Gaius True Form

While holding onto that thought, I could not help myself but burst out my laughter. I mean, who could not be? Dad is telling me something unimaginable. Something that can only be seen on TV or any kind of streaming app.

Do you know what makes him even look more ridiculous? Dad, I believe, is not the kind of man who loves watching movies and series of those kinds of stories.

He is more particularly a business-minded type of person who loves and praises money, and of course, there is my mom and me. Other than that, nada.

"Don't give me that kind of look, Cece." dad insisted. "that is why you have to stay away from him. Because if I saw that man even ten meters away from you, regardless of what approach first, I'm gonna rip his bones and pull his heart. And you know who I am when I got furious. Do you understand?"

Dad indeed was the worst among other fathers that I know of. He may be protective of me and mom but it was too much to the point that he once killed a middle-aged man in front of my eyes.

And it was my fault he got killed because I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth. I am a spoiled brat who loves to make the day a night. The middle-aged man tried to hit on me. When the news reaches dad's attention, he immediately searched for the man and cut off his head in front of me.

Parties everywhere. Wear short skirts are where my life can be found with. If I incorporated my craziness with sex and drugs, my parents could have called me a slut.

But, no. I don't do either of those. I only love to party with my friends, believing I could bump into my knight in shining armor, lock our eyes together, and then kiss. That kind of thought always gives me hope.

Unfortunately, until now, no one has managed to beat my heart like shit. Well. There is one already. But dad is going to kill him when he gets closer to me even ten meters apart.

I did not even know him well. Not even ask for his digits. Not even knows where he lives, how old is he, and if he is studying or working and where.

My brain has a million questions about him, but, dah. Someone was already against the possibility that Gaius and I can be friends. Just friends.

"Fine," could not help my brows from getting bent upward. "but in exchange for that, would that be okay when if I date someone soon?"

I am already eighteen yet I did not experience being seen in public holding hands with my boyfriend. The worst part is that I am the only one among my friends who remains and die a virgin.

Most of them have sex with their partners not just once but a few times already. And yet here is mine, dormant and becoming rusty and dusty. My thought could not wait to welcome and say "hi" to someone's stick.

"Fine," dad finally swallowed his pride. "But, just dates. No kisses and holding hands in public. Curfew at eight..."

"Dad, I'm not a kid anymore. Ten will do." I insisted.

"Fine," dad said. "apart from that, no cigarettes, alcohol, and most of all drugs and sex. Do we have a deal?"

Those things are already given. He doesn't have to lecture me about the distinction between good and bad. As I said, I am not a kid anymore.

Leaving no choice, I nodded to dad, not because I agreed to his terms and conditions, but because I can manage things on my own.

As long as I don't do drugs and cigarettes, he will never know that my body was already intoxicated with alcohol and I have my ways for him not to notice it.

Sex? Dah, that is already part of the plan since he already granted me the go signal to have a boyfriend. How would he knows if I have sex with someone when we do that without him as our witness?

In the middle of our journey to the city hall, I could see from the distance the club where Gaius and I first met. It was the same day that my lips were no longer virgin.

While staring at the club, dad suddenly stepped foot onto the brake which resulted in me almost being thrown out of the car. Good thing dad managed to hold my head before it could reach the glass window.

After that, a boisterous thudding sound echoes in my ears. Then, I opened my with a few drops of blood coming out of my body and so is dads.

"Are you all right, honey?" he asks me in a faint tone.

"I'm fine, dad, but are you?" I gulp a bulk of water down to my throat when I could see pieces of broken glass stabbed into dad's face, arms, and shoulders. He bleeds a lot.

"Stay in the car," he said. "and don't get out no matter what, okay? I already called backups." then, he kicked the door open and hopped out afterward.

The entire street was completely dark. If not because of the rays of light coming from the ten-wheeler truck that hit us, I could have had no idea about how wrecked dad's car is.

Out of curiosity, I unfastened my seatbelt and take a look at dad in the side mirror when he simply stood there while studying the road as though he is waiting or searching for someone.

To my surprise, the image that I saw from the side mirror suddenly changed. From dad's human form, he turned into a huge gray fur doglike monster. His eyes glowed. And it was completely terrifying.

"Dad?" I whisper before I cover my mouth with my bare hands in utter surprise and confusion. The tears in my eyes began flooding my cheeks as I remove my eyes from the side mirror.

Then, the doglike monster disappears from the car in a blink of an eye. From the distance, growls, whimpers, and moans are the only sounds that I could.

Because of my extreme worries and fears, to the point that I don't know what to do and what is certainly going on, I hopped out of the car and run as fast as I can.

The first nearby place was the club. It was already night so I expected I could seek help from the club's security guards and bouncers.

Then I screamed when someone suddenly pulled my body by force. I kicked it, whatever it is. But I found four glowing eyes in front of me.

When their bodies were exposed to the rays of the truck's lights, the terror began hunting me when the two were terrifying doglike monsters just like my dad. The only difference is that the color of their eyes was blue but my dad has reddish-brown.

"Feel the pain now, Miss Beautiful?" one of them asked which startled me. A doglike monster that talks. "Good thing you don't have your daddy dear with you."

"Stay away from me!" I screamed continuously while shooing them away using the sling of my handbag. Then I realized that my right leg is bleeding.

"Fresh blood." says the doglike monster before he enlarged his mouth and took out his lengthy and pointed tongue. "I'm so excited to see more of your blood." he then laughed maniacally.

Before they could hurt me again, I force my right leg to stand along with my left and run as fast as I can. I continued screaming until I reach the club.

I knocked on the door a few times. There have to be two security guards standing in front of the door to keep an eye on the outside.

When I lifted my gaze to the small plaque, it says the club is temporarily closed. So, I cried out loud before I dropped my butt on the ground and rested my back on the surface of the door.

The blood on my right leg was all over the ground.

"Didn't you hear about the news?" asks one of the doglike monsters as soon as they appeared in front of me. "This club was closed in the meantime because the owner has to kill a gorgeous woman in front of him."

"What?" cold air was ejected from my mouth.