Chapter 9 : N.Y.C

Curling up in a dark small space hearing a loud crashing sound standing up seeing darkness. Hearing the sound again bursting through the darkness seeing an odd man that I've never seen before the color around him vibrant white and blurry. I couldn't focus. Crouching down hearing his heartbeat trying to jump out his body.

His voice shaking "Hey now, lookie here I got some delicious meat" he tangled a lump of meat in my face with a nervous hand.

I drooled wanting to tear the meat from his hand and along with his body but being displeased by the meat on his body.

The illuminating figure dropping the meat and gently sliding it with his smelly boots pouncing attacking the meat and the paper licking my paws. He came closer peering up growling at him putting my paws over my food protecting it. The human man backing up slowly keeping eyes on me sitting on the floor pressing his hands on his chest.

"I'm your friend Clyde,".

his name sound familiar tilting my head smelling the air. This man didn't smell like an elf but he didn't smell human, standing up quickly showing my teeth. Then he sat down quickly whistling a tune But still his heart beating about to pass out. Fleeing to the bathroom hearing a thump in the floor pecking out the man on the floor sleeping with an eased heart rate walking toward him smelling him and licking his face. Heading back to the bathroom growing dizzy I couldn't hold my weight on my paws howling in pain as my bones began to shatter and grow multiple times. My paws turning to feet and hands. Groaning in pain Sinking my nails into my hands while my lower half adjusted and I was left with a hairless body and naked and sweaty on the cold tile floor.

Blinking a few times all blurry seeing the green tile floor and dusty brown boots having no energy left in my body shaking as I began picking myself up seeing the cowboy holding a sheet in his arms peering down at my body.

Shrieking with wide eyes hiding my bare body" I'm naked!" I said all he did was stare snatching the sheet.

"Get the hell out !" His blue eyes widen covering his eyes crashing with the closed bathroom door quickly opening it and heading out.

Covering my body sitting for a second feeling exposed standing up looking at my human flesh not being able to know what happened did he do this?

"What happened?" I said.

"No idea I swear when I went to get something to quench my hunger and thirst you were on the bathroom floor sleepin," He said through the bathroom door.

Not speaking back seeing my dress on the bathroom floor putting it on as I heard the man with boots walking out the door, putting on the smelly old dress with no undergarments feeling more exposed walking out, putting my hand over my face as the sun burning my sensitive eyes. Turning the corner seeing The man with messy blonde hair with a hat almost falling off as he devoured white powder circles.

Making eye contact with me as if he got caught"What I eat when I'm stressed," talking as a white cloud puffing out.

Feeling a tugging sensation around my neck choking me until I was forced together with blue eyes and a mouth filled with white clouds "Want one ?" Smiling as few crumbs falling on us with a disgusting look on my face looking down at our necklaces seeing three crosses a lion and shields.

Shaking my head at this dumb compass" What does this mean? do we have to fight a lion ?".

Licking his finger cleaning it off with his vest"You haven't been in the real world for a while ".

Being banished could leave you clueless, in the human world two years in our world is decades maybe more in," I've been busy and this world wouldn't even exist our people came first .be grateful we didn't overtake it," tightening my jaw in anger pulling our necklace away walking to find new clothes.

"How long have you been in your world ?" He began walking down a concrete gray floor with me fixing his hat, jacket, and belt.

Walking faster feeling the grooves and bumps on my feet"This isn't a time to get to know each other," Having one thing in my mind.

"when is ?" He grew disappointed.

"Never, "walking getting weird stares

"What they have never seen a woman in a dress? ," Turning around every time hearing whispers everywhere I went.

He began scratching his clean shaved cheek," mmm pardon my accusation but they ought to think you're a whore," he began walking faster not knowing if that was an insult or a compliment.

Turning to me helping me understand and seeing his face and lips slowly explaining, "A woman who pays for lovemaking for living,".

slapping him across the face" I've been called many things, I let it go but a whore I am not that !" As the foot traffic moving even faster.

Holding his face "I didn't say you were a whore,".

Ready to hit him again" Do not put me and whore in the same sentence or I will slap you so hard that you wish you never came with me," My chest rising and falling breathing hard in anger.

"Apologies, Dollface," he said rubbing his red cheek.

Still angry wanting to change out of this dress" Now where the hell are we supposed to go," Covering my body the best I could.

"it's a college here but let's stop here we need new clothes because I do have body odor look smell me," As he rose his armpits toward me nudging him away.

"No, I can smell you from here," going inside the thrift store keeping away from the store owner find undergarments and a blue dress as Clyde found some deodorant to keep in fresh and new clothes that looked the same heading into the back of the store sneakily as I began changing behind the dumpster.

The decent smelling cowboy watching guard "When did the marking on your back show up?".

Putting on my underwear peeking if anyone was there "It was already there," putting on my bra.

Still watching as he never turned around to catch a peek"Wouldn't the doctors think that was weird that a baby had a mark on her back?" as he began to keep asking questions.

Putting on my blue dress squinting my eyes feeling curious about him now"It's invisible to the human eye. How can you see it? No human could walk in our gates and live to tell the tall so how did you do it?"

he shrugged opening his mouth again putting on black flat shoes" Then how did you become a protector if both your parents were human?"

squinting he knows more than he's leading on getting up from behind him a knife on his throat"You know too much from just one day in our world, so tell me to now or your blood spills all over this floor" pressing closer to his pulse.

Gulping "I know people, people that belong in your world that never got found but I found them," he said with his hands up.

"then your not a human. what are you," I said threatening him with the sharp blade.

"tell me your name and ill tell you. A secret for a secret," as I let him go still pointing the knife at him.

"I'm not giving my name to a liar, "Putting my blade away tucking it in my strap wrapping around my waist pulling my dress down.

"Listen here my mama did not raise a liar alright I found an object that wasn't from my world. I began my journey an seein a few things that no one else did stumbling on your world and those pointy ear fellas grabbed me and took me to you and that dying man," he didn't explain, much but enough to understand.

"very vaguely explantation," being quiet puttings looking at Clyde looking clean and neat as we began walking

"Marcella," I said to him watching his blue eyes shining.

Smiling brightly"nice to meet you, Marcella," tipping his hat to me