5. Kaleb's Family Legend.
My father turned his gaze out the window. My Father also has blonde hair and blue eyes, and is about 6 ft. tall. As if he were looking beyond the surrounding woods that are behind our home. He looked as if he were seeing the past as well as the present. My cousin and I exchanged a look of curiousity and confusion. As we both listened in silence my father began the story. "four hundred years ago in Romania your Grandfather Viktor, your very very great grandfather, of course you know that from four hundred years ago. i'm not entirely sure how many generations ago for me to know exactly. Viktor was only twenty-two years old and was married to the girl of his dreams, your very great grandmother Ana, who was only sixteen. It was their anniversary the night he became more than mere human, more than mere wolf. It was the night he became loup-garou. He had went to a market to buy Ana a present. He bought her a silver pendant. It was night by time he had bought her gift, and the sky was well on its way to being twilight. He took a shortcut through the woods. Suddenly, out of nowhere a gigantic grey wolf appeared. Viktor was frightened for his life and tried to run. But the wolf was faster, the animal knocked Viktor down and viciously bit him on his arm. Viktor grabbed a stone and bashed the wolf with it. The grey wolve's blood had gotten in Viktor's bite wound. They say when a man and an animal spills each others blood that they become one. And in that moment something Viktor never imagined could happen in all of his wildest dreams. Where the wolf's blood had dropped into the bite wound it made the bite wound heal instantly, leaving a small moon shaped scar on his arm. But the place where he had been bitten starting burning. Hotter and hotter the scar and the blood within him burnt on. He lay on the ground and thrashed until his body stretched and his bones morphed ripping his clothes off. He transformed that night from man to loup-garoux."
" At first Viktor was frightened of what he had become but then he started feeling new and enhightened senses that were better than any human senses are. He used his new senses then hunted and fed from a deer he had tracked. After wandering around in his wolf form he thought of his wife and shifted back into his human form. When he got back to the inn he didn't tell his wife what had happened. His Wife soon bore him a son, Vlad. Vlad had a birthmark of a moon shape on his arm, it looked just like Viktor's scar. So became the mark of the moon, All of us have it." My father then pulled up his long-sleeved shirt and pointed to his mark. My cousin and I just nodded impatiently waiting to know more.
We then realized thats what our birthmark meant. My father began again, "Vlad found out he could turn from man to wolf when he reached manhood. His father encouraged him and also told him not to tell his mother. Viktor realized he could change without a full moon. One night, Viktor came home from his trip from the village, only to find blood smeared on the floor, he called for his wife Ana but there was no answer. He frantically ran into their bedroom. His wife was lying on the bed, her blood smeared all over her body and on the bed. He stood there in shock, thats when the creature appeared with his wife's blood on its mouth. The creature smiled wickedly. Viktor was so enraged he shifted into his wolf form. Viktor knew this wasn't a human. For Its skin was pale as snow. Its eyes were crimson red. He lunged at the creature, its skin was cold and hard. The creature was very fast. But Viktor's rage made him also fast and he bit the creature, he was so angry that he ripped the creature to pieces. The pieces of the creature were sprawled over the floor. He turned back into a man, and the creature's hands started moving. Viktor grabbed all of the pieces knocking over his lit candle and it burnt the pieces to ash. He sensed the creature was now dead. His son returned home, just as outraged as his father. They buried Ana. From generation to generation our family legend has been passed. Only now do we know the true name for our enemy, Vampire. I tell you boys this only now because I sense that there are immortals here." My father looked down. My cousin and I sat in silence, letting every word sink in. After a while had passed I got ready to take Cordelia out to the movies. I left my house to pick her up.
6. Cordelia Awaiting The Date.
After I returned home from school I fretted over what I should wear tonight. I suppose this fluttery feeling I have is considered being nervous.
I knew if I told my parents that they'd be very angry with me. Though they have reverance for human life, but still they didn't want their only daughter with a 'mere human'. I went to my room-which is on the second level of our home-and ramsacked my closet. I have a fairly big walk-in closet. My father had put in a circular revolving clothes rack for me. I frantically spun my clothes rack around at the speed of light. Finally, I withdrew a knee-length satin black dress. It criss-crossed in the back showing some of my pale skin. It wasn't a formal dress, it was casual enough I thought. I layed the dress across my bed. Even though I had no actual use for the bed it would look odd to an outsider if there weren't any beds in our home. We also keep food in our refrigerator and such human necessities to keep up appearances. I picked out a pair of black heels that were casual enough to go with my dress. My clock said 7:10 p.m. I had just enough time to hunt before I went with Kaleb tonight. Afterall, I wanted to take extra precautions since he was human. And one of the extra precautions was that I wanted to make sure I wasn't thirsty in the least. So I went to our kitchen, opened the fridge and got a blood baggie.
Our home is a white two story with blue shudders, Victorian Era. It is located in Powdersville, Which is a town within the city of Greenville. Our home is secluded on our own acre of land. I then went into our "living room," and told my mother that I was going out for the night. My mother asked, "Where are you going darling?". "I'm going to see a movie mom." I told her. She then asked me who I was going with and when I told her a boy from school she stood there with such a shocked and worried expression on her face. She wrung her hands out of habit of acting human. She quickly composed herself as she said, "I hope you will be very careful with that human. The last thing that we need is for someone to be hurt and suspicion aroused." I told her I had already fed and that I was going to put my hands over our fireplace to try and get them warm where he wouldn't notice my skins temperature. "Umm, okay sweetheart, but let's not tell your father about this. For I know he will pack our things and we'd move tonight. He'd worry more than me. But remember to play your role in the human world extra carefully." After reassuring her more than once I heard Kaleb's car coming down our road. When he reached our driveway I hugged my mother goodbye and slowly walked a human pace out of the door.
7. The Date
I walked to Kaleb's car and felt nervous. I worried to myself. What if I slipped up and didn't act like a human well enough? What does he think of me? Do I frigten him? Kaleb didn't seem to notice my worrying. He smiled his beautiful smile at me. It felt like my dead heart would come alive. I felt human. I slowly got into his car and shut the car door behind me. Kaleb looked at my attire and his mouth gaped open. I smiled and he closed his mouth. His heart was racing like mad, so I took that as a good sign. Wow he smelled great. His blood was pumping more quickly due to his speeding heart. He started the ignition and we were on our way to
the restaurant. He had "Fur Elise," by Beethoven playing on his stereo. One of my favorites. He was an excellent driver. He glanced at me, smiling, and started talking. "You look amazing, amazing doesn't even begin to describe how you look. You're so beautiful words cannot express just how beautiful you are." he told me. I smiled. "Thank you, you're very good-looking as well." I replied. He smiled, "I hope this doesn't make you feel uncomfortable but I feel as if I've known you my whole life rather that just the whole day," he went on to say, "I felt something urging me into the school today and it got stronger, when we bumped into each other It was like you were the one drawing me there..." he stopped and looked like he was embarassed, he blushed slightly. Making his blood rush to his cheeks. I could see his jugglar vein move from his blood pumping behind it. Even though my diet is strictly blood baggies it's usually easy to ignore the urge for fresh human blood. But I hate to admit that a small part of me thought about seductively biting Kaleb to taste the blood that surely tasted as good as he smelt. I quickly shunned the thought as soon as it came to mind. Kaleb and I were almost to the Applebee's.
I looked at Kaleb and he could've been an angel he was so beautiful especially to be a guy. I looked into his eyes and he looked to be way beyond his years. "You aren't making me uncomfortable in the least, I think the same thing, I feel the same way about you." I told him. It felt like Kaleb and I were destined to be together. We belong together, I thought to myself; soulmates. But if he only knew what I am he probably wouldn't be this close to me. Kaleb smiled at me and said, "So tell me about your parents." I gently smiled at him. My parents, well their hard-working, blood-sucking people, I thought. "My mother's name is Elizabeth, she's a part-time homemaker and she designs clothes. My father's name is Eric, he works at Davis Attorney at Law, he's an assistant attorney. Kaleb nodded after I told him. I then asked him what his father does for a living. "Well, my father is a carpenter/welder. He welded and laid pipes as well as installing fire sprinklers for about 20 years. But he had built our home we just moved from, so he helps with building houses here if needed be." Wow I thought to myself, such a handy man. "That's pretty neat actually, because he sounds pretty handy." We then pulled up at Applebee's. Kaleb parked his car and got out. He casually walked over to my side and opened the door. I can't believe he's such a gentleman, It just keeps getting better. As he held open the car door for me, he put out his other hand in reach for mine. He helped me out of the car and hand in hand we walked into the restaraunt. The waiter led us to a private table near the far wall.