Demon Beside Me

Chapter 14

My life only gets worse

My eyes stared straight into his after he had said that. I was all he had.

He had really just said that. He had even said that he loved me.

His lips, his beautiful wonderful lips came down on mine. I allowed them to take me to another world, a place where I was happy. We were happy and together.

Man I loved his lips. He was making me shiver and I wanted nothing more than to fall back and allow this happiness to take me. I knew I needed this-no I dissevered this. My whole life I had to kiss up to people, had to let others tell me what to do, and even had to pretend to be something I wasn’t. It was time for me to be happy.

I wanted him. I wanted all of him. No I didn’t only want him I needed him. I needed him so much that it hurt. It was weird. I felt his hands go around my waist to pull me closer and I nearly groaned.

When his lips broke away, I almost wanted to hit him for breaking away from me. Didn’t he feel what I felt when I kissed him.

I stared into his eyes and saw the lust in them, but he seemed to be fighting himself. It made me wonder why?

If he loved me like I loved him, there really was no need to fight this.

“Krad-”

“Diamond, tell me how has your day been?” He asked me and I just stared at him not understanding why he was changing the subject. “Diamond you seem different, something bad maybe?”

I smiled in spite of myself. He always cared about what I was going through. He really did love me and it made me happy. I knew I could always talk to him the way I could no one else.

“Not really, just Steph.”

“Steph?”

“Yeah, she just wants it all you know.”

“Being greedy is she?”

I laughed at him and looked at him rolling my eyes. “I guess you can say that, but I think she is taking everything too far, you know. She’s been acting like Kate or something.”

Krad hand glazed across my face slightly. “Now we can’t have that can we? You are after all the new Kate not her.”

I shook my head at him and frowned. He got up from the bench. I just sat there and watched him as he went to lean on a tree.

“Krad.” I whispered softly and then got up to follow him. I ran a hand through my hair as the wind caught it and moved it behind my ear frowning. “That’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying that I don’t want the school to be like it was when Kate was alive, but-”

What was I saying? I asked myself as I watched him began to smirk at me. Krad knew me to well and I didn’t know if I liked that very much right now.

“Tell me love do you want her to keep doing this?”

“No, I don’t but-”

“Then you should just tell her that.” Krad said very simply and I wasn’t sure if he was joking or not. He must have read my face for then he said. “What? I know you haven’t really talked to her.” He then moved to where I was standing and put his hands on my waist. “Where does she live?”

“A few blocks from Kate’s house.” I mumbled.

He smiled at me and I forgot what I needed to tell him.

We took his bike to Steph’s house, and I was ready to leave the moment we got there. I didn’t want her to think I was going to kiss her butt or anything, just to get her to stop acting the way she was acting.

I stood there in front of her house with him and folded my arms, not really knowing why he had taken me here in the first place.

“So tell my why I, or we rather, here?” I asked taping my foot on the ground. “I don’t want to be here Krad.”

From the corner of my eyes I saw him smile, but when I turned to look the smile was gone. I rolled my eyes at him and bit my bottom lip.

If only Kate could see me do this now.

“Look you need to talk to her, and I’ll be here to help you, ok.” He reasoned with me as my eyes studied him. “You want your school to be nice, so you need to tell her how you feel. And with me here as support what can go wrong.”

This didn’t really sit well with me. It seemed to be perfect. Me here with my boyfriend-I supposed that was what he was-in front of a so called friends house, going to talk to her so we wouldn’t be fighting any longer.

It all seemed like a perfect plan, but it was all too perfect and I didn’t really like this. Steph would go tell everyone at school tomorrow about how I had came over to her house with a guy, a really hot guy, but a guy on the less. She would say I had threatened her to stop being the Queen Bee, I just knew it.

I closed my eyes and I could see all of those people who where my fake friends, laughing at me. Just like they did before Kate came along.

This thought made me wonder if Mindy would try to stop them, or act like how I had with Jena. Just turn her head and act like nothing was happening.

“Don’t worry so much, Diamond.” I heard Krad’s voice says. I opened my eyes and saw that he was now standing over me with that handsome smirk of his. “I’ll take care of you love.” He grabbed my hand and kissed it. “Shall we?”

I followed him up the walk way. With each step I felt even more ready to leave, but knew I had to do this. I did need to talk to her, and with Krad here it should make things easier.

“Does she have a key out here?”

I shook my head yes and pointed to where it was. I wasn’t sure why he asked me that, but he seemed to be happy when he got the key in his hand. He grabbed the key and went to open the door.

“Krad we could just knock.” I laughed at him.

“Where is the fun in that?” He asked as he opened the door to walk in.

I followed him and closed the door behind me.

Steph’s house looked nice still. Big and beautiful, but what I loved most about her house was her stair case. It looked perfect. As soon as you walked into her house you saw the huge stair case. If one fell from the top of that stair case one would most certainly die from the fall; that much I knew.

I remembered once Steph had said that when she was little her parents had to put a gate around the edge, because they were afraid she would fall.

“So she is upstairs?” He asked suddenly walking to the steps.

“I don’t know.” I honestly said and put my hand on the back of my neck. “I think she is. I didn’t see her parent’s car, so I know they aren’t here.”

“She has a car?” I wasn’t sure if he was asking me or just stating a fact, so I just chose to take it as a question.

“She has a car, but she doesn’t have a licensee, so it just sits there in her garage.” I told him with an angry frown. We were walking up to her room and I was getting angry at the thought of her having a car without a licensee while I had one and yet no car.

‘We can’t afford to get you a car.’ I remembered my mom saying and then my step father saying. ‘I will try to put some money aside so you can get a car or rather how about I match whatever you save.’

I rolled my eyes at the thought. Working here was going to be the worst. I didn’t like this place enough to work anywhere, even if I wanted a car badly.

To me it all just seemed unfair. Really since my real father had enough money to buy me a brand new car. Why couldn’t my mom just force him to buy me a car? He never gave me anything before anyways, it would be the least he could do.

“This I’m guessing is her room.” Krad said turning to look at me.

I shook my head and looked at the door. Seeing the name Stephenie was written on it. I recalled when she first told me her name.

It’s Stephenie. Spelled like Stephen but with an i-e at the end. She had said that and had made Kate roll her eyes at her, and tell her no one cared.

Why did I keep thinking about Kate?

“I’ll stay out here while you have girl talk.” He said to me and moved out of my way so I could go into the room.

I frowned but didn’t say anything.

He would be here when I left. He would hug me and say everything was going to be ok, once I left this room, he would be here for me.

I opened the door and walked into the room. Her room was nice, unlike mine that always seemed to be messy.

Her room looked that of money, but not the kind of money Kate had, but money none the less.

She was laying in her huge king sized bed and it looked like she was sleep. I was happy that she hadn’t heard me and Krad talking out in the hall.

I walked over to her bed and pushed her a little. She frowned and rolled over.

“Mom I said I wasn’t going!” She yelled in her sleep.

I laughed at her. I guess I wasn’t the only one who talked in my sleep.

My laughter must have woke her up, because she jumped up and looked at me. I stared back at her and fought the smile that was going to come on my face. She looked funny. It was like she was trying to finger out if she was still dreaming or not.

“Minnie what are you doing here? How did you get here?” She asked as if she was ready to call the cops on me.

I shook my head at her.

“I can’t come visit a friend?”

“Cut the bullshit and tell me why you’re here?” She asked getting up out of her bed. She walked passed me and went to go look in her mirror that was on her closet door. “My mom let you in didn’t she? I hate when she does that. She used to let Kate in whenever she came over. The bitch would act as if this was her house.”

I didn’t answer her; I just stared at her as she played with her straightened hair. “I am so going to have to call in for another appointment soon.” She laughed then turned to me. “Is Mindy here with you? I know you both said we need to talk, but I didn’t think you where serious.”

“No just me.” I smiled and thought, just me and Krad, but you don’t need to know that yet.

“So you came here to tell me that I’m being really mean or something?” She asked. “Just like that bitch Kate maybe.”

“You know what Steph you are a real witch!” I yelled at her smiling face.

“So tell me Minnie why are you here?” She asked again and folded her arms.

I frowned pushing my day dream from my mind.

“I just think we need to talk.” I told her with a grin. “What happened at school?”

“Was all your fault, and if I had been in a better mind I would have just told everyone at school about how you flaked on Mike.”

My eyes looked at her with surprise, how did she know about that?

“I know that Kate told me and Mindy to keep it quiet because she was going to talk to you about it, but she’s dead now and there is a new Queen here. So you better start being the follower or honey bee that you are….or well you know the or part.”

I stared at her. She wouldn’t dare.

“Minnie, I’m sure I can come up with some other things for you to have done. Maybe you did have sex with Mike and in fact maybe you had sex with Leon too, no wonder me and him are about to break up.” Steph laughed. “I have had my eye on Jake, I’m sure he’ll need someone to talk to as well.”

“You witch!” I yelled at her. “You’re no better than Kate!”

“No, I’m far worse.”

“Are you hunger Minnie?” She asked, pulling me from my day dream and I rolled my eyes at her. “Of course you are. You’re always hunger.”

She walked out of her room and I just zoned out. What was I going to do? I was now going to be under Steph instead of Kate.

How was this any better than before?

I didn’t have long to think for before I couldn’t think at all. I heard a scream and I turned to look ahead of me, only to see Steph falling over the stair case and Krad just standing there.

A/n: thank you Stahlut!