Eventually, after the hesitation but still very petrified, I picked up the phone, although for me the situation seemed to be like burning at the stake. Suddenly, I heard: ‘I WANT YOUR BLOOD! NOW!’ – I was about to drop the receiver when the voice hemmed: ‘Hi, honey!’. It was a load off my heart… James, my boyfriend, invited me to his place, as he said, ‘just because he was pining for me’. Of course, he gave me a lift, since his house was about 20 minutes away by car. However, while driving, James wasn’t himself. His pupils were narrowing down and then broadening, looking like coal… Something was in the air, something very odd and fishy. Actually, I realized I didn’t want to go at all! In fact, I was scared to death. The guy who was sitting next to me in that car wasn’t my James… In fact,
I smelled a rat and, what’s more, bore him a grudge. The best thing I could do was to be brave and see for myself what would be going on at James’ place.
When we reached our destination, he opened me the door with a great dose of bliss. ‘Weird’ I thought. The room was topsy-turvy: a lot of people sleeping on the floor, empty beer bottles, the odour of marijuana wafting in the air and a table with joints totally burnt-out. Now, I knew it. I knew the reason of James’ behaviour… of him bubbling with artificial joy. That was something totally different from the emotions I had experienced a few hours ago at my home. At that moment, I just wanted the world to come to an end, at once, in one second. As James lit up the joint, I couldn’t stand the tension tearing myself inside. I unexpectedly ran out with the feeling of both grief and anxiety, crying and sobbing on the way home.
After that terrifying incident, I never met James anymore. Why? Well, I heard he had
a serious accident, obviously due to his junkie-man-adventures. Now, I really don’t care about that, I even don’t want to know what happened. I’d like to live as usual, as a normal girl aiming at felicity. Tomorrow I’m moving to Tokyo with my parents, as they say, ‘to begin
a new chapter of life’. Therefore, the success? We’ll see…
