“Anything good?” I asked and took a sip of coffee.

Other me sighed and rubbed her eyes.

“If I have to type ‘per my previous email’ one more time I might actually go find these people and hit them.”

It was a good thing I worked from home, or else two of me might be alarming.

“We both know you wouldn’t do anything like that.” The other me was always so timid, too afraid of confrontation. It was easy to keep her doing all the work while I got to play.

Her only response was a sigh.

I stirred the coffee slowly with my finger, slightly disappointed that it had already cooled.

“You know, if you could get my their names and address-“

“No!” She yelled at me.

“Hell, with social media it would be easy to find them with just a name.” I suggested, ignoring her protest.

“Your not killing anyone else!”

It always amused me when she fought me. How cute.

“Oh?” I cooed.

“We can’t keep doing this.” She looked just like me when I get mad. Only her words were just that; words.

“Then give it up, love. Let me take over. You’ll feel much better.” I offered.

Other me mumbled something under her breath.

“No one likes a mumbler dear,speak up.”

She stood quickly and spun around to face me. Her fists were clenched by her sides.

Interesting.

“I was here first!” She shouted. Eye contact and yelling, that was new to her.

“So ungrateful. You literally BEGGED me to come into your life! Or don’t you remember? You and your little ghost hunter friends, desperate to make contact with a real live demon, and you did. I picked you, and this is how you treat me?! After I fixed your little…problem?” I added an extra layer of venom on the last word.

“He wasn’t a problem! I loved him!” She bit back.

Perhaps I was finally getting to her.

“He hit you, repeatedly. I may just be a simple demon, but even I know that’s not love.” Humans we’re so utterly ignorant. It however did make them easy to manipulate.

“You didn’t have to kill him!” She was getting louder, firmer.

“Now, now, let’s not forget. The blood is on your hands my dear.” With not much more than a thought, I played my little trick.

Screams echoed the room as she looked down at her hands, now dripping in bright red blood.

“Stop it! Stop it! I never wanted this! I didn’t want this!”

With a sigh I waved the blood away, it left along with my patience.

“Yes. You did. I can’t just take a body without permission, that’s not how it works.”

The human’s silly movies gave them all the wrong ideas about demons. They gave us far too much credit, but it worked to our advantage.

“Oh yeah, we’ll I want you gone!” She screamed and stormed out of the room.

I laughed as I followed her.

“You’ve tried before, how did that work for you?” I antagonized her.

She pulled something out of a box and faced me. A spray bottle?

“I didn’t have this last time!” She aimed the bottle at me. There was triumph in her eyes as the pushed the nozzle.

“Ugh! That’s just rude!” I wiped the fluid from my face.

Her face dropped.

“What?! He said it was real holy water!” She was panicking.

“Im growing tired of these games. When will you learn I’m not going anywhere? Just give up and let me take over from here.” I feigned a calm patient tone.

“No! I want you gone! You aren’t welcome here anymore!” She screamed.

“You thi-“ My voice caught in my throat as I felt a pull deep in my chest.

Oh no.

“You are evil and I want nothing to do with it! Leave here now demon! You have no home here anymore!”

The pull grew stronger, threatening to tear me apart.

“You need me!” I pleaded with her, but she was already speaking again.

“Evil cannot remain here any more. I demand you to leave this place and go back to where you are from!”

A ripping sensation ran through my body, causing every cell of my being to dissipate.

Home it was then.

“See you there.” I managed to whisper as I tumbled down into the abyss.