Esther walks downstairs from her room and into the hall. She notices Adeline and Tyrus sitting side-by-side on the couch. On the table in front of them, there is a game of monopoly, and Tyrus is teaching Adeline how to play.“I didn’t think you would be such a savage businesswoman,” Tyrus says to her.Adeline laughs, hits him lightly on his arm, and then casually keeps one of her hands on his shoulder as she bends forward, closer to the board.Esther smiles looking at them. Tyrus is such a sweetheart, she thinks. He and Adeline had gelled together pretty well. Then, she remembers her rapport with Tyrus for the first few weeks in this house. She wonders if something of a similar nature is going on between Adeline and him now. The thought amuses her. She didn’t mind. Tyrus was a nice guy, and after everything Adeline has gone through, she deserves to have some fun.“Hey,” she hears Brent from behind her.“Hi!.”She notices that he is dressed in a formal-looking blue shirt and black pant
Lilia’s head is buzzing. She is sitting in class, but she is not paying attention to anything that the professor is saying. Her head is too full of Brent and Damion and all her feelings. She has been dating Brent for a couple of months now, and she likes him very much. She likes being with him, and she is attracted to him. A lot. Then, is it just attraction? Hadn’t Brent once mentioned that humans often felt infatuated by vampires? Was she just infatuated with him and not in love? No, that can’t be. Otherwise, she would have felt it from the very first day. She had felt attracted to him the first time she had seen him, for sure, but it was because he is an exceptionally handsome man, and it is hard not to notice that. Not because he is a vampire. If she had been infatuated with him, it wouldn’t have taken them over two years to start dating. The night she had attended homecoming with him was the night she had realized that she liked him more than a friend. But now she wonders, if she
As soon as Lilia and Brent enter the washroom, Brent locks the door. He pulls Lilia closer to him breathing in the scent of her soft perfume and says, “What do you want Lilia?”“You,” she breathes.“What do you want me to do to you?”“I want you to... fuck me.”Brent smiles lightly and then they start kissing each other fiercely. Their hands explore the other’s body. Lilia unbuttons his pants and pulls them down along with his underwear. Meanwhile, Brent slides his hand under her dress and pulls down her panties. They don’t take them off completely and Brent turns Lilia around. She bends down holding the large and eloquent basin for support. Brent rubs her vagina with his thumb and then with his penis, tempting her by saying, “You want it, do you, Lilia?”“Yes. Yes, I do.”He enters her and starts moving, first slowly and then faster. Lilia covers her mouth with her hands to stop herself from moaning too loudly.*Brent is moving inside her and she feels a build-up with every move. He
The next morning, Brent had to leave early. He has gone to meet someone, alerting them to the cause they are fighting for. Lilia, on the other hand, lays on the bed till much later. She has nothing very urgent to attend to, and her head has been feeling too heavy with all the emotions she has been trying to process. Finally, she gets off the bed thinking that she couldn’t lay there all day and some action might make her feel better.After brushing her teeth and freshening up, she looks around her room. It had been some time since she had done a thorough cleaning. It might make her feel in control of stuff. She eats some breakfast and then comes back up to her room to get to the cleaning.She dusts off the windows, vacuums the floor, and rearranges her books on the table. Then, she gets to the big Almirah, rearranging her clothes, keeping them in neater piles, and putting them on hangers. She empties the drawers and arranges her jewelry, pens, papers, diaries, photos, and documents pro
Lilia is standing at the doorway to Esther’s room looking at her.“I -,” she starts to say, but then stops because she has no idea what she should say. What could she say anyway: That this was the first time or it won’t happen again or she didn’t mean it to happen? All these things sound so feeble because this did happen. This happened and it shouldn’t have happened because she knows that it is wrong. Esther is right, Brent doesn’t deserve this. He has been so nice to her. So loving, so caring.“You don’t have to keep it to yourself, Esther,” Lilia says, “and I will not ask you to lie. I will tell Brent myself.”Esther nods.Lilia walks out of Esther’s room and goes downstairs and out of the house. She doesn’t know where she is going, but she can’t bear to just sit in the house.*Damion is standing absolutely still in the middle of Lilia’s room. He is finding it difficult to wrap his head around what just happened. Lilia had left seconds after Esther without saying a word. He didn’t
Lilia enters the house. Brent walks over to her immediately and kisses her.“How’s your day been?” he asks her.“Fine. Yours?”“It was pretty great. I didn’t expect much from the meeting, but it went quite well.”“That’s great,” Lilia says, feeling miserable with every passing second. Brent is in such a good mood. She doesn’t want to ruin it. But she will have to. She has no choice. Even if Esther had not walked in on her and Damion, she would have told Brent. She would not have been able to live with the guilt.Brent takes her hand. He is still talking about his day. Telling her about the vampires he had met. They start walking toward the stairs, and Lilia notices Esther looking at them. Lilia looks at her for a brief moment and then walks upstairs with Brent.Brent turns towards his room, but Lilia pulls him towards hers, so they go there. As they enter the room and close the door behind them, Brent comes closer to Lilia. He places a strand of hair falling onto her face behind her e
Esther, Adeline, Tyrus, Lilia, and Damion are all sitting in the hall since Brent punched Damion and left. They had discussed the details of everything that had happened. Everyone had told Lilia and Damion that it was such a stupid and pointless mistake. They had not denied it. Then, all of them had had some dinner and now they were back to the topic of Brent, Damion, and Lilia because it had been six hours and Brent had not returned. Tyrus had called and so had Lilia and Damion but he hadn’t answered any of their calls.“Maybe,” says Adeline, “he is waiting for all of us to go to bed so that he doesn’t have to talk to anyone and that’s why he would probably come late in the night.”“Probably,” says Damion, “Brent often retreats into his cocoon when he is sad.”“Then, should we stop waiting and leave him be instead?” asks Adeline.“I don’t know,” says Lilia, “we should at least be sure that he is alright.”“He is over a hundred and eighty,” says Tyrus, “I’m sure he can handle heartbre
“I got you something,” says Esther and takes out a blood bag from a tiny bag she had put down beside her. “I figured you might enjoy some nourishment.”“I surely would, thanks,” says Brent, taking the blood bag from her and opening it to take a sip. “I am still amazed that you managed to find me.”Esther smiles at him and then looks up at the sky saying, “It really is a beautiful view.”“Yeah.”They sit there in silence for a few minutes and then Esther asks, “How are you feeling, Brent?”“I’m okay.”She looks at him but he doesn’t. He keeps looking straight ahead.“I don’t think so,” says Esther “but if you don’t want to tell me, I understand.”There is silence for a few seconds and then Brent says, “I can’t believe it, although to others it may seem an obvious thing to have happened. Two good-looking young people. Why not?”“No, it’s not obvious. I couldn’t believe it when I saw it either.”“You saw it?” Brent asks in a surprised tone.“I walked in on them.”“Do you think that’s why