Sweet Things
Happy Birthday
Brian
I was trying to get a hold of Jimmy, I knew he was with Tori and Johnny today, but neither of them could persuade him to text me back or take their phone when I called them. I told him a few days ago that Hannah had turned up in my room, scared and confused out of her mind, and also pretty heartbroken and ashamed. She’d told me what she did to Erin, what she did with Sebastian and that she didn’t know what was wrong with her anymore. I haven’t stopped thinking about that night, how Hannah didn’t seem… herself.
“So, you’re telling me that you had sex with this Sebastian guy, choked your cousin and then flashed yourself over here before you even had a chance to get changed?” I asked her as I walked back into my room, handing her the glass of orange juice I’d just gotten for her.
“That’s pretty much what happened, yes.” She almost cringed “I have no idea what came over me when I did either of those things,”
“Let’s just go for…” I trailed off, before a spurt of laughter slipped from my lips “Lust and anger,”
She smiled and then laughed, loudly, making me laugh with her for a few minutes until she calmed down and stopped laughing. She looked right at me, and for a second I could have sworn her eyes changed to black, just for a second before they went back to normal. Ignoring the confused look on my face, she lunged forward, pinning me on my back against the mattress of my bed and straddling me and her lips crashed against mine before I could blink.
“Hannah,” I murmured against her lips, grabbing her hips with my hands to try and move her off of me, but suddenly it was as though she had super-human strength and I couldn’t move her, but then I remembered what she had just said to me “Hannah, stop this, it isn’t you, come on, power through this and think about how much we would hurt Jimmy if anything happened between us,”
That’s all it took. She let me go, jumped off of me, scrambled backwards off the foot of my bed and across my room until she was curled up in the corner of the room.
“What just happened?” She whispered to herself, her eyes wide and staring into space “I’m s-sorry,”
“It’s alright,” I told her softly, moving over to her and holding my arms out “I won’t say anything, we’ll just forget it happened, alright?”
She nodded and finally met my eyes, there was a pleading in them “Hannah, your eyes, before you… they went black like coal, what was that?” Her jaw dropped a little and a look of realisation crossed her face.
“Before I gave myself to Sebastian earlier, I inhaled some of his breath,”
“So he, like, possessed you?”
“Maybe a little,” She shrugged “I need to speak to Tori, tell her what happened, but this stays between us, right?”
“Of course,”
She stood up and I moved out of her way, but instead of going anywhere, she just looked down at herself and sighed slowly.
“You wanna take a shower and borrow some clothes?” I asked “You can go home once you’re all cleaned up,” She just nodded and stepped closer to me, wrapping her arms out my torso and rested her head against my chest.
“Thank you, Brian.”
“You’re welcome, sweetheart.”
I’d told Jimmy most of what happened that night, but despite Jimmy being my best friend, I’d made a promise to Hannah. He wouldn’t speak to me because he instantly assumed that when Hannah had come over, heartbroken and scared that I’d comforted her in my special way that I have done in the past with girls in need of some love and affection, but he wouldn’t believe a word that came out of my mouth when I told him nothing had happened.
~~~~
Hannah
I was getting my things ready for spending the night at Erin’s house. Giving myself a mental check list, ticking off everything that I had packed, I looked around my room and saw my dress for the party hanging on the hook on the back of my door. Sebastian had dropped it off a couple of days ago, and I’d fallen in love with it the second I saw it, but he wouldn’t let me try it on, he promised that the measurements were correct and that he wanted us all to be surprised when I put it on before the party.
“Looking forward to your sleepover with Erin?” The familiar voice of Sebastian asked from behind me. I turned around to see him climbing through my window. I gave him a confused look and he shrugged “I saw it in one of those movies you kids watch these days, thought I’d give it a try, be spontaneous and romantic,”
“Everything you’ve done since I first met you has been ‘spontaneous’ but, never romantic,” I chuckled, walking over to him and draping my arms over his shoulders.
“Well, I’ll have to keep watching movies until I master the romance aspect,”
“You like movies?” I asked him, pleasantly surprised.
“Well, once they came into colour they were better, and over the centuries they’ve only gotten better, but I feel writers and directors are running out of ideas now, especially in the genre of horror,”
“You’ve been watching movies since they were still in black and white?” I almost choked on my own saliva “How old are you exactly?” I asked.
“Much older than you first thought apparently,” He chuckled “I’ve only been ruling hell for about two-hundred years or so, but I died long before then,”
“I’d love to hear some of your stories,” I admitted, running my right hand from his shoulder and down his thin tie that ran down the middle of his chest “From what your life was like before you died,”
“Would you like to hear how I died?” He asked, lowering his head and capturing my lips with his in a quick but passionate kiss.
“Yes,”
“Soon,” He smiled “But not tonight, I wouldn’t want to give you any nightmares while you’re supposed to be enjoying your night,”
~~~~
After Sebastian left, I grabbed my packed bag and my dress along with another small bag with everything I needed for getting ready tomorrow and headed down the stairs, where I found Darla and Dad snuggled up on the sofa. I had to admit it, they were almost perfect together, almost being the key word, since he was absolutely perfect with Mom for all those years.
“What are you guys up to tonight?” I asked as I walked through the room, grabbing my earphones from the arm of my usual chair.
“We’re going to be finishing some arrangements for your party,” Darla beamed at me.
“Are you excited to finally be turning eighteen?” Dad asked.
“Of course I am,” I chuckled “I’m finally legal for enough things that make me look cool at school,” I joked “I’m gonna head over to Erin’s now,” I gave them both a kiss on the cheek and walked to the front door and called out my goodbyes.
I stepped through the front door, looked up and down the street to make sure nobody was around to see me vanish into thin air. In the blink of an eye, I was standing outside Erin’s front door, but as soon as I raised my hand to knock, the door swung open and revealed my uncle standing on the other side with a huge smile on his face.
“What’s got you so smiley?” I asked, squeezing past him and into the house.
“I’m just so happy that my two main girls are so happy with their men,” He beamed, wrapping me in his infamous uncle hug.
“Our men?” I asked, pulling away slightly to look at him and raise my eyebrow.
“Don’t pretend that you don’t know what I’m talking about,” He chuckled “I know all about you and Sebastian, and Erin and Christopher,” He wiggled his eyebrows a little, still looking beyond excited “Your father and I knew that you two would hit it off with
them,”
“I bet you did,” I smiled at him “Erin in her room?” I asked, nodding over to the stairs.
“Of course, go right on up,”
I did the normal thing and walked up the large staircase and across the landing to Erin’s bedroom and let myself in. I dropped my bag on the floor, hung my dress on the back of her door and kicked off my shoes before dropping onto the bed.
“Erin!” I called out, rolling my head in the direction of her bathroom “Get your ass out here!”
“Hold on!” She called back before flushing the toilet and sliding through the door “Had to pee, I didn’t know you’d be flashing yourself over here,” She teased, seemingly proud that I was really coming into my powers these days, but why shouldn’t I be? I’m going to
lose them soon enough before I get other powers and can do even better things with myself.
“So,” I started, rolling over onto my front and looking over at Erin “What’s the plan for tonight?”
“Well, I thought we should start the party a little early,” She smirked, reaching under her bed and pulling out two brown paper bags, surprisingly wrapped tightly in the shape of bottles. She handed one to me and I pulled it out of the bag, revealing a bottle of 40.
“Yes!” I cheered happily “Planning on getting me good and drunk for the first time… ever?” I asked.
“You gotta do it at least once before you turn eighteen,” She laughed, opening her own bottle and taking a big swig “Plus, we deserve to have a little celebration of our own after everything we’ve done recently,”
I nodded in agreement and cracked open my own bottle, taking a drink. Erin laughed at my disgusted expression at the taste of the drink.
“And exactly how many times did you get drunk before you turned eighteen?” I asked, smirking at her before bringing my bottle back to my lips.
“I hung around Zack a lot since I was fourteen, so as you can imagine, I lost count of how many times I got drunk,” She laughed, making me laugh, and before I knew it we were a laughing heap on the bed, folded over one another.
“I’m gonna miss this,” I admitted, finally taking some deep breaths to calm myself down “Y’know, just being able to hang out in here on the weekends, watching terrible movies and eating bad food before deciding never to do that ever again, only to do it the week
after,” She smiled at me softly and reached out to take my hand in hers.
“You don’t have to miss it,” She told me softly “You’re not dying, you’re going to be getting married, but we can still hang out,”
“It’s not that simple,” I sighed “I’m going to change after I go through with my plan to marry Sebastian, he’s not going to keep me a witch, but he’s going to make me something else,”
“What?” She asked.
Suddenly, I wished I’d never opened my mouth. But, I pulled my phone from my pocket and unlocked it before opening up the browser window that I’d been on last night when I was doing some research on types of demons, before I came across my new species. I handed the phone to Erin and watched her face as her eyes scanned the page and the mass amount of information.
“A crossroads demon?” She asked, sounding shocked but excited at the same time.
“Only difference that will be between me and the rest of them, is that I’ll be immortal and keep my current physical form instead of turning into a mass of black smoke that has to possess someone when summoned,”
“So,” She frowned “If someone summons a crossroads demon and they get you, you’ll just rock up in front of them looking like,”
She gestured to my body “An eighteen year old girl?”
“I guess it’s appealing to the men making deals, but at the same time young and innocent enough so that women wouldn’t think
twice before they give me a little smooch,” I winked.
“That’s enough demons for one night,” She chuckled, tossing my phone back to me “I say we just get drunk and talk about boys all night long,”
~~~~
After an hour, Erin ordered us some pizza and successfully paid for it at the door without my uncle realising she was drink, but I’m pretty sure the delivery guy noticed she’d had something to drink when she told him how pretty his eyes were.
“I’ve been thinking about what you said about Christopher the other day,” She randomly said, dropping the last of her pizza crust
back into the box, finally full of pizza.
“Huh?” I frowned, taking another bite of my last slice of pizza “What was that?” I asked.
“Remember?” She enthused “You told me that he’s good looking, we’d be good together and to give him a chance,”
“Oh… yeah, I remember now,” I lied, smiling a little “And?”
“I’m gonna take your advice,” She nodded and I felt my eyes widen a little, but she was looking at her phone now “With all of the shit that’s been going on recently, I don’t want to put Zack through that, and I can feel myself being drawn to Christopher more and more every time I see him and I even find myself thinking about him all of the time,” She looked at me again “And since you’re taking the leap with Sebastian soon enough, I think that I should give him a chance,”
This was just weird. I thought that by marrying Sebastian – which seemed more bearable now – Erin would be spared the torture of being with Christopher, especially after what Sebastian showed me back at the beginning of all of this… but wasn’t that only if I didn’t comply with his wishes? This was just a mess, and honestly, I had no idea what was going on, what the Hell was Erin talking about? I don’t remember seeing her at all the other day, never mind telling her that she should give Chris a chance. I must be totally losing it.
~~~~
A loud groan from beside me is what woke me this morning. I cringed and tugged the covers back over my head in an attempt to block out the sound and the light slipping into the room.
“Why did I think it was a good idea to get us both hammered last night?”
I rolled over, still under the covers, and came face to face with Erin, she was cringing too but still smiling at me.
“That is the last time I ever take a ‘fun’ suggestion from you,” I smirked at her “I’m happy with never getting drunk again,”
“I don’t think it’s a good idea that you ever have a sip of alcohol,” She chuckled, making us both wince.
“Why?” I asked.
“Because you’re a very honest drunk,” She said, a little more seriously now.
“Oh God,” I grumbled, covering my face with my hands “What did I tell you?”
“That you slept with Sebastian, that he gave you some of his demon breath and now you’re having blackouts,” I groaned loudly into my hands “That isn’t all,” I froze, dreading what was coming next “You miss Jimmy and you kissed Brian,”
I slowly removed my hands from my face and looked at her, grimacing at the information I’d drunkenly shared with my cousin.
“Please don’t say anything,” I pleaded quietly “Especially not to Jimmy, this whole thing is already killing him and if he finds out what
I did to Brian, he’ll kill us both,”
“Did you black out when you were with Brian?” She asked and I nodded “Then it was the demon breath, and it’s a good thing Tori is coming with us today because we really need her help on this whole thing, maybe she can explain this shit to us in a little more detail.
~~~~
We met up with Tori a couple of hours after we woke up, and the three of us spent the day getting beauty treatments.
Tori explained that since I still have some of Sebastian’s demon breath, which is causing the black outs when he takes over, which he can do because I’m the smallest amount of possessed at the moment and it’s mainly being used to give me a boost of confidence, but she suggested that I ask him to take it back tonight, so that we’ll all know that any decisions I make are really my own.
Tori headed back to her house in the late afternoon to get ready for the party, while Erin and I went back to her place to do the same thing. I showered first and slipped into my brand new, sexy, lace underwear and wrapped myself in my silk robe and ran my brush through my hair before moisturizing my face.
I sat at Erin’s dressing table and started messing around on my phone. I texted Dad to let him know that I was having fun so far and that everything was alright, then I started to scroll through Tumblr, but my phone beeped with a new message.
Happy Birthday, Princess. – Jimmy
My heart started to pound in my chest when I read his message. It’s been a while since I’ve heard a single word from Jimmy, everyone else has just been acting as messengers while helping us to stay away from one another. I didn’t know if he would have even remembered that today was my birthday, never mind sending me any message. I took a deep breath to calm myself down and typed a message back to him.
Thank you. Are you coming to the party tonight? – Hannah
It only took him a couple of minutes to get back to you.
Of course! I wouldn’t ever miss a party, especially not when it gives me the chance to celebrate you finally being legal like
the rest of us ;) – Jimmy
Is that another reason he hadn’t wanted to have sex with me before when I threw myself at him? Because I was still just seventeen?
I’ll see you then (: - Hannah
Seconds later, he replied.
Can’t wait <3 – Jimmy
My heart was soaring. Whatever feelings I’d been beginning to feed for Sebastian before were now shoved to the back of my mind and Jimmy was taking over once again, and suddenly, I wanted to see him right this second.
My thoughts were interrupted when Erin came out of the bathroom, securing her robe around herself while tugging the towel out of her hair.
“Ready for another one of my makeovers?” She asked, a huge smile tugging at her lips.
“You bet your ass I am,” I laughed “Make me look like a completely different person,”
~~~~
I had no idea where this party was being held since this whole thing was somewhat of a surprise, set up by my loving family.
Honestly, I was terrified that this was a set-up for something embarrassing and I could see the scene from Carrie playing out at some point tonight.
“Stop worrying,” Erin whispered in my ear.
We were sitting in the back of the car that my uncle had hired so that he could drive us to the party.
“I can almost hear your anxieties getting the better of you,” She chuckled.
“No way,” I laughed, smacking her arm lightly “Clairvoyance is my party trick,”
We both shared a laugh before my uncle cut us off by announcing that we had arrived.
When we got out of the car I looked around and realised I didn’t have a clue where we were. The only building in sight was in the middle of the field and appeared to be an abandoned warehouse of some sort, but for the life of me I wasn’t really sure.
“I’m here,” Erin reminded me gently, taking my hand in hers reassuringly “I’ll be right by your side all night if you need me to be,”
I looked over to her and nodded, giving in to the smile that was tugging at my own lips.
“Don’t you dare leave me,”
~~~~
Jimmy
I’ve been waiting for tonight. I began waiting for it when I was actually with Hannah because I wanted to make the whole day special for her, but now that she wasn’t even mine, tonight was my big chance to get her back.
I arrived at the party with the rest of the guys and I don’t think that I’ve ever been more desperate and nervous at the same time. The party was in an old warehouse and the lighting inside was green, giving the whole place an eerie look. The decorations just screamed Hannah; her family certainly knew her well.
Everybody was drinking the drinks that had been supplied and dancing to the music that the DJ was already playing. I was standing in one corner of the room waiting for her to get here.
“How you holding up?”
I looked to my right side and saw Zack standing next to me with a red cup in his hand.
“I’m just hoping that she’s going to get here soon,” I muttered, bringing my own cup up to my lips.
“Ladies and gentlemen,” The DJ started when he cut the music “I have just been informed that the birthday girl has arrived, so if everyone could gather in the centre of the dance floor,”
Everyone did as he asked and Zack and I pushed ourselves closest to the door so that we would see them first. Matt, Brian and Johnny were buy our sides giving me moral support in silence for whatever was going to happen.
The doors swung open and in stepped Hannah and Erin, hand in hand laughing between themselves, and when all of the party guests yelled ‘Happy Birthday’ and started cheering and clapping, Hannah physically jumped into the air a little before regaining her composure. The look on her face was like a deer caught in the headlights before she caught her breath and smiled at everyone.
She looked… fantastic. Her hair was pinned and curled to perfection, her makeup was flawless – not that she needed any makeup
– and her dress was absolutely perfect, it hugged her figure and made her waistline more prominent than it already was. Most people here tonight were bound to be surprised by her actual figure, since almost everyone were just people Erin and the guys invited from school, they only really ever saw her wearing jeans and hoodies, but tonight she looked like a totally different woman.
The shoes on her feet made her perfectly pale legs look like they went all the way up and the little peep-toe gave everyone a flash of
her perfectly painted black toe nails.
She quickly thanked everyone for coming while looking over all of the guests, and I could have sworn that her gaze lingered on me for a moment longer than she’d meant to when she saw me. Erin quickly tugged her over to the drinks table when the music started back up again and everyone went back to dancing.
~~~~
After an hour and a half, Hannah was taking a break from dancing with some people and dropped herself into a chair at one of the black cloth clad tables and downed her drink. Now was my chance to finally talk to her. I patted my pockets down to make sure I still had her gift, finished off my drink and walked over to her and sat down in the chair beside her, but she was facing the dance floor so I was more behind her than beside her.
“Happy Birthday,” I said lowly, leaning in close to her ear. She jumped a little and turned around to look at me, her face changed from shock to happiness and surprise when a big smile broke out on her face.
“I’ve been looking for you,” She admitted with a laugh, leaning forward to wrap her arms around my neck and hug herself close to me. My arms wrapped around her back and I pulled her closer, taking the moment to savour her embrace and her scent.
“I’ve had my eye on you all night,” I smiled into her hair before she pulled away.
“Great party, huh?” She asked, looking back out at everyone on the floor.
“Yeah,” I nodded “Correct me if I’m wrong, but something tells me that you’re not exactly enjoying yourself as much as you should be,”
“I dunno,” She shrugged “I don’t really know what I expected to happen when I turned eighteen, but this isn’t it,”
“Well, maybe I can help a little,” I suggested.
She looked back at me and watched me slip my hand into my pocket and pull out the gently folded piece of card. I handed it to her and watched her slowly open it up. Another smile broke out on her face as her eyes wandered over the page. She placed it on the table and ran her long fingers over it, seemingly in complete awe.
“It’s beautiful,”
“It’s you,”
My art project that Hannah had seen me working on, I’d known that she loved it back then, so I’d finished it off and made it bigger so
that I could give it to her for her birthday, and now it seemed that she loved it even more.
“I love it,” She beamed at me, finally looking away from the page “Thank you,” She leaned forward to place a gentle kiss on my cheek. My eyes fluttered closed when her lips lingered there for a moment, and when she pulled away, she didn’t pull away completely and my eyes opened again. She was looking at my lips and her tongue darted out between her lips to moisten them a little. I found myself looking at her lips, too.
“You’re welcome,” I whispered, our eyes flicking back up to each other’s eyes. I didn’t bother to think about what I was doing, I just did it. My hand slipped around the back of her head to cradle it, my fingers gently sliding into her hair as I pulled her head gently towards mine while leaning in to hers, too. Before I knew it, our lips were pressed together in a passionate, yet, gentle kiss.
All of a sudden, she pressed her hand gently against my chest and pushed on it while pulling away from me. Her eyes remained closed and her forehead rested against mine.
“Come with me…” She trailed off, looking around before taking my hand and tugging me out of the room through one of the side doors. She hurried up through a couple of corridors until we were completely alone and we could just barely hear the thumping of the music “We can’t do this, Jimmy.” She sighed, dropping my hand.
“Why not?” I asked, my tone demanding.
“Because we’re not together anymore, and I promised myself to-“
“Don’t say his name,” I pleaded “Tonight was supposed to be my chance to win you back, please, please just give me a chance before you say no and take it away from me,”
“There’s nothing you can say,” She whispered, cupping my jaw and looking into my eyes “I made up my mind and I have to follow through with my plan, I’m sorry…”
“I might not be able to say anything,” I said “But I can sure as Hell do something,”
I gripped her waist and turned around and slammed her against the wall before crashing my lips against hers. She moaned out slightly when my tongue licked her bottom lip and I took the moment to slip my tongue into her slightly open mouth. She returned the kiss and her tongue started dancing with mine passionately. I lifted her into the air, my hands now gripping her thighs and holding her against me and the wall, her legs wrapped around my waist for support and her hands moved into my hair and she tugged lightly, making me groan.
“I missed you,” I growled against her lips, grinding my hips into hers so that she could feel my growing excitement, and she moaned louder.
“I missed you, too.” Her voice sounded pained, and I could almost feel her heart breaking in her chest.
“Birthday girl!” The DJ called into the microphone “Please make your way up onto this stage, your cake is here!”
We broke apart but remained in our position for a few moments, catching our breaths and staring into each other’s eyes.
“I should get out there,” She whispered.
“I’ll wait back a bit,” I sighed “So no one gets suspicious,”
~~~~
I don’t know what happened in the minute that I stayed behind in the corridor before going out there and making my way to the front of the crowd that were watching the stage with shocked faces. But Hannah was standing up there with a spotlight on her, a knife in her hand, the cake beside her and a man in a suit was in front of her on one knee holding out a ring.
“So, what do you say?” He asked, a smile on his face that made me feel sick. I knew who he was, Sebastian.
“I…” Hannah looked around at everyone, her gaze didn’t linger on me at all but Matt clapped my shoulder and pulled me to him in a comforting way to let me know that he was there for me “Yes,” She smiled, turning back to him and looking down at him.
Everyone started to cheer and scream and clap when he stood up and lifted her into his arms and spun around with her in the air before placing her back on his feet and slipping the ring onto her finger. When they hugged again, he looked over her shoulder, right at me and looked right into my eyes as though he were looking into my soul, and he smirked. He looked so smug and proud with himself.
~~~~
Hannah
While Dad and Uncle Alan congratulated Sebastian along with some other guys from school and Dad’s colleague’s sons, I was being congratulated by almost every female in the room. My grandmother was shocked but happy for me and while Erin looked shocked and surprised, she couldn’t help but congratulate me too and express how happy she was for me. I held my hand out in front of me for the twentieth time in the last minute and looked at my ring again, smiling at how beautiful it was.
“Can I talk to you?” Erin asked, taking my hand in hers and pulling me away before.
“What’s the matter?” I asked, looking her over and taking in her nervous state.
“Christopher is here,” She told me, biting her bottom lip while pacing around a little “I can’t seem to get away from him, and I don’t think I want to, and he looks so… sexy!” She groaned “Hannah, what should I do?”
I felt a little twitch in my neck tug my head to the left side before I completely blacked out.
~~~~
Third Person
Hannah’s neck twitched and her eyes flashed black for a second, but her nervous cousin didn’t realise in the dark lighting of the back rooms.
“I think,” Hannah started, placing her hand on Erin’s shoulder, making her completely relax and stop moving “You should give into him, give into what you both want and let him take you, tonight, let him make you officially his, let him make love to you or.. fuck you senseless, whichever you prefer,”
“You’re right,” Erin smiled after a minute “I’m not with anyone else now, so why shouldn’t I just give into him?”
Hannah nodded along.
“Thanks!” Erin exclaimed, pulling Hannah into a hug “You’re the best cousin ever,”
“No problem,” Hannah laughed “Now get out there and get your man!”
~~~~
Hannah's Outfit
I was trying to get a hold of Jimmy, I knew he was with Tori and Johnny today, but neither of them could persuade him to text me back or take their phone when I called them. I told him a few days ago that Hannah had turned up in my room, scared and confused out of her mind, and also pretty heartbroken and ashamed. She’d told me what she did to Erin, what she did with Sebastian and that she didn’t know what was wrong with her anymore. I haven’t stopped thinking about that night, how Hannah didn’t seem… herself.
“So, you’re telling me that you had sex with this Sebastian guy, choked your cousin and then flashed yourself over here before you even had a chance to get changed?” I asked her as I walked back into my room, handing her the glass of orange juice I’d just gotten for her.
“That’s pretty much what happened, yes.” She almost cringed “I have no idea what came over me when I did either of those things,”
“Let’s just go for…” I trailed off, before a spurt of laughter slipped from my lips “Lust and anger,”
She smiled and then laughed, loudly, making me laugh with her for a few minutes until she calmed down and stopped laughing. She looked right at me, and for a second I could have sworn her eyes changed to black, just for a second before they went back to normal. Ignoring the confused look on my face, she lunged forward, pinning me on my back against the mattress of my bed and straddling me and her lips crashed against mine before I could blink.
“Hannah,” I murmured against her lips, grabbing her hips with my hands to try and move her off of me, but suddenly it was as though she had super-human strength and I couldn’t move her, but then I remembered what she had just said to me “Hannah, stop this, it isn’t you, come on, power through this and think about how much we would hurt Jimmy if anything happened between us,”
That’s all it took. She let me go, jumped off of me, scrambled backwards off the foot of my bed and across my room until she was curled up in the corner of the room.
“What just happened?” She whispered to herself, her eyes wide and staring into space “I’m s-sorry,”
“It’s alright,” I told her softly, moving over to her and holding my arms out “I won’t say anything, we’ll just forget it happened, alright?”
She nodded and finally met my eyes, there was a pleading in them “Hannah, your eyes, before you… they went black like coal, what was that?” Her jaw dropped a little and a look of realisation crossed her face.
“Before I gave myself to Sebastian earlier, I inhaled some of his breath,”
“So he, like, possessed you?”
“Maybe a little,” She shrugged “I need to speak to Tori, tell her what happened, but this stays between us, right?”
“Of course,”
She stood up and I moved out of her way, but instead of going anywhere, she just looked down at herself and sighed slowly.
“You wanna take a shower and borrow some clothes?” I asked “You can go home once you’re all cleaned up,” She just nodded and stepped closer to me, wrapping her arms out my torso and rested her head against my chest.
“Thank you, Brian.”
“You’re welcome, sweetheart.”
I’d told Jimmy most of what happened that night, but despite Jimmy being my best friend, I’d made a promise to Hannah. He wouldn’t speak to me because he instantly assumed that when Hannah had come over, heartbroken and scared that I’d comforted her in my special way that I have done in the past with girls in need of some love and affection, but he wouldn’t believe a word that came out of my mouth when I told him nothing had happened.
~~~~
Hannah
I was getting my things ready for spending the night at Erin’s house. Giving myself a mental check list, ticking off everything that I had packed, I looked around my room and saw my dress for the party hanging on the hook on the back of my door. Sebastian had dropped it off a couple of days ago, and I’d fallen in love with it the second I saw it, but he wouldn’t let me try it on, he promised that the measurements were correct and that he wanted us all to be surprised when I put it on before the party.
“Looking forward to your sleepover with Erin?” The familiar voice of Sebastian asked from behind me. I turned around to see him climbing through my window. I gave him a confused look and he shrugged “I saw it in one of those movies you kids watch these days, thought I’d give it a try, be spontaneous and romantic,”
“Everything you’ve done since I first met you has been ‘spontaneous’ but, never romantic,” I chuckled, walking over to him and draping my arms over his shoulders.
“Well, I’ll have to keep watching movies until I master the romance aspect,”
“You like movies?” I asked him, pleasantly surprised.
“Well, once they came into colour they were better, and over the centuries they’ve only gotten better, but I feel writers and directors are running out of ideas now, especially in the genre of horror,”
“You’ve been watching movies since they were still in black and white?” I almost choked on my own saliva “How old are you exactly?” I asked.
“Much older than you first thought apparently,” He chuckled “I’ve only been ruling hell for about two-hundred years or so, but I died long before then,”
“I’d love to hear some of your stories,” I admitted, running my right hand from his shoulder and down his thin tie that ran down the middle of his chest “From what your life was like before you died,”
“Would you like to hear how I died?” He asked, lowering his head and capturing my lips with his in a quick but passionate kiss.
“Yes,”
“Soon,” He smiled “But not tonight, I wouldn’t want to give you any nightmares while you’re supposed to be enjoying your night,”
~~~~
After Sebastian left, I grabbed my packed bag and my dress along with another small bag with everything I needed for getting ready tomorrow and headed down the stairs, where I found Darla and Dad snuggled up on the sofa. I had to admit it, they were almost perfect together, almost being the key word, since he was absolutely perfect with Mom for all those years.
“What are you guys up to tonight?” I asked as I walked through the room, grabbing my earphones from the arm of my usual chair.
“We’re going to be finishing some arrangements for your party,” Darla beamed at me.
“Are you excited to finally be turning eighteen?” Dad asked.
“Of course I am,” I chuckled “I’m finally legal for enough things that make me look cool at school,” I joked “I’m gonna head over to Erin’s now,” I gave them both a kiss on the cheek and walked to the front door and called out my goodbyes.
I stepped through the front door, looked up and down the street to make sure nobody was around to see me vanish into thin air. In the blink of an eye, I was standing outside Erin’s front door, but as soon as I raised my hand to knock, the door swung open and revealed my uncle standing on the other side with a huge smile on his face.
“What’s got you so smiley?” I asked, squeezing past him and into the house.
“I’m just so happy that my two main girls are so happy with their men,” He beamed, wrapping me in his infamous uncle hug.
“Our men?” I asked, pulling away slightly to look at him and raise my eyebrow.
“Don’t pretend that you don’t know what I’m talking about,” He chuckled “I know all about you and Sebastian, and Erin and Christopher,” He wiggled his eyebrows a little, still looking beyond excited “Your father and I knew that you two would hit it off with
them,”
“I bet you did,” I smiled at him “Erin in her room?” I asked, nodding over to the stairs.
“Of course, go right on up,”
I did the normal thing and walked up the large staircase and across the landing to Erin’s bedroom and let myself in. I dropped my bag on the floor, hung my dress on the back of her door and kicked off my shoes before dropping onto the bed.
“Erin!” I called out, rolling my head in the direction of her bathroom “Get your ass out here!”
“Hold on!” She called back before flushing the toilet and sliding through the door “Had to pee, I didn’t know you’d be flashing yourself over here,” She teased, seemingly proud that I was really coming into my powers these days, but why shouldn’t I be? I’m going to
lose them soon enough before I get other powers and can do even better things with myself.
“So,” I started, rolling over onto my front and looking over at Erin “What’s the plan for tonight?”
“Well, I thought we should start the party a little early,” She smirked, reaching under her bed and pulling out two brown paper bags, surprisingly wrapped tightly in the shape of bottles. She handed one to me and I pulled it out of the bag, revealing a bottle of 40.
“Yes!” I cheered happily “Planning on getting me good and drunk for the first time… ever?” I asked.
“You gotta do it at least once before you turn eighteen,” She laughed, opening her own bottle and taking a big swig “Plus, we deserve to have a little celebration of our own after everything we’ve done recently,”
I nodded in agreement and cracked open my own bottle, taking a drink. Erin laughed at my disgusted expression at the taste of the drink.
“And exactly how many times did you get drunk before you turned eighteen?” I asked, smirking at her before bringing my bottle back to my lips.
“I hung around Zack a lot since I was fourteen, so as you can imagine, I lost count of how many times I got drunk,” She laughed, making me laugh, and before I knew it we were a laughing heap on the bed, folded over one another.
“I’m gonna miss this,” I admitted, finally taking some deep breaths to calm myself down “Y’know, just being able to hang out in here on the weekends, watching terrible movies and eating bad food before deciding never to do that ever again, only to do it the week
after,” She smiled at me softly and reached out to take my hand in hers.
“You don’t have to miss it,” She told me softly “You’re not dying, you’re going to be getting married, but we can still hang out,”
“It’s not that simple,” I sighed “I’m going to change after I go through with my plan to marry Sebastian, he’s not going to keep me a witch, but he’s going to make me something else,”
“What?” She asked.
Suddenly, I wished I’d never opened my mouth. But, I pulled my phone from my pocket and unlocked it before opening up the browser window that I’d been on last night when I was doing some research on types of demons, before I came across my new species. I handed the phone to Erin and watched her face as her eyes scanned the page and the mass amount of information.
“A crossroads demon?” She asked, sounding shocked but excited at the same time.
“Only difference that will be between me and the rest of them, is that I’ll be immortal and keep my current physical form instead of turning into a mass of black smoke that has to possess someone when summoned,”
“So,” She frowned “If someone summons a crossroads demon and they get you, you’ll just rock up in front of them looking like,”
She gestured to my body “An eighteen year old girl?”
“I guess it’s appealing to the men making deals, but at the same time young and innocent enough so that women wouldn’t think
twice before they give me a little smooch,” I winked.
“That’s enough demons for one night,” She chuckled, tossing my phone back to me “I say we just get drunk and talk about boys all night long,”
~~~~
After an hour, Erin ordered us some pizza and successfully paid for it at the door without my uncle realising she was drink, but I’m pretty sure the delivery guy noticed she’d had something to drink when she told him how pretty his eyes were.
“I’ve been thinking about what you said about Christopher the other day,” She randomly said, dropping the last of her pizza crust
back into the box, finally full of pizza.
“Huh?” I frowned, taking another bite of my last slice of pizza “What was that?” I asked.
“Remember?” She enthused “You told me that he’s good looking, we’d be good together and to give him a chance,”
“Oh… yeah, I remember now,” I lied, smiling a little “And?”
“I’m gonna take your advice,” She nodded and I felt my eyes widen a little, but she was looking at her phone now “With all of the shit that’s been going on recently, I don’t want to put Zack through that, and I can feel myself being drawn to Christopher more and more every time I see him and I even find myself thinking about him all of the time,” She looked at me again “And since you’re taking the leap with Sebastian soon enough, I think that I should give him a chance,”
This was just weird. I thought that by marrying Sebastian – which seemed more bearable now – Erin would be spared the torture of being with Christopher, especially after what Sebastian showed me back at the beginning of all of this… but wasn’t that only if I didn’t comply with his wishes? This was just a mess, and honestly, I had no idea what was going on, what the Hell was Erin talking about? I don’t remember seeing her at all the other day, never mind telling her that she should give Chris a chance. I must be totally losing it.
~~~~
A loud groan from beside me is what woke me this morning. I cringed and tugged the covers back over my head in an attempt to block out the sound and the light slipping into the room.
“Why did I think it was a good idea to get us both hammered last night?”
I rolled over, still under the covers, and came face to face with Erin, she was cringing too but still smiling at me.
“That is the last time I ever take a ‘fun’ suggestion from you,” I smirked at her “I’m happy with never getting drunk again,”
“I don’t think it’s a good idea that you ever have a sip of alcohol,” She chuckled, making us both wince.
“Why?” I asked.
“Because you’re a very honest drunk,” She said, a little more seriously now.
“Oh God,” I grumbled, covering my face with my hands “What did I tell you?”
“That you slept with Sebastian, that he gave you some of his demon breath and now you’re having blackouts,” I groaned loudly into my hands “That isn’t all,” I froze, dreading what was coming next “You miss Jimmy and you kissed Brian,”
I slowly removed my hands from my face and looked at her, grimacing at the information I’d drunkenly shared with my cousin.
“Please don’t say anything,” I pleaded quietly “Especially not to Jimmy, this whole thing is already killing him and if he finds out what
I did to Brian, he’ll kill us both,”
“Did you black out when you were with Brian?” She asked and I nodded “Then it was the demon breath, and it’s a good thing Tori is coming with us today because we really need her help on this whole thing, maybe she can explain this shit to us in a little more detail.
~~~~
We met up with Tori a couple of hours after we woke up, and the three of us spent the day getting beauty treatments.
Tori explained that since I still have some of Sebastian’s demon breath, which is causing the black outs when he takes over, which he can do because I’m the smallest amount of possessed at the moment and it’s mainly being used to give me a boost of confidence, but she suggested that I ask him to take it back tonight, so that we’ll all know that any decisions I make are really my own.
Tori headed back to her house in the late afternoon to get ready for the party, while Erin and I went back to her place to do the same thing. I showered first and slipped into my brand new, sexy, lace underwear and wrapped myself in my silk robe and ran my brush through my hair before moisturizing my face.
I sat at Erin’s dressing table and started messing around on my phone. I texted Dad to let him know that I was having fun so far and that everything was alright, then I started to scroll through Tumblr, but my phone beeped with a new message.
Happy Birthday, Princess. – Jimmy
My heart started to pound in my chest when I read his message. It’s been a while since I’ve heard a single word from Jimmy, everyone else has just been acting as messengers while helping us to stay away from one another. I didn’t know if he would have even remembered that today was my birthday, never mind sending me any message. I took a deep breath to calm myself down and typed a message back to him.
Thank you. Are you coming to the party tonight? – Hannah
It only took him a couple of minutes to get back to you.
Of course! I wouldn’t ever miss a party, especially not when it gives me the chance to celebrate you finally being legal like
the rest of us ;) – Jimmy
Is that another reason he hadn’t wanted to have sex with me before when I threw myself at him? Because I was still just seventeen?
I’ll see you then (: - Hannah
Seconds later, he replied.
Can’t wait <3 – Jimmy
My heart was soaring. Whatever feelings I’d been beginning to feed for Sebastian before were now shoved to the back of my mind and Jimmy was taking over once again, and suddenly, I wanted to see him right this second.
My thoughts were interrupted when Erin came out of the bathroom, securing her robe around herself while tugging the towel out of her hair.
“Ready for another one of my makeovers?” She asked, a huge smile tugging at her lips.
“You bet your ass I am,” I laughed “Make me look like a completely different person,”
~~~~
I had no idea where this party was being held since this whole thing was somewhat of a surprise, set up by my loving family.
Honestly, I was terrified that this was a set-up for something embarrassing and I could see the scene from Carrie playing out at some point tonight.
“Stop worrying,” Erin whispered in my ear.
We were sitting in the back of the car that my uncle had hired so that he could drive us to the party.
“I can almost hear your anxieties getting the better of you,” She chuckled.
“No way,” I laughed, smacking her arm lightly “Clairvoyance is my party trick,”
We both shared a laugh before my uncle cut us off by announcing that we had arrived.
When we got out of the car I looked around and realised I didn’t have a clue where we were. The only building in sight was in the middle of the field and appeared to be an abandoned warehouse of some sort, but for the life of me I wasn’t really sure.
“I’m here,” Erin reminded me gently, taking my hand in hers reassuringly “I’ll be right by your side all night if you need me to be,”
I looked over to her and nodded, giving in to the smile that was tugging at my own lips.
“Don’t you dare leave me,”
~~~~
Jimmy
I’ve been waiting for tonight. I began waiting for it when I was actually with Hannah because I wanted to make the whole day special for her, but now that she wasn’t even mine, tonight was my big chance to get her back.
I arrived at the party with the rest of the guys and I don’t think that I’ve ever been more desperate and nervous at the same time. The party was in an old warehouse and the lighting inside was green, giving the whole place an eerie look. The decorations just screamed Hannah; her family certainly knew her well.
Everybody was drinking the drinks that had been supplied and dancing to the music that the DJ was already playing. I was standing in one corner of the room waiting for her to get here.
“How you holding up?”
I looked to my right side and saw Zack standing next to me with a red cup in his hand.
“I’m just hoping that she’s going to get here soon,” I muttered, bringing my own cup up to my lips.
“Ladies and gentlemen,” The DJ started when he cut the music “I have just been informed that the birthday girl has arrived, so if everyone could gather in the centre of the dance floor,”
Everyone did as he asked and Zack and I pushed ourselves closest to the door so that we would see them first. Matt, Brian and Johnny were buy our sides giving me moral support in silence for whatever was going to happen.
The doors swung open and in stepped Hannah and Erin, hand in hand laughing between themselves, and when all of the party guests yelled ‘Happy Birthday’ and started cheering and clapping, Hannah physically jumped into the air a little before regaining her composure. The look on her face was like a deer caught in the headlights before she caught her breath and smiled at everyone.
She looked… fantastic. Her hair was pinned and curled to perfection, her makeup was flawless – not that she needed any makeup
– and her dress was absolutely perfect, it hugged her figure and made her waistline more prominent than it already was. Most people here tonight were bound to be surprised by her actual figure, since almost everyone were just people Erin and the guys invited from school, they only really ever saw her wearing jeans and hoodies, but tonight she looked like a totally different woman.
The shoes on her feet made her perfectly pale legs look like they went all the way up and the little peep-toe gave everyone a flash of
her perfectly painted black toe nails.
She quickly thanked everyone for coming while looking over all of the guests, and I could have sworn that her gaze lingered on me for a moment longer than she’d meant to when she saw me. Erin quickly tugged her over to the drinks table when the music started back up again and everyone went back to dancing.
~~~~
After an hour and a half, Hannah was taking a break from dancing with some people and dropped herself into a chair at one of the black cloth clad tables and downed her drink. Now was my chance to finally talk to her. I patted my pockets down to make sure I still had her gift, finished off my drink and walked over to her and sat down in the chair beside her, but she was facing the dance floor so I was more behind her than beside her.
“Happy Birthday,” I said lowly, leaning in close to her ear. She jumped a little and turned around to look at me, her face changed from shock to happiness and surprise when a big smile broke out on her face.
“I’ve been looking for you,” She admitted with a laugh, leaning forward to wrap her arms around my neck and hug herself close to me. My arms wrapped around her back and I pulled her closer, taking the moment to savour her embrace and her scent.
“I’ve had my eye on you all night,” I smiled into her hair before she pulled away.
“Great party, huh?” She asked, looking back out at everyone on the floor.
“Yeah,” I nodded “Correct me if I’m wrong, but something tells me that you’re not exactly enjoying yourself as much as you should be,”
“I dunno,” She shrugged “I don’t really know what I expected to happen when I turned eighteen, but this isn’t it,”
“Well, maybe I can help a little,” I suggested.
She looked back at me and watched me slip my hand into my pocket and pull out the gently folded piece of card. I handed it to her and watched her slowly open it up. Another smile broke out on her face as her eyes wandered over the page. She placed it on the table and ran her long fingers over it, seemingly in complete awe.
“It’s beautiful,”
“It’s you,”
My art project that Hannah had seen me working on, I’d known that she loved it back then, so I’d finished it off and made it bigger so
that I could give it to her for her birthday, and now it seemed that she loved it even more.
“I love it,” She beamed at me, finally looking away from the page “Thank you,” She leaned forward to place a gentle kiss on my cheek. My eyes fluttered closed when her lips lingered there for a moment, and when she pulled away, she didn’t pull away completely and my eyes opened again. She was looking at my lips and her tongue darted out between her lips to moisten them a little. I found myself looking at her lips, too.
“You’re welcome,” I whispered, our eyes flicking back up to each other’s eyes. I didn’t bother to think about what I was doing, I just did it. My hand slipped around the back of her head to cradle it, my fingers gently sliding into her hair as I pulled her head gently towards mine while leaning in to hers, too. Before I knew it, our lips were pressed together in a passionate, yet, gentle kiss.
All of a sudden, she pressed her hand gently against my chest and pushed on it while pulling away from me. Her eyes remained closed and her forehead rested against mine.
“Come with me…” She trailed off, looking around before taking my hand and tugging me out of the room through one of the side doors. She hurried up through a couple of corridors until we were completely alone and we could just barely hear the thumping of the music “We can’t do this, Jimmy.” She sighed, dropping my hand.
“Why not?” I asked, my tone demanding.
“Because we’re not together anymore, and I promised myself to-“
“Don’t say his name,” I pleaded “Tonight was supposed to be my chance to win you back, please, please just give me a chance before you say no and take it away from me,”
“There’s nothing you can say,” She whispered, cupping my jaw and looking into my eyes “I made up my mind and I have to follow through with my plan, I’m sorry…”
“I might not be able to say anything,” I said “But I can sure as Hell do something,”
I gripped her waist and turned around and slammed her against the wall before crashing my lips against hers. She moaned out slightly when my tongue licked her bottom lip and I took the moment to slip my tongue into her slightly open mouth. She returned the kiss and her tongue started dancing with mine passionately. I lifted her into the air, my hands now gripping her thighs and holding her against me and the wall, her legs wrapped around my waist for support and her hands moved into my hair and she tugged lightly, making me groan.
“I missed you,” I growled against her lips, grinding my hips into hers so that she could feel my growing excitement, and she moaned louder.
“I missed you, too.” Her voice sounded pained, and I could almost feel her heart breaking in her chest.
“Birthday girl!” The DJ called into the microphone “Please make your way up onto this stage, your cake is here!”
We broke apart but remained in our position for a few moments, catching our breaths and staring into each other’s eyes.
“I should get out there,” She whispered.
“I’ll wait back a bit,” I sighed “So no one gets suspicious,”
~~~~
I don’t know what happened in the minute that I stayed behind in the corridor before going out there and making my way to the front of the crowd that were watching the stage with shocked faces. But Hannah was standing up there with a spotlight on her, a knife in her hand, the cake beside her and a man in a suit was in front of her on one knee holding out a ring.
“So, what do you say?” He asked, a smile on his face that made me feel sick. I knew who he was, Sebastian.
“I…” Hannah looked around at everyone, her gaze didn’t linger on me at all but Matt clapped my shoulder and pulled me to him in a comforting way to let me know that he was there for me “Yes,” She smiled, turning back to him and looking down at him.
Everyone started to cheer and scream and clap when he stood up and lifted her into his arms and spun around with her in the air before placing her back on his feet and slipping the ring onto her finger. When they hugged again, he looked over her shoulder, right at me and looked right into my eyes as though he were looking into my soul, and he smirked. He looked so smug and proud with himself.
~~~~
Hannah
While Dad and Uncle Alan congratulated Sebastian along with some other guys from school and Dad’s colleague’s sons, I was being congratulated by almost every female in the room. My grandmother was shocked but happy for me and while Erin looked shocked and surprised, she couldn’t help but congratulate me too and express how happy she was for me. I held my hand out in front of me for the twentieth time in the last minute and looked at my ring again, smiling at how beautiful it was.
“Can I talk to you?” Erin asked, taking my hand in hers and pulling me away before.
“What’s the matter?” I asked, looking her over and taking in her nervous state.
“Christopher is here,” She told me, biting her bottom lip while pacing around a little “I can’t seem to get away from him, and I don’t think I want to, and he looks so… sexy!” She groaned “Hannah, what should I do?”
I felt a little twitch in my neck tug my head to the left side before I completely blacked out.
~~~~
Third Person
Hannah’s neck twitched and her eyes flashed black for a second, but her nervous cousin didn’t realise in the dark lighting of the back rooms.
“I think,” Hannah started, placing her hand on Erin’s shoulder, making her completely relax and stop moving “You should give into him, give into what you both want and let him take you, tonight, let him make you officially his, let him make love to you or.. fuck you senseless, whichever you prefer,”
“You’re right,” Erin smiled after a minute “I’m not with anyone else now, so why shouldn’t I just give into him?”
Hannah nodded along.
“Thanks!” Erin exclaimed, pulling Hannah into a hug “You’re the best cousin ever,”
“No problem,” Hannah laughed “Now get out there and get your man!”
~~~~
Hannah's Outfit
Notes
So, the start of this is a little risqué, but it looks like Sebastian is willing to do anything to make sure Jimmy and Hannah wind up staying away from one another.Will Jimmy find out what Hannah did? Would he believe that it wasn't her?
More to come from E next!!
~ LMV
this kind of reminds me of AHS Coven
11/16/14