What is Happening?
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Chapter 6 – What is Happening?
“You will learn more about your destiny with me and why you are so important. More important than you know.” Her words followed me into my dreamland, chasing me.
When I wake up, it is to an empty bed but her side is still warm, meaning she wouldn’t have left too long ago. Before I have a chance to get up and find her, she comes back with some dinner. My stomach growls in response causing her to smirk at me.
“Guess I timed dinner perfectly. I thought I would spoil us tonight and have dinner in here. What do you think baby girl? Would you like that?” she questions me while putting the food down on the table in front of the couch that’s in the room. If this was my room growing up, I probably wouldn’t have ever left it.
“That sounds nice” I mumble into the doona that I have pulled up around my neck.
“Well come over here and we shall fill up your empty tummy” she hums. As I go to get out of the bed, I realise that I don’t have any underpants or pants on.
“Mummy, can I please have some pants?”
“What for?”
“Comfort, mummy” I answer, like isn’t it obvious. I quickly look down picking at my nighty but when I look back up, she is standing in front of me with a pair of PJ bottoms. s**t, she’s quick.
“Thanks, mummy,” I say before attempting to taking them from her but she pulls her hand out of my reach.
“Nope, Mummy will put them on you.” She instructs before leaning down and slipping them up my legs before I even have a chance to complain.
“All done, time to eat,” she says while picking me up just like she did earlier today. I let at a quick whine in response but discover that I am too hungry to really put up a fight let alone get in trouble.
“Cut it out or you will get no dessert.” She says as she places me down on the couch.
“What is for dessert mummy?” I ask, I love dessert so much, I would probably eat it with every meal if that didn’t mean I would be as big as a house.
“Chocolate mousse”
“Awesome as, that’s one of my favourites. Did you make it yourself or buy it?”
“I made it by hand baby”
“That’s cool, can you teach me? Please.”
“If you are a good girl, I will teach you this weekend”
“I promise I will be good.” I promise, I have always wanted to learn how to make homemade chocolate mousse but my mum sucks at making it. Plus, I am no comfortable trying it on my own, so this works out perfectly. All I need to do is just follow her rules and behave… it can’t be that hard right?
“Eat up.” She says while bringing a forkful of pasta up to my mouth. I roll my eyes before accepting the food into my mouth. I attempt to grab the other fork on the table but Isabelle sweeps it off the table making it clear she wants to basically hand feed me.
I guess she has already eaten. Well hopefully, I don’t really won’t her to bite from me again. That was quite scare actually. Maybe I should ask. “Mummy, where is your food?”
“I wasn’t hungry for food” she says bringing another mouthful up to my mouth, preventing me from replying.
Once I have finished off all my dinner, I decide it is a perfect chance to raise my concerns about what happened to me last night when I ran from her.
“I know you ah, said no more questions but this one is um kind of like about me not you. Well maybe both of us. I don’t really know but I ah guess I was wondering if I could like maybe ask you about it. Only if that’s okay, like I don’t want to make you mad or anything like that.” Before I can ramble anymore, she raises her pointer finger up to my mouth shushing me.
“Calm down baby or you are going to work yourself into a state. I can see what ever you want to ask me is worrying you, so why don’t you just ask me and then we can go from there. I promise you won’t get in trouble as you are being respectful unlike earlier today.” She explains, slightly calming me down.
Well here goes nothing, “when I ran from you yesterday, something happened to me and I was wondering why?”
“What happened to you? Baby girl can you please be a bit more specific for me please” she rushes outs, looking a little worried.
“Um it was kind of like there was a magnet between us and when I tried to like run away from you and go against the pull my body reacted. I guess I want to know if you knew why?”
“What happened to your body? I need to know every little detail right now.” She hurries out while standing up. Her reaction causes my anxiety to increase. Why does she look worried?
“What’s wrong?” I stress out.
“I don’t know yet, I just really need you to tell me every detail.”
“Well first it was like there was this force making it hard for me to run. Well the next part it hard to describe. My gut kind of felt like the worst period cramps ever but throughout my whole body. But the weird part was as soon as you touched me it all went away and I felt normal. Wait actually better than normal. Until the fear of being in trouble kicked in.” I explain.
“That isn’t meant to be happening yet,” she whispers more to her self than me but I manage to hear it. I quickly stand up and make my way over to her.
“What do you mean by that is meant to happen yet?” I question, trying to get her out of the internal debate she clearly is having.
She suddenly looks up snapping out of it, “You might want to sit down, this is going to be quite a lot to take in.” She stresses, while guiding me to sit back down.
“First I need you to understand that usually the mate bond grows with the relationship and each step comes with a ritual but it seems that our strong blood lines slightly chance what is need for our mate bond. I am need to contact my council and call a meeting to investigate what is happening and what it means for us.”
“Wait-wait, what the hell is happening? And what the f**k are you talking about? Blood lines? No one in my family is supernatural.” I growl out.
“First of all, lower your voice and do not swear little girl” she growls, her eyes flashing red in warning.
“I’m sorry, I am just frustrated and confused. I think I deserve to know what is going on, considering this time it involves myself.” I express.
“My bloodline comes from one of the royal vampire bloodlines. On my 18th birthday many moons ago I was crowned queen. I rule the vampire kingdom and you my dear are destined to not only be my other half but also to rule side by side with me.” she says, full of pride. My jaw just drops. Me, queen? No way, she must be delusional or something.
“Are you sure?” I blurt out.
“Yes, baby girl.” She confirms.
“Wait. Before when you mentioned bloodlines, you sounded like you were referring to both of us, not just yourself.” I point out.
“So, you caught that?”
“Yes, very clearly” I answer back with sarcasm.
“Hmm, watch your attitude little girl,” she warns.
“How about I go get the chocolate mousse and we discuss some more over that?” she reasons.
“Well I will never say no to chocolate mousse, so yes please mummy.”
“Okay, well why don’t you have a quick shower and I will get it ready. I also need to make a quick phone call to the council. Is that alright with you?”
“Yes, mummy, do mind if I change clothes as well?”
“Don’t worry, I will put some in the bathroom for you,” she says and before I can detest, she has walked away. I roll my eyes before heading to the bathroom.
As I start the shower and the warm water runs down my body, the tension leaves my shoulders and neck.
This has to be some dream, right? Like this stuff doesn’t happen in real life, it belongs in the movies and books. I think I need someone to pinch me and wake me up. I do admit that there is a weird attraction between Isabelle and I that I cannot deny. Even though the way she handles us was wrong, I understand that she probably sees it has speeding up fate. But I should’ve been given the chance to say yes or no, right? Well, I think we have a lot to talk about but obviously it isn’t going to happen overnight, since she seems to be very careful about what she is telling. She might be scared of what I will think or maybe it is to protect me. Either way, I believe I deserve to know why she is being standoffish.
I push my thoughts away deciding to get back to my shower. I decide to wash my hair while in the shower to help myself relax but just as I am about to start shampooing my hair, I hear her come in.
“Are you alright? You have been in there for quite some time.”
“Huh, sorry I lost track of time. I was going to wash my hair; do you mind waiting a li-” I get cut off by her getting in the shower. this bathroom is huge and the shower is like in alcove that is hidden so you can’t see who’s in the bathroom or what they are doing. So, it was a major shock.
“s**t!” I say before backing up and covering my privates.
“Sorry, to scare you, baby girl. I was really worried about you because you have been in here for 30 minutes. I am going to help you, otherwise, I’m worried you will be in here all night.
“But” I try to object but at the same time, I realise that I can be bothered and she has already seen me naked anyway so what’s the harm? “Okay, Mummy,” I say before handing her the shampoo.
She massages the shampoo into my head and wow I enter a state of euphoria, melting into her arms.
To be honest, I zoned out most of the shower and struggle to keep my eyes. Today as mentally exhausted me.
Isabelle dries me off and quickly dresses me before picking me up and carrying me to our bed. That’s weird to say … ‘Our bed’. Reality has really kicked in today.
“Baby girl, I think that we should continue our talk tomorrow. You need to sleep, my sweet girl. I am sorry today has been a lot to deal with and has taken a lot out of you. We can have a nice picnic tomorrow and relax in the sun while I help you understand our family’s history.” She explains, before hopping in bed and spooning me from behind.
"What about dessert?" I question.
"We will eat it tomorrow, I promise."
“Awesome. Night Mummy,” I say as I once again slip into sleep.
What a day for Elle! What do you think the future holds for them? Hope you all enjoyed this chapter, if so please follow and comment. Love you all
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