Overhearing Elaina with the other
vampires gave me a lot of insight into the situation with Robert. Not only did I know the plan, but I also knew
that Elaina would be putting it into action very soon...she had no choice. I rushed home to get there before she did.
I walked into the house and almost didn’t
hear her walk in behind me.
I was too busy staring at all the changes
Elaina had made to my home. Shock and
anger could not even begin to describe what I felt at that moment. Elaina had erased everything that made my
home mine. It was as if I never existed.
My house looked like a vampire
fortress. If it weren’t for Robert
sitting there, I wouldn’t have believed it was my house at all.
Elaina stared at me waiting for my
reaction as she entered the house behind me.
I refused to give her the satisfaction of letting her know what I felt
about the changes.
I continued looking around while she and
Robert discussed the changes.
“So do
you like it?” She asked Robert, I could
feel her stare continuing to penetrate my back.
My reaction was what she wanted to hear.
“Well…it’s different. There’s no way that the money I gave you
could do all of this.” He answered as I entered the guest room.
I could barely hear her muffled response,
“Consider it my gift to you. Now you no
longer have to live in a ghost of a home.”
I re-entered the living room as their
conversation continued.
“Did you
do all of this while I was at work?”
“No, I had to work all day,” she lied.
“I hired someone else to do it,” she said. I knew that part wasn’t a lie, because I knew
that Elaina slept during the daylight hours.
Elaina paused a moment. “You don’t like it, do you?”
Robert pulled into a hug. “Of course I like it…in fact I love it!”
He continued, “This is the sweetest thing
anyone has ever done for me. You make me
so happy.”
“Do I really?”
“What?”
Robert asked.
“Make you happy?”
“The happiest I’ve been in a very long
time.”
Elaina didn’t appear pleased with
Robert’s response. In fact, she seemed
downright troubled.
“What is it, Elaina? Did I say something wrong?”
“No Robert…it’s just. I have something that I really need to tell
you. Something that I guess you don’t
realize about me.”
This was it…Elaina was about to make her move.
I listened closely.
Robert smiled as if there was nothing
Elaina could say to make him feel differently.
“You can tell me anything,” he assured her.
“No Robert…not this,” she whispered
softly.
Robert’s mood was suddenly serious. “Elaina, just tell me,” he said. I could tell that he was bracing himself for
something that he didn’t want to hear.
“Robert…I don’t want you to hate me for
this…”
Elaina lowered her head into her right
hand as if she were pained by what she had to say.
Robert stood there struggling just as
much. He wanted to encourage her to go
on, but he wasn’t quite sure he wanted to hear what she had to say. “You can tell me,” Robert said, not offering
any promises regarding his reaction.
Finally she said it, ”Robert…I’m a
vampire.” Her words were soft; almost a
whisper, but they still seemed to echo around the room.
“A vampire? What do you mean?”
“You know what I mean. I’m a vampire…a blood drinking, undead
vampire.”
“Wait…what? Are you crazy? How could you be a vampire?” Robert asked trying desperately to hold back
his anger.
“I knew I should have told you earlier,”
Elaina said placing her head in her hands; pushing tears out of her eyes.
“Told me what? You can’t be a vampire. There’s no such thing.”
“But I am Robert. There are vampires and I’m one of
them.”
“No Elaina! Please stop this!” Robert said trying desperately to grasp what
was being said.
“I am!”
Elaina insisted.
Robert became angry. “Stop this!
Stop this right now Elaina. Think
about what you’re saying,” he said jabbing his finger toward her.
“It’s true Robert. I don’t know what else to tell you. I’m a vampire. Moonlight Falls is full of
us. I was turned over 200 years ago-”
“You’re nuts…that’s what you are!” Robert said allowing his own non-belief
opportunity to fuel his anger.
Now it was Elaina’s turn to be
angry. “Come on now Robert…you had to
have seen the signs. I never hid who I
was. You had to have noticed my fangs…my
cold pale skin, don’t tell me you didn’t taste the metallic blood on my lips
when we kissed.”
She allowed her words to sink in before
continuing, “How could you have ignored
it all? Who exactly is crazy here?”
“All I saw was a beautiful woman. Yes, I found your beauty to be different, but
different doesn’t make a person a monster,” Robert answered.
“Well I’m still the same person you saw
when we met. I’m still the same person
who makes you happy.”
Robert was visibly trying to hold himself
together.
“I think you should leave!” Robert said, appearing to hold back more that
he wasn’t saying.
Elaina stared back at him with anger
painted all over her face.
“I’ll pay you back for everything you did
to the house. Just send me an invoice,”
he said as if their relationship was nothing more than a business transaction.
“I can’t believe you Robert,” Elaina
said.
“What?
What do you expect me to do Elaina?
How can we continue this?” He
said.
“Save it,” Elaina said. “I guess I was naïve to believe that our
feelings for each other could get us through this.”
“I had feelings for a living breathing
person Elaina.”
The anger slowly left Elaina’s face and
was replaced by pain. “I am a person
and…I have feelings too.”
Robert looked as if he hadn’t considered
that and Elaina played on it by once again wiping away tears. “Sorry,” she
whispered before walking away.
As she stepped away, her expression
changed to satisfaction and I knew that this situation went exactly the way she
wanted it to. She wasn’t through with
Robert and she was sure that he wasn’t through with her.
As Elaina left the house, Robert stood in
the same spot looking confused, embarrassed and hurt…just what Elaina seemed to
want.
The door slammed behind her; which seemed
to knock some realization into Robert.
Another woman that he cared about was walking out of his life. I had a feeling that he wasn’t about to let
that happen.
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