Beautiful Soul Chapter Nineteen

Beautiful Soul Chapter Nineteen

“You’re finally awake!” Antoinette said brightly when Erik opened his eyes.

He sat up and stretched, causing the quilt to fall to his lap. “How long was I asleep?” he asked, stifling a yawn.

They didn’t have a clock so she had to guess. “Mmm, about half an hour,” she responded.

He looked up at the sun. “We can still travel for another two or so hours,” he said getting up and putting on his clothes.

Antoinette went to the bag and took out her brush. “Here,” she said pulling him to sit on a boulder next to the water. She sat behind him. “Let me brush out your hair and remove the grass from it.” He didn’t protest and she proceeded.

She loved his hair not because it was full-bodied or thick; it was actually rather thin and hanging limply to his shoulders. The reason she loved his hair was because it was incredibly soft; soft as baby’s hair. She never tired of running her fingers through it.

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At dusk they were walking along the same river. They could see the blazing sunset through the trees ahead of them.

“God, it’s beautiful,” Antoinette said when she saw it.

Erik nodded. She leaned up and captured his lips with her own.

It was a sweet kiss, but it was interrupted.

“Ew! You’re kissing!” a child’s voice said in disgust. The voice came from behind Erik.

The two broke apart and looked at the child in surprise. It was a little girl in a yellow sundress.

Upon seeing Erik’s face the girl’s eyes widened and she screamed in horror before running in the opposite direction.

“She won’t be back…” Erik said softly. “I scare even children…We should move on.”

Antoinette didn’t know how to respond to his comment, so she just nodded and picked up the bag. However, before they could go anywhere, the little girl’s voice was heard again.

“See, Daddy? There is is!”

Erik and Antoinette spun around to see the girl standing with several men with rifles.

“Oh my god!” a man cried out in horror. “It’s a corpse!”

“How is it standing?” another gasped. “It’s-“

“It’s a demon!”

Erik and Antoinette were too horrified to do anything but stand there. Suddenly a bullet whizzed past their heads, bringing them out of their horror.

“Run!” Erik yelled, shoving Antoinette ahead of him.

“What about the girl?” they heard one of the men ask.

“She was kissing it!” the little girl said.

“Kill them both!”

Antoinette looked back at Erik as she ran through the trees. She knew he could run faster then he was, so why wasn’t he?

“Don’t look back, just run!” he yelled at her.

“Where are we going?”

“I don’t know!”

Another shot whizzed past, closer than before. Antoinette screamed as her foot caught a root and she fell. Immediately Erik pulled her up and they took off running again. He pushed her in front once again.

Another shot was fired and Erik cried out in pain.

TBC…