I bravely spit my truth. «Vampires are disgusting monsters with red eyes and pale skin that drinks human blood. They have some sort of superpowers, like reading minds and move fast enough to do their homework the same morning they should deliver it.»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8XgZ6lw87J
«I think I'm a vampire.» Someone screams among the laughing crowd.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnPrYmUivWh
«They live in old castles or stinky caves, it depends on their heritage.»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDsuFuso8Kl
«Enough.» Mikael says it in a severe tone I never heard from it, his eyes narrowed and his jaw clenched. I admit I would shut up, but the nineteenth-century expensive suit on his well-built body makes him the less scary man in the class, and the less I'm afraid, the more I talk with no filters.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTVEoeT8X75
«They are born in Italy, a man has been cursed trying to keep his impossible love. She was a princess, he loved her, but he wasn't the only one. The princess was in love with both, but she was promised to a prince. Her mother, a witch obsessed by the society rules, discovered the love she harbored for the two men and punished her cursing them all. I think the princess died.» I say, trying to remember the article I read when I was a teen about it. «Anyway, vampires are magical creatures created to scare people in the good old times and, to answer your last interrogative, they are bad.»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU7AE5kytFN
Mikael stands among the students, silent, his eyes staring in mines as he can enter in me. I gulp, taking a step back, tripping and falling on the chair behind me.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrJJQ39j9nW
Finally he speaks. «You have excellent grades in history, are you sick today?» He asks, 'causing a little laugh in the class. Before I can stammer out an answer, he keeps talking. «Vampires are creatures made by an unexplainable force of nature which is beyond human perception, a force that they can use, like werewolves, witches and other creatures.»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQPEjvbEqGp
«Sir, I'm here to study history, not your crazy bullshits!»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyfTxSmPrhK
Mikael ignores the poor guy. «Their eyes are totally black, they are usually well-built since they are predators, they have amplified senses, that's why it's better to not be afraid of them. They can feel your fear and their first instinct will be to tear your throat. Blood is their favorite drink, but when they are sad they rather drink beer.» The class laughs at his words. Is he trying to turn everyone against me?388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSfcqMDmhAn
«Stop lying, Mikael. It's not funny.»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfSLeVrHdEH
«Do you always talk like this to your teachers?» Everyone shakes their head except a guy wearing a hat and large-sized clothes, obviously not interested in losers' things like sexy fictional characters.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS07ewPtunX
He stands up. «I don't wanna listen to these bullshits anymore. We should have started the Victorian Era today.»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuJJObkuP5j
Mikael puts his hands on my desk, looking me in the eyes and I push myself against the chair, sinking down.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt8xCAGRZ7t
«You were right about how they are born. You were right: they are bad. You better be glad if one puts his eyes on you, 'cause if you push him away you'll regret it forever.» He growls in my face, his lips curled up and his eyes narrowed as he comes closer. I'm tempted to take the scissors and put them between us, just to feel protected also if I'm not, but this would be a stupid move, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't hesitate to use them against me now.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpJkxr0jlys
«When will you talk about the Victorian Era?»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLrVeq5Sfds
Mikael turns, growling. «One of my favorite ones, the society was built on respect and elegance, what you don't have today.»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWB82ruQCXy
«Sorry sir, not everyone is gay.» The class laughs and Mikael chuckles too. It happens so fast I only see the scissors in the wall at a few inches from the stupid guy's scared face. He stays still while Mikael goes back to his desk. He's sitting down at the desk, but something stops him. Suddenly he raises, catching a flying marker. His eyes observe it, then find the guilty in a shot.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9UgUeQuR0a
Seeing he's losing it, I walk to him, distracting him with the noise of my chair ruining the dirty floor. I ignore all the eyes on me, blushing and walking straight to my man. I put my hands on his chest, raising on my tiptoes to bring my lips close to his ear. I know he would hear me whispering his name from the last table, I just need to be sure nobody else will.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZHiWkja0Xv
«Please, don't hurt anyone. If you don't, I'll forget you for what you've done to Royce and his friends.»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡucgfT7KEDc
«Forget me?» He scoffs. «Did I sound sorry for that?»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡScgbD3bhcl
I take some distance, confused. «Aren't you? You almost killed a guy with a punch and his fault was trying to help his friend.»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPZEHDVTx81
«You're too pure to understand...»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjE6ljGPPju
«No, I understand.» I put my hands in my hair, breaking the contact with him, the energy between us dissolves. «You just want to hurt me. Scare me. You told me to run away from you. If your goal was pushing me away, you did it.»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ68w0knSNsj
«What the fuck are you talking about.» He yells in my face.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrOwFzrQWDZ
A warm tear shows him I'm right. «I'm telling the truth you're trying to hide. You're not unable to love, you're not completely a monster, you are afraid of love and you're doing everything to push me away.»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL6Sy1N7JPh
«I saved your life fighting three men and you're telling me I'm weak.»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsSk3pW6bSs
«Wait, you thought to steal my heart beating the bullies? We're not in the Victorian Era, demonstrate you're strong doesn't guarantee you love.»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKhwRzaF8e2
«I'm sorry you're not able to appreciate my vision of love.»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnMaJvgCjRl
«Your vision of love is sick. It's all about violence to your eyes. That light I saw in them... it fooled me.» I hear him taking air in his lungs fast. «There's nothing good in you. You crave power 'cause it's the only thing you can have and manage easily thanks to your strength, you're a King afraid to find his Queen because you know you can't control her as you do with your people.»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYdcpeZeSyv
«I think you're confused. Am I a monster or not? Can I love and be loved? You can't know this, Katrina. All you should ask yourself is: do I love him? Just this.» He says, emotionless.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkxxDj49Ygc
«I can't love you until I don't know who the hell you are.»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlWRvutY0vn
The provocative guy stands up to talk again. «Now we know why Katrina has excellent grades. How many teachers have you fucked?» Before the class can start laughing, Mikael breaks his stupid grin.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiZ5tdLWb90
The desk flies out the window with two students and everybody screams in panic, except me. I'm the only hope to save everyone, I've no time to be shocked, I repeat it to myself as I try to find Mikael. I'm pushed against the wall, everyone is crying and running, some students jump out of the window, some tries to break down the door that is unexplainable closed. Meanwhile, I see something black speeding on a girl. Mikael.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAtncZXdMQz
«Mikael! Please, stop!» I reach him, colliding with the students running to the door. I take him by the arm. «Mikael, listen to me.» Taking his arm back fast, he throws me on the wall and I fall on the floor, a sharp pain in my leg clouding my mind for some seconds. I think it's broken, I can't even move it and I surely can't help anyone like this. But I can open the door. I crawl among the students that step on me, luckily not on the broken leg. When I can touch the wooden door, I turn to sit down, panting.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiE0uPVA1p9
«Diana!» The door opens as soon as I scream her name.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQZQeqOgNZJ
Before I can turn and crawl out of this bloody hell, someone kicks me on the head, making me fall. As I try to raise up, other shoes crush my body and my vision slowly fades in black.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUmWXFPPCQq
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A white ceiling and someone muttering are all I can see and hear. I close and open my eyes continuously to wake up, then I raise up. Diana is sitting on the edge of the white bad, wearing a nurse suit.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq6JpPOYdl0
«Where...»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ18HsVOxy4e
«Shush, I'll get you out of here. Tell them you remember you were the first to be hit and you fainted before you could see anything.» She walks away, impressing me once again with her elegant walk. I follow her straight back and her hips waving, seeing in my mind also her chest puffing out to complete her majestic figure. With some make-up and a big neckline she would be the perfect sexy nurse boys fantasize about. While she exits the hospital room, two policemen enter, observing me with a frown on their scary faces. One is a human donut, the other is a toothpick with a blonde snack on his point.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3MyVGWgGks
The donut starts with the questions. «Were you in the class when the tragedy happened.»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5r3ZXCCWc9
«Good morning to you too.» I say, too nervous to hold it. «Yes, I was there.»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6PLFcJHqgN
«Have you seen what happened?»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYeX8IcA9mq
I act the script. «I'm sorry, I've been the first to be hit and...»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmpWeeg4H63
«Have you a vague idea of which kind of animal was in the class? Was it just one?»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJb3FWJ2z11
We stare at each other and I'm not sure who's the most confused. «I don't know. How did you understand that was an animal attack?»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZbcexn2ekR
The two look at each other, then the thin one hands me a pic. My emotions go off as a tear caresses my soft cheek.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZvEMl7yNEx
My classmates, my friends, are all dead. I can see are their body parts covered in blood around the class, their heads are on their desks, all turned to the end of the class. On the blackboard there's a sentence written with blood: I don't need to love to be loved.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHe18cWkTC1
I give the picture back, my hand trembling like a leaf. «It wasn't an animal, it was a beast.»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPNKnSUK6O9
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I knock at the door. Mom opens still in tears, a hand on her mouth.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY6CFZjutue
«I'm sor...»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG5WDNkWbVN
«Don't say that.» She traps me in a tight hug and I smile, letting the tears flow. I shiver. «It's cold, come in dear.» She takes my hand. I made a big mistake leaving home, and I think I'm going to make another inevitable one, I can't tell her why my body is shaking in fear.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxeSKNzomYJ
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The Internet isn't helping as I thought, the few articles I found are about his family and his business. I keep searching: Mikael Blake, Vampire's Blood Ring, Real Vampires caught on camera... I can't find the answers I need and this makes me feel worst than when I started searching to guarantee myself he's not really a danger for me. Everything screams he is a monster and he will take my life, louder and louder.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc2MhcNTVXV
I click on another stupid article about The New Blake's Painting. I read some words about the painting he made for his family, then I finally find something useful. I raise on the chair and I read:388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeIVvwbvcbx
“...he created the ring with his blood. - This is an eternal union promise.- He says. - The woman I'll give this ring to, can dominate my world as I do. This jewelry will give her everything she ever wanted and give her to me. Her heart and her mind will be mines, under my control... -”388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAMYUR0Hofn
He controlled me. That's why I've never been afraid of him. But... when we are far, I feel empty, with and without the ring. Why did he choose me among all the wonderful girls at his party? I'm not special, just a good girl, the embarrassingly clumsy type that spends her time helping the others without expecting a return, easily analyze people thanks to her sensitiveness at the point of being creepy and wait for the prince the destiny chose to save her from this evil world.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBNFYHp1vEe
«He's mine.»388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0gI52whk5t
I close fast the PC, turning on my desk chair. Nora is leaned on the opened door side, looking at me with narrowed eyes.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmkIlciv73Z
«Are you deaf?» She raises her voice enough to make me feel her anger and not be heard by mom and dad.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBpxM2OXFSE
«No.» I say. I take the ring from my pocket, thinking about when I faced her. It's your fault, isn't it? «He's yours.» I throw the ring to her and she gives me a triumphant smirk, walking away.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPC5KSeExst
I lay on my bed and I close my eyes, enjoying the new satisfying sensation that possesses my body: freedom.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjuoMPSPsaB
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I rub my eyes, listening to the relaxing sound of cars and rain. It feels so good to lay under the blanket when everyone is running to go to work outside in the cold, grey morning. When I was a little girl, my classmates were fantasizing about being rich and famous; meanwhile, I was going in my mom's working space to go home with her and everytime I walked to it I stopped to observe a restaurant. I had my trolley and an umbrella that kept moving on my shoulder, it was too big for a seven year old girl and the wind and the rain were stronger than me, but I could bear anything to see those warm lights and enter in the other world, I was tired of my grey one. In that place there were always many happy families and friends, their chatting was clearly full of joy and it always made me smile. That's what I was fantasizing about: a warm place, a moment of joy and people that I could love and trust.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡItXwutbTKb
I raise up, feeling a tear falling from my cheek to my lips. Its salty taste remembers me I never realized my dream. I disappointed the little me. I can hear her whispering “It doesn't matter, I'm ok. We are ok.”388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Ph90BkyiH
It's 8:30 a.m., I'm still in late for the bar shift. I focus on this to shut my heart beating too hard in my chest. I walk fast to the bathroom, but I stop immediately as a little cream box catches my eye.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpKafWm4ZHt
It's rectangular, some dark stains ruined it. I take it.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAqzeyf9n9S
«Ew.» The stains are still wet, I raise my hand and I see the deep red on my fingers. Its blood.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJoPOEc0wk4
The tears blur my vision again as I open the little box and I see it. I put my hand on my mouth, trying to hold the sobs to not be heard by my parents. I recognize the perfect finger on my sister, whiter than the usual, in contrast with her black nail polish. I take the blood ring on it and the note near it and I close the box fast.388Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh409c1wuK5
Holding the ring, I read the note: “Put it on.”
