Valkyrie - the Vampire Princess by Pet Torres

dispossessed house for somebody to dwell in.  It had no electricity and a minimum of comfort that was claimed by a half-witted person.
     
    We stopped walking in front of a wooden door. Eros pushed it and entered the old house. I remained exactly in the same place. I was really afraid to enter into it.
    He remained in silence all the time. His unfriendliness intimidated me. For a moment I thought he would hurt me.
    “Are you going to stay outside?” he asked, after having crossed the threshold.
    I decided to go ahead, since I had come there. I should take that risk. I thought of my mother and knew she was protecting me, somehow. That feeling encouraged me before I entered the house.
    Inside it, there was nothing , just a huge room and a large mirror in the corner of the room. There were also dark curtains on the window.
     
    Eros sat on the floor as if he were meditating, with his back to me. I remained standing and was motionless, just watching him with his back to me.
    “ Did you want to know where I live?” he asked, with a chilling voice. “So, here is my house.”
    He remained with his back to me.
    All I could do was to stand in silence. All the words fled from my mind. A huge rat ran across the floor and I screamed out at the top of my voice.
    “A rat! I want to go back home!”
    My hands started to shake.
    “Not before you see something!”
     
    He said that and stood up quickly. I didn’t have any time to get out of that house. He was quicker than I’d imagined and my arms were stuck in his cold hands. He glared at me, with a supernatural stare in his face.
    I had never seen any person with such features.His face was pale, with a strange gaze on it. He suddenly changed his expression.
    His eyes became gray. Around them there were dark rings. His lips were red and between them there were big, sharp teeth.
    I was desperate and didn’t have any energy to try to escape from his claws. I closed my eyes, trying to block my tears.
    “ Now you know what I really am,” he said and let my arms go free. He flinched back.
    I needed so much to open my eyes at that moment to stare at him. His attitude made me understand what had just happened. He didn’t intend to hurt me. He just wanted to reveal what he was, as well as what I was about to become.
    He approached the mirror.
    “ Look at this mirror!” His voice sounded very confident.
    I looked down at the mirror and I didn’t see his reflection on it. I could only see the opposite wall. He lightly touched his hand on the mirror's wooden frame and images were reflected through it.
    That was an exhibition of my entire life.
    My mother appeared in those images, almost twenty years ago, in a nightclub that had been the night she’d met my father and conceived me.
    My birth …
    Then the images showed me when I was seven , when I started dreaming of that strange man.
    My adolescence…
    On the day I met Eros in the classroom. The mirror showed me how my brooch vanished from my purse.
    Eros had planned everything. He had used his vampire powers to remove it out of my purse with only the power of his mind.
    When he lost his school ID inside the school library, this was done on purpose. He wanted me to find it.
    He did everything because there was a purpose behind his reaction. He wanted to be with me almost all the time.
    Mirta’s nose bled and Eros left the classroom after that. It was because he couldn’t handle the smell of blood.
    The last image shown in the mirror was the symbol of Neptune on the amulet and on Eros’ arm.
    Then, the mirror came back to normal.
    “A ll your life is in this mirror,” he said and his voice suddenly became serious.
    I was confused after having seen those images in the mirror. They seemed so real… My life in a mirror… It all seemed to be like a dream, or, instead, a nightmare from which I wished to wake up.
    “ I’m not here by accident,” he confessed while he approached me. His supernatural face didn’t scare me anymore.