"I found her, just currently has a twisted mind for she honestly believed she is a certified spineless mortal..." buzzes someone who chimes like a damaged mind.
The familiarity of the interiors is overwhelming... driving me bewildered. How can a place I have just first seen be familiar? That is the first thing I thought as I sneak a peek at what I am possibly into. And it was only a brief time before I closed them again, cause the brilliant sun is staring straight right at me, as well as aside it, is a silhouette of a man who is trivially looking down at me.
And there is grass all over my body. I am definitely lying in it now. And my gown isn't wet, in contrast to what I last remembered.
"Open your eyes princess, the king and queen are below you. Aren't you in fear that someone would suddenly clutch you to the depths?"
I opened my eyes and Damien's not humbling zoomed face is what I have fully googled.
"Parents... the sleeping beauty is awake," he announced.
Parents? His parents?
Am I supposed to be fed to them?
I briskly stood up and immediately clutched a silver knife I briskly found beside his hand.
"Who are you talking to? And don't you dare come closer or I'm gonna stab this knife in your head!" I warned as I pointed him the knife with shaky hands.
Damien laughed out loud. "What? Are you crazy?!"
He breathed once and I shouted! "Stop right there!"
He breathed more, face bearing an unwavering smug.
"Don't you dare... I... I will kill you!" I shackled.
"Grown as such a headache," he rolled his eyes, standing on his kneeling. "Why don't you look below you and finally say hi to our parents, crazy sister?"
Is he really expecting me to fall for that?
"I know what you are up to. You are distracting me so you could snatch this knife from me and switch the situation!"
"Tss. How could I be threatened by some shaky hands?" dissed him. "If you want to terrorize and consume someone's fear, at least try hard not to flicker. Try my art of flabbergasting, "
He vanished from my sight. I froze at my feet when the knife that I was pointing to him earlier is now threateningly pointed at me. "Like this,"
"Or this way," his palm skated on my throat, owning most of its corners, with the back blade of the knife running along with it.
I dared myself not to move or even shallow when the tip of it pointed at my chin.
"Basic things," he proudly scoffed.
I inhaled sharply when he opened his hand wider, letting the knife descend its way to the ground. He was again gone in front of me. I nervously roamed my eyes and saw him cozy at the largely opened brown vintage sliding window, that is welcoming all the cold breeze inside.
And by that simple swoop of the area, I realized we are on someone's rooftop. A modern fancy one. And the sun was out there, on full blast because the circular glass shield cover is opened in half. There is also a white high bricked wall on my left and it is cascading down water, elevated per step so it would seem like flowing live waterfalls, and beside it is a rectangular black infinity pool, overlooking the endless ocean after us.
My lips parted as I consume the whole of its grandeur. I gazed back at my abductor and saw him inquisitively prying on his prey.
What is his business with me?
"Oh, you are wondering why I brought you here. I thought wouldn't ask,"
I didn't vocally asked him that.
"Well, simply because you... are ought to remember things, only here..." His eyes slowly roamed the rooftop as if revisiting something rich... unforgettable, "This is your old home, Reishza. Where everything has been sunny and worth it." he extended his arms, "So why don't you tour yourself? You are already old, you can do it yourself,"
Home? I had an old home?
This ludicrous man is fooling me. Again this isn't Caressa so how can I have a home here? I said I am not whoever that woman is! Can he just please... stop telling me things that weren't meant for me?
"You wouldn't understand anything if you would just stare like that at me,"
"I'd rather stay dilated till forever than die for a blink-"
When the knife after my feet insatiably flew to his palm, I halted breathing. And I frowned when as soon as I indeed tour my orbs to escape his arrogance, the first thing that caught my attention is a huge translucent vault leading down to what seemed to be another embellished space. It is exactly just under my feet. And written in full silver strokes on its cover are names and symbols I couldn't understand at first.
Anandra Torress Ferro
.- .--. .-. .. .-.. / .---- ..... --..-- / .---- ----. ---.. ..---
Lucencio Vial Ferro
.- .--. .-. .. .-.. / .---- ....- --..-- / .---- ----. ---.. ..---
Some brisk images pounded in my mind. A code. Those were dates. April 14, 1982, and April 15, 1982. I know how to read this kind of code? I opened my eyes and my hands moved on their will, touching the glass on its own. Like magic, I gasped when the vault slowly opened, followed by the lights shining one by one on their own. I narrowed my eyes but I really couldn't see anything but an endless pit.
"And that's where Miss Human, is where you are gonna lay your dead body too. You remembered how to unlock it, huh? Finally having some remnants in mind?" he teased.
"Why don't you tell me what the hell is going on?!" I bickered.
"Alright," he said as he pushed me to fall.
I thought it's gonna be an endless tumble so I felt bluff when Damien's feet landed before mine, as he was somehow considerate to grab the back of my dress with one finger so I won't land by the face on the marble floor.
I trailed his line of vision and saw the two transparent marble tombstones, where the names earlier are carved.
Like the change of dimension, it is also evident that the atmosphere also shifted. Unlike before that he was juvenile and mockful, my body hairs rose in trepidation at what he is now radiating. He stared right in front of us with such mad and unfathomable eyes.
Scared that I will be the one lying in those, I silently followed when he probed me by the eyes to come see it.
And when I am indeed in the middle of two tombs, my whole body convulsed. My soul berserk in frenzy. And the storming swift fragments ruled my mind.
Cause there lies the preserved body of a man and a woman, peacefully sleeping forever. My knees wobbled as soon as I learned of their faces. The energy was sucked out of me and there was no taking it back. Series of cryptic and almost unthinkable motion pictures are materializing in front of me in fantasy and I... just caught myself defenseless for it.
Those... were my parents...
I was the daughter of Anandra and Lucienco Ferro!
Reishza Einese Ferro is my name!
I turned back to Damien and saw him, enraged and blank at the same time. Silently hauling, I pivoted to my left, where she, my beautiful... mother... lies.
Light brown with subtle blonde highlights as her hair, her diamond shape face was too lovely to not be coined ethereal. Gold fine freckles were artsyly scattered all throughout her now pale cheek to neck and some of her chest. She is wearing a straight falling gold silk dress, along with her red nails and her flashy pointed heels. Her nose is more boney than mine but her lips and lashes are so much alike to my own, full... thick. The arc of her brows is screaming evident crudeness, unlike mine who are pretty subtle, relaxed, and flattering on the eye.
And when I placed my palm just exactly at her heart, a sultry voice I didn't know I have longed for rang in my head.
"Oh, Reishza. Are you finally there? Are you with Damien now? You should be. It is your birthdays..."
"Your brother has gone mad, he was looking for you in hades and heavens, he won't calm down even when we say you are safe where you are. Still our hard-headed boy, right? What a cunning way to say he misses you... "
"By the way, is it fun in the mortal world? Your father said it was more peaceful there and less brutal, so... have you been really happy?"
"I won't accept it and raise on this tomb if you'll say it is happier than when you are with us!"
"Kidding... I would always be the happiest knowing you are contented with where your peace lies. You miss me though, don't you? Of course! Who wouldn't miss me?!" she arrogantly giggled.
"I hope your human parent didn't throw away the set of jewelries I tucked in your dress, or else I am gonna ghost him to death. I had to kill a dominion for that! How dare him if he did that!"
"And say hi for me to Anandra, your brother has been such a dick. "
I thought it was done but after long minutes of quietness, I heard some faint sobs. She was sobbing... for me. I covered my mouth as I silently cry with her.
"Happy birthday! What do you have for your special day?..." it was a still rigid tone but the tenderness echoing behind her flimsy voice cannot be mistaken. "I am... thinking of you every freaking day you are out of my hold. I yearn for you... my vexingly kind Einese. The ever patient grotesque-vampire of Ferro... And I love you... until my very last slay. Please don't forget me forever, okay?"
I remember you, yes... I remember you now. I nodded helplessly.
"By now, we are probably not on your side, and I am sorry for that... I hope you forgive us for not having been able to witness how beautiful you may have grown. Your hair, is it hard to comb now? Those eyebrows, were they wild and a mess right now? How about your boobs, is it huge like mom's?" she chuckled but I could overhear how lonely she must have felt by then. It is creeping on every breath she takes.
Truly such a prideful woman. Such a pretentious mother.
"I'd always want the best for you. Do remember that, my daughter,"
Kneeling, I touched the tomb again, listening to her again and again like a broken record, as I cover my face to hide my unstoppable tears. It goes on and on until I have memorized each line and the scorching pain and honest feelings of a tough woman, hiding in it.
Weak, I yanked myself hard and hugged the tomb of my dad. My face lying down, exactly at his handsome face. My tears falling exactly at the man-made border that's preventing me to be closer to him... again.
And there it was, the voice my heart fully recognized.
"Hi, sweetie, this is your favorite man in the world! How have you been, my angel? You were eight the last time I sang you your favorite lullaby... How old are you now? "
"Are you crying like your mom is now? It's a secret, don't tell her I told you that. She'll make both of us fly!'" he chuckled.
I pouted in tears.
"By the way was your lost childhood from us, fun and wild? It was the best thing to look back when you turn adult so I wish and hope it was,"
"Did you make friends? Have you watched cartoons? How about your sweets, are you spoiled by them as I spoil you? And you were in love with nature... so the view of the house of your human father... must have brought you joy? And does he carry you at his back?
"I can't be envious now..." he articulated in a scratchy voice. "Alright, I am now envious. This is irrevocable" he chortled his despair away. "And do you have a boyfriend now? A human? Or is it perhaps my golden boy? He is a good man. I believe he is. "
However, I still don't think anyone... no matter your age... could ever deserve you, my good-hearted diva,"
"Please, make your life as worthy as your heart. Dad misses you. And I hope you do too. "
And then there is nothing more to listen to.
I turned to Damien with tears on its full roll. "Those are my parents... our parents..."
As if kept a secret, the same birthmark on his neck, darker and more brooding in shade, reflecting in an ugly red and black dusk let itself unfold in my sight. I fastly run towards him and hugged him as my heart desires with all my might.
"I'm sorry you waited too long... all alone..." I cried on his chest.
I waited for him to mock me, but it never came. He remained stiff, eyes bloodshot, and jaw repeatedly clenching. His hands are not hugging me back... it was only fisting on his side. As if hugging me back will shatter me.
His orbs once again shone an intense dusk and I was feebly sucked out of life... to die.