Chapter 2
Nessa? What's wrong?'
Smash, another glass breaking.
Nessa turned round with a start, tears down her pale slim cheeks, for the first time since. oh yeah since her Grandma died, 10 years before. 'Mum! I. I thought she was y.you.' She stammered.
The woman stuffed in the breakfast bar and the woman standing. no not standing, leaning against the door frame to the kitchen with glass scattered around her had exactly the same coloured hair and figure, the only difference being that the woman in the breakfast bar's hair was matted with blood.
The woman in the doorway took a deep breath, getting all of her self together, replied in a steady but authoritative voice 'It's ok hun, I'll just try to get her out of there and we can see who she is.' Melissa's long slim figure travelled cautiously towards the broken body. She took hold of the dangling hand smeared and dripping with blood and pulled. The body didn't move. It was wedged too tightly in the bar.
'Ness hun, your going to have to give me a hand.'
'.K' Nessa walked over and gingerly took hold of one of the woman's ankles, sure Nessa Harman was used to blood and all that, she'd had her fair share of it, but not in her own house.
'Ready? 1.2.3' They pulled, and still the body didn't move so they pulled harder until it finally fell sprawled out on the floor. 'Mum. she's you!' Nessa exclaimed.
'Oh My God Julia!' Melissa Harman slumped down next to Julia and cradled her bloody head in her arms.
'My little sis, my poor, poor sis!' She cried. Nessa kneeled down next to her mother and hugged her not knowing what to say.
Mum had a sister? Well that was news to her. She thought her mum was the only child. Her grandparents used to act that way.
An hour or so later, Melissa and Nessa left the mess on the floor and went to sit on the sofa in the lounge with a cup of coffee for Melissa and a cup of hot chocolate for Nessa, though she felt like she was going to throw it up afterwards.
'Nessa.' Melissa started. She didn't know how to explain everything to her daughter, she knew what Nessa did in her spare time, with her little gang who latched onto her when she was 7 years old. Theirry told her first, and after that she began to make the connections herself - Nessa always came home late, muddy and sometimes with a few bruises that she had forgotten to heal. Nessa's excuse was that she fell over or that she got into a fight with some of the outsiders from school. Melissa taught Nessa how to fight for protection in case anyone from the Nightworld started to harass her. She never expected Nessa to use them to hunt and kill them. Melissa just accepted the excuses, she didn't bother to say anything about the vampire hunting, it was better that way. She tried every possible thing to protect her daughter even if it meant telling Nessa that Circle Daybreak is full of Hippies, which she had to do in case she got into trouble with the Nightworld council and that would be a disaster for them all. But it wasn't better anymore. Melissa was worried how Nessa would take it.
'Yeah?' Nessa asked. She was still in shock from finding the body in her own home. No sorry that body now had a name, plus her mum new the body with a name as her sister Julia.
'We need to talk-'
'What is it mum?' Nessa was worried and concerned. After all 'we need to talk' is always a bad sign.
'- And I don't want you to interrupt no matter what, do you hear me?' carried on her mother.
'I hear you,'
'Promise?'
'I promise,'
'Good. Now.' Melissa took a breath. 'That girl you found in the kitchen was called Julia, and she was my twin sister, and she was two minutes younger than me.' Nessa's mouth started to open for a response. 'You promised not to interrupt so don't. Now, we grew up together until we were 17. At that time Julia met a guy called Tom who was a vampire, who also turned out to be her soulmate.' She took a short breath. 'Now you must understand that Julia and myself were really close, even for sisters. We told each other everything, so she told me about Tom and wanted me to meet him, so I said that I would. You know how my intuition of other people is really accurate?'
'Yeah, how could I forget that incident with the pizza guy? Ha ha. sorry'
'Ha ha I remember that. Well anyway. Tom. Well he was the first person, and to this day the only person who I have had a really big bad feeling about, and I mean bad. I told Julia this, but all she said was that she knew that Tom had done some bad things in his life, but he was going to change his way for her. I prayed to the Goddess that he would change that night. In the morning Julia had packed her things and left. Me my mother and father. That is why they never talked about her and why I also never talked about her, it was too painful. I found a note on the dresser in my room, it said err' Melissa looked up at the ceiling trying to remember. 'It said, Hi sis it's me Julia if you couldn't have already guessed by the bad handwriting. I guess this is goodbye. Tom proposed and I have accepted so flying to Vegas to get married! I've never been to America before and cant wait! I'm also joining this society thingy called Troupsin. Toms already part of it and I don't really know what its about, but Tom says that I'll get a kick out of it. Wish me luck for my new life with my soulmate! Love your bestest and only sis Julia. P.S. I'm praying to the Goddess that you'll find your soulmate soon because it's the bestest feeling in the whole wide world! And that was it. I never heard from her again. until now.' Melissa cleared her throat.
'Dou you know about Troupsin?' Melissa asked, raising her eyebrows, she wouldn't be surprised if Nessa had.
'Yeah I found out off one of the.' she coughed hiding her mistake of almost blowing her cover to her mum. 'peeps in my gang, they said it was a secret organisation inside the Nightworld that don't only get rid of outsiders, they also get rid of the peeps in Circle Daybreak, thank Goddess those hippies need to be stopped one way or another.' Melissa cleared her throat.
'What? You've been against the hippies since I can remember, telling me about them hugging outsiders and all that crap!'
Melissa took a long and hard breath.
'Well that's the problem. You see I'm part of Circle Daybreak
Nessa? What's wrong?'
Smash, another glass breaking.
Nessa turned round with a start, tears down her pale slim cheeks, for the first time since. oh yeah since her Grandma died, 10 years before. 'Mum! I. I thought she was y.you.' She stammered.
The woman stuffed in the breakfast bar and the woman standing. no not standing, leaning against the door frame to the kitchen with glass scattered around her had exactly the same coloured hair and figure, the only difference being that the woman in the breakfast bar's hair was matted with blood.
The woman in the doorway took a deep breath, getting all of her self together, replied in a steady but authoritative voice 'It's ok hun, I'll just try to get her out of there and we can see who she is.' Melissa's long slim figure travelled cautiously towards the broken body. She took hold of the dangling hand smeared and dripping with blood and pulled. The body didn't move. It was wedged too tightly in the bar.
'Ness hun, your going to have to give me a hand.'
'.K' Nessa walked over and gingerly took hold of one of the woman's ankles, sure Nessa Harman was used to blood and all that, she'd had her fair share of it, but not in her own house.
'Ready? 1.2.3' They pulled, and still the body didn't move so they pulled harder until it finally fell sprawled out on the floor. 'Mum. she's you!' Nessa exclaimed.
'Oh My God Julia!' Melissa Harman slumped down next to Julia and cradled her bloody head in her arms.
'My little sis, my poor, poor sis!' She cried. Nessa kneeled down next to her mother and hugged her not knowing what to say.
Mum had a sister? Well that was news to her. She thought her mum was the only child. Her grandparents used to act that way.
An hour or so later, Melissa and Nessa left the mess on the floor and went to sit on the sofa in the lounge with a cup of coffee for Melissa and a cup of hot chocolate for Nessa, though she felt like she was going to throw it up afterwards.
'Nessa.' Melissa started. She didn't know how to explain everything to her daughter, she knew what Nessa did in her spare time, with her little gang who latched onto her when she was 7 years old. Theirry told her first, and after that she began to make the connections herself - Nessa always came home late, muddy and sometimes with a few bruises that she had forgotten to heal. Nessa's excuse was that she fell over or that she got into a fight with some of the outsiders from school. Melissa taught Nessa how to fight for protection in case anyone from the Nightworld started to harass her. She never expected Nessa to use them to hunt and kill them. Melissa just accepted the excuses, she didn't bother to say anything about the vampire hunting, it was better that way. She tried every possible thing to protect her daughter even if it meant telling Nessa that Circle Daybreak is full of Hippies, which she had to do in case she got into trouble with the Nightworld council and that would be a disaster for them all. But it wasn't better anymore. Melissa was worried how Nessa would take it.
'Yeah?' Nessa asked. She was still in shock from finding the body in her own home. No sorry that body now had a name, plus her mum new the body with a name as her sister Julia.
'We need to talk-'
'What is it mum?' Nessa was worried and concerned. After all 'we need to talk' is always a bad sign.
'- And I don't want you to interrupt no matter what, do you hear me?' carried on her mother.
'I hear you,'
'Promise?'
'I promise,'
'Good. Now.' Melissa took a breath. 'That girl you found in the kitchen was called Julia, and she was my twin sister, and she was two minutes younger than me.' Nessa's mouth started to open for a response. 'You promised not to interrupt so don't. Now, we grew up together until we were 17. At that time Julia met a guy called Tom who was a vampire, who also turned out to be her soulmate.' She took a short breath. 'Now you must understand that Julia and myself were really close, even for sisters. We told each other everything, so she told me about Tom and wanted me to meet him, so I said that I would. You know how my intuition of other people is really accurate?'
'Yeah, how could I forget that incident with the pizza guy? Ha ha. sorry'
'Ha ha I remember that. Well anyway. Tom. Well he was the first person, and to this day the only person who I have had a really big bad feeling about, and I mean bad. I told Julia this, but all she said was that she knew that Tom had done some bad things in his life, but he was going to change his way for her. I prayed to the Goddess that he would change that night. In the morning Julia had packed her things and left. Me my mother and father. That is why they never talked about her and why I also never talked about her, it was too painful. I found a note on the dresser in my room, it said err' Melissa looked up at the ceiling trying to remember. 'It said, Hi sis it's me Julia if you couldn't have already guessed by the bad handwriting. I guess this is goodbye. Tom proposed and I have accepted so flying to Vegas to get married! I've never been to America before and cant wait! I'm also joining this society thingy called Troupsin. Toms already part of it and I don't really know what its about, but Tom says that I'll get a kick out of it. Wish me luck for my new life with my soulmate! Love your bestest and only sis Julia. P.S. I'm praying to the Goddess that you'll find your soulmate soon because it's the bestest feeling in the whole wide world! And that was it. I never heard from her again. until now.' Melissa cleared her throat.
'Dou you know about Troupsin?' Melissa asked, raising her eyebrows, she wouldn't be surprised if Nessa had.
'Yeah I found out off one of the.' she coughed hiding her mistake of almost blowing her cover to her mum. 'peeps in my gang, they said it was a secret organisation inside the Nightworld that don't only get rid of outsiders, they also get rid of the peeps in Circle Daybreak, thank Goddess those hippies need to be stopped one way or another.' Melissa cleared her throat.
'What? You've been against the hippies since I can remember, telling me about them hugging outsiders and all that crap!'
Melissa took a long and hard breath.
'Well that's the problem. You see I'm part of Circle Daybreak
