BLOOD ON MY HANDS episode 6 – 7

BLOOD ON MY HANDS

EPISODE 6

I followed the woman for a while before we stopped at a fenced house. She pushed the small gate open and signaled for me to follow her. I was amazed at how big her house was, I didn’t expect to find such big houses at the farm, our house was big but the one I was looking at was extra huge.

Most of the farms in the place belonged to rich folks, they were well developed no wonder mum bought one.

She opened the door to the house and I walked right behind her, she pointed at a couch for me to take a sit and I just did that. The house was beautiful, the furniture was too exquisite for such a place. On the wall were photos of her and portraits of wolves hung on the other side of the room.

“You will take a bath first then we shall talk” She said

I nodded my head in agreement as I wondered who she was. After a few minutes she esc-rted me to a room that i sensed was the guest room and directed me to the bathroom.

My body was still sore and the water felt like heaven on my skin. I took a long bath, as events of the past night triggered in my mind.

When I was done, I walked out and found clean clothes on the bed. I quickly applied lotion, then wore the white new lace p-nt and matching b-ra that was next to the clothes.

The clothes she picked fit me perfectly, it was a blue jean and white T-shirt. When I was done I combed my hair backwards tying it at the end with a ribbon I found on the table.

I walked out of the room and found her watching Television.

“You are done already?” She asked

“Yes Madam”

“Call me Cleo, madam makes me feel too old” She smiled

Afterwards she gave me some food which I rapidly ate as if I had been starved for days. I drank some water when I was done and I quietly sat on the couch biting my nails.

“So what happened to you?” She asked as she stared at me

“You wouldn’t believe it”

“Try me”

I felt I could trust her so I narrated my ordeal to her. When I finished she just smiled at me, not the reaction I was expecting, I thought she would freak out but she was calmly smiling.

“You don’t believe me?” I asked worriedly

“I do”

“You do ?” I asked surprised

“Yes I do, welcome to my world” She said

“Your world?” I asked raising my eyebrows

“Yes the world of werewolves” She loudly said

I had watched a number of movies on werewolves, where people turned into Wolves during a full moon. I never believed in the existence of such, I still didn’t.

“No, no that’s a lie” I said shaking my head

“Yes my dear, you were bitten by a wolf and now you are one of us, you shall carry the curse of the wolf for as long as you shall live” She said

“No is there a way I can get rid of the curse, I wanna live a normal life, I can’t be an animal”

“There is no way out but you can live a normal life like I do” She said

“No, no, no” I said tears falling

“Listen to me, you can use this curse to protect those around you, you can be a good wolf its your choice” She said

“What do you mean?”

“You don’t have to kill people when thirsty for blood, you can always kill an animal to quench your thirst”

“Blood, no,no”

“Yes but when you use this curse to kill people your end will be fatal”

“How?”

“You are likely to die too after you have killed a number of people”

“This is absurd”I yelled out

“You will find yourself getting very angry at times and you will easily be provoked but as time goes by you will learn to control it so you can associate with others without them suspecting a thing”

“This s-cks” I yelled

“It’s all up to you, you can return back and live a normal life but you need to know when the full moon is around the corner so you can stay away from people”

“And the pain during the transformation?”

“It won’t always be painful, but most times it is painful”

“I can’t do this, its all a lie am a person not a wolf, what happened yesterday was just a bad nightmare”

“It’s all up to you, as time goes by you will learn more about the werewolf life”

“I think I need to go back home” I said

“Wait I will drive you to your house, if you don’t mind” She said as she grabbed her car keys

I felt weak, how on earth was I to live like this,I never bargained for any of this stuff and one way or another I had to find a way out.

As she drove me home, I kept replaying everything in my mind, from the stabbing to the beast biting me, the transformation and my conversation with Cleo.

“Do you want me to go in with you?” She asked as she parked at my place looking at how many cars where parked outside my house

“Yes please”

We walked into the yard and found a number of people.

“There she is” Our maid shouted to some people who were carrying my parents bodies

“Poor child” Another woman shook her head as she bypassed me

We had a maid at the farm house that came occasionally to help with the cleaning and other stuff.

She narrated how she got to my place that morning and found my parents dead in their kitchen hence she called the police.

I shook in fear as they called me to give a statement. Cleo held my hand and assured all would trun out just fine.

EPISODE 7

I stood up from my chair and slowly walked to where the two white caskets where placed. The room was filled with people from all works of life who had come to pay their last respects to my parents. I couldn’t wait for it all to finish so I could get back to my life, I had lost so much in the past two years but life had to go on.

“Farewell dear parents” I whispered as I stared at their faces, they looked as though they where just sleeping. I felt sorry for mum, she didn’t deserve to die like that but I wasn’t remorseful for what I did to dad, he deserved it.

I wiped a little tear that had broken free before walking away. It was the day my parents where being buried I was lucky not to have gotten arrested for murder once again. The maid had come to my rescue by explaining how my father used to beat mum. I gave my statement as well which was in line with what she said.

The conclusion was that she stabbed him before dying, what killed her was the amount of blood she had lost. If someone had come earlier mum could have been saved .

I had informed all our relatives and we decided to hold the funeral at the farm house where they would be buried.

Silent cries filled the room as people walked out of the church so they could finally esc-rt my parents to their final resting place.

“Who would have imagined my family would all die in the space of two years” I thought momentarily before getting into Cleo’s car

“Are you okay?” She asked as she started the engine so we could go to the burial site

“I am more than fine”

“You are a strong lady”

“I have no option, the world doesn’t have space for weaklings” I smiled as I fastened my seat belt

I noticed she was staring at me in an usual way.

“What?” I asked getting uncomfortable

” Nothing” She said

“Okay let’s get going, we need to get this over and done with”

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I glared at her one more time before driving off, her attitude was surprisingly amazing, she had just lost both her parents but she wasn’t at all shaken.

I had expected to see her weeping, but her eyes where dry, no tears had fallen from them during the wh0le funeral.

“What kind of a child was she? What kind of relationsh¡p did she have with her parents?” I thought as we neared the graveyard

I had decided to stick by her side so I could teach her one or two things about werewolves. She was still in denial and it was my duty to make her realise that the curse was real and the sooner she accepted the better for everyone.

I felt guilty for infecting her with curse, it wasn’t my intention but I couldn’t bring myself to tell her I was the one that bit her that night.

After I had transformed that night I ran into the bushes seeking for blood. I was expectating to run into a vulnerable wild animal but instead she happened to be in my way. To quench my hunger for blood I bit her and ran off

I ran off knowing I had infected her with curse hence I came back the next day to help her out knowing how powerless she could have been after her first transformation.

My curse was hereditary I was born with it and as I grew up I learnt to live with it, I had used my power for more good than evil.

But despite me being a good werewolf people still judged me, people still distanced themselves from me once they knew what I truly was.

I felt a tears threatening to fall off as I remembered how my husband, chased me from his house taking my two daughters from me when he got to know I was a were wolf. It was then that I decided to buy a farm and settle in a place where I could be free.

“We are here” lia announced disturbing my thoughts.

“Okay” I said my voice almost breaking

“Cleo are you okay?”

“Yes” I whispered before following her

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Five months later

Life had taken a great twist for me, I couldn’t have wished for more. Being my parent’s only surviving child I had inherited almost everything they owned. Dad’s elder sister auntie Helen had taken up the responsibility of looking after me. I had wanted to be under my own care but my annoying relatives didn’t see it fit hence I was now living with her and her three children.

Monday morning I woke early because I had a morning test. I was now in University studying for my degree in Business Administration. I had made quiet a few friends at school and I even had a boyfriend.

I walked into the bathroom and took a long cold shower, making sure to scrub every part of my body because it felt itchy.When I was done I lotioned my body before wearing a short sleeveless dress and purple boots. I finished off the look with a little make up.

When I looked at the mirror I couldn’t help but see my mother in me, with each day that passed I was becoming more and more like her.

I walked out of the room with my car keys and books. I had bought a new car the previous month something bigger.

“Morning Lia won’t you have some breakfast” The maid asked handing me a cup of coffee

I grabbed the cup of coffee from her hands and poured it on her head.

“The next time you call me Lia I will do more than that” I yelled as I walked past her

“Talia you don’t have to treat her like that” Racheal my cousin said

“Shut the **** up Racheal” I yelled before banging the door in her face. I drove to school listening to Rihana’s man down. As soon as I got there I noticed my boyfriend Geoffrey talking to a girl. They where giggling as they talked.

“What nonsense?”

I walked over to the them feeling pissed, I was a very possessive girlfriend, i didn’t like ladies parading themselves around my man.

“Baby” Geo smiled when he saw me

“Hey” I smiled wrapping my arms around him

I gave the girl a deadly stare and within a few minutes she was out of our sight.

“What was that for?”

“What?”

“The look you just gave Tamara?”

“Whose Tamara?” I asked rolling my eyes at him

“Talia?”

“She has to know you are mine” I smiled as I leaned in to k-ss him.

He walked me to class before going to his class.I felt lucky to have such a hank all to myself. Cleo had warned me against getting into relationsh¡ps because according to her they brought nothing but heartbreaks, well she was wrong because Geo made me happy, I couldn’t imagine him breaking my heart.

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The first day I saw Lia I couldn’t help but notice how beautiful she was, I had made it a point to pursue her till she was mine. I did all I could till I managed to make her my girlfriend and that’s when the trouble began.

Lia was possessive and very controlling with each day that passed I was slowly losing interest in her. Her jealousy tantrums were getting on my last nerves.

“Just let this girl go?” my best friend had advised after noticing how ugly her behaviour was

“We have just been together two months won’t that looked like I used her?” I asked worriedly

“Man the girl is a psycho” He had warned me but instead I thought I would give her the benefit of the doubt by sticking by side a little longer and now I had had it with her.

I was home working on an assignment with Tamara when i heard a car drive in Tamara was one of my classmates and my study mate.

“Expecting someone?” She asked

“No maybe its Benny” I responded

I had talked to Lia that afternoon and she said she wasn’t feeling well so I wasn’t expecting her but when my door opened and I saw her enter, I knew I was in for a lot of trouble for having Tamara at my place.

“What is she doing here?” She asked as soon as she saw Tamara

“You won’t greet me?”

“What is she doing here?” She yelled loudly

“We are working on an assignment”

“Can’t you do it from school or something?”

“Talia stop being unreasonable”

“Unreasonable me?” She yelled, she moved to the other side of the room, grabbed a glass and threw on the wall.

“Control yourself” I said holding her hands, I could feel her heart beat faster than normal, her eyes glowed red as if possessed by an evil spirit and within a few minutes she was heavily bleeding from her mouth.

“Talia?” I scre-med in fear

“She is bleeding” Tamara yelled

As I held her, she yanked herself from my grip and pounced on Tamara and started hitting her. The way she jumped off was weird because she literally flew out of my arms.

“No Lia”I cried out as she was about to bite her neck.

To be continued…