Chapter 44

Jasmine


Another day had gone by, yet everywhere I Looked I found all the doors just as before.

Today was, of course, the last day of the blood moon and after this perhaps everything was going to be normal, or maybe not. It was just about overcoming this period of blood-moon anymore. It was about having the sight of a destination that everybody doubted I could ever reach. It seemed like there was nobody in this world who could help me get out of this situation but I and I were the only ones to help myself if the missing fragments of my past emerge through this enigma.

I absentmindedly walked into the bathroom, splashing water on my face thinking that the coldness can help my unrest even though my skin was getting unnecessarily cold at the very start of this morning.

Every muscle of my body was aching as if it yearned for something or something was just changing within my body, I really did not know anything about what I could see happening.

I rested my hands flat on the countertop, unknowingly staring at my reflection in the mirror.

One second I could find my dark eyes looking at me and the next second they were not the regular brown anymore. They were Profoundly red and this time they were not fading anymore.

They were still and unmoving, my heart race increased as the heat of my body left all of a sudden as though it has vanished into the particles of the air with no wash of getting it back.

I took multiple steps backward, the quiet gasp that slipped past my lips was just a mere reflex of the fear that I felt carving into every cell that existed in me.

I was not looking at myself at all, my skin started getting paler and paler and every muscle of my body was forced to face a sudden that I could never ever describe.

Something was trying to tear me apart in pieces or perhaps...someone wanted to take over my body.

The sudden feeling of something piercing through my gums attacked me and on the other hand, the painful sensation of my nails extending through my flesh caused a scream to escape my mouth.

In the specific parts of my back that were beside the sides of my spine, a burning feeling occurred on the skin.

Despite being cold as ice, I could feel the sweat covering my skin. Indescribably painful feeling shrouded my insides, there remained no words I could utter or any tolerance left its sign anywhere within me.

The pain had completely consumed me in the way that it'd never let me get out nor it'd let me know the reason behind this sudden unknown invasion.

The tears blurred my vision yet I could see the future staring right back at me through the mirror.

It was me but at the same time it was not, the eyes were mine but that red color was not what I had always seen them in, the extended nails were mine too but they were no longer human-like as they should have been and this skin covering me too was mine but the pale color was not what I was familiar with.

I was not looking like myself at all, or maybe this was the first time I was actually seeing how I was supposed to. I was truly looking at myself instead of how I had always known myself.

Nothing of this sudden change made sense to me until I finally saw the fangs that had managed to get out halfway through.

My eyes widened in recognition.

My breathing got heavier, the reality hit me like a frantic wave that'd toss and turn everything apart, leaving everything in a never-ending turmoil.

My hand instinctively moved to touch the burning spot on my back, the dampness of the blood touched my fingertips and the metallic smell hit my nose. It did not take long before I recognized the soft feathers of the unmistakable wing that was still inside my skin and had only extended less than half an inch.

This was it, this was the moment of truth I was kept away from during my entire life.

This was me, the real identity that still was under the pressure of the chains of spells that were used to tie me up in the form of a human I was forced to believe I was.

This was me— A vampire.

Before I could realize anything else, A sudden ripple of shock hit me stronger than ever turning into a gigantic wave.

I felt the wings were sucked back into my skin leaving the wound fresh and wide open there, the nails no longer remained extended they too went back in the state they were but the mere exception was they left me bleeding this time, my red eyes turned brown and instead of the freezing cold temperature of my skin the heat of fire covered it.

And just like that, in this perplexity and bewilderment of the newly found truth, I fell into the unknown oblivion, where remained the ways to the discovery of the unknown mysteries of the part of my life that did not live in my recollection.