I was not used to such silence. I was getting frustrated.
At that time a human voice broke out
“You really want to meet Damon?”
As I turned around I saw a middle aged woman . Her body seemed old and feeble but her facial features were young and radiant.
I couldn’t control my excitement of seeing a human after so long. I ran towards her and hugged her tightly.
She was bitterly cold. Her icy cold body was piercing through mine and I could feel that parts of my body were becoming numb.
I left her in disgrace. I realized that she looked a lot like katherine.
My brows frowning I could see that she was unusually very motionless. Her green eyes looked blankly at me.
“Yes I want to meet Damon...but you...”
“Come with me”, by saying this she turned away and started walking. I followed her because I had no other alternative.
Strange—she had put a certain wall to her statement that even if I had wanted to ask her a question I could not. There was a certain hanging back.
While walking I noticed our path, the huge buildings vanished into barren lands, the cemented roads and walls turned into mud roads and brick walls. There was something stinky in the air. It was strong and it made me sick.
Soon I realized it was the outskirts of volterra and after walking for few more minutes I saw a huge castle shaped demolished building. There was a toppled name plate at the entrance which was covered with so much dust...it seemed the house was decades and decades old.
The more I entered the house the eeriness of the place grabbed me even more. The stairs were half broken, rats and cockroaches everywhere and then the woman in front of me opened the creaky door.
“Ewwww...”, I couldn’t control saying it. In the inside the smell was even more rotten and foul. I felt like puking. The air inside was very heavy and dusty. Cobwebs, dry leaves, dusted furnitures, broken walls was all that I could see. And now I realised that the woman in front of me was smelling like a damp moss.
She turned towards me. This time her eyes were lively.
“He is upstairs”, she gave me a crooked smile and disappeared in the darkness.
I looked at the stairs and the only room up there. I closed my eyes, left a sigh and started climbing up the stairs.
After reaching the room I saw Damon, finally
Standing in front of me, wearing formals, he waiting for me just as a gentleman does for his lady.
For a moment I forgot everything, I forgot his disappearing, the blood stains, the crackle of laughter, katherine’s warnings. All I did was hugged him tightly with my eyes full of tears and asked
“why...why did u do this to me"
He took my exhausted face in his icy cold hands. His deep intensive blue eyes were trying to tell me something, something that I failed to connect with.
His grip was hard and his face was serious
“We need you, I have loved you since thousand years"
He came closer to me, very close, I could feel his cold breath...and then I got tempted to this charismatic man all over again. I leaned more forward and felt him stiffen as my warm breath touched his neck. A think trickle of blood slid down my throat while he kissed me. He had bit my lower lip. It was wild and passionate..I couldn’t resist..I wanted more but then he pushed me away and said,
“We will be in touch”,
He gave me a not so pleasing smile and suddenly a sharp bright light hazed my view...everything went numb...my vision got blurred and at once I could hear the sound of my doorbell.
It was ringing very loudly and from a very long time.
I opened my eyes and saw myself on my bed.
‘ I was dreaming!!???’
I could see that I had missed my flight because it was half past four in the evening.
I got up from my bed, my mind still not stable with the fact that I was dreaming. Though I had slept for a long time but my body was aching and my face was fatigue.
I could see a small blister, a sort of cut on my lower lip, exactly where Damon had bitten me while kissing
I was confused, nauseous when I realized someone was banging the door loudly.
I hurried towards the main door, opened it and was taken by surprise
It was my mom!!.
I was going through mixed emotions. I was meeting my mom after three years. As soon as she saw me, she came inside melodramatically and hugged me and kissed me, checked if I was ok or not and asked me what took me so long to open the door.
I was happy to see her but I asked her the reason of her sudden visit.
“What could I have done girl, you scared me yesterday by saying those bizarre things, so I couldn’t help but came here to see you"
“Ok mom...go take some rest, else fresh n up. Do you want me to make you something?”
“No dear..I had food..you carry on with your work"
“Hey, wait...is that a blister..what happened!?”
“ Mom...mom please calm down, I am fine..it’s just a small cut", my voice was high this time.
She sniffed and went inside
I felt so bad...my mom was just caring for me...why did I raise my voice!? But deep inside I could not cope up with the fact that all I saw...all that I felt was just a dream. I never went to volterra. I never net Damon. If this was a dream then why such a horrendous dream? Damon was the loveliest chapter of my life
