Midnight Demons


Prologue:
In a far-far away, but yet not so far away somewhere in London there is a twenty year old lady name Marie Elisa Hart, she has a pale skin white as a snow, a very long black hair straight hair, she has a dark eyes but when you look deeper into her eyes you would notice it has this shadowy brown. She is a kind daughter to her parents and also a kind sister to her two siblings younger brothers. But one day her life change just because of a wish.
Marie Elisa believe in supernatural thing, she believes that faerie, vampires, werewolves, and witch exists in the real world, that they are all real, not just only made up on story that you will read on the book. And because of that in the age of fifteen Marie Elisa always come and go to the city library of London, searching for some fantasy books.
One night e very rainy night in London Marie Elisa found an old notebook from her grandmother’s drawer. The notebook consists several kind of spell magic, but the one that caught her eyes attention is the spell calling for vampires. She took the notebook and went straight to her bedroom. Inside her room she do some rituals. Marie Elisa follows all the instructions from her grandmothers’ notebook.
She light up the three white candles and she sit on the floor. She clears her throat before she is going to cast the spell.
Marie Elisa starts to read the spell. “I’m Marie Elisa Hart calling all the angel and saints to help me and protect me from harm while casting these spell,” Marie Elisa said clearly. “Water, wind, fire, and earth I ask you to guide me.” Marie Elisa stop for a moment while she turns to the next page.
“I wish I could able to see a real vampire,” she continues.
The rain goes harder as she cast the spell; the wind blows like there is a typhoon coming out. Suddenly the window opens and Marie Elisa jerked away. She stood up trying to close the window and fighting against the wind. Before she could close it, someone appears outside the window and it seems he is floating in the air.
Marie Elisa eyes widened, instead of screaming and shouting for help, she only just asks some not-so-helpful question to the man. “Are you a vampire?” she asks.
The man is very tall and handsome. He is pale, paler than an icy snow, he looks like a god from above visits the Earth.
The man didn’t say anything. He smiles to Marie Elisa and after that he attacks her and bite Marie Elisa on the neck. His white sharp fangs sink in deeper on the neck of Marie Elisa, while he is sucking her clean blood.
Marie Elisa cry for agony, all she can feel is that the white sharp fangs of the man sink in to her neck. She thought that her veins are ready to cut through. Before she fainted she able to see the face of the man clearly, the smooth face and the scary red eyes that belongs from the devil.
After that night happened, Marie Elisa Hart is gone missing, her parents doesn’t have any idea where she is. Ten… twenty years pass her parents always keeping the faith alive that there only daughter will come back.
But she never came back.
Not yet.


BOOK MARIE ELISA
Chapter 1
It’s been twenty years pass that I was once a human being. I use the past tense because I was really a human twenty years ago. And if you are asking yourself what am I right now? Well, I’m a vampire now… you don’t believe me? I’m not begging you to believe me, in fact I don’t believe of anything now, there is nothing to believe for if you are already an immortal. I don’t believe in God, I don’t worship him anymore; my first love now is blood. Blood that makes me stay alive. I’m not an ordinary vampire I have powers. Powers to see the past and the future. Psychic? Of course not, and there is one thing I want to tell you I don’t know if I’m a vampire. I just call myself a vampire because I am craving for blood, just like what you read on the books that creature who are craving for blood are vampires.
But my kind doesn’t really know what we are, or what to call ourselves. We look like humans, maybe we are humans who love to drink blood instead of tequila or champagne or a fine wine from Italy. But we are different from humans. We are fast, flexible, have a strength of Superman, of course we are undead, a living dead.
Sometimes I called myself a monster, and if I get tired calling myself a monster a called myself a goddess or a devil. Then a demon the perfect name to call myself or us is a demon. We are the Midnight Demons.
“Hey, Marie Elisa do you love the people here in Los Angeles?” asks Ian Lockwood.
“No,” I said firmly.
I went ahead to the kitchen.
Ian Lockwood is the one who turn me into a vampire, and I blame him for everything of what I become. Because of him my life is ruin forever. I wanted to kill him, but obviously he is way stronger than me. I’m just preparing myself and finding my strength before I could kill him. Ian is twenty-five years of age, technically. His real age is 180 years old.
Ian doesn’t look like 180 years old, he looks like twenty-five. How stupid I am, of course how will you get old if you are immortal. In spite of what he done to me I still found him handsome, because he is tall and have a built body. All in all he is perfect creature.
I’m not only stuck with Ian, I’m also stuck with Paul Lockwood his younger brother, and he is two years younger than Ian. He is also a vampire who lives and walks this Earth for 180 years now. Like Ian, he is also handsome, blue eye; he is like a supermodel. Wait I have to correct this statement ‘I’m not stuck with Ian and Paul, but Paul and I are stuck with Ian’. Anyway Paul is like my angel or my perfect vampiric angel. Paul is the one who teach me how to control my hunger and my thirst. He also teaches me to drink only the animal blood, which we called our own personal vegie diet. I have a huge crush of Paul, but too bad on me he has already a girlfriend named Jennycris, a pretty vampire.
“You don’t like Los Angeles? Everyone love the city of angels,” said Ian while opening the fridge.
The three of us lives on one roof, many people think we are siblings. Except for Ian and Paul, because they are really brothers, but the two of them claiming that I’m their younger sister.
“Well, I’m sorry to disappoint you master Ian, but I really hate Los Angeles, because I’m not an angel,” I said to him.
“Oh,” said Ian. “You are calling me a master now? Hey, my dear Marie Elisa Hart or Marie Elisa Lockwood, you should support me on my acting career here in Hollywood, you’ll never know I’ll win a best actor on Oscar.”
Another fact about Ian he is now a Hollywood actor, which is why we move from London to Los Angeles. “I can’t wait for that. And what is your role? Let me guess a mysterious vampire from a small town, like Edward Cullen the sparkly vampire on the novel of Twilight saga series.”
“Edward sparks when he is expose from sunlight,” said Ian cheerfully. “A real vampire like us doesn’t sparkle. We can expose ourselves under the heat of the sun, in fact we can do sun bathing to achieve the sun-kissed skin. And only stake, a charm stake can kill us,” he said.
Ian is right, only a charm stake can kill us and a charm stake is hard to find and difficult to built it.
I tap the shoulder of Ian, “all I can say is that best wishes to your acting career.”
“That is very nice of yours,” said Ian. “By the way Paul is with Jennycris looking for animal, because Paul doesn’t want to break his vegie diet. Don’t you worry he will bring you a blood too.”
Ian raises his right eyebrow. “Your spice girl pal is here, Posh. I’m just joking, Asabila is here.” Ian looks on his watch. “I think it’s time for me to go. Don’t you worry, you are still my only girl.”
“Shut the fuck up Ian,” I shouted to him.
Ian and Asabila meet on the doorway, when Ian is leaving the Malibu/hunted-mansion.
Asabila is heading up to me, she walk so gracefully like a ballet dancer. “What’s up my friend?”
I didn’t answer.
Asabila lean on the kitchen counter. “Let me tell you this, I think Mr. Ian Lockwood l-o-v-e you.”
When I heard what Asabila said I laugh so hard and it almost like an evil laugh. “Are you kidding me? I rather am alone than to be with Ian. Don’t you know that when I’m with Ian and Paul I fell like I’m in heaven and at the same time hell visits me? Paul is the heaven side and Ian is the lord from hell visits the earth.” I stop for a while. “And the worst part is that when Ian and Paul are fighting, the heaven and hell collide, and they are creating this huge black hole ready to suck up the energy of the world.”
“I know,” said Asabila. “But I’m so jealous on you, because Ian is hot and Paul is cool. And you are living with them.”
Asabila is my close friend; she always thinks that Ian likes me, which is why he turns me into a vampire. But I always laugh every time she said that to me.
Asabila is a very nice and pretty girl.
She lives with Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, the couples adopt her ten years ago the day she become a vampire. It was a long story, anyway Mr. and Mrs. Taylor was the foster parent of the Lockwood brothers before they move out from them. And wherever the Lockwood brothers go the Taylor family follows. Besides Mr. and Mrs. Taylor open their house for me but I neglect it.
“Asabila, I’ve got something to show you,” I said.
“And what is that?” she asks.
“Come with me, in my room.”
I pull something in my drawer and give it to her.
“What is this?” she asks.
“A notebook from my grandmother.”
She opens the notebook and read it page by page. “This is a spell,” she said curiously.
“I know and because of that I became of what I became.”
Asabila look at me strangely. “I thought Ian is the responsible of what you become? You said before, Ian turn you into a vampire.”
“Yes, Ian is the one who turn me into a vampire,” I said. I pull the notebook from her and turn the pages until I found the spell that I used that night twenty years ago. “Try to read this.” I let her read the spell for her.
“The spell for calling a vampires?” she asks.
“Yes.”
“So what is your point now?”
“My point is that… I think there is a spell to make us human again,” I said cheerfully.
Asabila scratch her head. “That is ridiculous. We cannot be human again. Mom and dad said that we would be like this forever. Forever young; forever the living dead.”
“And forever curse,” I added to her.
Suddenly our conversation stop when Paul entered the room.
“Hey,” I said.
“Hey,” he said and smiled to both of us. “The bloods are already in the stock room and we have a month supply of blood.”
“That is cool,” I said with a smile on my face. Being a vampire you cannot help to smile if you heard the word blood. In our world blood is equivalent to expensive jewelry.
That is not only the reason why I smiled. As far as I know I have a big crush on Paul, but it’s only a pure crush. There is no romantic going on between us, he really loves Jennycris and he is loyal to her.
Paul sit on the chair, I guess this is a long conversation on the three of us. “So are you excited on your college days young lady?” he asks.
Asabila and I decided to be enrolled on one of the college university here in Los Angeles, since we don’t have our college degree yet. For the past twenty years I just lock myself in my room blaming Ian for what I become. And for the past twenty years Paul train me how to control myself and not to kill a person, and Paul is confident now that I can get along with humans.
“Yes. Actually Marie Elisa and I have a brilliant idea,” interrupts Asabila.
Idea? Do we have an Idea? I don’t know what Asabila is talking about.
“We are going to find our destiny in there,” said Asabila.
Crap! So she is talking about our destiny. “Asabila we are not going to find our destiny in there.”
“Yes. We are, mom said a lots of vampires there enrolled.”
“She is right,” interjected Paul. “There are a lots of vampires in Holy Ground University.”
Then Asabila grabs my hand. “Paul can you excuse us? I have to kidnap your sister. Don’t you worry she will be safe in me.”
“Sure go ahead,” said Paul.

“Where are we going?” I ask.
“Shopping. And live your life. I know how much you wanted to kill Ian but can you put that aside for now? Because we should ready ourselves for tomorrow class.”
She is right, I should forget about my diabolical plans about killing Ian. How can I kill a vampire that is gazillion times stronger than me?


Chapter 2
When I came back to the Malibu-Mansion I can see Ian is standing in front of the doorway. He leans his body of the doorframe that looks like he owns the world. His caramel hair is reflected on the sunlight that it makes glow brighter than ever the original color.
I try to show him my best smile, even though I’m not in my best mode, to tell you frankly I’m not in my best mode every time I see him.
“Not happy to see me?” asks Ian.
“What do you think?” I said. And I try to push him away so that I can get inside.
The moment I push him, he holds my arm tightly. His thumb finger and his index finger reach at the middle. Try to imagine that, I know how painful it is. I feel like my own bones are breaking and bending into several pieces. I do my best to get away from him, but every time I urge myself to get away, he holds me tighter that if you are a mortal being it make you or could really faint you right away. Thanks God I’m a Vampire, I shouldn’t deal with that.
Ian blue eyes turns into red, every vampire that would get mad and thirsty for blood will transform our eyes into red, scary and unforgettable red eyes.
“Marie Elisa,” he said distinctly. I know you are going to attend your first class tomorrow as a college student.”
“So? What is your plan? To ruin my college days, because that is your expertise to ruin the individual lives,” I can feel that I’m really angry now.
“I’m not going to ruin your college days,” he said. “Anyway there is an important matter I will going to say to you, incase you didn’t know it.” Ian eyes are back into what it is. “Don’t make friends with humans in there. Remember humans are enemies and at the same time our best friends.”
Ian is right humans is our worst enemy and a best friend. They hate us, but we love them, well only their blood.
“Why?” I ask. It’s my first time to witness that Ian has been so serious to what he said.
“Because it is dangerous. There are a lot of humans now that are hunting the vampires, which we are not excluded. And that is why vampires like us hunting them back.”
“So do you mean I should take care of myself? Don’t you worry I can handle myself,” I said flatly.
Finally Ian stop twisting my arm. And for God sake he leaves a red painful mark on my arm. “And let me correct you, I would not ruin your college days, actually I will male your college days unforgettable,” he said before he disappear like a wind.
That was crucial, having a serious conversation with Ian is weird. I mean I never seen him like that before, and it seems he cares on me for the first time.
The weirdness is gone when I need some blood in my system.
I went to the stock room where the bloods are placed. This is awesome; I can smell the blood of the polar bear and my favorite the blood of the lion. Asabila once said to me that humans blood are more delicious than animals, but I never taste the humans blood before so I cannot tell you the difference for now. Paul never allowed me to taste the humans’ blood; he doesn’t want me to be addicted on it.
Even though Asabila drinks the humans’ blood but never in her vampire life kill a person. The Taylor family will just order a blood from the blood bank.
As what I said Taylor family doesn’t kill a person to drink a blood. Vampires like us, well, civilize vampires will just take a blood from a blood bank, to hide our true identity. But for Ian, he go on both ways, he is not scared to drink a blood from a direct human.

“What happen to your arm?” asks Asabila.
“That stupid Ian Lockwood did it,” I said.
The mark still there, not even make-up can cover it.
“Why?”
“Because he is a brutal vampire, didn’t you know that?” And I put the headphones to my ears to stop the conversation.
Asabila just continue driving as we went to the Holy Ground University. I wish I would meet a vampire that is stronger than Ian and will help me to kill Ian.
Asabila and I takes separates way, her class is in the other building and mine is in the main building. I am amaze when I get inside to the building because when you try to look outside the walls is cover all in bricks so it came to my mind that the building is pretty old. But when I get inside everything is opposite from the outside. Everything in the inside is so modern and bright.
As I headed to my first class, which is world history, the students are staring at me from head to toe. I think they are curious why I’m so pale. I remember what Jennycris said to me, that I should go to tanning salon to tan my skin; I should really take her advice next time.
When I’m already inside the classroom there are only four students sitting on their chairs. So I choose the beautiful position for me to sit, I choose right beside the window. I really love exposing myself into the sun.
“Fifteen minutes before the class started, maybe that will explain some students are not yet here,” I said to myself.
Let me take you back from the past. Eight years ago, I’m struggling to control my hunger and thirst for blood. And it’s been ten years that Paul and Ian lock me in the house so that I can stay away from the humans; it was the most painful thing that I’ve been through in my life.
I can still remember how I escape the house just to see my family but Ian and Paul are faster than me before I get able to see my family. They already captured me and lock me again in the house. They are afraid that I will kill my family, while I’m so desperate to see them.
And suddenly the door opens, and I realize that I’m back in present time again. Our professor gets inside. I try to look around the room is already filled with students.
“Class keep quite,” said the bald headed man. “I’m your world history teacher. My name is Raymond Smith,” he said.
When I’m trying to stare at him I can see that he has a terrible past, he was always bully when he was in High school. But his future is not that bad a few years from now he will be the next director in the University.
When I was turn into a vampire there is a little tragic change in me, I can able to see the past and the future of the people, not all the vampires has their own abilities. As far as I know only Ian, Paul and me have a power. Ian power is to read the minds. But he cannot read my thoughts; he always said that I have a mental illness that is why he cannot read my thoughts. Paul has the healing ability, which is so cool.
“I guess there is no need for me to orient you guys, since you are already third year students,” said Mr. Smith while he is reading his list of students. “Wait a minute there is a freshman here and her name is Marie Elisa Lockwood.”
Shit! That’s me.
I change my surname from Hart to Lockwood since the Lockwood bothers claiming that I’m their sister.
“So, who is Marie Elisa Lockwood?” asks Mr. Smith.
“Guilty,” I said.
Everyone stares at me.
“So, how are you related with Ian Lockwood, you know the actor,” ask the other students who looks like a punk loser.
“We are not related,” I answered immediately. It is true were not related, and I will never in my life consider him as my brother.
Mr. Smith clears his throat. “Marie Elisa, why are you taking up third year class?”
“Just address me as Elisa,” I corrected him. “Well, I take this subject because I love history, simple as that.”
“But you are just a freshman. Are you sure you can get along with the third year students?”
“I’m pretty sure and confident that I can cope up with the lesson.”
“You must be brave,” said Mr. Smith to me.
Five minutes pass someone get inside the room. He is so tall and handsome, he has a broad shoulder, he is the most handsome human creature that I ever seen.
“Mr. Richardson you are late, and please find your sit,” said Mr. Smith.
He sits beside me and he smiled. “Hi, my name is Aaron Scot Richardson.”
“I’m Marie Elisa Lockwood.”
Aside from his good looks I’m worried; for the reason I cannot able to see his past neither his future. There is something mysterious on this guy.
Chapter 3
I wonder where is Asabila now, it’s already passed five in the afternoon, and she said to me that we would meet at the old building exactly five. Most of the students here in Holy Ground University came from another state, so most of them live in their dorm or apartment. I wanted to have my own place but Paul doesn’t want me to live on my own, and I have no choice but to stick with them.
Five minutes pass I receive a text message from Asabila, she said that she couldn’t able to pick me up, for some reasons I don’t know.
I grab all my stuff and decided to ride a bus or whatever can take me home.
As I walk by I always thinking that I should just run so that I can reach to the mansion earlier. Vampires are so fast like a speed of wind, but Paul reminded me that I should low my profile and keep acting like a human.
Suddenly there is a blowing of horn behind me; I look around to see who it is. The car slow down and stop where I’m standing, the window roll down and its Aaron Scot Richardson.
“You need a ride?” asks Aaron.
Before I could answer his question he opens the door for me, “come on get inside I’ll drive you home.”
I get inside the car.
Holy Ground University is 30 minutes drive to Malibu, and on that 30 minutes I don’t know what I’m going to say to Aaron, I should just neglect his offer but it’s not good for me to that. The worst is that I cannot able to see his mind and thoughts.
“So where do you live?” asks Aaron.
“Malibu,” I answered dryly.
He smiles, “so you are rich?”
“No.”
“Well, everybody who lives in Malibu is the rich and famous people.”
“I’m sorry to tell you but I’m not included to everybody,” I said.
To tell you honestly I’m not rich, I don’t need money to live I’m a vampire all I need is blood.
Of course I didn’t said that to him, I’m not yet crazy.
“Okay, calm down I believe you,” he said.
Suddenly I don’t understand what I feel, I’m having this worst nausea ever in my vampire life, my gums is hurting me, I feel like I’m choking. I only feel this when I’m thirsty, I can smell the blood of Aaron, and I’m fighting myself not to kill him.
“Are you okay?” I think Aaron already notice my dizziness.
“Yes,” I lied.
Finally we already here in the mansion, “stop the car.” I climb out from the car. “Thanks for the ride.”
“Hey! Wait,” he shouted.
I didn’t bother to look back, I just continue walking, I feel like my fangs are ready to open his veins and bite him. I straight ahead to the storage room and drink a lot of animals blood, hoping my thirst will be gone like a magic.
When I open the door Ian is standing in front of me, and I jerked out. “You give me a fright.”
“Really? Do I look like a ghost for you?” said Ian.
Not only a ghost, but an evil ghost, I wish I could tell him.
Instead I said, “Get out of my way.”
To my surprise Ian walk with me, I wonder what he is planning right now and dying to know what games he’s playing on me so that I can prepare myself so that I can defense myself against him.
“I feel human out there,” he smiled. “The moment you arrive.”
“So, is that a major big problem?” I ask.
“Humans can be very dangerous for us,” he explains. “I know that you know how does it feels. To control yourself not to kill that person, I’ve been there Elisa.”
“What is your point Ian?”
“My point is that man is, stop seeing with him before it get worst,” said Ian.
I exhale deeply, “I’m afraid I can’t.”
“Why?”
“Because he is my classmate.”
“Then drop the subject, it’s just so easy.”
I open the door of my room and get inside, “stop messing around Ian.”
Then I shut the door in front of him. I don’t feel sorry about it, he deserves anyway.
What if Ian is right? No! He can’t be right. What if Aaron is dangerous person, but that is impossible he is just an ordinary man.

The next morning I haven’t seen Asabila I wonder what makes her busy? I’m searching for her around the campus, but there is no luck for me.
I sat on the vacant chair, well, at least is the only table that is away from humans. No one is going to sit here and study because it’s creepy and quite. So dark in here, only one little bulb that gives light here. For humans this is so scary but for me it is the right place to hide.
I put my earphones and listen to the music with a full blast of volume. I need to concentrate on something right now, especially to Aaron. Why can’t I see his past and future? I think Ian is right, it just really hard on me to accept that.
“Hey.”
I look up and it’s Aaron again. “What are you doing in here?” I ask on the lame question. Of course he would study in here.
He pulls the chair in front of me to sit down. “Maybe I should the one asking that question. A beautiful lady like you who lives in Malibu with a big mansion choose to be alone and sitting here to be unnoticed?”
“Is that a problem?” I ask immediately.
“No,” he said. “But I know already your secret, that is why you are always alone. You don’t want to expose your true image.”
What? Does Aaron really know what I am? What am I going to do? Should I run? No, that is such stupid idea. Oh! Come on Elisa please think straight, but this is not the right time to think, this is the right time to act. Really, is this the right time to act? Shit! I don’t know what I’m going to do, I should stop thinking, and I should tell Paul and Ian. Maybe I should kill Aaron now, not a good idea again.
Aaron smiled, his crooked smile that I always like, but not this time. “Calm down, don’t get panic so fast. Actually I’m not going to tell your secret to everyone.”
“What?” that is all I manage to say.
“Your secret is safe with me, that Ian Lockwood is your brother.”
It makes me laugh that he is talking about Ian. I know how famous is Ian now you cannot blame the people. Boys want to be like him and girls want to be with him.
I’ve seen Asabila in the far side of the library, with a worry face. When she found me, she walks directly at me.
“Hi,” said Asabila. Asabila face becomes paler and paler, and then she closes her eyes.
“Are you okay?” I ask.
“We should go now,” said Asabila firmly.
“Aaron I should go now, see you around,” I said to Aaron.
“Okay,” he said.

I don’t have any idea why Asabila is hurrying up? We went to the school parking lot.
Asabils give the key on me of her car, “drive the car Elisa.”
“Okay.”
I think Asabila is not fine.
“What is wrong with you?” I ask. I’m concern now.
“Just drive the car fast,” she said almost shouting.
“What’s the rush?”
“I’m thirsty, I cannot explain it now, at this crisis moment all I need is blood.”


Chapter 4

At last Asabila is okay, she already drink the animals blood, though she doesn’t like it, it satisfy her for a moment.
The moment I saw him, I feel so thirsty. I don’t know why.” Said Asabila. She meant Aaron, I have a feelings she doesn’t like him.
“Who?” Interjected someone.
And that someone is Ian Lockwood.
“Can you give me the name Asabila?” asks Ian.
Asabila opens her mouth without a word came out.
So, I decided to tell his name. “His name is Aaron.”
“Oh! Aaron who?”
“Aaron Scot Richardson.”
“Nice name,” Ian complemented. Then he leaves.

When I’m alone in my room, I decided to fix all my stuffs, I found my room so chaos. Every time I try to arrange all my stuffs it only turns out to be messy and unorganized. But tonight is different, my room is perfect, and I don’t have any idea on it. Suddenly I think about Aaron, ever time I’m with him all I can feel is pain; I’m always try to control myself not to kill him, even though it hurts me, but it feel so good. And I already get used to his presence.
I look outside the window to clear up my mind. I’m so glad that Ian cannot read my thoughts.
After a few minutes looking outside, I’ve seen someone standing someone on the other street, and its Aaron. Vampire has a clear vision on the dark. I can clearly see his brown hair and his brown eyes. I wonder what the hell is he doing in here? Does he see me? Is he staring on me? My room is on the second floor, and I doubt he could able to see me. I notice Aaron is dialing his cell phone, a few seconds my phone rings.
I answer my phone and wonder who is it. “Hello?”
“Hi,” the voice sounds like Aaron. And it’s really the voice of Aaron.
“Hey, what are you doing outside our house?” I ask.
“I just wanted to see you and I miss your voice.”
I’m speechless I don’t know what to say.
“Okay, you should get some rest now and I better should go. Good night.” He drops the call already.
I smiled at myself, I don’t know how to react, all I know is that I like Aaron, though he always give me the uneasy feeling, but deep inside of m I can get use of it. I hope Aaron likes me the way I like him. It’s my first time to feel this kind of feeling. It’s like you are floating on the outer space, it’s like the winter flakes covered by the summer bloom, like the ocean and the moon collides.
I was too late to notice that someone entered my room, and it’s Paul.
Paul Lockwood is the only creature I know who truly cares on me, Paul is the younger brother of Ian and they are way different from each other except that they are both good looking handsome man.
Paul walk closer to me, “come with me at the living room.” His angelic face is very serious the tone of his voice seems that there is something wrong.
“Why?” I ask curiously.
“There are important matters we have to discuss.”
“We? Important matters?”
“Yes,” he said.
What does he mean important matter? Does Paul going to leave me alone? Is he coming with Jennycris? And the worst part is that I’m going to stick with Ian that is why Paul wants to discuss the important matters. Maybe Paul is afraid that Ian and I will be fighting on each other and we can create a world war III. Because the fact is that I can’t stand Ian, and Ian loves to ruin my life. We are like the cat and mouse, loves to hate with each other.
I followed Paul, as I walk downstairs, I notice that the living room is crowded. Mrs. Emily Taylor and Mr. Robert Taylor are here, and Asabila is also here. Mike and Rica are here too, what are they doing in L.A? And what are they doing in our house?
Mike and Rica are long time friends of Ian and Paul, they are originated from Scotland, but 80 years ago they move to San Francisco. All I know they get married two years ago, but they just renew their vows after 89 years of marriage.
Rica stay the same, she’s still pretty and have the curly dark free tangle hair that I really admire. Her dark eyes stays on focus, and Mike is more handsome than ever.
As I walk to the living room I’ve seen Ian is on the mini library, his face is so compose and worried. Whoa? It couldn’t be, he doesn’t know the word worry, so how can he be worried? I stare on his blue eyes for a while, his eyes are like the ocean the deepest ocean that you can imagine, so blue and worry free, but not this time, his eyes are so tired and focus on something.
It seems like he is talking to someone, but I couldn’t seen it. Maybe he is talking by himself. Maybe Ian would confess to everybody that he is a lunatic creature that will surely end up at the mental hospital. I almost laugh on my thoughts.
The moment Ian notices me staring on him, he close the door immediately.
Paul grabs me to the living room, and the moment I step inside the room, everyone stares on me. Their eyes are locked on me, I smiled on them hoping they would smile back to me. But they didn’t, instead Asabila run up to me and hug so tight, like I’m one of her teddy bears.
“I’m glad you’re okay,” said Asabila shaking in horror.
Jennycris pulls Asabila away from me, “Elisa, don’t mind her.”
“Oh! Elisa, Asabila just miss you,” said Mrs. Emily. Her voice is so calming like she could vanish away all my random thoughts. “Asabila miss you my dear, and she is happy to be here again.” Mrs. Emily kisses my cheeks. “If you excuse us for a while Elisa,” said Mrs. Emily.
Asabila and Mrs. Emily went to the other side of the room, so that no one could hear their conversation.
I can sense that there is something they haven’t told me. I sit beside to Rica. “Rica, I miss you,” I said and I hug her.
“I miss you too,” said Rica happily.
“What’s going on? What brings you here in L.A? You and Mike.”
Mike went over to me, and shakes my hand. “Just nothing, but perhaps we should catch up later, okay?”
“Okay,” I said.
Asabila and Mrs. Emily are back in the living room.
Ian the not so great is also here in the living room with someone I don’t know. I think I already seen her before but I can’t remember where and when. Her long bright red hair is familiar; well she is really familiar to me.
Ian stands on the center, “everybody this is Honeylette.” Ian stretches his hands to Honeylette.
Ian step aside and let Honeylette take the floor.
Honeylette starts talking. “I think I should not further this, I should be direct to the point,” she said.
“I hope you all know that our lives are in danger now. They are hunting us, wanted to kill us, and to terminate us in this planet. And this time our enemies are the humans,” said Honeylette firmly.
Oh! I already remember her; she is the one who works on the High Councils of Eternals. High Councils of Eternals is the organization of the vampires. They are the one who make all the rules and to make sure that the vampires doesn’t kill an innocent human, most of them are the old ones.
Old ones are the original vampires, the first vampires in history. They live in the world around 600 years already, they are stronger that can you imagine.
I stand up. “You are the one who works with the High Councils of Eternals. Right?” I ask her.
She stares at me for a moment, and then she flip aside her long radiance red hair. “Yes. Why?”
“So if you with them, why are you here? Why are you saying this kind of stuffs? Humans are not our enemies, I guess we are the enemies of the humans,” I said without thinking.
She bleak for a second, “yes, you’re right, and at the same time you’re wrong. Yes we are the enemies of the humans, and because we are the enemies of them, they are hunting us down. Makes sense Marie Elisa?”
“But…” I’m having trouble to what I’m going to say next. Thanks God I manage to pick up all the words again. “But we are stronger and faster than humans. So, how can they defeat us?”
Ian step up in the scene, “and that is what she is trying to explain, before you interrupt her.”
“I’m sorry, I’m just confuse,” I said.
I get back on my seat, and feel embarrass to myself. If I just patience enough to listen, I would not end up like this.
“Well, where are we now?” said Honeylette. “Okay, this group of humans are here in Los Angeles, we just track them up a few weeks ago, but we don’t have any idea who they are. But we already have a hint who are these guys.”
“Ms. Elisa, please listen carefully to this portion, this is what you’ve been waiting for. How can they defeat us? Simple, they would not fight against us, because obviously they don’t have the capability to do that. The only thing they can turn us apart is the potion. A potion that the evil witches made, it contains a substance of flower that will make us weak. And if they are going to inject that on us, it is easy for them to kill us,” said Honeylette.
Mike raises his hand. “Do you mean, they also have the magical charm stake?”
“Yes,” answered Mr. Robert. “They already have it, in fact the war lock may also known the evil witch helped them.”
“I don’t like this kind of conversation, I think I’m going to throw up,” said Asabila.
Asabila went to the kitchen and I followed her.
“What’s the problem?” I ask. “I saw you face earlier, you seems so scared, like you are afraid that I’m might get die.”
“It was nothing, I just miss you. That’s all.”
She is lying; she cannot even look me in the eye. “You know I don’t I buy your answer. You cannot hide anything from me.”
“I promise it was nothing.”
“Asabila is right, Elisa. It was nothing,” said Ian.
Why does he always do this?
“Asabila, your parents are waiting on you. I think it’s time for you to go home,” Ian said to Asabila.
Asabila left the house. Mike and Rica are coming with them.
“What’s wrong?” I ask Ian.
Ian stares on me, I can feel the burning of his eyes. I can see his blue eyes clearly; it’s like the color of the ocean painted the morning sky. Even though he has the most amazing blue eyes, it cannot hide his worries, it’s like the blue sky covered a thunderstorm and the ocean is cover by the darkness of the sky.
Finally he began to speak. “I want you to take care of yourself. I promise I will protect you from everything.”
I don’t understand what he is trying to mean. But the Ian I know before is not the Ian I see now he is different. Is there a possibility that Ian would change, and we could be friend?


Chapter 5

I’m having trouble coping my pace, it’s like you are chasing a ghost but in the end you are the misguided ghost. I still don’t get it why Ian said those words at me? When he said those words it feels like it’s the end of the world.
“How are you?” asks Aaron. I think he is in the class a while a ago and I just haven’t notice because I’m having a busy thoughts. And I think Aaron breaks his record, he is not late today.
I scratch my head trying to think of suitable answer. “I’m okay.” I lie. I have to lie; I don’t think he has the right to know how I am right now.
After the class I headed to my locker, when Aaron grabs my hand and pull me into him, it seems my world is in slow motion and I can hear my own heartbeats when he hold my hands.
“Come with me, I want you to show something,” said Aaron.
I follow him into his car, he didn’t say anything to me, he just hold my hand so tight, afraid that I could escape from him. I don’t have any idea where are we going; all I know is that I’m in his car. I think it’s a long ride. Every time I watch his face it only drive me crazy, every single of me is dying to be human again, in that case if I’m human again, I could be with him forever.
The car stops, I realize we are in the woods, and I don’t think we are still in L.A. “Where are we?” I ask. I don’t think he heard me; my words are almost a whisper.
He sighed and smiled at me, “we are in my favorite place.”
“This is your favorite place? In the middle of the woods?”
It’s strange for a normal person to come here and claim it’s his favorite place. This place is not safety for humans, and it’s not a friendly place to hang out. I’m pretty sure there is a fox here ready to eat you alive and crumble your own bones. And it only makes me sick when we stay here a little bit longer.
He comes closer to from where I stand. “I don’t want to hurt you. I already love you before I met you,” he said it like he mean it.
“I don’t understand,” I say. I wanted to say I love him too, but I’m still confused.
Without a notice he kiss my lip, and I kiss him back. Our world or my world stop in just like that. I’m defenseless now, I can’t avoid him anymore, and he already owns my world. He is my world now.
And I push him, when I almost tempted to kill him. His blood. I can smell his warm blood, and I don’t want him to get hurt because of me. This is only one of the reasons why I don’t want him 100%; I could only get him killed, if only I’m a human I don’t have to worry this anymore.
“I’m sorry,” I said.
“It’s okay. I understand, I push you to the limit, I’m sorry too.”
As we walk on into the woods, his arm is wrapped on my waist. It feels so good to know that someone love but the painful side is that he doesn’t know the real me, what if he will know everything? I’m sure he would run away from me and wish he would not ever met me or even seen me. I don’t want him to get scared and I don’t want him either to avoid me.
After a few minutes of walk, I see a small cabin, “is that your cabin?”
“Yes,” he response.
We get inside the cabin and the moment I step inside, I can see a lot of pictures of me. Why the heck he has a picture of me? Everywhere I turn around all I can see is my picture.
“Can you explain this to me?” My admiration to him is suddenly gone.
He pulls me and touches my face to calm down, “that is why we are here. I want you to know everything.”
He walks around the room and get of some pictures of me. “I know what you are,” he pauses for a while. “You are a vampire, a blood sucking creature a demonic creature, but yet vampires are the most beautiful creature in the world.”
My heart beats so fast, like a drumbeat that would not stop. I want him to shut up. I don’t want to hear it anymore. I thought he loves me, but why he is talking like this? It’s not my choice to be a vampire? It’s was never my choice, God why are you forsaken me like this? If only God is a genie I would wish I would be back what I am before.
Being a vampire is not an easy life; I force to leave my family. My grandmother, oh! I miss her so much. I miss my family, but I have no choice but to leave them in order not to kill them.
He paused, searching for words. “But I’m not afraid of you, I don’t care if I put my life in stake, because all I need right now is you.”
I want to believe him, all the things that he said. But at this moment I don’t know what to believe. “Tell me who you are.” I face down searching for nothing. The world hates me, and here I am stare blinded on this silly life.
“I’m a hunter, a vampire hunter,” he said slowly and precisely. “My father is a vampire hunter. He already killed a dozens of vampires, but be is old to track a vampire, so he decided to past it to me two years ago.”
“Then?” I want to know more, I want to know him better even though it kills me.
He took a deep breath. “Then without a choice, I accept it. And I get introduce to the other vampire hunters. Hundreds of vampire hunters, two years ago our leader gives me a mission.” He closes his eyes and controlling his grip. “Mr. Robinson our head master give me an assignment,” he stops again.
“And what is that?” I ask.
“To kill you,” he said.
My world stop, my undead body wants to die.
He holds my hands that are shaking heavily. “He give me all the details,” he continues. “He give me all your background and your pictures, but the moment I saw your picture, I already like you I know its sounds so crazy but there is something about you I cannot explain. I know you not that bad at all.”
“You are going to kill me?” I ask. The man that I love wants to kill me. My knees gets weak and I’m running out of time, I can see the light of death now. Any moment from now I’ll be dead. Though I’m stronger than him, I cannot fight him out.
“Yes, including your brothers and the Taylor family,” he added.
“How much do you know about me?” I want to run away, to tell Ian and Paul about him, but I’m weak. How could I love the person who wanted to kill me? It’s like you are meant for each other, but not meant forever.
“Enough to kill you, but I can’t Marie Elisa.” He holds me again. “I can’t kill you, and I can’t kill your love ones. Loving you is a betrayal in my group, but I’ll face what are consequences.”
“But we cannot live like this, Aaron. Love is not enough for us to survive, I can’t be dead, and if you are going to love me I’ll just put you in harm.”
“I don’t care.” Then he kisses my forehead. “I don’t care as long you are with me. We can hide from them.”
“Hide? Where?” I ask. It’s a good idea and at the same time the stupid idea I ever heard.
“Laguna Beach,” he said firmly. “Marie Elisa, do you want to come with me?”
For the first time in a long time someone called my complete name. It’s strange to hear it.
“Marie Elisa, do you want to come with me?” he asks again.
Yes… No… I don’t know. Yes, because I want to be with you, and no because I don’t want Ian and Paul gets mad on me and I will just upset them if they will know.
“Of course I’ll come with you.” After all I agree to come with him, besides I don’t want Ian and Paul to get in trouble. If the vampire hunters know about our forbidden love my love ones will get hurt. So I decided to let Ian and Paul to consider that I’m dead, that they cannot see me forever.


IAN LOCKWOOD
Chapter 6
Dear Journal,
Tonight is the night that I turn Marie Elisa Hart into a vampire twenty years ago.
Though it’s already twenty years pass, I still hate myself of what I’ve done, the pass is still hunting me, the lonely escapade that I regret it, because of me the life of Marie Elisa Hart has change forever. She hated me why I turn her into one of us, into one the creature of evil. She hates me for what I’ve done to her, well, I can’t blame her, and after all it’s my entire fault.
To tell you honestly, I don’t have any idea why I’m putting this right now on my journal. Maybe because I’m just running away from all the problems that I’m dealing right now, and I think I contributed something of the problem. Marie Elisa is missing and it’s been a month already. The High Councils of Eternals declared that Marie Elisa is indeed dead, but it doesn’t me, I know she still alive.
What if she is really dead? No, she is not. I can sense her thoughts. I know she still in the state of California.
The only thing that Marie Elisa, didn’t know is that I can read her thoughts. She thought… well, everyone thought I can’t read her mind, I lie to her, and I lie to everyone. It’s the only way I can determine her what she is thinking.
I have plans; I’m going to find her, to save her from that stupid Aaron Scot Richardson.

“Paul, can you get yourself a room? Both of you!” I shouted on the other side of the room. Paul and Jennycris are flirting with each other at the living room. The worst part is that I can hear all their thoughts. Have they forgotten me? I can read all the things in their minds.
“Oh! Come on guys, just stop it,” I complain. I cannot handle their public of display of affection.
Paul stares at me, “perhaps you’ll be the one to get a room.”
“Me? Why me?” I ask. For the love of God! Why it always be I’m the one to understand on them? “Can’t you see I’m watching a basketball game? It’s Lakers and Suns.”
“When are you a fan of basketball? I thought you hate that game?” said Jennycris.
“That was 75 years ago,” I explain. I hate that sports, but I’m living in modern days now and I have no other choice but to blend with the others. “Whatever guys, I’ll just leave the house.”
Paul stands on his feet, feeling guilty of his action. “You don’t have to leave. Besides the media will follow you the moment you step outside this property. And don’t be over dramatic it doesn’t suit you.”
The media. Of course they will follow me. One of my plans is to be an actor; I just wanted to blend with the others, so that no one could guess what we truly are. “I don’t care just let them follow me. And I’m not acting over dramatic okay? In nature I’m kind and understanding.”
“And now you are being a kid, Ian,” says Paul.
“I have to leave now,” I said.

I went to a locale café. I cancel all my projects and guest shows; actually I stop pursuing my acting career. It only makes me laugh to remember that I’m doing stupid things like being an actor. My only goal for now is to find Marie Elisa. Everyone believes that on the news that Marie Elisa is dead. But they can’t convince me to believe what they believe. And I believe that Marie Elisa still alive.
“Hey, master Ian,” said Elisa.
That what she always calls me “master” when she tries to pissed me off. Every time I close my eyes all can see is the memory of her. How she stares at me, how she hates me, and how much she wants to know my early life. Of course how can I forget how much she wants to kill me.
“I know that there is a part of you that is vulnerable,” she said to me when we are in London four years ago. “What would you do if I’m going to run away from you? Would you be happy or pissed off? Probably you’ll be pissed off.”
“I’ll throw up a party,” I said.
She brushes her hair by her hands before reacting of what I said. “You are so mean. Well, one of these days I’ll run away from you.” Still she manages to able not to shout on me.
“When?” I ask eagerly. Even though I know the answers.
She stares at me for a moment, “I don’t know.”
Yes you know it, why she has to lie on me? But there is no need for me to hear it from her mouth to be able to know the answer. Thank God I can read her mind. She’ll run away when she is going to find the love of her life.
The love of her life. Which would be Aaron. Aaron would just kill her.
I open my eyes to go back in reality. I should tell her earlier about Aaron, in that case this wouldn’t be happening.
Aaron is a vampire hunter. Vampire hunters are the one who kill the vampires, obviously that is why they called their group a vampire hunter. They kill all the vampires, when they captured it. Sure indeed, we are evil, a demon, we should not live in this world. But not all vampires are bad; perhaps we are living under the law right now, which the High Councils of Eternals made. A law that forbidden us to kill an innocent human being unless we are being attack or using our abilities for self defense. If any of the law that we’ll break it, it sentences us in death.
“I can see it in your eyes that you are not a stranger.” Elisa is playing her hair while talking to me. “Do you get what I meant, master?”
I try to deny my feelings for her, but the more I ignore it, the more the feelings get stronger. She is the only one who brought me in the bright side. I hope one day she will understand me why I turn her into a vampire. Without her, my life is nothing. After living in the dark side of my life, I found the missing piece puzzle of my life. The moment I saw her she gives me a reason to live again in the bright side.
I raise my eyebrow. “How come I become a stranger at myself?”
“I didn’t say that, you are the one who said that. What I’m trying to point it out is that you are not that bad at all.”
Elisa is right. She understands me in a way that no one else can comprehend, not even my brother. She look on me in a way that she almost she sees my soul, if I still have a soul, if God still gives me a soul in my demonic days.
I send a message to Paul and it says:
Paul, I’ll be gone for a while, I’ll follow my instinct. If you really believe me, you are open to accompany me on this dangerous rescue mission, my brother. Good luck for me.
I’m starting to drive the car. In some ways I’m determining to pursue my plan, no matter what they said. I’m heading to Laguna Beach, California, it would not take me too long to drive it, and it’s not that far from L.A.
I notice that a car is following me; I look through the rearview mirror to see who it is. The car that’s follows me is blowing its horn. “What the fuck!” I muttered to myself. I park the car along the side of the driveway.
Someone gets out from the car. A girl.
I roll down my window, “what is the problem miss?”
“Haven’t you notice me?” she says.
Oh, come on! I tilted my head as hard as I can. Asabila is following me. Why? “What the hell are you doing?”
“Helping you.”
I climb out from the car. “Why?”
“She is my friend, and I’m helping you to save her,” she said.
Asabila lie to her parents. Of course she can’t come with me this is serious. And she thinks she is strong enough to fight. “How about your parents?”
“They understand me.”
“Liar! Your excuse to them is that you have an educational trip in Washington for weeks. And don’t try to lie on me again, I can read your mind,” I said.
Asabila try to stop me from getting inside the car. “Look, I know you think I’m weak, but I’m not.”
“Really? And when are you starting reading my mind?” I tease her, I love teasing on her, because I know she will just pissed off.
“I promise, I will not be a liability on this.” The tone of her voice sounds like she is begging.
I cross my both arms. “Prove it to me.”
Asabila, step backward, she spread her arms and trying to focus. She closes her eyes hardly, after a moment she lifts up my car. She lifts my car? Home come she can do that? No, my eyes only betray me, but it doesn’t she really lifted up my car on the air.
I step closer to her, “hey, are you the one who did that?” I whisper.
She opens her eyes and my car is on the ground again. “Yes,” she says, trying to meet my eyes. “And I have powers, I can move the things without touching them.”
Powers? Like ability? Come on! As far as I know only Paul, Elisa and I have the power, even the member of High Councils of Eternals don’t have one. Even the older one, they don’t have powers, only the three of us. I’m jealous now. I can’t believe she did that, I think she has greater power than me. “When do you know you have a power? And how come?”
“Not so long ago. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor notice that there is something special on me, and that is moving the things without a direct touch by me,” she said. “And when they found out that I have a power, they teach me how to use it in a right way and I’m only allowed to use it when it’s emergency. They don’t want me to tolerate myself that I’m superior to anyone else because of my power.”
“Well said, Asabila. But how come you have a power?” I ask.
“Why, is that bad?” she asks.
“Don’t answer my question with a question,” I said firmly.
“Well, I don’t know. Is that a problem if I have power? I think you need my powers now, and I don’t see any problem of that!” She shouted.
“Would you stop shouting?” I give her a dreadful look.
“I’m sorry. So, what is your decision? Can I come with you?”
“Yes,” I said. And I can see her face that she is really happy, she thinks she will come with me to the mall for shopping, on this dangerous rescue. “But, before you give me that happy face I’ve got to tell you my several rules.”
She put her hands on her hips. “Rules? You have rules? You are not the president of the United States of America, why would you give me some rules?”
“Because I’m 180 years old vampire and I can kill you easily without mercy.” I snap on her. So when I notice she is frightened on my threat and when she has nothing to say I take advantage to continue my presidential speech. “First, don’t speak when you are not ask to speak. Second, don’t try to make a scene or else you’ll be dead on me. Third, follow what I said. Do you understand?”
“Yes, I understand. Is that all?”
“Yes,”
“I’m glad you only have three rules.”
From all the people I didn’t expect that Asabila is the one helping me. I thought it would be Paul and Jennycris. It must be Paul and Jennycris. Not Asabila. But Asabila has the right to find her friend Elisa; after all they are like sisters.

“Yes, that is only my first three rules. Along the way I’ll tell you my next 97 rules.”

I can remember how Elisa beg me to save Asabila. “Ian, please save her. She is dying.”
“No, I can’t” I don’t want to save Asabila, for the fact that she has no use in my life.
A gun at the jewelry store shot Asabila, when there is robbery going on that moment.
“Another pain on the ass, if I’m going to turn her into a vampire. Do you understand that?” I said firmly.
Elisa eyes are streaming of liquid tears. She is crying like a baby and begging me to save Asabila like a child. I see anger on her face to me, even though I love her that much, I still don’t want to turn Asabila into one of us.
“Well, if you can’t save her, maybe I could save her.”
She is insane at the same time desperate. “Do you have any idea, how painful not to take all her blood?”
The only way to turn someone into a vampire is that that person should drink the blood of the vampire after you drink the blood of the vampire you must experience death to be able to live in the undead world. Sounds so easy but it’s difficult to do it. It takes for years to practice it.
“I can do it.” Another voice came in.
And it’s Paul.
“I can do it, Elisa,” said Paul.
“Really? Well, thank you so much, Paul.” Then Elisa looks at me again like she wanted to kill me.
I can’t do it; the only person that I turn into is Elisa. I promise to myself that if I turn someone into a vampire that someone would be the person that I will love forever. It’s sounds so selfish, but it’s my own perspective.

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