Devils Roses 04 - Witch

was starting to drive her nuts. She tried to hold her breath in. Nothing moved around her.
    Suddenly a huge animal lunged at her from the black empty spaces between the walls and the unlit alley. She put her hands out and screamed. Something pulsed from her. The huge wolf with the pale blue eyes stumbled back. She screamed again.
    ‘RUN OPHELIA’
    She looked around at the voices but instead of belonging to the mist they had taken a shape. A huge ball of light separated into six smaller balls. As the light dimmed suddenly six girls stood in the alley. Each held their hands out as she had. They turned to face her, their faces each identical to her.
    Instead of eyes the bright blue lights filled their faces. Each made a panicked face and screamed at her in unison, ‘RUN’
    Their voices filled the air around her. She scrambled to her feet nearly losing her balance.
    ‘RUN TO THE HOUSE AND STAY INSIDE OPHELIA’
    She rounded the corner of the hardware store and didn’t stop until she was on her street. She raced across her lawn and bolted up her front steps. Her shaking hands were barely able to grip the door handle but she finally got it open. She shot inside the house and locked the door. She didn’t know if the beams of light could get in. She pressed her back against the door and began to sob.
    A knock at the door startled her. She shook her head letting the tears flow from her eyes.
    “Ophelia?”
    She stopped and whispered, “Jake?”
    “Ophelia let me in. Are you okay?”
    She shook her head and swallowed hard, “No I feel really sick. I need to go to bed.”
    The door handle rattled above her head.
    “Ophelia let me in.”
    She shook her head, as if he could see her.
    “Jesus Christ I just want to talk.” His voice started to sound angry.
    Trembling she wiped her face and waited for him to leave.
    His hands shook the door handle again, “Oh my god. What is that? Ophelia let me in. LET ME IN!”
    He began to pound on the door. She jumped back from the door and watched the handle shake.
    “SOMETHING IS OUT HERE!”
    She grabbed the lock and threw open the door.
    He leapt in knocking her to the ground. She screamed as he pinned her to the floor. The huge wolf with the pale blue eyes lunged at the door. Its wide-open muzzle bounced off the open door, as if it hit a glass wall.
    Jake scrambled off of her and dragged her further inside of the house. He lifted her off of the ground and held her in his arms tightly.
    "WHAT THE FUCK! WHAT THE FUCK!"
    She tucked her face into his chest, squinting away from the wolf at the door.
    Jake’s arms wrapped around her, “What the fuck?”
    She shook her head.
    He put her on the couch. The door hung open. Jake stepped toward the door.
    “No Jake, no stay here. No don’t go over there.” She whispered putting her hands out. She never took her eyes off of the open door. A cool breeze blew in making the door creak. She felt like her heart was in her throat watching him take another step toward the door. He peeked around the open door frame.
    “I don’t see it.” He whispered.
    She could feel it though. She could hear it whisper in her mind. It wanted her. It wanted to do bad things to her. It called her a witch. It said that was its favorite.
    Suddenly Jake jumped back. The huge wolf growled, filling the doorway. He grabbed the door and swung it hard. The door slammed shaking the entire house.
    His chest rose with his breath.
    She had covered her eyes with her hands and was peeking through the spaces between her fingers.
    He turned at her, “What the hell was that?”
    She shook her head, “A wolf.”
    "Yeah I get that it’s a wolf O, but what the fuck is it doing in town? Why is it chasing us?"
    "I don’t know."
    He turned the lock on the door, “Why couldn’t it get past the doorway? It bounced on nothing.”
    She shook her head again, “I don’t know Jake. Why did you freeze in the truck? What was that?”
    He turned to look at her confused, “What?”
    “Lance’s driveway. We were kissing and then you froze.”
    “I don’t know. I never. I just looked out the window and you were gone.”
    She rubbed her hands over her eyes, “What? That doesn’t even make sense. You didn’t hear me leave the truck? You were frozen. I touched you. It was like a seizure.”
    He backed away from the door. He went to the windows and closed all of the blinds.
    "What made you come here? Why didn't you go in the party?"
    He walked over to her, his dark blue eyes