the demons tears

in most cases i would say that this was an ordinary day for me i was casually walking through the park when i saw a very unusual teenage boy sitting on a nearby park bench he was all alone and he was sad so i thought id cheer him up a bit. He was around my age or so i thought and he had long dark hair i couldn't tell you what colour as he was sitting on the only bench in the park that had no light. So i walked up to him and said "hi I'm Kris are you alright you look like you could use some company" he didn't say anything but as he looked at me some light from a passing car caught his hair and it wasn't dark like id thought it was iridescent red and to top it off he smiled at me with teeth that looked like they had been filed down to a point at that moment i felt like running away and never looking back and then i woke up.1

As i sat in my bed contemplating that very strange dream i realised that it was still night time so i quietly got up and put on my best walking clothes and went out into the night thinking that the best thing to clear my head is to take a quiet stroll through the local park. So hear i am walking along and suddenly i feel as if there was someone beside me and this real bone chilling voice says "you were right it is better when you have company" as you can imagine i damn near jumped out of my skin i thought that i must still be tired and dreaming so i went along with it i said "is it just me or have we met before" "not in the flesh but yes very recently when you were dreaming just a few hours ago if I'm correct" "well forgive me for asking but arn't i still dreaming" "no not at all we are real i am not a nightmare that your subconscious mind has made but a real living breathing demon" "then how is that i dreamed of you as you said "a few hours ago" whilst i was thinking to myself that i had to be going insane and i was talking to an invisible person "oh cant you stop i assure you I'm real and you are not crazy of that i am sure".2

and now years later I'm sitting on my couch and this annoying memory comes to haunt me again like it has every night since that fateful meeting in the park i just wish that it never happened cause every time i tell my girlfriends about it they run away seriously i mean its not like i stayed there talking to it after i found out that it was real ah well i guess ill just grab a shower and try to go to sleep and hopefully dream of better days. damn i wish that they would just shut up i mean they woke me up what could they be doing that's so loud i'm going to check this out. so as I'm walking towards my front door i remember that I'm miles away from any neighbors so that means that the people must be in my yard so i grab my double barrel shotgun and hold on this shotgun is lighter then i remember that's odd ah it doesn't matter so anyway i get to my back door cause i figure that if someones in my yard they'll be out back so i go out and there's no-one there and the noise has stopped so i shrug my shoulders and go back inside i put my now heavier gun back away and go to bed for the second time.3

i wake up early that morning run my hands over my furry pointed ears and look at my red tipped black claws and laughed to myself how silly i don't have furry pointed ears or claws i must still be tired so i decided to go to the sink and splash some cold water on my face to wake my self up all the while laughing at how stupid it was of me to think i had those things but when i got to the sink all the laughter died in my throat as i look at a fully fledged demon looking at me from my mirror and next thing i know I'm looking at my roof with a incredibly sore head figuring that i had just feinted i get up and walked over to my couch and sat down when someone comes up and gives me a drink as i say thank-you i realise that i was at home alone so i politely ask them "who they are?" the person that handed me the drink said "hi I'm Gwen sorry that i startled you" while from my arm chair came that same bone chilling voice that i had heard all those years ago and it said "hello again how have you been" i tried to reply but my voice failed me all that came out was grunts" come now this is not like you last you were very talkative there's no need to be scared I'm here to help you" then i found my voice i was astounded so this is what i said "how can you help me i'm not like you I'm a normal human so why do you say things like that" "well i see that you clearly don't know what you are yet we can and you my friend aren't human yet you aren't demon either". 4

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"WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT? IF I'M NOT A DEMON OR A HUMAN THEN WHAT AM I?" i honestly think i must be going insane "well as i've said before you aren'tinsane and i wish you weren'tso rude after all we do have a guest present someone that i've brought here just for you she is a friend of mine and i've told her so much about you she was hoping that something might become of you and her but with you being so rude""that's enough" Gwen interrupted "hes scared so of course hes going to be rude its okay your forgiven" and of course i then focused on Gwen and she was gorgeous what with her sky blue hair and her beautiful gold eyes she had a perfect body the only problem was that she is a demon and of course I'm definitely not one."ah my friend but wat exactly are you that question you can answer for yourself just look in the mirror" "how can i do that its broken" "that my friend is exactly why it can answer your question" so i went over to the mirror and as usual with broken mirrors i can see multible reflections in the cracked glass but theres something strange about one of the reflections looking back at me it was a demon so i went to touch the reflection and sure enough the demons hand moved as i moved my hand so the only conclusion i can come up with is that im not either demon or human but both at the same timeafter working that out i started to calm down a bit and as i turned around i said "so you new this all along" "well ever since i senced you while you tried to talk to me in your dream yeah" "oh by the way my name is red short for redfern the last of the family that tried to raise me before they could see what i truly was"