CHAPTER ONE: PART TWO
Explanations
I tightened my grip around Larry’s arm as he began to contemplate letting go of his hand and plunging into the ocean.
His eyes continued to scream at me but then suddenly he lost a large portion of his fear which was replaced with despair as if he were a caught mouse in a cat’s mouth.
He loosened his grip on mine seeing that I wasn’t about to let him fall into the ocean.
The thoughts inside his head were quick for him as he was thinking at the speed of sound but I interpreted everything he was thinking as if it were in slow motion.
I pulled him up and gently set him down on his uneasy and wobbly fear ridden feet.
His eyes darted away from me as I saw in his mind himself running faster than I was; imagining that he could outrun my death bite that he thought I wanted so eagerly to administer to his neck.
His thoughts were off only slightly.
I didn’t want to kill him as I have killed others in my past…it wasn’t even me killing him more so than transforming him.
I knew that I could use a partner to help me out and so what better partner to have than a human who had nothing to lose yet everything to gain?
I had seen his heart and knew that it was pure.
“This doesn’t have to happen,” I said as I backed off to allow him to breathe even though he was holding his breath. “Take a breath,” I said as I saw his facial features display plain discomfort. He breathed out in giant gasps of air, suddenly looking around as if something else was just around the corner, maybe a werewolf and a witch would jump out and try and attack him, or such were the kinds of wild thoughts that he was having while standing there absolutely defenseless.
“I’m offering to you immortality Larry, but you can still choose it or not,” I said giving him my assurance with a force of emotions that leaked into his head and into his body with an extreme push of persuasion.
He was only slightly less tense even with such a strong push on my part.
“If I say no are you going to kill me,” he asked in between his gulps of air as his hands reached for the Piers edge again, prepared to face the jagged and crushing cold of the water over the bite of my teeth.
“You have my word, I will not kill you.
But since I revealed myself to you against my better judgment,” I said as I lowered my head slightly making the point very stern and clear.
“I will have to relocate you if refuse however,” I said to him with old memories of having to do this almost same thing in 1944.
I swore to protect an X-Human who had been turned into a vampire.
He did not need the protection, his daughter did.
He knew that he was going to be killed by the rival vampire clan when he went to war in Germany to fight in WWII and him being still fumed and contaminated by the humanistic trait of Patriotism decided to sneak into battle since he could not go on board the SS Robert E. Peary which was built back then in record timing of a mere four days, 15 hours and 29 minutes.
Ben Shawning had me swear to protect his daughter and I obviously did a good enough job of that since his granddaughter now worked as my secretary.
I held to my oaths.
“If I said I wanted to stay here and not leave, would you kill me then,” he asked me, clearly trying to push the envelope with fear in his voice as he clamored to know every single detail about his full options.
“You have no choice but to leave if you choose not to be turned.
There are rules that even I must follow Larry Johnson, and they are less of rules and more of an unstopped force that I cannot break, unless of course I wish to
be broken. Nature as it seems does NOT like us,” I said through a slightly gritted teeth formation to express my seriousness, not wanting to enforce the rules if it came down to it, not with this one human anyway.
It is rare to find a selfless soul in these darker than usual times and I really wanted to keep him by my side to help.
“So if I stay here and be…turned,” he shuddered with fear in his eyes as I saw in his mind the faces of his loved ones…along with the faces of those who betrayed him.
His emotions began to mix and he began to waft noisily in thought about revenge but then quickly squashed those images by an extremely sad picture in his head. I had seen that picture all too much.
The fear that it struck even into my heart was unfathomable.
The man who was dying on that torture stake; he was the mystical savior in many faiths.
It alluded to me that I would conceive such an ancient form of power to still be liable to my conscience effort of functioning in modern days, even in this vampire body of mine.
It always confused me that mankind would dream of killing a higher sentient being that would have brought something good into this world.
Mankind would be so ghastly to carry out a plot against something that was truly good in the far reaches of history.
I trailed off into memory of one such vampire who witnessed a turning of one of his own brothers back into a human by the hands of this being…this otherworldly being.
I remember the sound of the vampires’ voice as he told me that his own brother died a normal life…being completely healed of any trace of ever being a vampire he had aged gracefully and even had children.
I didn’t know if the man written in the ancient texts was really the son of God…but I always had estimated that he was indeed another anomaly in this world…much like I was, only on the opposite spectrum and one that didn’t bring healing into this world; this was my curse to face for eternity.
I wanted to change this fact though, that’s why I sought men like Larry for.
The darkness I had brought forth for so long needed vanquishing and I had a lot of catching up to do if I ever dreamed of being able to accomplish anything remotely “good”.
“I will help you to achieve your dreams, and then I will help you achieve the dreams that your dreams have dreamed” I said as I looked into his eyes with a fierce honesty that he seemed to know without me having to force him into believing with my persuasive vampire empathetic ability.
“I won’t ever be the same though.
All that I know….everyone who knows me will be gone,” he muttered that last part with some sadness and some relief too.
Larry suddenly rubbed his arms in the frigid air and smiled up at me, the fear leaving him quicker than I had expected.
“Will it cure my AIDS,” he asked me with a sudden explosion of hope in his eyes. This is when I smiled and shook my head.
Larry walked closer to me, at first unsure in his own mind if he had truly made up his thoughts to do this or not.
I sensed that he wanted to do this more than anything but he also wanted something else…something more.
“Will it fix my heart,” he asked me very softly as he approached me even closer than I had expected him to, especially after just learning that I was a vampire.
He grabbed my hand that was clearly icy cold to him and lifted it slightly in expectation; his eyes met my gaze and I felt a flood of emotions billow out of his body and soak into my emptiness nearly creating what filled like an artificial soul…it felt immeasurably great.
“I have no guarantee for this,” I said instantly with a sharp overtone of harshness, seeing in my head exactly what he wanted, absolutely unsure that I could fulfill his wishes of
that even once he
was a vampire.
I was gay but I haven't had a mate in many years.
Not since my love Dakota Realto died in the Salem witch trials of the Spring of 1693.
He exposed himself to the humans after smelling the burning flesh and blood of the people accused of being witches and had a moment of chaos where he attacked a woman in her mid 20’s.
He knew that he would be targeted but it wasn’t the humans who brought him to justice, it was the clan of Chizm, the rival vampire clan from Norway who had taken him out after starving him for 2 months, and he was too weak to fight.
He was delivered to town and killed with even less strength than a mere human. I couldn’t bear to watch him being burned alive…but his screams echoed in my head as he called for me all the while I could do nothing about it.
If I tried…I would be the next to die.
“I can only promise you that you will be immortal…
AND that rules apply,” I said staring at him as he began to pierce me with eyes burning with lust.
His gaze had turned from love earlier on the pier to fear and then to lust.
Once he had found out that I was a vampire, my vampire natural allure mechanism seemed to be perpetuating an aroma I hadn’t intended it to create.
I was embarrassed for once in over 20 years.
“I’ll take you home tonight,” I said as I offered him to come with me in my car, he had taken a Taxi here and it was very cold for any human on this night.
“Aren’t you going to turn me tonight,” he asked with a sudden loss of confidence in me as if it had to be done tonight and right there on the Pier.
“No,” I grumbled and then smiled at him with a purposeful look of confusion.
“What,” he asked me as I turned my head away, playing a game with him that I hadn’t been able to do with people since I knew that actually exposing who and what I was were not allowed unless someone wanted to die.
Larry stepped toward me more closely as he reached out and weakly grabbed my arm with a smooth caress. He smiled as I saw exactly what he had in mind…my own mind turned to a bit more than just sex as I foresaw myself getting a bit too rough for Larry. I had to resist him.
“Your thoughts are over pouring into my mind Larry,” I told him bluntly as they indeed were but they weren’t as bad as most peoples’ thoughts were.
I simply found it more irresistible because he was a selfless person where as others would simply think of themselves and how they would have their way with me, Larry was imagining himself as the submissive…and with detail now too.
“Larry,” I said grabbing firmly at his shoulders as he tensed up, his mental thoughts vanishing with a sudden fear and panic re-entering his head.
I loosened up my grip as I didn’t intend to frighten him.
“Before I turn you, you must know every detail, or at least most details of what you will be expecting.
I need to explain to you some things that you need to know before I turn you so you can be ready.”
“I’ll have all the time in the world to be told after you turn me,” he said with a new panic related to his AIDS as if he would drop dead right now.
I could feel every fiber of his being and knew he had a good year and a half to live even in his current state.
The urgency to turn him was not so significant in the present; his fears were the actual demoralizing factor here.
“There is time. I promise you, there is still time.”
Larry laughed a little bit as he rubbed his arms, slightly stepping away from me to warm his self up.
He looked out into the blackness of the toiling angry ocean and took in a deep breath.
He exhaled and away with his breath seemed to slip also all of his burdens that he held onto for so many years of his short human life.
I gazed at his facial features and looked into his head; it was filled only with the sound of the ocean and with the words repeating and intertwining with each other, over and over again, I heard the same nervous chant,
I’m ready, I’m ready
“I always imagined that I would look about 60 years old before I died of AIDS. I guess I’m comforted that it won’t be the case but what bothers me is what I don’t know.”
“What do you want to know,” I asked.
“What really defines a vampire as being a vampire?”
I smiled, knowing what he was asking.
There were so many different stories out there about what a vampire could do and what they couldn’t do.
In the human genre of movies and films, as of late, the movies were starting to be more realistic than any past indoctrination and propaganda in regards to the true nature of vampires.
“Vampires can do many things.
We know our own potential that we have as humans even more clearly once we
are vampires.
Some humans, before being turned are insightful or some can tell the truth from lies, this is also known as discernment to many.
Once they are turned, they have a great increase of that natural ability.
Some humans can be good liars and they then in turn become deadly and seductive vampires in which are usually lethal and loathed by most of us.
“Some of us have very unique abilities and powers to do things based on what we were as humans.
Most humans have never loved anything or anyone truly and so the ability to love as being a vampire is next to impossible.
Once your normal human abilities are amplified, they tend to drown out almost every other new thing that you might want to develop or learn on the inside once you become a vampire.
Some vampires are wild cards,” I said as I trailed off in a deep memory that still confused me to this day.
“Wild cards,” asked Larry in confusion as he looked at my face that looked just as confused as his own.
“They can do anything; more
or less, better
or worse than other vampires because before they were turned…well they were insane to put it quite frankly.
Not all wild cards are insane though.
Some are brilliant minded humans who then in turn become the most ruthless element alive.
Because they can conceive nearly anything…they can almost achieve the unthinkable.”
Larry walked a bit closer to me as I looked up at him. He was thinking hard at the moment.
“What is one example of…well…what was the weirdest thing you have ever seen one do,” he asked as I wasn’t sure how to
feel about telling the story completely.
“One of them was able to teleport…but there were a lot of problems with him.”
“Wait a minute…teleport!?”
“Yes,” I said looking at his ever more confused face.
He looked I could imagine as I must have looked 17 years ago when I actually saw it happen.
“Samuel Wingham was his name. He now dwells in the shadow places though, places unseen that no one should ever be able to go to” I said not even wanting to delve into that subject and by the look on Larry’s face, neither did he.
“Let’s get you home.”
We arrived at his small apartment and I instantly heard him chime something happy inside his head but I couldn’t make out what it was for some reason.
He opened the door and walked in, I remained outside of it waiting.
Larry looked around his apartment at the mess.
“Sorry for the tornados here…haven’t cleaned in ages it seems,” he said as he turned to face me.
“Are you gonna heat up the outside all night or are you going to get in here and close the door,” he asked, but he didn’t ask me directly so I was stuck standing there.
“This is one part about vampires that IS true,” I said to Larry just inside a tone as if I were in a Library.
Larry looked as if he was dumb for a second and then it clicked in his head.
“Please come in,” he said slightly irritated.
I stepped through the doorway with a smile on my face and slowly closed the light wooden door behind me.
“I could put a sign on the door that reads “all vampires welcome” if that helps, that way you can just come in whenever you like” he said as he shot me a sarcastic smile.
“That would not work. You have to verbally and consciously allow a vampire into your home.”
I walked over to where he stood in the middle of his living room where it looked and SMELLED the worse.
Because of my heightened smell, nearly everywhere I went was overpoweringly “scented”.
The smell of a strong musk hit my nostrils and also the scent of something rotted…meat.
I ignored the smells as always to the best of my ability knowing that it was probably crumbs in unseen places that humans wouldn’t be able to see.
“If I have to follow rules even
more so as a vampire than I do
now as a human, this is going to be one hell of a sour ride into the future,” he said with a flash of anger and yet more so with irritation.
“Like I said before, these rules that we follow are less like rules and more like living substances.
We are forced by NATURE to follow the rules.
There have been vampires who tried to break the rules.
They tried even when it hurt them. The saying goes that if a vampire does not obey nature that he must rejoin it,” I said as I grabbed at a nearby potted plant and pinched at the sand and let it fall back into place from a short distance up.
Larry shuddered with the thought of being turned into dirt for not obeying nature.
I actually didn’t explain to him to what degree it took to disobey nature or the “rules” and to that degree, it was nearly impossible.
Larry looked around and then quickly at me, frowning all the more.
I felt that he was more upset however that he hadn’t cleaned the apartment.
I quickly scanned his mind and saw where everything was suppose to go in the house and flashing around within a 15 second time period I cleaned the entire front room of clutter and debris.
A single feather was left wafting down in front of me from my swift cleaning when I came to a stop in front of Larry.
I snatched the feather in between two fingers faster than his eyes could process.
Looking around the room after I had stopped, he seemed to have become highly defensive as if he could stop any form of attack I would or wouldn’t dish out.
“Don’t ever do that again,” he said, breathing with a tickle of panic and surprise.
“I think you will be pleasantly surprised about where I put all your stuff,” I said with a smug smile.
He looked around the room and picked up a statue of a humming bird and moved it slightly to the left and straitened it up.
“You were off by an inch…kind of messy for a vampire isn’t it,” he said as we both cracked a smile.
“Do all vampires know where things are suppose to go in complete strangers homes,” he inquired of me with wonder clearly emitting from his body.
“No. As I told you before, some of us as humans have abilities and traits.
I was a very empathetic person when I was turned. I now can feel and hear and see people’s memories in something much like High Definition television.
I can also touch objects and see their entire history…even that wooden statue of the bird…it came from a tree in Massachusetts.”
“You’re amazing,” Larry emoted with absolute bewilderment written all over his face.
“My grandpa made that hummingbird statue when he was living in Massachusetts.
Only a few years later he died from a heart attack,” the images sloshed into my mind of Larry’s grandfather’s funeral.
I saw the faces of the people he loved.
I saw the preacher who read the famous funeral lines.
Then everything I saw was suddenly focused on Him, not Larry, the other man inside Larry’s memory.
“Stanly Millmore was at the funeral,” I said aloud as I looked up at Larry with surprise.
“Well it looks like you don’t have any problems with seeing EVERYTHING now do you,” he said absolutely casual like without any strings attached.
I was afraid to say too much since I knew what Stanley was…he wasn’t one of us…he wasn’t anything I had ever cared to meet in my life…yet I had in the past and the results of meeting that…thing was more than mysterious and disturbing. I knew he was powerful beyond belief, but what was he?
“Stanley helped my grandpa out over a period of 13 years.
He would always bring him food from town since my grandpa lived on the country. He was a real life saver,” Larry said not even knowing anything about who the real Stanley Millmore was.
“Did he ever…hurt any of you in any odd ways?
I mean like ways that you might have suspected was him but because he was so “nice” you never suspected anything about him?”
“I didn’t really know him a bunch.
Well I did know him more than I let on,” he said as he began to remember that moment in which he met Stanley in his grandpa’s garden where they both locked eyes.
Larry was only 20 at the time and I could feel the pain still lingering inside of him from losing his previous love Jason Tulli.
In the vivid mind of Larry I could feel the emotions stirring as his lips edged closer to Stanley’s perfect supple and pink lips, Stanley edging closer too.
A loud voice interrupted inside of the memory as Larry’s grandpa was calling for Stanley to help him open a can of beans.
I left Larry’s mind as he was suddenly standing right next to me without me noticing it.
“Did you see,” he asked me as he nodded with full expectation that I saw the scene.
“I saw…did you two,” I asked, already knowing the answer was “no” but I needed to be assured of not only the facts but his intentions as well.
“No we didn’t do anything.
I thought maybe he liked me but I seemed to have scared him off for the rest of the day.
I felt really lousy after he opened a can of Bush’s Baked Beans and left all in a hurry.
“It’s because he felt your pain,” I said suddenly too quickly, forgetting that I wasn’t suppose to sound to suspicious, not wanting Larry to feel as if I knew something else.
“Was there something
wrong with Stanley,” he asked with that look on his face; totally unaware of anything special about him at all.
He looked at my face for answers and then he seemed to understand that there was something about Stanley that I wasn’t telling him.
“Did he do something,” Larry asked with a low tone of voice as if Stanley would jump out from behind the curtain and surprise us as if he was omnipresent.
“Stanley isn’t from this world Larry,” I said it as plainly as I could say it without saying too much into what I knew, and that was very little.
“What he’s like an alien or something? Oh god don’t tell me they exist too,” he said with an expected return of me telling him that “they” existed.
“Not like that…he’s more like from a different dimension of existence if I could be a judge of things.
He was never on earth until the late 1940’s as far as I know but I don’t think he is a little green man, in case you are wondering.”
“What do you think he is then,” he asked with pure fascination.
“I really don’t know what he is. Only that he’s not as innocent as you think he is. He’s a visitor to this world Larry, not a citizen.”
Larry shuddered at all the things he didn’t know about.
I could tell that this was going to be a very long process. I was more than willing to help Larry though because he had some hope.
“Larry we need to focus on the issue of you and your near future.”
“Right…” he said as he looked back at the couch that was against the wall and sat down, I sitting down closely beside him.
“So do you ever grow old I guess is the question I was going to ask earlier but I don’t think you do based on some things you already said.”
“We can choose to “artificially” age if we want to.
Skilled vampires that have been around for more than two or three hundred years have learned to rapidly age in a manner of seconds if they wanted to.
Most new vampires can age backwards
ONLY into the age at which they were turned at. If your 23 and you get turned, you can’t go back to 22. That would defy the law of nature.”
Larry nodded, moving along to more questions.
“So what about garlic and crosses and silver,” he said waiting for me to answer.
“Garlic has an effect on about 39 percent of us. We are not sure why but it mostly affects the more ancient forms of vampires including anyone older than 500 years.”
“So it does affect you then?”
“I am exempt from this one luckily. It doesn’t bother me.”
“And what about crosses and silver?”
“Crosses do not have any effect on me nor does it affect anyone else that is a vampire…unless of course they were previously a Christian, then I suppose it would be like rubbing salt into an open wound.”
Larry laughed a little at that explanation.
“Silver IS actually a dangerous substance to us,” I said as I looked at him with all seriousness.
“It can fatally wound us, make us sick, anything in the form of harming us.
There was a time that I was being hunted
pithily by the United States government.
They sent three highly skilled agents to meet with me about 8 years ago.
“All of them WERE vampires and I could tell instantly what they wanted,” I said with a sadistic satisfied smile, I myself knowing the outcome of the story continued on.
“They had come to gather me in the net of international vampires and anomalies alike. There are many “not so normal” people who rule this world Larry, in case you never knew that.
“The tallest of the three vampires was the oldest of them. He stood about 6 foot 3 and he had the most beautiful blue eyes and golden blond hair.
He slipped a paper in front of my eyes, asking me to sign it so I can quickly be moved into the exemption from law act which was secretly and incrementally being implemented to many different people and entire organizations over a period of 50 years. I handed the paper back to the agent, smiling.
I refused.
“This got the shorter one looking worried as if I was something special, something they hadn’t prepared for.
For some reason their minds were clouded and I couldn’t read them, I found out why later on.
After they all nodded, at the time I had a wide black couch, they all sat on the couch and pulled out a flask in which I hadn’t seen in ages.
I knew what it was and only once had I drank from it.”
“What is it,” Larry asked with a voice filled to the brim with excitement.
“This flask was forged about 2000 years ago…from the cup that sat at the foot of Jesus of Nazareth…or so they claim.
It was not the same cup…I really don't think so anyway and I don’t know if it was from even the same area but after first drinking from the flask in 1600’s, I had felt lighter than a feather and for 8 whole months I lost the urge to drink blood.
I in fact began to revert back into a human for a short time and started to eat food. This didn’t last long.
So naturally when I saw the flask again…I knowing what it was…I asked them for the papers.
“They laughed and handed me the flask first in which I opened it and smelled blood…the blood of pure virgins.
I took in a deep draft and swallowed with pleasure.
I began to feel good all over like before and asked for the papers but they stood up and took the flask back from me and smiled and said they would return by tomorrow. They didn’t come back.”
“What happened,” Larry asked; his hands were grabbing at the ends of the couch thoroughly enjoying this true story that I had lived.
I smiled and looked up at him and continued on.
“I almost died after I drank from that flask.
It was laced with a thick mixture of
Colloidal Silver that I for some reason did not imagine would ever be in the flask.
I laid on the floor for a very long time it seemed.
While the supernatural affect of my transformation was taking place, back into a human slightly, I was actually suffering in agony from the micro particle silver specs flowing in my system.
Lori found me in the very early part of the morning before the sun came up and forced me to take some disgusting stuff called
Zeolite with some Tiger blood that she had saved for me in the cooler. The Zeolite stuff forced the colloidal silver to ooze out of my pores in my skin…it truly did burn the whole time.
After I got better hours later I asked her how she knew and she told me the truth.”
“What’s the truth,” asked Larry in a hypnotized like way. My story was more interesting than I had thought it would be.
“She saw the three men inside a vampire hang out place where I often send Lori to get me supplies.
I have eyes on the inside that watch her, protect her.
She is trained to pay attention to everything and when she heard them talking about how they had just poisoned one of us she began listening.
She found out that it was me who was poisoned and with what.
Thank God for Lori and thank God for Google. Modern technology really is the next miracle that mankind disregard.
To cut a long story short, after I had gotten better and I found out about what had happened, those three agents didn’t know that I had secret contacts inside the CIA who knew about us and a few of them were my friends to a large degree.
There was a scientist who doubled as vampire, quite the specimen of wisdom if I say so myself. Parker is the only name he has.
I informed Parker of the three agents that poisoned me and he got on the ball looking for those sorry bastards. The agents were found and dealt with. They were all lead into a UV oven and fried within milliseconds. All that they left behind was their implants that blocked out unwanted mental communication. It was beautiful; I still have the video footage if you like to see it some time. “
“I’m sorry I’m lost here,” Larry stated in a way as if I was speaking in a completely different language.
“Lori used the internet to find out what Colloidal Silver was and how to remove it. She didn’t want to show up without any solutions or I may have hurt her in pure rage that is nothing that any human should face.
That last part of the story is pretty self explanatory though.”
“So colloidal silver is a poison to you then? Does it do anything bad to normal people like me?”
“It does quite the opposite, although mainstream media would have you believe that it is horrible for you.
Did you know that both CNN and Fox News are owned by two feuding vampire families?”
Larry laughed at that one.
“I know they are pretty big liars but that’s a bit farfetched.”
I shook my head in agreement but only to get into talking terms so that Larry could ask more questions.
“Sunlight is something most of us should avoid,” I said shaking my head with a smile.
“Why is it
most of you, do
all of you burn or only
some of you,” Larry managed to ask as he shifted into a slightly more uncomfortable position than before and then back again to a comfortable sitting spot.
“As I said, each vampire has some unique things about them.
Most of us will burn in the sunlight if we stand there for too long.
Some of us can scamper through quickly enough and only get a mild sunburn that heals in seconds.
Some turn to ashes instantly.
There are different tribes or clans on this earth who have learned to walk in the day as people with no effect from the sunlight…I am actually very jealous of those ones and I have met a few of them.
“A clan of vampires in China bathes in the sunlight.
They have this weird way of collecting the sunlight in their skin… and squeezing it out into a liquid.”
Larry was making a disgusted face now at my comment.
“I’m sorry this really must be an information overload for you,” I said as I got up and was ready to go.
Larry stood too but just stood there looking like he was a puppy without a home to go to.
“The biggest reason that I asked you to meet me tonight was because you Larry
can truly love.
I am looking to create a small army of good vampires out of people like you. People who have lost the will to live but were not dealt out a fair lot in life,” I said in a soft sweet tone as I cradled my hand on his soft shaven chin and felt a vein twitch nearby.
“I thought you said it was impossible for a vampire to love.”
I smiled at Larry and then placed my arms around his waist loosely and gazed into his beautiful hazel eyes.
“I said it is almost impossible to love as a vampire. You already know how to.
Believe me or not, love is the greatest of all things that a vampire can ever desire to have.”
“I don’t think I can live up to your expectations,” he said as he shrugged and gave me those puppy eyes.
“I think you’ll do more than I expect because of who you are now,” I said as I pulled him into a soft hug on my part.
It was a slightly tight hug that he returned to me although I could tell he was flexing every muscle he had in his arms to make me stay there with him.
I easily pulled him off of me and he pouted.
“We will do this in the
right time,” I assured him.
“I have to go for the night.”
And with that final word I opened the door and vanished from his life for that night leaving the next appointment date for him to meet me in his hand written on one of my business cards.
As I ran faster than any car could travel and leaped over small buildings, I knew I was doing the right thing.
I left my keys to my car with Larry and on my business card, on the back, was my explanation to him of why I was letting him barrow my car.
I knew he would find the keys in his pocket that I slipped in there very quickly.
I didn’t know if he was ready for this though. I hoped he was.