I got super bored and decided to upload another chapter.
This should answer quite a few questions.
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Chapter 7
Andre looked up at me from the mirror, smiled and floated over so he was standing in front of me.
"Andre, how are you here? "
"I'm here, I don't know….what you want me to say, should I leave?" He stated in a sarcastic voice.
I rolled my eyes and continued with my questioning, "No I mean, you're hear holding a full conversation with me and you've been dead longer that forty days. You shouldn't be able to do this."
He pretended to be deep in thought for a while and demanded me to sit down before he answered my question. "Well, there are a few reasons why I am able to be here and chat with you. I have been dead for a while so I have gained more control over my senses and things of that nature. I didn't die in battle so my soul hasn't been tainted with bloodshed; those ghosts seem to feel guilty and not willing to say much, even to other ghosts. You're shadow kissed, so you have a grip on the death world so you sense the dead better. And you're also losing your hold on humanity and the living, that hollow feeling inside is your soul slowly deteriorating, from what…I don't know but it's fading almost like you want to get lost in death." And with that he left the room to avoid more questioning.
What was he saying I'm killing myself from the inside? This is not making sense, he's useless and I was getting irritated.
I decided to do a bit of jogging around the inside of the hotel to take my mind off of things and to get mentally prepared for tomorrow. I changed into track pants and a loose fitting shirt and left my room.
I paced myself and measured my BPM (Beat Per Minute) noticing that it was a bit elevated; for a woman of my build it should be between 60-90 BPM but mine was 109….. Noticing this I decided to cool down with a brisk walk.
Returning to my room I looked at the old fashioned alarm clock by the bed; the clock read 5AM, excellent I had killed some time! I was a bit sweaty so I decided I should shower. I walked into the bathroom and fumbled with the shower knob. Succeeding, I stripped off my clothes, got in and let the boiling water run down my body. And in doing so, something inside me broke.
Tears clouded my vision and spilled over the brim on my bottom eyelids. The warmth of my tears seemed to rival that of the water and dripped off my chin. I crumpled into a heap on the shower floor and held my legs tight to my body burying my face into my thighs. All I could manage to get out was Dimitri's name. I repeated it over and over.
"Di-Dimitri….I'm so so so sorry Dimitri. I should have been there for you." I repeated and my whole body shook in pain and longing. I couldn't focus on anything but my ragged breathing and Dimitri's sweet name that touched my lips. I hadn't heard the bathroom door open or the shower curtain pulled back. All I could feel was that the water stopped scorching my skin and a plush towel being wrapped around me as a pair of strong hands lifted me out of the tub.
I couldn't see and I just wrapped the towel closer around my body and continued to cry. I didn't even care that there was a stranger in my room and I could easily be killed if not worse. The person returned and slipped a shirt over my head, moved my arms through each hole and shimmy it down over my torso. I then felt the mesh texture of basketball shorts on my legs moving further up my body.
The person picked me up and placed me on their lap and smoothed my hair whispering comforting things into my ear. "Shhh. Dorment mon bebe, je suis ici pour vous. Ne vous inquietez pas." I noticed the voice was deep and it soothed me. I sobered up and noticed that I was gripping a shirt in my hands and I was wrapped tight in someone's arms being rocked back and forward.
I took in my surroundings and leapt away from the person I was slowly soaking into. I was taken aback by the person that sat staring me back at me. His long hair was tied up in a tight bun and his emerald eyes were full of concern. His full lips were parted as if he were about to speak. But I began to speak before he could even get a chance.
"Vin?!" I gasped. "What the fuck are you doing here? How did you get in my room?" I was suddenly furious.
He took me in and slowly stood from the bed and walked toward me. "I'm here to help you, I couldn't justify sending you out here alone. And I told the guy behind the desk I was your boyfriend and I needed to talk to you because we got in a fight and I wanted to fix things." He said.
"Okay….How did you find me?" I avowed.
Vin looked uncomfortable as he began speaking. "There's a tracking devise in the GPS system and I've been following you since you left my house…..I was only trying to help you, nothing weird."
"And what made you think it would be okay to just come barging into my room?" I stated while I crossed my arms relaxing some but not fully.
"I knocked for a while and I didn't get an answer, then I heard you crying out to someone named Dimitri and you seemed distressed and I got worried and thought there was someone else in the room with you and they were hurting you….I don't know."
I stood there shaking my head for awhile in disbelief that he had actually tracked me down….and then I remembered him dressing me and I blushed at the thought of him seeing me naked, awkward. I looked at him thinking of what Adrian had said about the soul swords, It's said that the sword was bought by that Guardians family and kept under wraps.
"Vin, what's your name…your real name?" I looked at him strongly.
He sighed and began speaking, "Huh. My real name is…..Vincens Perrin-Nel Beauchamp. But I go by Vin Otes. I see you've figured out that was a soul sword in the trunk of the car and that it has to do with my great, great, great grandfather."
"Yeah I did…why didn't you tell me who you were?"
"Same reason you didn't tell me who you really were. But who cares, I'm here to help you." He said.
I agreed and suggested we go get breakfast down in the lobby because it would be a long day.
After we finished breakfast we went outside and I suggested we take separate cars in case something happened that we didn't expect. And with that we sat off on the road to the house that haunted me in my sleep.....
