Written by: James B. Davis
It was
a late Summer night and the street lights caused a spotlight
appearance every ten feet. I was walking home, me and some friends
where meeting at the local park, but it was midnight, no one showed
up, and it was really hot out, and I didn't want to wait anymore. It
was a pretty long walk home too, so I was pretty pissed. I was
walking past an alley way when I saw him. A homeless man, he was
rocking back and forth, his face seemed to almost be rotting, loose
and brownish gray, his eyes looked void of any color.
I had
to walk past him, it was the only way to my house, so it had to be
done. As I got closer, he stopped rocking, and his head whipped in my
direction! He got on all fours, and slowly creeped toward me! At this
moment I realized I needed to leave, and turned around and ran for my
life only to hear his feet running behind me! I ran as fast as I
could, but it was no use, he jumped on my back, and bit into my
wrist! I grabbed a brick to my side, and smashed it into the side of
his head! He fell to the side twitching and looked at me, he
screeched and thrusted toward me again, and I gave him another blow
to the head with my brick, and half of his head looked like
strawberry jelly. My wrist was leaking a black fluid mixed with
blood. I slowly got up and limped home.
I
didn't get home till about 2:00 AM, I quickly got into the bathroom,
wrapped a bandage around my wrist, took some random pain killer in
the medicine cabinet, and walked upstairs to my room and passed out
on my bed. Through the night I tossed and turned, I didn't sleep very
good. And when I did sleep, I had strange dreams, not really scary,
just strange. I can't really describe them, they were nonsense.
When
I woke up the next day, my wrist no longer hurt, in fact, I felt
good. I got up quickly and looked in the mirror, my muscles had
grown! Not to an extreme degree, but they looked a little more built
and chiseled. “What the fuck?” I rubbed my arm, I really didn't
understand. I got on clothes, and went downstairs, I didn't mention
the bite to my parents, in fact, I didn't even talk to my parents
that day. I went outside right after breakfast, and went for a run, I
really don't run a lot, or really ever, but I could run really fast.
And I ran for a long time too, a really long time, like three hours!
I got home, and I went upstairs and laid down, I wasn't really tired,
but I needed a little rest. I felt great, I felt like fucking
Superman. I fell asleep, and I really don't remember any of my
dreams. I slept the whole day and didn't wake up till the next day,
it was great.
I woke
and jumped out of bed, and I looked in the mirror again. I couldn't
believe it! I... I was bigger again! I just just grinned and blinked
rapidly “What the fuck?” I thought to myself. I put on all my
clothes, ran down the stairs, and didn't even eat breakfast before I
left. I jogged down the street, logged for a long time, before I
finally came to sprint that lasted for hours! And the part I really
remember was coming up to a large fence! I jumped over it! It was at
least six feet, and I ended up in someone's backyard, an entire
family in the yard. “I, I'm so sorry.” I said and ran for it
again.
I
really didn't understand what was happening, and I really didn't
care, I just wanted to run some more. I came to the end of the
neighborhood, and stopped, I couldn't decide whether or not to keep
going. I turned around and ran the other direction, and decided to
jump some more. I jumped over fire hydrants, fences, I even jump over
a group of people at one point! I... I felt like a superhero! In
fact...
That
night, I put on a hockey mask, shoulder pads, football pads, and over
everything, a one color full body suit, you know the ones that you
can buy at the Halloween store? And that night I left, and went
downtown. I stayed in back alleys mostly, to avoid police, because,
well, I looked like a crazy person. Then I saw it, a man in an alley,
beating a woman, I ran toward him, and kicked him in the side. He got
up and took out a knife, I slapped the knife from his hand and broke
his finger in doing so. He fell to the ground, and I kicked him, and
ran off. I ran into an alley far away. I did this all night, this was
a bad city, full of crime.
I went
back home at 3:00 AM, climbing into my upstairs window. I fell into
my bed, and slept. I slept for the whole night, and this time, I
remembered my dreams. I dreamed about the man who had bitten me, the
man I had completely forgot about. He was in my house though, he was
over my family, he had eaten them, I didn't see his face at first. He
had my my mothers arm in his hand, and he turned his head toward me.
It was me!
I woke
up that morning in a cold sweat, I had pee on my mattress, I hadn't
peed my bed since I was 7, I'm 17 now, ten years! I got up out of my
bed and looked in my mirror, I was smaller now, my muscles had been
smaller than the night before, and there was no way I would be able
to run that day, because, just walking down the stairs made me tired.
I didn't know what was happening. I really didn't feel good, I didn't
want to eat, I didn't want to drink anything, I didn't want to be
awake! My mom and dad had left for the day, and weren’t gonna be
back for three days. I fell on the couch after they left, and moaned,
moaned for five minutes straight. I just fell asleep, and was faced
with the same dreams. I woke up again with sweat all over me, and got
up to go pee. I went to the bathroom and walked past the mirror, I
saw a glimpse of myself, and quickly ran back to the mirror, my eyes
had huge black bags under them, my lips where gray, and so where my
teeth. I couldn't believe what I was looking at, I began to cry.
The
next day, a knock came at the door, around noon, and woke me up. I
got up and scowled, I walked to the door and opened it. A woman stood
there, my mom's friend Jessica. “Hi, Jack, is your mom here?” she
asked with a smile, I just lowered my brows, then smiled, “Yeah,
she's in the kitchen.” I said “Come in.” she walked past me and
down to the kitchen “It's in here right?” she said and I grabbed
a lamp off the table and smashed it over her head. A smile came
across my face.
That
night I made a large pot of soup, and by then, my face was a brownish
gray, my eyes nearly void of color, and my hair began falling out.
The soup was delicious, so, so good. I ate all of it, all of it!
There was so much meat in the soup, it was great! I went to bed after
the hefty meat, and had great dreams! She was delicious.
That
next day, I felt great, and but I looked like shit, but I didn't
care! I had an ooze coming from sores on my face, I had an itch, but
I couldn't scratch it, because my skin peals off, and my eyesight
isn't as great, but I feel incredible! Today's the last day of my
parents vacation, they'll be home tomorrow, and I just can't wait for
them to get home...