8. When Truth Hurts

It was time. Lily went to Simone´s room and knocked on the door. Silently she opened it and Lily entered. Now it came to her mind that it was her 19th birthday. But noone knew about it and it was good that way. Simone stood there, completely bare. Only a sheet was wrapped around her body. "Are you sure that you want to do that?"

"No. But before I let him rape you I´ll go on my own", Simone answered. It was easy to see that she was scared.

"Will you change your mind on him after that?"

"I don´t know. But I think so."

"Do you know what I think? That you´ve fallen for him and you´ll forgive him", said Simone. Lily shook her head. "No, I´ll never forgive him for that!" But then she realized that it made no sense. It was nearly midnight and there was nothing to do anymore. "I´m sorry, Lily. But you have to accept that he´s a monster. And he will always be."

Lily looked at the ground. She knew that it was true what her friend had said. She hugged her and then let her go.

This night Lily couldn´t sleep. Simone´s screams of fear and pain echoed through the whole castle. She couldn´t imagine that Dracula was able to do that. The screams lasted for a few hours until there was silence. Only silence. Lily left her room and went down the stairs. In the darkest corner of the entrance hall sat Simone. She had wrapped the sheet tightly around her body. Her legs were to her chest and her arms around them. Silently she was crying.

Lily ran to her and for a moment only watched her crying. Simone kept whispering: "I don´t wanna die..."

Then she helped her up and climbed the stairs until she brought her into Simone´s room. Still she whispered those words.

"You won´t die", Lily tried to give her comfort but she just shook her head. "The last woman he raped killed herself. And the one before her died because of a fever. And the one..."

"That´s enough!" She had already noticed that Simone had a high fever. Lily left the room and fetched a pail of water and another sheet. And while she tried everything to get the fever down she kept talking...

"As I entered the room Dracula waited for me. He wore nothing but a long cloak that hided everything. Then he walked towards me, grabbed my shoulders and threw me on the bed. He came down upon me like an animal. He tore the sheet from me and and the cloak from him. He pressed me down and before I could do anything he..."

Simone began to weep. "You don´t have to tell me that! I still can´t believe that he did this to you, so please don´t make it worse!" Lily started to get angry. The hate on Dracula overwhelmed her.

"How late is it?" - "Nearly five. But forget it when you want to work now! I´ll do your work and you´ll lie here and rest!"

"But..." - "No, I will do it. It´s ok."

"But if he noticed he would do something even worse to me or you!" Lily could feel that Simone was scared. "This bastard of count can do with me what he wants but you´ll stay here!"

Lily straightened herself and left the room. Now she had to do all the work for Simone, too. She went into the kitchen and prepared the next bottle of blood for Dracula. But it wasn´t time yet to bring it to him. She wanted to take it on another table but her grip on it wasn´t tight enough. The bottle dropped, hit the stone floor with a loud noise and shattered into a million of pieces. The blood made a red pool.

She was that shocked that she couldn´t move. And she couldn´t hear the footsteps that were approaching.

"What the hell is going on here! Do you want to wake everyone!" Dracula looked at the blood. Lily was speechless and too afraid of doing something wrong.

"Oh, you threw my breakfast around to let me die of hunger?", he kept yelling.

She was glad that he wore something now. But he wore no jacket and his shirt was opened a bit so his chest hair was shown. Lily ignored his anger and stared stupidly at his chest.

He noticed that and looked down at his body and then at Lily. He took her hand in his cold one and placed it on his chest. Her breathing got quicker as he opened his shirt even more. Now she could see his muscles, too. And it felt so good. Stop that! He just raped your best friend!´, a voice said in her head but she pushed it aside.

Dracula made her hand go down that his shirt was completely opened at the front. Then he let her hand go. But Lily´s hand still wandered over his chest, exploring his cold body.

Suddenly he grabbed her by her arms and pulled her in his icy embrace. She shivered at the coldness but let it happen. He began to stroke her hair with the thought: My plan begins to work, soon she will be mine.´

"How does it feel to lie in my arms?", he asked. She purred happily at his chest as an answer. Dracula looked down at the human innocence in his arms.

Then Lily looked up at him. For a few moments they only looked at each other until she began to smile and placed a soft kiss on his cold lips.

"Why did you do that?", he asked in disbelief. "I don´t know. I just wanted to. Was it bad?"

"Of course not. I was only wondering if you´re under my spell and I didn´t notice", he said and pulled her in a deep kiss. With their arms wrapped around each other he lifted her up, pressing her against a wall. The kiss became slower and stopped. "Happy birthday", he whispered.

Lily unwrapped her legs from his hips and stared at him: "How do you know that?" He wiped a strand of hair out of her face. "I know everything about you."


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