Chapter 11

...Many years later...

Ana got up from her bed and looked at the mirror that stood across her bed. She smiled to see Arthur's spell working.

She saw a 22-year-old staring back with red eyes and white skin. Ana got ready for school, university to be exact. She ate breakfast and ran out the door. Ana opened the garage to her very own Porsche Boxster S that her sisters bought on her 18th birthday, she smiled and sat in the car, when you live for over 200 years you know how to save money. Ana started her car and went on her way.

She parked the car and stepped out, books and binders were overflowing from her arms.

"I need to park closer next time..." Ana said as she sighed and walked through the parking lot, toward the Faculty of Arts where she studied World History. Ana met up with Raivis and sat down in the front row, she liked her classes and she was really good too. They listened to the lecture and took notes, like in high school. Soon after that, Ana went up to her room to rest, she opened the door and flung her stuff to the side as she made her way to her bed and got some rest on the comfy furniture. She woke up to a small knock on the door. Ana got up and opened the door.

"Hello?"

There was a girl, shorter and younger than herself, she had a suitcase and a few papers with her.

"Hi, i'm Lili Vogel, your new roommate!" Lili said as she smiled brightly and held up the papers in her hand. Ana welcomed her and they both sat down on the small couch in front of the TV. Ana looked through the papers as Lili explained that she was also an Art student that was studying Photojournalism.

"You're from...Liechtenstein?"

"I was born in Vaduz but raised in Zurich-"

"In Switzerland?"

"Yeah, where are you from?" Lili asked while she looked around the room.

"Severodvinsk...Russia."

"I've never heard of that place, but Russia seems cool. Oh, what are those pictures there?" Lili said as she got up and went over to the small dining table which was connected with the kitchen counter.

"My family." Ana said as she showed who was who.

"So, where do I stay?" Lili asked with a hint of confusion in her voice.

"Where do you want to stay?"

"The couch seems nice..." Lili said as she skipped to the couch and started to unpack her stuff while Ana was re-organizing the closet for more room to put Lili's stuff in. She turned around and faced the girl.

"Ground rules."

"Fire away."

"No drinking, smoking of any kind, gambling, or sleeping with your boyfriend... I don't want any 'stains' on the couch... or in any other part of the room, if you're into that kind of stuff." Ana said, her voice getting less audiable as she went on.

"Ok, but can my boyfriend visit me here?"

"If he's not staying, yes. I also have a boyfriend that comes over."

Lili pouted as she looked into the bottom of her bag.

"What's wrong?"

Lili held up the gifts her family had given her before coming here.

Pure. German. Beer.

"Beer? If it's open, you'll have to dump it but if it's closed, you can keep it" Ana said as she pulled out her clothes from the closet and threw them onto her bed. Lili smiled and put the bottles in the small glass cabinet like decorations. Lili plopped down onto the couch and looked through her suitcase for her clothes.

"Is this your portfolio?" Ana asked as she held up a large binder-like case with papers falling out.

"Yeah! You can look through it if you want." Lili said, her voice muffled from the stuff she was holding in her mouth. Ana looked through the case of photo's that were about special events.

"Ooh, that group's about the fashion show last week!" Lili said as she abandoned her clothes and started to go through the pictures with Ana.

"This one's about Gilbert."

"Who? And why are there so many animals?" Ana asked as she pointed to the many cats, dogs, and birds next to the man.

"He's my boyfriend, he owns a small animal shelter. I was making a commercial for it." Lili said as she showed more photos. Gilbert was albino and he looked really energetic.

Later, after her class, Ana went back up to her room to eat and rest again. She locked the door just in case Lili decided to show up, and she poured the red liquid into a small glass to drink from. Ana sat down and took a sip of her drink.

Someone knocked on the door.

Ana's red eyes widened as she ran to the bathroom and poured the red liquid down the toilet as she took her toothbrush and was scrubbing her teeth and tongue to rid of the faint tint of red.

"Who is it?" Ana yelled with the toothbrush in her mouth.

"It's me, Raivis!" the man yelled from the other side of the door.

Ana opened the door with a very annoyed face.

"I just dumped my lunch because of you, why didn't you use your keys?" Ana asked as she let Raivis in and went back to the bathroom to rinse out her mouth. Raivis smiled and took out his key, which was broken into two.

"Uh, come and see for yourself." he said with a small smirk.

"What do you mean?..Oh..." Ana huffed and went up to him to get a better look at the two pieces of metal.

"My roommate, Matthias, tried to use your keys for our room's door." Raivis lowered his head and took out his phone to call the front desk for a replacement key. Ana chuckled and sat down on the couch, which was covered in photographs and papers with topics in bullet-point form. The two waited for a good 30 minutes until the floor supervisor came with the replacement key, Ana had to hide Raivis under her bed because the supervisor had wanted to come in and take a peek at the room's condition.

Lili was walking down the hall, she took a right then a left, and went straight down to the room on the 4th right. She opened the door and put her key onto the hook mounted on the wall.