TWO DECADES AGO.
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Being new to town came with its disadvantages.
Edmund did not feel like this place was home for him. They had to move to start life afresh. If he would he could just go back in time and never leave their home.
There was nothing left there for him though. Everything they had ever cherished had been destroyed. They had the power to make people do what they wanted and make them forget everything.
However, they just couldn't go around erasing people's memories. His brother and sister needed someone to take care of them.
He didn't know what he always acted like he was the older one when it was Elijah. Elijah had settled pretty amazingly and he did not look like he was having trouble adjusting to the new place.
Elijah looked outside his window and his brother was just standing there looking at nothing. He knew it was not easy for him to move here and leave everything behind but it was not like they had an option.
He felt like curling up in his bed and forgetting about all this but he could not. This was not some nightmare it was real life and he didn't have the time to act like a baby.
He was the oldest one and he had to act like one.
He wondered why their parents had never brought them here. Where they had fed this place in the first place. Now they were supposed to call a place they knew nothing about home.
He was weak and he could feel that. He had not fed in days. He had spent the last four days arranging things in the office because he needed to work.
They had not come on vacation. This was their new life.
Edmund looked at his father's office and he could see his brother in there. He wondered why he worked so hard.
It's not that they were poor or anything. They could afford whatever they wanted without struggling. Sitting in an office sorting out papers had not been something he had planned on doing.
He wondered how his brother was always calm. When situations rose he was the one who dealt with them. He had taken care of them for a long time to the point he did not even remember if their parents were ever there for them.
He was getting weaker and weaker. They did not know if there were hunting grounds here and he needed blood. He could not have the hunger in for much longer.
They did not have a fresh supply of blood as they did before and maybe that was the reason he had this place too much.
He has not seen his sister Katelyn and he wondered where she had gone. It was not like her to be that quiet.
He made his way into the house to see if she was in her room but she was not there. He could not think of any place that she could have gone to.
It was not like they had lived all of their life here. He had no idea where to search but then again she was a grown-up who would bring herself home at the end of the day.
The house was covered in antique drawings all around. It looked like it was old. Maybe it had belonged to their ancestors given the shape it was in.
His father's office was just at the end of the corridor and he made his way there. He needed to talk to his brother there were things that they needed to talk about.
For example how they were going to feed. They could not walk around town snapping people's necks so that they could feed.
He knocked on the door and did not wait for his brother to answer.
"Yes come on in Edmund, y could have at least waited for me to say that don't you think", his brother says sarcastically.
"Would you stop acting like you were busy doing something important brother ", he says as he sits down.
"What do you want Edmund if you can't see I have things to do this paper need to be sorted out so that I can know what am dealing with", says Elijah.
"After all this year's you think that this business is worth the shot. It's not like father cared about this place. We did not even know about it until they passed away for fucks sake", says Edmund.
"It doesn't matter if they cared about it or not, we have to take care of it. In case you haven't noticed this is the only thing we have right now. This is the only place we can call home right now.", says Elijah.
"Home? People keep glaring at us I keep wondering what our parents would have done to get us to be looked at like that.
They would have told us about this place if they ever thought of moving back here. They only told us about this place because they did not have any other choice.", says Edmund.
"Maybe they did something wrong or may e they didn't we can't know about that. They are the only people who knew about that.
How about for now we stop worrying about that and first settle in. I have a meeting with the member of the witches in a few hours, I would like for you to be there ", says Elijah.
"We just reached here and you have already known the leaders ", says Edmund as he looks at his brother shocked.
"No they contacted me and I hear that we have to go. I also hear that our family name is a big name that caused quite a stir in town so unless you want all the witches and vampires here to vacate us you better show up and behave yourself ", says Elijah.
"Great here goes a normal life where people don't hate us. It's like our father left a wake wherever he went ", says Edmund.