chapter 6--

"So there I was, in east Germany somewhere, my mind was a fog from all the absinthe and the only thing I can remember is that there was this guy coming after me."

 

Karrey nodded and listened to my story, I found out her name after we had been making out for almost a half an hour.

"What did he want?"

 

I smiled, this was the best part of the story,

"My left hand, he wanted to cut off my left hand because he was convinced that all the power of a wizard was contained in his left hand, since that's the side that draws power. Like taking a battery out of a flashlight."

 

"No way."

 

The bus passed under another pair of large signs, these ones telling us we were leaving Texas, I said a silent thanks that I finally got out of that place.

 

"Yup, I didn't even know what he wanted at first but when I saw him something inside me screamed like a frightened child. So I took my book and ran out of his office half-way through his bull-s**t speil, luckily I didn't drink any of the tea he had offered me. But he still started after me, waving a cleaver like some mad-man."

 

"Why didn't you just..?"

She waved her little fingers like she was casting a spell, I laughed,

 

"It's not that easy, beside the simple stuff, magic is pretty complicated, think of it like doing the most advanced algebra in your head while speaking latin at the same time, and if you mess up who knows what'll happen. So really all I could do was run and hope a police officer would help me."

 

As I told my story I was looking into her green eyes and I saw past her short red hair,  into her round pretty face and through the stud that sat on her nose. I saw the real reason she was leaving that crappy little town, even though I didn't care and would have been happy to just get a blow-job from her and never talk to her again.

 

Her brother had been abusing her since she was a little girl, awful stuff, horrible games that sometimes lasted all night, I knew this kind of s**t happened all the time, the whole world is made up of people hurting each other for no good reason. But now I felt a connection with her, which was bad because I was planning on just making her forget me after this night. It was a little more complicated now, my voice cracked as I started telling my story again, I quickly looked away from her eyes before any more black and white images floated through my vision.

 

 "So through the lobby I ran and this nut job was chasing after me, his white hair sticking up like he had just been hit by lightening, he was screaming at me in tounges and I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. With a kick, the lobby doors flew open and I ran out into a German snow storm, laughing and screaming at the same time, I hit a patch of ice and fell on my back, the doors behind me flew open and this crazed professor trips over me as I'm looking at the fat white snow flakes fall from the gray clouds. His little body sprawls over me and the Latin turns into frantic German and he's screaming and weeping.

I don't know what the hell is going on any more but I think I pissed my pants because my trousers are suddenly hot and sticky. I push the old coot off me and look down at myself and see that my new clothes are drenched in blood. The guy is rolling around on the street, huddled in the fetal position and crying softly to himself. I sit up and see his left hand sitting next to him, a pool of blood building around him, the smell made me turn and throw up on the side of the building. When I finally stood up the guy wasn't rolling around any more and he wasn't crying either."

 

Karrey touched my leg and asked me what happened to him, I avoided looking in her eyes and shrugged.

 

"I don't know, I got up and ran back to my hostel, covered in blood and vomit, praying the cops wouldn't roll up on me before I could get back."

 

"That is some kind of story, Jason."

 

She began to rub my arm and I felt her breath on my neck, I couldn't bring myself to kiss her after seeing those awful things in her mind, so I just shook my head,

 

"I'm tired beautiful, sorry."

 

"Yeah me too, I guess."

The pain was plain in her voice but she put her head against my shoulder and I closed my eyes for a few seconds and felt the heat build in my chest, soon she was snoring softly. I looked down at her and moved the hair out of her eyes and gave her a quick kiss on the forehead.