Frost Kiss

The day was long, my night was even longer. That’s what I thought and boy I wasn’t wrong, but I hadn’t imagined it would take a turn for the worse, the way that it did. I had a great day, there was no way of knowing what would happen. With how great my day started out, I didn’t have the slightest clue that it would end in such tragedy.

I didn’t know this morning, when I woke up at 5AM next to my boyfriend, all cuddle up to me, kissing my neck and cheek. That would be my last time being normal or happy, smiling or laughing. I didn’t know it would be the last time I’d be able to feel your skin against mine or the last time I’d be able to kiss your precious lips. Thank goodness we had phenomenal morning sex, before the day went to complete crap. I got up, showered, made hot green tea for the both of us and an amazing breakfast was actually already waiting for me. It’s too bad I didn’t finish it before leaving, I also didn’t know I’d never be able to eat another meal ever again. At least we shared one last deep, intimate, passionate kiss before I left the house and again before I drove off, because I always forget my keys and you always have my back.

Funny thing about today is... you asked me not to go into the studio, you said it was my birthday and I didn’t have to go anywhere to cancel all my dance sessions. It’s almost like you felt it before I did, before anyone did. You held my hand and my face and kissed my forehead and then my lips and you asked me to just stay home with you. It was snowing light at the time and brick outside. Although you wanted me to stay, you told me to go because you know how happy it makes me and how dedicated I am to my business/career. You kissed me goodbye, without even knowing it, or maybe subconsciously you felt something was going to happen but you wanted me to have a great day regardless of that gut feeling. I told you I was closing up the studio at 3pm and heading straight home. I’d be home by 5 before 6, before dinner. So you shrugged it off and watched me as I drove off. Waving bye. I left at 7:30AM.

I made it there by 8:30 and opened up but sessions started at 9AM- 3pm on Saturdays. I was at my dance studio working on my 21st birthday, yeah sounds boring! Working on my 21st birthday right, but honestly I love what I do and I do what I love. I love coming here. I love the environment, the aura, the way I feel at peace here, my clients, we’re like a family here. This is my creation, the only place I can truly be myself & be seen. This is my home just as much as the one I share with my boyfriend Chris. My boyfriend who didn’t even want me to leave the bed today. I couldn’t resist, dancing is my passion and I want to be seen as an artist. I am an artist. I’m so committed, there was no place I would’ve rather been besides at home with my boyfriend. I ended up finishing up my sessions early today it was 2pm and I had no more sessions for the day, nobody else showed up. Except my boyfriend’s bestfriend showed up and said happy birthday to me with a bouquet of flowers, which seemed sorta off to me, but it was a nice gesture. It was right after I had already closed up the studio. I was heading home when things suddenly didn’t feel right. All I wanted to do was make it home to you, but something... something told me to stop.

I took a quick little detour to a fortuneteller shop called Fortune Readings by Madam Maze. I figured since I was done with work early, it would be harmless to stop for a second. I’d still make it home in time for dinner with bae. But I couldn’t have been more wrong. I sat down awaiting Miss Maze.

She was a single 30 year old woman. People rumored around she was a witch. A witch who never aged. Some say she has been 30 for 2 decades, which is truly impossible. A healer. Someone who knew things, seen things, and shouldn’t be someone to mess with. Which she seemed odd but sweet and harmless. I always treated her normal. There was no way the rumors where true. Her readings have been known to be on point, but that doesn’t make her a witch , that makes her really great at her job, just like me with dance. it wasn’t Til today I actually tried that theory out myself. I usually go there to buy my older sister tarot cards or to buy incense, spiritual books, chakra & white magic stuff. It’s pretty intriguing. She even sells protection chains, necklaces and bracelets. I have many of her antiques at home they are very unique and particular.

Madam Maze finally stepped out of her magenta purple beaded dangling curtains. She said “Good evening Remy and Happy birthday to you.” I replied “How did you know it’s my birthday?” Already my hairs on my arms was standing up. I instantly caught goosebumps and chills, it literally creeped me out. She responded “I know many, many things.” I was still skeptical about this whole act. Then suddenly I thought about it, and blurted out. “Maybe the birthday cake incense I was eyeing earlier when I walked in gave it away.” Madam maze replied “ Smart cookie, but you could’ve been looking at those for anyone and it is your birthday so I stand correct.” I responded “Yes, your really good at all of this, you’ve really got some gift at convincing people, I’ll say that.”

Madame Maze handed me 2 packs of the birthday cake incense in a nice custome made bedazzled paper bag and said “Here, this ones on the house , nothing much, just a little birthday gift.” I replied “Thank you so much, that’s very kind of you Madame Maze.” Madam Maze gathered her tarot cards & stacked them into 3 piles and placed the jar for the money on the table. She asked me to place the $15 into the jar so I did. Then she asked me to place my watch into the jar as well because it was something I owned to get a clearer reading. So I did.

Madame Maze said “Shall we begin.” I took a deep breathe & I said yes. She asked me to swap the 3 stacks of tarot cards around & I did. Then she asked me to pick 3 cards , 1 from each. I picked the fool card upside down, which commonly comes as a warning sign to the person having the reading done. The empress tarot card symbolizing marriage or pregnancy, which was just outrageous and last but not least the death card. I totally freaked out. I pushed my set back after seeing all of those cards displayed and gathered my things. Madam maze grabbed my hand and said “Please don’t go, something bad is going to happen if you leave now.” “Thank you for the incense , thank you for your time, you can keep the $15, I can’t stay , I gotta go home, I’m sure I’ll be fine. My boyfriend is waiting for me at home” Madame Maze replied “Darling you won’t make it home if you walk out that door.” I got angry and said “Fuck you lady!” Madame Maze slipped a snowflake pendant necklace into my bag as I walked away.

I got in my car and started heading home. Talking to myself in the car, it’s nonsense there’s no way, I’m not pregnant, I’m not married & I’m not going to die. I tryda convince myself Madame Maze didn’t know what she was talking about. I turned on my radio to tryda distract me and total eclipse of the heart by Bonnie Tyler is the first song that comes on so I skip the station to the next song and wouldn’t you guess it’s AC/DC High way to hell. I shut off my radio station. I was about 40 minutes away from making it home and about 15 minutes away from the Madame Maze’s. When all the sudden I realize a pick up truck was speeding up behind me. Has it been following me the whole time? I think to myself. It’s really on my ass. The weather conditions are worsening. It’s snowing so hard I couldn’t even tell who was the asshole behind me. In a matter of seconds my car swerved out of control and I ended up hitting a tree in Frost Forest right next to Frost Lake.

The frozen river, they say is the coldest river of all. Some say this river is cursed, some say it’s enchanted. I found out that night, that it was both. Blood was rushing down from my head, I was in and out of consciousness, my hands was bloody, my knees was bloody, my head was pounding, my heart was racing. Someone pulled me out of my car, it was my boyfriend’s bestfriend, I thought I was saved. For a second I thought, I’m going to survive this.

Until he sprung me over his shoulder & carried me off to an abandoned cabin in the woods. I was still conscious, I should’ve been freezing but I was just numb. He ripped off my clothes and raped me. I was so lifeless when he was finished with me, nearly on my last breathe, my lips was cold blue. Iced. He turned me over and kept at it. I passed out. He wasn’t a lone, his brother and his 2 friends helped get rid of the evidence.

I regained consciousness and realized they all took a turn on me and my boyfriend was calling us both. He showed me his name calling on the phone screen and laughed. When they where done with me, they carried me by my arms and legs and tossed my nearly dead body into Frost River. Knowing it was so cold I’d freeze to death and nobody would ever find me cause the water was so cold, nobody could survive that, especially in the state my body was in.They fled the seen. Cops found the car but no body.

I was certain I was dead. I did die that day but I came back something far much worse. I reawoken , taking a huge gasp of air, it came out frosty. I was awake but my body was super freezing. I was ice cold like a popsicle, like the temperature of that lake itself, like I was apart of it, one with it, connected to it. I was able to breathe, walk, move, talk, I was healed and alive, but was I? Was I alive? I never felt so alive but how could it be? I died. I felt the water sinking into my lungs, I remember floating there and I remember taking my last breath before my eyes closed completely. I wasn’t dead or alive anymore. I was something I couldn’t understand or explain.

Madame Maze walks in and I ask her “what happened to me?” “What am I?” She replies you are “Frost.” “You are a winter witch , you are rare, you have a gift. Your heart is pure and powerful. You only survived that Lake because you was meant to die in that Lake and be reborn in that Lake. It was your destiny. I tried to warn you.” I reply angrily “ IT WAS MY DESTINY!” TO DIE ON MY 21st BIRTHDAY!” Madam Maze replies “I tried to warn you. You left your watch here so I put a protection spell over you a spell that would keep you alive as long as that Lake is there and it will forever be there. I responded “So, are you saying I’m immortal now? Stuck this way forever.?” I ask. Madam Maze says “frankly yes.” But there’s things you should know about this curse/gift.” Even with my protection spell, that didn’t do the trick, plenty of people have walked on that lake, drowned and died falling thru that ice, you only lived because the Lake itself took you, connected with you, it became a part of you.” Also you can seek revenge on the men who left you there to die, I saw there faces. You have the powers of the lake now Frost use them. You can kill those bastards with a single touch or kiss. Your deadly now.” Madam Maze explained. I responded “ I won’t ever be able to be with my boyfriend now will I?” I say. “I’m sorry.” Madam Maze says. “So you was right about everything.”

I go to my house in the middle of the night so nobody will see me. I get the hidden extra key. My boyfriend was looking for me all day, he was awake waiting for me. I come in and it’s so dark he can’t even see me yet or what I look like. He feels it got really cold once I came in and he goes to turn on the light but I freeze the switch and tell him to stay away from me! He stays put but says “baby where have you been! I’ve been worried about you! The cops found your car but you was no where to be found. What happened?” He says. I start talking and tell him everything that happened. “I was on my way home to you and I took a detour to a fortune teller who told me I was in danger and warned me not to leave. Who said I was going to get married, was pregnant and going to die. I didn’t believe her. But your bestfriend showed up earlier that day very strange , gave me flowers and wished me happy birthday. Chris asks “ How did he know it was your birthday. I never told him your birthday? Fucker was stalking you.” I interrupted him “Chris, please listen. I got into a car crash on my way home and he pulled me out the car and took me into an abandoned cabin in the forest and raped me with his brother and his 2 friends. I died but I was brought back. I know it’s crazy and hard to believe but it’s true. He tries to walk toward me saying “I don’t understand, how are you here.” I yell “STAY BACK!” If you touch me I can kill you, just one touch, one kiss and that’s all I takes. I’m deadly now. Go to the living room and turn on the light so you can see for yourself but stay away from me. He did and he was devastated, he started crying a little but he told me “I still love you always and forever and that he planned on marrying me. He continued “I was going to purpose to you when you got home right after the beautiful dinner I created just for you, knowing I can’t cook.” Even a tear shed down my eye. “I love you always & forever I replied”. But you can help me get revenge!” Call your bestfriend over, lure him to me. So he did and when he got there it was dark and he walked in and Chris called him to the kitchen. Chris said “can’t believe they haven’t found a trace of Remy man, today was her 21st birthday. She was supposed to make it home to me.” His friend says “I know man. Shit is sad dude. I’m here for you whatever you need. Chris replied “ you already gave me exactly what I need.” His friend replies “what are you talking about.?” Then he gets a chilly cold feeling down his spine and he can’t move as I’m right behind him I whisper into his ear “I did make it home.” Just not on time. No thanks to you.” I go in front of him pull him by his shirt and kiss him , his whole body instantly freezes. “Call me Frost.” I say. Chris says “baby dead or alive your so hot.” I reply “thank you baby.” 1 down , 3 to go. Let’s go baby. Just like Bonnie and Clyde always down to ride. To be continued...