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“
No! I’m not going with you!” I said this out loud.

I glanced up, apprehensive
, I was afraid.

“
Either you come with us, or you will die right here.” The doctor advised.

I had no choice; after all,
I would die sooner or later.

“
I prefer to die now.” I said, in an outbreak of panic.

Eros
stood in front of me, trying to protect me.

“
You won’t get what you want. I won’t let anyone hurt her.” Eros said and his face was very grave.

Eros
fought the six men. He didn’t use his vampire powers; he struggled like a human being.

For a few moments
he dominated the fight, until he was beaten and fell on the ground.

“
Run! Go away!” Eros yelled, in panic, looking towards me.

“
I can’t leave you alone here with them”, I said, fearfully.

“
Go way!” Eros vociferated.

I
had no choice and did it as he asked, then I ran away.

I heard
shootings from the doctor’s gun.

I stared back
at them, alarmed, and I saw Eros lying on the floor, with his eyes shut… he was dead.

But I tried
to go back and die with him.

I realized
those men were pursuing me, I ran even faster.

I reached
a street with several exits; I moved quickly towards one of them and saw a giant tree.

I
climbed it and stayed hid on a branch. They walked from side to side but didn’t find me.

Then
they walked away.

“
We’ll catch her.” the doctor said loud.

I listened
to all they spoke.

I descended the
tree hours later, when I was sure that they weren’t close and I wasn’t in danger anymore that night.

On my escape, I had lost my shoes, my dress was torn to shreds and I was dusty. My hair was untidy.

And I didn
’t care about that.

I realized
that Eros was really dead when I climbed the roof of the house.

I stayed
there, sitting and looking straight ahead the darkness in that horrid night.

Eros
was dead, that was all I could think of. I remembered again the noise of shooting and Eros’s body on the ground.

I cried
in a deep despair. First I thought that in my life I just depended on my mother to survive.

Now
I realized that Eros had become a part of my world too.

What
would I do without him?

I
figured out I would never see his face again, nor would hear his voice. Wouldn’t touch his cold skin, wouldn’t
feel his gelid touch on my skin.

My thoughts were interrupted when I heard footsteps on the roof. I looked slightly to the side and saw his image, standing in front of me, with three wounds on his chest.

“
You’re dead! I saw them killing you!” I said and my eyes were wide opened, shocked.

I thought
I was talking to a ghost.

“
Did you forget I’m immortal?” he asked and leaped over, in a unique, double mortal jump at the space and came more quickly in my direction.

I
stood up quietly and verified the shooting holes on his chest. I touched his dark T-shirt; pressing my fingers against the three wound in his dead flesh.

His blood was
dark and thick, he didn’t bleed like humans. His blood was gummous.

I was sure he wasn
’t an illusion; he had survived, he was an immortal. It would be impossible for a human being to escape that ambush.

For the first time
I understood that being a vampire had some pros and immortality was one of them.

“
In a few hours I’ll be totally recovered”, he said, while removing the three bullets from his chest, only with his fingers. He contorted his face in pain after removing the bullets.

The
bullets fell on the floor, clinking.

When I looked into his dark eyes, they changed its color; now his eyes became light-gray and there were dark rings around them.

His teeth
sprung slowly. He needed to show up his true nature by doing that.

I faced his light
grey eyes, without fear. It occurred to me that his supernatural look was even more irresistible than his human face.

How could a creature from the darkness be dreadful and
beautiful
at the same time
?

I interrupted my
thoughts after I had heard what he said.

“
You’re in danger!” He was so worried.

“
What should I do? They’ll certainly come after me, and you’re also in danger.” I deduced, watching his face.

I hadn
’t realized that I was much concerned about him, instead of myself.

I
wouldn’t forgive myself if something bad could happen to him again.

“
You’ll have to come with me.” He stared at my eyes. “You
shall behave like a human, but you can’t do everything they do.” Eros warned me, with a harsh voice.

“
Where are we going?” I stared at him, confused.

“
We are going to the place where I came from” he communicated, looking up at the stars in the night sky.

I
watched his gloomy face.

“
We are going to our planet.” he said and turned to see my face.

“
Your father is there. I came to Earth to take you to him.” His voice seemed apathetic.

“
All this
scares me.” I confessed and closed my eyes, shaking my head.

“
Neptune is our planet, there’s no danger for us there. And if you stay here… they’ll try to kill you.” he said, afflicted.

“
I can’t leave my mother.” I said, looking at the floor.

“
It will be just for a while.” he insisted.

“
She needs me.” I insisted.

“
Your father needs you too.”

“
Why didn’t he come to see me instead of ordering you?” I asked, and saw his face which was very serious.

“
When he figured out about you, it was too late. Your father, by being our master, he needs to recover his energy and the only way he managed to do that would be to sound asleep for a long time.”

“
Can’t he come back to Earth as soon as he wakes up?” I asked.

“
He wants you by his side… in ‘
Neptune
’”, he said, softly, touching my cheek. “As long as you’re with him, your mother won’t be aware of anything, she will be sleeping profoundly.”

“
What will you do with her?” I was frightened.

I panicked
, afraid that something crucial could happen to my mother.

“
Trust me.” he said, friendly.

It was impossible not to
trust him.

After a few seconds of silence
, his supernatural vampire aspect metamorphosed into an owl and it flew away.

I looked at
him, surprised, by watching his transformation.

That was
him all the time, the owl that stood almost every night on my window. That was him protecting me.

Now I
could understand why he was fond of owls, reading books about them.

I remembered that
day in which Christian had burned that owl.

That was him
; he was there, not in a human appearance, but in a bird’s aspect. And so he had came back to school, on the next day, with his hand bandaged, due to the burn on his hand.

Every
time he surprised me more
with his mysteries; when everything seemed revealed and clear to me, something unexpected always happened.

CHAPTER 30

My mother
was sleeping and her window was open. She couldn’t imagine she would have an unexpected visit in her bedroom.

Eros
walked through the window, as he always did when I was in my bedroom.

He watched
her sleeping and went to the bed, carefully, avoiding waking her up.

He placed his
right hand over her face, in a ritual that left her confined in a deep sleep, until my return to Earth.

CHAPTER 31

The owl
flew over the city, before it returned to the spot where I was standing.

When it flew over
a street, it saw Christian’s car parked in front of Mirta’s house.

By that
time the rock concert had already ended and he left Mirta at front door of her house.

He kissed her sweetly, then
she walked in and he turned back to his car. When he opened his car door, he got scared with the hedgehopping of the owl over his head.

“
Creature from hell!” Christian murmured.

Before
getting into the car, he saw Eros standing around him, all in black.

He didn
’t know how Eros appeared out of nowhere.

“
You, what are you doing here?” Christian asked and his face was sober.

“
It’s nice to see you again.” Eros said and his voice was tremendously sarcastic.

“
I don’t like
guys, my business is girls.” he said and got into the car.

Eros dragged him out of the car, with the strength of a bull, letting Christian frightened and unprotected.

“
My business is girls too.” Eros said clasping his neck and looking into his eyes.

“
What do you want from me?” He looked scared.

“
You have always bullied me in school.” He stared at his eyes again. “Your insults and unfunny jokes made me very angry.”

“
I was just kidding.” he said, trying to defend him.

“
But I was not.” Eros said and tightened his throat.

“
Do you want to kill me?” Christian asked, coughing a lot because of the choking.

“
Not yet”, he whispered.

Then
Eros strangled Christian hatefully.

‘
Now you know who you’re provoking, and if you keep chasing me, I’ll do worse things to you.”

He threw him
on the floor and assaulted him, kicking his face.

“
Stay away from Mirta or be considered a weird dead guy.” Eros threatened him gruesomely.

A drop of blood ran down Christian’s nose; the smell of his blood incited his enemy.

Eros
quickly left the place before his predator instinct could command the situation.

He
could have murdered Christian right there. Eros wouldn’t take a risk of being easily surprised.

Then I was w
rapped up into the smoke and vanished.

Even far away
, he couldn’t control his lust for blood. He was in the mood of going back to suck Christian’s blood.

He
pressed his hands against each other, twisting his whole neck, trying to control his predator bloodthirsty instinct.

A
huge dog, with dark hair, was coming in his direction.

Eros threw
a cryptic glance at the animal after it had been mesmerized, it came towards him.

After having sucked all the blood of his prey, there was nothing left of its body except bones and its head.