I sat in the parlour. I didn't understand why there was a small audience for my awakening. Alexander, Nathan, Dimitri, and Galina sat opposite me, their expressions grim. Rose sat between Nathan and Dimitri, watching me. I closed my eyes for a brief second. All my training had taught me to kill Strigoi, yet now I was sitting calmly in the same room as them, willing to join them. What attracted me? An eternal life? Being with Alexander for the rest of eternity. No, it was my duty that demanded it of me. For me, ever since I was a child, I was taught that my duty always came first–ALWAYS. My life was expendable, theirs wasn't. I had to protect others, never to put myself first. I opened my eyes, nothing had changed; everyone was still sitting opposite me, perfectly composed, perfectly devoid of all emotion, perfectly dead. It wasn't in my nature to give in to anything, you could say, I was just as stubborn as Rose was. I wasn't going to be the first one to break the silence. It was like a 20 minute, three way? four way? staring contest, where no one would break eye contact with me.
Finally Galina spoke, "Get it over with, Alexander."
Alexander smirked, "Of course, Galina."
Dimitri looked furious that Galina hadn't given him the privilege to awaken me, but didn't say a word, the last thing he wanted to was to have Galina as an enemy. I pulled my hair to one side as Alexander came to sit next to me, tilting my neck towards him for convenience.
"Will it hurt?" I whispered.
My heart was going a mile a minute. I was seriously scared of what was going to happen to me. What if I lost myself and forgot my entire purpose? What if Alexander couldn't stop? I tried to calm myself, but it wasn't working this time.
"At first, but after a while, you won't feel a thing, darling," reassured Alexander.
He swiftly pulled me onto his lap and sank his fangs into me; the feeling of pure bliss resonated through my entire body. I couldn't tell left from right, the ceiling from the ground, but it didn't matter anymore. I was barely conscious of Alexander bringing his bloody wrist to my lips, I just drank. I was so hungry and it was like nothing I had ever experienced before. Then everything snapped into clarity. The haziness of Alexander's endorphins was gone. Dimitri was right; the night was no longer dark, but as bright as day. All my senses had been heightened.
I smirked, "Well, it's done."
