"Alex", Mari said in a whisper.
Alex cocked her head and stared at Mari with a cold expression that made Mari feel uneasy.
Clearing her throat to ease the tension in the room Mari said, "I have been looking..."
"Why are you here", Alex cut her off rudely.
"I just stumbled upon this place as I was looking for you....I know your angry but please....
"Please leave", Alex said leaving no room for argument.
"Let's talk please", Mari begged. Alex have never gotten this mad at her before. And the way she looked at her scared Mari.
"Leave.... please" Alex said the last word softly, placing her hand on her forehead.
"Alex...."
"Mari, I really don't want to.say anything that would hurt you, so please leave am not in the mood"
Mari sighed defeatedly "Am sorry for ignoring you and entering your space". She was more angry at herself than the way Alex rudely talked to her. She knew it was her fault and didn't press further, probably because she was about to break down in tears.
Mari was about to leave through the door when Alex spoke up "Am not a child, so stop thinking your actions affect me and feeling guilty, I just need my space"
"you are your own person I don't own you", she added.
"Yeah, your right", Mari murmured holding back a sob and left the room in a hurry.
She couldn't let Alex see how much her behavior affected her, she hated the way she always felt weak around her.
Running down the stairs with her head low, so no one would see the tears already streaming down her eyes. She mentally prayed that Arielle was in her her room but downstairs. Except that her prayers were unanswered as Arielle walked out of the kitchen with a bowl of a grapes in hand while she reached the landing.
"Did you see my sister", Arielle called out as she noticed Mari rushing out.
"I did", Mari said not slowing her pace with her eyes planted to the ground as she left their house.
Arielle didnt miss the tears she saw flowing down Mari's eyes.
"ALEX! What the hell did you do", Arielle yelled. Mari heard her as she crossed the street to her house but didn't dare turn back.
~~~~~~~
Dawnson's house
Mari laid curled up on her bed with tears streaming down her eyes. Her mind was racing with so many thoughts on what transpired between her and Alex.
'She didn't have to be rude about it'
'I know I messed up but why is she acting like that"
'Something is wrong something is definitely wrong'
'I never knew she draws and the painting...is exactly as mum's'
'What if she also have visions like mum'
'It would really explain so much on why she always so closed off'
'Those drawings..maybe she's hurting like mum', the realization hit her with a pang of guilt.
"You've been thinking too much lately", she heard a voice say disrupting her thoughts.
"Geez cherry, you scared me", Mari yelled sitting while clutching her chest.
"What's going on in that head of yours I've been calling your name for a minute now"
"Sorry", Mari muttered with her head low and fiddled with her hands.
"Why the long face", Cherry said coming to sit down beside her noticing the tear streaks on her sister's gloomy face.
"Am such a bad friend"
"Is it Alex", Cherry asked softly to which Mari nodded at.
"What happened", Mari began to tell her sister everything that has been happening since that history session.
"Am a really bad friend", Mari concluded.
"No your not ok...I mean I did notice things were off with his you guys communicated less the other day and you guys hardly go out or stay over at each other's house"
"How come you noticed it and I didn't....I messed up so bad", she said covering her face with her hands as she cried.
"Your just protecting her", Cherry reassured patting her back.
"What if I'm not and am just pushing her away....does that mean all our years of friendship will crumble all because of my secret"
"If it bothers you so much why don't you tell her. I told Emily when we were in middle school and she took it calmly"
"Probably because her cousins are half faires", Mari pointed out looking up at her sister who just shrugged.
"There isn't any option apart for that"
"Am scared of losing her Cherry...am so scared"
"Don't worry everything would work eventually, you always had a way of making it do", Cherry said ruffling Mari's hair and stood.
Sighing Cherry said "Get dressed were going out to see mum"
"Right now, I thought the date was set tomorrow"
"I took some measures", Cherry said with folded arms.
"Am confused"
"Your can't keep such kind of secret from your friend"
"I can, I didn't even tell them except the fact I met mum."
"Come on mum's waiting for you"
**~~**
"Are you sure where in the right place, this doesn't look like the address of the garden mum said"
They were parked in front of an abandoned building that looked to be shoe factory once the street was also deserted.
"Like I said I took some measures in", Cherry said with a smirk unbuckling her seat belt with Mari following suit.
"I feel offended by this"
"Cheer up", Cherry said stepping out the car.
"Yep this place don't look sketchy at all", Mari said to herself staring up at the abandon building.
Entering the abandoned building together they saw their mum sitting down on a mat with laid out snacks in the middle of the room. It was like a picnic setting.
"Mum", they both said in unsion and ran to hug her.
"You girls are so grown now, how are you doing, how's dad", Marissa asked with tears brimming in her eyes.
"We are Fine, his fine", Mari said.
"How are you holding up yourself"
"I'm good", Marissa said wipping her tears. "I called you hear to tell you a story, I received it as a vision a year before it happened twelve years ago"
"The first ever that tormented me"
Cherry and Mari both looked at each other with confusion. "We don't get it", Cherry asked.
"What am about to tell you girls is a weapon that's so great it could cause another great war"
"A child was born in the Royal family. She was of destruction but was different, she was neither the normal kind nor the one that welds the power to punish sinners. she was basically the child of devil"
Cherry and Mari collectively gasped at that becoming more intrigued with the story.
"Her vampire senses awakened on the night before she turned ten and they were far above that of a pure breed, it made her crazy for blood lust"
"Lucifer was her godfather and he knew she had potential when her senses awakened but needed guidance"
~~~FLASHBACK~~~~
"I'm hungry I want ice cream", a little girl whined to her bodyguard. He was human and very fond of the little girl and her antics, his been watching her for two hours doodling on her notebook.
"Your mum will punish me for that miss, you can't eat such before dinner"
"But am hungry", the girl said sitting fully upright.
"It's just two hours to dinner"
"At least make my dinner already, I promised not to tell mum", she said with puppy eyes.
Her bodyguard turned his face from her not to be tempted. "Am sorry Miss, but I'm inexperienced in that field"
"Then tell the chef", she said throwing her hands in the air.
"He is busy making dinner for the family"
"But I'm really hungry", she said now spotting a sad pout.
"Please be patient and bear with me young master, the time would pass quicker than you know it", he said reassuringly. He pained him to see the child sad but he had to obey the orders given to him.
The child couldn't explain to him that she needed something to eat so badly. The hunger within her was tearing her apart and she couldn't explain the feeling.
Rain began to patter against the window. The child's bodyguard went over to close its levers and during the process mistakenly pricked his hand.
"Ouch", he said holding his hand in pain. He found a nearby box of tissue and began to nurse his wound.
"Young Miss why do you stare at me like that", the man said with a nervous gulp as he looked at the child before him whose eyes were blazing golden.
"May I see", she asked politely.
"Oh um...I can handle it Miss, you don't need to disturb yourself"
"But I want to see it", the little girl said with her voice rising in anger. She dragged the Man's hand and stared at it then began to apply pressure.
"Miss please, you are hurting me", the man cried out but his cries only fueled the girls desire. He tried to push her way but she was unimaginably planted to the ground.
Without warning the little bit down hard and began to suck on his blood, the man started to scream in pain angering the girl the more. She released his hand and looked up at the man breathing heavily in front of her.
With a devilish smirk she said "I guess you just have to satisfy my cravings"
Screams were heard after some minutes but not from the man for he was long dead.
"What did you do", she heard a voice ask shakily.
Looking up at the source of the voice with blood dripping from her mouth and splatters of it on her cloth she was met with eyes of her sister. Realization hit her when she looked around noticing the blood splatters every where and looked down at the dead man in front of her whose body was turn open.
"I swear I didn't mean to please don't tell mum"
"But..but.. how are we going to get rid of him", her sister asked on the verge of fainting she felt really nauseous looking at the sight before her.
"I will clean it up myself...just don't tell anyone... promise", she asked to which her sister nodded.
"I heard screaming girls", a voice yelled coming from downstairs"
"I will go distract Dad", her sister said and gave one look at her then left.
~~~~~~~
The little girl felt exhausted after everything she had cleaned the place up and now cried softly in front of the grave she had dug which laid the man she once adored in the middle of the woods.
She couldn't understand what was happening and how she got the strength to do all this all she understood was that she was still hungry and it wasn't food she craved for.
"Precious child", a voice called out and a figure appeared and stood beside her.
"How do you feel", he asked placing his hand on her shoulder. She looked up and saw it was a man who looked to be in his thirties.
"Who are you", she had asked, she wasn't sacred by his presence but felt comfortable like she knows him.
"I am Lucifer"
"Aren't you supposed to be in hell", she asked quizzically remembering the tales they tell hee.
Lucifer laughed loudly at her humor.
"You amuse me child. You drew me out of here with your actions darling"
"I did", she said feeling a wave of guilt.
"I really didn't mean to I promise I was just hungry... please don't punish me", she cried out.
"Now why would I punish my grand child huh.....the did is done it was a measley mistake, why do you waste your tears on a mere mortal"
"He was a friend", she said trying to stop the tears flowing from her eyes.
"And it was a mistake"
"He is dead", the child said with tears flowing down her eyes.
Lucifer paused for a while as he looked at the child before him feeling so broken in the middle of the forest past midnight. He was proud at her strength and intelligence to escape home.
"Do you want him back"
"Can..can you do that...is it possible", she asked.
"I can do anything you ask from me"
"But his body is already ripped apart"
"Don't you trust me"
"I just met you"
"Why don't you go to sleep and we will finish this in the morning", Lucifer said.
"But I....
She was cut off by a spell Lucifer has casted upon her to fall into sleep.
"I guess I'm feeling tired"
Yawning the little girl laid on the ground of the woods and slept off.
"Is too early for you to worry my dear child", Lucifer whispered as he stroked her head. He picked her up, took her home and tucked her in.
"Woah that's a lot", Cherry piped in as she munched on the sandwich her mum had brought with her.
"How did you see all this in just a vision...I thought visions are usually short and cryptic", Mari asked.
"I was at your grandmother's house when it happened...I was asleep for the whole day"
"Wow", both girls said at the same time.
"Shall we continue", Marissa asked to which they nodded.