Valkyrie - the Vampire Princess 3 (2 page)

“
We
didn’t
finish
our
conversation yet.
”

“We’ll
finish it after,
”
I said and locked myself in my bedroom.

All I
wanted at that moment was
to be alone
.

Chapter
3

However, I couldn't sleep
.
I was locked
in my room
.
I sighed long and deep and stared out my window
.
The deep black of the night was just beginning to
emerge
.

That was my
first
night
back on
planet
Earth
.

I got up and walked
toward my window
and
gazed at the tenebrous sky
.

What a good sensation!

Before
I had always preferred the daytime
but
now and forever
I
couldn’t stand
the daylight
.  My visibility
at night
was more precise.  I could always see
something away from me
. It
looked amazing,
my vampire
power
.

I could tranquilize my supernatural face as I was
looking up at
that
immense, black sky.

I took a deep breath. The air was so
pure
and it had come from the
garden.

I stared toward
my room’s door
as soon as I heard
noises.

It was
my mother
slamming the door
.

“Valkyrie, come
to have dinner
!”
my mom hollered.

“
I'm coming, mom
!”
I answered back.

***

My mother and I sat down at our small dining table
.
I stared at our food for a moment
.
It wasn’t having any effect
on me
.

I‘d be
just
acting as a social person
in my mother‘s presence.

My hunger
would
never again
be
satiated by
human food
.

My palate wished
only
one thing
...

‘
FRESH BLOOD
’

Two spoons
were enough
for me to reject
the rest of
my
meal.
I
wasn't used
to that menu.

“You didn’t
eat
enough,”
my mother whispered as she
had just placed her plate into the kitchen sink
.

“I have no appetite
,” I said,
without looking at her.

“
You need to
eat
...and
talking about that
,
I have
to get your blood count.”

“Blood count?”
I asked as I remembered the
doctor
who
chased me
that night
. He
was dead and my mother didn't know
that yet
.

“Yes... your blood count,” she said.

“I won’t
go back to
that place
!” I said
startled.

“
You really don’t need go back there
... I’ll
go alone
to get your blood count,” she informed me.

“Okay.”
I agreed with her.

After that I kept my eyes on the plate
. I was not expecting my mother’s reaction.

She
held my arm gently
and consequently
I stared into her eyes
as I looked
frightened
and then
I let my plate go down.

“
Why are you
... frozen?” she asked.

I shook my head at her as I was confused
.

“I didn’t want you to
know about it
...” I said, looking down at the floor.

“To know about what?”
she
insisted.

“I am sick,” I confessed to her and bit my lips.

“Sick?” She asked and her
eyes widened “What are you talking about
, Valkyrie?”

“Take it easy, mother...
It’s nothing
serious,” I said
after
I saw her
stare. A tear had trickled down her cheek
.
She was so nervous
after
my confession
.

“
How
is
it nothing
serious?” she
insisted
.

“I suffer from a rare illness... It’s
the same
as Eros’s illness.”

“You
weren’t
like this
until last night
!”

“That’s it, it
appeared
this morning
. It has been some time
that I have known
about it.”

Once again, I was lying
to my mother.

“I don’t
believe it!”
my mother exclaimed,
shocked
.

“
That’s why I didn‘t want to hug you back
,”
I said, relieved.

“
This might be
hereditary! Your father
was also
like this
,”
she said oddly.

“
See
...there is more than one reason for
you to not be so nervous, mother
.”

“
I’ll always be
at
your side,
daughter
....”

My mother
hugged me,
but she
seemed distracted at something.

My
skin’s
coldness
bothered her
, I could sense it
.  Even so
she
tried to keep her body firm
and show me her disposition to
support
the touch of
my cold body. She exhibited to me her immense motherly love.

Chapter
4

As soon as I entered my
schoolyard
,
I felt
an
emptiness
inside me
. Eros was no more a part of this place,
where
it
all
began
.
Where
I met
him and fell in love with him.

Now
he was the
farthest
from me
. He was situated
on the planet
Neptune.

I tried
to
convince
myself of that
this
was better
-
being apart from him.
Nothing could link
us
.

I was determined
to not to
suffer
any longer
for a
love condemned
by immortality
and it would never live up to my expectations.

I reasoned
there wasn’t any
need
for me to be
going to school
. I was
a vampire
. I wouldn't need
any study.
However,
I should keep
my normal attitude for the benefit of my mother and
all other people
.

Since I decided
to
be among
humans again
,
I
would have
to behave
like them
,
or at least
,
try
...

My thoughts
were
reprehended
after a
lyrical voice
screamed at my back
.

“Valkyrie!”

It was
Mirta,
my only
girl
friend
.

I turned to face her and was
surprised
by her huge hug.
I had no time to
avoid it
.

“I
missed you
... friend! You
disappeared
!” s
he said with a naive smile.

I turned
my body
,
refusing
her
return her hug
.

“Did I
disappear
?” my
face was abruptly confused.

“Are you okay, Valkyrie?
You’
re so
cold
!” she
squeezed my hand.

“I am
sick,
” I said and lowered my
head.

“
Sick
?
What wrong with you
, friend?”

Inside her eyes
there was
an apprehensive
expression
. 
She seemed
worried
about
my illness.

“I
discovered
I have
an
unusual
illness,
where
I have several symptoms
and coldness is one of them.
”

I
only smiled awkwardly and shrugged my shoulders at her.

“
That's why
you didn’t
attend school
?”
she asked.

“Pretty much”
I said,
avoiding extending our conversation.

“
I went to your house
and
called
you
two times
.
But
no person
appeared
.
Your front
door was closed
. Then
I imagined
that maybe you
had traveled,
” she completed.

“
I went to a
clinic
out of town
. I had a medical examination. It was
so fast
... I
haven’t had any time to tell you,
”
I said and grimaced.

The time really
had not
moved
for my
mother.

“
After
the rock and roll concert...
several people
disappeared
,” Mirta
said, holding her books
.

“
Several people disappeared
?” I asked and p
anic grew into my huge black eyes.

“You
disappeared
... Christian...
even
Eros doesn’t
attended school anymore,
” she
informed me.

“Why has Christian
disappeared
?” I
asked
confused
at
Christian’s disappearance
that night
.

What
did he have
to do with that night
?

I knew the
reason for the Eros’ disappearance.

“
They found
Christian’s
father’s car
parked next to
his house
,
but he wasn’t
there
. They suspect
something terrible happened to him,”
Mirta added.

“
And
who would harm him?” I asked.

“
No one knows
.” She looked down at the ground. “Oh,
I am so unhappy
after his disappearance. I cry
every night.
” Her tears
streamed down her cheeks.

“He’ll
appear.
” I
was trying to be persuasive.

“He’s all I crave
!” She confessed.

“
It’s strange
...” I
said softly and glanced away.

“
I see you
didn’t
bother
about Eros’ disappearance!
What happened to Eros and you that night
? Did he
hurt you
? She
asked, stepping closer.

“Eros...
told me
about his trip
. He
needed
to visit
his parents
and he doesn’t
know
when he will return,”
I said in an unconvincing voice.

“
At least he’s okay,
” she said without
hope for Christian.

“
You’re right
!”

“Do you
miss him
?” She looked at my face.

“Yes,
I miss him so much!
But
I think it is better
all has happened this way.”

“Why?
You’re
in love with him
!” she a
ffirmed.

“
I never told I am
in love with him.
” I
shook my head at her.

“You
don’t need to tell me that
. W
ho would not have noticed
that?”

“I don’t want
to talk about it
...
I don’t want
to talk about him,
”
I said quickly.

“Okay,” she
agreed.

***

Taking my seat in my class
,
my eyes ran toward
a chair
at the end of
my
classroom. The same
chair
which
Eros had always
sat in
.
I imagined him there
,
sitting on it and staring at me
.

When
I just woke out
of my day-dream,
I saw
everyone
staring
at me in the class
. They
noticed
my black clothes
and
my obscure face
.

They knew
I wasn't
the
same Valkyrie
.
Something was wrong with me.
They
didn’t know
exactly
what was happening to me
, however.

I looked down at my books,
trying to escape their
investigative
eyes
.

While the
students walked out of their classes
,
two
schoolmates approached me. They were
enchanted by my
cryptic
appearance.
I was in my
black pleated skirt
, knee
-length
,
black panty hose
,
black blouse
and black
top boots
.

“
I like your
new
style
!”
the black-haired girl said,
with a smug smile on her face.

“It is t
otally
dark!”
another
girl
added.

They had
the same
style
like my friend Mirta. They were dressed in their
in their pink colored clothes.

“
Thanks
!”
I said grinning.

They had no idea
why
I had
adopted a different style from that which I was accustomed to
.

I didn’t
wear
those
dark clothes
because I loved them.
It was necessary.
My view
was
more sensitive before
clear -colored
clothes
.