The Immortal story and forbidden love with the Enchantress

Chapter Ten

I pull into the drive, I’m five minutes late, but the makeup for this outfit took so long to do. I can’t help feeling a stir of excitement, I will embody this character tonight. When I looked into the mirror  I really connected with this character, the energy whirled in me, I felt the glow spark with excitement. It’s as if the energy was finally free. I walk into the dark candle lit hallway, the door closes itself behind me, I hear the music, people laughing and talking loudly. I peer through the line of the two large doors. The ceiling is filled with sparkling lights that appear like stars. The lighting is dimmed even more for this party, I push open the doors, they glide smoothly as I walk in, feeling my dress glide behind me, the light hits my dress and skin which glows and shimmers.

I’m the only one on the top landing, I see everyone dancing as the song slows and changes, it’s romantic and carries a fast low, I begin making my way to the stairs, my hand and black painted nails gliding over the golden banister. I reach the top of the stairs and pause, Erin is dancing with Marea, Marea is in a creamy pink gown, with a diamanté choker with matching earrings, bracelets and rings. Erin wears a royal blue open shirt with long puffy sleeves and dark trousers, he wears one diamanté earing. Michelle is dancing sensually trying to lure Matt to the dance floor, the sight is pretty surprising I also recognised those moves as my own.  She wears a dark green sparkly mermaid dress with a split down the side of her leg. She wears a pearl neckless with matching Jewellery she chose to have her nails painted white yesterday and I chose the opposite black.

Matt stands fixed on Michelle, he wears a vampire cape, and tuxedo. People begin to stare at me at the top of the stairs, but it’s not their eyes I want on me. I start heading down the stairs my eyes fixed on one person. People begin to follow my gaze; the room quietens and fills with gasps here and there. The music plays slower, the musicians distracted slightly. Marea pauses at the sight of me and her eyes widen. Then finally his gaze meets mine. He pauses his smile fades, his chin rises, eyes fixated on me finally. I feel a big spark of energy between us, my heart jumps. The energy surrounds me, people gasp. The glitter I have around my eyes and powdered on my skin reacts to heat, making me sparkle more. I dressed like a true enchantress, I glowed, and walked confidently. My gown was black but full of gold glitter that makes it shimmer in this light. The dress is off the shoulder and splits down the side of my leg. I feel the tail of the dress lightly brush the steps.

3rd narration:

Lisa’s body is glowing and sparkling with glitter that catches the light, she wears gold eyeliner that sparkles and sheens in the light. Her curls are half up half down, they trail down her back to her waist. The dress clings to her curves and flares at the bottom, open at the base exposing her jet-black heels, the dress trails behind her chest glimmers and sparkles, her arms bare. She wears two silver and black snake earnings that rap round her ears, she wears golden snake bangles that wrap around her wrists. She wears a black choker with a big silver heart. Her lips are crimson red, her hair even sparkles with bits of glitter. There was no doubt that if there had been a contest for the best dressed it would have gone to her.

 Everyone can’t take their eyes off of the sight of her, Michelle’s mouth hangs open, Matt falls slightly to the wall. Marea looks taken by her appearance but not as much as Erin who is subconsciously making his way through the crowd from the centre of the room. He keeps his eyes hooked onto hers. Lisa hits the last step. As her foot hits the floor Erin takes her bridal style off of the stairs, he begins walking to the centre of the room with her. Everyone watches them, and parts for them, Erin’s lips are parted in awe at Lisa, she mimics his expression. She’s taken being in his arms like this, she didn’t realise how much she craved his presence and touch till now. It was something about the intimacy they had shared in that little art room during the gallery show, it made her want to remain as close as she had gotten before even if it was to give her the feeling she had now.

“Woah Lisa-, is that even you?”

“Isn’t it obvious, I’ve come as the enchantress from you story.” He smiles at her which causes her to smile back at him.

“That’s not what I meant.”

He begins twirling her in the air before setting her mid spin on the floor, he twirls her around and around, eyes glued to her figure. He pulls her to his chest gliding his hands over her arms and leading them around his neck. He runs his hands under her arms and sliding them firmly down to her waist. He pulls her closer to him as he swings her hips side to side against his body. The beat picks up slightly, people around them watch them as they dance around them, the room is filled with vampires, mermaids, werewolves of all different shades. Grey eared men, black, brown, red for the wolves, pink mermaids, green, blue, red etc. Anna thankfully is no where to be seen tonight.

Lisa POV:

Gazing into Erin’s eyes, I can see his pupils are dilated, that excites me. I feel nauseous with the way he feels pressed up this close to me, one of his curls is pressed against my forehead. His eyes sparkle reflecting the starry ceiling, in his icy blue eyes they look so beautiful. His lips look so rosy and smooth, I look at them, then his eyes, then his lips then his eyes. I’m not truly falling for him, am I? No, I can’t, I won’t but this is so fun and dangerous at the same time. He stares at my neck he wrests his chin on my shoulder tilts his mouth right into my ear as he whispers

“Your spell is working on me.” His voice is deep and flows smoothly through my ear.

 I don’t know why, but all of a sudden I feel his energy spike. He exhales his lips close to my neck. An image flickers in my mind, Erin over Anna on the sofa, his eyes glowing white. He kisses and bites her until he reaches her mouth and kisses her deeply. She enjoys everything in a trance, he inhales again but this time her eyes widen as a white creamy smoke from her mouth and into his, they must have been smoking that night. I remember it now, I fell to the floor, I could no longer muffle my feelings. The hairs on my skin stand up as I feel the static energy, I hear a buzzing in my ears I get up the adrenaline kicking in, but all I could manage was stand up leaning against the door frame. I couldn’t place why I felt so scared, perhaps I didn’t want anyone to see me so consumed by emotion, maybe even slight jealousy. Erin slowly gets up. He kneels down in front of me, his shirt hanging open revealing his smooth skin over his muscle… Then we are dancing.

I come back to my senses, I back away from him blinking a few times.

“Lisa?”

“Ye-s.” I clear my throat “I’m alright, I just realised I’m very thirsty.” Thirsty for you…

His narrowed eyes widen a little as a small smirk forms on his face, “Thirsty for what? “he says it so softly.

I smile at him looking him straight in the eyes, before turning around and heading towards the stairs, I get up to the landing, at the top of the stairs I turn back, and I see Erin. He has a smirk on his face as he slowly tracks me. I quickly head to the balcony, to breath some air, I quickly hide behind the door outside. I take a small quick breath, I don’t know why I’m hiding now, what came over me? I feel so crazy right now I’m not sure what this mood will lead to. I need to gather my thoughts, but as I recall that same energy was still there, that static cool energy. I slowly step out of my hiding place, I slowly peer round the door, the landing looks empty and clear, I let out a breath I didn’t realise I’d been holding. I just feel so confused by my feelings there so intense but why? I hear a familiar song playing from down below, I start humming then singing along, I walk out to the white stone balcony, I look out to the fields filled with tall dark trees. My voice echoes out into the secluded night.

 “I’ll drop my message in a bottle to meet in the middle.”  I sing the words, closing my eyes. I feel it in my heart as the sounds of the music rise. I feel each individual beat as though it’s within I let my heart sync with the beat of the music. The air is so crisp up here, the night is warm. I love the feeling of the wind against my bare shoulders. I’m swaying to the music singing along to the words, feeling nothing but the wind, it almost feels as though I’m floating. A pair of hands holds my waist turning me around, my eyes are still closed. I open them slowly.

The first thing I see is a pair of his icy blue eyes

“I thought you said you were thirsty?”

He looks down at my waist he looks back up into my eyes. I look down hoping he can’t see my blush. “Your voice is over worldly; the sirens clearly have nothing on you tonight.”

“Thank you.” He lifts my chin back up to his level

“I take it you realised what you thirsted for?” a small smirk spreads across his lips

I laugh a little, “Is it really that important to you?”

He smiles, genuinely “Of course it’s important, as a host I try to provide anything my guests desire.”

Staring into his eyes was becoming a little distracting, in this dark light they appear even lighter.

“It was air.” I say it teasingly, he smiles closing his eyes as he turns around and starts walking away from me.

“You look like you want a lot more than air.” I was gonna ask what he meant by that when he takes my hand and guides me to a stand filled with many different drinks some are green, blue, pink red etc. I see tropical fruit drinks in clear glasses filled with strawberries, and mint leaves. He watches my expression and picks it up passing it slowly to me. I take it thanking him and close my eyes as I drink through the straw, it tastes wonderful. It’s cold and hit my warm tongue, flavours of mango, and orange, and something alcoholic. When I open my eyes, Erin is drinking a light blue liquid, he’s watching me from the corner of his eye, he seems amused, as usual by me.

I look to the side of my eye then back to him, “So what are you drinking?”

“Oh this, this is one of my favourites. Try it?” He hands the glass out to me; I peer inside it.

“Erm, what’s it made out of?”

He winks at me “It’s a secret.”, I take it placing my lips to its rim and inhaling its sweet scent. I take a small sip; it tastes as sweet it smells. My body shivers as the warm alcohol hits my stomach, the after taste is slightly bitter and strong.

“Wow that’s actually quite strong.” Erin takes back his drink and downs the rest in one go.

“This is one of my favourite songs, care to dance enchantress?” He puts out his palm and I take it, we begin walking to the stairs, staring into each other’s eyes.

“Is this exciting enough for you? I couldn’t dress as an Immortal because I had no idea what they look like, and although Enchantress wasn’t on the list, I kind of knew that you did that on purpose.”

“You are very smart Lisa, an Immortal look like me, an enchantress looks just like you. Point is they can look like anyone.”

He spins me around the floor, lifting me high into the air and spinning me at the same time. I had to keep my eyes on his, for every time I looked anywhere else the room looked hazy, because we were dancing around so fast. The dances involved a lot of spinning and moving around, he kept his eyes on me the entire time. When he’d get the chance, he’d pull me really close to him and whizz me around with him, I’d feel my hair lift into the air each time he spun me around. He’d often spin me three times in a row from my waist. I’d see the glitter lift from my hair as I spun, he’d catch me by my waist from behind and sway me before spinning me around and pulling me close to face him again. There was something quite seductive in the way he moved with me, maybe it was the intense stare in his eyes as he looked at me, maybe it was the way he was swift and confident with each and every movement, perhaps it was his experience or maybe it was the fact I was already becoming tipsy.

 He spun me away from him and pretended to pull an invisible rope attached to me, getting me close to him. He did it again spinning me further way this time, I was trying so hard to keep my bearings as he began his magic pulling of the rope. I was hypnotised with the way he did it, slow with his lips parted and eyes fixated on me and only me. But the hypnotic trance was broken by Marea spinning in front of us and taking my hands and very obviously stealing me away from Erin. Marea grinned turning her head ever so slowly towards her shoulder at Erin, he looked at her with a mischievous smirk before pursuing us with Michelle in his arms. I felt hands grab my waist again to see Erin had caught up. He smiled at me satisfied with himself, but a flash of red hair broke the two of us apart, Michelle was in front of me. She grabbed my wrists swinging me around and let me go, her smile was wide as she flicked at Erin and back to me. I flew slightly into the air, I was caught by a pair of arms and swept by someone else this time. I felt as though I was the ball everyone played with during piggy in the middle. The room stopped spinning, I looked up to see a blonde blue-eyed vampire holding me, Matt. He was smiling down at me as he placed my feet back to the floor.  He danced with me slowly, holding me close and gazing into my eyes.

“Seems everyone wants you tonight, can’t say I blame them, you look stunning in that dress. What did you come as?” I blushed looking confidently into his eyes

 “Thanks Matt, I’ve come as an enchantress, Michelle purposely let go of me did you see that?!”

“Wow, how fitting. Haha yeah, I know she did, I asked her to. I wanted to dance with the beautiful- Enchantress. I’ve danced with fairies and mermaids tonight, even some merman, werewolves. I danced with Marea who told me she and Erin are Immortal beings, but I’ve not danced with the only enchantress.” He smiles, his blue eyes glisten and twinkle as he looks down into my eyes.

“I got to dance with both Immortals, a mermaid and now a vampire all in once dance!” We smile and laugh together. When the song is finally over me and Matt go to sit on a metal framed bench with silk pillows, the metal framed bench is cold and cools me down. We watch  everyone else as they dance around, Marea is dancing with a small black-haired girl who is dressed as a fairy. Erin and Michelle dance together, Michelle can really keep up with his fast movements, I notice he doesn’t hold her from behind the way he does with me. I get a warm feeling inside as I stare down at my sparkly dress.  Matt leans in closer to me.

“I like that guy Erin, it’s nice of him and Marea to invite me for the second time now.”

“Yeah they’re nice people.”

I carry on watching them, Erin has his hands around her waist, pulling Michelle into him then back out again perfectly in sync to the music, they seem to be really enjoying themselves. I meet Erin’s eyes; I feel mine widen a little. Michelle beckons to Matt for him to join them. Erin stares at me, but the view is cut off from a dark figure standing close to me. I look up and meet a pair of gold eyes.

“Hey girl, will you dance with me?” This man carries a beautiful sheen to his dark skin, he has shoulder length dreads. His voice is smooth, he’s dressed as a werewolf as he has wolf like ears and wears a yellow full moon neckless, he wears a black shirt that’s open at the neck. I take his hand, his skin is warm and smooth, he lifts my hand bringing me around to face him on the dance floor. He takes my other hand placing it on his shoulder, he wraps his hands around my waist bringing me closer to him. I look into his golden eyes; I’m trying to find the edge of his contact lens, but I don’t see it, some good lenses. His lips are smooth and full, he’s really handsome.

“I’ve seen you once before, you were a pirate.”

“Oh really? Haha, what were you dressed as?” We begin swaying to the sound of soft music.

“I came as a pirate as well.” He has a lovely smile and his laugh made me laugh, it was beautiful. He was bubbly and sweet. I couldn’t stop smiling at him as we spoke and danced like this. He told me he was a good friend of Marea’s. We both shared Jamaican heritage, he was fully Jamaican but born here, I told him I was half Jamaican and half English. Apparently he had asked who me and Michelle when we were last here.

“I literally said the red haired one and the mixed one.” He burst out laughing “She spoke a lot about you though, if I didn’t know better I’d say she liked you more than she is willing to admit.” He laughed looking behind him to make sure she wasn’t there.

I laughed; I knew all too well what she’s like popping up at the most unexpected of times. But liking me… I guess I never thought about that possibility..

I was feeling quite dizzy from all the drinking.

“What’s your name?”

“It’s Kieran, and yours is Lisa right?”

“Yeah, it’s been really nice dancing with you Kieran, but I’m busting for the loo.” We both laugh as if as if it were something hilarious.

“Don’t worry yourself Lisa, I have to go now anyway. It was nice finally meeting you, I hope I see you again.”

I nod smile and say goodbye, quickly heading up the stairs and up the next flight of stairs that’s tucked into the corner. I go into a room and find an on sweet bathroom. I look in the bathroom mirror, my lipstick had faded a bit, so I re-applied it. That guy, Kieran, he seemed really nice, his eyes looked so real, I wish I told him I loved the colour he chose.

 I didn’t look even look half as tired as I was, it was nearly 1:30 in the morning. I looked around in this dimly lit room. It was dark, the wallpaper was light purple  with diamond shaped patterns with little black squares in them, similar to Erin’s room. The bed was huge and quite old fashioned, it was black framed and even had black curtains. The curtains hanging by the windows were huge and cream, the carpet was black and looked really soft. There was a black gothic dresser, it had different perfumes on it. The black wardrobe was glossy, I opened it and it was filled with different dark coloured shirts and dresses I knew it! This is Marea’s room, I went and sat on a dark purple sofa chair, it was smooth and felt really expensive. I best get out of here. I get up and leave the room.

 I see a merman and a fairy girl run up a different flight of stairs all mischievous like, I smile to myself it was kind of cute to see them with such wide grins on their face’s kind of funny actually. I start heading down the hall my head is foggy, and sight is slightly foggy. God am I that tipsy? But something was strange about this hallway, it wasn’t this dark before, OH NO am I lost!? I try not to panic but my heart beats fast, something feels ominous. I wish I weren’t alone. Suddenly I feel someone grip my wrist, it’s too dark to see them but I can feel them smiling. They breath heavily they pull me towards them but steps out of the way. I fall to the floor with a loud thud. It’s dark but everything is spinning.

I try to get up, but I fall back on my hands.

“Who the-hell are you?-“

The person flickers to me abnormally, they are right in front of me crouched to my level. Everything feels slow, every reaction feels as though I’m moving in water.

“You smell delicious.” Their sharp whisper makes me feel sick. They look at me, my eyes widen, the moon shines through the c***k of the curtain. I see one hazel eye, and a scarily wide. They lift me towards them, my eyes are wide with terror, what are they doing. I try and stay calm, maybe I can talk my way out of this.

“You’re quite drunk aren’t you, don’t even try to deny it I can smell it on your breath.”

I look into their hazel eyes, I see nothing in them they seem empty and I get the sense he hungers for extremes, so I can’t show him fear.

“So, what if I’ve had a drink isn’t that the whole point?” He lets out a quick breath. “What’s your name?” He looks surprised at me for asking, his grip lessens a little on my upper back.

“You’re not afraid of me?”

“Should I be?” In truth I wanted to run away and scream but in my state that wouldn’t be wise.

“Merlin. It’s Merlin, you shouldn’t be up here alone, something could happen to you…”

“Thank you for helping me Merlin, you’re right that’s why I was making my way back down to the party. Will you come back with me?” In truth I knew he had something sinister in his mind, I was just praying I could adhere to his better side. If he even had one. He looks really confused as he stares into my eyes, he doesn’t even answer. His grip on me is still tight and I feel my breath getting shallower. I couldn’t even run if I wanted to I’d have no chance this guy is far too quick. I feel everything getting hazier.

“Please would you let go of me, I’m feeling quite diz-“  But everything after that point goes black, I don’t even remember falling or losing consciousness.