Demon Beside Me

Chapter 18

Stop thinking about Krad

A loud knock on my door woke me up. I rolled over on my bed and opened my eyes, not knowing when I had even gone to sleep. In fact I didn’t remember when I fell asleep.

I looked around the room and frowned when I heard the knock again.

“Minnie, may I come in?”

My step father. I rolled my eyes upon hearing his voice. I honestly didn’t need to talk to him right now. I wanted nothing more than to go back to sleep again.

“Come in.” I sighed falling back into my bed.

He walked into the room and smiled at me. He stood there looking at me for a few moments and I frowned at him, wanting him to hurry up and say whatever he wanted to say.

“Your mom wanted me to wake up you up at twelve, but I thought you should sleep a bit more. You have been going through a lot and a good sleep can really help.” He said while I just kept looking at him, not really caring what he had to say. “Can I sit down?”

“It’s your house.” I said getting up a bit in my bed. I could tell he was about to start talking to me about something, maybe school or how I’ve been since Bill died or whatever else.

He walked over to my desk chair and pulled it out and sat down.

“Do you sleep with make up on?” He asked all of a sudden.

“No.” I responded not understanding what was with him.

He just shook his head.

Henry was quiet for a moment like he was trying to think about what to say. I wasn’t too sure but it looked like he wasn’t breathing very well.

Was he nervous? I thought as I looked at him.

Then I remembered something. My step father and me had never had a one on one talk before. Not in all the time he and my mother had known each other, had we had a one on one. He had tried before, but I always found a way to get out of it.

He and Allen got along very well. They even went out to play football or whatever else guys do together when the girls were at home, but him and me, never.

“What is it?” I asked him all of sudden not really knowing what to say to him.

He looked up at me his green eyes stared into mine, and he smiled then said my name quietly.

I frowned. “What do you want? I’m going to go over to Mindy’s house later.”

“I’m sorry about your friends, that must be hard on you.” He said to me softly.

Shaking my head I frowned.

Would he just hurry up before I turned a hundred?

“And your father also.”

My eyes opened wide at him calling Bill my father. My mom didn’t even call Bill my father anymore. She always called Henry my father.

“I’ll be ok.” I whispered lying. I didn’t know if I could take another bad thing happening in my life. I needed things to go back to the way they had been.

“Minnie I know that you don’t think of me as your father.” He said and I nearly felt my stomach do a turn. He must have noticed. “It’s ok, Minnie. I understand.”

“I’m sorry.” I said to him not wanting to look him in the eye. For some reason I didn’t like him knowing that. I don’t know why, but it made me feel sick.

“When I first met you, you where about to be a teenager and your brother was just really getting into sports. I still remember taking him to his first tryout and he was scared but he made it. That’s when he and I begin playing football all the time, before we moved….” He paused then and looked at me briefly. “Well then there was you. I will admit I didn’t know what to do when I first met you. You seemed so grown up for you age. I could see just what your mom had said about you was true.” He laughed

Something told me he wasn’t going to tell what my mother told him about me. I smiled at him and tried to listen to what he was trying to say to me.

“You where or rather are a very beautiful girl, and when I first met you I wanted to be your father, just like with Allen. It was different for me, I didn’t know as soon as I met you two and saw how you two are that I would love you, and want to be your dad. I think that is also when I realized I love your mother and wanted us all to be a family.”

I kept staring at him not knowing rather I should speak or not. He was being very open.

“But I knew you didn’t like me. So I thought that maybe if I tried not to be your father it would be easier. I knew you missed your father and I didn’t want to push-”

“But my mom keeps pushing.” I whispered.

“She just wants you to be happy and loved.”

“I know.”

“I love you. To me you are my daughter blood could not make you any closer. You’re my first daughter you where the princess before Amanda.”

I laughed as he did.

Part of me started to become happy at talking with him. I was happy that we were talking and that he wasn’t saying he hated me. He loved me and for some reason I knew he was telling the truth.

He was my dad in so many ways, and I think the real reason why I didn’t want to call him dad was because I never thought I should have a dad, that if my own father didn’t love me than how could anyone else.

“I just want you to know that I am here for you whenever you need me. I won’t try to be your father-”

“No.” I said tears filling my eyes.

His eyes looked into mine and I smiled at him.

“I’m sorry for being so mean. I just-” I didn’t know what to say, I think he knew that for he put his arms around me and hugged me. This made me really happy.

“It’s ok Minnie.” He grinned when he let me go. “We’ll take it one step at a time.”

“Minnie are you up?” My mom said as she walked into the room. She looked at my father and I then shook her head. “We just got back. Minnie, you are going to the funeral today right?”

I stared at her. Funeral, for who Stephenie or Jake?

“I know you didn’t go to Kate’s, but you should at least try this time dear.”

“Ok.” I said guessing it was Stephanie’s funeral.

“Well get ready so we can leave.” My mom said as she walked out.

My step father got up and smiled leaving with her.

It did feel nice that I could talk to him.

I closed my eyes, and for some reason Krad came to my mind. From his beautiful eyes to his wonderful kisses. I missed him a lot, but knew I had to move on somehow.

Sighing I got up so I could get ready. I put on a nice dress with some nice dress shoes. I grabbed a hand bag that I knew was Mindy’s, and was about to leave, but my reflection made me stop.

I walked closer to my mirror and nearly screamed.

The face that stared back at me was not mine. It was not my face. No, this face was almost perfect. It looked almost like the girl I saw in day dreams who I so badly wanted to be.

This can’t be real.

I blinked and so did this person looking back at me. I backed away from the mirror and ran down the stairs.

“Mom.” I yelled as I went into the kitchen.

She was pacing around the room trying to fix something to eat.

“Minnie, sorry I just got started on these cookies. Your father reminded me about the football party for tomorrow and how everyone is supposed to bring snacks.” She said trying to grab things out of the fridge. “I am so sorry about this. Your father said he would make them, but he’s not good in the kitchen like I am.”

She laughed but right now I kind of didn’t need that. I needed her to look at me.

“Mom.” I said yet again and finally she turned around to look at me. Her eyes went wide when she looked at me.

“Minnie dear you look beautiful.” She said with a huge smile.

Come on mom I need more than that. I frowned. She had to see that there was something different about me. About my face.

“I wasn’t really able to see you that good early but you look-your wearing make up again?” She asked with a smile. “Is it for that cute boy that was over here dear, the one who was waiting for you?”

“No.” I began with a frown. I wasn’t wearing any make-up. What was happening to me? “Mom I’m not really talking to him right now.”

“Oh dear, why not? He waited here so long for you and when you didn’t come back I just told him to go home.” She explained as she mixed what was now in her bowl. “He wanted to stay, but I didn’t know when you where coming home, so I told him I would make sure to tell you. Minnie he did seem really nice.”

“You told him to go home?” I asked.

But Krad was here when I got home.

“Yes.”

“Mom did he tell you his name?” I asked all of a sudden feeling as if I would faint soon.

“Jake.” She said with a grin. “He is such a sweet boy.”

She continued to talk but I could no longer hear her. I just kept shaking my head.

“No mom, what about Krad? The guy I walked out of the house with, huh, what about him?” I almost yelled and this made my mom blink at me.

“I don’t know who you are talking about.” Her voice was even and she was looking at me like I had lost my mind. “But you need to stop yelling dear.”

“Mom you mean to tell me you don’t know who Krad is?”

“Sweetie, no. The only boy I know you went to see was Jake. You know dark hair dark eyes.”

No, this was not possible? How could my mom not have seen him? He was standing right in front of her that day.

Then my mind went to me riding on his motor cycle and how she hadn’t even asked me about that. How she hadn’t even heard it?

“Where is that brother of yours, he should be here by now?” My mom said all of a sudden and I knew that she was done with the topic.

I looked at her just staring for whatever reason. I didn’t know how Krad could have been standing right here and she didn’t see him?

This didn’t make any sense.

“Sweetie, Allen’s coach just called, he wasn’t at practice today.” My step father said as he walked into the kitchen.

He had put his coat on and something told me he was about to leave.

“But the car came to pick him up?”

“Yes, but it never showed up.”

My eyes went to my mom and I saw that she dropped the bowl.

“What do you mean he never showed up?” She shook out.

“I’m going to drive down there to see where he is at.”

Not Allen.

I don’t know what my mom said as I zoned out, thinking about my little brother out there by himself. He and I had been the only close family we had for so long, that if he left I would just die.

Not Allen. I thought again.

I thought as I ran fingers though my hair. I had to talk to Krad about this-wait Krad. He wouldn’t-no he-I opened my eyes wide.

When everyone had died Krad was always there. Ever since I had met him bad things have been happening.

My mom couldn’t see him and come to think about it, I wasn’t too sure if anyone could see him. When he was at Drake’s party no one seemed to notice him. When he was standing out in front of my school no one had said anything. Come to think about it, how did he know what I was thinking when I was thinking it?

Something was not right with Krad. He was not human, and something, I not too sure what, was telling me that he had my brother.

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