Psychotic

before it was thrown away aside carelessly. Ari still refused to look at the person approaching him, but he didn have to.

A bloody hand grabbed him by the side of his collar and swiftly pulled him up as if he was weightless making him stand on his two wobbling feet. Ari was frozen in fear. All he could look at was the ground where lifeless eyes stared up at him.

”I should pray to moon-moon goddess more often. ” The man let his shirt go and tilted Aris chin up with the back of his hand where there was no blood. ”I didn think shed drop me something so beautiful. ”

Ari would have pleaded, but all that came out of him was a fearful sound devoid of any breath. All he managed to do was cowardly take a step back. The man wasn bothered and simply closed the distance with a step of his own before Ari found his back pressed behind a wall of mossy stone with his heart beating in his chest, thudding in his ears.

This was the worst situation he could ever find himself in.

”What brings something like you all the way over here? ” The man had to bend to look down at him curiously, he was so close their foreheads were almost touching. He sounded like he enjoyed having Ari pinned helplessly like that which only made his feelings of helplessness worsen.

He couldn help but shamelessly let out a sniffle as his eyes teared up once more today.

”No, no. Don cry. ” The man shushed sounding deceptively gentle as if he didn just murder at least three men just now acting as if Aris cries of distress were uncalled for. There was a soothing touch to the way he wiped a tear that fell from Aris cheek, but it that didn erase the fact that he smudged his cheek with blood instead. ”Who did this to you? ”

”Nobody. ” He lied as he silently cried. He wasn believed, but he wasn questioned about it either.

A less bloody hand was brought to his face and he stroked Aris lip carefully before pulling his hand away looking at the blood on his thumb the same way Ari did earlier to himself. The man leaned back to give Ari some breathing space, then grinned at him and brought his hand to his own lips with Aris blood on his thumb licking it.

”I like how you taste. ”

”Please let me go. ” Ari managed to let out, and the terror he felt was palpable. There were so many things that could go wrong and he just wanted out of there. Away from a brutal killer and his collection of dead bodies. ”I just want to go home. Please. ”

The guy looked at him thoughtfully before he tilted his head in interest. ”Beg some more. ”

”No… I- ” Ari was speechless, he didn know what to do. He didn know what will happen to him, all he knows was that he was in serious imminent danger. All he could do was hopelessly look down and whimper. ”I don want to die. ”

”I don make it a habit to kill pretty little things. ” The mans tone was light and friendly, and he didn seem to care about personal space as he loomed over Ari with a presence that appeared friendly, but felt threatening. There was no telling what the man had in his mind. ”You shouldn be here, you know that? ”

Ari didn but he wasn in a position to disagree as he nodded his head.

”Someone dangerous could have found you. ” The man sighed treating him like the lost child that he is, and placed a hand covered with drying blood on the small of Aris back leading him away. ”Let me take you home, ok? ”

It was as if Ari had a choice in that. ”Ok. ”

And thats how Ari found himself shivering in his bathtub wondering if that encounter was real. The clothes that were thrown all over his bathrooms floor were a proof of the reality of it, but he still couldn believe it as he slowly touched his cheek where his tear was wiped away.

It was surreal.

He walked away alive and he didn know how to feel about it all. He wasn going to tell anyone of this. He wasn going to tell anyone about anything.

Because, really, would it change anything?