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Gloom Chapter 379
Nat put his weight on one leg, tapping his foot on the ground. She was still waiting for my response."I have an interview on Monday," I told him, and I couldn't help but smile.Her eyes widened, surprised. A pang of nervousness went through me just remembering it."Oh..." he whispered in surprise.We went our separate ways, I stayed on the couch while she went upstairs and stayed upstairs for a while. When she returned to the living room, I raised my eyebrows as I took in the tight, shiny black dress she was wearing, paired with smoky makeup and tall boots that reached above her knees.She stood in front of me and turned around so I could see her completely.-You can see it well?"Oh, yes," I agreed. I cleared my throat, reflecting the enormous surprise that invaded me. So... you're going out, huh? —I prayed that the enthusiasm hadn't come through too much in my voice.This was the opportunity I had been waiting for for weeks.He nodded smiling.“You should go with me,” he said, a ne
Gloom Chapter 380
And the edge of the weapon slid across my skin. I felt the pain as my flesh split open, but I didn't waste any time. I held my hand in the air, over the small mound, so that the drops of blood would fall on it. I stood up and appreciated what I had done. Everything looked like a mess, not at all neat or orderly. It looked like the strange things that weird cults did, it looked like the kind of thing I would never have done before. Then I would take care of cleaning… If I managed to get out of this successfully.I swallowed hard, before taking the book in my hands. My heart pounded against my ribs, but my breathing was slow and labored.«In this way, I invoke you, Demon Alocer, master of black magic. I conjure you. Come and manifest yourself here and now, within this temple that I have prepared for you . They were the words that the book indicated to be able to call him, the appropriate ones to invoke the demon. She wasn't sure I could do it well. I read the inscription, first in my mi
Gloom Chapter 1
I knew this was wrong. I knew I was wrong. The voice in my head was screaming that I had to get away from him. That he was not like me, or like anyone else. There was nothing like him. He wasn't an angel, and he wasn't a demon either.It was both.Light and darkness. Splendor and chaos. Harmony and destruction. He was a being who was in the middle of the two worlds, and at the same time he did not belong to either.I should have walked away, but it was already too late. Her darkness was my downfall, and it was impossible for me not to burn in the flames of his Hell.Suddenly open my eyes.My lungs gasped for air as I scanned the darkness around me. My heart was pounding furiously against my ribs, ringing in my ears.I sat up in bed. The suffocation I felt was so oppressive that sweat bathed my forehead and neck. I breathed a sigh of pure relief as soon as the heaviness of the drowsiness left me and I was able to recognize each piece of furniture, each object in the blackness of my roo
Gloom Chapter 2
I woke up past midnight.She hadn't had the need to take the tasteless pills; She was so exhausted that I didn't even realize the moment I fell asleep with the television on, showing a program she didn't know.The atmosphere in the room was very cold, as if a draft of frigid air had slipped in from somewhere. I immediately put my hands in front of my lips and tried to cover them with my own breath. I rubbed my arms in a vain attempt to raise my body temperature a bit.At that moment, the loud but high-pitched meow of a cat made me jump.I recognized that the noise had come from the courtyard and went to see what happened, feeling somewhat uneasy. Opening the back door, I found Nico, my mother's Siamese cat, in a ball of bristly hair as he hissed at nowhere in particular. I searched the fenced space with my eyes, looking for some other animal or something that would have made him complain like that, but I found nothing."Come in," I called, waving my fingers at him. Come on, Nico.The
Gloom Chapter 3
I suppressed a sigh. Rain was commonplace in the state of Oregon , nothing new. The thunder, on the other hand, wasn't so much, so I couldn't help but feel strange. Through the window, I could see that the sky was too dark. The total absence of any noise in the house made me know that it was already very late, and that my family was sleeping.I rubbed my eyelids hard and sighed, because I knew I was going to have a hard time sleeping again. But he had to try to do it, or else in the morning he was going to have dark circles even worse than they already were.I nodded—half sleepily—as I distractedly noticed the religious objects on the nightstand next to my bed. I pursed my lips.On the one hand, I was inwardly grateful that the thunder outside woke me up, since at that moment I remembered that I had left my cell phone in the living room. I slapped myself on the head, getting angry with myself. If I finally managed to sleep again I had to go get him, or else I would fall asleep. I was
Gloom Chapter 4
Inwardly, I was infinitely grateful that at no time during dinner did I mention to my family about the man who had followed me. Even she knew in advance that my parents, as overprotective as they were, would attack me with a thousand questions. Shortly after, Dee went to her house.After everyone went to rest, I stayed watching television on the sofa until I waited for me to get sleepy. A voice in my head ordered me to go to bed early, but for some reason I didn't want to obey it despite the tenuous uncertainty that fluttered in me. I flipped through the channels, paying no real attention to any of them, until I felt my eyelids grow heavy.Turning off the TV, I was invaded by a small pang of insecurity.One besides me said that nothing would happen, that I had done enough damage to the demon to scare him. But deep down, I knew my little attack had only made him angry.I observed my surroundings when I began to feel a ravenous cold in the environment. I rubbed my arms and blew my breat
Gloom Chapter 5
I didn't think there was anything wrong with me. Maybe I was a bit of an introvert and didn't like to stand out, and neither did mass groups of people, but many other people were like that for different reasons. I was not exceptional for being what I was. I mean, he didn't even have fancy tastes. You could easily tell that she was someone… pretty boring. Why then would a creature from hell be interested in me?More importantly, why was I racking my brain thinking about it? Wasn't it supposed that, after so much, I was finally supposed to feel good? Happy and "safe"?I covered my eyes and exhaled again in frustration. None of this made sense. Unintentionally, she had already begun to ponder it: if he was a demon, that meant she could summon him, right? But how the hell was that done? And the biggest question, why would he do it?I shook my head and growled.My thoughts were a tangle of confused ideas that were not headed in the right direction. I needed to understand all of this. I
Gloom Chapter 6
He knitted his eyebrows together, and stared at me.-I don't know. By? I bit my bottom lip and shrugged. My brother continued to gaze at me for a while longer, then turned away from him, searching his pockets for something. I'm going to see Jess, so I'll be late.I nodded head down. She had already learned that she shouldn't ask too much about their complicated relationship, not when they broke up and got back together the following week."Luck," I mumbled.He nodded, and left. I was glued watching the front door, where he had left. I got up and cleaned up everything he had messed up by eating. I didn't make any more effort than that, and still my heart was pounding as if I had run a marathon."No one is there, so your family is not at risk. You could try to summon it , a strange, new voice whispered , one that was nothing like the one in my consciousness. Much less than my common sense.A knot of anxiety squeezed my stomach so tight it hurt.You have to know about him , the little v