HAUNTED PRINCE by DENIS DANIEL (uplifting books for women .TXT) 📖

“I hope to see you again soon.” She said after letting go. While I was frozen there. She took off and waved at me.

I couldn’t anything, I could just watch her disappear at the end of the street. Couple seconds later I was able to back up my mind and went back inside the house. I found mom and Ashley in the kitchen making something, lunch actually. It wasn’t surprising mom was back in the afternoon, it was Sunday, she could come early in those days.

“Can I join you guys?” I asked,

“Ashley why don’t you hand your brother those salads and onions, so he can help us cut them.”

Ashley handed me two big onions and a handful of salads, and she went on mixing something. It was like she was making a sauce or something.

“What are we making?” I asked them, I was never much of a cook so I was clueless with most of the things mom and Ashley made.

“Baked chicken, salad and sauce on the side and some homemade macaroni.” Ashley said excitedly. I think the enjoyment she got from cooking was what made the food so delicious.

The process of cooking, I was always left out on that, because most of the time I would over cook or not cook the food well enough. So I found myself setting the table for dinner, since the food preparation took a whole lot longer. And we didn’t start cooking too early either, so that’s about it.

By the time the dish was ready the whole kitchen smelled of the chicken. My mouth watered, actually, I could taste it even before eating it.

“Wow, what did you put in that chicken?” I asked,

“Mom’s secret recipe, smells good right?” Ashley said,

“That smell can drive a person mad,” I commented.

“Wait until you taste it with the sauce.” Ashley commented while starting to bring the dish to the table.

She was right. I never thought chicken could get any more delicious than it already was, but that chicken was amazing. I ate until I couldn’t anymore, even though I blamed it on the food because I ate beyond my limit, it was as if I grew a second stomach or something.

I went to my room stomach full and ready to sleep, but I wasn’t very sure about sleeping in the bathtub this time. I jumped in bed and hoped I would fall asleep because was not going to going to risk Ashley catching me again.

I tossed and turned and didn’t even seem to succeed with my attempt to fall asleep. My body was literally repelling the softness and the warmth of the blankets. Even after so much effort I didn’t seem to get anywhere. I jumped off the bed I stripped out of my pajamas and then jumped to the bathtub filled with water.

The comfort I got from the cold water was something I couldn’t understand. It was magical how quickly I could relax and drift to a deep slumber. And what made things so much sweeter were the dreams I had when I was in the bathtub; they were sensational. They took me to another world I’d never want to come back from.

Like today I was taken to the forest, it was more of a garden, there was almost everything except humans. There was animals big and small, trees and plants of every kind, birds flying everywhere. There was sweet wind blowing over my face and somehow that wind blew me softly over a mountain top, honestly I was scared as hell when I was floating in the air propelling like a leaf but all my fears went away when I landed slowly on soft grasses. The mountain was tall I could reach the clouds and everything else was at the bottom. It looked so beautiful; the Greenland below me, the birds flying below me and sounds of every kind. I could sit there on that mountain and never move for days.

So, I decided why not, nobody was there to stop me anyway. I would go home when I feel like it, after deciding that I sat down there and looked down there with creatures moving around. When I decided to look further on the far left side of the forest there was a beach and the ocean was spread all the way on that side like the sky itself. Thinking of the sky, the clouds were so close if I could jump hard enough I could touch them and they were moving swiftly heading behind me. Revealing the midday sun illuminating my face from time to time.

I enjoyed being there so much that I found myself playing with grass that was under me. I ran my fingers through them and let my fingers go deep enough to feel the sandy ground below the grass. And that’s when everything went sideways. Suddenly, there was some kind of steam coming from the ground and light smoke shooting up to the sky. It was like rain except this was going up instead of falling down. I panicked worrying all those beautiful things were going to be ruined except everything was the same except for the light fog shooting up.

Somehow, that fog made me feel weird, as strange as it may sound I felt like it was connected with me. It felt like I was the one causing it and I was strangely getting something from it as well. Knowing that I quickly willed myself to get out of there before I screwed everything up.

Willing myself out there meant waking up, so I found myself in my bathroom inside a bathtub. I got off went to my room to check time. It was five thirty in the morning. I went to the bathroom again for shower to warm my body a little and get myself ready for school. It was Monday another day to face my demon, high school.

By the time Ashley barged into my room as her usual style, I was ready.

“Good because I was going to soak you in your bed today.” She said seriously which meant she wasn’t joking.

‘You would’ve found me soaked anyway,’ I said to myself in my head.

She left my room and I was left collecting some of my school stuff. When I touched my English textbook I remembered that I didn’t do my homework. Unfortunately home work was the last thing in my mind, sincerely I was lost. I didn’t know which mystery I wanted to solve first, I didn’t even know how to solve any of them.

I went downstairs for breakfast I would think about mysteries later. But when I sat down at the dining table it was close to the window, so I could see outside. The weather was unusually cloudy even though there was no any signs of rain. And that’s when I felt funny as well, my heart was beating faster than usual, not too fast but fast enough to make me feel unease. My skin was tingly, and my body was kind of rigid. It was like electricity was constantly moving through my body. Mom wasn’t at the kitchen at that time so I asked Ashley if she felt it too, just in case,

“Do you feel that?” I asked cautiously.

“Feel what?” she looked at me with curiosity,

“Never mind.” Her answer was obvious that she wasn’t feeling it.

“Seriously, what?” she demanded,

I didn’t see the point of explaining, “I thought I felt something, but it’s nothing.”

“Okay, hurry up I don’t want to be late.” She said while taking her plate to the sink at the kitchen.

“Okay.” I said shortly as I was finishing my own last bite.

Soon after we were ready to go, so I grabbed my car keys and headed to the garage together with Ashley. I was very uncomfortable and I didn’t know how to make the feeling go away. Ashley gave me couple looks just to make sure I was okay. I would find myself smiling awkwardly as I was driving us to school.

The fact that Ashley wasn’t feeling what I was feeling made me realize it was one of the weird stuff that were happening to me. Why was electricity passing through me exactly? I couldn’t understand. I didn’t know if it was finally a sign for physical change that I would turn to a monster or not. Like I was turning to a werewolf or something or even worse to the monster that killed all those people.

That thought made me push everything at the back of my head and concentrate on school stuff, but thinking about school didn’t make things any better. There was Alex who I didn’t want to see at all, because I didn’t want her to start asking me questions that I wouldn’t be able to answer.

While I was still thinking about her we arrived at school. We arrived a little early so there was no many people yet and that was my allergy so I stayed in my car, when Ashley left. And just like that I got time to finish my homework, by the time I finished it was almost time to go to class.

I waited for couple more minutes and went in just couple seconds before the bell rang. Alex was at the desk waiting for me with her smug smile and the seat next to her was empty. So I went on and sit there.

“Morning.” She greeted,

“Hi,” I said then the teacher came in.

I couldn’t concentrate on anything through the whole morning because I was keeping myself from freaking out or passing out. As the time kept moving my mind started to get foggy and vision blurry, so by lunch time I rushed to my car and stayed there. But the funny thing is I didn’t need to stay there for long because as soon as the weather changed I was okay again.

I didn’t want to make any assumptions, but I just couldn’t ignore the fact that I was sick the whole morning because of the cloudy weather, but then the sun came up and I was okay again. I didn’t know whether it was the paranoid me talking or it was actually real. Talking about real, I wasn’t sure if I was aware of what real and what wasn’t anymore. Ever since I did that thing, removing that thing from Layla I felt like I was being sucked into something.

Something invincible but strong, something I couldn’t understand but knew it was there. Something changed when I went back to my art class, I felt different. That means getting electrocuted with an invincible electricity can do stuff to somebody’s body. One thing is for sure it didn’t make me feel sick; well, at first it did feel really terrible, like every fiber in my body was going to split. But when it was over it felt kind of amazing.

I could hear pretty nicely, not like hearing miles away kind of hearing but pretty decently. I could see, smell and sense better, it was like I was seeing the world for the first time. All was well until my art class was over when I was on my way to the parking lot; it started when I was on the hallway to be exact.

I felt something when I was around