Midnight

Tif was not one for being up late but it was her birthday in just a few short hours and this evening she felt energized, like she could go all night. Someone had handed her a drink and she downed it like it was water and asked for another. That drink was gone in to swallows. In the tiny dorm room Tif had never felt so alive her whole body felt electrified and buzzing. She closed her eyes and swayed to the music playing. Mary put a hand on her shoulder “Tif are you ok?” She asked concern crossing her face her brows knotted together.

“Yeah I’m great what artist is this music I’m loving it.”

“What music?”

“What music? The music you have playing this jazzy drumming stuff.”

Mary placed her other hand on Tif and gave her a slight shake making her open her eyes. “Tif I don’t hear any music, and my god you are burning up!”

Tif gave a huffing scoff and pulls herself free of Mary’s grip. “Burning up? I feel fine it’s probably all the damn cold outside making me feel warmer than I am. “ Tif said looking around the small room everyone had stopped talking and were just staring at her. “What’s wrong with everyone?” Tif asked them. As she looked at her friends she could see the sweat beading on her friend Mollys forehead, without thinking Tif had reached out and didn’t even feel herself move but suddenly was standing in front of her touching her friends face running her fingers along Mollys jaw. “Holly shit Tif! I didn’t even see you move your feet”

“What?”

“You moved so fast I blinked and you were in front of me. Mary is right I can feel the heat coming off of you.” Molly said taking Tif’s hand in her own the heat of her body over whelming.

Tif took a step back looking at the small crowd of people suddenly feeling dizzy, she put a hand on her forehead, only then did she feel the heat coming off of her body. She was burning up. She stopped the music she was hearing was not coming from the room she was standing in. She tilted her head slightly it was outside and at least a block away. “I.. I think I need… need to go lay down.” She said backing to the door. There was a thumping sound in her ears the was speeding up. More then one thumping sound, she looked at her friends and realized she could hear their hearts beating. She reached behind her feeling for the door then the knob. “Do you need me to come with you?” Mary asked, Jillian nodding her head her eye brows knotted together in worry.

“NO!” Tif said a little more harshly then she intended giving her friends a weak smile she shook her head. “I just don’t feel good and need to go lay down.” She quickly slipped out the door and started to walk half run down the hall to the elevator. Her body felt like it was on fire. Her muscles twitches and pulsed as if something under her skin was trying to claw its way out. She must be having some kind of reaction, the showers she needed to cool her body down. Without even going to her room first to get her bath things she ran down the corridor of her own floor to the shower rooms. She flung the door open to the first shower stripping before the door was even fully closed she turn the cold water tap on full and stepped into the stream of water. The water ice cold ran down her back along her small round butt, down her shoulders onto her chest and between her breasts. The water seemed to help for a moment, until the searing pain shot down her spine, sending her to her knees. She screamed in fear and pain. Her long red hair coming around her face and down her back like a vail. She heard her bones start to crack, looking down at her hand she felt something just under the skin moving as a claw broke through the tip of her finger. She was in so much shock she didn’t even have a the sounds to scream now.

Suddenly the bathroom door opened and a pair of strong arms were reaching for her picking up her wet burning hot naked body. “She’s naked” she could hear a low voice from behind the body that was pulling her in close. The pain shooting through her making her stiffen in the arms that held her. “We don’t have time to worry about that.” Said the voice attached to the arms. To her the male voice said softly almost a whisper. “You need to relax or this is going to be so much worse.” She closed her eyes burying her head in the man’s shoulder, only then did she smell it. That deep woodsy sent. “What’s happening to… to me?” She gasped in pain. The arms around her tightened slightly. “You don’t know?” He asked she could only shake her head no. She felt a cold blast of air rush over her body, they were outside. She almost signed in relief as she felt her body cool slightly, it was only a moment’s relief how ever as the pain and the sound a crunching bones over whelmed her.