LOST DAWN

Chapter Five

I lay still in the bed, my eyes wide open and staring at the ceiling. I was in my bedroom; John was in his study room. I didn’t know what he was doing but as soon as we got in the house he walked off and didn’t return, I blinked slowly I could make out every paint stroke. Yeah I know most people would say Vampires have excellent hearing but at night we depend on our eyes and ears so they are both as good. Keeps us out of trouble, my hands rested on my stomach. I had the window open because it was too warm in my room; I heard the wind and the howls of dogs. I felt the moons bright rays touch my skin; it’s light pure and warming to me. I gently closed my eyes and turned and faced the window, I felt the cold slivers of breeze waft over me. I heard my bedroom door creak open, the shaft of light that splashed itself on the wall in front of me was dazzling.

“Alexia are you awake?” I heard John’s voice whisper; I rolled over and faced him opening my eyes to him.

“You can come in.” I whispered back, the door opened further and I saw John gently walk in. He came and sat on the end of my bed, he didn’t look at me.

“Sorry about earlier today,” he said, I sat up and looked at him.

“Don’t be silly there’s nothing to apologise about.” I saw him look at me; he gave a faint smile.

“I’ve receive word from the council they want me to start training for the journey ahead of us.” He looked away from me,

“It doesn’t sound that bad, it might just be you know kicking and punching and other stuff to fight with.” I said as I imagined myself punching loads of men around me like a boxing champion.

“No they want me to train you on how to release your full power as a vampire.”

“What like our ultimate form?”

“Sort of, in your form now you can pass off as human in your other form you’re a full fledged powerful vampire that could destroy anything if not controlled by yourself. But the other half also has a mind of their own and a different personality to yours.”

“So basically your saying I have another person in me, like a split personality type thing but instead of personalities it’s a person.”

“You’re on the right lines but I can’t explain it fully as I don’t fully understand myself.”

“But how are you going to train me to do that?”

“Well your other half only comes out when triggered by certain emotions we have to find that emotion or emotions to trigger it and let it come out.”

“I wonder what emotions trigger mine, we’ll find out tomorrow won’t we. Now you get some sleep you’ll need it for tomorrow.” He stood up from the bed and I lay back down, I saw him lean down and then he kissed me on the lips. And then he turned away and left the room closing the door behind him. I turned my eyes back up to the ceiling, a lot of different thoughts zoomed through my mind. Those thoughts I couldn’t keep hold of disappeared within a second of being in my mind, could I keep trusting John. I know that most of you reading this would say shut up girl; you can trust him how naïve are you. Something along them lines I guess, but something in my mind kept saying that John had not told me the whole truth about himself, I decided to roll onto my side again facing the window. I stared out into the long night, way into the distance I saw a radio mast with its red blinking lights, then I saw it. It zoomed across the sky quickly with a trail of white; it was gone as quickly as it had appeared. A shooting star, my dad always told me when I see a shooting star to make a wish. Most people would wish to win the lottery or to get fancy cars, homes or even fancier husbands, wives, girlfriends or boyfriends. But my wish was simple, though it could never come true. I wished I could see my family again for one last time and to say goodbye and what they meant to me, I felt the tears sting my eyes. I blinked and they fell from my face onto the pillow, my heart ached with sadness. Then it hit me like a brick, an energy that powerfully dwarfed my own. It was trying to claw to the surface, but I kept myself calm and collected myself and then the power was gone. Like it had never been there at all, I closed my eyes and I fell into a dreamless sleep.