Forever Changed

chapter 10



What in the world? I thought to myself. How is this possible? Hell, the real question is, how did this happen? My knee was completely healed. What is going on? I really wished my father would have gone into detail of what ‘our kind’ was and who I was. This is so aggravating. I need to get this film developed and then go to my father’s study soon. I need answers.

With a knee that seemed to heal all on it’s on, I headed upstairs to my studio. I had to get to the dark room. The boy looked familiar, the one who I seen falling through the lens of my camera. He looked like a boy I go to school with. Lucas Sheath is his name; he always has girls hanging all over him. I found this repulsive. Why would a bunch of girls want to hang on him all day? I knew why of course Lucas Sheath is gorgeous!

His hair is blond with a hint of brown that is cute, like a little boys cut with just a little sticking up at the top. He has a baby face even though he is seventeen. He has gorgeous crystal blue eyes that you can see your reflection in and a body, damn a body! He is tall with broad shoulders and a six pack to prove to everyone he does work out on a daily basis. He is the captain of our football team and he has a dark tan all year long.

He is a model type boy and rumor had it around school that he had a contract with a modeling agency. I had fantasized once about being one of those girls always hanging on him, but there is just something about him that makes me think of a deer’s eyes caught in headlights. He just gives me a bad feeling and I have not yet figured out why. Something draws me to him though and has for a while. I am not a hundred percent sure if the boy I saw in my camera was real, but I was definitely going to find out!

Once I reached my bedroom, I walked over to the side of my bed and pressed the button to enter my studio, from there I half walk, half ran to the back room to the door leading into my black room. I walked in and flipped the switch that casts a red light, so that regular light does not ruin my film. I hear the familiar sound of the soft humming from the vent fan that automatically comes on when I turn on the light.

I set up my three trays next to the sink on the long counter. I grabbed the developer and the fixer off the shelf under the table. The developer is what develops my pictures on the paper and the fixer is what stops the developer from, well, developing. I poured some of the developer in the first tray and the second tray I poured some fixer. The last tray I turned to the sink and put some water in it, so that when my pictures are done being processed, all the chemicals can be washed off of it.

After I got the trays set up I walked over to the enlarger and placed some special paper on it. I removed my camera from around my neck and I fumbled around with my camera trying to open it. Even though there is a red light on in the dark room, that does not mean that you can see that well. So opening my camera was a pain. I couldn’t turn on the regular light because I had my paper already in the enlarger and if it came on it would turn my paper black when I put it in the developer.

I finally opened the camera and reached into the chamber to remove the film. The chamber was empty.