Chapter 2: Chapter 1: The Chase
"Something's not right," Rosè thought while scrutinizing her current situation as she walk out from the coffee shop.
It was dark and the only means of light are the stars and the moon where half of its face can be seen in the entire city.
There were scratching from the low densely branch shrubs that echoes around the building, crickets were making there chirping noise out of silence, and cool breezes of the night sends shiver down her spine.
She stands still trying to act normal as she can, crossing her arms to neutralized the shivering, and moves her gaze from left to right.
She start walking along the pavement. But even when she's moving, the chilliness sticks within herself like something or someone was watching her.
"Someone's watching me," she then concluded as she heard rustle near her from the bushes.
She walks faster than her usual steps, but the farther she gets, the strangeness she feels become stronger than she felt earlier. She feel deep down inside, someone's been hunting her, and for a certain reason they will might eventually suck the blood out of her.
She can feel them, and what life thought her about instinct is to follow it. And her instincts, is to ran. She ran along the number of blocks when a pact of gorgeous men started to walk fiercely towards her.
"And when I mean gorgeous," Rosé thought while folding her long sleeves in three-forth length. "I really wanted to talk to them and flirt, but maybe not this time," she thought rationale while tying her hair in a ponytail. "Because this time. . . I really don't want to be a prey."
A screeching sound from a car tiers echoed along the whole place running in to Rosé direction. The smoke from the turbo covers the men behind.
The door opens in a kick as it stop in front in her. "Get in!" a woman shouted.
"Thank God, the two of you decided to show up." Rosé told them as she get inside the car. "What's the thing in here?" She asked wondering.
"Can't you see?? You're their prey!" Lez answered.
Lezi Drave – a woman at its average height with a fair complexion. Shoulder length straight hair in jet-colour. Her strength has always been doing calculation. May it be economically, or just a mere mathematical formula of different polygons, substituting values of x to y. And she's Rosé's elder sister.
"A Prey? " Rosé says in between breaths trying to calm herself by taking deep breath.
"Yes! And as for now, we need to get out of this car 'cause we are not safe in here any longer." Chona answered as she fully stepped on the accelerator.
Chona Drave – Rosé's eldest sister. Her specialty is health care and extraneous sports. She dwells herself mostly into adventures, going everywhere she wanted to go. A good travel companion ifyou must say. Plus she cook delicious healthy foods. A woman on its average height and has a brown ash wavy medium length hair that complements her complexion.
"Neither outside," Rosé told them as she take a look from behind them.
The men were following their lead faster than expected.
"I know a place where we can still have fun despite being a prey," Lez said with a grin.
Just a matter of minutes, they stop at their destination. They hurriedly run towards the gate passing the open grounds into the outdoor concrete stairs stopping at the gazebo of the stairs first landin.
"Hurry up and find a place you can hide!" Lez instructed Rosé as they are waiting for the enemies to come.
Chona prepared her self to be in first defense as she stands near the last step of the stairs.
She started her defense as a man grabs her from behind. She automatically grabs herself in and pulls the attacker's arm. Swinging her hips to one side while making a fist and strike it to the attacker's groin. As she got her way out from the grip, she pointed her pivot to the attacker while hands are interlock behind the neck and she knee the groin upwards.
She was trying to stop the enemies from coming near Lez and Rosé.
There were three of the enemies, and what make them more dangerous are there capabilities. They were excellent in speed, strength, and agility, for they are -------a vampire!
Lez run towards Chona and help her with the combat.
Lez started kicking the man's groin as she was being grab from behind and lifted up high. Chona grabs her fist with opposite hand, point elbow up and slice it downwards using her core.
Rosé jump on a shrubs and trying to think of what to do in able to save her sisters.
"I can't let my sister just fight until they will be bitten," Rosé thought while watching at them from small holes in the bush. "Rosé goshh! They're human, their strength is only limited even if they were trained well into this kind of things."
"There must be something around here that could help us," she thought as she was looking around.
A shimmer in the ground caught up her attention. She saw a special type of marble, picked it up and raised it towards the moon. At a certain moment, she saw the moon shows an image of an eyes making the marble an answer.
She stands, forgetting any possibilities that might occur behind her. "Lezi, put it in their eyes!" She said to Lez while throwing the stone.
Just as the stone landed in Lezi's palm; the man grabs Lezi's hair. "It will stop their curse!" Rosé added and hurriedly run towards Chona with the stones in her hands.
Lezi locked both of her hands in top of attackers' hand and squeeze the elbows in for her to protect her face. She started going under the arm and lift it up and turned and push the arm forward and up to dislocate the enemies shoulder and locked it with one hand.
She grabs the man's hair that making him bend looking towards her. While Lezi's one hand is controlling the attacker's hand, she force her other hand to open the enemy's eyes and put the stone.
Chona lifted one arm up as she was being choke hold, she turned her whole body to the opposite side, crunched downward trapping the attackers' hand, and striked her elbow to the face.
As the enemy squeak in pain, Chona grab the opportunity in putting the stone in the eyes.
As they were keeping the enemy in position, someone's was standing behind Rose's back.
She listened carefully to the person's footstep, and as the person came closer she started grabbing enemy's face by holding the face and pushed it away making Rose's next move to kick its groin.
Holding the enemy's head firmly, she positioned herself and took another stone.
The world stop for a second as the enemy struggles with pain. Holding their heads with their hands, turning, kneeling, and trying to ease the pain. And right then, there world change.
She found herself in a room where there's an atmosphere of masculinity. Patterned red bricks wall, a Monster Energy Kawasaki hang in one of the corner, a vintage couch and a vintage television on its pixelated movies.
Rosé found her sisters busy cuddling with the guys. Lez was cuddling in the sofa watching television. While Chona and the man were busy cuddling in the motorcycles. And so, feeling entirely out of place, she decided to go out.
And she found her place in an open space and hears genuine laughter. She made her way from where the laughter came from.
The children were playing enthusiastically in the basketball court. They were laughing, running, snatching the ball, dribbling and shooting it to the ring. And she saw genuine smiles from the little girls watching them playing.
She looked at them and it melts her heart seeing them so happy. And then, a man wearing a white long sleeve folded into three-fourth showed and show her a full-bright smile that meltdows Rose's heart and waved at her. She watched them, and she found contentment with what is happening around.
"This is such a wonderful sight to watched," she thought as she walked towards a long table with foods displayed.
She decided to take her place between the walls and the table then takes control with the distribution.
"I have never seen him like that before," a woman wearing a green dress told Rose as she walked towards her and smiled.
"Why don't you have some of the foods?" Rose offered to the couple at their late 50's.
"We're fine. Were just thankful that you come into our lives," the woman smiled at her and she smiled back. She feels euphoric with the words that was spoken to hear.
"Hey guys!" She called the attention of the man and kids playing at the basketball court. "Want some snacks?" She asked.
A man walked towards Rosé with a wonderful smile and kisses her in the forehead.
"Thank you! Thank you for coming into my life," he whispered that made Rose smile in awe.
She closed her eyes, and woke her up into reality.
Rosé wasn't sure how long she'd been awake or what had passed.
She seemed to have been conscious for hours, lying sluggishly in a kind of enchantment. Staring at the white ornamented ceiling with its moulding in a swirly curves.
She rolled into the empty sides of her bed and shut her eyes, but the unsettling beat of her heart didn't fade away. She finally got up, sat on the edge of her bed, waiting to recover.
She sidled over to the window, peaking over an inch opened window shutter hoping to see the sun to come out. But she fails. She looked at the clock at her side table, and found out that it's three o'clock.
She decided to lurked in the kitchen, make her own black coffee, and take a sit in the swing located at the balcony of their cabin watching the lights dancing from a far.
The sounds of the crickets underneath the stars and the fireflies flying all over the place were so calming. The cold swift of the wind were caressing her skin under the sheets of patterm cotton blanket. The heat from the mug of her coffee warmth her hands.
Things were running down her head. Many questions were asked. She wonder what causes the unsettling beat of her heart? She thought, was it because of too much consumption of coffee? And if so, she already lessen the consumption of caffeine for the past few years though she owns a coffee shop in the city. From three cups a day consumption to three cups per two week and choose tea.
Or is it because, something terrible might happen? She hopes not. Or was she overthinking?
But all things were already settled so that she won't overthink. She already had here major work considerations put into schedule. All the preparations were listed so that she won't forgot even a thing.
As an architect, she spends most of her time in full-time inspection at the jobsite. Making certain that the Contractor complies with the plans, specifications, and other documents. Also, she assures that the workmanship were in accordance. That's why she needs to put everything in schedule, and in consideration.
When was the last time she had a time just for herself? Yes, she usually went home once in a month but it will only be for about thirty six hours. She then realized, when was the last moment she felt relieved? When was the last time she had a fulfilling activity? When was the last time she felt ecstatic? When? When?
What about she take a break from all the works? Perhaps, a travel at a modest solemn place. A place where she can be alone, and found the inner peace she'd been searching for. Or what about she will treat herself alone in a familiar places.
She wanted to watch movies all alone, where she can have her own popcorn and cry while the war movie is at its climax. The introvert inside her were speaking. She wanted to have a fancy lunch or dinner at a fancy restaurant taking every bite at its fullest. She wanted to soak my body into the water and just enjoy some four season drinks all alone in familiar place, all of this were running down her head.
"There's only one way to make it through this time," Rosé thought as she take a sip from her coffee. She pick the pen up and open her A4 size notebook that was in the table before she got to bed earlier and start writing.
She read the piece all over again until she find peace. This dream has been hunting her again for after more than fifteen years now, and she just can't help herself from hoping, wishing, waiting, and looking for the man that shows her contentment through dreams.
Such dream even has sequences before. First, she knows the guy's name. It was Gian. How? Before Rose's dream end, she uttered the man's name. And she knows, he is the man she's calling for.
Second, she has the man's last name but, she just remembers the first letter of it and the rest is debatable. It was through a separate dream wherein she was the girlfriend of an amazing ball player. But she know, that those two dreams were talking about one person.
She watched the light dances, letting the thought swallow her into the worlds of daydreamers land.
"How wonderful it will be, dreaming of someone you don't know but you have fall into. How every second turns into something magical. How every trial becomes strength. And how the moment stops when you finally found each other," Rosé thought.
She knew he's around somewhere. Preparing for what might lies ahead. Preparing to be the man she needs as she prepares to be the woman he needs. His name giving every piece of Rosé, a hope of making dreams come true and a key to finding peace.
He's name was Gian V. But, would she still believe in this type of dreams when this happens during her dreamy years? Specifically, when she was in her 6th Grade. Would she keep on searching for him in this world that has plenty of Gian with V ? Even before she dreamt of her this world has thousands of Gian.
What if he doesn't even exist?, her thought said. What if he was just a lucid dream created by a teenage fantasy? What if he was just creatd by my subconscious as what psychology says.
Is she ready to open her heart to someone who's willing to be with her? Or is she's taking this whole thing for herself?
"Oh God! Give me a sign," Rosé sighed." Would I hold in my dream of him for me? Or would I set myself free?" Rosé prayed.
Dreaming has always been a part of every human's life but to Rosé Drave, it is not just a creation of mind but a destiny of two hearts tied together. A woman who always believes that fairy-tale do exists if you just believed in them, but will she still believes in them?
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