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Chapter five: Mystery

After their torture, they left for yet another mystery place to which they never tell me about. As I sat alone in the dark, tiredness visible on my body yet unable to rest as all the events today kept flashing on my mind, meeting Dimitri my hero, the expression on my families face as they took Dimitri in distaste visible, written all over their faces. The shouting that I received as I came home and the warning to stay away from him. Why would they want something that felt so good away from me, he made me more happy in those precious couple of hours that most people did in my life time of knowing them.

For some reason all those warnings that I received about vampires flashed and started to take control of my thoughts complete to which I moved and turned the television on in hopes of forgetting about that. But of course it was way late that no good programs where on as it's all advertising products.

"Mum where are you?" I turned and looked for my mother.

"Right here love, come to mum. I need to tell you something." Excitedly I ran into her arms and she carried me into my bedroom to prepare me for bed. "Baby-"

"I'm not a baby mama. I'm almost five now so I'm big and strong" I stood up from my bed to show her my arms. Laughing, my mother pretended to see it careful as if having a hard time believing my 'muscles'.

"Oh I see wow they are huge" She raised her arms up high and apart as if to show the description of how huge it was.

"Love, would you like to hear a story about bad people?" I looked confusingly at her for that as I could not understand why anyone would be bad to anyone else, I was too innocent to understand the real world where many people would go out of their way to ensure misery in others' lives. Janine looked at her daughter with wishful thinking of what undisturbed mind is like; to be innocent from such thoughts or even the acknowledgment of all the wrong things in life, the misery of ones' life from the day they were born crying as they came into the world. In many ways Janine as thought that the real reason of such cries at born is some sort of indication of how they would face all the conflicts, issues and misery throughout their lives on earth.

"Bad people mum? Is it scary?" She looked afraid before she toughed up, with a sudden intake of air into her lungs, "Yes mommy tell me."

Janine began the story with a small smile on her face before it became blank. "Many, many years ago, there was this…umm kind, vampire" She said with distaste in her mouth.

Vamp…vampires?" Rose asked.

"Yes baby girl, vampires…" Janine concentrated on her daughter deciding to continue with the story at she knew were true or keep her daughter in the dark, "Where was I? Oh yes vampires. You see these things are… were not good as they get the pleasure from taking ones' life by sucking them dry completely."

That confused the young Rose who was paying full attention to her mothers' word up until now. "Mommy, what do they suck dry completely?"

Janine regretted at how it was a good idea to tell her one child of such things and wanted to stop from telling her more about it but it is her duty to inform her.

"You see baby, they as in vampires suck human blood" She cleared her throat as she pulled her daughter into her arms cuddling her and in a way trying to tell her that she will always be there for her. Looking down at Rose she continued the story that has been passed down to her at her age but Janine was sure of one thing and that was that she will protect her daughter from any threat that she might face in the future as well as make sure to keep her in the dark from them.

Rose could not figure why that memory of her mother telling her about vampires appeared out of nowhere. She shakes her head in hope of clearing that thought from her mind as it was ridiculous to even be thinking of. She picked her phone from the coffee table in front of her as her dialled her mothers' number but was might with no reply such was the same result with all her family. She started worrying as she was unable to reach them and seeing as its way past midnight caused her more worry and started to imagine the possible excuse for why they are not here or not picking her call.

After a long time of trying to distract herself from the worry for her family but most importantly her thoughts that kept thinking about Dimitri, that stranger that saved her life, the same man that made her feel some sort things that she thought she could never feel after trying so many times with other males at school or outside it. She couldn't take the feel that she felt in her heart, the feeling of emptiness, a loneliness and so on. Slowly she moved off the couch that could not offer her comfort today after turning the TV off and heading in the direction of her bedroom. She felt herself shiver as she entered her room, looking around the room she discovered it was the open window that allowed the cold wind to rash through that small opened space.

I started rubbing my hands up and down my arms to create enough friction of heat and moved towards the window to close it. Even after the window was closed, she still felt cold and her body would not stop shivering.

Moving around her room while she collected her clothing for the night, she could feel eyes on her following her around as she moved her room. Immediately she walked into her as she could not see anyone or think of anyone willing to stand outside gazing at her in this cold night. She walked towards her bathroom in hopes of taking her mind of off things and allows her to relax her body from many thoughts that keeps going through her head

Thank you all again for waiting so long for this chapter and the one before this. Debbie, thank you for the edit as always, you are wonderful and am honoured to have you as a beta.