Initiation (long)

Date: 12/15/2016

It started out with me and my friends at my house. We were all drinking outside, somehow the outside transformed into my apartment complex. All of us sitting on the curb playing music and making mixed drinks, kind of like a little party. One of those friends including Ben. We were sitting next to each other, he handed me a ginger ale, and took out a tiny clear bottle. He told me to put this in my red cup filled with ginger ale. Without hesitation I did, and drank straight whatever was left in the bottle. As soon as I did that, I notice cops walking around my complex, I swore "well shit under my breath", and put my drink down and got up to go inside. Ben followed. Some of my friends were already inside, and a blonde, female cop in a denim uniform with a huge yellow badge on her left arm sleeve came in shortly afterward. I thought we were going to get in trouble for drinking, instead, she asked us if we've seen a man walking around who was thought to be killing people. We said no, I looked around at all my obviously drunk friends who were slumped on the couches and floor. She asked again and I became more nervous, but repeated the answer. She left, and I'm not sure why, but after, every now and then Ben and I would try to sneak a kiss while Mike was in the room. He would do things like pretend to tell me a secret and we would kiss a few times, or he would try to tease and wrestle with me and he'd peck me on the lips. I knew it was wrong because I'm dating Mike but I didn't care, I was so attracted to him. Well suddenly, we're all getting ready to go out to eat at this fancy dinner. I now have a giant red tattoo of an octopus on the right side of my body from my waist up to my shoulder. I'm wearing a little black dress, hoping my hair will cover the tattoo, but it won't. You can still see s little bit of it peaking out on my shoulder as I walk by the windowed walls of the buildings. I worry about what my family will say. My entire family is there, including my friends. As my friends and I are walking, Ben and Mike stop up ahead and disappear in the crowd. I keep walking, thinking that they'll just be at the restaurant when I get there. I get to the restaurant, a huge building either the entire store front covered in windows. I walk in and the only two open seats are between aunt Jayne, and Uncle Rodger. I walk over and pick the one next to Aunt Jayne, so Mike can sit next to Uncle Rodger, and decide that Ben will just have to sit at an extra seat at the end of the table. Before I sit down, I notice that they're still not there. So I leave the restaurant and go a few doors down. I can see in from out side of another place, and decide to check inside to see if Ben and Mike are there. I walk in, and look around, nothing. I look around the corner in high hopes that they'll be there. But they're not. I walk back outside. Somehow I'm back at my apartment, Shelby's old apartment to be exact. I guess there's a murderer in our complex because we're all locked in their old apartment watching from outside. Suddenly I hear rumors about where Mike and Ben might be. I'm in this warehouse, or store. I'm not really sure what. But I run outside and see this cage like wagon moving towards a cave. I chase after it, it comes to a stop in front of this giant cave, it has a giant fire pit in front of it. A man gets out, and nails two holes in his wrist. Something tells me something dangerous is inside that cave, as when the man enters there's an odd scream. I turn my attention back to the wagon, which has this column like structures to it. Every other one holds a person, all of them have their faces covered by a burlap bag over their heads, their hands and behind them and they all look dirty and like they've been beaten. I'm not sure what made me stop in front of a certain person. But I did, something was screaming at me that it was Mike. I rip the bag off of his head, the screams of the other man still echoing behind us near the cave. The look on Mikes face is just empty. I ask him what's going on and he refuses to reply. I tell him he doesn't have to do this, he chuckles, in a very dark way, and tells me I did this to him and it's my fault. I start screaming at him, asking him where Ben is. He just laughs and tells me good luck, and that the only clue is Bens few toys he left behind. Somehow Mike is untied from the ropes, and he jumps down from the wagon. My heart is broken, he's never acted this way towards me before. He walks towards a man that has nails in his hand. I turn and jump over a small grassy ledge and run, before I can see or hear what's about to happen. I make it back to the school. I start to panic, I don't know why but I feel as if finding Ben is on a time limit. I'm inside of this locker room type area, on one wall are bathroom stalls, on the other are locker type drawers. I open the first one, not knowing what's in them. I see toys. My heart starts racing, I become panicked. Everyone in the room looks as I do, as if they're looking for the same reason. I start opening drawer after drawer, I don't know how, but everyone I open I know is just wrong. I start to get angry. Suddenly someone screams from out in the hall, these two nerdy looking boys spear, they seem to be vampires. Everyone in the room starts screaming and running away. I turn around and hold my finger up and yell at them, "I can tell you right now that is not a good idea. I will have a fucking fit if you try to do anything.". They stopped, and looked very startled. I turn back and continue sorting, but Bens toys are not here. I turn and run out into the hall. The vampire boys are there. One of them is blonde, the other dark haired. Both extremely tall, lanky and pale. They tell me that nobodies ever spoken to them like that before, and they want to help. The tall blonde one almost faints, and claims he hasn't eaten in a while. I roll my eyes and say "finnne", moving closer to him and moving my hair from my neck facing it towards him. He looks shocked, and says, "wow I've never had this happen before!", I tell him to just shut up and do it before I change my mind, but that he better stop when I tell him to. He wraps his arms around me and I close my eyes. I'm not sure how, but I can see the teeth piercing my neck from the outside, like a black bag being punctured. At first is stings, but it quickly goes numb. After about three seconds, I start to feel weak, my legs hurt and I feel nauseous, I tell him to stop. I open my eyes and he's wiping blood off of his mouth. Somehow there's s girl next to me, the feeling in my chest tells me she's been with me the entire time. She advises we go into the room next to us. So we do. We're somehow now back at what I presume to be my apartment. The dark hallway is gone, the vampires are gone. It's just me and this girl. On the table I see toys, and my phone. I run over. The toys aren't Bens. I grab my phone, and for some reason text Mike asking where he's at and if he's okay. I get no response. I move to look out of the window, I see my car parked in the now snowy parking lot. On top of it is a bag of groceries. For some reason I hit my automatic start. It's dark in my apartment, a blueish tone covers everything. I start panicking because Mike won't text me back, and Ben is still missing. Suddenly we're driving. It's bright as all hell, and snowy out. We're driving through a parking lot of what I think is a car wash. I remember the bag on my room so the girl slams on the breaks. My phone dings, and mike texted me back. He's laughing, saying he's okay and that he and Ben were just playing video games. I get extremely angry, telling him I had texted and called him freaking out because I couldn't find either of them. I'm so angry that I freaked out as I did and was so panicked when they were just playing video games.