Gateway To Hell : Guardian

Chapter 2: Manor of Nightmares

People come and people go

Some people wonder why they are so alone

When they look upon the stars

They see that their hearts are miles apart

All their lives want to be free to roam

But their hearts soon want a way back home

The world is such a vast and wondrous place

That life itself is hard to not want to erase

The memories of the past

Will always last

In the hearts of those who ask

For a second chance to bask in the moons cool glance

*****************************************************Whispers*****************************************************************************************************Listen *******(listen)*********** Listen***** (listen) ********

                                                            (A murder unfolds)

Broken glasses litter the floor in the manor where I awake to in my nightmare world. I find myself lying on the floor in what seems to be a dining room the wooden dining table that I wake up face to face to give it away. As I’m lying on the cold hard wood floor, I look around the room I notice the walls are covered in bloody hand prints and I look down at my hands and they are covered in blood then it comes to my realization that the bloody hand prints on the walls are mine. I run down the hall into the kitchen and find it in a state of disarray knives are scattered on the floor a milk carton laid on its side. Broken wine glasses litter the counter. The site hits me like a ton of bricks there is blood dripping from above me onto the stove below.

I look up to the ceiling and the first thing i see are my parent’s dead bodies hanging there with ropes around their necks. I scream at the site of their lifeless bodies and run up stairs to the balcony doors and wrench them open. I hear the French doors slam against the walls of the house. I run out onto the balcony tears smearing my makeup and making it run.

(Rain begins to fall)

****Listen to each drop of rain (listen listen) *****

I think to myself this isn't happening, this can’t be why does this always happen to me? Is it wrong for me to be happy for once in my life i scream to the rain?” Tears continually fall from my eyes and I begin to cough from the chill in the night air. “Raven? You know who I am don’t you? You know do know I would never hurt you but i had to do this. I look up and see Andy’s face and I can see the pain and shame in his eyes as he looks at me. It’s too much to take and I turn away from him with disgust and lean on the banister of the balcony and I think to myself how stupid could I have been. I should have seen this coming from a mile away. Yet I still manage to respond to his stupid question as nastily as I could “You did this Andy? You killed my family? Why did you do this? What happened to friends forever and holding on till death parts us? What happened to that to what we had?” God I hate myself for even liking him for one treacherous minute I lift my hands to my head and grab my long black hair and flip it out of my face angrily. As I listen to him explain away his shallow actions like what he just did was nothing but flick a bug off a counter. “I had to do this to protect you Raven it was the only way, that my parents wouldn't kill you. You’re a vampire Raven and my family are vampire hunters. I did this to throw them off your trail.” “I thought we had a deal Andy anything was better than this. I can’t believe you did this I don't want to have to run anymore Andy I'm tired of running all I wanted was to come home for once in my life and be happy with you.” Raven you’re a monster in their eyes and i can’t bring myself to kill you because i love you more than that and i don't care if you hate me for the rest of my life but you need to leave they will be here any minute. It best Raven if we go our separate ways from here on out it would be for the best at least for a little while.” “I don't ever want to see you again i hope your f*****g happy Andy you have ruined us but I agree we need to go our separate ways. Have a nice life Andy I hope you make the best of it.”

I say as I slap his pretty face with all my strength I could build up, with that I shove him out of my way with my shoulder and walk hastily back inside the manor. I have to get out of here I know they will be here soon; I grab my stuff and pack my closest things into a suitcase that I had spare.

I hear a knock at the front door I think to myself time has run out as I run down the stairs, and open the door to the observatory and grab the letters from my father. I make a mad dash out the secret exit and take off through the garden to the horse stable. I open the barn doors and find my favorite horse Excalibur and saddle him. I’ve got to hurry, I think to myself as I shove the suitcase on his back and tie it down, and I pull myself onto his back and take off on his back through the back entrance of the garden. I ride on until I reach the edge of the manor’s property where the forest meets the trail that’s when I decide to look back at the manor. for the first time I watch as the lights go dark for the last time it’s over, I think to myself my life is a mess and I did it all on my own. I guess there won’t be another home coming party for me for a long time.