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CHAPTER 11

Sunday should've been a lovely day before a new week started but sadly it wasn't. I went home so late last night – around 1am. In the darkness, I kept crouching down in bed, throwing an aimless look through the window opened. The light of Moon shone where I sat – made me suffer the pain from the quiet of midnight. Only my heart kept beating slowly as if it was until birds outside were singing and waking me up at 7am.

There the sun came up. Shining through the trees in my garden to my room – to my bed and to where I lied. I had a dream last night. It was the first time I dreamt about a different person. More exactly, it wasn't a person. It was Jason. I didn't know whether he went to my dream himself or I just overthought about him so he appeared in it. It was just an image of him standing, looking at me with his sad eyes and nothing else. But I couldn't remember where we stood. All I could recall was a place where it was full of light. And he kept standing like that till I got up.

"Ally! Can I go to your room?" – It was Mom.

"Yes, please Mom!"

She probably heard me go home so late last night; that was why she woke up so early as well. She has never done that on Sundays. But I wasn't scared of her. Since I was adopted, Julia and she were always the two most important people to me, whom I could share everything in the world and be consoled for whatever happened. Mom was like my best friend. She always came to me at the right time as now.

"I made ginger tea for you, darling!" – She gave me a cup of tea. I could never find a more watchful person than her.

"Thanks, Mom"

Taking a sip of tea, Mom lifted a wisp of hair falling over my eyes. I haven't undone my hair since then.

"Would you like to share your story last night that made you go home so late?"

She was always that polite, always respected my choice and asked for my permission even though I'm her daughter. And with all of my respect, I never hid her anything apart from the fact that I'm a vampire – which I didn't know whether or not she has known.

"If someone loved you for 11 years and one day he lied to you, would you forgive him?"

"Darling, you gotta tell me what the lie was like!"

"I don't know how to tell you. It would sound so stupid to you!" – I sighed.

"Nothing is stupid here, Ally!"

"I...I love someone who at first just appeared in my dream and for some reasons, I knew he was real. But when I asked Jason who the boy was, he told me that the boy was him! But yesterday, the boy appeared and Jason also admitted lying to me. I was so shocked that I kind of got upset at Jason and ran away! I'm hurt so much but I don't know why. I get confused; now I don't know who I love. Jason or Sean!"

I heard Mom sighed along with her bashful smile.

"Honey, this matter – just your feeling can tell who you choose! I'm sorry, I cannot help you this time! Only you can help yourself! But I can give you some advice. There is something you must know: does the boy love you? And don't hurt the one who truly loves! How can you believe Sean who is still no more no less a stranger to you when he said he was the boy but not forgive Jason who lied to you just because he so loves you that sometimes his mind could go unconscious? Huh? So I would suggest you go for your heart! Do what it really wants. Only you can know! Good luck, my daughter." – She gave a brief kiss on my forehead and cheer me up by tapping on my shoulder.

Then she left. She was right! I didn't know yet who Sean really was. Even though he was the same kind as I was, I shouldn't have trusted him in the first place. We knew nothing about each other. Plus, it was my feeling. I gotta figure out myself.