Demon Beside Me

Chapter 15

Heartbreak

I ran to the stair case and I must have almost fallen over trying to stop Stephenie from falling, even with my knowing it was too late. Krad put his hands around my waist only to pull me back with a growl.

“You could have fallen.” He laughed.

I glared at him and hit his chest trying to get him to let me go. When he did let me go he looked at me like he was getting annoyed.

My eyes went to look over the stair case and I saw that Stephenie’s body was on the floor. Her legs were bent and her neck looked broken, but when my eyes saw the bit of blood-

What had just happened?

I looked back at Krad and saw that he was watching me, carefully. It was almost as if he knew I was ready to snap at any moment, or rather, I would break down at any moment.

“What did you do?” I questioned staring at him in disbelief.

“I didn’t do anything.” He told me turning his head to the side. “I saw her come out and she must have been surprised when she saw me-”

“Why didn’t you help her then?” I yelled closing my eyes in an attempt to fight back the tears. I opened them again and saw that he was running his hands though his hair.

“It happened so fast Diamond.” He said and for a moment I thought I saw him grin; but I knew he couldn’t have. This was nothing to grin about.

Krad eyes soon looked up at the ceiling. “She’s dead.”

I knew he was just stating a fact right now, but the way he was stating it made me feel sick: like I had been the one to push her off of the stair case.

“Yes.” I breathed out not wanting this to be true. “What are we going to do?”

The question was dumb. I knew this time we would have to go to the police. I had to go to the police. They would understand.

“You can’t go to the police.” He said as if he had heard my thoughts. “They’ll throw you in jail love and I won’t have it.”

I wanted to smile at the protectiveness in his voice, but just shook my head instead.

“No this time we have to. We didn’t with Kate.”

“So we don’t have to now.” Krad sighed when my face glared at him for his answer. “Diamond this was an accident, but they will twist it around.”

“No they won’t. Once I tell them that-”

“That what-you came here to tell her you and she should try to be friends, after what happened between the two of you in the café. Do you really think they’ll believe that? I’m sure there are other students who knew that Stephenie was trying to be the queen bee and that you where the actual queen bee. Come on Diamond, it’s not going to happen. They’ll eat you alive.”

I stared at him hardly. I knew he was right. They would think I had come in here to kill her and they’ll think I pushed her down the stair case on purpose.

“Krad this is crazy. Why does this keep happening?” I wasn’t too sure if that last question was meant for him to answer or not.

He chose the latter.

“Diamond try to calm down.” He whispered.

What was he talking about? I was calm. I was surprised at how calm I was; but I was calm none the less. This fact really scared me.

“Diamond.” I heard him say again, but my mind was leaving him. I began to think about what I had to do, what we needed to do.

How could I have let my life get to this? I cried in my head. I was only sixteen and I was a killer. I knew that people had killed before, but I had killed two people now.

I felt like I couldn’t breathe, like the world was coming in around me and nothing could stop it. I was about to be taken in by this darkness that was surrounding me. I needed to break away. I needed to get away. I was losing my balance. I was going to fall.

Arms came around me. I knew they were meant to comfort me but they just made me feel even more as if I couldn’t breathe. When I opened my eyes I saw it was Krad. He was holding me close to him, and I wanted nothing more than to keep his arms around me, but at the same time I wanted to break away from him.

I pushed away from him only to stare into his stormy blue eyes. My pushing away from him must have had made him mad. His eyes began to turn red then crimson red.

My eyes weren’t really seeing that. Where they?

“Leave me alone!” I yelled and ran from him.

I left Stephenie house in a hurry. I half way home when I wondered if he was following me, but I was to mush of a chicken to look and see.

My legs just would not stop running. I must have been running to my house or maybe I was running somewhere else. I wasn’t sure, but I just kept running.

“Diamond stop!” I heard Krad say and then I ran even faster. I wasn’t going to stop until I could run no longer.

His feet were getting closer to me. I could hear his steps closing in. I wanted to stay away from him. I needed to at this moment.

I felt Krad’s hand grab my arm and force my feet stop running. I felt myself being lift from the ground and I was ready to kick and scream at him to put me down, but felt his lips come down on mine.

Stop. I thought in my head for only a moment before I was kissing him back. His lips were so addictive, so perfect. I felt like I was weak in the knees, like at any moment I would be flying.

He groaned against my lips just as I bit his bottom lip. My hands begun to pulled at his shirt. I wanted more needed more, but then I heard a voice a voice that was so very firm telling me to stop.

I opened my eyes and I saw who the voice had come from. It was Kate. She was standing right there in front of me and Krad. He was too much involved with my lips to have even noticed.

Staring into her icy blue eyes made me want to cry. If she kept looking at me like that I would cry.

“Help me.” She said so clearly. “Save me.”

My lips stayed on Krad, even with me feeling as if I was about to faint; Half from him and half from Kate standing before me.

She kept staring at me saying those same things. “Help me.” “Save me.”

I was pulled from my thoughts as I felt Krad began to move on my shirt pulling at it. I shook my head as he bit down my lower lip, making me groan. His lips moved from my lips to my chin and then began to nibble their way down to my neck.

“Help me.” She said louder. “There isn’t much time.”

This made my eyes go to hers and I saw that she was looking at me with a hard expression.

From what? I thought again, starting to feel very good with Krad nibbling on my neck. I was biting my bottom lip from letting out a sigh. He felt very good to me.

“From-”Kate began as she reached for me, but when her hand touched me I nearly lost my balance. Her skin was so cold that I felt I would pass out from her touch, it felt almost frozen.

Her eyes began to glow like the underworlds fire. She looked scarier. Much scarier. I wanted to run from her. She stared at me like she didn’t understand why I was looking at her, and then she looked at if she knew.

“No, you have to stop-” I cut her off just as I saw long claws coming from the ground grabbing her.

I moved out of Krad arms.

“No!” I screamed; just as I did Kate vanished. Krad looked beside him as if knowing I wasn’t talking to him.

“What’s wrong love?” He asked suddenly not looking at me, but where Kate had stood.

“I’m going home.” I said a calmly as I could. I needed to go into my own bedroom and calm down. I needed to be away from this place.

Kate was haunting me and soon I knew, Stephenie, probably would to.

“I’ll take you home.”

“No you stay here. I don’t want you to come.” I began and bit my lip shaking my head. “I need to think and I can’t think well when you’re there.”

He frowned at me and nearly growled.

“Why can’t you??” Krad snapped, he didn’t look very happy with me right now. “Tell me, you aren’t thinking of leaving me are you.”

The thought hadn’t cross my mind, but now that he brought it up. Maybe I was, but I just hadn’t realized I was. Krad had always seemed like he could read me. Maybe that was why he was becoming so angry so quickly.

Did I really want to break up with him? I wondered as I looked into his eyes. They seemed to be the stormy blue, but it looked as if he was trying very hard not to get to angry at me for whatever reason.

I shook my head and thought again was I about to break up with him. He was always really good to me, but everything that has happened since I meant him, from Kate to now Stephenie. What was I going to do?

It was true that when he kissed me I lost all reason. In fact I had just been making-out with him when I saw Kate. I shivered at the thought. She coming to me told me I needed a break. I needed to step away from what was happening.

I loved him, yes. I loved him very much, but with all that had happened I think we both needed a break.

My heart was breaking at the mere thought of what I was going to do, but I needed to. I needed to get away from this. I may need to even take a few days from school.

No if I didn’t go to school people would think something that I had something to do with Stephenie. I know that I did but-

What was I going to do?

Looking up to meet his eyes I saw that he knew what I was thinking, or rather, what I was going to say.

“I think we should.” I told him and watched as his eyes light on fire. “For a while at least, just until I figure out everything. We should take a break, I need a break. Too much is happening Krad. People keep dying right in front me. I don’t know what to do: First Kate, then my dad, as well as his wife, and now Stephenie. What am I going to do Krad?”

Biting my lip I stared into his beautiful eyes hoping he would see that I still loved him, but I just needed a break from the madness.

“So you think I am the one bringing the madness into your life?” He laughed with no emotion what so ever.

I shook my head at him.

“No I just need to be with myself. I need to think that’s all.”

His eyes seemed to be turning a dark red. They looked like blood. I wasn’t too sure why but even with this crazy conversation we were having I wanted to ask why his eyes did that, but something told me not to.

“So you want to see other people?” The question sounded like a test and test he was hoping I passed.

I stared at him hardly seeing him close his eyes, as if he was trying to keep calm.

“No, I want to be by myself, that’s all.”

“Not for too long right?” He asked with a smirk. Before I could even think about my answer for, I didn’t know, he opened his eyes and said. “Alright. Have your time. We’ll be together soon.”

My eyes stared at him opening my mouth to ask him what he meant, but he just smiled at me, making me not want to ask.

“Krad-”

“I’ll give you a ride home.” He cut me off grabbing my hand leading me to his motorcycle.

A/N: Thanks Stahlut! And thanks for the take a break! I like that. :)