She didn’t hear it wrong, did she? Adrienne thought at loss for words. Because that moment the stranger vampire uttered those words, she felt that she may have gone deaf. Her auditory senses must have gone on vacation. She was looking at them with an open face mixed with astonishment, disbelief, and bewilderment. She opened her mouth to speak but no words came out. Maybe the surprise was just simply too much, it knocked her capacity to talk. It was simply unbelievable and she was disbelieving it. Her mother disappeared from her that night ten years ago without any trace where she could be found. At one point during that unforgettable night, she thought she must have been killed somewhere. It wasn’t until this year alone that Adrienne only found out that her mother was still alive. After she heard from one vampiress who had an unusual friendship with a witch inside a local boutique called Titiana’s Silks And Dresses where she bought a dress that time that she

Adrienne left Emrick castle on an early morning. She went home to her old house back in Ardelean Village and stayed for a week. But she couldn’t stay in the place anymore. People would talk. She left after a week and boarded a train going north to God knows where she didn’t know. Much less cared, at all. She put her suitcase inside the train and crossed the aisle and found an empty seat at the middle. There were lesser people found on this side of the train. She put her bag on the opposite seat and settled herself on the dark red rose seat. The train waited for at least twenty minutes before it started to move. Gray smoke emitted from the chimney and it billowed in the wind, the gas seen through the glass window. The journey up north would be a long quiet one.  She watched the rolling hills and green fields and passing trees already turning orange or yellow ready for autumn. The sky was clear above and there were occasional white birds that she s

Adrienne went to the village center to buy replacements for bulbs in her house. Sadly, it must be one of the forgotten things Golier Frank, the cottage owner, failed to mention to her when she arrived in her new house. Oh well, it was just a minor glitch that he neglected to inform her about.When she opened the light in her bathroom, it was absolutely off. So, she had to relieve herself in the loo without the lights on. When she opened the light to her bedroom to change into her clothes, it wasn’t working as well. That was two. She would have expected that when she went to the kitchen to get a glass of water, she could switch on the light on the ceiling but only darkness greeted her as well. It was only the fridge that provided the light. “Well, damn. Am I not pissed to find the lights not working,” she muttered to herself as she drank water. So, with the incident that every part of her room appeared to be dead with light she went to check the

Rune’s third birthday celebration was delightfully celebrated by the adults inside the cozy house that Adrienne had built for herself and her son. They enjoyed the abundant cooking that Mrs. Lucian especially prepared for Rune and they helped themselves to the vanilla chocolate cake that Marcus leisurely created for the little boy. The little boy was changed to a red shirt and black pants. The red and black colors were chosen by Rune himself. He always immediately smiled when he sees red or black just like how he easily smiled more when it’s already dark, as if dusk and night were his best friends. But who wouldn’t be surprised by that? Some had an idea who the little boy with raven wave hair and blood-red eyes was while the rest of the village simply disregarded who he was. For he was young and he wasn’t dangerous to their eyes. More to the fact that he was strongly doted by the strongest clan in the village, the Lucians. When Adrienne Mallory came to Aardwolf Villa

Adrienne went to the village park with Rune for an afternoon play. The sun was a burst of bright golden sunshine on the ground. Birds chirping were heard above the trees that were surrounding them. The sky was as blue and as clear as it was above. Some white birds flew in the sky. There were a few kids who were flying kites in the sky. The afternoon breeze was warm and the wind occasionally blew. Adrienne watched over Rune while he played with sand in front of him where the sun was shaded from him. Other kids were also playing beside him with their plastic shovels and colorful pails in front of them wearing hats or caps or not on their heads while their families were seated either by the swing or on a cloth-covered ground watching them. The squeals and laughter of the children could be heard everywhere. A balloon vendor was selling his colorful stringed floating objects to one side where the cotton candy man and an ice cream vendor was also clinging his bell to attra