[The story is based on Anne Rice's Interview With The Vampire the AMC series]
During the 1870s and '80s, it gave rise to the Industrial Revolution which paved way to the concept of capitalism dominated by social elites: the aristocrats - who played...
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"HE WAS ABOUT TO SABOTAGE your art gallery with pig's blood!" I argued as I gestured the mess that had been made.
Tala glanced at the paintings ruined with blood splatters. "It looked more like he's the one who got sabotaged..." Her eyes dangerously moved toward me. "By you."
"It's a vendetta."
"Let me guess, for me?"
"I know you told me not to get involved, but I just can't step aside and watch as they hurt you. It's not that I don't believe that you can protect yourself. It's just that... I simply care. I care about you. A lot. If you hate me for it, then fine. All I want is for y-"
I felt Tala's lips crash against mine. Her tender soft lips enveloped my mouth like a sweet caress. All that I was thinking, all that I was about to say, faded from my mind, and my body melted. This was what I had been craving for, for so long.
Before I knew it, my hands were around her, gripping her tight and feeling all of her. However, in a brief moment, she pulled away.
"Follow me." She murmured, then swiftly fled outside.
* * *
I blindlessly chased her until I found myself standing beside her in an old train station by the edge of the city. It was about to be renovated, so no trains were allowed to stop by to drop off the passengers or even go to this route. Cargo trains were the only trains allowed to pass by.
"What are we doing here?"
Tala didn't look at me. Her eyes were fixated toward the rocky railway tracks. "It's silent here. Peaceful. The noises of the city are at the distance away. I could only hear crickets and the soft whispers of the breeze. I wanted this quiet."
I rested my hand on her shoulder. "We can always live in the countryside. Away from all the chaos. Just... you and me."
Tala finally turned to face me. The gleam of her amethyst bambi eyes was so beautiful under the silver light of the moon. It added cool colors in her pale brown countenance.
"I have never got to thank you." She uttered. "You saved me from a foolish rash decision of death." Her small hand reached the side of my face then gently cupped my cheek. "You gave me another chance to make choices. Now I've gotten meticulous."
"Meticulous?"
Tala smiled, though it appeared unkind. "Uncompromising too."
A sharp object was struck in my left ear. Suddenly, I couldn't hear anything, only a ringing noise which reverberated in my head. I tried to take it out from me. Once it was in my hands, I realized it was a long golden hair pin. I looked at Tala with surprise. The pain was there, but the feeling of betrayal took over. It had always been like this with her, but I had never gotten used to it. Ever.
Then, a flash of yellow light bathed our surrounding. I couldn't figure out what it was, it blinded me, and my bleeding ear did nothing to help.
It was late for me to realize that it was a rushing train coming toward us. I tried to step back, though I knew I was cornered when I felt Tala's grip around my neck.
The ringing in my ear grew louder. The yellow light grew brighter. My senses were all in a swirling chaos, I was rendered paralyzed.
Tala said something. I couldn't hear her, but I could read her lips. "Now you'll know how it felt like..."
Then, with her single push, Tala tossed me over, and the train ran over me, crashing every bone in my body.
