Forbidden Romance

Memories of Hell

The soft fur of Drakel greets me at dawn. I close my eyes expecting another dreamless day. The dreamless sleep mocking how I was once human. When the slumber comes over me I see myself playing with my birth mother laughing. I was five, in this memory. She smiles and kisses my head. "I'll never let you go, my little sunshine." I hear from her lips. Anorexic form in a blue dress, bald for some reason, but that loving smile and the eyes seeming to fade with life upon each twilight.
The memory changes abruptly to her tucking the five year old Luke in. She sings, "you are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy, when skies are Gray. You'll never know dear...how much I love you...please don't take my sunshine away." Luke then wakes up as a nineteen year old and dons a suit of black. There are no sounds of cooking and Luke falls on his knees beginning to cry. He starts to pray, "Why God, why? Cancer of all things!" he sits there for twenty minutes crying and praying. Until he hears a rap at the door and wipes his eyes. Concluding his prayer, he opens the door to see his Aunt. "Come on Luke...your mother's waiting." Luke snarls, "Damn you, damn God, and damn Cancer." Luke walks out the door leaving his Aunt stupified. He walks to the gathering at the graveyard and grabs a handful of dirt. He casts it into the grave and wipes his face. He glances to the headstone where his mother and father are buried. He salutes his father. "Cadet Private Luke no-last-name-anymore reporting out, First Sergeant." another tear streaks down his cheek as the family leaves and Luke sits staring at the graves as they are filled. Night comes and so do two strange people. A man and a woman. The man is of a heavy build and stern features. His skin reflects the moonlight in a pasty white with dark etchings around his red orbs for eyes. The woman is of a similar complexion with a lighter more delicate build. "We hear your grief, morsel. Would you join us and spread the memory of your dearly departed? Have another mother and father? So you won't be alone." Luke gets up and shrugs. "Sure you goth weirdos." the vampires laugh, after the woman is commanded to." they go through the three-night process and shape Luke's mind. Then, comes the day Luke rebells, but before he can relive it Luke is awoken by a sudden relief of giant-bear-pillow. In the place of Drakel lies a note. "Free the girl and come back to us Luke. -Your dreadfather."