Ever since then, that shadow figure, since then a few strange things have been happening. One someone is following our blog; it’s Vivian. I’m learning a bit more about her story.
I don’t quite remember seeing a book in her hands, but something is strange about the way her eyes never left soma.
By reading her blog I learned she could see ghost, I never believed in ghost or spirits maybe it’s just the way that they never seemed real, the way in which they don’t seem to belong. But that creature WAS there, running, arm’s swaying, it existed, watching almost waiting before it scattered into thin air.
Soma’s words about something bigger than us, watching over us, stalking us silently. I don’t remember ever doing anything wrong, yet it’s being handed to me like I can take this. Although Soma wanted to do some exploring I didn’t trust staying in that place for one more night this road trip seems to be taking a darker turn.
“Gabriel” Soma said, this was the second time she had used my real name, the second time Soma never felt like Soma.
“Yes?” I replied, somewhat unsure of what to expect next, her hands clutched her white skirt as she opened her mouth.
“Gabriel, I remember…”
I slammed on the brakes pulling the car to the side, looking into her eyes they looked duller like the eyes of someone who had been through torment, abuse, lifeless.
“..It was in December, colder than most days, she didn’t look happy with me but I don’t remember what I did. She brought out the kitchen knife, I begged for her to think about it to not do it. It was dark out then, the moonlight glinted off the metal and it hurt the sharpness, separated my skin over and over…”
I knew soma had scars on her legs, arms and torso I asked what they were from she never could remember until now, why now.
“..She kept calling my name, telling me it was my fault that he was gone, that I didn’t. That I shouldn’t live, should I live? Could it be my fault?”
Her name! “Soma your name…what was your name”, now that I think about it that had to be the most stupid thoughtless question.
She looked over at me, her eyes darker now, as if telling me there was no way in fucking hell she was telling ME her name, she grinned and cracked her neck softly.
I remember blacking out, when I awoke I was somewhere in the wood’s in a brook. Soma was nowhere in sight, and I cried out her name over and over.
I had to get out of the water, it was dark, and cold my first instinct told me find warmth. I wanted to ignore it, betray it find soma.
But something told me she didn’t want to be found.
I managed to escape the woods. And I saw soma on the road curled up, no cars were coming, and she just sat there watching me.
“You lived?”
“Yes I lived Dammit Soma!” I yelled from the ditch, “Tell me what’s going on!”
“I’m not ‘soma’ I told you my name, I whispered it into your ear as I placed you into the water” Soma tapped her ear softly; her blue eye looked brighter in the moon’s light.
She was officially freaking me out, and then as I looked into the trees behind her I saw a shadowy figure, short, under fed, a mask took the place of its face.
A mask that was always smiling.
“Gabriel!” Vivian? The young woman pinned me to the ground.
“She’s not herself, being possessed, him...” her fingers pointed to the Southeast’s sky, God? Let me tell you I stopped believing in god when I was six.
How do I describe what I seen, it, he, was no god. A monster, how did I not see it sooner, now that it was pointed out it seemed so, unreal?
Yes unreal, it seemed to watch me.
Facelessly watching.
“I have to get soma”
“Not now…” Vivian pulled me up, how far could we run? It would catch us, it watched us run down the road, soma was standing up now what seemed like a dark presence surrounded her, covered her, the tall figure walked behind her dark, faceless.
My legs felt as if they would give out, like something was restricting my breathing, wanting me to fall, wanting to kill me, this was pure fear driving me to follow the girl in front of me…
…causing me to not look at my love behind me.
Everything happened so fast. Now soma is gone, Vivian and I are in the city she brought me into the café, told the staff we needed their computer now, she wanted me to tell you this, she wanted me to tell her.
And now…now I just have to find Soma.
