It's been five years since Juri was born. My brother is still as obsessed with her as he was the first time he saw her. I keep wanting to get away from it all. So, in the middle of the night I sneak out and hunt. While it's an awful stress relief having humans run scared when they see I'm not human is the best distraction I can think of.
So, every night I sneak out to get away from it all. Unfortunately no matter what I do I can't block him out of my heart. He's always had a special place in my cold heart since I've been born and I though he had the same place reserved for me. So, I try my hardest to at least block that part of my heart out even if I can't get rid of it.
Unfortunately, today my parents had called Rido and I, their eldest children to a meeting for whatever reason. I know I have to dress formally so, I wear a dress I know isn't appropriate in this time. It's a black dress that falls to the floor without sleeves that is body tight. While here in this post-apocalyptic world where they regressed to like the 1700's it's probably very scandalous however, if this was the 21st century it would be quite formal. I had a human seamstress make it for me.
As I near the sitting room our parents want us to meet in I hear shouting. I know their fighting and I'm contemplating if I should turn back or keep going. 'Well I've come this far' and unknowingly with that decision I decided my fate. So, I just stroll right up to the door and push both doors open at the same time. They slam quite loudly against the walls.
That snaps all attention to me and for five minutes everything was quite. My mother was looking at me like I grew a second head. My father was looking quite angry. My brother on the other hand seemed to be contemplating if he should cover me up or rip the rest of the dress off by the way he was tilting his head.
The silence seemed to stretch on until my mother unexpectedly broke it. In a voice that was so oft I had to strain my ears to hear her she asked, "What do you think you're wearing young lady?"
I know I shouldn't of but I said, "A dress mother can't you see?"
That had set her off from the way her face went bright red, I knew she was going to start shouting when she opened her mouth.
Unexpectedly however, before my mother started shouting she was cut off by my father when he said, "Dear both of our eldest children obviously have problems but, we called this meeting about Rido not Reika."
That actually reminded me of something I wanted to ask them so I did, "If this is about him why did you call me?"
My father answer gives me pause for a few minutes, "Reika while it's mainly about Rido it really affects our entire family."
I know I was kind of annoying him but I had one last question, "Then why aren't Juri and Haruka here?"
My father now is annoyed and it has seeped into his voice, "Because, they are too young. Now let's begin."
My mother takes over from here and her next words blow my mind, "Rido you're getting engaged."
While I'm still opening and closing my mouth in surprise. Rido says, "That's great but, don't you think Juri is a bit young to be engaged already?"
Our parents look at each other and have that silent conversation with their eyes before my father says, "Rido your not getting engaged to Juri your engaged to Shizuka Hio."
That set my brother off because, he started shouting, "Why not?"
My mother joins the argument by shouting, "Because Rido that obsession you have with Juri is very unhealthy."
They just keep arguing back and forth but, the only this going through my mind is 'Engaged to Shizuka Hio.'
Before I know what I'm doing I'm on my feet and shouting, "No, No, No, you can't engage him to her he's mine, mine, mine, mine."
I never understood when vampires had their possessive streaks to me they seemed obsessed. However I knew with the way I managed to shut them up that I probably looked worse.
Before I could diffuse the situation my father then dropped another bomb, "You Reika are engaged to Riu Hanadagi the heir to the Hanadagi clan."
When he said that I was too busy wondering how I'm going to get myself out of this to pay attention to what was happening around me however, when I heard a crash I started paying attention.
Rido had just thrown a chair out of the window and was saying, "If you dare even think about taking her away from me I will kill you."
At the moment I though he was talking about Juri and that hurt me more than the fact he wasn't thinking about me.
So, with all the poise I can muster I get ready for negotiations. My brother lost and was engaged to Shizuka because, he didn't have me on his side now he does.
So, after seven hours of bargaining it all came down to one sentence from our father, "Fine you don't have to get engaged to who we picked but, you have no other option those are the only purebloods available at the moment and you can't marry below your station."
So while I was trying to think of a way to calm them down Rido just said without thinking, "Fine we'll marry each other."
Our parents seemed to accept that but my brain had shut down and the same thing kept repeating in my head 'marry each other.'
By the time I came to I was in my bedroom I looked around and no one was there so I stripped out of my dress and while I was headed to my bed. Rido came barging in, I was fine with it because we had both seen each other naked before. However, I asked him something, "Why did you do it?"
He and I both knew what he was talking about. What he said next made me forever hate that i shared tears over the ass. "Reika I said you'd always be the center of my world so why would you fall for such a trick. I heard you cry yourself to sleep every night, or go out to hunt to try and forget me. It was amusing."
I blanked out when he got to the end and when I came to I was above him trying to scratch his eyes out. However midway I just started crying big, heaving, sobs.
I looked up and started laughing because, in the end he still looked as freaked out to see me cry as he was to first time.
That night he told me everything he told me before Juri was born he heard the maids gossiping about how we were obsessed and our parents would get us engaged to other people. So, he used Juri to get them to stop paying attention to us. It worked in the end but, he couldn't tell me or I wouldn't act as well. I knew I should've been mad or anything other that what I was. Because I was just so damn relieved.
That night we told each other everything we had missed and we fell asleep on my bed holding each other like we used to.
Author's Note
Tell me who saw that coming? did you all think that was going to go that way? Oh, and do you all want a time skip? If you do please say when you all want it to cannon, or anything else you can come up with? Oh and please no after cannon?
