He jumped out of bed for the fifth time that week. He had
had the same dream again, He would be sitting in a bar and see a
beautiful woman. He would walk over to her and say "Hi. My name
is Todd." Slowly she would turn around to face him. "Hi," she
would say as she smiled. She had eyes like a cat and when she
smiled fangs showed. Like always she stood up and reached over to
bite Todd. As soon as her fangs hit his neck he always woke up.
"What could this all mean?" he wondered as he got out of
bed. He looked over at the clock. "7:00. I've got to get to work
in another hour," he thought as he wandered off to shower.
***
"Hey man you want to go out tonight? I hear that new night
club is supposed to be really cool," Todd's co-worked Eddie said
him.
Todd thought for a minute before he answered. "Sure why not.
Can't think of anything better to do tonight."
"Great. So I'll pick you up at about 11?"
"Sounds good," Todd said to Eddie and then he thought to himself
"Maybe I can grab a couple hours of sleep before then."
***
Todd woke up having had that same dream again. He glanced
over at the clock. "Todd's going to be here soon and I'm not even
ready," he thought. Quickly grabbing some clothes he went and had
a shower hoping that it would wake up him. He had just finished
buttoning his shirt when the doorbell rang. Todd went over and
answered the door.
"Hey you ready yet?" Eddie asked him as soon as the door was
open.
"Yeah. Just let me go grab my wallet," Todd replied right before
he went to go find his wallet.
About 15 minutes later they were pulling into the parking
lot of the club.
"Wow look at all the cool women here," Eddie said as soon as they
walked into the club, "See ya later. I'm going to go grab a few
before they're all taken." Eddie grinned at Todd and left Todd
standing there alone. "Why does this all seem so familiar?" Todd
wondered to himself as he walked over to the bar and got a beer.
He looked around scanning the room for just the right girl
to go pick up. Just as he was about to give up on finding just
the right one, he saw her. She has waist length brown hair and
she was alone. "Perfect!" he thought as he walked over to her.
He tapped her on the shoulder. "Hi my name is Todd," he said
to her.
She turned around and smiled at him. There was something
different about her. "You!" he exclaimed, "You're the one from my
dreams!"
He wanted to leave but somehow he just couldn't bring
himself to move. It was almost as if her cat eyes were
hypnotising him, making him loose control of his body.
"Dream? What dream?" she asked him as she stood up, still looking
into his eyes.
"Just back off. Leave me alone," Todd said to her.
"Bet you won't be saying that in a minute," she said. Just as she
was about to bite Todd someone leaped at him and knocked him out
of the way.
The girl who knocked him down helped him back up and started
dragging him away. "Come on we've gotta get you out of here."
When they were outside and safe Todd said "Who are you? Why
did you help me?"
"I'm Kayla and well, I just couldn't let her kill another
innocent person. I'm the one that has been sending you those
dream. I hoped maybe they would serve as a warning," she replied.
"How did you know she was going to kill me?" Todd asked her
still not sure if he should believe her or not.
"She knew you were coming in here tonight. She told me that you
would be the perfect victim." Kayla replied.
"What are you guys? Some sort of psychic weirdos?"
"Well you know I would prefer to just be called supernatural. But
listen in exchange for me saving your life I need you to do
something for me."
"What is it? I'll do anything."
"Kill her. Take this knife and kill her."
"What? Why do you want me to kill her?"
"Do you really think she would give up her perfect victim this
easily? Never has she lost a victim. You just have to lure her
out of the club and stab her. Do it for your life, for my life,
for everyone else who you will be saving."
Todd sighed. What choice did he have? He didn't want to die. "All
right," he told her as he took the knife away from her and hid it
in his clothing.
He walked back into the club and scanned the place looking
for her. She was still standing where he left her.
"Hey I'm sorry about what just happened. I think she might of
been a little crazy or something and well that dream thing, you
honestly did look like someone from one of my dreams. But hey
that's silly right? How could you be that person," he said as he
got over to her.
"Don't worry about it," she told him, "So tell me about this
dream you've been having."
"Why don't we go somewhere a little quieter to talk about it?
It's rather loud in here."
"Sure," she said as she stood up getting ready to leave.
They walked out of the club together and Todd waited until they
were far enough away that no one would see them.
"Hey come here. I've got something for you," he told her.
She walked over to him and asked, "What is it?"
Quickly without her noticing he took out the knife that
Kayla gave him. He slipped his arms around her waist and said
"This," just as he stabbed her in the back.
He watched her body fall down to the pavement and then went
over and checked her pulse.
"Is she dead?" Kayla asked him as she stepped out of the shadows.
"Yeah. Come on lets get this body out of here before someone sees
us" he said to Kayla.
"Ok. My car is just over here. Help me get her body into it."
They got her body into the car and then they drove to the
bridge and threw her body over the edge.
"Thank you," Kayla said to Todd, "I don't know how to repay you
for this."
"Don't worry about it. You said it was for my life right? Come
on. Lets head back to the club."
***
Her eyes popped open as she swam to the surface. She would
get her revenge someday when they were least expecting it.