Chapter 2: Wanted Baby
The giggles of the baby tickled my ears, and I knew for sure that I already found what I have been missing. Ladies at my age had been marrying and creating a family of their own. While I was left single and lonely. I turned my heel with ideas in my head. ‘I want a child,’ but then meters away for me, I saw a bloody red eye itching dress from my left who just arrived. She has dressed all red with dark make-up. Hella? “Arvin! Talk to me!” She shouted and every head around turned to her. She stormed to a guy with a pregnant lady sitting on a picnic mat. The guy was a bit old and pale. He was thin too and not in a good shape. He indeed needs a successor. “Hella, I have made things clear.” His voice wasn’t sound sexy as I was expecting which made my friend obsessed with him that bad. “We were together for five fucking years! And you choose this fat lady over me? How can you choose a two months relationship over five years with me?” And parents around went covering their ears of their children. Some pulled them to play kites and others fixed their things and find another place to relax. “Don’t do this here, Hella, please. Everything is over, long over. I have a family now.” I watched my friend harshly shake her head and close their distance. She held his hand and kneel on the ground. “Please, Arvin. I can give you a child now. I am ready to have a child now. Please, come back. Come back to me, please, please come home.” I saw him trying to push her away. She raised her hand and was about to snap her finger. “Hella!” I stepped in before she could do anything stupid. She wasn’t in her right mind to do things involving magic in front of these humans. “Zilla, help me. Tell him I am more worthy than this fat lady. The lady was starting to cry so I pulled her up. “I’m sorry for my friend's behavior.” I give him a slight bow and pulled her to my car. “What are you doing? I should go back, I’m letting him have his happy ending while I am miserable!” She was a freak, too bad for that Arvin, he’d never get away from her. “You’re doing it the wrong way, why would you kneel to a man who wasn’t worth it, and importantly a human!” I drove away and brought her to my house. “I know what I am doing. I want him back and I’ll do anything to have him back. Let’s kill his girl.” I suddenly hit the brake and she was thrown forward and then kissed the windshield. I drove again so she could sit back, “Fasten your seat belt! I never thought you would go that low.” “Awh! You will never understand because you don’t have a heart, you never love as I do. And you cut my upper lip! By.The.Way!” I drove faster to get home soon as possible. This bitch wanted to explode in anger. “I will kneel to a man as you did.” “You will, believe me, you will. And when you already do, I will surely be there to remind you what you have said.” Soon as I stopped the car, she went down, and the poor tree flare up. My door flew out of the gate. “She should fix that.” She was mad, madly in love with an unworthy man. I thought this was like the other relationship she had.She needed to be alone so I let her. She’d come to me if she’d be ready to talk. I climbed to my office here in my house and opened my laptop. I started searching for how to file for adoption and find a good orphanage. There would be a lot of children, what should I get? A girl or a boy? “What is that?” My breath hitched when I heard her from my back, I closed my eyes and touched my chest, and blew some air. “What the hell!” But instead of saying sorry she pulled my laptop and read it. “I need a child,” I said and took the laptop away from her. “From an orphanage?” I looked at her in confusion. “So?” I couldn’t get her point. “That doesn’t sound like you, a little child that has the same face and attitude as you would be better than those children. And how will you explain your magic to a human?” She got the point but she was missing something here. “You know I can’t bore a child, my mother cursed me remember?” “Do you remember the exact words she spoke?” ‘I regret giving you life! No witch will come out from your womb alive!’ “No witch will come out from your womb alive, but a half-human can.” She said as the realization hit me. “That’s very brilliant of you, Hell.” She flipped her hair and smiled. But the hint of sadness never fails to ditch her eyes. “And you can kill him after.” “Yeah.” “NO! I was just joking,” she exclaimed but my head was starting to create a plan. “Will I just abduct a man?” I saw her snap from her thoughts and looked at me with disgust. “Ridiculous! You were given that beauty not to rape a man. You can even get five at once, I got you. Tonight, we’ll find you a baby maker.” I was suspicious of her plans but I remembered her taking guys home. “Oh, shoot!” Making a baby, did she mean this involves intercourse thing? “Why?” asked her. “In making a baby…” “Tell me you’ve experienced those.” I started shaking my head and she widen her eyes, soon she started laughing and felt wanted to bury myself alive. “HAHAHAHAHAHA! You what? How, HAHAHAHA how old are you again?” I hate the fact that I feel less than her now. “Nothing’s funny.” “Oh my god, AHAHA.” She was wiping her tears of laugh too hard. “You’ll be turning thirty this year right?” “I am not ignorant, I know that.” “But you never experienced it, I always thought that I was cleaner than you are but it turned out that you are more innocent than I am.” “And it’s funny?” “It’s amusing!” Her tone was irritating me. “Are you going to help me or not?” She was still trying to recover from her laughter and catching her breath. “Why on earth do you want a child, by the way?” “I just want to, back off.” “Alright, alright, listen up.” She started telling me how to do it. My mouth fell open and cringed my forehead. “Disgusting!” She started laughing again but I glared at her so a wicked smile crept on her lips. “It’s fun, you sound like a teenager, well, you look young so that won’t be bad. They are understanding, they’ll guide you on what to do just let them.” I couldn’t imagine what it would be like. “I’m telling you, Hell, I am not joking here.” “Leave it to me.” She even winked at me and excitedly stood up. She left me with a video of what would it be like but I was feeling awkward watching it so I closed my laptop and make myself a coffee. “Do I really want a child?”Chapter 3: The Eir Once “I do, I do want a child.” I instantly answered my question when I saw a mother pushing a stroller with a baby in it to her house. It was my neighbor who was twenty-five years old and I’m twenty-nine. Time flew faster than it usually does and Hell showed up with paper bags. “Are you ready?” I looked out of my window and the sky had turned orange. It’s time.“Yeah.” “Don’t worry, this is easier than killing.”I never needed her help but now, “I was thinking, what if the guy I want would refuse to do it?” “That is why you are a witch, you know what to do.” Oh, yeah. She was right, I could easily order them to do what I say. I watched her prepare things excitedly with a dog smile on her face. “Can we think about it first?” She dropped her eyeliner and looked at me. “What if I did get pregnant but it will die before I could give birth?”“Then let’s hope for the best. I wonder, why do you suddenly want a baby?” I didn’t know how to answer her. “Are you
Chapter 4: Club HoppingI felt my heart crashing, it felt like trying to get out of my chest. Until I couldn’t breathe anymore. “Ouch!” I saw Hella fly and hit the wall. The invisible lady hit her stomach. “Ugh!” My eyes widen when I started coughing blood. I saw a teen girl slowly walking down the stairs while looking at me. “Break!” I saw her mumble and I felt my bone cracking. “AHH!” I stood up and flick my wand at her but I didn’t make it. I felt my hand cracking and my wand fell from my palm. I snapped my finger and fell to the ground. I manage to cut her stare on me and the pain faded. I got my wand and flick it to her but she jumped to avoid it and landed in front of me. A solid slap hit my right cheek and a strong kick hit my stomach. “You brat!” I fake flicked my wand and she vanished I flicked it quickly to where she appeared but she dodge it. She ran and I continuously flick my wand, until the pink magic that came from my wand turned into red and I hit her foot. Sh
Chapter 5: Baby in My Stomach “HAHAHAHA! Whe-where did you do it again?” She had been laughing for an hour about what I told her. “Whatever.”“In a car? You lost your virginity in a car? What a special experience!” Making fun of my misery was her pleasure, I see. “Can you shut up?” “Only if you tell me what really happened.” I didn’t have the chance to tell her all the details when she started laughing endlessly, now I wouldn’t dare to tell her anymore.“Nothing, get out.” She even trespassed her in my bedroom just to ask me what happened when she knew the plan. “Okay, lemme just watched it in the mirror.” And she vanished, she was about to cast a spell on the mirror. “Okay-okay, I’ll tell you.” I’d rather tell her than let her see what I have done. “It happened in a car, after that I lost track and woke up in a hotel room.” “That’s it?” She asked, she needed something juicy and interesting story but sad to say I didn’t have any. “What else do you think?” I lay bac
Chapter 6: Journey to A Changed WomanI was serious when I said new life and something changed. I knew that this is what I want, I risk everything I have for this baby. I couldn’t explain the glee in me when she confirmed that I am indeed pregnant.Hella was hanging out in my room again and talking about things that got into her head like what should we name the baby and even the brand of her clothes. “What are your plans now?” I was still in my nightgown and lying in bed looking down at my tummy. “I don’t know yet, probably fly away from here and live a simple life. I want to raise my baby away from extravagance and luxury, I want her or him to live happily.” I said, I knew I didn’t sound like me but I should leave with it. “I am flying to Paris.” She said and I just nodded. “My flight will be later, aren’t you going to say goodbye?” “Goodbye, Hella.” I did what she wanted and she was still disappointed.“Again?” She was expecting a dramatic goodbye, I knew it.So I got
Chapter 7: New LifeConfusion drew on my face as I heard Lara speak. “You mean in this house?” “Oh, no no no. She means that we live here in this town and our house was just around your land since we worked for the previous owner for a long time. We still took care of it even though we weren’t paid.” Mina sounded like Hella which made me smile. “Thank you, I will pay you guys for it don’t worry.” “Uhm, we don’t have a job, we were thinking if…we could work you and work here still,” Lara said and everyone went silent waiting for my response. I didn’t know how to answer her. “It was hard for us to find another job, the main road was a mile away from here. Also, we didn’t have a degree to apply in the city.” Mina added, I see. “Well, not a problem.” Their faces immediately lit up with full glee. “Thank you, Madam. Thank you very much.” All of them were thanking me, their thank you and priceless expression of gratitude were pleasing. “Let’s eat.” Lara declared, I thought
Chapter 8: The Legend“Why?” I asked. “Our town has a reputation of being the town of vampires.“ Mina said which made me stop eating and looked at her. “But I don’t think it’s true,“ she added.“Really? I didn’t stumble on that rumor. “ If I did, I wouldn’t be here. Vampires despise my name so much. “Well, there is nothing to worry about that, since it wasn’t true. “ Lara said and nodded. “Of course, vampires are just myths. “ Mina said and continued eating while could feel them tensed up and acting unbothered. “Well, there will be no smoke if there were no fire? How did the rumor start? “ I had gone interested on about vampires in this place.“I don’t know when that myth started but I heard the whole town was resided by vampires under the care of their head or leader who owns the whole town. As the neighboring town arise and became populated the vampires started leaving the town. “ “So the tales were created by the neighboring town? “ I asked and she shrugged. “I don’t
Chapter 9: Cravings“Because of our town's reputation, we never had new residents or even tourists here. Not just Pio who noticed your presence but the whole town.“ Carding explained that to me. “Okay, do you want to buy something?“ I asked him. I realized that it wasn't safe to ask too much in here. “None, Madam.“ He answered so we walk back to our car. He never left my side and even walked next to me. He also opened the door for me. He looked professional when he did that despite the that he wore cheap clothes.His face wasn't familiar but I didn't have a good feeling about him. Maybe he was indeed a vampire or his ancestor. I have questions but I'd rather be clueless than learning that this place isn't safe and die thinking I did a wrong decision moving in here. Of all creatures, why vampires? I have killed hundreds of vampires and I'm sure only of few who didn't know me. I opened the plastic bag and took a stick of banana and eat it. I need to calm myself. ***“Go
Chapter 10: Birth of The Immortal Baby"Hana," Lara warned her. I knew she was right, it was too early for my child to kick."She's right, I am only pregnant for probably three weeks or four," I said, it was a little confusing despite the glee this had caused me."Vampires develop in a month only," Hana said and I saw Mina hold her hand to stop her so she did and step back. "I am carrying a half-witch and a half-human not a vampire, Hana." I corrected her. "I'm sorry, madam Zil. Hana is very transparent with her emotion and everything that is in her head. We also thought the same, your child probably has vampire blood, if it does then you'd be giving birth anytime soon." I shook my head in disagreement. "Impossible.""Then that is not a problem, madam," Lara said and dismissed the two girls. I was about to lose my patience, and salute Lara's empathy and felt that I was on the verge of spitting fire. I bear no Vampire."Ah!" I suddenly felt sore in my stomach. "Are you