A story of siblings entitled:
Sister Knows Best
"Are you sure this is the way?"
I looked at the hand-drawn map in my hand and
nodded.
"I think so. Maybe it just looks different
now that it is getting dark."
"I have to say Dee, this is the craziest
thing you have ever dragged me into."
"Well, you didn't want me to come here
alone! I could have you know, but you insisted."
"I wasn't about to let my sister wander
into some strange bar in the middle of nowhere without some backup. This guy
should know better than to do this on a blind date."
She was probably right, as usual. But it wasn't
exactly a "blind" date. Shaun and I had Skyped several times before
tonight and he looked pretty normal as far as I could tell.
But my sister was relentless. "I've never
heard of this bar Dee, I even Googled it and nothing came up."
"Shaun said it's fairly new so maybe that
is why you couldn't find it."
That sounded lame, even for me but I hated to
admit I was wrong to Lori. "Sis, we'll know in a couple of minutes either
way. It should be right here." I tried to sound optimistic but I was
faltering.
"Stop." The word came out of my sister
in a whisper but her tone was enough to stop me dead.
"What's the matter?"
"Shhhh… listen."
"Is it coming from the bar?'" I said
the words although the small cottage showed no signs of life or of being an
actual bar of any type.
"That is no bar, Dee. It's a friggin shack
in the middle of the woods."
I had to admit she was right again.
"Someone is coming."
Lori grabbed my arm, her nails digging into my
flesh. I would think about smacking her later but right then I was too scared.
She yanked me behind some bushes just before an old Chevy Blazer pulled in
front of the shack and stopped. The driver's door opened and Shaun stepped out.
I nearly yelled for him but my instincts were
already sending out more warning signals than I could deal with at the moment
and Lori's nail were still digging into my arm.
Shaun walked around to the rear of the Blazer
and opened the back. I lost sight of him for a minute or so but when he
reappeared, he was carrying a young woman in his arms. Her wrists and ankles were bound by something and from
her muffled screams I guessed she must have been gagged as well. She was struggling to
free herself but in just seconds he managed to snatch her inside the shack.
"What the fuck?" Lori didn't cuss
often but when she did, watch out.
"What the hell? Is he actually with another
girl?"
Lori looked at me as if I had lost my mind.
"What?"
"Shaun invited me here and he shows up with
another girl?"
"Dee, please listen to yourself. That girl
is in trouble."
That thought hadn't occurred to me, I thought
this was some kind of weird sexual game or some strange fetish. I had read
Fifty Shades of Gray after all.
My first instinct was to run away, fast.
"What should we do?"
Lori didn't answer me, she was already walking
towards the shack.
I caught up to Lori and peeked into the window
with her.
Shaun had the girl on a large table and was
strapping her down to it. The girl was fighting him with all she had but he
seemed to just ignore her struggle. When she was secured he removed the tape
from her mouth.
The scream hurt and I had to cover my ears. If I
thought for one moment that this was all some lover's game, that idea was shot
to hell with the sound of that scream.
Lori was already running towards the door.
I stepped into the shack a second after Lori.
The girl on the table was screaming at both of us to help her.
It was then that I noticed Shaun, or what used
to be Shaun. It was more like a Wolf-Shaun combo.
What I could see of his skin was now covered
with a dark gray fur but his face had completely transformed into something
else. He was wolf-like or maybe wolfish, that much I can say for sure. I don't know if it recognized me but
there did seem to be something in it's eyes as it turned it's gaze away from
the girl on the table and towards
the two women standing in the doorway.
I heard Lori scream just as the Shaun-wolf lunged towards us.
I wasn't ready for the blast. Even if I had seen
it coming I might not have been ready for it. My ears rang loudly and I was
quite sure I was deaf, but at least I could no longer hear the girl's screams.
Lori hadn't moved but Shaun, he was back to
being just Shaun, was now lying on the floor, a small red stain spreading on
his shirt, a large burgundy puddle forming beneath where he lay.
"Are you alright?"
I thought I heard a voice but I couldn't be
sure. I turned around and saw my brother Abraham standing in the doorway. I
think I fainted then but just before the room swayed, I caught a glimpse of the
gun in his hands.
By the time I woke up I was already back in my
car and Lori was driving at what I would consider a high rate of speed.
My head hurt from its unfortunate connection
with the wood floor of the cottage and I winced as I fingered the large egg on
the back of my skull.
"What happened?"
"What happened, Dee? What happened??!!" My
sister's voice was shrill and practically screaming at me. It made my head hurt
even more.
"I'll tell you what happened, Miss Deidre
Van Helsing. What always happens with you. You get yourself involved with some
supernatural creature and your siblings have to come and get you out of the
mess you created. A werewolf. What the hell were thinking? Grandma's House? You
actually wanted to go to a bar named Grandma's House??
I hadn't thought of that and I should have. My brother and sister always know that kind of stuff and I've often wonderhow did those genes miss me?
"And that loser last
month?? He was a vampire, Dee. A
blood sucking vampire."
She was still ranting but I managed to tune her
out as I stretched out on the backseat. She was right though. I had to admit my
luck with men lately wasn't all that great.
Perhaps I should try a different dating
site.
When I signed up with SexyBeastsForLove this
wasn't exactly what I had in mind.
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