I srsly need to finish this story lyk nao.
crying
Deadline in a matter of hours.
What the heck. I'll post what I've got so far. Just consider this post another random bump. xD
"Ali, baby, you've got to stop this." the dog, however, nuzzled my crotch again. "I already have a girlfriend. Come on! Are you even LISTENING to me?"
I could hear footsteps fast approaching. When Dani entered the room she looked from me to the dog. Ali had her nose exactly where I didn't want it.
"What in the hell are you two doing?!" The smile playing across her lips betrayed the accusation as a joke.
"It isn't what it looks like!" I protested, though it was unnecessary. I tried pushing Ali's nose away again, but she just wouldn't budge. If only I could understand what she was thinking...
In any case, Dani beckoned me to follow her out of her small kitchen. Passing her parents in the living room with a wave, we jogged together up the steep stairs and she pushed open the bleached white door to her bedroom.
Posters covered the walls. Well, posters and drawings and lists that is. Dani had always been fond of lists, for whatever reason.
In the middle of the badly carpeted floor lay an open book. It was a thick volume, at least nine hundred pages, each sheet cast with gold edges.
“This is what you wanted to show me?” I questioned, already confused.
“Yeah, it’s cool, isn’t it? Wait, I already know it is, don’t answer that. Rhetorical, you see.” She stammered like a child, talking too fast, tripping over her words.
“Right, I know what a rhetorical question is. But… like… what is it?”
“I need you to tell me something first.”
“Huh?”
“Yeah, alright. You love me, right? You said that, right?”
“Yeah, duh I love you, I mean you think I do that stuff with just anyone?” I admit I was a little taken aback by her question. As far as the expectations I had for today… well let’s just say that this wasn’t on the list of things I was imagining. For her part, Dani looked down to hide her rosy cheeks. She brushed a few strands of hair out of her face and looked up once again, straight into my eyes.
“Okay. You love me no matter what? No matter who I am? No matter what I do?”
“What, are you going to tell me you’re an alien?” I joked.
“No, that’s not it, exactly.”
“Exactly?”
“Yeah. This book… this… ummm… they called it a ‘tome’ I think, it’s a book of black magic.”
“You’re shitting me.”
“I s**t you not.”
“Where the hell would you get something like that?” I admit, I was a little freaked out. I’m a kind of superstitious guy, and besides that, the sky outside was dark and stormy, and this was turning into something out of a horror flick.
“You really don’t want to know…” she mumbled, seeming nervous for the first time.
“What? It can’t be THAT bad…”
“I got it…” she began to whisper “…I got it at a meeting. I went to…”
“A meeting of what?”
“Just a meeting, okay! But think about it! All the people that annoy you all the time? Those jerks from school? The teachers? We can get back at them now! Think about it!” Dani, sitting in front of the large window, was back lit by a flash of lightning. I closed my eyes slowly, thinking about what she proposed. The thing probably wouldn’t work, of course, but if it did… I could get back at all those people who pushed me around! Back at all those guys who pushed me around in the locker room! But… it wouldn’t be right…
“It’s probably not going to work, you know that right?”
“What if I already tried it? What if I KNOW it works?” her voice was challenging, like I had questioned her integrity.
“Did you?”
“No… I was too scared. I wanted to wait for you…” I couldn’t help but laugh. Her confrontational attitude was gone in two seconds flat. She crawled closer to me and lightly pulled me towards her. We sat together, just staring at the book. No words were necessary, because I know we were both thinking the same thing. ‘It’s probably not going to work, but is it worth the risk that it will?’
“So…” she whispered.
“Yeah.” I agreed.
Suddenly, we heard footsteps trudging up the stairs. They were surprisingly heavy… they almost didn’t sound human. Chills went up and down my spine. Could this book, just by being open, call upon some evil spirit? I could feel goose bumps trailing down my arm. Just out of sight, right behind the door frame, I heard a deep animal sigh. I admit, a little shriek escaped my lips.
Strangely, Dani didn’t seem even the slightest bit jittery. Instead, she laughed and shook her head.
“Ali, come here baby!”
I felt like a dolt. Of COURSE it was Ali. The massive husky lumbered into the room, sniffing my crotch in passing, and rolling over onto Dani’s lap.
She looked at me for a moment, and we both started laughing simultaneously. All of my anxiety slipped away. I took Dani’s hand in mine, and we looked into each other’s eyes. Maybe this ridiculous business was going to just go away.
Suddenly, and rather unexpectedly, I might add, Ali rolled over again, practically jumping up and staring directly at the open book in the middle of the room. She approached it cautiously, circling it and sniffing occasionally. She whined, and tucked her tail in between her legs.
“That’s, um, odd…” I commented nervously, hoping that the book would suddenly disappear, leaving us without the heavy weight of it’s existence.
I have procrastination SKILLz.
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