Meeting Sylvan

A Chapter by IndigoChild

My name is Rhosyn. most stories written by teens you would expect to be happy,full of romance,like cinderella. As im running for my life i can tell you that this story, my story, is not. My feet crunch the grass. the frost clutching at me like a fresh corpses stiff fingers. i dart and swerve to avoid the gravestones some names jumping out at me, But i am looking for one. I did find love but in my story it hurts and i have a feeling, with the situation right now it will not end like cinderella.

I’m walking to school, the bitter air biting my lungs. I barely notice the frost, But it follows me.
I am debating whether or not to actually go to school when I walk past the cemetery. That one ominous crypt pulling me forward. I shudder and walk past. Maybe one day i will solve the mystery of the one spirit the haunts that place. He is the one that evades me. I help them all, but he drifts away from me.
Ghost, spirits are the solid people of my world I can't touch another human being for long i slip through them. I am cursed, it killed my parents, I killed my parents. I can still feel her flesh rip under my hands, My mother. I gorged on her blood. I was in a total haze, not my self, a monster. I shiver and stop walking. The memories were about ready to make me cross over. I control my self, turn around and walk to the cemetery. Now I know I will not be going to school today. I have a ghost to find and I will be spending my time in their world, Not in between, like usual, Today I was cruising the mist in the middle because there I am human, In the spirit world I am dead, In the human world I am a monster. I stop at the rusted gate. Rust, the one substance that can cross between the two worlds like I can. I find it peaceful , where other see dust and decay. I see the boy, by the crypt, Why isn't he whisking away. The I look at his face, Skin pale and eyes a bright violet. His hair is black and straight. Dusting his eyes in a coy manor. There is a look on his face almost pain. Ther I see him shiver in a familiar way. He is a crosser, like me and he is scared of me, cause I am the only crosser the can see the dead. Or well see it all the time. Why is he changing? He turns his head and looks at me. He open his mouth to relearn pointed teeth, The change is almost done. Maybe i can stop him. I rush to him. He has a shocked look on his face. My hands start to slip into his shoulders oh i forgot he is in the human world now. He growls at me then look at me directly into the eyes. My hands touch the wall of the crypt. He is pinned and cannot move.
“ Stop calm down, you are going to hurt somebody.” I don't know what causes me to say this but I do . He slowly stops the thrashing and just looks at me curious. My hands get pushed out to either side of him.
“ How did you stop me?” His voice is kind of rough and deep.
“I don’t know. Why have you been running away from me?”
“ You scare me.” and sure enough he was sweating and even more pale than before. I move away from him but stay close enough so he won't dart off. His teeth have gone back to normal.
“ Sorry, what's your name?” I could at least get that.
“ Silvan Shadow and yours,”
“ Rhosyn Raina”
“ Soooo. your a crosser?”
“ Yeah.”
“ But i’ve been in the dead world, how could you see me. I mean you scared me into the human world i thought i had my self under control?”
“ I am a witch's daughter ... look I don’t know how I can see the dead all the time I just can.” I change the subject. “ so you on your own?” A lot of crossers kill their parents when they are young because we are born into the human world. Humans really don't know about us and we don't know what makes us but there are more of us then you think.
“ Yeah. You?”
“ Killed my parents last year”
“ wow that took a while?”
“ I was born in the dead world. My parents brought home ashes but when they woke up the next morning there was a baby in there box instead of ashes.” Stillborns don't change until later.
“ why aren't you in school?”
“ Could say the same for you” He does not seem so scared of me now. We crossers are many and far apart so when we find each other we tend to stick together.
“ Im on my own have been in the dead world almost all my life till you showed up beautiful.” he rolls his eyes like its my problem. So i am dealing with that type of guy. Well i’ll just be that type of girl.
“ Well me and you won't be on our own much longer you and me we are going to stick together.”

“ Who said?”
“ Me. and i get to be the boss.” He smiles an easy smile. and walks along in his army grade black boots and chained up jeans. He looks like an emo biker times fifty without the makeup.
“ well then welcome to my home.” He turns around and opens the door to the crypt. There are no caskets in side or anything of the like there is just a creep crawl space that leads inner ground. I am curious so I follow. It is dim and cool almost unpleasantly cold but I am not about to look like a pansy in front of sylvan. My interest in this guy is strange. I almost wonder why he even popped up in my life. we follow the tunnel for a little while longer then surprisingly we come up to air. I did not feel the tunnel go up so... what the hell?
“ Sylvan what is this place?”
“ well it is in the dead world. and i created it” We were in a garden with the smell of fresh roses in the air. there is a gazebo in the middle and a blue sky above. The roses are white and pure i touch the soft smooth petals of the nearest one.

‘ how?” is all i could manage out of my mouth.
“ I don’t know, i can just bring stuff with me into any world. its almost like i don't switch worlds at all. but its never been this beautiful.”
“ what do you mean?”
“ it only came alive when you came it” he smiles” before the roses dead, the grass yellow, the sky was grey and my world bleek. it has not been this way since sara.”
“ who’s sara” his eyes turn dark and he turns away, maybe I pushed him too far.
“ Sara was......a friend” no she was more to him then that i can hear it in his voice. That pained look on his face actually meant something. How could i be so blind? yet have i really been talking to him for long? iguess not but I feel so close to him. This should not be possible. He is a crosser and. Am a crosser what is to be expected? will I just end up hurting him? My thoughts change when he says a very unexpected thing"
" She means nothing to me now. I brought you here to test you. My world excepts you.Even more then I hoped. The roses never came alive with her. Se actually made them die. She made me trust her, love her, and then she iced to kill me" Why would he tell me this?
" silver, what am I supposed to think, I am amazed with your ability and with the. Beauty of this place,but I feel so much sadness here I almost want to leave."
"don't please it's ok. I mean its been a long time silence any one has talked to me and I thought I would never run into another crosser. Wel, I'm sorry I don't mean to be pushy you can go if you want too. I won't stop you.

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