Dina wakes up in the apartment after she fainted in Angelo's arms. Placing her palms on her face she feels like crying. The tout pain in her chest is rushing her tears to fall. She turns on her side and curls letting go of her intense need to cry.
She missed her parents a lot. It isn't the first time she wished she would die. Sometimes she enjoyed craving on her skin. She felt satisfied feeling the pain as if she wiped herself for not being able to save her parents, diminishing her guilt.
If only Angelo would have let her be killed by the vampire lady! Now she would have been with her parents not in a neat room on a fluffy bed.
She doesn't deserve to live.
She scratches her wrist as she lets out her soul crying. No one will understand her pain since she never shows it to anyone. Why would she show it? Just to see people pretending to understand her?
Angelo opens the door and has a plate with eggs and bread.
Dina wipes her tears in a hurry and covers her wrist with her hoodie. She stands up and leans on the pillows and has her legs at her chest as she hides her head behind them.
"Why did you not knock?" She glares at the boy who doesn't seem to mind her as he arranges the plate on the table. She doesn't like the situation she is in.
"Why did you not fight back? You could have died." He stares at the food and places his hands on the table as if he wanted to support his weight on it.
"Why do I need to tell you that?" She undertones her opposition to reveal her fear so openly. He is still a vampire. Why would she reveal her weakness? What if he wants to control her?
Angelo punches the table and Dina flinches.
"WHY?!Do you think I want to witness your death?! Was it not enough witnessing my mom dying in front of me?! Why do I need to witness yours? "Angelo glares at her having a pained look. He gets out of the room as if he didn't want to see the girl anymore." Fuck it! "He whispers as he closes the door.
Angelo doesn't understand why he told the girl about his dark past. Was it because he lost his composure for a moment or because he wanted subconsciously to show the girl that he understands her pain? His tongue slipped and he blames his fiery temper.
Dina followed with her eyes the boy who rushed out of the room. She has printed in her mind his words.' Was it not enough witnessing my mom dying in front of me ?!'
'His mother died ?..... Was she, not a vampire?' Her thoughts are filled with questions about the boy's past. Her curiosity spikes as she forgets little by little about her pain. She feels compassion towards Angelo.
'He is like me ….'
Dina's stomach growls and her reverie ends. She crawls out of the bed and sits on the chair having the plate in front of her.
She smiles bitterly. The regret of talking to him so disrespectfully and rashly is coming over her as she now understands what was eating the boy on the inside.
The egg is flavored with pepper. She takes a mouthful and bites from the bread that is a little too fried. She concludes that it was his first time cooking something.
The meal was enough to fill her tummy. She takes the plate and heads to the kitchen.
Angelo is on the couch playing a game.
She passes behind him and washes the plate. He has headphones and he probably didn't hear her.
Dina giggles when she thinks that the boy is probably putting his frustrations in when he yells uncontrollably.
"DIE! JUST DIE ALREADY! FUCK!" He loses and he takes his headphones off tossing them behind.
The headphones fall right on the girl's head and she whines. She grabs them and in a few steps, she is near the cough.
"Did you toss them on purpose?" She frowns. She wasn't mad or anything. Her goal was to patch things up a little with the boy. And since she didn't know a normal method of making up she sprouts her most stupid remark.
"Give me a game controller! I am sure I can beat them better than you." Dina throws herself on the couch and crosses her legs under her. She stretches her hand to the boy that had a game controller.
Angelo is smirking and understands what she wanted to do. How can he be mad when she wants to come closer to him and ask for his forgiveness in such an inappropriate manner?
"I will give it if you say that you are sorry." He raises the game controller and stares at her confused face.
"I don't have to ask forgiveness since you don't know everything about me. You might have to say sorry to me more than I do. Let this slide and give me the game controller as long as I still want to play with you." She is serious and her eyes have a hint of sadness as they pierce the boy.
Can she trust fully this boy? The answer is no. That's why as long as she shows him that she wasn't completely indifferent towards him, she can assume that their relationship is fine in the parameters of their normal hate towards each other.
"I am sure you don't know shit about playing games! "Angelo passes her the game controller and smirks. In his mind, he suspects that she just doesn't want to talk about her fear. As if she wanted to not let anyone know about it. But now she can't hide it from him. He saw the way she cried and the way she froze in front of the vampire. Under her calm exterior, she feared them.
'Now I know you fear me too ….' Angelo looks in a drawer to find the other game controller as he thinks about the girl that is preparing to play. ' Well, she never fought back when I transformed into a vampire …. If only I had known it beforehand, I would have not let her with the vampire…..'
Angelo sits on the couch and looks at the girl. Dina is excited to play and sets the game. Her eyes are still red and her nose is a little runny. He is a little impressed by how strong she is. To be able to let go of her fear and live like nothing happen just a few hours ago, showed how much she wanted to live normally without having any traumas. Not like him! He renounced trusting and getting attached to people as a result of his inability to change and try to win against his fear. While she dares to approach him halfway even if her fear is as strong as his or more than his.
'She is more courageous than me …..'
The play ends with her winning against Angelo and the unknown person playing with them.
Dina jumps on the sofa and scrams her victory having a big grin on her face. Angelo can't be mad and smiles amused by her childish way of celebrating.
She jumps and tries to not remember any of the things that happened in that bathroom. Dina feels good distracting her attention and burying her feelings more and more in the dark corner of her wounded heart.
Suddenly, she is out of balance and falls in slow motion on the boy who just looks scared at her.
Dina is on top of the boy having his face between her breasts. She has her nose buried in his hair that smell of the shampoo she washed last night.
Angelo is on his back immobilized under her. Her scent is making him dizzy as his belly suffers from the weight of her ass. He doesn't know how to feel. Happy that he got to feel her voluptuous breasts or mad because she kind of crushed him?
Dina lifts herself and looks down. She expected to see a smirk and some dirty remarks sprout of his mouth. Currently, the boy looks at her intensely with a passionate gaze as if he wanted more while his cheeks are slightly blushed as his hair is tangled and swiped back giving him a wild look.
She smirks. Who would have thought that Angelo could be this hot under her?
'So, he can be tamed …' She giggles in her thought as she maintains a playful expression along with her smirk.
Her reverie ends when the boy sighs and opens his mouth having a frown.
"Why are you always on top of me? Don't you think this is becoming a habit? Are you that eager to have me under you?' He sighs again and puts his hands in a sign that he surrenders." I am already tired. Just do what you want."
Poor thing that his so-called surrender is betrayed by his mocking smirk.
'Nope. He is still the same bastard ….' Dina sighs.