Two weeks later

I never went back to the shop after being frightened by a noise. In fact, I was very disturbed by the picture that I had seen, with Sarah and Agnes. I went to the public library to try find out more about them, but there was nothing, which disappointed me. I decided that I needed to settle down and find out more about my mother so that's what I did.

I was sitting in the library, reading Alaricus's journal. He was interesting so far and so sad along being angry with his life.

April 30th, 1870

"I feel so lonely for the first time in my life. I witnessed my best friend dying in front of me from consumption. I wanted to save his life, but he refused to let me. God help me… I tried and he was so angry that he banished me from his house until he had passed away. I have never felt so guilty and so lonely in my lifetime until John died. Why do I live and everybody dies around me? I feel like that I am cursed forever, which I know for a fact that I am cursed and that I cannot die….I have tried to take my life in various ways and I still came back to life with the help from the doctors or strangers. I feel like that I have lived for so many years and I blame my mother. I blame her for giving birth to me and gave me a life…. Then destroyed my life with a curse. Now, I am just rambling on. Forgive me, God….for what I am going to do."

I turned the next page and it was blank. I frowned and went through the next few blank pages, realizing that his journal ended.

"What the heck?" I whispered, putting the journal down and stood up to look for his journals. There was none of them from 1800s, so I continued to look until I found one. I opened it and it was dated in 1990, signed by Alaricus Thomason.

"Huh, it must be from his great-whatsoever grandson." So I sat back down and opened the blue journal, reading the first entry.


June 2, 1990

"It has been so long since I wrote a journal. Let's see... I married a lovely woman named Sarah Henderson about two months ago and it has been wonderful."

I sat straight up, staring at his entry in shock. "Dad?" I whispered, looking at the old journal and this journal. "Sarah…my mom? Oh my god."

A flashback of my dream went through my mind and I saw my mother for the first time, making a connection with her name.

I went back to read his journal once more, aching to find more information about my mother.

"It has been wonderful, but she made my day even brighter today. She told me that she was pregnant and I was so shocked that she thought that I didn't want our child, which was not true. I assumed that I was sterile because I thought that my kind couldn't produce children…in fact, none of my family members could so they ended up adopting children. I can't wait to see our child and I hope that it will be healthy. I never told my wife about my family and my past because I didn't want to scare her away. If it's a girl, I would like to name her Kayla. If it's a boy, I would like to name him John, my late friend. The baby is due in March and I, myself, cannot wait to see the baby."

I closed the book, leaning back against the child. For the first time in my life, I finally know what my parents' name was. Sarah and Alaricus.

I let out a heavy sigh, massaging the back of my neck. I couldn't believe it… I finally found out about my dad but why did he leave me? I could find out more today, but I decided to take a break and get ready for work. Cami hired me for the part time so I wouldn't be bored and lonely in such a big house.

I threw on my black V-neck T-shirt along with shorts and tennis shoes. I pulled my hair up into a bun and put on my silver small hoops in my pierced ears.

I grabbed my brown tote bag and threw it over my shoulder as I climbed down the front steps outside, walking to my car.


As I parked behind the Rousseau's bar, I kept thinking about my parents. I don't even remember my parents and that made me curious. As I arrived at Rousseau's, I spotted Cami behind the bar, speaking to a woman with blonde hair. As I was walking to them, I noticed that the woman was from somewhere since she had some kind of accent.

"And so then I moved back here to be closer to my brothers because- let's face it-family's important, right, Camille?"

I stood next to Cami as I put on my apron and observed the woman. She had very pale light skin, full lips, light blue eyes and light blond hair. She's a beautiful woman and looked like she is in her late teens…maybe 18 or 19 years old.

"Cami." Cami corrected the girl. "I have to change this name tag. Drunk guys keep hitting on me in French. You sure you haven't been in here before? Your face looks so familiar."

"You must have seen me out and about. Aren't you dating Marcel Gerard? He's a pal of mine…sort of. I heard he had a crush on the blonde bartender at Rousseau's."

Cami hesitated for a moment, then answered. "I would hardly call it dating. He's wooing me…sort of. I don't know. I mean, he's very charming, which means I should run for the hills."

I let out a quiet chuckle as I was cleaning the glasses while listening to their conversation.

"I'm kind of in an on-again/off-again thing myself at the moment."

"Oh, those are the worst, aren't they? The ones you can't shake, even though you know better, and you always know better?"

"I like you, Cami. Most girls have the unfortunate tendency of being whiny little twits."

I stopped cleaning the glass, looked up at her and frowned.

Cami also frowned in confusion. "Thanks….I think."

The blonde girl looked at me for the first time since I arrived. "Who are you?"

Cami put her arm around my shoulder. "Oh! I am so sorry, this is Kayla Henderson. She just moved here about two weeks ago. Kayla, this is Rebekah."

We shook hands. "Nice to meet you, Rebekah."

"Same here. Hey, I'm supposed to go to this posh charity thing thrown by this philanthropist tonight. He's a bit of a Gatsby, throws a mean party. Any interest? Oh, you are welcome too, Kayla."

Cami smiles noncommittally, shrugging while I smiled back. "Thanks, but its last minute and I don't think I have something to wear."

"Darling, don't worry about it. I'll send you guys some dresses so you can come! I would love to see you guys. Alright, I gotta go. It's very nice to meet you girls."

We nodded and Rebekah leaves the bar.

"Hmm…Rebekah is interesting." I say, picking up the glass again.

"I know…but we should go to the Gala. It sounds like it's going to be fun and you could be my date. What do you think?"

"I don't know…I just feel awkward going to someone's gala when I don't even know this person."

"Please, pretty please," Cami says, making her sad eyes while pouting at me. I roll my eyes, chuckling. "Fine…I'll go."

"Yay!" Cami hugs me quickly and her attention was caught by some guy wanting some beer. "Hey, I'll go get the order, I cannot wait!" Cami squeals out while walking backwards to the guy. I nod and went back to clean the rest of the glass.


At Cami's apartment.

We waited for our dresses to be delivered so I helped Cami with her hair and she helped me out too.

Cami's hair was pinned up while my hair was half-up and curled.

I was putting my makeup on when there was a knock on the door so Cami got up in her bathroom robe and answered the door.

"Miss Cami?" A man asks, holding on three garment bags and two shoe boxes.

"Yes, that's me."

He passed them on to Cami and brought out the paper for her to sign so she signed it and closes the door, smiling at me.

"I wonder what we got," Cami says, putting them down on her bed. I put my blush brush down and walked over to her.

We opened the garment bags and the box, letting out gasps.

"Oh my god…they're so beautiful!" Cami says, pulling out the silver sequin mermaid dress and the emerald a-line off-the shoulder chiffon dress with court train.

"Wow…" I whisper, touching the chiffon dress. "It must be so expensive."

Cami nodded. "I don't even want to think about it. Okay, which dress do you want?"

"Um…" I ponder for a second, looking at the white dress that came with the angel wings and emerald dress that would be paired with the fairy wings.

"I'll be a fairy tonight," I said, grinning at Cami. She chuckled. "I'll be an angel then."

We helped each other out with our dresses since they needed to be zipped up.

We look at each other in our dresses in the mirror together. "Dang…we're so hot." I said, giggling at Cami's reaction since she rolled her eyes at me.

"Okay, let's go!" Cami says, grabbing my hand and I held the train in my other hand so I wouldn't trip down the stairs.


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