Revelations

"They ...let's go inside", Max concluded, opening the door for me. I walked inside,sitting on the sofa. "I think I get it... it's Ian's doing...he's been killing your lookalikes thinking it was you....". Max convinced spreading the pictures on the table. "Kate is your neighbor, he must have mistook her for you..this is vampires hunting season".

I picked up the pictures one by one and realized the immediate similarities. "He killed all of them... b-because of me", I imagined , falling back in the sofa agonizing and devastated. He moved closer, "It's not your fault...it's Ian we've to blame ", he coaxed , but I was stunned. I handed over the letter mom received from dad.

He read it critically, "Your dad left telling your mom to take care of you if he doesn't come back alive". "Did you stay here since ever since you were born. I shook my head, "No.. I settled here with mom when I was 3 . He got up and came back a few minutes after with something in his hands.

"It seems he knew that he would die, there's something I haven't told you, but I didn't want you to panic. When you asked me about my parents, they died, but Ian adopted me and trained me up , but when I found out that he wanted to use me to destroy the world, I ran away, with a valuable treasure of which he's searching for me", he narrated, putting a potion, with a toxic sign on it.

"You didn't tell me.." , I complained,but he insisted, "Yes.. I didn't want you to think that I was working with him to kill you , remember the first day you were ready to attack me there and then." I looked down in defeat, when I realized he was right. "This contains powerful,dangerous toxic air which can kill humans at once if inhaled, so by the time he makes another one, we'd have to defeat him",spreading out a book with a map.

"I'll try to find out more about your mom", renounced Max. I nodded,hugging him. "Thanks for being with me at this phase of my life", replied I smiling. I left the woods a few minutes after,using the shortcut. I had a lot of missed calls from Tricia and Jess. I threw my phone on the bed. I sighed,opening the door to mom's room after much difficulty.

Everything was like it used to be, her bed well laid, her clothes intact, but the drawers were locked from inside. Where did mom keep her keys. I raised the bedsheets, checked under her bed, behind the picture frames hanging on the wall. I went deeper into her private library,but the only collection was on vampires and books with strange writings.

Other book was separately packed at another destination. I found a key in it. I rushed to try the key on it. It cracked open making me happy. It revealed a bunch of papers and a picture of me,dad and her, perfume of different flowers and another picture of a little girl standing in front of a garden.

"Who's this..." I wondered, taking the picture out of the drawer. I gathered each and every paper with the picture and placed them on the table analyzing them. The picture dated about two years before I was born in Hekar, our farmhouse before we moved here. "Catherine , happy birthday", it said behind the picture.

I thought over and over in the name , trying to remember but I couldn't. I opened the drawer again and found another group of her pictures in the house, vacation sites, all with mom and dad, but one said at the back, "CATHERINE, OUR DAUGHTER", when she was a baby.

"Daughter "!! I yelled, dropping the picture on the table unconsciously.