The Awakening

Birds chirping, cars driving, people talking. Why do I suddenly hear these lovely sounds? My ears did not hear these sounds before, so why hear them now? I feel weird and I feel empty. My body feels hot! My hands are so soft and so smooth like velvet. My nails are so long and pointy. I must find a mirror fast! (searching the room she finds a small mirror). Who is this person I see looking back at me!? That is not me.....where's my wrinkles, where's my wolf like eyebrows, where's....where's me! As her heart starts to race wildly and ache her. The room began to feel too bright and she felt very dizzy. She faints from all the excitement.

The world goes from day to night as she rest after the confusing experience she just faced. Horns honking and people arguing in the streets from a car accident wakes her from her slumber. "My head is killing me and i have a horrible taste in my mouth!" as she picks herself up off the floor she realizes that her room is now dark with no lights except that of the street light peeking in her room's window. She walks to the bathroom where she sees a golden fountain and beautiful drapes hanging around this massive tub that looks as if it was once a pool. "This bathroom is gorgeous! How did I get this and when did i get this?" as she looked around in awe of all that she never seen before. She became more scared then before but, it wasn't from the lack of knowledge of who she was or where she was. It felt as if someone was hanging over her watching her every move. She kept making brisk steps to the side and looking over her shoulder fast thinking she would catch someone standing behind her. But, never did she see anyone, she began to think she was going crazy until she heard a whisper near her ear "come" the voice said in the most softest way. She followed the voice till she reached a room that appeared to be a sun room. Their stood a man holding a little girl wearing the most alluring blue velvet attire you've ever seen. The man sat the little girl on a chaise lounge chair next to a giant window over looking a delusional reality of a garden. The man began to walk towards me, as he approached me he called out " Datura, my sweet but poisonous girl. you are finally awake from your rest. welcome back to the world of the living." he smiled the most familiar smile, I could not figure out who smiled like him for my life.

He grabbed me in his arms and hugged me tightly like a brother seeing his long lost sister for the first time. "Who are you?" i asked him but, his happy demeanor changed once he released me and looked into my face as if he was examining me. "Who am i you ask?" he said in a sad voice " well i guess Omora did not tell you anything when she readied you for bed. Can't trust the help now a days." he looked so frustrated as his eyes looked around the room. "My dear, I am you! Well i should rephrase that. You am i and i am you. You are a reincarnated version of myself. You recently died in your apartment in Rochester,New York. Your family found your body laying under a blanket in the corner of your bedroom balcony like you were out there enjoying the lovely skies and weather. The neighbors kept seeing you outside when they were taking out the trash for a few days. So, they called your family and they rushed over to your place and found you soundly forever asleep. I guess your neighbors were good friends of your family because they paid for half of your funeral and they kept taking care of your mother and father like you did." I burst into tears "What kind of life was that?!" I hollered " I barely lived, I didn't get to love anyone, I didn't get to have kids, or even...never mind i guess crying and complaining will do nothing for me now huh? Wait.... You said i'm you so is this heaven?" He began to laugh "No, this is still earth and you are not exactly dead nor are you exactly living. You are in between the two for, you can die and you are living. you can eat and you can dream but, it wouldn't be like when you once were completely alive and yourself. You are now the part of you that you always felt hovering around you, or rather the other side of yourself that many could not see but you could feel deep down inside." As he told me all of this he stared at me like he was trying to see if i understood all that he was telling me.

I asked him "So i was named Datura when i was alive? why did you call me your poisonous girl as well?" he smiled and told me the answers i seeked "Your name was simple but yet so beautiful. You were name Arina Dornier, You were single, a student of bio chemistry, played the piano and oddly enough you played the drums, that's not like any other versions of me... hmm. Well anyways you were the 3rd child of 6 your mother and father had, you drove a Honda Civic and named it Benz, you had a dog and a cat. You named the cat Bastet, and the dog was named Anubis. You loved history and was quite gifted with visions. I could go on but, i will not need to because soon your memories will come back when you are well fed and most rested." I just kept thinking to myself as i slowly calmed down from my crying "why me and who is the child" I see she did not roll from the spot he laid her in nor did she open her eyes during my meltdown. I don't think he wants me to know who she is because, he hasn't even mentioned her like she is not even in the same room with us. How rude! Oh well maybe he thinks i have already been overwhelmed with the information that i already know, and he would be right if he is thinking that." I dropped my head "well Mister.....?" i said as i waited for him to tell me his name. He was so embarrassed when he said " Dearest i'm so sorry i thought i properly introduced myself to you. My name is Venit i am the very first of our kind and before you ask what is our kind? Our kind is vampire but, we are nothing. . . . i mean not exactly like the stories i'm sure you've heard growing up. We are far more than those savages they portray us out to be." as he brushed his dark hair with his fingers he looked at me and said " enough talk of that stuff let us get better acquainted and have a bite to eat shall we."

He waved his hand towards another room passed to dark reddish brown wooden doors. "I,m sure you are famished." He stood to the side as i walked pass him to the wooden doors but,something hit me. I didn't think to ask what we were eating. I turned towards him and asked " what are we going to eat?" with deep fear in my heart from what he just told me we were, i wasn't sure if i should have even asked that question. He just smiled and said "You will see soon enough my dear. Have no fear i will teach you all about our ways of life." as he slowly opened the doors and ushered me in. He said so graciously. "please make yourself comfortable my dear."