Dozens of people are passing me by, many bearing faces that I once were well acquainted with. I meet the eye of a girl unbeknownst to me. She has deep brown eyes and red tinted lips. Alive, I can tell. She shouldn't be here. Who knows what horrors could happen to that pretty face once the rest of these creatures of the night figure out what I have. If I don't follow her and keep an eye out I'll feel forever guilty.
This path leads to a secret market and town square hidden away deep in Liverpool. She's making her way through and into the square. Rita Carolsson is selling blood barnettes at a stall. Rita offers the girl one and she accepts. Oh no.
For reference, blood barnettes are a vampire invented contraption in which a skin like texture holds blood inside of it and to open, you pierce it with your fangs. She won't understand what to do with it and it'll cause a scene. Vampires have to be careful who sees what. I hold my breath and watch how this plays out.
She holds it in her hands inquisitively, then asks Rita what to do with it. Rita gasps. Heads turn round. One of the heads I'm very well acquainted with. A spiteful angry woman, hungry for blood, with a specific hate for the living. My ex girlfriend of 20 years, Annysa Persaud. She walks through the crowd that's now gone silent and looks down upon the girl.
Annysa: "What did you say?" Lydia: "Excuse me?" Annysa: "I said what. did you. say?
She smiles her gruesome fangs at the poor girl.
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Annysa had always been the passive aggressive, two faced kind.
Lydia: "I'm sorry, who are you?"
I can't continue a bystander. I walk up to the girl.
Marlene: "Oh thank you darling, sorry I'm late. Did you get me the barnette I asked for?"
I give her a knowing look. She seems to understand.
Lydia: "Uh yeah- yep, right here for ye." Marlene: "Thank you beautiful." I turn to face Annysa, She was liable to jealousy when we were together so I added the 'beautiful' to tease her.
Marlene: "Hello Annysa, it's been a while."
I smile politely at her. I may have made her a vampire in the late 90s which is, mind you, out of character for me, but I became infatuated with her due to her addictive personality. Addictive however, does not mean good. I haven't seen her since 2011.
The gathering we're currently at is The Centennial Vampire Gathering of 2023.
Annysa gives me a second long false smile and her and her minion Bella Cheroff walk away. The crowd returns to normal.
Marlene: "You need to get out of here now." Lydia: "What-" Marlene: "Now. Trust me."
The girl walks away with haste. I hope i don't regret this; I should keep watching her, for my own peace of mind.
