Sacrifice Helle

Chapter 9

"I think Vaan has chosen you to be the gift. Why I dont know. " I wasn't focused on what he was saying at all, I had all these things running through my mind. I felt like I was drunk, or high on something. I was more relaxed than before, I didnt sit up, laying there was nice. "What did you do to me..? My head feels funny...", I laughed. He smiled, "Youre not so nervous any longer, eh? I thought that would help. My Lord has an interesting form of humor, he makes the rules for us who follow him, and he made it so that every time a human kisses me she/he will get the same feeling as when drunk. He made a rule for every bloodline of his creatures. It still surprises me what he can come up with." "This is great..!" Life didn't feel hard at all, I felt quite happy actually. "So, he chose me..? Cool..... I must be REALLY special then...." "Hmm.. yeah, youre something special alright..." "So when will I meet him? Vaan? Will he come for me?" "Hopefully not. I dont know. He must know about us searching for him, he can easily take down one of us alone, but all four... At least we hope to get him. So, knowing this, he might not bother coming after you again." "But I wanted to see who he is, everyone talks about him, and I havent even seen him..." "Here, I have a picture.." Darien fished something out of his jacket and showed it to me. It was difficult to see because of the lights being so dim, and because my eyes had a hard time focusing. I had to sit up then focus real hard on the picture. 'He looks familiar..' "Hey, I've seen him before!" "You have?!" "Yeah! He was in that café that time!" Darien raised one eyebrow. "I was at a café earlier.. when was it.. On.. Monday? Same day as I met you!" It was that boy that I had seen. The blonde hair with a few stripes down his eyes, the good looking one. 'So thats Vaan.' "I still don't know though.. Maybe he hasn't chosen you at all, maybe we misunderstood something, you could have been brought for dinner." " They've followed me for several days." "They have?!" "I've felt it... Since that evening in the café. When I saw Vaan." Darien went silent. "Vaan is impossible to predict, trying to understand his mind is impossible. We will just have to wait and see. Wait for his next move."

"Can I come to the park with you guys tomorrow?" At this Darien burst out with laughter. He rolled onto the floor laughing his lungs out. I laughed too, even though I didnt get what was funny, I was just in such a good mood, everything was funny to me. "Well, can I ???" "Hell no!" He got up from the floor and sat down in the couch again. "You would only be in the way, how can we operate with a human running around our legs? I dont need you to get killed either. What a waste after saving you so many times already...." "Fine, be like that!" "I think its time for you to sleep now, I kissed you for too long!" "Why don't you kiss me longer instead?" "You just proved what I said, your not taking this serious. I'd rather talk to you when you will remember what I say, and take what I say seriously." "Boring."

I woke up with a shock the next morning. "OHMGOD, WHAT TIME IS IT?!" I jumped out if bed and ran downstairs to look at the watch in the kitchen, but had to stop up and lean against the wall before I could get there due to a sudden belly ace. It calmed down, I just had to move slower. The clock showed about 12. I dropped down on one of the chairs with a sight, then I moaned, my back was killing me and my crotch felt soar. Asami was to be picket up about now, but I didnt think they would kill me if I was a little late. I needed to eat first, and get dressed and.. take a shower. Images of yesterday rushed to my mind. Yes, I would definitely need a shower. I started thinking about what had happened, running from that vampire, getting thrown at the ground possibly explained why my back hurt. The last thing I could remember was... soft lips.. After that my memory was blurred. He had talked to me, but I couldnt remember much of it, just something about Vaan, about seeing him. Then he had wanted me to go to bed, but I didnt want to... I had wanted to... 'Oh, no, did I really come on to him?' I banged my head in the wall, remembering what had wandered through my mind. 'You're so dirty Helle...' But I couldnt remember going to bed. In fact... I couldn't remember anything after he had told me I should go to bed. I did remember some fragmented pieces though, but it was all so blurry, it must have been me dreaming. It suited my perverted mind, and when my dream came back to me I blushed and swore that I could never look at him again without blushing.

I went to the shower after breakfast. I felt so dirty, I had mud in my hair, which was a disaster, it took me so long to wash out. And I smelled like I had had the workout of the year yesterday. 'Well, I did run a lot with that vampire, and I guess I was rather stressed the entire evening.' I also had some bruises here and there. 'Must be from when the vamp threw me at the ground...' But then I noticed that I had some marks that at first looked like bruises on my arms, only they had a similar shape to each other. After showering I studied myself in the mirror. It was bite marks. I had two marks on my arm, one on my neck and one... 'HOLY SHIT! What the fuck happened last night?!' I had one of these marks on the inside of my upper thigh! 'When did this happen? I can't remember getting these marks!' I turned my back against the mirror and drew my hair away from it. Again I was shocked. I had red scratching marks across my back. The kinda type a cat or an other animal would leave with its claws. I started remembering my dream again... I had been dreaming about Darien and his kisses. I had dreamt that he had kissed me again, and that he hadn't stopped there... My eyes widened up. 'What if.. what if it wasn't a dream at all!' I sat down on the bathroom floor not knowing what to think. I couldn't remember properly.... He had said that he wouldn't take advantage of me... But last night a lot of things had happened, and I had had a few adrenalin rushes, which makes you not feel pain, it was very possible that I had gotten these bruises in a perfectly innocent way. Or maybe I even had bumped into something after kissing Darien, his kisses DID affect my head quite a bit. 'Who am I trying to fool.. bite marks, like I could have bitten myself..' I decided not to think about it, and trust that he wouldnt have done anything to me in that way. Besides, there were bigger events to worry about. Vampires... And the advent. I never got it out of Darien what exactly his part in all of this was, but there was sure a lot more going on the world then I had been aware of. And he said that he was going to talk to me again about this, since I had been a goner last night. And on top of that, Asami was waiting for me. I just had to focus on other things right now.

Asami ran out of the door the minute she saw me in the drive way. "Helle, what took you so long? You should have been here two hours ago!" "Really? I though I wasnt supposed to pick you up before 12?" The mother in the house came to the door, "It was supposed to be 11, but anyway, you were late. We had to wait for you to pick up Asami before we could go to the Zoo." "Im so sorry, miss." The lady smiled gently when looking at Asami. "I guess its okey, the girls go along so well, and she really is a doll, isn't she?" Her daughter came running out as well and Asami and her ran off into the backyard. "Im glad she hasn't been any trouble.", I said to the lady, then I yelled towards the backyard, "Asami! We should get going!" "My my.. ", the lady said to me, "Don't you think it's about time to cut that hair?" I ignored her, pretending to be concerned about Asami who came running back with mud all over her shoes. "Oh, Karen, will you get Asamis things please, Im afraid my carpet will be all muddy if I let Asami in like that.." The daughter ran obediently inside the house again, and soon returned with Asamis backpack. I looked through it to see if everything was there, it was, and I bid them farewell. Asami waved goodbye and came running after me.