Even though Christopher was the one I liked I couldn’t stop dreaming and thinking about Leonard.
It wasn’t a dream that belonged to me thought but Gabrielle’s feelings were being transferred to me while dreaming and they were intense.
After the almost kissed night, I haven’t seen Christopher, it looks like he’s avoiding me, he hasn’t been going to school either which makes me confirm it, gosh I would like to know how can this two ditch class so much and still being the teacher’s favourite, I don’t understand.
Today’s plan was a sleepover Jenny’s.
Elizabeth and Jeremy would be out of town till tomorrow evening and they didn’t want me alone at home. I didn’t want to be alone at home either so I happily told them that I’d stay at Jenny’s.
After class I had to go back home cause I forgot Gabriella’s picture, I decided to show it to the girls tonight. I’ve been hiding them a lot of information and I don’t think they deserve it. I wasn’t really sure of telling them about the cousins yet, because it doesn’t just involve them but their whole family…I don’t know what to do, I’ll have to think about it.
I got the picture and connected on-line for a while, I really wanted to talk with Zoë and Miranda, even thought I wasn’t going to be able to tell them much but at least I could moan about Christopher’s absence with them. I wanted to talk to normal people for a chance…but they weren’t there. I don’t know what they are doing but I feel like they’ve forgotten about me. I switched off the computer and got my stuff to get out of the house before it got dark; I didn’t want to be out in the dark, alone.
So I started walking downstairs and I heard a noise, I didn’t want to call out names because I knew they left already the house so it couldn’t be them. I got down and I saw nobody around but he could be in the living room so I went in the kitchen, left my backpack on the floor and got a big knife. When I was about to go to the living room I heard steps coming towards me, I hide behind the door but then he called my name.
“Christopher?”
“You can come out now” he said as if he knew I was there all along, I came out of the kitchen with my big knife in hand
“Were you going to attack me with that?” he said with a mocking face
“What are you doing here?”
“I can leave if you want”---“no!” he gave me one of his teasing smiles “why are you so jumpy?” he said still smiling
“Where have you been?”
“Again?”----“Christopher”-----“*sigh* It was my turn to make my ronda, a vampire is been coming near this area often… in fact he’s been in here”
“Yeah… I kind of invited one in”
“What?! Didn’t you hear what I told you about invitations?”
“I didn’t know he was a vampire and it was before you told me about it anyway?”
“Have you seen him again?”
“Yes…he was in my room last week”—“what”—“but Elizabeth
“Did she see him”---“no, and I told her it was a nightmare and that’s why I screamed”
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“Cause you said it was hard for you to be around me, I didn’t want to because you more pain having to be my bodyguard”
“Believe me when I say that nothing would cause me more pain than yours” I can’t believe what he just said, is he being serious?
“If your family is leaving what are you going to do? You can’t be alone”
“I’m staying at Jenny’s tonight and how do you know they are leaving?”
“Cause I’m leaving too”----“Where?”----“another day Gabrielle”
“Here we go again, Christopher…you can’t keep doing this”
“Not now Gabrielle…let’s go, I’ll take you to Jennifer’s house”
“Wait here” I went into the kitchen to get my stuff and then we got in my car and he drove off, he did bring his but I guess he would later come back and take it.
We were again in silence for a moment; I was starting to feel annoyed again, not information, no kiss I don’t like this situation…
“I saved her” he said, not taking his eyes from the road “From another vampire, he was about to drain her out when I took her from him, by that time I was already surviving on animal’s blood and I was trained by Byron to control my thirst. I was strong and fresh so the other vampire took off”
“And what happened” oh my god she turned into a vampire!!!
“Gabriella was faint, for the shock I guessed. I saw the two wounds on her throat; he didn’t have time to pierce deep so she was going to be ok but those two wounds were bleeding…at that moment I wanted to drain her out myself”
He looked at me with a crooked smile waiting for my reaction I guess but I just told him to keep talking.
“She smelt like roses, if my heart were still beating, at that moment it would’ve gone fast cause when she turned her head I paralysed…she opened her eyes and smiled at me before shutting them back down. She had the most beautiful marrones verdosos eyes I’d ever seen, I was frozen looking at her and then I realised that I couldn't hear anything.
I could hear people talking from far away, I could hear the soft breathing of the sleeping kids, I could even hear rats walking underground but I couldn’t hear a thing of what was going on inside her head. Like what happens with you Gabrielle”
“And then?” I insisted, I wanted to understand their love although it didn’t please me much the way he talked about her and then he continued talking.
“I took her with me to my house and explain father what happened, of course I didn’t say the whole truth, just that somebody attacked her, that I scared him off and she faint. It took a lot of me to resist the temptation of taking her myself while carrying her but all I could think about was in her smile…that smile that brought me happiness.After that she started frequenting the house…we started dating, we were in love or so I thought. Everything was perfects but then Leonard came from one of his trips from Italy
I was furious, I wanted revenge so I pay a visit to the town’s witch and I embruje Leonard…it was suppose to last a few minutes, enough for him to not recognize her, to reject her in front of everybody. I didn’t think I didn’t know there was a transition a transformation period where he would loose control. Because he was a vampire it affected him in a different way, he became something else.
He was with her when that happened, on the night they were going to announced their wedding date, and he killed her” He stooped the car; I could see the pain and regret in his face, even though he was trying to hide it, I could still see it his hands became fists. It broke my heart.
“Because of me, he killed her, because of me none of us could have her” I wanted to erase his pain, to ease his frustration, but what could I do? I just stood there in silence till he looked at me. He stroked my face and with a smile said “but here you are now”
“Yes and I looked exactly like her…but I’m not her” he pulled back and looked at me with a frown “I don’t want you to be her, is that what you think? That I'm getting closer because you look like her?
“It did cross my mind a couple of times…yeah”
“Then you don’t understand my feelings for you”
“Do you actually feel something for me?”
“When I saw you the first time I knew you weren’t her so I tried to be as far from you as possible, I feared that I would fall for Gabriella again, for that appearance just because you look alike but you are not her, you are stronger and stubborn as you can’t imagine, so without realising it I started liking you and the fact that you know what I’m and it doesn't bother you makes me be more secure about my feelings for you”
I stood in silence for a while ignoring his glance, I knew he was looking at me waiting for my reaction to all that but I couldn't talk I needed to think to process all this new information. But he was impatient “what are you thinking about?” he said
“I’m swallowing all this information”
“You can’t imagine what I’d give to know what’s in that head of yours; you always seem to be thinking, working your brains out”
“Believe me; you don’t want to know what I’m thinking”
“Yes, I do…so you are telling me now that you haven’t been telling me what your real thoughts were?”
“I’ve answered all your questions”
“But that’s not what I'm asking you” I was in silence for a bit when he started again “you see…you are doing it again”
“I have to put my thought sin order to be able to deliver them to you”
“But what do you have to think about so much?”
“I don’t know because I don’t even understand them myself ok? I should be running from you but instead I'm getting closer”
“You must have a huge chaos going on in there”
“Maybe…but I don’t care if I get to stay with you” I could feel his eyes on me again but I just looked ahead not meeting his eyes “if that means that I'm insane and that’s what it takes to be with you…I’ll accept it”
“Are you sure about this? You don’t know what you are getting yourself in to”
“You’re wrong, that’s the only thing I see clearly in my head” and it was true, I knew what I was doing, I knew he was dangerous…but I didn’t care, the only thing I could see clearly was that I loved him.
He started the car again and drove to Jenny’s house, an awkward silence stood with us thru the whole drive. We just confessed to each other but there was nothing there to make it official, I still felt ignored or avoided as always…this was not what I expected. He stopped the car in front of Jenny’s house and we stayed in for a while longer, of course in silence.
“I’ll send Leonard to check on you tomorrow” and he got out of the car
“Ok…” I got out of the car too and walked toward the house.
“Gabrielle!” he called after me…good!! But when I turned he was just showing the car keys, I forgot them. I took them and then continued my way towards the house again.
“Gabrielle!” he called after me again from his side of the car but when I turned he was just there making our faces stay a few inches away from each other. I don’t know how it happened or when it started but in no second I was being kissed…he pulled my body towards his and I could feel his cold hands putting pressure on my back to hold me closer, my ear drums were beating, my heart was jumping, I could feel my face getting red and hot, my lips were burning and my whole body was shaking…what a sensation, by the time he let go of me I could barely stand.
“Sweet dreams” he said in my ear and then disappeared in a blur, aaaaah!! I can’t believe he just kissed me oh my gosh now that’s what I was expecting.
“Gabrielle!” somebody called my name, I couldn't make out who it was because I was still atontadada
“Gabrielle! What are you doing there? Come inside” it was Jenny. I finally moved and walked into the house.
“Hello Gabrielle is nice to see you again”
“Thanks Mrs Prado”
“Brook is upstairs, let’s go” said Jenny pulling my hand on the way.
In the room Brook was on the floor drawing and rock music was playing in the background.
“Hey Gabrielle, what took you so long?” she said
“Sorry girls, I couldn’t find what I was looking for”
“And that is?” Brook continued, I quickly pushed Jenny so she could seat on her bed and I locked the door.
“What is it?” Jenny said and I got the painting from my backpack and showed it to them. They did react to it but not as I expected.
“Wow! Good outfit” said Brook
“Yeah where did you get it from?” said Jenny
“That’s not me…turn it around”
“1703?” said Brook; I could see Jenny’s thoughtful face and something was going on inside her mind.
“What is this about?” Brook continued
“To tell you the truth I'm as lost as you are” I thought of telling them everything I knew about her but it would involve the cousins so I decided to go for what my family knew.
“But let me start from the beginning…this is something I never told you cause I didn’t think it was real or something that could have an explanation but now I’m looking for one cause I'm freaking out”Brook had narrowed eyes listening intensely but Jenny was clamed, as if nothing was happening and I continued explaining.
“Jenny…what can you tell me about déjà vu’s?”
“Well…my grandma says that déjà vu's are flashes of your past life that come to your present to warn you about something, why?”
“I've been having a few déjà vu's lately, more than a few and really realistic dreams or nightmares”
“And what does this has to do with this woman?” said Brook pointing to the painting
“I saw this painting for the first time in my life three days ago but I’ve been seeing this woman ever since I came here, and I’m not talking about my reflection in the mirror. The first time I saw my house, the one behind the woman in the picture, I felt like I knew the house…like I had been there before and my nightmares started as well…I saw who I thought it was me in that dress that she's wearing, with the medallion that I’m wearing. Every little detail that you can see on her in this picture…I saw it before. Now tell me that that’s not weird”
“Maybe all in all together is trying to tell you something. Maybe you are really seeing your past life…remember I told you? I couldn't see your past because it didn’t belong to you” said Jenny
“Her name was Gabriella, what a difference huh? And what I don’t understand is why do I see her? Why am I so connected to her I can even feel what she feels when I'm dreaming, she's been dead for centuries, if I'm her reincarnation…lets say it like that, am I not supposed to not remember anything?”
“Wait a minute…are you saying that she's is you, you are her, the same person?” Brook said.
“They share the same soul” said Jenny again with that weird glance of hers “different mind but same soul…she's warning you about something, that’s the only explanation”
“Ok but why now?”
“Cause this is your home… Think about it as you've told us you never had this déjà vu's and dreams before, it all started when you got here… is cause of this place, maybe something happened to her in here and because you are her family, because you are connected in many different ways, she’s trying to warn you maybe the same thing is going to happen to you” wow I didn’t like that…She was killed by Leonard because of Christopher’s Jealousy I learnt that tonight…bad thing really bad thing.
“She was killed here in 1703” I finally said
“Maybe that’s it…you are the last of her linage maybe she wants you out of here” said Brook and after a moment of silence she continued talking “have you asked Elizabeth
“Why she abandoned me you mean?”
“No...I don't really think she abandoned you”
“Are we really going to keep talking about this?”
“Hey, I see things in a different way she told me that didn't see” Brook said pointing to Jenny
“Don't use that as an excuse”
“No seriously Gabrielle, I think there's something deeper behind it there's more here that we are not seeing...ask her!!”
“O…k, I will. But there’s something else I want to talk about”
“There’s more?” said Brook----“Yes, and it involves you”
“What have you seen my past life too?”----“Don’t joke with that”---“o…k”
“Do you remember the sketches you showed me in your weird stuff file?”
“What's with that?”
“Did you see Mary Alice’s body in the woods in St. Martyr’s day?”
“Yes” she said hesitating “so what?”
“Is it not familiar to you, the settings, the way she was laying on the grass?” she was uncomfortable I could tell that she noticed it.
“Where are you going with this Gabrielle?” said Jenny.
“What I’m trying to say is that I think she can see who’s going to die thru her
Sketches” they both looked at me but not as if I was mad or something, they seemed to believe quite easily. Of course Jenny is a witch and I’m seeing my past life’s life thru my dreams so why couldn't Brook be seeing things thru her paintings?
“I have something to show you…” said Brook in a really serious voice huh oh!! “I did notice something when I saw Mary Alice in the woods but I didn’t think it was that…till I draw this” she opened her folder taking out a few sketches and then he picked up one and put it on the floor so we could see what it was.
“Whose whim?” said Jenny
“I didn’t know who he was when I draw it…as you can see the faces are not well done because I don’t see them. Two days after I draw this…Sam Julian died”
TO BE CONTINUED…….
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