ZONEVILLE PART II:The rage

premonition

Renzo was still working his brains out while seated on the sofa. He perceived something that he didn’t like very much. His expression was as frustrating to Christopher as it was irritating to the twins. Even though he knew he was nerve wrecking for the other members of his family, he wouldn’t talk. He wouldn’t say what was in his mind.

They all were mind readers; they could all read each other’s thoughts if they wanted to, if they were allowed to do so.

Vampires could protect their own thoughts it wasn’t like with humans. Humans didn’t have a chance to protect their thoughts, they didn’t have a choice they were just nude before these vampires, except of course for Gabrielle.

But strangely enough Renzo was the only vampire which thoughts they couldn’t reach whenever they wanted to.

He was a strange specimen of a vampire. 
Neither of them was able to explain how strange he was, but he was perceptive. Really perceptive and whenever he said something you wouldn’t be able to deny the truth of it.

Christopher was by the window, looking at the darkness of the woods and glancing at Renzo from time to time, really annoyed by his silence.

He was also uneasy; he knew very well that the others -the ones with the red eyes- were closer to their goal. As for now, just two members of the McGraw family remained intact. Their protector passed away already and the successor didn’t even know of the existence of our kind. This fact really worried Christopher but he couldn’t even imagine what Renzo was seeing coming.

Renzo wasn’t even sure himself of what he perceived but it sent chills through his body.

The twins came back to the house after their walk through the woods. Whenever they felt anxious they would storm out and go for a walk, hunt a little bit, fight with bigger animals to calm their rage. They were now having a chat in between them sat on the piano across the big room, each one finishing the sentence of the other.

“We need to” said one

“Protect our family” said the other

“There must be something we can do”

“To make sure they don’t talk” they were worried about their safety more than anything else. They didn’t want to be exposed, to have to run away again to then come back in a few more decades. 
This was their home; it’s been their home for centuries. They always felt invaded by intruders and they felt that a very special intruder was about to make them leave.

Leonard came into the room pacing from one side to another in front of Renzo that was now eyeing him without much interest. 
After their last family reunion where Byron stated his uncomfortable insecurity about the knowledge of their family from the girls, he’s been thinking about something. He thought the twins were right about the fact that they needed to protect their family but they also needed to protect those girls, they couldn’t allow them to get hurt or at least that was his excuse for what he was thinking of doing.

Christopher that was now in deep thought looking through the window suddenly turned to look at Leonard wide eyed and stiffed. He had a glance of what Leonard was thinking and he didn’t like it.

If Leonard didn’t want them to know what he was thinking of doing he didn’t protect his thoughts well enough.

He turned towards the door when Christopher called after him.

“You can’t!” he said fury in his eyes 

Leonard gave him a crocked smile “why not?”

The twins were now looking at them with narrowed eyes; they didn’t know what was happening. What were they talking about? 
Renzo didn’t move an inch, he was submerged in his thoughts. They surely didn’t know what was going on.

Ah! - Is not that Leonard didn't hide his thoughts well enough, is that he didn’t hide them at all for Christopher to read.

Leonard knew how to get on Christopher’s nerves and knowing how he was, he also knew that he wouldn’t dare to break his word to Gabrielle. Even though he didn’t promise her that he would stay away he respected how she felt and wasn’t going to look for her till she asked him to do so.

Knowing this Leonard was free to make a move.

“Just because she told you to leave, you left” Leonard continued, “I thought you knew better” and he turned to walk away but Christopher called his attention again.

“She’s not Gabriella, Leonard!”

“I could say the same thing to you. It’s a fresh start” and he vanished from the room getting deep into the woods direct to Gabrielle’s house.

Once in the neighbourhood he stood in the woods, listening from afar.

He could hear Brook and Jeremy in the living room but no sight of Gabrielle.

Where did she go? He thought and then the sound of a car, no…a truck approximating called his attention. He could hear Gabrielle and Jenny talking from afar. Gabrielle didn’t seem happy.

Leonard quickly hid high up on the big trees that surrounded the back yard of the house from were he could hear and see everything, specially a room upstairs that called his attention more than anything else for a few seconds. He’d been here before.
It was Gabrielle’s room.

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After talking to Jenny's grams we went home. Penelope didn't agree with my decision, she said I was taking it the wrong way, but how could I be taking it the wrong way? Is it not true that they lied to her? Is it not true that they stood by her knowing the danger of it? So please tell me what am I seeing wrong here cause I don’t understand it.

They are just selfish bloodsuckers, I ain't buying it. 

In the car Jenny was trying to make me trust the words of her grams, and don't get me wrong, I trust her but I don't understand what gives her the confidence to trust them.

Anyway once we got home we found Brook and Jeremy in the living room, Jeremy looked better than yesterday -thank god-.

Jenny quickly sat beside Brook and then they started whispering in each other’s ear. I found it a bit rude but Jeremy was looking at them with a smile on his face. Well not at them but at her. Brook.

I found this amusing, I wandered what happened here while I was away but I had other things to worry about like why did Gabriella stay with them knowing they were vampires and all that. 
They keep saying that I’m her but I’m nothing like her. I couldn’t understand her decision. Why is it so complicated to understand my own self?

I got submerged in my thoughts. Trying to figure myself out, or the person I was if that made sense. And when I snapped out of it I saw Jeremy standing in front of me calling my name anxiously.

I did it again.

Sometimes I get trapped in my own world of thoughts and I can’t seem to sense what’s happening around me. I wondered how my expression looked like cause Jeremy had his eyes wide open staring at me, asking if I was ok. And I was ok, I was just thinking.

“I think you should rest for a while”. He said and I obeyed, so I went upstairs, I actually wanted to be alone.

I stormed into my room and closed the door.

Right at that moment I didn’t know what to make of my life. Why had these things have to happen to me? Why of all the places should I have to come here? Why did my family have to suffer this much? And why did I have to like them in the past and in the present? As much as I didn’t like to admit it, I fell right in the same spot as Gabriella falling  in love with Christopher.

Again.

Which made me wonder what did I truly feel for him? Is it because of our history that I felt this way? Did I actually love him? I shook my head trying to brush those thoughts away. I wasn’t interested in him, not anymore at least.

Isn’t this karma? What did Gabriella do so badly that it had to follow me till my present life? Why couldn’t I just worry about normal things? Why couldn’t I have a normal life like any other girl of my age?

My heart was aching painfully, I felt really uneasy as all that information sunken in my brain. It was all getting to me now.

I was Gabriella, a reincarnation of the past love of Christopher and Leonard. 
I remembered when he talked to me about how he loved me because even though I looked like her I wasn’t really her.

Well that’s not true, not anymore because unfortunately I’m her. And knowing what I know I won’t forgive them for what they did to me and to my family.

I could feel my body shaking with frustration and my vision started to bluer with what I guessed it was tears trying to come out. In no second I found myself crying desperately on my bed. 

I wrapped my arms around me and cried. I tried so desperately to think about the melody dad used to hum in my ear when I was upset to try to pacify me. But that just brought more tears.

My lovely dad. A man I respected, a man I loved and I couldn’t have by my side anymore to comfort me in these dark hours.

I tried really hard to remember that humming melody, but nothing came to my mind instead I hold my medallion tight in my hand. He gave it to me-coming from Elizabeth- that set another river of tears down my cheeks. Elizabeth, mum…

I was now lying on my bed facing the ceiling, short of breath for my crying when I heard a noise coming from outside my window.

I hesitated a bit, I was afraid to get close to the window. Afraid of other vampire coming near my house but as I stood up from my bed I remembered that if there was a vampire out there he wouldn’t be able to get in uninvited.  So I walked straight to the window and as I hoped, nobody was there. 
My breathing was even by now and the tears were drying from my face.

As I walked back to my bed I saw mum’s diary. Without realising it I smiled at the thought of that word. Mum.

I took the diary and went to the bed again. I opened it and started reading a few pages away from where I left it last time.

25/10/1990

School’s good, I passed the test, which I’m happy about. I’ve finally made some friends. They are nice. But that’s not what I want to talk about now. There’s this guy called Johan.

That’s dad!! I though exited and went back to reading.

He’s so good looking and smart, friendly, and I think I like him. I’ve caught him looking at me a few times in the cafeteria but he hasn’t said anything to me yet. I’d like him to do it; I think I really like him. It would be bad to keep getting attention from everybody else but him.

That made me laugh, so she was starting to get popular getting everybody to talk to her but the guy she actually liked. I kept reading through and then I skipped a few more pages, as there wasn’t anything relevant there. But then a special entry called my attention.

10/01/1991

He kissed me!

What? Were they dating already??? Keep reading Gabrielle. Keep reading. I thought to myself.

He finally did, after taking me home on our doorstep, it was like something coming out of a movie. As I was inserting the key to open the door he called my name, I really liked him calling my name. And when I turned he gave me a flower. Till now I still don’t know where he got it from. I was so nervous; I didn’t know what to do. And when he kissed me, he was so gentle and sweet. And with a whisper he asked me to be his girlfriend. He brushed his fingers through my collarbone and I felt a tingling…

I closed the diary. I was feeling slightly uncomfortable. 
I now felt like I was invading her privacy, that was obviously what I was doing –because I wanted to know her better- but she wrote with too much detail…I was happy they fell in love. She really liked him.  That eased the anger I felt towards their so-called “love”. I always thought it was just from my dad’s side but now I realize she liked him too.

I lie on my bed again facing the ceiling trying to relax. I could hear Jeremy’s laughter, which made my mood eased. At least he was entertained with the girls downstairs.

As I heard them talk I started feeling that pressure in my chest again. It’s been a while since I last had that feeling. I felt overwhelmed. I felt the need to hold my breath so I could feel that stingy pain in my lungs again. So I did as I always used to do every time this happened. Every time I felt nervous or anxious I would hold my breath to leave the air dissipate from my lungs. I thought I didn’t need to do this anymore but I guess I was wrong.

After my lungs were screaming at me to get some air, I swallowed a gulp of air making me feel dizzy and like this falling unconscious to my bed.

Ooh! This was better…sleeping I wouldn’t have to feel or think about anything. Or so I thought.

My worries wouldn’t leave me alone even in my dreams turning them into nightmares.

I yanked my eyes open, I didn’t even know if I slept at all but I looked outside and it was dark already. Time flew.

I stood in my bed for a while staring at the diary beside me, considering reading it again. And as I was gonna take it I realised that I couldn’t hear anything at all down stairs.

I quickly stood up and got out of my room, walking through the corridors till a reached the stairs. 
I started calling theirs names out.

“Jeremy, Brook, Jane”

No response.

What was happening? I called them again, still no response so I started walking down. I could not hear a thing. Where did they go?

I finally got down stairs and walked to where I left them before going to my room. The living room, and there they were. I was suddenly annoyed at them they really scared me.

“Didn’t you hear me calling?” they never answered “where’s Jeremy?” I said when I looked around and I couldn’t see him, still they didn’t answer. Something was wrong.

I walked up to them and I saw Brook with her folder of sketches on her lap, she was drawing something. She looked up at me and then looked back down but what I caught in her eyes made me think that I might have not looked at Brook but at someone else. That scared me, was she possessed? But then I saw a hand on her shoulder; I looked with my eyes wide open to realize that Jenny was also in a…trance? Her eyes were rolling back into their sockets and she was shaking. Her hand was on Brook’s shoulder, which made me think that she was seeing something and making Brook draw it. 
I was really afraid, I didn’t know what to do and I was also worried about the fact that I couldn’t see Jeremy anywhere. 
I don’t know if I was actually relieved that he wasn’t here, so he couldn’t see my too friends in this state. It was weird even to me that I knew about their abilities.

I stood quite by the wall. I thought this would be the same situation as dealing with a sleepwalker. It was better not to disturb, once they’d be done they would come back to normality. I hoped.

After a few minutes I grew curious as to what she was drawing so I walked closer to them just to peek at her drawing. I was leaning forward trying to make something out of what I was able to peek when she suddenly looked up at me and started screaming setting me into another louder scream.

“What are you doing?” Brook said breathing really fast almost in hysterics

“What am I doing? What are YOU doing?”  I said to her with a shock in my face that confused her. She looked down at her hands “what is this?” she said not knowing “you drew it” “I did?” “Don’t you remember?” “No” “do you usually get into a trance when you draw?” “A what?” “So it was your doing” I said turning to Jenny unconsciously, but it turned out that she was also awake looking at us, and smiling as if nothing happened she answered.

“Yeah, sorry I couldn’t control it”

“What happened?” said Brook more lost than I was.

“I really don’t know either, I came down looking for you guys and I found you both in some sort of trance” I explained to them “Jenny you were shaking, you scared the hell out of me your eyes were pure white”

“I’m sorry” Jenny said, “I knew what was happening but I couldn’t do anything about it, sorry if I scared you”

“It’s ok, where’s Jeremy by the way? He wasn’t here when I came down”

“Lucky us, it would have been a shock for him to see us like this” Brook said with more relieve than I expected.

“Yeah but were is him?” I repeated

“Do you think…?” said Brook not finishing her sentence; we knew what she was thinking.

“I hope he didn’t go to them” I said while walking towards the door, I was ready to run to the council, like I said I wouldn't allow them to take him. But as I walked away Brook called me, drawing my attention to her drawing. I almost forgot about it, what did Jenny see? What did Brook draw? We all looked at it…

“Isn’t that the Zet Zone?” said Brook

“Something’s going to happen there” Jenny said

In my mind just one thought remained.

Jeremy.

TO BE CONTINUED….

ZONEVILLE PART II:The rage

Back to point 1

"We can't let him do that!!!" Said Brook really alarmed, I get more certain that she likes him by the second.

Morning started with a lump in my throat, my conversation of last night with Jeremy brought good and bad news. The good news are that Jeremy doesn't want to be part of the council thank god!! I mean they are just 5 members fighting against vampires, c’mon!! One vampire can bit them all together, so I'm happy he doesn't want to be their next meal. I'm being shellfish I know but I don't care they have taken enough from me already, and the bad news is that he wants to talk to them…I can't allow that to happen cause at the moment they see him they will tell him everything and he'll go ballistic I'm not taking that risk, no freaking way.

Brook, Jenny and I were talking about it while having breakfast, Jeremy was still in bed and he better remain there for today...I have to thank him from drinking that much last night, at least that hangover won't allow him to go anywhere today.

"We still have to go see my gram's...the three of us" said Jenny. Oops I almost forgot about that.

"What are we going to do?" Said Brook

"I don't think he's getting out of bed today and if he does visiting the council won’t be the first thing he'll do"

"If we go now we'll be here earlier" said Jenny but Brook didn't agree "I don't think we should leave him alone..." she said Hhmm...Brook is giving me chills, does she like him that much? Let's leave her here then...I don't want her to carry that worried face around me all day or I'll get worried too.

"You stay" I said and she looked at me very shocked "we have to go, we can tell you everything later, stay and take care of him. Don't let him get out of the house"

"Are you sure?" She said, still didn't believe it

"Yep...stay, Jenny and I will go and don’t let anybody in"

Finally we all agreed in what we would do and Jenny and I got ready to go.

I showed Brook where the medicines where in case he needed something and we left.

Jenny and I got in my car and I drove towards her grams. In the car we started talking about what to do to prevent Jeremy from meeting the council. Things like a little trip out of town for a while I even thought about leaving Zoneville for good...there isn't anything left for us in here.

The red flags disappeared from the windows and doors of the houses, the awakening day ended already so there was no need for them to have them up.

We passed through those weird trees and it gave me the chills again, the crazy thing was that Jenny too felt something, maybe we were being followed.

I was glad I wasn't alone...I don't understand how I manage to always have a problem with my car in this area when I'm on my own. Spooky.

Once in town we saw people playing around and laughing as if nothing happened. That disturbed me a little too much. I couldn't understand that. Yesterday one of the most known women if not important of this town had her last goodbye to the people she so much protected and they already were having fun...I was glad Jeremy was asleep I don't think he would like watching these, cause I didn't.

"C'mon Gabrielle...people has to move on otherwise we'd be stucked in sadness all the time. This is been happening for decades...don't be sad"

I didn't like admitting it but she was right, this people have faced the lost of their brothers, sinsters, parents and friends for a long time now, is not fair for me to claim they don't care cause they do....

I understand... when daddy died I cried once and never cried again till I came here. And with mum well, you know my burden but I don't wanna cry. To cry makes me feel vulnerable and I need to be strong. I need to be strong if I want to protect Jeremy.

We finally parked the car in front of Jenny's grams house. We walked up to the door and we knocked.

"C'mon in is open" Jenny's grams said from inside the house, that shocked me a lot.

"How can she just invite people in like that we could be vampires"

"Oh relax she knows is us"

"How do you know that?" I was getting annoyed...people shouldn't invite estrangers in their homes as if everybody was un buen samaritano.

Jenny made me turn around and look at the right side of the house, there was a small window from where Jenny's grams was looking at us...I felt a bit silly after that but what can I do? I'm concerned.

We got in the house and as I walked in, I started to feel dizzy...deja vu again, there was something about this house...

"Have I ever been in this house Jenny?"

"No that I know, why?"

"Then Gabriella's been here"

"What! Your ancestor? The one that looks like you?"

"Yes Jenny Gabriella"

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, she is" said Jenny's grams that was now behind us...spooky.

"Welcome Gabrielle, I'm Penelope. Now come in girls we have too much to talk about" we followed her into the living room...yeah now I was 100% sure that Gabriella's been here before it looks like it hasn't changed much and that smell...where is it coming from?

"What's with that smell?" I asked intrigued, it was like lilac and wet wood but something made my stomach retorcerse. Penelope smiled at me and sat down.

"Is the smell of what you are going to drink" huh??  

She told us to sit down and then she took a huge old book that was underneath her couch and put it on the table.

"Wow grams what is that?"

"Is our familiy's diary" huh? Family diary? And she continued "as you know in our family being witch is not for everybody...we don't know how it started but it's said that our powers jump a generation that's why my daughter doesn't know about magic but my granddaughter does. Our witches ancestors have been writting in this book important spells and information to keep future witches posted...you know there's no better spell than the ones they used in the old days. But they didn't just put that kind of information down, they sometimes wrote on a daily basis explaining what was going on in Zoneville"

"Woow" Jenny and I said at once

"Yes, that's what I said too, you'll be able to know what really was happening in here without any editing. Just our family members, our witches family members know about this book"

"Then why are you telling me this...?"

"Cause you play a really important part in it Gabrielle. The first time I saw you when you came here looking for Jenny I felt like I knew you from somewhere" Penelope started looking through the book, page for page till she stopped in a page that had a painting on it, and then she continued talking "here you are" she showed us the painting and I couldn't believe it, there she was...Gabriella.

"Our ancestors knew each other" said Jenny amazed with a smile that covered her whole face.

"Yes they did"

"Is that why you told me to trust her grams?"

"Let me explain..." She passed through a few more pages before Gabriella's picture apeared "here it is...the first entrance about Gabriella that Peny Anne did...Penny Anne is the witch who made the potion for Mr Christopher Martyr" O.M.G!! Is that possible?

"We are all linked" said Jenny, her eyes opened like a buho's.

"So...does this mean you know about..."

"Vampires? Yes I do and so well that I know you are dating one, the same one Gabriella dated to be exact"

"I'm not with him anymore"

"Why?" She said surprised. I don't understand this, hello VAMPIRE?? Why would she want me to be with him?

"Long story"

"You are gonna have to trust me too Gabrielle. Everything will be ok if we stick together" she's all the time saying that sentence but she ain't explaining why.

"Ok then, let me first tell you what I know about your past cause you are Gabriella, different mind, different persona but still...you are her. I'm pretty sure you've been having your old memories back and my granddaughter told me that when she tried to read your past she couldn't"

"That's what I don't get" Jenny interrupted "if she's still Gabriella why couldn't I read her hand?"

"It doesn't work like that honey...she shouldn't even remember anything of her past. This kind of things rarerly occure, but when they do you need to pay attention and be careful" I'm getting scared now...let's hear another side of the story. 

"The first time Penny Anne saw Gabriella was by Christopher's hand. She knew him and Leonard since they were kids but lately she felt something was strange, they weren't normal people anymore and she was concerned about Gabriella's safety as she knew the McGraw's family and respected them. Every now and then she used to check on Gabriella, she feared she would become what Christopher was...a vampire. Even thou she knew Christopher was a vampire too she was still looking after him. Gabriella seemed in love and Christopher too, he never did anything wrong, never hurt anybody, strange for a vampire but true. Penny followed him a few times to see him feed from animals, he noticed that one day and they confronted each other. Nothing bad happened, he explained and she understood but she never left Gabriella off guard. Later on things got messed up, Leonard the rebel came back and he won Gabriella's heart making Christopher misserable" and there she stopped talking, why did she stop talking?

"What happened next?" Said Jenny intrigued as I was.

"She'll have to see it for herself" said Penelope and went to the kitchen. Jenny and I looked at each other wondering what she meant by that.

After a few minutes she came back with a mug, she walked up to me and offered it to me, to drink.

I looked at it with a bit of disgust, it didn't smell nice.

Jenny was looking at me with enourmus eyes; she wanted me to drink it...meanwhile Penelope was still with her arms streched waiting for me to take the mug.

I finally took it and after a few seconds of doubting if to drink it or not I took a zip.

Jenny was still looking at me and Penelope sat back again on her seat, she was looking at me as well but not like Jenny, it looked as if she was waiting for something to happen.

Jenny asked me a few times if I was ok which was starting to tire me up. I was feeling ok, nothing new happened, nothing changed...and then suddenly I felt light headed, the room was moving around and around, I felt dizzy, I tried to reach the back seat so I could lie my back on it and I finally closed my eyes.

I hate when this happens...are you telling me that I'm dreaming again? So this is what she meant...I'm gonna have to see it for myself, nah...not good.

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I woke up in the woods and I wasn’t pleased by it. The woods felt different, scarier. Why was I so scared? This ain’t real right? As I stood up I realized that I was wearing a period dress again *sigh* what is all this about… I started walking; strangely enough I knew where I was going so I walked. Something felt really strange and without realising it, I was running. I could feel something behind me so I run faster. I could finally see the light ahead me in between the trees, I was almost out but I heard my name and that made me stop. Somebody called my name. Hold on... did I hear my name? I kept running and when I was almost out I tripped and fell.

I needed to calm myself down a little. This is just a dream I told to myself. I just drank that awful tea at Penelope’s house…I’m just dreaming. As I stood up again I saw blood in my dress, is this blood? I had a wound on the palm of my hand, am I really bleeding? How is this possible? I wanted to taste it to see if it was for real but I couldn't, instead I stood up and started walking. How could this be real blood, this ain’t real but it surely smelled like it. I heard my name again, I looked around but I couldn't see anything. My heart was racing, what was going on?

“Did you just come from the woods?” that voice…I turned around and there he was as gorgeous as always

“Didn’t you hear me last time? I thought I told you not to walk alone and less in the woods” He said with a soft tone, it reminded me of the way he used to talk to the history teacher, but I don’t get this picture, why is he talking to me? I’m obviously in the past but why is he acknowledging me?

“Gabriella, are you listening to me?” oh please tell me he didn’t just call me Gabriella. while I was trying to figure out what was going on he’s expression darkened, he looked frustrated.

“Blood” he said and I remembered, I’m bleeding, he’s a vampire, my mind screamed DANGER! But my body was comfortable. He ripped his shirt and with a peace of fabric he cleaned the blood on my hand.

“You need to be more careful Gabriella” His expression became brighter “your hands are too precious” he said and continued cleaning my hand. My heart was racing and it was so weird to have him touching me again after I told him yesterday that I didn’t want to see him again. But of course, the Christopher that is standing before me doesn’t know about what I said to him or what I’ll say to him…you know what I mean.

He turned my hand around and his expression darkened again, I was looking at his face all the time and when I saw that dark expression I wondered what was wrong, I looked at my hand and O.M.G!!! There was a ring on my finger; a big bright diamond was blinding me. He then let go of my hand.

“Let’s go Miss McGraw, I’ll take you home” Miss McGraw did he say? Hold up, Gabriella McGraw? Darn it!!! Am I playing Gabriella? Shit, shit, shit!!! Am I actually here? It can be, can it?

“Mr Martyr?” I said with a moking tone. Did I just call him by his surname?

“Yes?” He looked at me with a frown and then his eyes brightened a little.

"I know this is difficult for you to acomplish but I'd like to plead you one more time, I would very much enjoy the night if you could be there tonight" what the heck am I talking about? "Miss McGraw" he said with a sweet voice "stop calling me by my family name Christopher, I'm no estranger to you" wow I look angry.

"Miss..Gabriella, *sigh* I don't even know how can I still be next to you right now while knowing you will announce your engagment in a few hours" MY WHAT!! I thought, and what I said was “you know you will always be in my heart but you must accept my decision, I know I'm being selfish but you mean a lot to me. I need you there tonight” I said with a tone that obviously a lady like me shouldn't have and then i got dizzy.

“Are you not feeling well? If that’s the case you should delay tonight’s announcement” he said with a cheecky smile

“You wish” said another voice coming from behind us; I turned around to see Leonard with frown. As soon as they caught each others eyes I could see the sparks coming from them. It felt as if they were about to fight. After a few seconds Leonard’s eyes fell on me.

“My lady” he said and kissed my hand *sigh* this is intense.

“You can leave now cousin, I’ll take my future wife from here” said Leonard emphasising on WIFE, Christopher gave him a last glance before leaving without even saying goodbye; it really hurt me to see him like that.This was killing him, I could see it clearly and I could feel it…so I'm about to announce my engagement to Leonard? But why do I feel like this? I feel happy to be with him and at the same time my heart is aching.

“My lady, Is everything all right? I heard my cousin saying that you are not feeling well” I didn't answer him, at this moment in time I couldn't make out what was happening, I thought this was going to be like one of my dreams, I was supposed to just observe not to feel but I can't control this body, it looks like I'll have to go with the flow… but why do I feel like this? Every step away from me that Christopher takes is making my heart ache and at the same time Leonards touch makes me certain that I love him.
Leonard so different than the one I know; he still has this bad boy aura but he’s so sweet and considered.

“My lady, we need to go. You wouldn’t like to be late for our engagement” I suddenly snapped out of it, engagement? Tonight, is tonight! Gabriella dies tonight I die tonight.

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"Grams, do you think she's ok?" Said Jenny while looking at Gabrille's uncomfortable body still lying on the sofa of her grams house.

"She must be, we just need to wait"

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There's not much difference from how the town looked before as to how it looks now or how it will look. The houses are still the same and the atmostphere too.

While walking by the hand of Leonard I could feel loads of eyes on me, it felt like back in highschool all those glances on the first day.

In town kids playing around, merchants on the street, red flagsssss, red flags!!! "Somebody else has been attacked" I said without me wanting to, I really have no control of this body and what it says.

"Yes my lady, but don't you worry about that. There must be some animal around" said Leonard very calm

"But this is the 3rd victim Leo, are you sure is just an animal" I said and his expression darkened "is there something wrong?" I asked and then he looked at me with a sad expression. "Is the first time that you call me Leo, mother used to call me like that" he said. Darn it!!! Gabriella shouldn’t have said anything but surprisingly he asked me to call him like that more often. I couldn’t help by smile and not because it was Gabriella’s body but because I felt like it.

The rest of the day I spend it with my parents, it was wonderful to be able to feel the warmth of a family again, a big family because I had cousins, uncles and aunties around me the whole day. And especially what made me happier was to have somebody to call mum even thou for a while I was treated as Gabriella and she was loved by everyone.

The night came and I was in my room resting for a bit before the ceremony started. I was so comfortable in that bed that I even forgot where I was but after a few minutes I suddenly woke up and started walking out my room and out the house. I didn’t know where I was going but my body did. It felt as if I perfectly knew where I was going and I felt anxious, I started to run trying to hide from the citizen’s eyes till I arrived to the woods. Why was I here? I’ve been told not to come here, what am I doing here? I kept walking till I arrived to an abandoned house, I was hiding from something while walking forward, but what was it? And then I saw it, something I could’ve never imagined. There kneeling over a dear was Christopher feeding from it. I wasn’t even scared; I could feel my body walking forward while my mind was screaming to get out of there. But I just sat down at a corner of the house and I watched him feed as if nothing important was happening.

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Renzo was sat on the sofa in the living room, something was bothering him. Usually you wouldn’t even notice that he’s in the same room as you but now even the twins were irritated by him. Something was in his mind and he didn’t like it at all. 

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After I got home I got ready and I was walking through a long corridor, I was wearing a beautiful dress, I never thought I could look so good, I can tell that being in the 17^th century is my thing. Music…I hear music so I walk towards it. It becomes louder and I can hear people talking and laughing too.

On my way I catch my reflection in the mirror and I stop to look at it. I look beautiful and then I see my medallion, I smile at the thought of having it around my neck, it was an important present and it had to be with me at all time, it was special. 

I kept walking and finally found the place where the music and voices were coming from…it was a ball dance. Wow I'm having a big déjà vu in this dream like reality. People turned to look at me when I came in, I received a lot of smiles and praising comments, I felt really happy, tonight was going to be a special night.

I walked towards an old man that hugged me and kissed my cheek when he saw me.

“Thank you very much for allowing us to use your home for our celebration” I said to him

“It’s an honour Miss McGraw; you well know that he’s like a son to me” he said with a huge smile, O.M.G I'm talking to Christopher’s father…my mouth just kept moving.

“Leonard’s not here yet and I can’t find Christopher either”

“He must be on his way, not to worry” I smiled at him, lowered my head in reverence and walked away, away from the room, away from the noise and into…huh oh! This room again. I know where I am, it’s gonna happen here. I tried to run away but my legs wouldn’t move towards the door, instead I walked towards my dressing table and started making myself look prettier.

I shivered suddenly, something was about to happen. I heard a scream from one of the rooms and I ran towards it to take a quick look. I saw one of my guards being attacked by something, I gasped but I couldn't move. Then my eyes met its red eyes and I screamed as that thing snapped the head of the guard and flew across the hall, through the door and into my room.

Its red eyes focused on me, Leonard? my body didn't seem to recognize him at first but then it did...his glance focused on my neck? On my medallion. "Gabriella" he said and then he showed his canine teeth at me furiously. I could hear people knocking on my door but I wasn't screaming anymore.

“Leonard, I know what you are and I don’t care, I know that you don’t want to do this” He stood still for a while looking into my eyes, I thought he calmed down but he walked towards me so fast that it was a blur, in no second he was in front of me, ripped my medallion from its chain, opened his mouth and yanked his teeth in my neck. I screamed as pain was running through my body, I felt as if I was being stabbed a hundred times, tears were pouring off my eyes, my lips were burning.

“Leonard, Leo, Leo” I said again and again but he didn’t let me go. I couldn’t handle the pain anymore “Leo” I said one last time.

I woke up screaming at Penelope’s house, I looked around to make sure I was there and alive. Jenny was looking at me really shocked and I felt like I was about to pass out again.

“Are you ok?” said Penelope and I quickly checked my neck. I found nothing.

“Calm down, breathe…whatever you saw, whatever happened wasn’t real” she kept saying. “I thought I was supposed to just watch” I said really hyper “what do you mean?” said Jenny “I could feel everything!! The pain, the love, the pain!!!! I was dying”  “no you weren’t, Gabriella was” said Penelope “yeah, but that didn’t prevent me from feeling her pain as my own pain, I was there. It was not as my usual dreams, I was Gabriella, feeling, talking. I was just seeing things happening with no control of my body, like watching a movie but being there in the movie”

“Have you found anything out?” said Jenny

“Yes. She knew what they were”

“What?” said Penelope and Jenny.

“She knew they were vampires and she just hung out with them, what a stupid thing to do”

“Gabrielle, you are her” said Jenny which annoyed me a lot.

“I'm nothing like her, I’ve learned a lot with what I’ve seen today. She trusted in them, she loved them but they never told her the truth. They always bragged about how much they were suffering and how much they loved her but they were risking her life having her so close. I saw it all, she pleaded. I pleaded and pleaded for him to let me go but he didn't.

“He was under a spell Gabr..”

“No!!” I interrupted Penelope “I don’t want to hear that. Jenny you said that my déjà vu’s were trying to tell me something right? Well here it is, if I don’t stay away from them I will end up like Gabriella and I’m telling you right now that there’s no way I'm letting that happen to me again”

TO BE CONTINUED…..

ZONEVILLE PART II:The rage

Jeremy’s pain



01/09/1990 

We are now in California, is so hot in here so nice and so big. You can't compare it to Zoneville, people here don't look scared all the time they just enjoy life. As I said before, dad stayed cause he took over mum's place in the council. Our last day there, he had a chat with the 3 of us, but then he called Meredith aside and they spent a long time in the office with closed doors. I don't know what they talked about but when Meredith came out, she was as pale as a corpse.

After Christopher left and Jenny went downstairs, I started reading again. I wanted to know how much she knew about vampires so I could too be prepared...and I wanted to know about me. I'm sure she wrote about me, somewhere in here and I wanted to know how she felt when she found out about me. This is the only connection I have with her, the only way I can try to know her cause I never wanted before.

Today I saw her for the last time and the pain was and still is scruciating. I really miss her...I never thought I would care if something happened to her cause I thought she didn't care about me, but she did care and now she's gone because of me.
Tears were pouring off my eyes and I continued reading.

11/09/1990

Today we start school, little Jeremy is been sad all along, he aches for mum and dad but today he started the day happy, he's finally going to school. Meredith started working a couple of days ago and as for me...we'll see. I'm staring high school and even though I was popular in Zoneville, here I'm sure it will be different...hope it won't.

My reading was interrupted again cause Jenny came running into my room with a disturbing expression.

"What's wrong Jenny?"

"They are here"

"Who's here?"

"The council" she said...oops!! Now I understand her expression "what do we do?" she continued she looked very nervous. They must be looking for Jeremy but I don't want them to find him.

"Let's go and receive them...where is Brook"

"She's with them at the door, we didn't let them in"

"Why did you do that?"

"Brook didn't want them in, when they asked for Jeremy she started acting weird plus that other one is there" that other one? We ran downstairs and there they were at the door and Brook was frowning at them, well...frowning at one in particular, Byron. I could not believe he had the guts to come to my house looking for Jeremy.

I walked to the door and they greeted me. They were all there; the 4 of them included Josh Julian and Ben's father, Mr Sheridan. So Josh was in it too...now I understand his words in the church, but what did he mean by that? Do they know how to kill them? And Byron! He's a good actor, I wonder how they do it, being part of the council decade after decade when they still look the same and the others are getting old.

"Hello Gabrielle, I'm Mrs Walts we need to talk to Jeremy"

"He's not here at the moment" I feared that Byron would read Jenny's and Brook's minds and he would find out where Jeremy was. I swear if he tells them where to find him hell will go loose. Sad he couldn't read mine; I would give him an ultimatum. Either way, he kept his eyes on me at all time.

"Do you know where we could find him?" Said Mrs Walts, when I was about to answer Brook poked me on my back, I turned to look at her and she looked a bit scared.

"I don't know where he went, sorry"

"It's ok...could you please tell him we are looking for him?"

"Sure" they all but Byron turned to leave but I had something else to say so I called after them "Mrs Walts I know that Jeremy is supposed to be next in the council but is not a good time to talk about that, he just lost his sister, I... I just lost my mother, let us be"

"We understand that and believe me we wouldn't bother him if it wasn't important so please tell him to pay us a visit soon" I nodded and again they all but Byron turned to leave. Byron was still looking into my eyes as if trying to read me, but I knew better, he can't hear a thing from me. I felt like sticking my tongue out at him, that stare of his was getting on my nerves but soon after that he left. As for the council of course it was important for them to talk to Jeremy and I knew why but I wasn't going to tell Jeremy anything, at least not for now. I know that they are one short in the council but he's the only family I've got left, I'm not going to loose him, not him.

I closed the door and when I turned Brook was behind me still with that panicking look in her eyes.

"Thanks for not letting them in" I said

"I figured you wouldn't like that Byron to come here whenever he wanted to" she said

"Yeah about that...I forgot to tell you something else about vampires *sigh* they can read our minds" their eyes widened...a lot "well not my mind they don't know the reason why, but they can read yours, so were you thinking about where Jeremy went?" They stood in silence for a while just staring at me...yep this was a huge surprise for them.

"I was thinking about what happened in here that day" said Jenny, that day...the day my mother died.

"I didn't think about where he went" said Brook.
They asked me about what else could they do, but I didn't know much either. I knew they were stronger and faster, and that they could hear from far as well as see from far away and that they could read our minds.

"That's violating someone's privacy" said Jenny and at that moment "they are not doing it on purpose is not like a radio, they can't turn it off" came out from my mouth without me realising what I just did. They both looked at me, I guess surprised that I defended them. But I wasn't defending them, that was the truth wasn't it? There are a few things they can't control but anyway, I shouldn't care about that.

Later at night Jenny called her grandmother, I told her she couldn't say anything to her but she told her anyway saying that her grandma could help us figuring out what to do. And we did get surprised of her reaction, she didn't act like somebody scared or anything, she didn't scream at us or panic, instead she told us to go to her house the following day...this was not the outcome I was expecting but she's a witch too and if she won't tell anyone, she might be of help. Jenny said that she remembered her parents always telling her grandmother off cause she would talk to her about magic and scary stories about monsters and that's why she called her. She recons the stories might have been real.

We heard a few noises coming from outside so we looked through the window. We saw a few mans standing outside, I couldn't see their faces and I started to freak out a little. So much darkness out there and those mans... It made me think of vampires. Oh gosh where was Jeremy...is so late.

One of the mans turned towards the house and we all closed the curtains and dropped down on our knees, after a few seconds the  door opened...and Jeremy came in. 

"What are you girls doing on the floor?"

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Byron was sat on the chair Stephen Martyr used to seat in his office.

There were paintings on the walls of Stephen and Selena, Christopher's parents and Tiziano and Caroline, Leonard parents.
The two twins where sat on the sofa in a way that looked as if they were posing for a cover of a magazine. 

By the door was Leonard, at the window was Christopher and at the very end of the room was Renzo playing with a blade. Renzo was the same man we saw in Elizabeth's awakening that we never saw before and now we could see his face properly, he was a young oriental Vampire in his 20's and he had a very painful expression.

The 6 vampires were in silence in the room and it looked as if fire would come from the twins eyes. After a while Byron started talking with a serene tone but his eyes were fierce.

"I went with the members of the council to Gabrielle's house...her friends didn't let's us in which made me laugh"

"They know?!" Said the twins at unison

"It looks like they do...I understand one of her friends is a witch and the other one draws, but just because they too have something to hide to the world it doesn't mean they won't talk about us...for them we are the enemy"

"They won't" said Christopher still looking through the window

"How do you know!!" Said the twins again in unison "I told you" said one "you shouldn't have gotten" said the other "close to her" the first one finished her sentence, "she's Gabriella's heir" said the second one "and she looks exactly like her" continued the first one "do you know what that means!!!" Said both of them in unison, "she's destined to be a member of the council" said the first one "she knows our secret" said the second one, "and now she hates you" said the first, "she will come after us" said the second.

Leonard rolled his eyes exhausted, even though the twins weren't talking to him but to Christopher, he answered them.

"Oh for god shake can just one of you be talking? You are giving me a migraine" they both looked at him with a really annoyed face and one of them answered.

"You can't have migraines"

"I feel like having one so shut up!"

The twins hissed at Leonard, they really were annoyed but they were always in that mood anyway.

Tara and Camilla, their parents were explorers; they travelled around the world looking for the weirdness, for mysteries in 1899.
One of their sources led them to Zoneville where they were attacked by a group of vampires. Their parents died instantly drained out of blood, the twins survived the attack but they were transformed into vampires. They were left in the woods when the attackers thought they were dead, and Byron found them. If it wasn't because of Byron, they would've become like the ones out there, the ones with red eyes so they appreciate and respect Byron and his rules, he is like a father to them.

Byron stood up from the chair and started pacing from one side to another of the room. He was thoughtful really thoughtful, trying to figure out what to do to make sure the girls wouldn't talk. With Gabrielle's friends it wasn't going to be so difficult because they could read their minds and find out about their moves but Gabrielle...she was going to be a pain.

"She won't say anything" Christopher said again looking though the window "I know what you are thinking Byron...she won't talk. Even if it now looks like she hates us she doesn't really, she's just hurt. She won't betray us"

"Betrayal is a word used in between friends...are we her friends? How can you feel so secure towards Gabrielle when you weren't towards Gabriella" Said Byron and he kept pacing from one side to another of the room.

That Frustrated Christopher more than anyone could imagine...Gabriella was the love of his life and since Gabrielle found out about his secret, he's been wondering if Gabriella would have reacted the same way. Why he never trusted her enough to tell her the truth? But that didn't matter much now did it cause at the end she left him for Leonard, she's dead and he loves Gabrielle now.

Byron was really frustrated with the situation, there was something he was seeing coming and he didn’t like it at all. The twins were still looking at Christopher with rage; they thought this was his entire fault. If he didn't have gotten involved with Gabrielle in first place, they wouldn't be in this situation right now. Gabrielle was like a timer bomb, you couldn't possibly know when she would explode.
Renzo wasn't paying attention to any of them, neither to the conversation, he was just playing with his blade, he always had a blade on him who knows why...a blade is not needed to kill another vampire and his hands were enough to protect himself from another human.

After a lot of silence and dark glances from the twins, they called it the day and each one of them went their way.

The twins always together disappeared in a flash and reappeared out doors, Christopher that was still by the window saw them walking towards the woods. Renzo was l still in the office.
He walked towards Christopher throwing that blade up and down and stood beside him,  thought the window he saw the glances the twins gave Christopher when leaving. He then gave the twins a twitched smile and then looked at Christopher.

"They are coming for her" Renzo never said much, but when he did, the best thing to do was to listen carefully not because of his oriental accent that was really sexy by the way but because he always said important things, things that by all means people should take into account and what he just said made Christopher's eyes widen.

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Brook, Jenny, Jeremy and I were having dinner. It was a really quiet dinner...Jeremy didn't touch his food; he just drank and drank beer. I wonder where all this beer came from... I didn't eat much myself; the food wouldn't go pass my throat.

Jenny had a thoughtful expression all the time, I wonder what was she thinking about and Brook that was beside Jeremy didn't stop looking at him, I could see that she was really worried about him.
Seeing Jeremy like this did really break my heart, he must've been dying inside right now. Everyone he knew, loved and respected was gone and he wasn't hiding his pain.
In the outside I kept a straight face, I didn't want him to feel worse but in the inside I was crying a river too.

"Jeremy you need to eat something or you'll get sick" said Brook but Jeremy just kept drinking, it was so frustrating...I just kept looking at him too. He was about to take the bottle again but Brook put her hand over his trying to stop him from drinking, they looked at each other for a few seconds and there I saw it!! in her eyes...Brook likes uncle Jeremy.

Jeremy removed his hand from underneath hers, stood up and left, I tried to go after him but Jenny told me to leave him alone. She was probably right...I guess he needed a bit of time on his own, he's been around people  the whole day, talking to them keeping kind of calm but now it was his moment to let it all go.

After dinner the girls and I went to my room, I could see Brook freeze at the door, she was looking around my room with fear I would say...

"It's ok Brook I haven't invited any other vampire in" I said whispering so Jeremy wouldn't hear the word starting with V

"That's not entirely true" said Jenny very serious; we stood in silence for a while till I realized who she was talking about...Christopher

"He won't come again; I made it pretty clear that I didn't want him here. He won't come"

"I know" said Jenny with a strange smile on her lips and she continued "there's something about him that gives me warmth" what? Warmth? She needs to explain that to me cause I don't know from where both his body and heart are pure ice cold, he's made it clear to me a few times.
He's body, every time he touched me...and he's heart, every time I plead for the truth that was never said.

"Yes warmth don't look at me like that, I know what I'm talking about"

We were still standing in the middle of the room and Brook at the entrance; I had to walk towards her and drag her in. Then we all sat on my bed and suddenly heard a strong noise coming from the corridors, I quickly stood up and ran to my door, Jenny and Brook behind me.

When I looked out I saw Jeremy attempting to stand up, trying to get his balance back, glasses from a broken battle of beer where all around him. I ran towards him, Brook and Jenny behind me.

"Watch it girls, there're glasses everywhere!!" I said to them, I could even see blood on the floor...from Jeremy’s hand.

"I'll get something to clean this up" said Jenny and she disappeared somewhere downstairs, in the meantime Brook and I helped Jeremy up and carried him to his bedroom. He was drank like I never thought a person could be, I couldn't see smiley Jeremy anywhere around this Jeremy.
I was carrying and it made me feel more guilty...all this was my fault, I could not believe I made him get into this and I hated myself for that, I could feel tears pouring off my eyes, I started crying without me wanting to. Brook looked at me and shook her head in disapproval.

"Stop it, he needs you now" And then she smiled at me, I nodded and stopped crying.
I still thought it was my fault and nobody would ever make me change my mind, but she was right. Jeremy needed me, so I stopped it.

We put him on his bed and took his shoes off, I asked Brook to start running the water for the bath tub so she got out of the room.

Even asleep like he was now, he still looked in pain. I wanted to hold his hand and then I saw the wound with blood on it, I almost forgot about it. I went to the bathroom to get the emergency kit...it was a big cut what he had.

Once in the room I treated his cut and I started stripping him down. A few seconds later he was in his underwear.

"Woow what's going on?" Said Jenny from the door and then Brook came from the toilet "bath's ready" she said making Jenny's eye brow lift. I moved away from Jeremy thinking in ways of getting him in the bath tub...and I could see Brook's and Jenny's eyes drift towards him that was half naked, asleep on his bed...this is so wrong...

I sat on the bed beside him and started shaking him, trying to wake him up but he didn't move an inch. After a while my ideas were ending so I decided to slap him and I did it hard. For sure he opened his eyes but then he closed them again.

"Jeremy don't think I'm going to take your boxes off for you so you better stand up and do it yourself, bath's ready!!!" I said frustrated at last but he just moaned and moaned so I asked the girls to help me take him to the bathroom.

Once there I flashed his head with pure called water and he screamed.... that was funny.

He finally realised that he was half naked in the bathroom with 3 teenage girls, one of them being his niece so he threw us out without a second thought. I really felt like smacking his head for making me so anxious but he will have enough headache tomorrow and that's enough for me.

The girls and I went downstairs to make him something hot to drink and Jenny volunteered for that...she made a herbal tea and scramble eggs, easy and quick, we had to be careful with what he ate we wouldn't like him to start puking now.

"Do you think something happened on his patrol?" Said Brook suddenly
"why do you think something happened?" Said Jenny and I was starting to wonder about that too, when he came from the patrol he was a little bit irritated...maybe angry? He didn't find what he was looking for, that's for sure cause he doesn't know what he's looking for and I'll make sure he never knows but still he was annoyed by something, I wonder what it was.

After a few minutes he came downstairs clean and fresh and I could see a bit of old Jeremy again. He walked up to us and apologised for his behaviour.  I quickly ran towards him and gave him a hug; I don't think I've ever done that before, you know, I don't like showing my emotions.

He hesitated for a few seconds before putting his arms around me and when he did, it felt good...the warmth of a family...of two.

He then let go of me but I didn't let go for a few more seconds. When I felt ok, I let go and went back to my seat. The three of them were staring at me by the time a sat.

"What?"

"Are you feeling ok?" Said Jeremy

"Yeah why?

"You've never hugged me before"

"I know"

"Are you sure you are ok?"

"If you didn't like it I won't do it again"

"No!!" he said with a fading smile and then sat down. He was finally coming back, old Jeremy you can't imagine how much I liked that smile now, but just now..

He ate his eggs and drank his tea in silence, we didn't say anything either, we didn't want to disturb his quietness after all a picture is worth a thousand words and it was clear on his face that he didn't want to talk.

Brook and Jenny went upstairs after a few more minutes and I stayed in silence with Jeremy for a little longer. When he finished eating I told him to go upstairs that I would wash the dishes.

While in the kitchen alone I couldn't stop looking around me or through the windows. I knew I didn't invite anybody strange in here again but I started feeling observed. I didn't like that feeling at all so as soon as I finished washing I ran upstairs.

The house was really quiet and Jeremy made me jump when I passed in front of his room and he called me in.

He was sat on his bed and asked me to seat too, he was serious again, I wondered what he would say it was making me nervous now. I sat on the bed and instantly he took my hand into his.

"I just wanted you to know that she really loved you. Even though I didn't know about you till later on, I can tell you that she was always in pain I couldn't figure out at first but it was because of you, all the love she couldn't give to you she gave it to me, and I'm telling you that if she let you go it wasn't because she didn't want you but because of something bigger, I don't know what it is but I know my sister"

“I know Jeremy...we did talk and she explained to me why. It was a relieve at last to know and I felt good... but it didn't last"
I couldn't talk anymore cause my eyes were swimming in tears and my voice was cracking "I just feel like I wasted my time being angry at her and now she's gone" and it was my fault that she's gone was the sentence I couldn't say out loud close to him. We ended up crying together and hugging again.

"I won't let anything happen to you Gabrielle, you know that I'm next in the council don't you?" Oh my gosh...I froze for a moment there, please don't tell me you met them on your way home, oh crap!!! He already knows the truth that's why he was acting like this!!! Oh no...He knows.

"I've decided not to be part of it" huh? what did he just said? he doesn't want to be in the council? hurray!!! hurray!! was running though my mind

“Our family's been dying over centuries because of them...you were right those stupid traditions are getting us all killed. I never understood the council anyway and I refuse to be part of it" hurray!! My heart was jumping with joy, this was better than what I expected, he's decided not to be part of it on he's own free will...I didn't have to do anything. I'm happy now.

"I'll have to talk to them" he said suddenly.
huh ho...That’s not good.

TO BE CONTINUED.......