BLAIRE
“Blaire, what happened, why did you stop?” asked Suzan, struggling with the shopping bags that she’d been carrying for a while now.
“I felt someone call my name”
“Someone called out your name?”
“Yeah and I think it was Zane” after struggling with those bags for a long, she finally dropped them on the floor.
“How can you hear Zane’s voice he’s not here?” she said picking up all the bags.
“Maybe you’re missing him so much that you started hearing his voice” she teased and I playfully hit her on her arm.
“I think we have shopped enough for today and we should head towards home now” she said as she fell on the floor, along with those shopping bags. I let a laugh out before helping her get up and helped her pick up all the bags that had fallen.
“Yeah let’s go or else you’ll keep tumbling and dropping these bags” I teased and we both chuckled.
“Blaire” I heard someone whisper my name again. I know that Zane isn’t around but I’m sure that the voice belonged to him. I can never mistake in recognizing his voice. It was 1:00 am when I woke up by the voice. Was that a dream?
“Zane is that you?” I asked walking in the hall of our house. “Are you back?” there was no response from anywhere. This must be a dream then, Suzan was right, I’m missing Zane so much that I’m hallucinating his voice. I went back to bed.
I’m in a house, don’t know where but it’s a small house surrounded by many trees. It was furnished with only two chairs and a table where someone was already sitting on one of those chairs, the person didn’t seem well because of the heavy breaths that he was taking and the blood was streaming down his body. I went near the chair to see who the person was.
I woke up, horrified. “Zane” Why did I get such kind of dream? Is he alright? I hope he’s fine and it’s just a bad dream and nothing else. ‘Yeah, Zane is fine, it was only a dream, a bad one’ I tried to calm myself down and fell back on bed.
Restless, I paced back and forth, unable to sleep, my thoughts lingering only at the dream. Anxious, I sat up straight, my heart beating abnormally. I dialed Suzan’s number with trembly fingers.
“Suzan. Zane” I blurted out as soon as she answered the call.
“Zane. What? Is he back?” she asked.
“No” I answered and told her everything about the dream. Her phone was on speaker I guess, because the next I heard was Eric’s voice, “Blaire, that sure wasn’t only a dream. He’s in some danger and he tried to reach you through telepathy” my heart strucked upon hearing that. What happened to him? How did he get into danger? my mind wondered thousands thoughts and questioned several questions.
“Eric, Is there any way to reach him?” my voice came out weak.
“Give us few minutes to reach your house” he said and hunged up. Tears flowed down my cheeks when the image of Zane, in that weak condition, flashed before my eyes.
Within few minutes, Suzan and Eric arrived along with Adam.
“What did you see?” concern reflected through Adam’s eyes. I told them everything again.
“Was the house familiar?” asked Suzan and I shook my head.
“Anything else did you see? Even the smallest thing matters?” said Adam and I shook my head again.
“Blaire, maybe you know where he is, you must’ve forgotten half the thing in panic, close your eyes and try to recall everything again and tell us about every detail even the smallest thing” said Eric.
“But how will I be able to do that again? That was a dream” I said crying.
“That wasn’t a dream. That was a message sent to you by Zane, through telepathy” Eric said.
“Yes. Close your eyes and try to remember everything. Put all your focus on Zane and you shall see everything again” Suzan said.
“Alright, I’ll try” I said. Closing my eyes, I tried to remember everything, tried to see that message again and I was able to. I opened my eyes.
“I couldn’t see anything else apart from what I’ve already told you all” I said burying my face in my hands. I put my hands down as one thing triggered my mind.
“It could be a forest” I said and watched all their faces lit up on getting a clue.
“Yes. Many trees surrounding a house, it could be a forest” said Suzan.
“Any more clues? Think Blaire” urged Eric but I couldn’t figure out anything else apart from that. Zane contacted me through telepathy. All vampires have this ability and now even I’m a vampire, this means even I have this ability. I closed my eyes and put all my focus on Zane, I put all my concentration until the same image of Zane appeared in my mind that had appeared in the dream. I called out his name “Zane? Zane can you hear me? Please tell me where are you?” He moved his mouth, saying something but I couldn’t understand what he said and by the time I could ask him again, he was gone and all I could see was a white light. It was so bright that I was forced to open my eyes, breaking contact with Zane. I threw a punch on the bed in frustration.
“What happened?” asked all three.
“He said something but I couldn’t understand what he was saying and then the contact was broken when the bright white light appeared” I said and watched all three exchange look with each other. Their faces dropped which made me worry even more.
“What happen? Was that a bad sign?” I asked and they nodded.
“This means that Zane is losing his energy. He’s getting weaker” Suzan put her hand over my shoulder.
“We have to find him soon” said Eric.
New England. A thought from the corner of my mind appeared out of nowhere. New England? I questioned my mind. Why would Zane go there? And then all my questions got answered. How did it not click me before?
“Zane is in New England” I announced.
“How can you say that?” questioned Adam.
“Zane must’ve gone to kill Gizelle to take revenge of my death. And that house, surrounded by many trees? I think that house is somewhere deep down the forest. The forest that’s adjacent to my house”
“But how can a normal girl like Gizelle put Zane in any sort of trouble? She’s only a human” Suzan asked.
“Because Gizelle knows that Zane is a vampire, she also knows all the weaknesses of vampire” answered Eric. Zane had told everything about me to his friends, how we met, how we fought, how we fell for each other and also how he turned me into a vampire.
“She’s too obsessed with Zane” said Suzan.
“No. I don’t think she loves him. It’s something else that she wants from him” mused Eric.
“But first we need to help Zane” I said pushing every other thoughts aside. I don’t want to think about any other thing at the moment. Zane is all that I want.
“Yes right, we need to get Zane out of there and then we’ll think about how to deal with Gizelle. She has challenged the vampire race by holding Zane under her captive and she must know it’s consequences” Adam’s eyes sparked up when he said that.
Out of the window, I looked up in the sky and wished upon the bright star “Please let Zane be by my side forever. All I want is Zane. Protect him from every danger and reunite us to the earliest”