There was a sweet, metallic smell in the air that I had never come across.  It was palpable and it made me feel slightly ill.  I remember shaking my head to try and rid my mouth of the taste.  Kelly was slightly ahead of us, I guess she sensed Jody wanted me alone, and I remember her suddenly stopping.  I thought she had hit another garbage can and Jody and I began laughing.  But the laughter suddenly ended when we realized why she had stopped.  They were huge. Two, tall, muscular men in the shadows wearing dark suits.  One was jabbing the other with his elbow.  It looked like he was coaxing him to do something but the younger man hesitated.  He looked horrified.  I thought for a minute that he might be in just as much trouble as we appeared to be in. The older man called him Aiden and shoved him toward Kelly, this time with much greater force and he enveloped her with his body. It was as if she disappeared but I could still see her legs dangling.  I ran to her and the older one brushed me away as if I weighed less than a feather sending me flying into the garbage cans that we had so much trouble navigating around.

Tina began to see Bette’s breathing become labored as she spoke. The memories were obviously still fresh, which was good but it bothered her to see Bette in so much distress.  She continued to listen intently.

“The one called Aiden let go of Kelly and shook his head violently. The older man was visibly angry and with his bare hands picked up Kelly and Jody, who had tried to run away.  They hung over the ground like rag dolls.  I didn’t know what to do so I ran at him again trying to hit him with my fists but I felt as if I was pounding on steel.  He didn’t even flinch.  Aiden grabbed me by the waist and lifted me off the ground away from them.  I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.  He told me to just stop fighting. It would be easier to just let it happen.  I didn’t know what was going on. I thought my heart would beat out of my chest and then the older man bit them.  He bit them hard on the neck.  It was so deep you could see their veins; first one, then the other.  They screamed out and all I could do was watch, frozen.  They appeared to turn white, writhing in pain.  Their screams were now quiet gurgling sounds as if they were choking.  I cried out for him to stop but he continued sucking their thick red blood until it covered his face.  When he was done he threw them on the ground and sat on the curb taking out a handkerchief to wipe his mouth.  He smiled and I could see his teeth glistening in the moonlight.  That’s when I noticed that the fog had lifted almost completely.  I was sure that they would kill me next.  There was no doubt in my mind that it would happen.  But I was mistaken.  Jody and Kelly were not really dead and I would not be either in a few minutes, not really.”