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trust him if he’s got a demon inside of him?  He might have been feeding me a bunch of lies to get me thrown into a mental institution or prison.  Maybe he wanted to lure me to that underpass so he could eat my skin or something!  There had to be a cannibalism demon!  How did I know he didn’t have one of those?
                  He took a step closer to me and I took one back.  I didn’t want him to eat my face off!  “Think about it.  If the demon had any authority over my life, the one inside of you wouldn’t be making you so hostile toward me.  We’d be confidants.”  He smiled.  “Probably even lovers.”
                  “Oh, what a shame!” I wasn’t usually so sarcastic, but he was a sick pervert!
                  “I’m just being honest!” he laughed.  “Last time I checked, having sex with someone who isn’t your marital spouse is a sin.”
                  Oh, screw that!  “You mean I can’t have sex again?”
                  “Is that your human flesh crying outrage or is it the demon?  I know I caught you about to screw Michael, but you don’t seem like a slut to me.”
                  I tried to think about it.  I did only have sex that one time with Jason and it wasn’t exactly the greatest thing ever.  It was okay, but certainly not worth losing my soul over.  “I don’t know!”  Why does Julian have to butt in so much?   “It’s not like it’s any of your business, but I’ve only had sex once.”
                  “It must not have been that pleasant.”
                  “Excuse me?”  Slap him!  He deserves to be slapped. My hand started tensing up as I began to prepare.
                  “Most people who aren’t honor bound by religion that get in the habit don’t actually stop after one time.”
                  He infuriated me!  It even infuriated me more that he was actually right about it.  “Well, I’m single now!  And stop being such a douche!  You’re making it far too easy for the demon to make me dislike you.”
                  He laughed amused.  “You’ll get over it.  I was really hostile toward my teacher too.”
                  “Oh?”  I felt sorry that someone else had to put up with him.  “And what happened to him?”
                  Then it happened.  Julian showed that he was vulnerable and sad, if only for the few seconds it took to get out his sentence.  “He’s no longer with us.”
                  “Oh.”  I felt so incredibly terrible.  “I’m sorry to hear that.”  Maybe he was right about the demon making me feel so horrible toward him.  He couldn’t have been a threat to me.  He was a threat to the demon.
                  “He taught me how to survive with this curse.  I know I’m not perfect and I may not look like someone who fights against demons, but I do and I am good at it.  I can help you if you let me.”
                  “I am letting you!” I whined.
                  Julian grabbed my shoulders and looked me straight in the eye.  “Let me help you.”
                  I’m not sure how he got the power to calm me so when he wanted, but I felt everything inside me soothe, and I realized how little of myself I actually was.  The blanket had been pulled off and I uncovered who was really resting in the sheets.  I wanted the demon gone.  I wanted to be alone in my head again.  How could I live if I couldn’t even trust my own thoughts?  “Okay.”
                  “And then you can help me.”  He let me go and smiled a little bit.  From that, I felt a bit of comradery between the two of us.
                  “You know, you never really told me what you want me to do.  Banish them to hell?  Maybe.  But if the demons are living in human’s