My Childhood with You
Chapter 7
Hotaru opened the heavy book as she lay on her black satin bedspread. The first page was blank, the next decorated heavily with gold leaf in the shape of flowers. What interested her, was how there were, so far, no words. The third page revealed nothing but an image of a many-pointed star. Hotaru kept flipping through the pages, none of which had any words or letters of any kind. She closed the thick volume and moved to her desk, thumping it down. Hotaru grabbed a magnifying glass and placed it over the many-pointed star, the lines that made up the drawing seemed rather crooked but that was all she could make out. Hotaru stepped away from the book and sat down on the floor, thinking of the ways to read the book. She thought over the many tricks and spells she had learnt and though of something.
Hotaru turned to the front cover and studied the corners, the edges-then she found it. It was an imprint in the shape of a moon, as though someone had been pressing some type of stamp into the cover for ages until the shape stayed. Once she found that-the book was easy to read. She needed moonlight to read the book – but knowing that, the book most likely had to be read in one attempt, if not, and tried to be read again by the same person, it would probably combust. At least, that was what she suspected. She slipped silently downstairs, to study the grandfather clock. It was still afternoon, ours until the moon appeared, and so she would have to do nothing but wait until the time was right to read the book and find a way to save her twin brothers.
The same person now sat at the same table she had sat at many years ago, running her fingers over the book's cover. A layer of frost had settled over it in her rage and she could choose to remove it. But she did not. What would be the point? Was there a point? Probably not, she had read the book cover to cover in one night and become one of the most powerful people in the universe. Many would kill for such an object.
Of course, outside this vampire world, no one would ever hear of the book. Everyone in this world had vanished and she had successfully sealed any entrance way into the world. Exit was still possible. Her golden eyes drifted into the sky. It was always like that now. The sun and the moon hanging there, stars never moving either, even the clouds there didn't move. Nothing changed. Flowers were constantly blooming, butterflies constantly fluttering, nothing slept. Nothing changed its state of mind. She had frozen time and was the master of this small world. Only she changed, only she was capable of changing. She had frozen time in this world to wait for her brothers and make sure that everything would be the same. Everyone else had disappeared, and were waiting to be brought back to their home as soon as the twins returned. They would, of course they would….
She would wait for them until they came back.