Chapter 10
Upon arriving at Evangeline's house, Chachamaru gave Leona a towel to dry from the rain, she also gave her dry clothes to change into, it was pajamas a little big on her since it was Chachamaru's size, after changing clothes, Leona left the room where she changed and went to the couch where Chachamaru was.
"I'm going to heal your wounds, Leona" Chachamaru said, sitting on the couch looking at her, she had taken from the first-aid kit, a cotton ball and alcohol to heal her injuries.
"Couldn't we let it heal itself?" Leona said looking at Chachamaru with an uncomfortable expression as she sat next to her.
"No, otherwise it will get infected and then it will be worse" Chachamaru said, then passed the cotton with alcohol on Leona's cheek.
"Ow!" Leona shouted with a pained expression.
"Please don't move, I immediately finish" Chachamaru said attending her injuries.
"Again... This reminds me of a déjà vu" Leona thought, narrowing her eyes.
"It is done" Chachamaru said, saving the things in the first aid kit, after having been curing her for a little while. "I'm going to bring you an ointment, the mistress told me it is effective for injuries" Chachamaru said, getting up from the couch. "I'll be right back, with your permission"
"Ok" Leona said, watching her climb the stairs.
"What a beating you received from that dude, you looked like a punching bag, ke, ke, ke" Chachazero said, sitting on a piece of wooden furniture.
"You don't have to remind me about it" Leona said, looking at her annoyed.
"Leona" Chachamaru said, going towards her, besides the ointment, she had a blanket folded over her arm. "This is the ointment" Chachamaru said leaving it on the table in front of the couch.
"You will be sleeping here tonight" Evangeline said in her adult form, standing there with her arms crossed from the stairs. "You will sleep on the couch"
"This blanket is for you" Chachamaru said, leaving it on the armrest of the couch, Leona placed her hands and her chin on the back of the couch and stared at Evangeline.
"What? Didn't you think you were going to sleep with me, did you?" Evangeline said.
"N-No!" Leona said with a slight blush on her cheeks.
"You can retire now, Chachamaru"
"Yes, mistress" Chachamaru said as Evangeline climbed the stairs, but, upon reaching the middle of the stairs, she turned around to look at Chachazero. "Ah, don't think of doing anything to the girl, Chachazero, understood? I don't want to have to wake up"
"I wanted to scare her during the night, tsk" Chachazero said, as Evangeline went to her room.
"Knowing that, it doesn't help me feel any better" Leona said, looking at Chachazero out of the corner of her eye.
"Good evening, Leona" Chachamaru said in a quiet voice and bowed.
"Good evening" Leona said as Chachamaru turned off the lights, then she picked up the blanket, lay down on the couch and covered herself with the blanket.
The next morning, Leona woke up abruptly, breathing in heavily yet swiftly.
"That dream again" Leona murmured putting her hand on her face as she sighed. "Where I am? Oh, I remember, I stayed to sleep here" Leona thought, sitting on the couch looking around.
"It seems that you have not had a pleasant dream, ke, ke, ke" Chachazero said from a piece of wooden furniture, Leona turned around.
"Good morning, Chachazero" Leona said, looking at her.
"You are lucky the mistress didn't send you to sleep on the floor"
"Are you always so kind to everyone?"
"Good morning, Leona" Chachamaru said, coming out of the kitchen.
"Chachamaru... What time is it?"
"Nine o'clock in the morning"
"The classes-" Leona said, getting up from the couch.
"Today there are no lessons"
"Ah, it's true" Leona said looking at her, putting a hand behind her head. "Have you been awake for a long time?"
"From seven in the morning, I take care of the housework, I usually get up early"
"Can... Can I take a shower?"
"We don't have a bathroom" Chachazero said.
"We havea bathroom, Chachazero, you can take a shower Leona, come with me, I will show you it, it is on upstairs, try not to make too much noise when we have climbed the stairs, the mistress is still sleeping"
"Ok" Leona said as she followed Chachamaru up the stairs, when they reached the bathroom, Chachamaru told her where the towels were and also she gave Leona her clean clothes, then she left the bathroom and went to continue with the housework, Leona took off her pajamas and went into the shower, while the water fell on her body, remembered what happened the night before.
"I couldn't do anything against him... And I had to be saved by her, why... How can I be so weak" Leona thought as she traced with her index finger a scar on her chest, it run from almost her right shoulder to almost the waist on the left side, forming a diagonal. "Because of my weakness, I couldn't protect who mattered me the most" Leona thought, suddenly the image of Evangeline appeared in her mind like a flash. "Then think of something to make you stronger"
"She... Tsk, there must be some way to make me stronger" she said putting her hand on the wall and looking downcast at the shower tray. "But why do I feel this way?" Leona said blushing slightly. "It is similar how it was back then, but something different, if it's like that, I cannot let it increase, I don't want to go again through that nor lose someone again, I wouldn't be able to stand it again" Leona said with a serious look. "Well, I have decided" Leona thought, after a few minutes, she left the shower, dried herself with the towel and dressed, left the bathroom and went to the dining room, then, she saw her cell phone on top of a piece of wooden furniture.
"Will it still work?" Leona thought as she turns on the cell phone. "It seems that it still works..." Leona said as she saw that she had messages and calls. "But what the hell- 30 missed calls and 20 messages from Haruna?" Leona thought with a shadow covering her eyes. "I'm going to call her, I hope nothing happened" Leona said, looked for Haruna's mobile number in her phone book and dialed the number.
"Hello?" Haruna said.
"Haruna, I'm Leona, has something happened? I saw your calls and messages..."
"Ah, Leona! No, nothing happened, how yesterday you didn't sleep here, I just wanted to know where you were"
"I stayed at Evangeline's house"
"Really?" Haruna said in a strange voice.
"Yes, why do you say it?"
"Did something happen?"
"What would have to happen?" Leona said, narrowing her eyes.
"Well, after a rainy night, the sky shines with the stars, and the night ends with heat and passion"
"What?" Leona said with a blank look on her eyes.
"Besides, you already know what they say about vampires"
"What is supposed to be said about vampires?"
"Don't you know? Vampires are usually lustful" Haruna said with a funny voice, a shadow covered Leona's eyes.
"I don't know what you mean with that, but I just slept on the couch and nothing else!" Leona said blushed.
"Ah..." Haruna sighed.
"And now, why does she sigh?" Leona thought.
"Well, I have to hang up, see you, Leona!"
"Hey wait-" Leona said, the call was cut off. "I guess she knows that Evangeline is a vampire because she mentioned it" Leona thought, putting her cell phone in her pants pocket. "Anyway, what was that all about?" Leona sighed, turning around, then she saw Evangeline staring at her with her arms crossed over her chest in her ten-year form.
"You... How long have you been here?" Leona said in a nervous voice.
"Not very long, why are you blushing?" Evangeline said narrowing her eyes on Leona.
"Nothing..." Leona said looking away from her.
"It doesn't matter; we need to talk"
"Talk about what?" Leona said as she saw Evangeline going to the couch.
"About you" Evangeline said, sitting down. "There's something I want to ask you; why did they experiment with you?"
"What?"
"You've already heard me" Evangeline said, looking at her.
"Why do you want to know? I thought you didn't care "
"I'm curious" Evangeline said with a shrug.
"And if I don't answer you?" Leona said, staring at her.
"Try your luck" Evangeline said with a smile showing her fangs, Leona muttered something in an annoyed tone and sighed.
"That dude and others were looking for immortality, so they took people and experimented with them... I wasn't an exception, but I managed to escape from that place, they've been looking for me continuously, and that's why that dude came looking for me and take me back to that place" Leona said with an annoyed expression.
"Humans, no matter how many years go by, they never change, look for immortality ..." Evangeline murmured, Leona noticed that she was saying something more annoying but she couldn't quite hear it because she said it in a tone too low. "Then" Evangeline said, addressing Leona again. "What would happen if a vampire transformed you or if you didn't take those capsules, apart from getting out of control, would you feed on human blood? It's something I've been wondering" Evangeline said as Leona seemed increasingly uncomfortable with the vampire's questions. "I'm not a vampire at all, so I don't feed on human blood, so I use those capsules, and if I were transformed, it would accelerate things and I would end up being some creature without control" Leona said.
"So you can't drink blood from a human because you aren't a vampire yet because of that, you substitute blood with those capsules because, even if you tried to drink human blood, you couldn't because you aren't a vampire at all, apart, it helps you relieve thirst and counteract whatever you become, also, you can't become a real vampire either, otherwise you would be a creature with no will of its own that would kill?" Evangeline said with an eyebrow raised, arms crossed over her chest. "I understand the human blood, but the other thing, it is true that there are cases that you can become a creature called ghoul, but it isn't always like that, you know"
"That would be the normal case, but I'm already 'cursed' for what they did to me, converting me into it, would only make what I have sealed, will take over me" Leona said looking away with an expression difficult to define. "People rejected me out of fear, even so... Although it may seem stupid, if I see someone who is in serious trouble I can't help but help, I know how it feels to be afraid and wish someone appears and saves your life" Leona murmured, thinking out loud while Evangeline sighed.
"Putting yourself like that, you won't get anything, that's all I wanted to ask you for the moment"
"For the moment? Ah, you will ask me more questions" Leona said looking at her.
"Maybe" Evangeline said shrugging her shoulders. "Now you can leave" Evangeline said as she picked up a book that was on the table in front of the couch.
"Leave?"
"You don't intend to stay here forever, do you?" Evangeline said, opening the book without looking at Leona.
"Ah, Evangeline..."
"What do you want now?" Evangeline said looking at her.
"I've been thinking about it and..."
"What?"
"I want you to train me"
End of chapter 10. Thanks for reading and sorry for the delay, I would like know your opinion about the story so far in the reviews, it encourages me to keep writing. Also, thanks to Miz-KTakase for helping me with grammar and thanks for the reviews I received! :)