Chapter 6 - In My Own Head (part 2)

"I'll trade you" the sudden sound of his voice made my blood run cold I spun around to see him standing behind me.

'Lucis" I said breathlessly holding the book to my chest. He frowned but it was a split second before he smiled widely

"you are quite the jumpy one aren't you," he said towards the back of him like he was looking out for someone.

"just didn't expect you to be here, not everyone I know gets second-hand books or would be found dead in this dusty little place"

"I got a call about this coming in," he said holding up the second copy of my book, the book in his hand looked well looked after compared to the one in my hand. I hugged the book closer to my chest. Lucis cocked his head to the side and gave a small chuckle. "wouldn't have pegged you as demonology buff" he said finally, I couldn't do anything but stand there all wide-eyed, I seemed to have forgotten how to use or form words. He lifted a brow and gave a small sigh, "uh well, I'll see you around then" he said as he started to walk past me

"sure" I finally said softly, "um, Lucis?" he turned around which made me swallow hard, I had no idea what it was about this man but he made me so uneasy "don't believe what they say about me in that book," I said jokingly "I swear that the story was miscommunicated" he gave a small smile

"I won't if you don't," he said winking and walking away. I was left standing dumbfounded at his response.

I sat on my bed reading through the names and stories of the different demons that were documented throughout history. I couldn't help but try to find out what Lucis had meant about not believing the book about him but I couldn't find his name among the names that were listed. I started to think that I was missing pages from the book but when I backtracked they were all counted for by the number in the left-hand bottom corner of pages. Reading on and trying to forget about his comment I soon came to a Demon that was fairly new to me, Vine, the name seemed to spring out at me.

The demon Vine is a fallen angel and the 45th of the 72 spirits of Solomon, in hell Vine is a king and Earl. He appears as either a monster or as a lion seated on the back of a black horse holding a viper. When commanded he assumes human form. Vine discerns hidden things, reveals witches, and knows the past, present, and future.

I looked up from the book, towards the window thinking I had seen a shadow, I got up slowly and walked to the window looking out of it, it was windy and stormy so the shadows from the trees must have been playing tricks with my eyes. I took a deep breath and walked back to my bed picking up the book again. When something fell out from the pages. At first, I had sworn at myself for having kept the badly damaged book thinking the pages were now starting to fall out until I looked at the small round silver disk that was laying on my bed. I picked it up carefully. The design on it was faded but you could just make out a name on the disk

Master Maker

Weird name, I turned the disk this way and that trying to find out what the hell this thing was. On another thought, where the hell this thing came from? Had it been in the book this whole time? I put the disk down on my desk not sure what else to do with it, and when back to reading.

I was finding it hard to concentrate though. I kept looking over at the disk-like I was expecting it move or something.

Ugh this is ridiculous

I got up snatching up the disk and headed over to my desk where my lap sat, I opened the disk player and put the damn thing in. and waited…

And waited.

And waited….

Nothing, absolutely nothing happened.

Ugh what a waste of time

I closed the laptop and went back to the bed, feeling frustrated I sat down with more force than I intended, everything went flying off. Ugh!! I got up again to retrieve my book and phone that seemed to have flown to the other side of the damn room. As picked up my phone I notice that there was a message

Hey. Hope you don't mind.

Got your number from a friend.

Do you drink coffee?

Would you be interested in getting it?

What the hell… there wasn't a name and I didn't recognize the number, I texted back asking who it was. It felt like ages before got a reply

The new coffee place in town.

At 8 am tomorrow.

I stared at the screen for a while trying to make my brain make sense of what the fuck was going on. I switched off the screen and put the phone on top of the nightstand. No way in hell was I going to meet some creep and not know who the fuck or what they the hell they wanted.

I woke up to the sound of a dog barking, it was still dark out. I looked at the time on my phone 03:30, I turned over hoping to get back to sleep when a light caught my eye, I sat up to find that my laptop was open with the words Master Maker across it. I got up and walked to it, the screen seemed to be frozen it wasn't responding to anything, I opened the disk reader and took out the disk, having half a mind to fling it across the room to maybe hit a wall, but ended up just placing it down on the desk. I shut down the laptop and closed it up again, cursing any damn ghosts that were touching my things, before getting back into bed and going back to sleep