I could see through mom clearly, she was quite happy that I was found, she was also thinking what would have been the fate of the family if I wasn't found because Steve would have rip everyone alive, she was thinking of who will help her in house duties without her asking for it. I stayed with her after freshening up, she insisted that I told her everything that had happened but I couldn't. Steve had warned me before hand not to disclose anything to her not even the identity of who had kidnapped me, so I did as I was instructed. I couldn't lie to her, I usually find it difficult to lie to elders but here I am being forced to do it all because of •Love•
"Mom, I don't really know what happened because my eyes were tied all through so I really don't know much about it". I replied as I sat on the long couch in her room.
"But didn't you hear any sound, maybe the kidnappers were on a phone call or something like that". She asked with worry written all over her.
"No mom, I didn't hear any sound at all". She had instructed that I address her as mom and not Ma since I was Steve's girlfriend and a wife to be.
"Then I guess the place that you were placed in was a soundproof apartment". She replied and sighed heavily.
"Soundproof? What in hell was that". I thought within me, I guess that's another new word I'd need to learn.
I wasn't familiarized with most of the things that were used by this civilized people because where I live was a ghetto besides I wasn't a socialist. I didn't even socialize with people not until I started attending college, everything went well smoothly and I had friends who were always ready to teach me and show me various things I hadn't seen or heard of before... I was taught a car, gate, phone, laptop, and so many things but all ended the day a new teacher came to our school.
I once lived with a witch as at then but she wasn't the one in charge of my education, a barren couple whom I usually help in house chores in the neighborhood that catered for my education.
According to the story the old woman told me, I was dumped in a bush close to her farmland and when she saw me she knew I was a vampire but she couldn't let me die like that because of my cute little face so she carried me home and took proper care of me. She said she suffered alot from the witches because they didn't like the existence of Vampires and they've tried everything to eliminate them but all were to no avail rather still the vampires eliminated them(the witches). They tortured her for so long and she had no option than to use me as a vow; she told them that if they let her be, she'll train me to work against the vampire and with me they'll be able to achieve their goal of wiping out all vampires from existence.
But unfortunately, as I grew up I didn't want to accept the fact that I was a vampire because the humans around me usually spoke ill of them... They were blood suckers, they eat humans as food, they were dangerous beings and many other stories.
I couldn't afford seeing myself eating a fellow human just for food so I decided that there must be a way out. I knew of a herbalist who was in the town we lived in. So after school one day, I set out to see him and he gave me a leave to always put in my food and also add small to the water I used in bathing, he also examined me and said I was a dhampir and not a vampire, he explained further that it was the reason I haven't been craving for blood despite my age...Things worked perfectly well after my meeting with the herbalist. My looks began to change, my canine started reducing in size and in no time I was more like a human, my long hair that usually touched the floor started reducing in size and I didn't have to roll it any longer, my pale skin started to darken and the colors of my eyes started turning from red to brown, the size of my head also reduced massively and the urge for meat in me at all times was no longer there...
The constant improvement suddenly seized the day the old woman I live with found out what I've being doing, she wanted to rip me alive but she couldn't just do it. She went to where I hid the leaves and she burnt them and since then that being always arrived whenever I was in trouble. I tried my best to avoid the old woman even though we lived in the same house but it wasn't possible.
I was reading for the scholarship exam I had the next day when she woke up and started dragging me that I must join her in the meeting she was going to attend so that I'll see the pains and suffering she was going through, I was quite surprised. What meeting would take place at that time of the night then I remembered she was a witch. She said that her place has been taken from her and she was nothing but a slave in the coven, I really pitied her but I was way too busy to join her moreover I wasn't interested in joining her but she insisted that I joined her, she tried inflicting wounds on me but they healed back instantly, she tried fighting me but the being under the cloak stood at my front a blocked her attacks. She tore all my books out of frustration and in no time she turned into a bird and left the room.