17 But It's True All The Same
"Vlad! What are you doing here?" I nearly snapped, still slightly upset about his silence of his secret.
"I'm spending the night here, with Henry." He answered simply and entered, brushing passed me. "Is he here?"
"Well he was, you just missed him. Everyone went to Stokerton to shop. I choose to stay home."
"I guess he forgot. I'll just stay here till they gets back."
"You do that." I sighed and pressed the play button of my iPod speakers. The song No One Knows Who I Am from Jekyll and Hyde just ended. I had a thing for musicals. Yet as the last notes faded a new song emerged. Dangerous Game started my favorite. I went to the kitchen to get water as Vlad dropped his bag to the floor.
As I returned I started to strain up the room. I started to hum yet as the girl sang I sang with her. Every note clear, showing the feeling behind the words.
Vlad came around the couch toward me. I could feel him behind me like the willing prey of a tempting predator. He just stood there for the longest time as the intro to the song dragged on around us.
"Mina, you can't stay mad at me like this." He stated, he knew he was right. I didn't answer. "Mina..." He placed his cool hands on my shoulder. I nearly jumped but didn't even breathe.
"I feel your fingers, cold on my shoulder. You're chilling touch as it runs down my spine." I arched my back as he removed his hand when he felt me shiver. I turned to him. "Watching your eyes as they invade my soul, forbidden pleasures I'm afraid to make mine." I walked away from him and grabbed the speakers in my hand to carry upstairs.
"At the touch of your hand. At the sound of your voice. At the moment your eyes meet mine. I am out of my mind. I am out of control, full of feelings I can't define."
I walked up the stairs slowly, turning to sing the all too true lines to Vlad. He followed me.
Edward Hyde sang in my arms as Vlad drew closer as he followed me to my room. I sang back to the mad man and black eyed boy behind me.
"Like a hand in a flame." I wasn't sure if I should stop walking from Vlad or to walk away. "It's a dangerous game!"
Vlad pulled my arm back to stop me from locking myself away in my room. He wouldn't let me go.
"Mina, you know why I can't tell you!" He pressed as Hyde sang in his passionate voice. "A darker dream that has no ending. That's so unreal; you believe that it's true. A dance of death out of a mystery tale! A frightened princess doesn't know what to do..." "If you just wait I can tell you everything when I am ready. But until then you have to promise me you won't run out on me."
"Will she just runaway?" "Will you?" Vlad asked me, indicating the song.
"No!" I answered both the song and his question.
"Will she risk it and stay?" Vlad didn't need to speak to ask, Hyde had done it for him.
"No!" I shook my head in my torn mind. "No!"
"Either way there's no way to win."
"All I know is I'm lost and I'm counting the cost. My emotions are in a spin." I continued to my door. Vlad entered my room with me, closing the door behind him. "I don't know who's to blame."
"It's a crime and a shame."
"But it's true all the same. It's a dangerous game!" Vlad tried to come closer to me and convince me, I refused to listen. "No one speaks! Not one word! But what words are in our eyes? Silence speaks! Loud and clear!"
Vlad suddenly took part, he knew of Jekyll and Hyde?
"All the words we want to hear!" I nearly begged the word 'want'. Though it brought pain to my heart, I heard him shout the added word 'don't' before 'want'. "At the touch of your hand! At the sound of your voice! At the moment your eyes meet mine! I am losing my mind! I am losing control. Fighting feelings I can't define!" As he sang with me, Lucy, and Hyde I backed away from him.
"It's a sin with no name!" I sang when I spun around to face Vlad. Still in mild shock as he sang along. How could he do such a thing? Yet I felt out of my body and mind as I saw how close he was, and coming closer. His hands gripped my desk behind me, trapping me between him and the wood.
"No remorse and no shame! Fire, fury, and flame!"
"And the devil's to blame!" I felt my voice hit the note easily, not like normal as I snapped the words.
"And the angels proclaim!" My eyes burst open and met the fiery black holes of Vlad's eyes. "It's a dangerous game!"
He stood there, watching my emotions as they changed through my face. I couldn't decide what to do. And yet I knew that I didn't want him to stop from keeping me between him and the wood.
"Mina?" I heard my Uncle shout from down stairs. I zoomed out of Vlad's pinning grip and down the stairs.
"Yes?" I asked, finding I was out of breath.
"We're back. What happened to you?" Greg asked me, seeing how shaken and out of breath I was.
"Uh, Vlad just...uh... scared me. That's all." I gasped.
"Vlad's here?" Henry asked after Greg looking me up and down again. He didn't seem sure if he should believe me or not, with good reason.
"Yeah. He got here a while ago. He is up stairs."
"No, I'm not." I heard his voice behind me, I went rigid. "I got here and found Mina all alone." His hand met my shoulder, my breath caught. "We were just talking, weren't we Mina?"
He walked with Henry back around the kitchen and up stairs. Before his hand left my skin he slides it over my back. Bursts of flames ignited from every inch his hand had touched.
"So what did you do while we were gone?" My uncle asked me. I shook off the spell Vlad had put me under.
"Uh, I listened to music. Classic me, you know?"
"Yeah." He agreed and went to finish getting bags out of the car. My aunt retreated to the kitchen to cook; Greg took told of the TV.
I hummed softly to myself as I got a soda from the refrigerator.
"But it's true all the same. It's a dangerous game." I sang out, smiling as it swung around the corner and into the hall.
