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Chapter 14
“Where am I?” I said out loud. Everything was so dark. I wasn’t in the fort anymore. I felt so alone but at the same time I felt like there where a hundred eyes on me. I looked around trying to get some sort of idea where I was. It didn’t seem like there where walls and there was no light at all. I looked down and couldn’t even see the floor. Then out of the darkness I saw two red dots. Eyes, bright red eyes. Then two more, then more. They were lighting up all around me. There weren’t just a hundred eyes but thousands. I spun in circles feeling scared and intrigued. Then blinding light as flames shot up from the ground and temporarily revealed the sources of the eyes. Thousands of demons, some huge, some small. Dripping fangs, some looked like lizards some like people. As quick as I could see them the world fell back into darkness. I let out a loud scream, it echoed all around me, then they started screeching as well. I could feel them getting closer, I could feel the drool and saliva dripping on me. Then the fire again and they were all around me, pressing down on me.
There was another shrill screech and my eyes shot open. My heart was racing and I was trying to regain my composure. Edith laid next to me screeching into the room. I must have fallen asleep, the dream felt so real. I took a couple deep breaths and tried to calm myself. It was hard to do with this wretch next me making so much noise. I turned to her and said as calmly as I could “Please shut up or I’m going to have to gag you.” She kept up the screaming and I screamed back “Shut up now or I’ll give you something to scream about!” Her screams stopped and she said through a cracking voice “Why are you doing this Michael? What did I do to you?” I laughed and said “Nothing, you did nothing, your innocent and will find your place in heaven. I plan on doing some amazingly terrible things to you, you’re going to suffer, and you’re going to feel a pain you never knew existed. Then you will die and you will go to wherever you go.” She looked terrified but steadied her voice and said “You couldn’t do that Michael, you’re too good.” I smiled at her and got to my feet.
I walked over to my table and took my shirt off. I picked up the rabbits foot, again pressing it to my lips and put it around my neck. Then picking up the little pocket knife I asked “Are you ready Edith? This is going to hurt, but they tell me if you concentrate hard, you can find pleasure in the pain.” She started screaming again, but I instantly tuned her out. A feeling of wonder washed over me. I could feel the other me step up and take the reins. I heard him laugh in my head and I laughed out loud. We were one, and together we were going to experience this amazing moment.
We stepped forward and got to our knees. We used the blade to cut Ediths shirt down the middle and lift it off of her chest. We ran our fingers over the skin of her belly. It was a little wrinkly but felt like heaven under our fingertips. Then with the tip of the blade we cut through just the top couple of layers of skin. We aren’t ready for the blood yet. Her body tensed and we slipped a little, a tiny dot of blood bubbled up through the little cut we made. We almost lost control, almost jammed the knife in and cut her open, but with much concentration we regained control.
We made an X about the size of a half dollar just above her belly button. We got up and walked to the table, setting down the knife we picked up the 18 volt cordless drill. We walked back to her side and said “Listen to us very carefully, if you resist and spoil this for me, it will be so much worse.” We squatted down and pressed the tip of the silver drill bit against the center of the X and took a deep breath.
Squeezing the trigger on the drill gently we watched as the bit turned slowly. It caught her skin and we felt a surge of electricity shoot through our body as the skin of her stomach twisted and stretched around the bit. It was amazing how resilient her skin was as the bit turned and her skin stretched we could see the tension growing. Then in a split second it started to tear, the blood poured from the wound and her body twisted in agony. A chunk of skin about the size of a baseball tore loose and wrapped around the drill bit. We lifted it off of her stomach. We didn’t want the bit to bite down and drill down into her. We stood up and looked at her with a huge smile on our face. Her face was twisted with pain as she screamed. We couldn’t hear her at all, but knowing that she was feeling it made me that much more excited.
We walked back to the table and set down the drill. We peeled the flesh off of the end of it and played with it in our hands for a moment. It was so bloody and fleshy. We weren’t ready to get lost yet so we put the chunk of flesh down on the table and picked up the pliers. One more for today and we might need to rest some more. This can’t be easy on her body and we don’t want her going into shock.
Walking back to her we felt full of energy, completely recharged. We sat down next to her head and cupped her face. Tears were streaming down her cheeks. She looked like she was in excruciating pain. We took the pliers and quickly stuck them inside of her mouth grabbing her tongue before she realized what was happening. We felt her struggle and try to pull her tongue back, but that wasn’t going to work as we squeezed down tighter. She couldn’t move her head because of the rope around her neck. We squeezed down on the pliers and watched as her tongue flattened between them. Her eyes were wide open and looking straight into ours. We squeezed tighter and watched as her tongue crushed into the shape of the teeth of the pliers. Blood started to seep out of her tongue. She was screaming though the pain but she started to gurgle on her own blood.
We panicked, “Stupid!” we yelled, thinking she was going to choke on her own blood we let up on the pliers and removed them from her mouth. She coughed hard and a wad of blood came up out of her mouth landing on her cheek. We sat and watched making sure that she was breathing. We said “Can you breathe ok?” she didn’t answer, rude bitch. We reached down to the hole in her skin and stuck two fingers into it “I’ll ask again, can you breathe ok?” She screeched nodding her head. “Good, we think this is enough for today.”
We took the pliers back to the table and got the first aid kit. We couldn’t let her bleed to much. She needed to be alert for round two. We cleaned her wounds and bandaged her stomach up. Her tongue would be fine. We said “Alright, you get some rest. We’ll be back in the morning to continue our play date.” We walked slowly out of the fort and I felt the other me melt away.
I stood outside of the fort, listening to Edith scream and thought to myself “That was incredible. It was everything I needed.” Then just past the edge of the clearing in the dark forest I barely caught two red eyes, then they were gone. “It couldn’t have been.” I thought to myself, convincing myself that it was just in my head. I headed back to the house, leaving Edith screaming in the background.
By time I walked back up to the back steps of the house, still shirtless and with blood on my hands, I was whistling a tune and couldn’t hear Edith at all. I felt fantastic. I went in through the back door, at first cautious but then realizing I didn’t have to worry about anybody. The house was mine and there was no one in it to catch me or tell me what to do.
I washed the blood from my hands in the kitchen sink. Then pulled my shirt over my head and went to the freezer to find something to eat. We were a little low on food seeing as Edith hadn’t been to the store in a couple weeks. I got out some ham and cheese and put together a nice little sandwich. Heading to the media room I grabbed a bag of chips and a soda.
I flipped the Bruins game on with the projector and sat down. I was so hungry and tore through the sandwich quick. Sitting back in the couch I realized how relaxed I felt. This was the best day of my life so far and I am hoping there are many more to come. I wasn’t even thinking about tomorrow and what’s to come. A state of perfect relaxation and euphoria poured down over me. I watched the game and lost myself, not a single thought or stress passing through me. I felt a smile more genuine than I have in ages spread across my lips.
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