Four

‘Karolina? You’re a……. vampire too?’ I asked. Shocked pulse through my body as I realize my best friend was, no, is a vampire. I couldn’t help but realize how much I wanted to shout at her for keeping this from me.
‘Alice, I know you’re angry right now. But I have my reasons, so please listen to me.’ She gave a short pause and waited for my reaction. I took a deep breath and nodded. ’Your parents were one of the royal family of vampires. You and Pasha’s kind were known as the Pure Ones. You guys were the rare ones and the most powerful ones, therefore, both your family were made as royals, as the other Pure Ones were made as nobles. Pure Ones are vampires that are born as vampires. They have magical power, and your kind, the Royals can have powers that are more than we could understand. My kind, well, you can call us Hybrids, most of the Pure Ones dislike us, because we are Pure Ones mixed with human blood. Which mean both one of our parents is a Pure Ones and another one is a human.’ She paused and looked at me to see if I was confuse, which I was. But I took another deep breath and interpret what she said.
‘So, I am a Royal or Pure One?’ I asked.
‘Both. There are four families of Royals, the Sharova, which is yours, the Zeklov, the Chevaliar, and the Von Acken. Your parents was the leading family, they were the ones which rule us. And when they’ve decided to let Pasha marry you, Elijah Von Acken, your uncle, disagree. He wanted to be the next in throne, he disagree to let Pasha to be ‘king’ because of his repulsive behavior. Or maybe he just wanted to be the next ‘king’. Urgh! I hate that guy!’ She said. I laughed. She didn’t change even though she’s now a vampire. She was still that best friend I had, always fun and positive.
‘Oh! Sorry, let me get back to the story telling. Erm…… oh! Ya! When your parents disagree, he wanted to kill them. So, as always the brave you, thought you could save the day and jump right to him and thought you could kill him yourself. But you couldn’t, you were so injured that your parents had to reincarnate you into a seven years old kid again so that you would survive. And that took their life out of them, which means it killed them. Before they died, they made Dimitri to swear that he would make you and your little brother to forget. He was only six years old when that happened. What was worst was, your parents made Dimitri to swear that he would protect you both from all of these. And he was stupid enough to agree.’ She paused again.
‘So, I don’t remember all these, was all Dimitri’s compulsion?’ I asked.
‘Yes. We wouldn’t have told you these if you weren’t in any danger. The accident was already one of them. Elijah had learnt that you and your brother were still alive, so he had ordered his men to kill you.’ She said.
My breathing stop, all my friends died because of me, and the accident wasn’t an accident after all. Rachel was right; I am nothing but bad luck.
‘Hey! I know that face! No! Is not your fault when they died!’ She exclaimed. ‘Elijah slipped right through our defense line.’
‘Alright,’ I said to Karolina. ‘So, then, it wasn’t Jason which saved me, it was Dimitri, right. And then, why did Jason said it was him, why did the nurses say it was him?’ I asked. Karolina didn’t answer but I realize the answer myself. ‘You guys compel them.’ I answered.
‘Wow, Alisa. You’re a quick learner!’ A tall man said. ‘Oh! I haven’t properly introduced myself. My apologies, I am Christian Moreau, currently 160.’ He said. I chuckled, realizing that he was actually flirting at me.
‘Okay, big guy, time to shut up and get out. My little brother needs to have a talk and privacy with her!’
When all of them had left, Dimitri sat next to my bed. I realize that I was able to compute what Karolina told me like she was telling me things that I had already know, but I don’t know. I don’t remember any of it. Accept for one thing, Dimitri. I could remember I was sleeping on Dimitri’s chest when both of us were on my bed. I could remember his smile, his touch, his kiss. Now, all I wanted was his kiss. But I held back, waiting and waiting for him to speak. But he didn’t, so I gave up and choose to start first.
‘So, can you explain to me about Pasha, you and me? What is this, a love triangle?’ I asked. He nodded, but he still looked at me suspiciously, like he wanted me to say something.
‘I don’t know. What do you think?’ He asked.
There he goes again, his answering me by asking me another question. He always does that. At least, that was what I had remembered. ‘Pasha like me, I…..’ Carefully, I choose my word. ‘I love you, and do you love me?’ I asked. Say yes, say yes. I said in my heart.
‘Are you sure you’re in love with me not with Jason?’ He asked. That was what I had been weighing in since that incident, and the dream. I love Jason, but not the way I had kissed and touched Dimitri, not that electrifying feel and the aching feeling in my heart when I realize the kiss was over. Those feelings had never happened to me when I kissed Jason. Jason’s kiss was beautiful, but I had always felt like there is a part of emptiness with me as I kissed him. The part of me that feels lonely.
‘Do you want me to fall in love with Jason?’ I asked. I did it on purpose, I wanted him to tell me he loves me, I wanted him to grab me and kiss me and touch me. But he didn’t, he just look up and glare at me, emptily.
‘No. Are you?’ He asked again. I rolled my eyes and turn away to the other side of the bed and got up. I wore my sneakers and began to walk towards the door. ‘Where are you going?’ He asked.
‘Since, you don’t want to talk, why should I stay? Might as well be killed by Elijah, then to sit and wait for you to say three words. Cause whatever you did just now, it was killing me!’ I stormed towards the door and opened it and saw two tall men stood before me.
‘My lady, you are not allowed to leave yet.’ One of them said.
‘Whatever! I don’t care! Get out of my way! Either I get out or he does!’ I shouted.
Suddenly, I felt Dimitri’s hand pulled mine, he pulled me in and slammed the door and one of the guard and pushed me against the door. He kissed me, I felt his hands move from my hips to my waist and his lips kissed from my lips to my neck and then back to my lips. It was electrifyingly amazing, and I was filled with joy and happiness within me. I wanted more, as he grabbed me up and put me back onto the bed. Both of us just kept kissing on the bed.
Suddenly, he pulled away, and he slammed himself against the wall making a loud banging noise. It was enough to get the guards to come in. ‘Get out!’ I shouted and both of them got back out. ‘Why? What’s wrong? Why did you stop?’ I asked as I felt the aching feel within my heart.
‘I can’t do this. We can’t do this. You’re supposed to marry Pasha!’ He said.
I felt those words aching within my heart. I look at him and shook my head. ‘Can’t you just fight for me? Cause I would fight for you no matter what!’ I said.
‘No! You can’t! You’re supposed to be the next Queen and Pasha the next King. The decision is made.’ He said.
‘By my parents, not me, I didn’t agree in it. Not now, not from the start!’ I exclaimed.
‘How do you know? You don’t even remember your past!’ He shouted.
‘I do! I remember everything about you, every touch, every kiss, and every smile of yours. I remember you!’ I said.
‘No! We would never be together.’ He said.
‘I don’t care! I want to be with you! Together forever.’ I said.