Blood Wake

Chapter 5: Laughing

— Good morning.

I turned to look at Dalilah. She was dressing in her lab coat and started her computer.

— Good morning. I answered.

I still felt upset that she left me alone like that.

— I heard you had some trouble when feeding yesterday.

I shrugged but she came closer and observed me with curious eyes.

— I had sent Charles to help you but I did not planned for Jessie to crash on your first meal.

— I think he did not either.

She sighed.

— He is always acting as a stupid kid. Never listening to our instructions and getting carried away all by himself.

— You seems to know him very well.

— I do. He is my cousin. We grew up together since he had lost his parents at a young age. I think that is one of the reason he act so spoiled. Because he thinks he can get away with anything if he play the poor orphan card. Too bad it won't work with me.

I smiled. Dalilah might be a bit severe and rough but she seemed to care about her cousin. I had yet to warm up to her but she was not acting as if I was a monster. She was even patient and kind given my reactions to her questions and tests.

I heard his footsteps before he went down the corridor who lead to my room, but Dalilah turned her head with a questioning eye-brown when he knocked and entered the room.

— Hello. How are you Camille?

— Hi Charles! I'm fine. Dalilah say I should be able to control myself if I'm trained. I fear I'm going to be extra work for whoever have to train me.

He chuckled.

— That would be me. I hope you will pardon my poor skill as a teacher.

Dalilah rolled her eyes.

— Everyone know you are perfect at everything so stop being so humble. Last year you gave private lesson to Jessie and for once he was able to understand the basic of diplomacy.

— I still could not take him to act like he cared.

— Jessie's just not a diplomat. But he is better than before. After all he managed to keep his calm for ten minutes when the inspectors started to nag about our works. Last time he behaved for only three minutes and we had to drag him away in fear he killed the poor men. You really did a miracle happen.

We continued to talk. Charles and Dalilah had many fun stories concerning Jessie and others. They also did their best to explain me what were the purpose of the tests we were running on me.

Dalilah said I would probably live longer than any human but I would not have a life-span as long as most vampires did. But she needed more information before she could be sure.

This bugged me and I could not refrain myself to ask:

— How old are you Charles?

— I'll turn seventy-eight the 14th.

— What? But how long are you supposed to live?

— Dunno. After a while vampire grow pretty reckless so none of our older died from a natural cause. I think the older was eight hundred years old or something like that.

I stopped listening to the conversation and started day-dreaming about all the things I would do if I were to live so long.

Please tell me what you think and if you saw something that is a complete crime against grammar. Have a nice day! 

Also I made a mistake with the name of Charles: I had written tis for both the partner of James and the vampire boy. Well Charles is the vampire and Erik is Jessie's partner.