Copyright – 'Trust Me' belongs to Undercover Blonde (this is my alias on ). This is an entirely original story and has not been based on any previous published novels.
I acknowledge that the movies "Mad about Mambo' and 'Indiana Jones' do not belong to me.
Chapter 8
In the morning I smiled when I remembered the fun I had had last night. I was glad that it was weekend, Monday I had dance class and I had promised Logan that I'd come in and give a demonstration for a group of teenagers. So I got up and had an immense bowl of Coco pops while watching my favourite movie 'Mad about mambo'. After that I got dressed and stared at the dishes needing washing, I had my radio on loud and was singing to it while I washed dishes. I then hung out the washing and caught up on some much desired reading. At eight pm I started watching 'Indiana Jones', it was only half way through the movie when he came. He stepped into the lounge through the windows I had opened to get some air. Note to self, give him a key to the front door. No bad idea, should I tell him to knock? I switched off the T.V and offered him a chair. I thought of all the questions I longed to hurl at him and chose what I thought was the most important one of all,
"What do I do?" He looked deep in my eyes and started to explain that because he had saved me he and I had to stop these vampires.
"I am an outcast, as you know, so I chose to come and live in this world." So there is another world out there. "This group of vampires are rouge, they enjoy wreaking havoc and they have already killed." I remembered a news headline, 'Mysterious murders'. Were these rouge vampires to blame for this? "They are led by a vampire called Zev." Okay, Zev and his bad group of vampires are adding unwanted stress in my life, and they seem to do it for fun!
"Con, I can call you that right?'' I paused nervously, "What can I, a human do? Why must we destroy them?" He thought for a moment and said
"Con, that sounds nice, almost human," he seemed to drift off and then came back to the task at hand, "We must destroy them, for when I came here I did not realise that I had opened a doorway at Serendipity for others to follow. By destroying them and closing the doorway, your world is safe from vampires again. Yes you're human but I think I can help, by enhancing your abilities with an ancient ritual, but I don't think it has been done before, I'm not sure." A ritual? A vampire ritual? To enhance my abilities! I just stared at him. He wasn't happy, was that because he was helping me- a human? I thought back to what he said about calling him Con- nice, almost human. Cautiously I asked,
"Do you want to be human?" He stood up and walked over to me and pulled me up. He took my hand and placed it on his chest where his heart should have been. Like before there was no heartbeat. He let go of my hand, I let it linger a little then let it drop. I heard him whisper,
"A hundred and fifty years is a long enough time for anyone to live, not to mention living with the problems I have. I don't have the strength my master had to stake myself for it is unbearably painful. Yes I do wish to be human." With those painful words I knew I would do whatever he needed me to do.
"I will help you all I can, but you must go now because soon the sun will come up, sleep well Con." His expression was full of gratitude as he kissed my hand and disappeared out the window. In a half daze I shut the window and crawled into bed, suddenly exhausted. Was I falling for a vampire? NO! I was being compassionate, a human feeling.
