"Their lives are becoming worse, now that our food are lessening. Could you guys imagine that? Each of them going to the forest, hunting, and digging for anything that could be edible to them, and that's in a desperate way. I could predict my mother's not feeding them." She was shaking her head, eyes gazing just at the air. She was imagining of that scene.
"Jeez... Your mother's cruel." Andy commented. "She's a complicated, ruthless, and mindless woman." She corrected, every word pronounced hardly. "Crazy. Is that why you're not visiting her?" He asked. "Yeah. I started to hate her ever since I got old enough and when I caught her abusing vampires." She replied, gave a stiff nod. "Are you telling us that she imprisoned you?" Andy asked.
"Well, maybe. She just let me stay inside the castle ever since I was like, a baby." Her face said she wasn't sure of her answer. "Then, she really trapped you inside your big house." Cassie confirmed, nodding. "Wait, was there anything that happened to her slaves if talking about escaping?" She had remembered asking that, thankfully. "There were many incidents involving that, Cassie. Good question, anyway." She beamed for the first time. "Thanks." She half-whispered.
The three close friends had many talks after finally talking about that truly evil vampire, and it wasn't really that important at all. There were a bunch of countless laughs, so they definitely has the kind of humorous conversation. They did that for hours with no one noticing the time. Then, when the temperature gradually changed into a colder one, and winds that begun to howl in the night, the conversation finally ended. At the precise time when the two separated, the other going back to his house, Cassie having difficulty putting the key inside the doorknob to open it, she had heard footsteps going toward her. It was just her parents, going back.
When everyone knew that the distance was near, and the time was good for the teenager to hear, one of them began to talk to her. She quickly hid the key. "Cassie, how come you're still here outside?" Jake asked confusingly. Cassie was about to speak, but she was just stuttering, and so she stopped. Her eyes rapidly traveling from one direction to another, she was nervous.
"I checked on the plants." She said, tried her best to hide her hesitation and nervousness. The both had looked at the garden. "Well, then. Go inside, aren't you feeling cold?" Clarissa said, her hands closing her jacket made of fur. Cassie sighed when she touched the doorknob once again, wishing that she managed to open it just before her parents came back. She turned, and she successfully entered. "Mom, what did you do there?" She asked, just for the sake to speak. The lights went on flickering.
"We observed those humans, of course. And visited other places." She replied, throwing herself to the couch and made a very weary sigh. "Are there any updates?" She asked looking at her, standing in front. "Well," she first looked at Jake, "It's become dreadful, and worse. Foods are slowly vanishing, as what we have all seen." She replied, and there was a bit of despair in her words. "What about the humans, what are they going to eat?" Cassie asked, went to join her mother sitting down.
She stood, went to turn the television on. "Perhaps nothing anymore. I'm just wondering how fast these humans consume animals each day that it decreased." She was switching channels, the remote locked in her right hand, the other in her hip, and eyes were especially focused on the screen. "I agree. There might be a problem about that." Jake said from a distance. Cassie's eyes were on the tv too, and the channel was finally frozen to news. Clarissa narrowed her eyes watching.
"Oh my god." She heard her mother whisper that, gasping after listening to the news. Cassie read the words 'death of humans increased to hundreds per day'. "Jake, come over here and take a look!" She called. Jake appeared, he ran quickly.
She saw that her father was shaking his head for several times, and Clarissa putting her head down on her hand. "This is absolutely our fault." She said, her voice barely able to hear. "Of course, it isn't. How could you tell, Rissa? None of this is certainly not your fault." Jake comforted, holding her shoulder. "And how could you tell not? Haven't you heard what Annie told us—that our population grew?" She stopped to wait for his response, but her patience ended. "That only meant one thing, Jake. We're trying to consume the animals way too much, that we didn't care about the humans." All of those words made sense when Cassie realized that. Clarissa stared at Jake differently, as if she was begging for him to listen up. "We were selfish, Jake. So much selfish." She half-whispered, genuinely did. He sighed, stared at the floor as he stood lazily.
"What are we doing, Rissa? What are the vampires all over the world trying to do?" He finally asked after taking the time realizing. "We're killing humans now, and every living thing. Even the whole planet, Jake." She sighed.
"What about our food?" Cassie asked them, looking at the both for any sign of answers. She was worried, now that she had heard all of it. The both had looked at each other once again, now with a bit of sadness. She had clearly noticed that.
"If the human beings are running out of food, then so are we." She didn't wait for the answer anymore, what came up to her mind was the key to her question, the gazing-at-each-other of her parents took so much longer she couldn't wait.
"We saw that most of the grocery stores in my old place are almost running out of stock, and fortunately, we've bought a lot of foods for all of us." Clarissa was still looking at Jake, but it was obvious she was only talking to Cassie. "Did you see any hunters standing there?" Cassie asked like she was already a pro. "So far, nothing. Maybe they're hiding." Her father replied.
"Go to sleep now, baby. Tomorrow, we'll be training." He added, gesturing his head to her room. She immediately nodded her head, without feeling any doubt or resistance. She walked towards her room, and then threw herself to the comfy bed.
She absorbed whatever happened to that day. She even asked herself what would it look like if the hunters came to know their secret place, she knew that was possible, it really was. Because the humans are dying of hunger, and it would be a lot easier for the hunters to find the place where the vampires and wolves are hiding. Her eyes fell until it was closed.
