Valkyrie - the Vampire Princess 3 by Pet Torres

Chapter 3
     
     
    However, I couldn't sleep . I was locked in my room . I sighed long and deep and stared out my window . The deep black of the night was just beginning to emerge .
    That was my first night back on planet Earth .
    I got up and walked toward my window and gazed at the tenebrous sky .
    What a good sensation!
    Before I had always preferred the daytime but now and forever I couldn’t stand the daylight .  My visibility at night was more precise.  I could always see something away from me . It looked amazing, my vampire power .
    I could tranquilize my supernatural face as I was looking up at that immense, black sky.
    I took a deep breath. The air was so pure and it had come from the garden.
    I stared toward my room’s door as soon as I heard noises.
    It was my mother slamming the door .
    “Valkyrie, come to have dinner !” my mom hollered.
    “ I'm coming, mom !” I answered back.
     
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    My mother and I sat down at our small dining table . I stared at our food for a moment . It wasn’t having any effect on me .
    I‘d be just acting as a social person in my mother‘s presence.
    My hunger would never again be satiated by human food .
    My palate wished only one thing ...
     
    ‘ FRESH BLOOD ’
     
    Two spoons were enough for me to reject the rest of my meal. I wasn't used to that menu.
    “You didn’t eat enough,” my mother whispered as she had just placed her plate into the kitchen sink .
    “I have no appetite ,” I said, without looking at her.
    “ You need to eat ...and talking about that , I have to get your blood count.”
    “Blood count?” I asked as I remembered the doctor who chased me that night . He was dead and my mother didn't know that yet .
    “Yes... your blood count,” she said.
    “I won’t go back to that place !” I said startled.
    “ You really don’t need go back there ... I’ll go alone to get your blood count,” she informed me.
    “Okay.” I agreed with her.
    After that I kept my eyes on the plate . I was not expecting my mother’s reaction.
    She held my arm gently and consequently I stared into her eyes as I looked frightened and then I let my plate go down.
    “ Why are you ... frozen?” she asked.
    I shook my head at her as I was confused .
    “I didn’t want you to know about it ...” I said, looking down at the floor.
     
    “To know about what?” she insisted.
    “I am sick,” I confessed to her and bit my lips.
    “Sick?” She asked and her eyes widened “What are you talking about , Valkyrie?”
    “Take it easy, mother... It’s nothing serious,” I said after I saw her stare. A tear had trickled down her cheek . She was so nervous after my confession .
    “ How is it nothing serious?” she insisted .
    “I suffer from a rare illness... It’s the same as Eros’s illness.”
    “You weren’t like this until last night !”
    “That’s it, it appeared this morning . It has been some time that I have known about it.”
    Once again, I was lying to my mother.
    “I don’t believe it!” my mother exclaimed, shocked .
    “ That’s why I didn‘t want to hug you back ,” I said, relieved.
    “ This might be hereditary! Your father was also like this ,” she said oddly.
    “ See ...there is more than one reason for you to not be so nervous, mother .”
    “ I’ll always be at your side, daughter ....”
    My mother hugged me, but she seemed distracted at something.
    My skin’s coldness bothered her , I could sense it .  Even so she tried to keep her body firm and show me her disposition to support the touch of my cold body. She exhibited to me her immense motherly love.
     
     
     

Chapter 4
     
     
    As soon as I entered my schoolyard , I felt an emptiness inside me . Eros was no more a part of this place, where it all began . Where I met him and fell in love with him.
    Now he was the farthest from me . He was situated on the planet Neptune.
    I tried to convince myself of that this was better - being apart from him. Nothing could link us