HAUNTED PRINCE by DENIS DANIEL (children's ebooks free online txt) 📕

“Uhm, I better drop you here.” I said.

“You are not coming?” she was surprised with what I said,

“Maybe some other time. And it has nothing to do with you. You understand, right?” I didn’t want to point out the reason.

“Oh, the memories, don’t worry I can go from here.” She said disappointedly. Then she tried to get out.

“Wait, let me.” I got out and went to get the door for her, at first I thought so that she wouldn’t feel bad.

“Thank you.” She got down while I held her hand. Her dress was a little bit upper than earlier and I couldn’t resist staring at her soft thighs. But when she got down she pulled it down which didn’t stop me from staring at her body all over again.

“See you on Monday.” She said while leaving slowly and carefully not to step on a stone.

The whole time I was speechless my heart beating like a propeller inside my chest. I’d tried to resist her the whole night, but seeing her leaving just like that made me go nuts in my head. I didn’t think, actually I didn’t want to think.

She was couple steps away from where I was, I followed her. Meanwhile, something inside my head was screaming to turn around but I couldn’t. The urge I was feeling inside was killing me.

I pulled her hand and she spun; there was a stunned look on her face. I couldn’t stop myself, I cupped her face with my hands and slowly I brought my lips to hers.

When she didn’t resist I took that as a yes, I kissed her fiercely. But it was my turn to be stunned because she responded with the same amount of intensity. If we weren’t in the middle of the road and too close to her house things would’ve gotten very far.

But after some intense couple minutes, I don’t know how long it took but felt very long, we separated. I could tell she was blushing because she couldn’t look me in the eyes.

“Good night.” She said blushingly.

“Good night.” I was still stunned.

Then I went back to my car feeling like I was floating in the air. I couldn’t believe that just happened. As I was driving back home I realized I really did miss that feeling. The intensity, the pleasure, the rush, it felt amazing.

When I got home mom was already asleep as usual and Ashley was still up waiting to make sure I was okay.

“Ash, you know for a little sister you are super overprotective.”

“I have to make sure they haven’t kidnapped you or something. You know people in this town can’t be trusted.”

“Don’t worry I know how to blend in.” I said with a smile.

“What’s up with you? You act like you won a lottery out there.” She said while following me upstairs to my room.

“No, I didn’t.”

“So what is it?” she asked annoyed.

“Must you know everything I do?”

“Fine if you don’t want to tell me.” She was angry now,

“Fine. I kissed Alex today and she kissed me back.” I blurted, I couldn’t keep it in I wanted to shout it out loud.

“Oh,” the she paused for a while, “that’s great, you finally admit it. You like her.” She said, but she wasn’t that happy.

“Yah, I think I am.” When she didn’t say anything and just stand by the door it got me worried, “hey, what’s wrong?”

“Nothing, congratulations. I gotta go to sleep I need to wake up early.” She quickly left and went to her room.

‘Okay, that was weird,’ I said to myself. But I was in club nine nothing was going to ruin my mood.

So to make things more relaxing and my night perfect I needed a bathtub sleep. I filled it with water and got in, today I preferred hot water.

The difference between cold and hot water was that the chill of cold water sent me straight to a slumber while hot water always took a while get me relaxed and sleep. I had plenty of time to get lost in thoughts and images of Alex in my head.

I was falling a whole lot faster for this girl that I’d expected. I knew I shouldn’t but my feelings were escalating out of control, all I could think about was her lips and hands tugging at my hair behind my head. The exhilarating rush I felt when I kissed her; one completely spontaneous act I never thought I would ever let myself do again.

I drifted off to sleep unexpectedly, but it always happened like that. My sleep wasn’t quite as the other, today I felt like I was being pulled into a void and there was no way I seemed to be able to pull myself back.

And out of nowhere I found myself in places, I couldn’t tell where I was. It seemed like some kind of village or something. But that wasn’t the surprising part, the people I saw there were the ones who were strange.

It was like I stepped in a story book or something, these people had pointy ears and tall. As hard as it was to admit, I think I just saw elves. At least they were the ones I saw before I was zapped to another place.

I was suddenly in a city someone was screaming his guts out and he was lying on the ground. The environment he was an alley somewhere in a big city.

But I was taken to a different place again and I strangely saw a person running in a dark forest. He was strong and fast, too fast and he had dark eyes.

Over time images came and overlapped over one another until it felt like they were suffocating me. As hard as I tried to pull myself back I felt even more lost than before.

It was really hard to find myself again and when I did I woke up right away. But everything was blurry then, my vision, my hearing were a little bit off. It took me couple of woozy minutes to take my senses back to normal.

I was tired of asking what was happening to me because I couldn’t answer myself. I got out of the tub and wrapped a towel around myself. After, I brushed my teeth and washed my face more than I usual did, to feel more in control. I have to admit for a Saturday morning I woke up pretty early. I never wanted to sleep, I didn’t want to experience whatever I experienced.

Normally I would’ve taken those visions for a dream but I knew they were. They felt too real to be dreams.

The problem was to find the connection between them. Elves, screaming guy in an alley, the one running in the forest and the blurry visions. What did all of them mean? Because as I could tell they had no connection. While I was still thinking I took my superheroes pajama pants and a blue t-shirt.

Then I sat down by the table holding my head with my hands. I was so lost, and the puzzle was getting even more impossible to solve. Because pieces were increasing every day, at first I thought Alex helped me somehow how all these people died. But now I was having doubts, I didn’t think that was it. There was definitely a more understandable explanation.

It’s not that I doubt about people being possessed I witnessed it with my own eyes so there was no doubt about that. I was sure as well that I never dated a possessed person because the police said their bodies were never touched with anything. Then Veronica said something she couldn’t see clearly was sucking the life out of her.

Thinking of all these information got me even more confused because they were against each other. Out of frustration I shut everything down; I needed more information in order to be able to put the puzzles together. But I didn’t know where to find them.

A good distraction was going to help, and a good game seemed like a good idea. I had a PlayStation game stashed in my closet for like forever. I thought it wouldn’t be so bad to use it. And since I didn’t have any latest games I had to play one of the games I played when I was like ten years old.

After connecting to the TV I picked my first need for speed game, it was a need for speed most wanted. I thought it was time to see if I could still play it.

I didn’t care about time but it took a while for the sun to come up, and by the time Ashley came to my room to wake me up my fingers were hurting.

“Hey,”

“Hey,” I said still concentrating on the game.

“Can I play with you?” she asked. We used to play together sometimes.

“Mom, already left?” that was the only reason she would be playing with me.

“Like half an hour ago.” She said then jumped in bed with me. I gave her the second pad and set the game to two players.

I didn’t know how long we’d been playing the game until we heard the bell rang at the door. Ashley was very competitive, so she made sure she would win as many times as possible. We were serious like we were competing on a prize or something.

When the doorbell rang my fingers were sore close to become numb. I threw the pad away jumped off the bed.

“Hey, we are not done,” Ashley yelled,

“Why? Because I’ve won,” I smirked at her while leaving the room.

“You can’t be sure of that.” She followed me downstairs,

“Yah, right.”

While I was still talking to her I opened the door absent minded. Even though I knew it could be anyone out there with so not good intentions, I just didn’t care. But thankfully it was Layla and the moment I saw her I remembered.

“Oh, you are here!” I really didn’t want her to see me in my pajamas, “give me a second, and come on in.” once she got in I rushed back upstairs.

I changed into my jeans pants and then I went back downstairs. Ashley was boring a hole through her while they were sitting in the living room.

“Why are you here?” Ashley asked curtly,

“Ashley, forgive my sister she can be a little overprotective.” Then I shot Layla a warning look but she seemed determined to make Layla uncomfortable.

“I don’t trust her, she is Bratt’s girlfriend maybe he sent her.” She blurted.

“I would never do something like that. I respect your brother a lot and I would never do something to disrespect him.” Layla defended herself,

“Ashley cut it out. Don’t embarrass me, please.” She seemed hurt when I sad that.

We were all standing up then, Ashley sat down angrily and Layla was still standing with a worried look on her face.

“Let’s go to the garage.” I told Layla.

We left and used the back door, and when we got there she noticed something I really didn’t want a stranger to see.

“I didn’t know you have a fetish for girl’s hair, especially unusual ones.” She commented.

“Actually I’m not. I just have this one image of a girl with hair like that.”

“You mean with her hair on fire?”

“It’s not like