Swiping from side to side on my favourite dating app. Nothing has been really working out lately and I was slowly getting frustrated. Was it me being a problem? I dunno.
Then I found her: Long red hair, emerald green eyes.
Immediately we started chatting. “Why don’t you come over? I have a cozy place...~”

I checked her address and she was even in my home town. How come I’ve never seen her before anywhere? It was weird. I mean, it’s never smart to go to someone else’s place on the first date, but I felt weirdly drawn to her. Her eyes seemingly staring into my mind.

I agreed and quickly got up. Hastly, I grabbed my clothes, my other stuff, put my shoes on and left my home for the car.

One thought kept rushing through my mind: Why did I never meet her before? She said she lived here for a long time. Also her streetnumber was weird… 33 1/3?  Anyway. I typed the address into my phone and well… it found the address.

Pulling into the street my eyes opened up to an unexpected sight: A building looking like a small castle, with draw bridge and everything. I freaked out. This can’t be the place, also I’ve never seen this castle before, what is it even doing here?!
While I sat there in my car, freaking out and nervous, a knocking ripped me out of my raving.

“Apologies, but are you Ms. Scarlett’s awaited visitor? Otherwise I’d have to ask you polietly to leave the property.”
An elderly man, dressed in a very formal black suit knocked on the window. I look besides him, it seem that during my raving the drawbridge has been lowered and he must’ve come out to check.
“I’m sorry, but did you understand my question?”
I snapped back into reality.
“Uhm… sorry, Sir, of course, I’m Scarlett’s… visitor?”, I answered nervously, getting out of the car in the meantime.

“Please, follow me. Ms. Scarlett is waiting.”
Following the, how I presumed buttler of Scarlett, I got a better view of castle. Tall towers at each of the cornerstones, windows closed in iron bars not to speak of the actual draw bridge we were walking over. It was surreal to look at.

As we entered the castle, we walked into a giant entrance hall. Polished white marble lined the floor with a long, red carpet covering it from entrance to a flight of stairs ending at, what looked like, an actual throne. Next to it was something of a similar shape, covered by a big, purple cloth.
All the alarms in my head started to go wild, but curiosity drove me forward.

Upon the throne sat a woman in a long, red, fancy dress, her emerald eyes staring at me, piercing my mind. Her neck covered in a two-part choker with jewlery set into it. Long red hair covered part of her dress as she stood up from her throne.

“Thank you Jeffery from bringing our guest here.”
The old man, just bowed and walked off. I just stood there in awe, she was more beautiful than her picture indicated as she slowly walked down the stairs toward me.
“Sorry for that kind of a dramatic entrance, but I really prefer to meet up here. Nice to meet you.”
“Nice to meet you… too...”, baffled I was barely able to answer.

“Sara, was it, right? Let’s sit down and have a chat, while Jeffery prepare dinner for us, shall we?”, she motioned over to a table for two that I could’ve sworn wasn’t there before, completely decked out.
I followed her over and sat down on the opposite side of the table.

“Are you alright? You look a bit confused.”, Scarlett said with a smirk on a face.
“I… I’ve never seen this place before and never expected your place to… well be an actual castle.”, looking up again to see the chandeliers on the ceiling above us.
Scarlett starts to laugh, “You know. I’ve always been the extravagent type and when this opportunity came up, I’ve had no other choice but to jump on it.”
As soon as she said that, Jeffery came back in holding a bottle of wine.
“Ms. Scarlett, the turkey should be ready in a few minutes.”
“This is wonderful Jeffery, please serve the wine you have there.”
Jeffery started to pour the wine into our glasses.
“This is a very special one, riping for centuries in the catacombs of france. I hope you’ll like it, mylady.”
“Thank you, Jeffery.”

Scarlett lifted her glass, “Onto a wonderful dinner.” We both raised our glasses and drank from them.
“Sara, why are you so quiet? I mean, it’s a lot to take in for now, but just relax and enjoy the night. Okay?”
Her emerald eyes piercing my mind as she spoke.
“Yeah, sorry. I’ve never been much of a wine person, but I have to admit, this one is pretty good.”, I said slowly finishing my wine.

As the date continued I felt myself more and more drawn to Scarlett and Jeffery prepared a wonderful meal for us.
“Tell me Scarlett, what is under that giant cloth over there.”
“Oh that?”, she started giggling, “just an old broken mirror, I wanted to hide, because it doesn’t look too good”
We took another glass of wine and she winked at me, blowing me a kiss, when suddenly I felt like something hit me in the head.
“Urgh…”, I helt my hand to my head, “...I don’t feel so good.”
In the corner of my eyes I saw Scarlett leading her hands to her head and turning it around. “Wha...”
Before I could do anything, everything went black.

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I felt a cold wind flowing over my body...
I felt a coldth on my hands and knees...
I felt a cold, hard floor below me...
I felt something cold at the base of my shoulders...
I opened my eyes, everything was blurry…
I heard a familiar voice…

“Glad to see you awake, Sara~ I always like to the see their faces...”
My vision slowly cleared up and see something red on the floor in front of me.
I tried to move, but I couldn’t.
“Urgh...Wha-?”, my eyes opened wide as I saw Scarlett’s head on the floor, smirking and grinning at me.
“Glad you’re awake.” I shuddered as I felt a finger running down my exposed back as the wind took up again flowing around the front of my body.
“What is happening?!”
Scarlett’s headless body stepped out in front of me, one half of the choker on it.

She laughed. “I want you, Sara. I want your body, to be exact.”

I realised the basket below me.
I was locked into a guillotine.

“Don’t worry, honey it will be quick...You’ll have a lot of friend, where you’re going”
While blowing me another kiss, her body walked back out of sight.
I heard a click and suddenly vibration started to come from above me and then – a cold feeling in my neck.
My vision started to shift forwards and a few seconds later my face hit the bottom of the basket causng me to pass out again.

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After another while I feel someone’s lips kissing mine.
“Wakey, wakey, Sara”
I didn’t open my eyes. “I just had the weirdest...dream...”
At that point I realised that I couldn’t move… not at all.
My body didn’t move in fact, I didn’t feel a body at all but instead felt a pair of hands where they shouldn’t be…
When my eyes opened I saw the same beautiful emerald eyes from before, the same long red hair from before, but from the neck down the skin colour didn’t match and I noticed something very familiar about that body.
“What do you think about that look? You like it?”