Hakeem
"Sir…" He brought me out of my thoughts and made me realize my face was still stained with shameless tears. Vigorously wiping it off with hopes I wasn't seen.
"Yes…??"
"Home could also be a person…"
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"Home is a person…Pfft.." I looked at my sister's door intensely. If there was any other option where I could sit in my house and let this paper work sort itself out, I would have embraced that option and slept off to This is us after a few glasses of whiskey and I was good but something wasn't that easy.
Besides, I promised to pay them a visit after she told me they were going to have a baby and I'm supposed to visit them to show that I care, and I do. I do Care about my Isis. When we were moving from place to place settling into the human world. She was the reason I didn't end a sick savage going around killing humans for food only to kill another and then another.
Sometimes, the whole idea of savagery. In the community, males were savegeries and killed mercilessly, they were classified as the alpha males amongst men. Everyone was somehow chilled with a vampire killing another species which was considered weaker, yet werewolves killing vampires and humans was called savagery, honestly the way vampires thought sometimes worries me to think that they refer to themselves as the superior beans.
But yet they were doing the same thing and glorifying it as a sport or for rep. Vampires are hypocrites and would do anything to look good when they are the shittiest of all creations.
"I can hear you breathing out of rhythm even over the TV so don't be a little wuss and coming already…" Isis' voice broke my chain of thoughts. How did she do it, one minute I was trying to just understand why the vampires were so hypocritical yet self righteous the next it's her telling me to stop breathing out of proportion.
It's almost like she could read minds but that wasn't possible, we were both vampires so I guess somethings in life might just remain a mystery to a lot of us.
"Now I can hear you over thinking everything, just come in already, Lucia is already asleep, I think she's not feeling too well," Her voice again but louder and clearer this time. I sighed looking at my Tommy Hilfiger, I had to do this, if I didn't I was going to feel this enormous regret for not trying and I was the one to try, live and breathe. It's always been like this, So this was a necessity.
I opened the door slowly but not messily without making too much noise. Isis was an expert of hearing, she could hear from miles and deep depths, sometimes she could hear blood rushing in your vein to a certain place, she could hear your breath going out of riddim. She was that good, I on the other side who was just an average vampire with irregular leasing power that made them unique, I didn't have the same, he was a regular yet royalty expected to concor and express my core, I didn't think I had any…No, I was l sure I didn't have any, it was just a plain darkness with unknown depth.
"Took you long enough huh," She turned to smile at me and motioned me to come over to the couch she was sitting on. She was definitely in a good mood because she was actually smiling and talking loudly and that wasn't very Isis.
"I see you are in a good mood huh...so what's the reason?? promotion at work or you guys just had a really good sexy sexy time—" I started to cheeky with and she laughed with her cheeks staining her pale rose cheeks. The way she lit up at the mention of lucia and I just envied her. She had someone who made her feel like she was worth living for, I envied that so much.
"No no, It's not that or any of that. Me and lucia just went for our first antenatal scan and It Kind of made me realize how all this is real. I am married to a woman I love and a baby on the way, living in the same city as my kid brother, far away from dad. It's all surreal, like a goodnight in a coffin," She finished her dramatic appreciation for not being given oak dust.
To me it sounded like a sprinkle of rainbow and pixies dust all over. I wasn't good at appreciation, so I rather stayed quiet and just internally grateful.
"You need to be grateful brotherrrr," She shaked me trying to infect me with happiness but it wasn't possible, I have exhausted that energy using it to keep conversations going in the band house and the whole Anderson and I teasing each other even though I don't think he was kidding with his, it's almost was willing to sell me away or something, towards the end he did go off grid and I'm starting to think it's because me.
"So why are you here then Hakeem…??" She crossed her hands looking at me.
"Well first up, you should know that I can come visit anytime and not just when it is comfortable for you. Two, of course It's something I need because Who else could I ask?? Neighbors I barely talk to??," I questioned and she laughed a bit.
"So that's your excuse??," She narrowed her eyes at me and I gave up trying.
"I'm sorry, I will come over more often but I remember you saying that you didn't want me around," I tried again.
"Because you refused to do anything!!" She exclaimed at him.
"I was a guest of Isis, a visitor and a stranger at your abode. The best you could do was not act like we committed to making my stay miserable," I shot back.
"You are twisting the story Hakeem…" She narrowed her eyes at me and I looked away from her instantly. With Isis, looks can actually be Isis.
"I need help…"