Chapter 67 Vampire couple

Life continued the way it was in the castle and with my new diary, there was never a dull moment. It was always a place for me to safeguard my thoughts as Dana and Derick always kept spying on them. Although later, Derick and I promised that we wouldn’t do that to each other, but there was nothing I could do about Dana.

My relationship with Derick grew stronger and stronger, and as it grew, so did the misunderstandings. We fought over everything. Dana used to be the one keeping the peace before but then it even got to a point that she stopped involving herself in our arguments.

Many at times I would apologize to him and he would do the same and our relationship would continue, but then the same thing would happen again and then it would be back to square one. On and on it went for many years, until two new vampires joined us in the castle.

Edmund and Hillary were a married couple, from a different coven that had separated. They didn’t have much history, only that they were converted when they were very young and came from the same town.

We met them on one of our adventures, they were in search of a new coven, and that was the time we began calling ourselves that. It’s a vampire thing where there’s an alpha called the leader, and the others which are the members. Dana wanted them to join us, as she thought having new people in the castle would liven things up and she wouldn’t have to be the only one to settle the constant arguments me and Derick always had. So, she pretended we were a coven, even though we had no idea what went on in one or how things were done between the alpha and the members, also known as the others.

Edmund and Hillary knew we were fraudsters, but still decided to join us anyway. We might have not been a coven but we were more of a family, and they were also more than happy to take a break from the endless beliefs, ceremonies and rituals a normal coven abided by.

Their moving in with us did help to lessen the constant arguments between me and Derick when we always saw how Edmund and Hillary acted as one. Their refusal to stay in separate rooms made Dana give them their own private quarters in the castle, which was just like a big apartment with a living room and a bedroom. Seeing how a normal couple behaved and handled things between themselves, made me and Derick to start to behave and handle things like mature adults. It got to a point that me and Derick stopped fighting completely, and we both just let love lead between us. Things were going fine, and I didn’t know that another problem was about to start when I met John.

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It had been more than a century since I left home, and I don’t know whatever it was that woke me up that day and made me want to visit my former little town. I knew that everyone I knew there would be dead, but I still wanted to go and see how things were over there. That little town where I grew up, the only place on this earth I had known before I became a vampire. I wanted to see that place.

It was just two hours into day break, everyone had gone to sleep. I hurried into the kitchen and drank a whole bottle of a special liquid Edmund and Hillary introduced to us. It was called vamscren and it allowed vampires to walk in the sun for a while without being affected by it. Somehow, vamscren made me feel a bit better about becoming a vampire as I didn’t have to always be limited by the sun. The vamscren was made from dragon tears and Edmund and Hillary, along with Dana, arranged with the manufacturers to always supply it to the castle, so we never ran out.

After drinking, I got my cloak and flew out of the castle, to see my former town.

Compared with the time it took me to reach the mountains when I couldn’t fly, I got there in a matter of hours. The whole town had changed completely, and it took some time for me to recognize the place that used to be called my home. A different family lived there now, and I knew that my Gerome would be no more. I went to visit the church that father Jacob served in, he was the only one I could think of that would still be alive after so many years. The members of the church didn’t know who father Jacob was, I looked around too but didn’t see him there. He probably must have left the town many years ago too. I had visited my former home, my church, and the last place I had in mind to visit, the place that whenever I thought of, always sent chills down my spine, was the place I died, the place where my life was changed forever, the place that separated me from my Gerome and my family. It was the tavern where I worked.