JTHM

Chapter 6
It was late after noon when he checked his answering machine. It reminded him of the last time her used the phone, and the words he spoke threw the recorder. And that beautiful creature on the other end. Devi. The raven beauty... She was the only thing in the world that seemed to have pureness.
If only to see her once more...
He paced back and forth. Not knowing what to do.
\"If I call her, the same thing will probably happen again. But if I don\'t then how will I know? On the other hand, I might save myself the pain if I just forget it all.\" he paced more and more. Devi had disrupted his thoughts when he was gone.
\"What do you think?\" Johnny asked his latest victim who was strapped to upside down by his ankles. Fearfully the man looked up at him.
\"I don\'t know I just want to go home!\" he wailed.
Johnny tightened the restraints around his feet.
\"I asked you a question, ASSHOLE!\"
\"AHHHHH!!! I DON\'T KNOW I DON\'T KNOW!\"
\"Come on help me out here, I\'m doing my best.\"
The man sniffle but his hands were also bound leaving him unable to wipe away the tears.
\"If you free me I will tell you,\" he said nervously.
\"DEAL!\" Johnny leaped around the room spinning.
\"Go to her house... bring her flowers... apologies again and don\'t let her to till she accepts.\"
\"I suppose that could work.\" Johnny sighed. Suddenly putting a brismilsmile on he cracked his knuckles. \" I should get ready.\"
In the bathroom he wash his face and comb his hair. Finding his best black shirt he changed and went back to the room.
\"How do I look?\"
\"Hush... very good sir.\"
\"Wish me luck!\" With that Johnny left the house.
\"H-h-ey! You\'re supposed to let me go now!\"

\"Sixteen cents is your change son,\" the man at the florist stand said and handed him a bouquet of roses. Devi\'s house was not to far from where he was. Practicing what he was going to say and imaging all the things that might go wrong or go right he worked up a nervous sweat. Knocking on the door and standing out of the peephole view he wanted. He didn\'t want her to slam the door in his face so he avoided sight.
\"Hello?\" she peeped into the hallway.
\"Hello Devi...\" he said shoving the flowers into her arms. Finally he looked up at her and the color in her face drained.
\"Johnny! What do you want? I-I-m going to phone the police! Leave me alone!\"
\"Devi please allow me to apologies!\"
\"Are you insane? Go away!\" she tried to close the door but he blocked her way. And pressed on into the room. Grabbing her hands in his slender spider-like fingers.
\"I\'m so sorry Devi! But I wont let you go until I have you back.\"
\"...Johnny...\"
Without a word or even a sigh he pressed his lips against her cheek and left it there for about a second. The color rose in her cheeks and as did Johnny\'s.

***
Their legs almost tangled in each other and the perfume of the night air floated into the room. The flesh of their lips meshed together until Johnny couldn\'t tell his breath apart from hers. Unaware he had such passion inside his dismal body his heart began to thump rythmaticly faster at the very thought of this. He was a strange creature as well she, both dismal and dark he touched her with gentleness almost as the silk light of the moon that lights the room. This shocked him, unaware that he could ever bestow such feelings upon another living thing; he had given up on the very idea. But here, now, he had his fingers intened ned with that of another life. Funny it seemed that all he had to do was touch another human being in a loving way; to feel his body against another, he wouldn\'t have to feel so tense. An awkward feeling crept inside him, making him feel as though he was being born. Everything he had ever felt seemed cast aside and everything that was present in that moment was all that he he\'d known. Lips against one another, so soft and tender he felt her flesh in his fingers and held her as though she could break. No real intercourse took place. He just caressed her, touching the dampness of her, the warmth and the glow. The touch of her fingers traced all around him, pleasure welling up inside of him... with a sudden unsure gasp he threw his head back and closed his eyes tight feeling a sensation of release, a explosion of wetness. Falling against the sheets his eyes rolled back into darkness, his body trembling...
\"Devi...\"
Head pulsating and the burning sensation that ran threw ought his body. Opening his eyes he couldn\'t see anything! He tried to inhale a breath but it was like there was no air to inhale. Somehow he was getting oxygen but he could breath. His body ached and his body seemed to be falling, or rising, or something. Thoughts raced threw him but some how in a peaceful quiet manner.

\"Where am I...?

What happened to Devi.\"

And then his mind for once in his life was clear. No trifling pain, or thoughts of the world around him. Just a peaceful blankness, until suddenly he awoke forms the clearness. He could see past darkness now.

Standing up he looked around and down at himself. At first things seemed to be a bit of a blur until he squinted. He was naked, he touched headhead... and bald!
\"What the hell is going on?\" he yelled out into the grayness. He seemed to be standing on a gray sheet of land, completely empty. The sun frozen in mid setting was the only color that seemed to appear. Just an eco of his voice carried and no there sound replayed to him. Johnny looked down at his feet not remembering when he had lest been without his boots when the hovering images of?? D-boy and Mr. Eff hovered, soon joined by Mr. Nail bunny.
\"W-what the hell?\"
\"Yes Nny, its the end of your pain...\" D-Boy stated.
\"Fool! This is only the beginning of it all!\"
Nail bunny said nothing.
\"Am I dead?\"
\"In between Johnny. The worlds of coarse. Limbo. You no need longer-\"
\"You haven\'t died! If were in Limbo then this lifeless self is doomed to walk the faces of the Earth for eternity!\"
\"Yes that right Mr. Eff.\"
Mr. Effs right eye spun in a crazed motion as he let out a long yelp.
\"Then were fucked!\"
Nny looked to nail bunny.
\"What\'s going on, oh floaty one?\"
\"I have no clue Johnny. I think we are doomed to walk the faces of the earth for all eternity, with no contact with anyone.\"
\"Why did this happen?\"
\"because you reached at peak of pleasure and happiness nny.\" D- Boy explained. \"Now you damaged the barriers of this world and the other by achieving the impossible. You see Johnny it wasn\'t a miracle, it was impossibility. It wasn\'t supposed to happen.\"
Johnny stared blankly at the frozen sun set.
Johnny shrugged at this.
\"Nothing fazes me anymore.\"
He began to walk around suddenly stopping at a sound off into he distance.
\"What\'s that?\" nail bunny mused.
Suddenly they all disappeared except Johnny who was left staring at a storage white light that was not more than a hundred meters away.
The light morphed into a person, and that person was a girl.
\"Johnny?\"
\"Yeah, that\'s me. Am I dead?\"
She chuckled.
\"No, this is one of those glimpses. You know the kind where u take one path and the other determines your future.\"
\"Why is this happening?\"
\"You chose a path way never thought possible. Now you have a choice to continue it or choose another one. Its time for you to make a decision.\"
She took Johnny\'s slender fingers in hers and once she let go, they of coarse where in a different place.
\"Nice camera shot\" Johnny mused. Suddenly he blinked at his surroundings.
In this scene Johnny was bewildered to find that he saw himself, walking hand in hand with Devi. This puzzled him because he didn\'t recognize himself. Smiling as if he was a happy person and his life was normal. Many unspeakable assholes leered at them. There style of books and articles of unusual clothing made them grimace.
Johnny couldn\'t understand why he wasn\'t doing anything about it. Why he was letting his happiness with Devi continue at the risk of it ending, although he did return to her to try again.
\"What the hell is wrong with me?\" Johnny shrieked. These people, people who long to be punished, who I would normally bound between a blade of tearing bone crushing ness and deprive them from the essence of the earth, I ignore!!!\"
\"Yes, see, if you continue with Devi, your destruction of assholery will cease to exist and you will no longer need to punish.\"
Johnny crumbles to the floor hands over his ears.
\"I cannot let that happen.\"
\"How ever Johnny... should you pick this path you can see, your have forgotten your misery. Your pain and the life you live will no longer be full of question. An answered will no longer be needed for you.\"

\"The question is Johnny,\" She said kneeling before him, \" do you want it to happen?\"
Eee
Eee
Nee
Nny...

\"Johnny?\"
He blinked. She stroked his cheek.
\"Did you go somewhere?\" she chuckled then sat upright. He was back. They were still between the sheets.
\"Maybe...\" he whispered. \"How long was I out?\"
\"You must have fallen asleep for only a few minutes. You had me worried there.\" She smiled pulling the sheets closer. It was still difficult to see in the room. The windows had fog on them.
\"Something wrong Johnny?\"
\"The future.\" he mumbled.
Devi had a puzzled look on her face.
\"Johnny,\" she chuckled again, \" you must have gone somewhere.\"
\"Yeah, I think I did.\" his gazed finally met hers. She moved back a little. Feeling a little unsure.
\"I should do the right thing...,\" he mumbled.
\"Johnny you\'re freaking me out...\"
\"But I don\'t think I can...\" he pulled her back to his arms.
\"Johnny!\"
He touched her face.
\"Sorry I didn\'t mean to scare you.\"
His eyes returned to normal.
Generously he stroked her cheek and laid her back down. She smiled a relief smile.
Johnny began to run his hands over he body gently... up and down the sides of her neck.
With shaking hands he held her slender neck in his fingers...
she made a sound that didn\'t come out right.
She began to struggle but she was tangled in covers. He continued to hold his face to hers while he drained her life away.
\"Please... be still...\" he whispered as the color in her face began to fall...