Chapter #1

Coffin kissers.

Muggy.... that word. Why is that word so important? I tried , as hard a s half asleep person can, to remember the word Muggy. Muggy.... my mind.. is my mind muggy? Now why is that?

Last night is...... muggy? Why? Everything is just..... muggy.

Images came to me slowly. A girl.... with long black hair.... wait thats me. I coffin.... it wasn't closed. Me.... what am i doing? There's a boy in it.... he's handsome. Why.... what am i doing? My head... why am i lowering my head? Did..... did i kiss that boy? Why am i screaming?! A scream!? That wasn't me screaming? Was it?!

I sat bolt upright in my bed. What the hell happened last night? Either something went really wrong last night or I've got a serious hang over.

"Mom!" i yelled out.

"yes kid?" my mom yelled back.

"Did i come home drunk last night?"

"No? I had to pick you up at the E.R."

"What! Why?" i panicked. Those screams, had something gone wrong? The door opened and in came my mother.

"My word child, i can only imagine what hell you 5 got into last night. You all landed yourselfs in the E.R., well Stella was half expected but not the rest of you. Valrian was the only one who left slightly unharmed. I mean-" I cut her off.

"What the hell are you talking about" i couldn't believe it.

"Holy shit kid, isn't it obvious you 5 got attacked last night." My mother flipped her jet black hair over her lace adorned shoulders and pourpously tore the courtains back. I cringed in pain as the light hit me.

My mother kept her back turned to me. Her pale face, smoky eyes and blood red lips reflected in the window. They all reflected my worst thoughts.

"Yes Layla, they are just as real as us, you all had your gaurds down, not to mention you were all either drunk or getting there. The coffin closer's got there first, and you 5 got your asses kicked."

I almost couldn't think straight. Like i'd been thinking straight at all, maybe i was hung over.

"Mom.... i can't remember what happened." I admitted meakly. I really didn't want to think about the previous night. I just wanted the throbing in my head and hip to stop.

"Think, surrender to your mind, It'll come to you." She said walking out the door.

Last night? Val.....? Valrians 17th birthday! We all wanted to celbrate. But..... Malice.... Malice? Malice had a really important tournament that night. The Arena!

That loud, crowded, rowdy arena. Malice skating around the rink punching the crap out of people. She did something...... oh thats right she gave a girl a concusion. There were a group of people..... hipsters? They were.... strange... not regulars.

A huge party? Maybe a rave? All for Valrian. A hug cake, so many candles..... we all sang to her. We danced and drank and laughed.... a lot. There was a guy..... with Val.... Avalon i think? They seemed to really like each other. But Valrians phone went off?

The phone went off? A text...? The text...... a job..... at the cementary. Thats where we went.

How we got there.... i can't remember. I do remember laughing hystericly as we entered the gates. Malice's blond hair flying wildly as downed a bottle of whiskey. Malice had been drunk. She had been drunk? She laughed until she fell still holding the bottle. Ai had been tipsy i think? She tripped over the root of a tree and crawled to a coffin. She only stared at it, why was that? Stella, being Stella walked off in one direction witha bottle of vodka. Val...... Valrian sat on a tomb stone watching us, downing a bottle of beer as well. Valrian was drunk.... no wonder she had left unharmed.

Me what had i done? There were coffins..... they were all opened. One caught my eye. There was guy in it, he was handsome. I leaned down to kiss him. I thought he was dead.... but.... he was warm? He moved, pushed me away screaming. I laughed at him, my red lipstike was smeared across his lips and cheeks. He screamed at us to run. We all laughed.

Ai got up and prepared to kiss the coffin in front of her. Something hit her hard in the back of the neck. She yelped in pain and fell forward, crashing into the coffin.

stella screamed out. I looked in the direction of her scream only to see her running towards us, tripping over the roots of trees. Desperate she smashed the bottle of vodka against a tomb and swung it back into thin air.

She must have hit something because we heard a nosie. A doll like girl with long blond curls came out of the dark still standing behind her.

"Stella behind you!" screamed Valrian.

Stella started to turn around when the girl kicked her from behind. The girl had such a slow, stiff manor of moving. The force of the kick however sent Stella flying forward into a tomb stone. I think there was a noise, maybe Stella's ribs breaking. Stella stayed slumped over the tombstone until she coughed up blood. The girl kicked her again.

"Its not polite to get blood on the tomb stones." she stated calmly. She kicked Stella once more before walking away.

I thought i saw movement in the corner of my eye. I turned to see the boy only to find he was gone.

"Like wtf, where'd he go?" I asked Val.

Val took a sip of her beer before pointing behind me. I was slightly confused but started in that direction.

"Alright, I know your there, come on out so i can get this over with, i'm gonna start throwing up pretty soon you know."

I turned back to see Val finishing her beer and jumping off the tombstone. A figure emerged. It was a guy with long silver hair.

In a flash he tried to hit Val, only to have her keep dodging. I had to find that boy i thought and took off.

I ran, not knowing for what. I came to a stop, there was something there, someone. It... she had long white hair with the tips dyed grey. Her red lips and eye's smiled down at me.

"Where ya goin?" She asked. I turned and ran. Not bothering to look behind. I ran in circles... i thnk? I ran back to find Malice being kicked by another guy, the doll thing stood near him.

Val sat on top of the silver haired guy, drinking the bottle of whisky Malice had been drinking.

"Whisky isn't my favorite.... but Stella killed the Vodka bottle earlier."

"Why didn't you stop them!" i screamed. She pointed behind her. It was the white hair girl from before. She held a staff ready to swing at her. She was cornered. So was I.

A figure emereged. He was a very handsome guy. "Now, now.... Freya, Jezabel, Briar... Marionette.... how about we let Annabel Lee do this." He looked at me.

"Stop! Just let her go...... she wasn't meant to be like all of you.... she wasn't....-" he choked up "She.....-" he started crying. It was the guy i kissed. he looked up and saw me. Or was it me? His eye's grew wide.

"Anabel don't!" he screamed scrambling to get up.

"I'm sorry!" yelled someone from behind.

I was hit in the head with something, hard. Very thing around me titered on the edge of darkness and complete darkness. Soon enough i gave into the coolness of the ground and closed my eyes, yet i continued to listen.

"No! Why Annabel?!" he cried out.

"Shut up Darren, we'll drop them off in a hospital or something." said one of them.

"Freya enough.... well i guess there's nothing else we could do. Briar get the car." said another one.

I heard movement. Foot steps, argueing, and bodys being moved. Somone picked me up, and i heard it, the sound of Coffin's closing.

I should say it now. I am a coffin kisser. A coffin kisser gives a purifying kiss to a coffin, very rarely to we kiss the person theme selfs. The kiss helps assure their safe passing and to lower their chances of seeing purgatory.

A Coffin closer just choses a coffin. Not caring, they are terrible people. What they do can put so many things out of balance.

Wars, fights, arguements, treatys, and agreements all of them started over the conflicting sides. Both sides believ that why are correct. Its not as if we chose this life. We would never condem anyone to this world we belong to. Never.

You are born into this world, very few have ever been able to leave.