by Pet TorreS
“Are you attending school, young woman?” he asked me, trying to look in my face. But I glanced aside and my voice drew back.
“... Yes...” I looked up scared at him.
“Be careful!” he insisted and nearly smiled to me. However I remained serious, I didn’t feel myself at easy to give him back a smile.
“Okay,” I finally said and bit my lip.
I still was scared as I thought he might discover the animal’s real origin. So I could be lost. My existence like vampire in the planet Earth should never be discovered by the humane kind.
“Valkyrie, I’ll drive you to school,” my mother said after that idea came over her mind and she looked at me with care.
“Then do it, ma’am...” the policeman reinforced and nodded to her.
“I guess you don’t need to do that now, mother,” I said without fear. My mother didn’t need to conduct me to school. My thoughts said me that.
“Excuse me, ladies!” he said.
“Good work!” my mother said.
“Thank you, ma’am,” he said with gratitude, turned aside and walked to his vehicle.
My mother closed the door behind us and I felt softened.
“It’s dangerous! A wild animal walking free by the town!” My mother believed this to be true. So I looked at her.
“Maybe that animal isn’t so dangerous.”
She faced me in panic.
“Valkyrie... we're talking about a panther and not a dog.”
CHAPTER 13
I looked out the living room window as my mother parked her car. My mother got home and lay down on the couch. She looked tired of something. Soon her sigh came up and I remained looking at her without understanding her indignation.
“All sacrifice for nothing!” finally she grumbled at herself, her eyes rolled up with insurrection. I remained to look at her with my perplexed face. Nothing looked clear to me, except that something very bad had made my mother annoyed.
“Sacrifice?” I asked innocently and my face compacted another time in her direction. My mother continued lying on the sofa while saying.
“Your blood count has been made in vain,” her voice sounded not optimistic.
“I don’t understand,” I said back, shaking my head suavely from side to side.
So my mother continued declaring. “The doctor disappeared a few weeks ago. No one knows where he is now and they can’t find your blood count.”
“Did the doctor disappear?” I asked while being sure about the answer. After all, I saw when Eros killed the doctor and his men with deep coldness and cruelty. Eros was a vampire and was always ready for this kind of thing.
My visions revealed to me the murderer. Eros had done that for my security. He knew those men would never leave me alone. If they were alive likely they would come after me.
“That’s weird. Why would the doctor disappear this way?” She stared at me, with no answer in her brains.
“He could have gotten into a mess,” I said normally, as I tried to look absolutely normal during our converse. But at the same time, I imagined that this could be something a little hard to do then since I knew much more about this and my throat was occupied by this fact.
“It might be that...” mom finally agreed with me and sat up on the couch. Now her feet were free from her shoes. But her imagination was still locked by my blood count.
“Did they comment only about that?”
I wanted to be sure about the vampire Eros. I wanted to be sure he wasn't one of the investigation’s targets. After all, I still felt to care about Eros and his security. I wished strongly that no malevolence could reach him.
“No one knows anything. Even the delegate doesn’t know the cause of his disappearance.”
My mother said then and we came back to be silent.
Nevertheless, my heart looked to be more tranquil just after that affirmative.
CHAPTER 14
I was in my silent bedroom, sat on the bed. At this moment, I was reading some pages in my cute diary. For one awful moment, I was reminded of when I first met Eros. This day was printed clearly in my mind. I remembered each detail and mainly when my eyes got in touch with Eros’s charming image. He in his mysterious dark clothes.
But my thought had been interrupted when I noticed my mother’s presence there. She was standing in front of my bedroom half-open door and she was looking at me with devoted eyes.
“What happened?” I asked with a flexible tone of voice, at the same time as almost closing my diary, while seeing her look over me all the time.
“Nothing happened. I like to observe you,” she responded docilely. Her face was thoughtful during that occasion. My mother’s countenance was so beautiful just as her soul. I was pleased by being her daughter.
“It is not so bad,” I declared with a soft voice, as my eyes descended another time, that way, returning to my quiet reading, after looking down in deep silence.
“Valkyrie!”
At this moment, I raised my head for a second time and gazed into her eyes apprehensively. My mother fixed her attention on my image sat in the bed. I perceived she wished to say me something important. So, I was there waiting for her to speak that.
“I’d been thinking about leaving this town,” her voice said carefully and her eyes met the room ceiling for an immense time.
“Do we have to leave this town?” I rose in a hurry, holding my diary with the two hands. My countenance faced my mother’s face with seriousness. “Why?”
Really I was very surprised by her unexpected words.
“We aren’t safe here with all the strange things that are going on right now....” tried to explain me. But my head trembled at her expressions. My mother wanted to run away from something another time as she constantly did.
“We aren’t safe anywhere else either.”
“I have already decided to do it,” she said back, with the certain illustrated in her face. That was easy to picture she was resolute about that.
“No, mother, we won’t leave this town,” I said decided as well and put my diary on my bed with no progress. My eyes got fixed on the floor and my voice became silent after that. I was about to make a decision of not talking about that anymore with my mother.
The two of us should stay there, in that town for long. That was the unique certain deposited inside me. Everything should remain like it sounded.
“Valkyrie, you have never gone against my decisions,” she said surprised at my insurgent act and stared me in the face like an adversary in a battlefield.
“That's right. Now it's my time to decide what is good or bad for me, right?” I said after a lack of comprehension.
My mother continued perplexed at my terms and didn’t put aside her exclamation in my direction.
“Valkyrie, you are also different,” she observed me in full and her eyes confirmed her indignation for my acts. I looked remorseful for that. Actually, I felt irritation at myself, because I hated to go against my mother’s observations. But sometimes that was needed.
“I’m sorry,” I said and lowered my head subsequently to that. I couldn’t imagine me going away from that special town. I really liked it. “I don’t belong to you,” I said sadly and my eyes ran to the ground.
“Why are you talking about that, daughter?” she asked me and her eyes were wide. Her lips almost had broken in unhappiness.
“Forget what I told you!” I tried to soothe what I said to my mother and scratched my head. Those words come from my lips were really very cruel and my mother didn’t deserve to hear them.
“Are you thinking of leaving me?” she asked, worried about this hypothesis.
My head shook first.
“I'll not do that,” I replied as I thought I had done it once and it was a disagreeable experience by not having her beside me. My mother’s absence was one terrible thing in my life.
Thinking about that, my head vibrated again.
“Then you will go with me wherever I go.” Her
voice was authoritative, her eyes kept fixed on my image before her.
“We'll stay here,” I said resolutely. My lips squeezed with lack of sympathy. I really need to make my mother convinced of that.
“Why don’t you want to go away from here?” she insisted and crossed her arms over her chest. Her eyes ran around. She truly wanted to get a clearer explication from me.
My head remained curved as I declared.
“I like this place,” my mind saw Eros’ image at this split second. So I looked down thinking of him all over again.
“You're right...so we'll stay here,” she finally said and it made me more comfortable. I wished to embrace her after that, but I remained stopped at the same place like a stone without existence.
“Mother, don’t worry about me.” I stared at her soft face. Her eyes were still great in my direction. “I know how to defend myself,” I confessed to her.
“You act as if you have supernatural powers,” my mother joked after a short smile had pointed in her lips.
Even before that, I said nothing. Soon I sat back on the bed and just came back to open my diary.
Since I had the supernatural domain and she did not know it yet.
CHAPTER 15
Mirta went to the town center with her classmates to watch a movie. She had called me to go along with her but I thought it was better I don't go. Avoiding groups of people would be the best thing to do.
She left the movies accompanied by three girls. They made several comments about the movie. The four girls walked on towards the main street. Mirta stopped walking when she saw something across the street, staring at her.
“Eros?” she said confused. Mirta didn’t expect his presence at that moment. She imagined Eros was away from the town, since he didn’t attend school anymore after the Rock and Roll Concert.
“What did you say?” one of the girls asked.
“Eros is across the street,” Mirta said to her classmates, but her eyes were fixed on his image in black. Eros’s hands were hidden inside his pants’ pockets. His figure across the street made her remember some scene in the movie. It seemed she was seeing the protagonist in her front and she was in the movie.
“He hasn’t attended school for a while,” another girl commented, remembering that detail.
Eros waved Mirta to go over to him. So gently he lowered his hand and nearly smiled to one side as he perceived Mirta looked in his direction all the time.
“He wants to talk to me,” Mirta said. Soon she crossed the street and approached the young vampire. Her friends were across the street, watching them.
Mirta imagined that Eros lived in his dark clothes. His dark attire never abandoned him. It was a little strange a boy like him wearing black all the time. His clothes evidently showed his occult side. Not just his costumes but his essence hid many things about his past and his life. Eros was even the most mysterious student at her school.
“Eros,” she said as she approached him and gave him a gape.
“You’re here ...” he said looking at her pink dress and his eyes full of charm ran toward her face. Their eyes met for some time. Mirta looked confused with that gaze before her.
“I came to watch a movie with my classmates. I called Valkyrie to come with us but she didn’t want to come.” She tried to say and looked to the side.
He continued watching her as he showed no interest in knowing about me. Eros was not there to know about my life or my desires. He was there for some personal motive that could benefit himself.
“Valkyrie told me you went to visit your parents,” she commented innocently.
“Yes ... I came back yesterday,” he said and his cold hands slid into his pants’ pockets again.
“Valkyrie will love to know about this.” Mirta looked content, thinking of me. She wished to run to me and tell me Eros was back.
“She already knows,” he alleged.
“She told me nothing about your return,” she said.
“Can we talk somewhere else?” Eros asked looking straight ahead.
“Oh, yes,” Mirta replied innocently.
She thought that Eros wished to talk about me after he had come to her.
Mirta gestured for her friends to go away. Then they walked away and left Mirta in the company of Eros.
The two went on and walked to a small square. There was a bench made of wood and some pigeons walking on the ground. She sat on the bench and Eros remained standing.
“Do you want to know about Valkyrie?” she asked.
“No,” he answered, his voice was cool as his eyes were set on her face.
“No?” her face flushed. She shook her head. “So what are we doing here?”
“I wonder about you.” He looked at her intensely and his eyes discharged a strange radiance toward her.
“What about me?” her hands touched her chest. She wanted to comprehend his presence facing her. Why was he really there? Since Eros and Mirta didn’t live adjacent to each other. At School they badly talked to each other. Everything looked so forced between them.
“Yeah, about you” gazed to her again.
“Why do you want to talk about me and not about Valkyrie?” her shoulders shrank.
“Forget Valkyrie!” he ordered with his serene voice.
“She is my friend,” she insisted. Her face wrinkled for a good motive.
“She is my friend, too,” he affirmed and almost smiled.
“I thought ...” she said confused and her hand slid by her forehead. Mirta ended up looking to Eros’s face after she heard his voice.
“Did you think what?”
“I thought you like her,” she insisted, bit her lip as her round eyes found his.
“And I do like her ...” he said naturally and his gaze ran away. So he observed the darkest part in the town.
“I'm relieved.”
“Not the way you're thinking.” Eros said again and his amazing eyes met hers.
“Don’t you feel for her what she feels for you?” she asked surprised and her lips became hard.
“No,” he replied coldly and held back a sigh. Eros always hated to talk about my feelings for him. It looked as if he was being punished by it. ”And she knows it.”
“Valkyrie is in love with you, though she never said that to me.”
“I know.” He walked into the middle of the square and looked down, so his voice sounded breakable. “She knows I cannot return what she feels for me.”
“She doesn't deserve it.”
“I cannot stop it,” he confessed, looking back at her as both of them remained motionless.
“That’s why you called me to talk?”
“No,” he said and stared at her face after he had rolled his eyes in secret.
Soon Mirta got confused, raising both eyebrows as if asking an issue. Eros was being such a complicated and mysterious all the time. He did not carry the same face of the young man who attended school. He looked much more bold and attractive.
Those feelings bothered her. She didn’t approve of the boy that her best friend was in love with.
Mirta remained standing beside the wooden bench. She held the skirt of her dress as she had knowledge of Eros’s approach.
He stopped walking in front of the girl and looked into her eyes. She attracted him to her.
Unlike me that had never caused him any effect.
Two pigeons flew up and Mirta looked up at them, hoping to divert her gaze from Eros. The vampire’s hands grabbed her face and made her gaze at him again. Mirta began to retreat with the feel his cold hands touching her delicate skin. But she could not escape the clutches of the seductive vampire called Eros.
Then he kissed her lips.
This damn kiss made me shed other tear of blood.
I was not in this place. But I could sense and see all scenes from the event. That was because Eros had a strong connection with me, from the moment he sucked my blood for the first time.
I was at my bedroom window, holding st
rongly the fabric of the curtain as I held myself back from going after the two of them. That would have been a big mistake.
At that moment I couldn’t control my fury.
A gray smoke around my body appeared and carried me to the school gym. I did this in a few seconds as I was faster than a plane.
There was no one besides me in the gymnasium. There was only darkness and an immense void in the place.
The kiss between Eros and Mirta was still fresh in my mind.
I was standing in the center of the gym. Then I opened my arms and downloaded all my anger, which was not little. A blue energy went out of my hands and destroyed part of the sports great hall.
The nets tore. The basketball hoops melted and lamps broke. I felt happy doing that. But I still was not satisfied at all and then I destroyed the floor too. It was left with enormous cracks. I finally fell to the ground as I was weakened, having spent almost all my energies.
CHAPTER 16
The next day I came to school as if nothing had happened. I walked with my head up. Everyone around me was commenting about the destruction of the gymnasium. They were surprised by the vandalism.
The school principal called the authorities to investigate the case, since they had no idea who would have done such a thing since there was no evidence of theft.
Halfway to the corridor I met with Mirta, who came running to me. She could not face me due to what had happened between Eros and her last night.
“Hi!” she said as she kept her head down. Mirta knew she had been dishonest to me. Our friendship didn’t deserve that high treason.
Full of extreme dislike, I did not answer. Not even I wanted to look at her face.
“Have you seen what happened in the gym? That has never happened here!” she said, surprised. “Why are you strange?” she insisted, trying to look so friendly. But I avoided her amorous act. “Don’t you want to see me today?”
“I do not want to see you today or any other day either!” I said resentfully.
“Why are you treating me this way?”
