Red Desire

Chapter 6

Alana: I'm bored, haven't we arrive yet?

Ashton: Yes we already arrived but I kept driving

Alana: Ha ha, very funny, seriously, when are we going to stop?

Ashton: When we see a motel

Alana: But there aren't any motels near

Ashton: So go to sleep

Alana: I can't

Ashton: I can hypnotize you and tell you to go to sleep

Alana: And what happens if they attack you and take me while I'm asleep or kill me while I'm asleep?

Ashton: So what do you want to do?

Alana: Let's play ask and answer

Ashton: You know I'm not going to answer anything

Alana: But this is different, I'm going to say a date and you have to tell me the most important thing that happened in that year or I tell you an important event and you tell me the year it happened

Ashton: Fine, but only if I ask you too

Alana: Fine. 1690

Ashton: Easy, The Battle of Boyne from the War of Wilhelmine Ireland, in which James II is defeated by William of Orange. Now you, 1845

Alana: Well in that year many thing happened, let's see, the Evening Mirror newspaper published Edgar Allan Poe's poem, The Raven. In Tolima the Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts, and Florida becomes part of the United States

Ashton: You said just one event

Alana: 1945

Ashton: Really? Please give me something more difficult. The Second World War ended and Hitler committed suicide

Alana: Talking about that, why didn't you just kill him?

Ashton: I tried, but vampires at that time were very popular, so they all had weapons against us and poisons, especially him. He even captured several vampires to use their blood and heal soldiers to keep fighting

Alana: And what is the poison against vampires? Maybe I can get it and be more protected

Ashton: Wormwood

Alana: Wormwood? Really? What would happen if someone throws wormwood to your face? Is it going to burn?

Ashton: Don't be stupid, of course no. You have to combine it with other things

Alana: What other things?

Ashton: It's a long process, do you want to keep playing or not?

Alana: Fine, the fall of the Berlin wall

Ashton: 1989. John F. Kennedy assassination?

Alana: 1963- Alana says yawning

Ashton: Are you tired?

Alana: A little bit

Ashton: Sleep, I will wake you up when we arrive somewhere

Alana: Okay, please don't let anyone kill me while I rest

Ashton: I will try

-Alana dreams, with a beautiful house and a patio full of flowers, it is a sunny day and her parents are having a barbecue. Kathy and Alex are with her, they are children again and they are playing with a ball. The day is perfect, sunny, with many birds and flowers of many colours. For the first time, in a long time, she is truly happy. But that happiness soon ends. A cold and dark wind comes and suddenly, she is alone, and she is now 23 years old. She is very cold and scared, and out of nowhere, many people begin to surround her and show her their teeth, they are all vampires. They are closing in on her, and she fiddles until she hits her back against a mirror, turns to see herself and realizes that she is full of blood, her teeth are very sharp and her veins are too red. She hears screaming and then she hears Ashton calling her, so she open her eyes-