"The world seems full of good men- even if there are monsters in it."
- From Dracula by Bram Stoker
He read my thoughts, he talked to me without words. It was amazing. I looked at him once again, my eyes beaming of love, maybe. He smiled, and his back was toward me. He started to walk slowly to the glass doors covered by black draps. I stared at him, as the draps parted without a hand touching them. As I stood, Dracula turned to me, his eyes looking deep into my eyes. I walked toward him, he smirked, then I paused.
Dracula: "Darling, come."
His right hand gently took mine. He embraced me and he was so warm. We went onto the balcony and kissed my cheek. This is what I had always wanted: to be with someone I truely loved. He buried his face into my neck, and I rested my head on his shoulder. This couldn't get any better. I felt a sharp sting in my neck, and I shivered.
Aurora: "What are you doing?"
I felt my blood pour onto my skin, and I was afriad. I wanted him to stop before it got out of control. I tried to break away, but he held me tight to his chest. I tried to say stop, but the words froze into my throat. It felt so passionate, yet painful. That's when I heard a car, Indriel was home. This time I broke away, and ran downstairs. Yvonne stared at me, then to the blood that ran down my neck. She was horrified, petrified would better suit the look on her face. She backed away, and then the front door opened.
Indriel: "OMG! What happened to you? What are you wearing?"
Aurora: "I'm ok. It's a long story."
Dracula: "You don't need to tell her darling. I will."
Indriel: "Who the hell are you and what are you doing in my house!"
Dracula: "Would you really want to know?"
Indriel: "What did you do to her? Did you hurt them?"
Dracula: "I wouldn't dream of hurting them, unless I had to, well I wouldn't dare harm Aurora."
Indriel: "Then why is she bleeding?"
He bared his fangs, and she screamed. The door slammed shut, and a gust of wind blew her golden hair. He laughed again and his arms were reaching out to me, to come to him. I resisted. He clicked his tongue, and he willed me to come to him. This I didn't like, orders I hated. Indriel was taken aback, and Yvonne's mouth was hanging open. I wanted to leave his arms, I didn't want them to be afriad. I pushed him away from me, and went to Indriel who hugged me.
Dracula: "Why do you need her comfort when I can give every part of myself to you?"
Aurora: "I don't seek her comfort. I'm comforting her, she is afriad."
He was jealous of a woman. I laughed inside my head, and he was agitated. Yvonne embraced the both of us, and Dracula was stared at me.
Dracula: "How pathetic in caring for these useless mortals. I thought you would do better."
Aurora: "You don't know them. You don't know that they have been the only things to comfort me when I needed them. And yet again I say, what do you know of pain?"
Dracula: "What is this pain you speak of? I can read the rest of your thoughts, yet there is but one that is locked eep into your mind. What are you hiding?"
Aurora: "Something I want to forget, yet it is impossible."
Dracula: "Ah, a secret past memory. You remind me of Gabriel, but he unlike you, couldn't remember his past."
Aurora: "Well I consider him lucky."
It grew silent. The blood on my neck itched greatly after it had dried. My past was too painful to read, well for me. A father lost, an attempted rape. Who would want to remember? The way the person loved you, the fear you felt, the dignity you might have lost, the longing for love, the loneliness; who in this damned world would want to remember? Dracula stared at me, and I realized I had opened that locked door. Know he really knew what I meant by pain.
