if he suddenly read my mind, maybe more my facial change in expression, he said “Don’t even think about screaming for help, I promise I won't hurt you; if you just keep your gorgeous mouth shut; DOLL..."
I was hesitant at first, as my adrenaline was rushing through my whole entire blood stream, like a mad train that no longer had its breaks on; and was incapable of stopping…
Then he started to trace his cool fingers over mine and it was as if by his cool soft touch alone that clamed me down and sent my heart beat; back to normal....
There was still doubt filling my head, I wanted to run, I wanted to scream; I wanted to be far away from him; this monster I was sitting next to; and as far away from him as possible...
Only I couldn't move I was frozen with fear and shock still surrounding me; keeping my body motionless in fear...
Again as if he could hear my thoughts of doubt and fear that were seeping into me, he again spoke with his soft, dark; and husky voice…
“Calm down Darling, and I won't hurt you ok; you don't want to wake your neighbors up, and I don't want to end up having you for breakfast; ok DOLL!"
How dare he try to tell me what to do, how dare he speak to me as if I were his girlfriend already... I wasn't, nor would I ever want to be caught up in an impossible to work out relationship; RIGHT???
I suddenly realized my own uncertainty; I wasn't going to let this creature get inside my head; was I???
I wanted to get these thoughts of me kissing him out of my head right then and there; but it was too late; the thoughts were there; and they weren't going away...
"I'm Seth Conner, by the way Doll, and you better listen carefully to me form now on; if you want to live..." He said.
"Well I'm Ellanna Hope Abagaile, AND I DEMAND YOU LEAVE MY HOUSE AT ONCE. YOU HEAR ME, GO; LEAVE NOW AND NEVR COME BACK!” I yelled harshly back at him...
“Well, well, well; looks like this Doll, is no Doll but a cat; a gorgeous cat with hot lips and hot claws..." He finished with a sly, foxy, smile at the end of his sentence...
“THAT’S IT, YOU LEAVE OR I, OR I’M GOING TO CA”--… I hesitated; and then he interrupted me before I could finish my sentence…
“Or you going to what Doll, Call for help, nice try, actually I like your brave act you got going on right now Doll; but sorry No can do." His smile widened at that moment as if this was his victory, and he had won this fight; and he actually believed he didn't have to leave; IMMEDIATELY!!!
I was beyond infuriated, and was just about to storm out of my own living room when he grabbed me by my wrist, and then spinned me around, so I would be facing him, while pulling me into his strong statuesque; body of his.
My whole entire being wanted this rush of excitement, and adrenaline; but I knew better than to let any mere stranger, let alone monster; have his way with me...
Not expecting to want nothing more then to push him away…
That is when I saw something in him… Something good and kind…
Not like this playful arrogant guy messing with my emotions, causing me to feel something for him…
But wait what if what I saw was just a hallucination.
In my mind, what if he was making me see something in him that wasn't really even there to begin with;
Could he even have the ability to play with my mind like that I wondered???
Yes, of course he could, I thought; which didn't really make any sense...
Then again he wasn't human, and if he wasn't human he had supernatural powers right???
Of course he did, and I was just a pawn in his little game, that he could use in whatever way he willed to use me for...
Well I wasn't about to let that happen... Was I???
“No” I said Aloud without Realizing it, then thinking I wasn’t going to let him win, I wasn’t going to let him get away with his cat callings or his pawn games; this was going to stop; and it was going to stop right now!
“Stop!” I said at last, he then grabbed my arms, and gave me a look that said he wasn’t finished with me yet; that is when I tried to sum up the courage to scream… Only he was too quick on his feet and leaned in to kiss me…SEDUCTIVELY…
Could this be happening to me???
Not just a moment ago I let this guy into my house,
And the next thing I know; is that his lips were interlocking with mine now; and I couldn’t help but want more…
As I threw my hands into his long, wavy, curly, black, velvety; soft hair and pushed him into my lips more tightly…
For the first time in my life I was behaving impulsively, for the first time in my life I didn’t care;
All I wanted was for that intense moment of kissing; of making out to never end…
He took just one second to pause this moment and say “it doesn’t look like you want me to leave Doll; it looks like you want me to stay.”
While flashing another,
I won round two smiles at me.
Embarrassed with hot invigorating anger, and mad passion, at the same time I responded, “Ok, you win, you can stay for the night, BUT AS SOON AS MORNING ARRIVES YOU LEAVE! You understand?”
“No can do, Sorry but I am too involved with you now, and I plan on staying with you Doll.”
He replied with a wirily; playful smile that read trouble.
I felt nausea enter my mouth, as I realized what I had just allowed to happen tonight, and the worst part is; that I actually felt like there was something there between the two of us;
And I knew that this could only lead to more troubling; consequences along the way...
( This Book of mine Is still a Work in Progress I am on Chapter 5 now & Still writing....) ( Thanks For Reading !!!!)
