“Is your talent to eavesdrop?” she said to me.
I thought she was oblivious of me. I opened my eyes and light was filtering
from somewhere for I saw her features, she was wearing a white dress with a low
cleavage. I said nothing, my legs were killing me. It was like thousand needles
pinching my skin. She walked to me, knelt down and grabbed my arm, she bit my
wrist, and something cold was entering my veins as my warm blood was gushing
out to her mouth.
“Your system is clean of narcotics now” she announced
getting up, once again she sat on an invisible chair right in front of me. “Now,
tell me what´s your name?”
I didn’t answer. She chuckled. “Jaune did bit
your tongue but it must be healed by now”
“Healed?” the word called my attention, dead
men do not heal.
“Yes –her voice was similar to those of women
on expensive perfume commercials- you are healing… you had a good plan there…
there was no way you could´ve survived a fall like that or the amount of drugs
on your blood, you made Jaune hallucinate a little –she chuckled- too bad I was
around, too bad I saw you sitting there and waited the exact moment when you
fell”
“What am I doing here? Who are you?”
“Ah, you know who I am, you heard Jaune say my
name”
“Omega” I whispered
“Exactly” she smiled, I caught a glimpse of her
white teeth and her long canines “Now tell me what to call you”
“I don’t remember” I lied, I didn´t want to be
called my name anymore. I had gone there to stop being who I was and there was this
woman asking for my name. She chuckled.
“Your blood told me your name and you do
remember but I don’t mind giving you one” she put her index finger under her
chin looking up as if she was deep in thought, then she laughed quietly “When
you fell, it looked like you were falling from the sky”
“What do you mean my blood told you?”
“I know everything you know, it´s all in your
blood, you know, life is in the blood”
“Don´t you get tired?” I asked, she´d been all
the time sitting on an invisible chair
“I don´t” she sat on the floor Indian style;
she was in the exact same spot.
“How do you do that?”
“You are very curious… I like it. You´ll be
able to do something like it… it´ll take time though”
“It?”
“Yeah, I told you, you broke your neck and your
back in two places, that´s why you can´t move now but you will”
“And you know that because…?”
“Because you are mine, Sky, and I don´t fail”
“So, I am not dead?”
“You are not” she said and I closed my eyes
tightly “Are you disappointed?”
“I wanted to die” I said bitterly
“You died” she said
“Are you having fun telling me I am dead and
then that I am not dead?” I was angry
“Actually, I am –she chuckled- I am only
disappointed you haven´t guessed what we are” she sighed, I glared at her “What
do you think we are?” she asked placing a cold hand over my thigh
“I don´t know… I thought you were some animal
and when I thought I was dead I thought you were some kind of demon, you even
said you were the devil…”
“I can´t be the devil because you´re not dead?”
she raised her delicate eyebrows
“No”
“Why not?”
“I don´t believe in such things” I said, she
laughed
“But when you thought you were dead you
believed, how´s that?”
“If I were dead I could asses that there are
indeed things like heaven or hell”
“So, you coming to the mountains…?”
“Why do you ask? Didn´t you say that you knew
all I knew?” I said and she laughed again
“I knew I´d like you, you´re good” she leaned
over me and kissed my neck softly to then bite me hard. I tried to push her but
my hands wouldn´t move so I shouted her to leave me alone. She did.
“Guessed what we are already?” she tilted her
head. I had but it was too unlikely, they were a living myth. My eyes widened. Omega
was about to say something when Jaune entered complaining, he was shaking his
head, his curls were damped, he was wearing a long leather coat.
“Animals are so tasteless, Omega, please let´s
go home”
“I thought you´d found something more like your
tastes our there” she smiled charmingly and he seemed bewitched. “We´ll go home
soon” she said
“Really?”
“Feed him” she nodded towards me. He glared at
me. She laughed. “You´re such a good actor, Jaune” she patted his shoulder and
he took her hand and gently spun her around and pull her to him as if they were
dancing. He kissed her cheek and she smiled.
“Now, go feed him, the stronger he
gets, the faster we go home” she placed a peck on his cheek. Jaune walked
slowly towards me with a scowl, I glared back. He knelt down next to me and bit
his wrist and placed it on my mouth, I frowned and moved my face away, he moved
my wrist following my mouth, his blood fell over my nose and cheeks and lips,
it smelled somewhat metallic. I kept moving my face away and he growled.
“You´re making me lose my patience” he held my
head in place with both hands and plastered his lips on mine, I fought but it
was useless, he bit my lip and out of reflex I gasped opening my mouth, I felt
his tongue darting in and once again I tried to resist, this time he bit my
tongue and I tasted my own blood, I squeezed my eyes shut as I felt his tongue
again and this time it was me who bit him. I felt him smile against me. I growled,
both our bloods mixed in my mouth. I found it odd how I could differentiate the
taste of my blood from his. I started to feel out of breath and also disgusted
not only by the taste of my own blood but by the feeling of Jaune´s tongue and
lips. I bit him again but he only smiled again, that made me mad and in order
to not choke from the blood that had already filled my mouth I swallowed it in
three big swallows. He let go and I glared.
“Finally” he said as I spit the rest of the
blood. He frowned and held my face once again, he made me swallow a large amount
of his blood until I pushed him hard, I don´t know how I gained motility but I pushed
him with both hands and he flew across the cave, he fell on his feet only a
little unbalanced. Omega laughed.
“Well done, Jaune, Sky” she nodded towards me. My
breathing was labored
“Don´t ever touch me again” I glared at Jaune
“You should thank him –Omega told me- he´s just
given you the ability to move your arms again. Will you keep feeding him, Jaune?”
she smiled to the young man
“He can find his own food” Jaune glared “He´s
ready”
“I know, dear, but he´s too stubborn, he wants
to be dead… your provocations will make him get in command of his body again”
she smiled at him and slowly his contorted face relaxed leaving him with a
stare of adoration for her, she jumped and he caught her in his arms, she
kissed his cheek and then his neck, he closed tight his eyes for a second and
then she whispered something to his ear, he smiled.
“Won´t you feed today?” his voice was gentle
“I will” in the blink of an eye she was next to
me, she knelt down and bit my neck. I was about to push her but she grabbed my
wrist with inhuman force and pined my arms on the ground over my head. She bit
me and then se licked me, her black hair tickled my skin, I noticed she smelled
like the woods.
“Thank you” she moved her lips against my neck
“For?”
“I like the smell of woods” she smiled against
my skin again. She bit me and then licked me again, the more she did it the
less it hurt but my eyes felt as if they were being sucked from the inside all
over again. I closed them and sighed relaxing my body and focusing on my
breathing like some therapist had taught me.
“It´s a good technique –Omega said standing up-
but I like it better when you fight” she pouted and her expression was that of
a child, it inspired the feeling of wanting to protect her but she was not a
woman who needed protection.
“Do you read minds or something?” I asked, she
chuckled and Jaune rolled his eyes
“I told you that your blood tells me”
These people are crazy I thought as I flexed my
arm and rejoiced on it. I felt pain but not as bad as before, maybe I had grown
used to it like when I was alive.
“If you didn´t fight Jaune so much, you´d be
able to hear what his blood has to say”
“I thought you said you preferred me when I fought”
“I do” she chuckled. She´d drained me; I felt
thirsty, hungry… exhausted in general. I didn´t care about them, I closed my
eyes and drifted to something similar to sleep.
“You seem happy tonight, Jaune” Omega kissed
his lips; he placed gently his hand on the small of her back. She was wearing a
royal blue dress with an ample skirt and a fitted bust.
“I am” he said remaining close. She lifted both
of her perfect black eyebrows “There has been an excursion… someone fell” he
smiled showing his large canines, she half-smiled and I was terrified by the
implications of that
“I´m glad you enjoyed… Did it quench your
thirst?”
“Yes” he placed his cheek on top of his head
“Good… tonight you are feeding Sky again. It seemed
to upset him and it certainly upset me”
“I don´t want him near me” I said
“I don´t enjoy being close to you either” he
said with disdain
“Calm down boys… Sky, you´ll starve if you don´t
let him… and Jaune –she placed a hand on his cheek- this way we´ll be home
sooner”
Jaune sighed and went to me, I tried to push
him but he seemed stronger than last time. It all happened again, the mix of
blood and his blood in my mouth, I remembered what Omega said about my blood
telling her things and if felt curious which made me go over my disgust of
blood and of being pinned down by a man. I decided to control my breathing and
swallow small sips. I closed my eyes and tried to relax, I kept swallowing
blood, he didn´t bit me anymore but allowed me to do so, I felt a faint sweet
smell, like the smell of female perfume, I felt him smile on my lips and I bit
him hard causing a small gasp on him. After that I heard a voice, a female
voice but it was not Omega´s. I opened my eyes. Jaune had his eyes closed, I noticed
his fair skin and tiny purple veins on his eyelids, his curls fell on my face,
they were shiny as if they reflected light.
He moved his lips against mine and his tongue
darted in and I just bit him again. I heard a laugh, it was not Omega´s. He bit
me. I squeezed my eyes closed. I saw a face coming close to mine, a young girl,
straight black hair partly covered by a gray hat, she smiled closed to my face
and then all I saw was her falling down the cliff of the smaller rock
mountains. I felt Jaune moving his lips against mine, it was as if he wanted me
to bite him, I did it. I saw the girl covered in blood, blood coming out of her
head, I felt myself hoover above her, I licked her face, and she tasted sweet,
like her perfume. I kissed her soft full lips. She was moaning in pain, she
barely breathed. I bit her neck and sucked her blood it tasted sweet. Jaune
started to retreat and I couldn´t help but pull him down, this was sweet and
warm, like hot chocolate with marshmallows and vanilla. He smiled and complied.
I drank her. Melissa just turned twenty five, she had a small sister and she
had wanted to take pictures close to the edge of the cliff. She wanted to be a
nurse. She was scared, she felt where her injures were, and she knew she was
going to die. “Calm down” I heard Jaune´s voice say without him talking at all.
“Just close your eyes and it´ll pass” his voice whispered and then I felt her
smell closer, her sweet scent and sweet substance in my mouth stated to turn
cold and greasy, sour and I wrinkled my nose.
“She´d died” Jaune murmured against my mouth.
My eyes popped open, mouth slightly agape.
“How?” I felt my lips brushed against his
“You heard what my blood had to say” he was
just above my face, I felt his breath on me
“You killed that girl” I whispered
“She died when she fell… she was going to die
anyway… no need to waste her sweet blood… Don´t pretend you didn´t like it” he
started to get up and for some reason I pulled him from the lapels of his coat
making myself sit. From the corner of my eye I saw Omega smiling.
“More” I heard myself say and it was no longer
myself. I didn´t care about being alive or dead or if I was in heaven or hell
or if my family had found the suicide note in my car or if they were looking
for my body or if these people were a myth and me with them now too or if I had
hated them with all my heart, I didn´t care at all, I just wanted more of that
sweet, warm sensation in me. Jaune pushed my hands away
“I´m not your caterer” he huffed. I stay sat,
my mind going over and over of what I had known of Melissa, of her sweet smell
of her warm essence or her happy smile. I wanted to feel what Jaune made me
feel again, pain had gone away, everything had gone away; it was just me and
the warm sensation rippling through me.
“Did you figure out what we are?” Omega was in
front of me, her hand extended to me, as if she was going to help me to stand
up
“Does it matter?” I took her hand and to my surprise
I stood up
“No, it does not” she smiled pleased, her gray
eyes gleaming “Are you dead?”
“I am” she was slowly guiding me to the insides
of the cave where I heard and felt water
“Good. Are you alive?” she seemed to ask the
things I had asked
“I am” the texture of the dirt in my feet was
harsh but I felt every grain of dirt, the small pebbles and twigs too.
The cave
seemed to be lit when we stopped for a moment and I saw the gray stone above us
and around us. Clink. Jaune was playing with his lighter again; the flame was
so beautiful in its short life. Clink. It was a silver lighter. Jaune´s eyes
were blue, like the ocean, he breathed slowly, he looked at me watching him, he
observed me too, the flame on and off as we did so.
“Who are you?” Omega took me out from my dazed
state tugging me to take another step
“Sky” I said and her face was filled with
delight
“Who are we?” she asked making me step inside
what looked like a pool, inside the rock there was a mall pond, some light
filtered there making the water glow. It was beautiful.
“The devil and his pawn” I glanced Jaune, he
scowled. Omega laughed.
“And… the three of us are…?” she asked, I
watched her, her cheeks were perfect, her gray eyes looked feline, she had luscious
black hair that fell around her white creamy face, her lips curved in a small
smile that revealed a white fang.
“Vampires” I breathed and got in the pond. I felt
emptier that ever.
