Who would have guessed that the next attack would be that soon. But well, at least Lucian had prepared himself even though a little. The person had covered their face so they could not be seen . This time round they attacked openly Infront of everyone.
"Mmmh! Didn't you like my surprise?" The person asked.
On hearing the person's voice, Teshmian didn't look that good . She knew she had heard that voice somewhere several times. She was having a hard time thinking especially with her head throbbing. Lucian was ready to protect her while Hamnish wasn't around as always . During that week several attacks had been lauched but then his magic worked well. And everytime they were attacked , Hamnish was nowhere to be seen . He only appeared after the attack.
"Hey Lucian , you thought I wouldn't figure out your little magic trick? Now watch."
The person cut through an invisible bubble using his fingernails which were as sharp as a steel blade and they also had sparks of fire on them.
"But how could you see through my shield ?" Lucian was confused and Teshmian was in her own world to realize what had just happened.
"No ,no it can't be," Teshmian said as tears rolled down her face , " you can't be the one. Ilshay ! " She said almost in a whisper.
Ilshay uncovered her face and gave Teshmian a cheeky smile. Teshmian thought they had to be some mistake because her best friend could never do that to her and also she was only human. But then Lucian had already suspected this when they couldn't sense a human scent while following her . Now the problem was Teshmian, she couldn't come to terms with what she had just discovered. Teshmian moved closer to Ilshay and tried to knock some sense into her head. She wasn't ready to accept the reality which was Infront of her.
How could her child hold friend change this easily. More tears which were warm on her cheeks flowed down her face but instead Ilshay held her by the collar of her shirt and pushed her away
"Don't be naive Teshmian, I'm not your Ilshay but the vamp princess."
Teshmian broke down in Lucian's arms as Ilshay made her way out. Teshmian was very broken and was confused on whom to trust. In that moment Lucian decided to break the silence and briefed her on the happenings of the day Ilshay disappeared.
"What do you know about Ilshay whereabouts and her family?" Lucian asked Teshmian.
Come to think of it Teshmian never knew a lot about Ilshay or even her past.She only knew about the Ilshay who stayed in the opharnage ; a naive, shy and feeble Ilshay. Teshmian remembered that some time back some two men; a plumb one with bushy mustache and well trimmed hair and the other one who was a tall figure, a sharply curved nose and lips that had cuts across them on the right , had taken her away for some time. That was the only occasion that Ilshay had stepped out of the orphanage.
That's all Teshmian could remember about her friend, her friend indeed.
A friend she now realized that she didn't know about while she herself was always an open book . It was then that she remembered her mother's words,'what seems to be true isn't always to be true ' On the other side Lucian who also had thousands of questions running in his head had to compose himself and look after Teshmian. He took her to his house where he thought she would be safe . When they arrived Teshmian couldn't hold it and she let it all out.
Who would have thought that Ilshay of all people would do this to her as she had never wronged Ilshay. It was then that something occured to Lucian, he remembered Hamnish had said that Teshmian wasn't Naffy's child but she had a sister. No! could she really be the one ? Could if be that Ilshay was a part of Teshmian blood ?
"Teshmian! Teshmian! " Hamnish was out of breath , "The house is on fire and everything is burning down. "
On arrival everything was down, nothing had survived except a picture . It was a picture Teshmian and Ilshay had taken back at the orphanage. Teshmian took the photo and had a close look at it. She noticed mud on her face. She remembered that they had just come from playing in the rain with Ilshay and she guessed that she hadn't wiped of the mud well. They were both smiling in that photo and their eye's; people always confuse them to be sisters because of those eyes. Those blue ocean like eyes that were very innocent . With just that thought something in her had been triggered, she remembered that she wasn't Naffy's child and that word ' sisters' run in her mind violently. And for the first time a look in Ilshay's eyes made her head hurt like she was trying to recorrect a sin she had forgotten. It was a blue flash on her right arm . She touched where the flash had passed and felt a wound, a wound she had never noticed at all.
Lucian had been calling Teshmian for a while but she was lost in her own thoughts.
"Lucian, I need to be left alone. I will be fine ." Teshmian added to reassure Lucian when she saw that he was hesitatent .
The weather was getting bad as very dark clouds gathered together and soon it was raining heavily. Teshmian knelt their, with her face in her hands. She felt that the fire was good after all because it ate down all the memories she had with Ilshay. Her tears flowed down as they hit the ground gently. She screamed at the top of her face and the photo into pieces. It was over , her and Ilshay were over .
She didn't want to hold into things that were already dead. The Ilshay she knew was gone and this one was an evil creature after her life. It was her half sister Naffy's child who had come to avange him .
It was midnight and Teshmian went back home. She found Lucian still waiting for her. Teshmian was all wet and tired . Lucian held onto her and let her head hang on his shoulders. He knew that she had already figured out the truth .
But why hadn't Teshmian killed her yet? This was still a mystery to him.
Hamnish had also moved in to Lucian's house even though he's didn't like it at all.
"The sad times will pass but will you always be glommy and let your prince chammy leave in misery ," Lucian said sarcastically trying to dramatice a scene from a movie.
His trick worked and Teshmian managed a smile exposing her white sparkling teeth. Lucian gave her a light kiss and assured her that they will find her way through all this problems.
Hamnish interrupted them saying that he had something important to say. He told Teshmian to stop pretending to love that demon because she want to revive her mother. He was tired of tolerating him and they could kill him once and for all and revive the devil themselves. Lucian seemed hurt but he didn't utter a word.
Teshmian snapped at him and asked him to stop talking nonsense. She told him that she had already found a different way other than their blood. She could now reconnect directly with her mum without the devil.
Teshmian narrowed her eyes and moved close to him, "you thought I wouldn't find out, right?"
Hamnish walked out yet again disappointed.