Chapter 1

A Chapter by Jessica L. W.

“Hey! Nick! Dude, wait up!” I turned around and found Trevor running up the sidewalk to me. He pushed his bangs out of his eyes when he reached me, “Do you have plans for tonight?” He asked.

I replied “Do I ever have plans?”

“Well… you do now! I’m taking you to a club!” He shouted.

“Why would I want to go to a club?” I asked.

He stares at me with his brown eyes, “Because…….…. I told you I’m taking you to a club?”

I laughed and said “Whatever dude… I’ll go.”

Trevor smiles and says “Great… Met me at the club over by 2^nd street at 6.”

I grin, “Alright, see you then.” I turn back towards home and start walking.

Trevor yells “Bye!” behind me and I heard his footsteps running towards his house.

I sigh and stare up at the clouds… it’s been over a century…. How much longer must I stay?

` I walked to the house I have been staying at for the past five years… the small old brown house… I walked up the old path up to the door. I twisted the cold metal door knob… and entered the house.

I walked through the living room, walked through the hallway, and went into my room. I tried to walk past the mirror….. But I starred at my reflection….To this town I’m… 23….. I guess I look that age…. I had Blonde hair… down to the base of my neck…. I need to get it cut……. my blue eyes…. They still had the angelic black ring around them…. They seemed to glow on my pale skin…. I close my eyes and sigh…... Am I still one of them…..? Or am I just a poser?

I laid down on my bed, on its white comforter, and stared up at the ceiling.

I heard my phone ring…. My eyes snapped open…. I fell asleep? I looked at the clock hanging on my wall….. Six thirty……. It must be Trevor…. I get off the bed and walk to the living room to grab the phone.

“Hello.” I say, rubbing the sleep out my eyes.

“Dude!” ugh…. Trevor… you hurt my ears… “You were asleep!? Really? What kind of friend are you?!?”

“Sorry…. Trevor……. I’ll be there by seven thirty….”

“You better be!” He yells, and then hangs up.

I sigh and walk to the bathroom for a shower.

I’m walking down the sidewalk thirty minutes later, staring up at the sky.

I make it to the club and stand there staring up at the neon sigh…. I think it says ‘Demon’s Paradise’.

“Dude!” I look down to find Trevor holding the door open. I sigh and walk in.

Inside the club, there weren’t a lot of people, some were dancing… but almost everybody was sitting around the bar. The DJ was playing an up-beat song.

Trevor walked to the dance floor and started dancing…. Terribly….. Oh well….. He’s having fun.

I sat at the bar… looking around…. There are a lot of demons here… On the dance floor there are three demons…. Around the bar… five….

I spot a girl staring at me…… She’s not demon….. or human….. She has long black hair…. Brown eyes……. Pale skin….. Around 20….. She smiles…. I look back at Trevor…. Who has gotten a demon to dance with him, Lion demon I believe…..

I watch them dance for a while. Trevor walks up to me, out of breath, and says “Dude… that chick can dance!” I grin at him…. If only he knew the truth.

Trevor sits next to me and looks around, “Dude… that chick is staring at you!” He jabs his thumb towards the not-human-not-demon girl.

I look at her…. She looks away and starts talking to a demon…. Fire sprite I believe…. I look back at Trevor and say “So? Why should I care?”

“Because… you have been single for as long as I have known you…. You need a chick in your life.”

The lion demon comes up to Trevor and says “Ready for round two, baby.” Trevor smiles at her and they walk towards the dance floor.

I watched them dance, feeling the stare of the girl.

Right when Trevor started doing “the sprinkler”… a female demon around 25 stepped in front of me… the fire sprite who was hanging out with the not-human-not-demon girl… she had red hair… teased…. black eyes…. Pale skin….

“What do you want?” I asked…

“What is your kind doing here?” She snarled.

I smile “Trying to enjoy the life that was given to me.”

She stares at me and says “You aren’t welcome here… Go home….”

“No…”

She squints her eyes at me, and walks away. She probably walks back to the one girl….. I was too busy watching Trevor dancing to care.

Half an hour later, Trevor walks up to me, again, out of breath, “You ready to go?”

“Is your friend ready for you to leave?” I point over to the lion demon, who was standing there with her hands on her hips, staring at Trevor.

Trevor smiles at her and says “I don’t care…. I’m tired….” And waves to her, then he turns back to me, “Let’s go.”

I get off the stool and we walked out the club, we parted ways, me waling north, Trevor walking east.

I noticed a shadow disappearing into a dark alley. I looked up at the sky, and tried to walk past it, but someone grabbed me from behind and dragged me in.

It was the not-human-not-demon girl, she smiled at me.

“What do you want?” I asked, annoyed, she couldn’t just come up to talk to me? She really has to kidnap me?

“What are you....?” She asked, I was taller than her, She came up to my chest.

“What do you want?” I repeated.

She kissed me and says “That.” She smiles, “Now tell me what you are!”

“Why did you kiss me?!” I demanded.

Ocean says “Because…….. S**t…… I don’t have a reason….. Please tell me what you are.”

“No….. Can I go now?”

She looks like she’s about to cry, “Can I at least have your name?”

Should I? Ugh….. I can’t let her cry… “Nick.”

She smiles and says “My name’s Ocean…. I’m at this club every night…. Come see me sometime?”

Ugh….. I don’t want to see her cry….. If I say yes, I would be promising her…. “Maybe,”