Dimitri
Life is pretty perfect right now. I am currently sitting in the lounge with my family. The logs in the fireplace are still steadily burning providing me with some form of heat and light. Not that I needed the heat or light. What I mean is that my skin is always cold despite the surrounding temperature. I am after all a cold-blooded creature of the night. Not to mention that I have prefect night vision. So yes, the fire really had no purpose right now. But I am way too comfortable in my current position to move. Besides, I really could not move much from this position if I am being frank.
I threw a glance in the direction where my dad and mom were laying. They are currently cuddled up side-by-side on the couch adjacent to mine fast asleep. They look so peaceful right now that I decide to rather not wake them up yet. However, I cannot stop myself from staring at them in their current state as if trying to memorize their faces. After a minute of doing so, I realize that I am being stupid, I would come back soon. With this comforting thought, I then turned and looked to my right side where my baby sister, Ellie currently was. She had used my right shoulder as her pillow where her head rested probably uncomfortably right now. Because of how close her face was to my right ear, Ellie’s normally light snoring was rather loud right now. I should probably move her to a more comfortable sleeping position and in the process save my poor ears.
Normally, I hated the fact that my sister snored. But to be honest it did not really bother me that much today. Besides, they all looked so peaceful in their sleep. Dare I say that they even looked vulnerable or better yet human. But that is the thing about us vampires. We look like humans. We dress like humans and in the public eye, we act like humans. Honestly speaking from the naked eye, one wouldn't be able to tell us apart.
I couldn't fall asleep like they were right now. There was too much going on in my head. Call me an “overthinker” of sorts. But this time around, my overthinking is justified. After all, this is my last day before I have to leave the palace for FOUR TORTUROUS MONTHS! Let me explain from the start; I am the only son of my father, King Leonard and mother, Queen Katrina. Actually let me give you a quick summary of my family whom as you can tell already, I care about very much:
My parents weren't exactly soulmates in the vampire scheme of things. Yeah, like the werewolf's, we too have mates-the person we were destined to love or whatever. But my parents were not each other's God-given mates.
My dad had been mated to another Original Vampire named Selene and they had two perfect kids, Ellie and I. I tend to call Ellie my baby sister, but she is only 4 years younger than I am. Which makes her 96 years of age. Yes, I am about to reach my first century. This is a huge occasion for us Vampires. Think of it as how humans celebrate turning 21. Of course with me being a prince, this meant that I was going to finally be crowned king. My parents had it perfectly planned such that after the four months of being “human”, I would celebrate my 100th birthday and be crowned king on the very same day. And that day would be the first time my people saw me since I was a baby (well, 20 years old).
Anyways, so after having the two of us, my “surrogate/womb provider” finally revealed her true intentions and tried to kill my father. Apparently, she had been in love with someone else. A very powerful wizard, and they wanted to rule over all supernatural creatures together. This wizard of hers was a high ranking magician called Edward or something like that. Long story short, her plan failed when we got the werewolf's and another powerful witch on our side. After all, Selene had a pretty powerful force behind her, so we needed all the help that we could get. After that tiresome war, many lives were lost. That is where my current mom comes in. She had lost her mate who was abusive during that war so... not really all that bad a loss if you ask me. You can piece together the rest of the story of how we became a happy family once again.
I knew that I needed to rest but I couldn't. See, once the overthinking cycle began, it couldn’t be stopped. I had to let the cycle run its course. Kind of like a washing machine once you press start. Tomorrow, I am going to start my journey throughout the entire kingdom. My task being that I have to live in each of the villages of our kingdom for a month. There are four villages in total. Thus, I would be gone for a total of four month. I had to be disguised and make a living by working like normal humans do. Yes, we had many humans in our kingdom. And no, they do not know that I am a vampire. If I was to get caught or have someone recognize me as their prince, then I automatically had to retreat and restart the whole journey again from scratch. So, I had to make sure no one knew me. That was easy since no one has seen me since, I was 20 years old. I always hated publicity so, I always avoided it. I know it is pretty ironic how I am about to be king and I hate publicity. They always have something to say about me despite my hiding away. But like they say, “Lions don’t lose sleep over the opinions of sheep.”
I am leaving at 5 am today (yes, it is past midnight already) to start the journey to the first village, Kena. I am definitely going to miss home, but I seriously needed to get at least an hour of sleep. This is one of the perks of being a Vampire. I don’t need that much sleep. After all, I am a creature of the night.
DimitriThe journey to the lower city was long. It was interesting at first, watching the scenery as we drove down. But eventually one gets bored from watching the different houses pass by. The more out of the kingdom we drove, the smaller and cheaper the houses became. I honestly never noticed this before since, I usually used my vampire speed to get places. Speaking of which, I really don't understand why Damien and I couldn't just use our vampire speed to get to where we had to go. It would have been so much faster and easier than driving a car. But dad said something about getting into the human character and all. Anyways, so after existing the kingdom, all that was to be seen was grass, and more grass. I don’t know what came after that because Damien had to wake me up when we arrived. Yes, I fell asleep. But then again, I only got over two hours of sleep.I was glad my family was awake to bid me goodbye at least. It meant that they would miss me as much as I
DimitriI had been working as a postman for almost a month now. Let me tell you that it was not easy at all. I had to walk to deliver these messages. I had to deliver each message to the owner and have them sign the package. I was not allowed the car we came in with because, I had to buy my own one with money I had earned. I can’t believe my dad really refused for me to keep the car. So, Damien had been taking the car to wherever he went during the day. Thus, every day for the past week, I would come back home with extremely sore feet. My legs couldn’t handle walking for so long.Then, I also had to live in an area filled with constant temptation. Kena is filled with humans. I think I only saw 3 vampires since I got here. I guess it makes sense since this is the furthest city from the kingdom. See the closer to the kingdom, the more the supernatural creatures there are. After all, it is not easy having to control the urge of slipping my fangs into
Dimitri"Well, Mr. Postman where is the letter you came to deliver?" she asked pulling me from the task of admiring her spacious house. We had just passed a corridor that had been lined with countless paintings of many men and a few women. In fact, I had only seen three female portraits amongst the dozens and dozens of men. Each picture was distinctly divergent from the next. But even a blind man could not deny the one stark similarity all the portraits on the aisle shared. They carried an air about them. I cannot exactly tell you how I could tell this from mere paintings, but I guess it had something to do to do with how they held their noses up in the air as if the oxygen a millimeter above w
Dimitri"Well, for someone who just finished their first month of slaving themselves, you sure are happy," Damien said. Even though his voice was void of any emotion, I knew Damien well enough to read the sarcasm undertone of that sentence. Damien always did have an odd sense of humor. Or rather an odd sense of sarcasm in this case. This trait of his resulted in him not making many friends which meant that I was his closest friend too. Anyways, this odd sarcasm was the only kind of fun Damien ever displayed since that fateful day. For his own sake, I hoped that when he falls in love someday, he would reconnect with that joyful side of his again. Lord knows he deserves only the best that this world has to offer. After all, his serious face was starting to make him look much older than he actually is.Damien was not lying though. I should have been happy. I had just finished a month of slaving myself off successfully. I had actually worked a normal job with normal hours
DimitriDespite my emotions telling me to go tell Destiny everything and win her heart, I actually left her behind. Yes, Damien talked some sense into me and I made the logical decision. I am to be king and I can’t be making decisions based on emotions. Honestly, speaking Damien would make for a better king than I. He had all the traits of a king now that I think of it- kind, firm, logical, intelligent, understanding and so on. You name it and his got it. I mean I couldn’t deny the logic that Damien used to argue with me so, I had no choice but to leave Destiny behind.It was currently two weeks since that fateful day that I met my precious mate. And what an encounter that was. But I had to be strong and finish the task at hand. I couldn’t let my emotions overtake my work ethic. I felt dead inside without her close to me. I hate this feeling so much that I wish I hadn’t even met her. Then I would be happy. Ignorance is bliss after all. What was
DimitriI honestly wasn't even a bit surprised. My mate had made it pretty clear that she was just after money. But I at least expected her to wait until after meeting me again. She was looking for me so why couldn't she wait until she found me before proceeding with her plan of marrying this guy? Did I really not mean anything to her? I mean even if she didn’t pick me which hurts, she still needed me to have children. So, why was she rushing to get married despite not having me agree to her horrific terms? Damn it, woman are frustrating! The one second you think you know them, the next you realise you were lying to yourself all along."Now, I know of everyone who lives in this shitty village and your face is one I haven't seen before. Who are you...Mr Postman?" a female's voice spoke out of nowhere breaking my train of thought. I was really annoyed right now and even more so pissed at the opposite sex for the sins of my mate and now some female dared speak
DimitriWhen I finally got home, it was sometime close to midnight. I really did spend a lot of time in the human bar. Because of the time, I would normally sneak into the house such as to not wake up Damien. But being a vampire and all, he would hear me no matter how sleek I was. It was the thought that counts anyways. But today I had no energy to do so, besides in the past Damien has always been up waiting for me to return. So, I decided that I would just walk in the front door. Before opening the door, I mentally readied myself for his overload of questions on my whereabouts. Damien was sort of like my father. He would want to know where I where I was, with who, and why.Surprisingly, though when I got into the house, Damien was nowhere in sight. I could not even smell him. This fact put me on edge so, I quickly did a full sweep of the house as I was under the impression that something was horribly wrong. Damien was never out at such a late hour. Besides, he always
DimitriThey say that the brain functions 24/7. That even when you are sleeping your brain is still busy working. It is said that the brain consolidates memory when we sleep. Thus, to remember things better, one needs to sleep enough to give the brain time to consolidate. Sleeping enough, also has many other health benefits but that applies only to human bodies. For some reason after Damien's words registered in my mind, it seems that my brain decided to finally take a break from all that working. After all, it has been working for almost a hundred years now.I expected there to be so many thoughts running through my mind all at once in this moment. Like I said before, I have a degree in overthinking and all. But somehow just like a computer, my brain had frozen. I could tell that Damien was still speaking, but I could not comprehend the words that he said. My brain could not process the first words that had just come out of his mouth. I was stuck on that very statemen