The next evening, Miyu was hunting for blood in the park. Her prey for the evening was a beautiful boy of about 16. She began to follow him when high pitched laughter averted her attention. Miyu looked over her shoulder to see two teenage girls of about 14 walking together and laughing. She had a sudden flashback of her best friend Akiko. Miyu remembered that Akiko had been her best friend since they had both been small children. They were always playing and getting into mischief together, but after that day when Akiko had discovered that Miyu was a vampire, she had never seen or spoken to Akiko ever again.
The memory of Akiko was so strong and sudden that it stopped Miyu in her tracks. She slowly blinked back the tears that threatened to fall from her sorrow filled eyes. She couldn’t stand to be in the mortal any longer. She had to get out of the world that brought back so many pain-filled memories. Closing her tear glazed eyes, she shifted form the lush, green human world into her barren, red one. Here she could cry if she needed to and no one would know, or so she thought. Suddenly, Miyu had another flashback, but this one ripped and clawed at her heart.
::Flashback::
A five-year-old Miyu ran along the sandy beach infront of her mother and father. She had a wide smile on her face and couldn’t stop laughing. She turned around and ran back to her parents. “Mother,” she said.
“Yes Miyu?” answered her mother.
“We’re gonna be together forever right?” Miyu’s mother hesitated before answering,
“Yes my darling. We’ll be together forever.”
“No matter what?” Miyu asked suspiciously.
“No matter what,” her mother answered her with tears in her eyes and she planted a small kiss on Miyu’s forehead.
::End Flashback::
A sudden wave of anguish washed over her and she collapsed next to a large, bare tree sobbing. It wasn’t long until Larva found her under that tall, dead tree, her body being racked with harsh sobs. He quickly ran to her and enfolded her in his strong arms. Miyu leaned into him as she continued to cry. Larva’s hold on Miyu tightened as he leaned close to her ear, and whispered sweet nothings to sooth her.
“Why Larva? Why did this have to happen to me?” she asked desperately.
“ That is a question that I can not answer my love,” was his gentle reply.
“Why do you stay with me?”
“ I stay with you because I love you,” he answered.
“Is that the real reason why you stay? Or do you stay because I have bound you to me with my blood?” Larva tilted Miyu’s face up so that he could look into her eyes.
“No Miyu, I stay with you out of my own free will. I wish to stay with you not because it is your blood that binds me to you, but because it is love that binds me to you.” Larva put as much emotion into those words as he could, for he meant every word of it. But something wasn’t right. Miyu had never questioned his love for her before. Her heart had to be filled with much sorrow to make her mind doubt him.
Larva could tell that Miyu still didn’t quite believe him, so he leaned over and kissed her full on the mouth. He put all the passion and desire that he held for her into that one kiss, and as she kissed him back with equally matched passion and desire, he knew that her heart and mind were for now at peace.
Suddenly, Larva was jerked backwards away from Miyu, and Miyu fell backwards onto a tree. Her head hit the tree with a sickening crack!
“Miyu!” she could her Larva far off in the distance, shouting her name. Then all was black.
Author’s Note: Ok, I know that this probably wasn’t that great considering that I wrote this at 3 o’clock in the morning, but oh well. Also, for some of you who don’t like Carlua and really don’t want to see her in this story, don’t worry, it’s not Carlua who’s “upset” with Miyu this time. Oh and sorry it took so long, I had a major case of righters block.
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