Dark Abyss

Chapter 15: Close Enough To Satisfaction

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"I win." My voice was set in monotonous as I flipped the journal's page to draw two parallel vertical lines and two horizontal crossing those in the middle of the page, creating nine Tic Tac Toe boxes.

"Again." I muttered in irritation at the fact that we've been playing this stupid game and Hangman for the past hour, Luke letting me win every single time.

"Maybe this game is just pretty darn hard for me." He states in apathy while marking an 'X' on the top left box, his exact first move every round.

"This game is stupid, boring, and it sucks." I pronounced in exasperation and proceeded to take my move, drawing my 'O' at the middle of the boxes.

"You're just really talented at this game." Luke says, his fake acclaim encouraging the aggravation to boil beneath my skin. His second turn consisted of an 'X' placement under his last one, in the middle box at the left column. Same as last game.

"Maybe you should stop letting me win." My voice was in slight vexation from the way he humored himself with my ennui situation. I advanced into marking my repetitious move of stationing the 'O' on the top right box so that my last - and winning, move could be the bottom left square.

"Please, why would I even do that?" He scoffs and shrugs it off like if I just insulted him in the worst way ever. Yet, disregarding his own words, his next move was the bottom right box.

"You tell me." I finalize the game by sketching a 'O' on the bottom left square, the diagonal line completing and me crowned winner. Again.

Closing the journal instantly before beginning another idle game of Tic Tac Toe, I groaned at how vapid this new life was. The futile days swung by in uneventful and pedestrian moments of staring at white walls and wanting to pull the hairs from my scalp. 

"What do you guys even do for fun around here?" I asked while standing up from stool and sauntering towards the leather sofa in the living room.

"Fun?" Luke spits out the word in revulsion and dubiety of what it even meant. "We don't do fun and games, Annaliese. It's our job to protect your mundane world and maintain our secret race under control." His words held a taint of pride and honor, but mostly its sheer authoritative tone.

"Of course. Being the supreme justice in this world has to be the most boring job in the entire universe." I rolled my eyes at his manner of taking the conversation too serious when all I needed was a laugh.

"Not necessarily. We travel to unspoken locations and see events none will ever. That's enough joy for an individual." Rolling my eyes once more at his demeanour, I outstretched my legs to lie on the restful couch and rested my head back.

"Doesn't mean I have to suffer the consequences." I whispered under my breath so that he didn't hear my complaining, and if he did, I couldn't care two bits. He was going to hear my lecture of how days pass for a human that gets kidnapped by vampires days before her new and exhilarating life can begin.

"You don't suffer them. Understand that we could keep you locked up here without the option of outside freedom. Yet Eric found his benign side and allowed you the opportunity of leaving the palace." He states in a tone that aimed to make me feel repentance and vacuousness, which only made me incensed to the brink.