Ashanti: A Tale of Dark Love

Ashanti

"I want the whole truth Ashanti, don't leave nothing out." Bianca said.

I guess it was now or never. She seen my secret and she's still here, so I might as well tell my best friend about me.

"Well my name is Ashanti and I am really 125 years old. Not 25 like I told you." I said.

"Damn your old. But you look good girl, I mean for someone your age." She joked.

I rolled my eyes at her. "I am from Africa and I am of royal blood."

"Royal like a queen?"

"More like vampire gods. My father name is King Amir and my mother is Queen Eshe. They are the rulers of the Vampire World. I was next in line for the throne, but I had to marry first. My father made a blood oath with another vampire of royal decent that I would marry his son Luther. I didn't want to marry anyone, and I wanted to live like humans. In my country I read a lot and it was amazing how humans lived. I wanted that. I decided one night to leave and follow my dreams. I love to sew and make my mother's gowns but of course being a royal that was frowned upon. I left came to America, learned how to blend in and never looked back." I said and wiped the blood tears from my eyes.

"So how long has it been since you see your family?" She asked.

"For 80 years." I said.

"Damn!" she said.

"I have a few questions. First do the stake in the heart kill you?" I asked.

"No actually most of the things you see in movies is fake." I said.

"Well what is true?" She asked.

"For one thing we can't be killed with a stake through the heart. Our heart doesn't beat so how could that kill us? Bullets don't do anything but slow us down. They hurt like a bitch, but it doesn't kill us. You will have to either drain a vampire of our blood, feed a vampire blood of an already dead person or cut off the head of the vampire."

"How can eating blood of a dead person kill you?"

"When you die your blood settles and it's contaminated. That causes us to get sick it's like poison."

"So, you can't go into the sun?"

"No, we need sleep, the sun burns us. We don't die but it takes us a long time to recover. The sun burns our skin, so we take that time to sleep."

"Your eyes were glowing. I knew they weren't contacts but what about your red hair?"

"All of the royal family have naturally red hair and since we are gods, we have green eyes. Some royals have blue or other color eyes. You can tell a person's rank by their hair color and eyes." I said. I left a lot out but right now wasn't the time to reveal everything.

"This shit is crazy. Vampires are real, and my best friend is one."

"How did you catch up to me so fast? Did you fly?"

"Girl I can run so fast you would couldn't see me. We call it flashing. I can't fly but I can jump high and I can climb walls."

"Now that shit is pretty cool." She said.

"How come you never ate me?" She had a confused look on her face.

"I don't just go around eating folk's girl. I have my standards." I laughed.

"So, what or who do you eat?"

"I usually eat deer's, or stray animals, like when you saw me eating that dog."

"Have you eaten people?" I knew that question was coming. I debated on telling her about the two idiots. Might as well.

"I have." I said after a minute.

"When was the last time?" Damn she's killing me with these questions.

"A few days ago. We were about to be robbed and I kinda stopped them." I said.

I told her the story about Mike and scary ass. I never found out his name and I never asked.

"Damn, who you think could have put them up to it?"

"Now that is a good question."

"So, you can read people's minds huh?"

"Yep."

"No one would believe this."

"No, you can't tell anyone. I can't have people finding out about me. I am serious Bea. No one can ever know."

"Ok your secret is safe with me."

"You don't understand how deadly it can be if people found out about me. It's deadly for me and anyone who finds out. I have stayed under the radar this long and I need to keep it that way. If my family finds out where I am." I paused.

"Let's just keep this between us."

"I promise I won't say anything. You can trust me." She said.

It felt good telling Bianca about me. I just hope she can keep this to herself and never let anyone know my secret. I would have to have to do something drastic to my best friend.