Her House, My Rules

Chapter 72

Two minutes! Two minutes!

That's all it took for me to lose my mind. I never cared so much how heavy the clock can be when your misery is near. How strong two minutes can be when the selfish seconds are fighting to get closer and closer to its destiny.

Dear clock, please slow down. I need a few more minutes to contemplate the beauty of my queen, Hazel Brown, ahead of me. I need a few more hours to apologize for every mistake and every lesson that life taught me my whole life with Jack Walter. I need a few more years to beg the Holy God for forgiveness for my darkest sins.

"Hazel? Please enchain me." As I sat on the floor, near the window. She rushed the giant chains around me, hurriedly. "Lock yourself in the other room," I commanded. "Tonight is the First Quarter Moon. I don't know what I'm capable of anymore." My voice was out of energy. I felt like I was a monster at that moment. A vampire, craving for a little bit of blood.

The only difference.

Hulions don't drink blood.

"What about Jack?" She glanced at him on the bed. "Is he going to stay in the room with you?"

"Yes, now go!" I yelled, angrily as I perceived the veins crawling under my skin. "Why are you still standing in front of me, Hazel?" My head felt heavy. A severe headache navigated through my blood cells, ferociously. It gave me a bitter taste in my mouth.

"I'm not going anywhere." She refused. "I want to stay here."

"Are you out of your---" My bones started to crack against each other, unexpectedly. My neck as well. My vision went blurry as my eyes glowed yellow. I felt the rage growing between my teeth, my mouth felt sore, the tightness of my jaw replaced the sensitivity of the tiny tissues around my gums. My tongue was totally numb, my throat was dry as a desert island.

 My hands started to shake constantly. This fire inside of me was bigger than myself. The hypertension of the flames grew all over my body as my ears whispered the invisible sins in the devil's hidden cage. My sweats aroused the goosebumps on my new skin as I tried to get a taste of the human contagious air.

All I could smell was Death.

Death upon the universe.

As my nails started to grow a little bit longer, I visualized the length on my fingertips. I realized that I wasn't myself. All of the scars upon my skin started to disappear one by one as I tried to free myself from the solid chains around me.

"Hawk?" Hazel called out. "Are you okay?" Her innocent voice blew me away. I wanted to tell her to stay away from me but the only thing that was stuck in my mind was Freedom.

"Get rid of the chains." I roared. "I want to be free."

"Ha--Hazel?" Jack's voice was wet with tears. "This isn't Hawk talking." He sat on the edge of the bed as he screamed in severe pain. Trying to fight the unpleasant feeling inside of him. "The Hulion side is taking full control of him. Stay away from him." He grabbed her left hand as she sat next to him, they both were staring at me as if I was a TV show.

"What's happening to him?" Hazel pleaded. "Maybe I should set him free."

"Hazel, look-- look--" He yelled in pain as he placed his right hand on the left side of his abdomen, below his heart. "Look at me! Don't let your feelings for Hawk get the best of you. You're better than this. Hawk can't get a sight of the moon. We need to find a way to cover that window behind him."

"Aren't you going to die soon?" Hazel asked, desperately. "What am I going to do if something happens to you?"

"I don't know what's happening right now but I'm still alive." He replied, sincerely. "And as long as I'm standing." Hazel stared at his feet, hanging on the tip of the bed. "Well, you know what I mean." He forced a smile. "As long as I'm still alive, nothing is going to happen to you. I'm going to protect you and I'll make sure that Hawk is fine."