CLOSE MINDED

*FLASHBACK*

"Mother?" I uttered as fear started to invade me once again. Another set of tears are about to exit my eyes because I can't see my uncle and my mother. What just happened? Why am I here all of the sudden? What is this place?

I tried to explore my surroundings using my sense of sight but the wide rows of different trees welcomed my worried eyes. The place is green and peaceful that I really like about a place. The surrounding is soothing and is wiping all of my existing worries.

I turned my body on my back and my eyes widened as admiration filled my head. A big mansion is standing mighty and tall in front of me while the unfamiliar design and structure left my mouth hanging. This mansion is very different from the once that I grew up seeing on our kingdom.

My gaze quickly rose on the second floor of the enormous mansion and that is where I saw a young boy. My brows furrowed when I saw his strange clothing . This is something new for my eyes and it is not like the clothing that I use to wear or see. Where am I? Why is everything strange from the things that I used to?

I can see him clearly despite our distance using my sharp eyes. I can't help but to admit that he is really attractive despite being this young like me. His nose is sharp as well as his lips are pinkish. I don't know why I felt this sudden admiration despite the fact that I never had seen him before.

"Mommy?" I am surprised when he shouted while he is starting to grip his chest as if something is hurting him right now. The book that he is reading quickly fell from his grip. I felt stunned upon seeing the red and black light on his chest just like what I have encountered earlier.

I quickly lifted my feet from the green grass with my power  and with that I had managed to enter  the large window. I felt scared upon seeing him on the floor as the blinding lights is still visible on this tiny chest. 

He started to cry intensely and that is when I felt his pain. That is what I had felt a moment ago. I can really relate right now with his situation and I can help but to feel pity. I feel like I am hurt like him just by staring at his trembling little body and panicked crying.

"Mommy!" he yelled once more but still not knowing that I am standing behind him. I can feel how scared he is and puzzled at the same time while his cries and screams filled the four corner of his spacious room.

I can say that we are at the same age. That is when another questions invaded my mind. Is every nine years old suffers the same pain?

Is all of us were cursed with this unbearable pain? If yes, then why is this happening and what is the cure? I can bare looking at him while I can relate how painful it is to suffer. I quickly turned his trembling body towards me and a surprised looked registered on his scared face.

"Who are you?" he asked while his fear can be heard. I didn't answer back as I quickly squatted  near his laid body on the floor.

"We have the same illness," I said innocently as it seems that I didn't mind his surprise look towards me. All I know right now is that I want to calm him down just like how my uncle and my mother is always doing whenever I'm in pain. I want to be around him as I can sympathize with how much pain that illness is causing.

"Don't you worry... We will be okay," I said while smiling genuinely at him. He was about to smile back at me but he was cut off when his chest begun to ache again. With my power I managed to lift his body and lay him on his bed just by waving my hand. 

The floor is to cold and uncomfortable for him that's why I need to place him on the soft mattress that his large bed can offer. He lifted his upper body and sat on the bed while his eyes were wide as he looked at me with disbelief. 

My brow furrowed with the kind of expression that he gave to me. Why am I seeing a new form of fear on his eyes while staring at me? 

"Why you looked so surprised? Is this the first time you saw a power?" I asked with a confuse tone. I felt how his heart went as wild as they can as he looked so horrified. His face turned impossibly pale like someone had drunk all of his blood.

Why is he acting like that? It seems like he is so afraid and I don't have any idea why. Is there something scary about my face? My mother told me that my beauty is ethereal and no one can be my equal. I caught many vampire boys staring right at me with admiration in their eyes so why is he so afraid of me?

"You're a mons-" he quickly cut off what he is about to say when the light on his chest intensifies that looks like he is being swallowed by it. I easily felt worried about what is happening to him right now. So this is what my uncle and my mom were feeling every time my illness strikes again. The feeling of unable to do do anything or help really sucks!

"Stay calm! Everything will be alright," I stated trying to sound as calm and compose as possible. I closed our gap and held his cold hand and he held on it tightly as he hissed with the pain. I want to hide the fact that I am starting to feel scared and nervous because it might make him cry or panic even more.

With the little knowledge I possess I lowered my face into his and gave him a gentle kiss on his lips. I felt his daze and shock but mother told me that every time my father is unwell she will give him a kiss and the pain will go away. The is the only thing I know. Isn't that effective?

I moved away from him and that is when I saw how the light on his chest slowly disappeared. But I felt insanely strange when I felt how every nerves in my body awakened with the flow of unfamiliar strength. 

I can't understand why I felt like I was reborn with new power after our lips touched for the first time. I felt so energize yet confused with how light I am feeling right now. I felt my eyes starting to ignite without my control or even my consent. 

I am stunned when my fangs started to grow while this feeling of sudden boost of power travelled through every single vein in my body. I quickly covered my fangs. Why is my body acting like this? What is this madness all about? I stood up and moved as far as I can from him while confusion is running wild on my mind. What is happening?

He stood quickly as both of us are looking at each other with a confused and puzzled look. "What have you done? Why is this happening to me? What is the reason behind this?" I said as fear invaded the way I said every word.

What kind of magic spell had he done to my body? What sorcery is this?  Is he an enchanter? A sorcerer perhaps?

"You're a monster! Your eyes! They are not normal! You're a monster! Monster!" he exclaimed while he is pointing at me as if I had done something wrong. I quickly removed my palm because of the stinging sensation I felt as my fangs dug onto it. 

He became horrified more than ever when he saw how my blood started dripping on my pearl white dress that my mother made by herself.

"Monster! You're a monster!" he exclaimed while I am starting to cry because of the heavy emotions that I am feeling right now while he is screaming like that in front of me. Why do he need to be this mean towards me? I didn't hurt him or even caused him a scratch! Why is he like that?

"Mortals despise us Vreihya. They are not one of our kind," I was stunned when my mother's statement crossed my mind and that is when it hit me hard. Now I understand why his reaction is that intense. 

In my world, a vampire that is not blessed by the Goddess of the Moon is incapable of determining whether someone is a vampire or not that's why I didn't found out so easily his true kind. 

"Mommy! Daddy! There's a monster in my room!" he shouted with all his might while his finger is trembling while still pointed at me. I quickly heard a loud footsteps going up the stare while they are in an obvious hurry. 

I instantly froze the moment I saw a man pointing something I don't know while the woman beside him is in the peak of her fear. "Leave my son alone! I will not let you take him! Son of the devil!" the man angrily said as his determination to kill is visible on his eyes. 

I knew well enough that he is the father of the young boy. He continued to aim the thing on my head while his wife hurriedly grabbed his son and hide on his husband's back like their life is at stake. 

I started to cry even more while calling my mother and my uncle as well. I want to hide in their embrace! Mother! Uncle! Please take me away from here! I am scared to death.

"I will never harm you," I said while trying to calm my self and I started to walk towards them. But I was stunned as the thing that the man is holding made a loud unfamiliar sound. I felt a sharp pain on my stomach as the thing that exited from it hit me. My blood quickly flowed out of my aching stomach. 

I trembled in fear as the unfamiliar pain invaded my system. I panicked the moment I saw a whole on my stomach and as my white dress started to be tinted with red. All I can feel is pain and anger towards them.

How can they hurt a harmless child? I didn't do anything wrong! I never inflicted any injury towards their beloved son and I don't know why they accused me of abducting him. I was just lost in here yet they call me a monster!

A loud sound exited that awful thing again but this time it didn't triumph to hurt me as the blue light pulled me away from the hurtful humans.

They are the real monsters! They mean nothing but harm!

They are close minded creatures!