The Demon Next Door

Violence Is Part of Me

“So tell me Mija, What's up with this whole ‘mate’ you have?” My mom asks. “I should be asking you that. I didn’t even know till he told me. Actually I didn’t know a lot of stuff till he told me and I’m pretty sure that it is your job, as MY PARENTS, to tell me s**t like this!” I say frustrated with them. They are my parents and should tell me things like this so why did I need to find out from my boyfriend? “You need to watch your mouth. We are the parents and you are the child so don’t go around scrutinizing what we have been doing your whole life because we were doing it to protect you” My dad says looking hurt. “Protect me? How the hell is this protecting me? I didn’t know what I was for my entire life and the only reason I’m finding out now is because my boyfriend's father is trying to kill me! YOU didn’t train me for this, YOU never told me what we were, AND YOU DAMN SURE NEVER TOLD ME THAT THE REASON YOU WERE EXILED WAS BECAUSE OF ME!” I start to feel my eyes glaze over and my parents faces turn pale. All the anger I was holding in is trying to come out and I am willing to let it happen.

“Mija…” my mom starts, “Calm down before you hurt yourself or someone else. Your powers are trying to come out and you still don’t know how to use them.” I don’t realize what is happening but I feel a surge of power flow through me and my eyes turn red. “I don’t need to know how to use them to do this.” I wave my arm in front of me to where my mother is and she goes flying to a wall. I look towards my dad and he gets thrown against the wall and starts choking. He tries to fight against me and I feel a strong force push against me and my dad falls from his position on the wall, and starts stalking towards me. I glare at him and start to launch myself towards him but get stopped by arms wrapping around me. I turn around to see my mom and she is livid. Just as I twist myself free from her grip, the front door bursts open.

I look over to see Jayce standing in the door frame with a worried look on his face. After he sees the room is a mess and my eyes aren’t the same, his eyes change and I get stuck in place. I try to move but it seems as if he has me in a trance and after a while I can see nothing but him and my surroundings are blurring out. Suddenly I’m free from the spot where I once stood and I feel pain shoot down my back and a sharp pain is on my head. He just threw me into a f*****g wall! I want to do something to him, ANYTHING but my vision just keeps getting blurrier and blurrier and my eyes keep getting heavy.

Eventually everything fades to black and I feel myself falling before two strong and muscular arms wrap around me and shoot tingles down my body.

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I wake up to a harsh, bright light shining in my face. I struggle to open my eyes and see that I’m lying down in my room wearing a long and baggy black shirt over my body. I go to crawl out of bed but feel something pulling me back to something warm. There is only one person I could think of that would be behind me and when I turn around I see that I’m correct. Jayce is lying down with his arms draped over me with his hair falling over his face in a way that makes him look like the greatest thing in the world.

I guess me trying to move woke him up because he starts smirking at me. “What are you smiling at?” “You, considering that you can go crazy at one moment then wake up and look all innocent” “What are you ev-” I pause in thought before all of the events from the night before rush into my head and I quickly stand up and look down at Jayce. “So you are saying that everything I thought was a dream actually happened?” I look across my room to a picture of me and my family and think how pained they must be to know how horrible I am to even do that to them. They have loved me since day one and I don’t even have enough willpower to make sure that I don’t hurt the people that are dearest to me with my new powers. I wish I was still that same innocent 5 year old I used to be when my parents didn’t leave as much as they do now and still had my old best friend.

Thinking back to him, I honestly wish I remembered more about him than just the old nickname i gave him. Hopefully his life isn’t as chaotic as mine is right now...

**FLASHBACK**

“Twinkie I swear when I get my hands on you, the tickles will never end!” I run after him for a while until I get tired and plop down on the ground. Mommy and Daddy may get mad at me if I ruin my dress but I don’t care. ‘Maybe if you wait, he will think something is wrong and come back’ I hear a voice say. I’ve told Daddy about her since she is one of my friends but he looked scared and ran off to mommy when I told him.

“Clare where did you go? Are you ok?” I hear him coming back and quickly run behind a tree. “Clare?” as he walks around the tree I’m by, I jump out and attack him with tickles. He rolls onto the ground and starts laughing so loud that Daddy comes out to check on us. “Are you guys okay? What happened?” he looks around confused as to what is happening but I just can’t help but also start laughing and fall onto the floor clutching my stomach. As soon as he realizes that we are alright he decides to join us in our game

I hope we never stop having fun like this

**END OF FLASHBACK**

I’m suddenly taken out of my thoughts by two muscular arms wrapping around me and a kiss being placed on the top of my head. “There was nothing you could have done about it. At some point in time everyone knew that your powers were going to start showing more and more and keep breaking the spell. All we need to do is get Alex back up here and ask your dad for help considering he contributed to this.” Jayce calmly states.

I turn around to face him and look up into his eyes as I feel tears start to prick in the back of mine. Jayce most likely noticed because he pulls me close into his chest and I breathe in his amazing scent. It surprisingly calms me down and I barely manage to mutter out “If I was so dangerous, then why didn’t they just get rid of me? Why couldn’t they have just ended all of this long ago so they could live their lives out without wondering if I’m going to wake up one morning and just decide to kill them?”

Jayce starts rubbing circles on my back for a brief moment of silence before starting off, “Listen to me….We will get you through this okay? Once everything starts settling down we will help you control and strengthen your powers, alright?” “Alright.” He leans his head down and places a soft kiss on my lips before we both change into new clothes and walk downstairs.

My parents are still in their room, probably getting their well deserved rest after dealing with me, and I can’t help but to wonder how I did everything I did. I barely know one thing about my powers and here I was standing in this same spot yesterday choking my dad…. Me and Jayce walk into the kitchen and I sit at the counter while he goes over to the stove, to make us breakfast I’m guessing, but before he can do anything there is a knock at the door. He nods his head at me signaling that he’ll get it so I just stay in my seat and take my phone out to text Mia.

“Hey, I just wanted to as-”

Before I can even finish typing out my sentence I hear Jayce yelling at someone so I go towards the noise to figure out what is going on. I round the corner to my front door and see Anna trying to closer to Jayce while he yells at her to get her away.

‘What is she doing here?’

As if I’m supposed to know

‘She needs to leave now if she knows what’s good for her’

How am I supposed to get her attention?

‘Use me as your source and growl’

I listen to what Shei says and let out a low but loud enough growl and Anna’s head quickly turns to face me. She looks scared but amused at the same time and before I know it, she comes running towards me.

Not again…..

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(Hey guys I am soooooo sorry for the delay in this chapter. I have been really busy with exams and babysitting family so I haven’t had the time needed to make a new chapter. Hopefully after everything settles down I can start making them more frequently so that you don’t have to wait as long. I’ve been thinking about posting two chapters at a time but that would make them come out biweekly (once every two weeks) instead of weekly so if you guys could comment what you prefer that would be great! See you guys next chapter!!! Byeeee~)