Hello everybody! I am finally done with the ninth chapter and here it is!!! My awesome blossom editor Uriziel was a huge help... I could not thank him more...
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Enjoy!!
Marie
My head was on fire... the pain was so severe; I couldn't get my eyes to open. I thrashed around blindly trying to reach for Ayden... where the hell was he? I could feel wind rushing around me and I could feel a presence. With great difficulty I opened my eyes and I was no longer at central park. What the hell? What was happening? Why was this happening? I was afraid that someday I would end up in the middle of a mall or something while I was taking a shower... wouldn't that be fun!
I was on a high cliff and below me the sea raged and crashed upon the rocks. It was a clear sky and the sun felt good on my skin. I could see a woman at the edge of the cliff and my heart stopped beating. She was the woman from my dreams!! Like she'd heard my thoughts, she turned around and extended a hand towards me. I didn't know what to do so I walked over and held her hand. I felt this connection... like she was someone important, someone I was related to.
"Yes, May you are related to me." Her voice was so sweet and comforting.
"How do you know me? And why are you always in my dreams?"
She turned towards me and that's when I got to observe her closely. She looked so much like me; I actually could see myself looking like her in 10 years! She had these really kind eyes and somehow I could not stop my eyes from watering... my heart seemed to be really glad to see her.
"May, this is very important..." she started. "Today, you will undergo a big change, and it will alter everything..."
"Ya, I don't care... first tell me who are you?" why was she telling me all this when I didn't even know her!
"May, I am your mother."
Uhh... ok now I was not expecting that.
"W-what do you mean? My mother died yesterday..."
"May, you know you were adopted... I am your birth mother..."
"But how? This is impossible, I'm dreaming and I know I'm dreaming because I am standing in the sun and I don't burn... why do you always come in my dreams and never in reality?" my voice broke down and I could feel tears streaming down my face.
"Uhh.. I repeat, I don't care... you know what? You can return to wherever it is you've come from... I already have a ton of things to deal with and I really have no energy to deal with my overactive imagination. And how dare you tell me you're my mother? Just giving birth doesn't make one a mother... you have no right to pop into my head and then claim to be my mother... " how could she do that after all these years!!! And why couldn't I wake up? I wanted to put an end to this thing...
"Honey... I know this is too much to take but today is all I have... and the fact that I cannot come to you in reality is because I am dead..."
"Whoa!!" I raised my hand to stop her. What the fuck? She is dead? Am I going insane? Why would I dream of this non-sense? This was crazy!! "I've had enough! Clearly I am dreaming and I don't need to hear this crap from a figment of my imagination!"
I started walking away when she called out.
"How do you explain your glowing eyes then?"
I stopped short. I had clearly seen my eyes glow before I passed out. But that could have been a hallucination... me seeing things was not new...
"No, May you are not hallucinating. You will have to listen to me... I haven't got much time."
"I don't care! I don't care that I have glowing eyes and I don't care about what you have to say! You're making me go crazy... all this crap, I don't want to have anything to do with it... whatever that is I have, take it away I don't want it... I can't deal with this! It's just too much!" I didn't want to but I completely lost it... I just wanted my life back the life I had before my mother's accident, before I had glowing eyes and before I had those bloody attacks! It felt like it had been ages since I last had a good night's sleep...
"Please... I just want to show you something... I want to make it easier for you... I would never want to hurt you May, believe me. Letting you go was the hardest thing I ever had to do, it hurt... you were a part of me and I had to abandon you. But I had to do it for your own good and you will understand it if you would just let me..." she trailed off and slumped on the ground dazed, like she was running out of energy. I suddenly felt fear rise up in my heart...
"Yeah? Ok I will listen to you. What the heck, there's nothing to do till I wake up anyways..." I said helping her up.
She shook her head and smiled. "You're just like your father, headstrong, stubborn..."
"Please, just get to the point... whatever it is."
"May, you are a druid... just like me and your father... there is magic in your blood."
"Sure... if I point and snap my finger at that bird and say some hocus pocus, it'll turn into a human."
"No, it's not that simple... and why can't you believe what I say? You believed in your vampire..."