After 16 years:
-" Common, up..up...higher Magie! higher! more! The coach was screaming at me and her face was red from anger as some beets. She is the death of me. She is small and fat and her mouth bigger than her all body. But she knows how to do her job, just sometimes it looks that she hates me more than others.
The sweat was dripping from my forehead and my legs were hurting after 8hours of training. I try to raise my leg as far as I can, then I jump in the air and spin around myself but I stumble from my other foot.
-"Argh" Anger and tears showed in my eyes when I had landed on my butt.
-"What was that?! are you crying like a baby? Maggie, I have five-year-old girls who can do a better jump than you, pull yourself together! You are so pathetic," she says angrily and then laughs. It makes my blood boil quickly I stand up and with my raised head I continue my solo again m face is cold without any emotion.
" Look your neck, use emotion, stop, stop, stop" She stopped the music with anger and began to criticize my movements with her raised hands in the air. I was looking at the huge wall made of a mirror, firstly to her then to myself. My feet almost burned. But it's the bread of dancers. And I understand that but today my pain is much stronger and I am talking not about my hurting feet.
"Are you hearing what I say to you Maggie wake up!" She screamed again and then snapped one's fingers above my eyes.
"I am not an idiot, just change the music". I said to her calmly but my eyes burned with anger.
"-You know for a bad dancer even genitals prevent from good dancing" She switches on the song again.
-"I won't dance to this music". I stubbornly crossed my hands on my chest still defending myself from her. I tried not to show any emotion and it wasn't hard because I learned this from my father. Well from Jack, he is not my biological father. And as a father, he wasn't very good to me either because mostly he wasn't around. But I can not say that he didn't care about me.
-"You know what princess? don't dance at all. "She took her bag with force and went angrily by the doors then stopped and looked at me. I still could see her in the mirror but I didn't turn to her, she was stick in my ass.
" The best you would do in life you will be a stripper or you will forever live from somebody's else money." And there we go again with her opinion about me that I'm just a spoiled brat." You will never be a dancer Maggie Storm." She continued dropping her poisons on me.
"The fuck you know what I can do and what not". I said her calmy with a smile on my face. I was so angry that I was afraid of what I can do to her if she will speak to me like that.
-"Without respecting others you won't go far away." She stated, to me and without Jack's money, you won't either. I thought.
-"Supposedly you are talking from your experience." I defended myself still looking at the mirror and then heard the loud voice of the door which was almost raped from her touch. This was the last nerve of her which I touched and ripped into pieces. But I know that the next day she will come and will pretend that she doesn't hate me because Jack is paying her good money for her job.
I took my phone and turn on the song "'the Neighborhood-Afraid" I scratched my neck a little bit from one side to another, I step around a few steps and began to dance. I raised up my leg slowly than with one hand I easily grabbed it and spin around myself, my back was relaxed for the first time and I didn't push myself to think about choreography anymore, I just swam in the music with my dance, and my movements felt so easy, my body felt so calmed and organized. I finished my dance and tears released from my eyes, but I quickly wiped my tears.
The coach wanted that me would dance on the stage to my mother's song. I still remember her smile how she sang to me before bedtime. She repeated to me those words "you were my baby blue, baby blue, baby blue, I can't feel a thing without you". Those words were only left in my mind but I quickly searched the song on youtube until I found the right one.
My heart was trembling I was so afraid to forget her, that one day I will wake up and will forget her face as well as the words of this song but how can I remember I was so small. Today is the day when my mother, Lilliana Storm died, 16 years ago, when I was 3 years old. I couldn't sit here on the floor and think about her death it's my birthday and I will give myself a present because at home there is nobody who will wish me a happy birthday. Jack is again on his trip and for me is forbidden to have parties or take somebody at home. Well, my father is a strange man and he has some rules 1. Don't bring to our home any boy or girl. 2. Don't drink or take any drugs. 3. All the time say with whom you are and where you are. 4. Never walk alone especially at night. You will think that it is normal most parents have those rules but the rules of Jack is different it is more complicated. And believe me, you wouldn't want to see him angry. Oh yes, I forget to say some small thing about him that he is a vampire. And when he becomes angry it is a little bit scary. And I never wanted to make him angry not because I was afraid of him but I wanted that he would proud of me.
And of course the last his rule but not less important: never speak to a dead one. I asked him so many times to show me his powers or to teach something, but he all the time refused to open up to me.
I even don't know his last name. At school, he wrote himself as Jack Only,- my father. It can't be his real surname.
I changed my clothes from black dance clothes with socks on my ankle into a huge sweater and leggings. I took my bag and went through the doors. The sun was almost down and I haven't had much time. I quickly ran to the shop in the corner of the street where was written on the bottom with huge red letters Manny's Ink. I pushed the doors and the bell rang. He was sitting on the chair and another man was still laying on the desk his back was faced to Manny. I noticed how muscular it was and felt as my cheeks quickly warmed. Manny was making huge black wolf on his back, the art was incredible.
-"Hey girl can you wait 20 minutes I will finish soon" He was still talking without laying his eyes on me. I understood how is important his job and how much love he puts inside it. I have no time but didn't want sai it loud and to look rude in their eyes.
"-Sure", don't rush"... I smiled awkwardly, well it would better than the last words wouldn't go out from my mouth, I noticed how laying man sniffed the air, and my body tensed. Did I smell bad? Well, I know after dance I could and embarrassing colored my cheeks in dark red colour. I wanted to bury myself in the ground but just went to another small waiting room but of course, I had to stumble from the desk and some papers fell on the ground.
-"Shit I am so sorry." Now both of them looked at me and began to stare at me but Manny had a warm smile on his face even if his body looked huge and all covered in tattoos at some point he looked scary but his eyes were warm, and from a man with the wolf tattoo came strange aura. He scared me. Manny was still keeping raised his tattoo machine above his back. But another man strangely sniffed again. What is wrong with him? From embarrassment, my blood boiled into anger. What is his problem?
- "Don't worry about that just leave it the way it is I will collect it later, there is some coffee machine if you want...maybe you could make me a latte too? On the desk, you will find some coins. " He said in a warm voice and with his free hand, he showed me the way, Did they wanted to get rid of me? I looked where he showed me and there were some curtains made of wood. I went through them but easily could hear what they whispered to each other. My hearing was abnormally good. But nobody knows that I kept this in secret even if many times I wanted to say this to Jack but why should I tell him something about myself when he never tells about his story to me.
-"What is wrong?" Manny asked. And I concentrated on their voice and tried to ignore the coffee machine which began to make a coffee.
- "I couldn't smell her," The guy said with brown hair and dark blue eyes, who had a new tattoo of a wolf.
- "She is normal, maybe that's why." Answered Manny and I couldn't help but felt panic. They are talking strangely, they are talking like Jack. Are they vampires? No, it can't be they looked different? Their skin is more golden, it is like amber and Manny eats and drinks normal food. I saw that a few times.
-"Everybody has the smell of their skin and blood, Manny." I heard as he sniffed again. " She smells like a vampire." My eyes grew wide after his words and my hand began to shake as well as the cup at it.
-"That's ridiculous she...." Manny couldn't finish the last words as another man shushed him.
-"Wait, her heartbeat...She hears us," he said and I so wanted to turn around and look through those curtains I know that they are watching my back through it, for now, I can feel it. But I tried to calm my breathing and began to sing the song "Baby Blue". My eyes closed I concentrated on the song at the same time took another cup pushed the bottom latte and quietly sang my mother's song.
-"If someone asks my favorite color I’d say it’s blue endless sky I see above us blue/if someone asks my favorite color I’d say it’s blue like the sea I sail so long to see you/if suddenly the world would lose the color blue, the color blue would feel the same for me as when I lost you/" I sang in a whisper.
-"No she couldn't hear us from ther...." Again Manny's voice stopped in the middle of a sentence like he would be forced to not speak again but without poking of other man's voice. Maybe he shushed him without a voice but with movements, well I don't know because I couldn't see them. after some pause of silence, I heard that man's voice again kept singing at the same time but now a little bit louder and with confidence.
-"You were my baby blue, baby blue, baby blue, you, you were my baby blue, baby blue I can’t feel a thing without you" The coffee was done and the man now was talking loudly in knowing that I will hear him, so I stopped singing and turned around.
-"Well thanks Manny good job." They showed up both through those wooden curtains. The man with a new tattoo was still shirtless only with jeans he looked at his back in the mirror and then again at me. He was so full of himself and he again sniffed the air around me and this strange habit began to annoy me.
-"Are you going outside all naked? It is cold you know " I asked him in wanting to insult him but karma embarrassed me more than him. He only laughed with his deep and low voice, I felt so angry with myself that I thought his voice was so sexy when I felt so small in talking with him.
-"Are you worried about my well-being kid?" He smiled sheepily, but those little dimples on his cheeks made me blush, or maybe that he flirted with me made me be lost in words when I tried to insult him, nice birthday I thought. I just rolled my eyes so hard because I didn't know what to say to him.
-"You wish, and I am not a kid," I said in a whisper but it sounded so childish and I was happy that he couldn't hear it but he laughed now even louder. So he had heard it, of course, he could, he said that he hears my heart beating, so couldn't he pass my words.
-"Just ignore him." Manny said with a smile and wawed to him with his hand to go, a concerned look was in his eyes. Is he friends with my couch? It looks like they both think the same about me.
" -Kane can you please not scare my clients?" He said in an annoyed voice, but it looked that they were like old friends. There wasn't any tension between them.
"-Fine, fine I am going out," Kane said with a chuckle and slowly went by doors. I gave a latte for Manny and took myself a black one, I sipped the liquid slowly and turned my head to Kane again, he was standing by the door and still staring at me.
-"Ahm... Manny tried to recall me away from Kane so I turned my head to him again. "So Magie haven't you changed your mind? Do you really want a sleeping trap on your back?"
- "Yeah with two feathers, it is my birthday so it is a present from me to myself," I said to Manny, but I wanted so bad to turn around and to look at Kane again. And I did this. He was still standing by the door with his hand on it. It looked like he was frozen in this position. Was he waiting and listening for our conversation with Manny? From the glass of the door, he noticed how I am staring at him, and then he pushed the doors and got out.
Maggie:-" Yes, I remember that you looked into it for a long time" He scanned my face if he would looking for something in my soul, his warm eyes began to be more serious, more suspicious. I wanted a tattoo so damn but I was embarrassed to say that my father would die in shock if he would be mortal. He likes to call me a lady. I don't even know what this word exactly means. But I think Jack's ladies don't have a tattoo or other shit I want."When you were there with your friends." He continued. Manny stood up from his chair with his cup and went by the table where his papers with pictures of a tattoo were laying. Those I had been thrown up everywhere on the floor, but now they are all collected. He gave one to me. I took it looking into his eyes. I don't know why but his gaze began to make me feel nervous. "Then you said that tattoos aren't your thing" He paused for a moment, when he realized that he was rudely staring at me he took his latte into his hands and he sip
Maggie:I stood up so quickly from the desk as if the lightning had hit me.-"Are you done Manny I really need to go" was so nervous the one thing I could hear was tik tok tik tok. Time was over and I broke a rule and I am thinking now what Jack will say or do. I took my sweater with my shaking hands in not waiting for his answer. I was panicking and didn't know what to do now. When he came from his journey? Does he have eyes on my butt? shit, this is soooo bad. I even not dressed properly and he doesn't like when I'm wearing makeup I can't even imagine what he is thinking when he saw me half-naked by Manny.- "What's so rush Maggie who is burning?" Manny looked confused but then he sniffed the air and his all body tensed. Slowly he turned around from me and looked through a window where was standing Jack. Manny suddenly changed so much that I couldn't help and stare at him. His grey t-shirts almost tore off when his muscles grew stronger, espe
Maggie:I stood up so quickly from the desk as if the lightning had hit me.-"Are you done Manny I really need to go" was so nervous the one thing I could hear was tik tok tik tok. Time was over and I broke a rule and I am thinking now what Jack will say or do. I took my sweater with my shaking hands in not waiting for his answer. I was panicking and didn't know what to do now. When he came from his journey? Does he have eyes on my butt? shit, this is soooo bad. I even not dressed properly and he doesn't like when I'm wearing makeup I can't even imagine what he is thinking when he saw me half-naked by Manny.- "What's so rush Maggie who is burning?" Manny looked confused but then he sniffed the air and his all body tensed. Slowly he turned around from me and looked through a window where was standing Jack. Manny suddenly changed so much that I couldn't help and stare at him. His grey t-shirts almost tore off when his muscles grew stronger, espe
I couldn't believe what Jack did to Rose. He washed her brains. Did he ever had done that with me too? He could manipulate me whenever he wants and I wouldn't know that... It was so easy to do to him this.-"What is wrong with you today?" Jack came to the house after me, he closed the doors with annoyance. -"What is wrong to me, what is wrong to you?" I asked with a surprised look and my voice with a little bit too loud.-"You don't seem very happy to see me around". Jack crossed his arms on his chest his black eyes were gone, now there were dark blue eyes. He looked almost like a human. In his eyes, I could see hurt. What does he expect? How I should react when he is acting in that way. I didn't know what to say to him so there was left only silence for some seconds.-" You almost are never at home, do you think that all my life I will be waiting for you and crying in a hugging with Hope?" Hope is our cat he is very old but also he is my best friend. I don't re
-" You have sold me."It was the last words I could say to him. -"No I gave you him for free." He said easily but his words were now difficult to understand.I felt as my all hairs on the body stood up in one moment. My eyes became blurry suddenly I felt dizzy and couldn't hear what he is saying to me anymore, but then something changed. Quickly my vision became better, better than ever, my hearing became louder. My mind was working as clear as I remember, I knew that I can control my mind, I felt huge power on me. It made me feel good, strong, powerful. Jack was still talking, he was breathing to my face with his words. It was a knife to me but I understood everything, should it work in that way? soon I should forget everything? But I don't feel in that way as Rosemary was. I feel too good, did she feel the same? I am standing here still keeping his gaze, and feeling the connection to our minds, that power which he is sending through me, but it doesn't scare me anymore, i
The water was burning but it relaxed me. My mascara was all over my face so I reclined my head which was so heavy from my thoughts. When Jack was at home I never did my makeup because he said that my mother was naturally beautiful. He didn't understand why other girls put something on their faces. When Jack was out Mascara was my best friend. I took red lipstick. Yoyo's present for me, I never used it it is so bright. Jack would say that red lips make girls vulgar. I covered my lips with that wonderful color.It was strange now to touch my short hair when all my life it was long. Jack loved my long hair he said that my mother had the same just a little bit darker. He said that she was pure, sweet, strong, smart, and stupid at the same. I don't know why he thought in that way but he was smiling when he talked about her, so I suppose her stupidy was cute for him. All my life I tried to be like her but I never was enough. I never felt too good, too talented too sensitive, or
before 16 years agoJack's point of view:-"How long have you been watching me?" Lilliana suddenly asked me in a calm voice. She looked at me and waited for my answer.-"How long you know that I was watching you?" I was avoiding answering and looked away at the way I was driving. Instead of giving her information about me, I asked more about her. She narrowed her eyes and when she felt uncomfortable she was stroking that thing on her laps. I hate animals especially for those who I needed to rescue and to risk my own safety. This is my first saved animal so I hate as well as care for it because of Lilly. But I can't lie it was fun to kill those men, I can't remember when I had so much fun.- "Do you all the time answering with another question?" I couldn't help and smiled, she was smart.-"Not for a long time." I finally answered her first question. She won't give up until I will answer for her, would she? She a stubborn as well. I don't know why I was so o
Before 16 years.Jack's point of view:Her heart was beating loudly but I almost couldn't hear it from my anger. She couldn't breathe because of her panic attack, but I couldn't leave her. For fucks sake, she has Maggie. I want her pain I want to feed myself with her fear, slowly and patiently I will play with her last seconds of life. I didn't notice how Lilliana came from this women's house with a baby in her arms. I was so concentrated on my anger and didn't notice that she took her opportunity to go inside her room and take a child. A cat was left mewing on the floor. Not so far my leg.-"Jack please leaver her". I couldn't hear her pleading, the grudge was too strong. She threatened them and insulted my Lilliana. I don't want that fat pig would die I want that she would suffer. But Maggie began to cry and my sense came back to me. The grudge couldn't let me see that she was safe now in her mother's hands... The kid was still sleepy, with one hand she sc