Sunset Lake chapter 5

Sunset Lake
Chapter 5

           She started at me as a snake does to confiscate its prey. Her face broke into a wicked grin. “How do you like what I’ve done with the place?” she sneered. She was obviously referring to the mirrors dotting the walls. I shivered and backed up a pace. I bit my lip in fright, to keep from screaming. Her sharp teeth chomped down on her lip and it bled profusely. Se was showing me how easily they drew blood. I shivered and inched back more. When was she going to get it over with? She was going to come out of the mirror sometime. She was going to come and get me.
            “G-get away from me!” I screamed at her. She narrowed her eyes at me and smiled more. I put my hands over my heart.
     “Silly girl, I won’t every ‘go away’. Your new medicine quiets me some, blocks a part of me from your mind. However, I will always be a part of you. I am you, Tora. The black part of you in the back of your mind is me. Chipping away at your defenses. You fear me,” she stated at the end. I tried to say that wasn’t true, but I knew it was. I knew in the deepest, darkest realm in my heart, that I was absolutely dead terrified of her. I hated her too. I could feel a black rage rising up inside of me. She also felt it and she positively glowed. She shook her head at me.
       “Tsk, tsk, all those black emotions. Hate, fear, anger, and sadness all feed me. I feel them and they make me stronger. Every wave of rage, every whisper of fright echoes in me and makes me establish a more present place in your heart and mind forever. I will only not live on in you when all you feel is happiness. When all your days are joyful and everything is kind. However, you know that’ll never happen. I feed on you at night. I haunt you in mirrors. I am at the back of your hear whispering little seeds of doubt, little thoughts and lies. You know I’m in the back of your head. You know that I’m still here, giving you all those back memories. So there,” she ended her berating smugly. I made a snap decision and raced to my dresser where, in the second drawer, lay my pills. I screamed as I found the drawer empty.
           
           About a half hour later, there was a jiggling coming from the doorknob. I lay in a fetal position on the floor, trying to block out the image of Kurotora in the mirror. Okami walked in. From my place on the floor, I saw her eyes widen. I jumped up and latched onto her arm.
            “Keep her away please,” I begged her, crying. Her eyes whipped around the room. I pointed at the mirror.
     “Fool! There’s nothing she can do!” Kurotora screamed in rage. I hugged Okami’s arm harder and she led me out of the room. She gently stroked my hair. Toby, Dei, Kame, Caitlin, Hannah, Jon, and the two ‘peer counselers’ Paul and Jessica ran out to see me in a crying, huddled heap on Okami’s arm.
            “It’s okay,” she whispered to me. She continually stroked me hair and they all cooed softly and eventually my sobs quieted.
            “I’m sorry,” I gasped out, and then I fainted.