Chapter 9, story about Rena and Airin... so is RenAirin lol
----------------
Eternity: Rena and Airin
1700, a year that began a new century, life at that time was so elitist that if you didn’t belong to a well know family it would be difficult to have a prosperous future, you were treated like the worst thing that could step on the earth.
Life and education were difficult if you hadn’t money, it could get worse if you won the hatred of some wealthy or influence people, but in my case, the life always has seen me with good eyes, so far at that moment I hadn’t suffer hunger or house, my life was perfect.
I was part of a family which kept from long ago a fortune, by different means the family was making money, whether good or bad methods, but they did. as the second daughter who was at the head of the family in general, everything seemed fine, my older brother was prepared to keep the family business and I was educated in the best way to mingle with people from our same level social and power, in that way, I would find a future husband.
It was a relaxed time in general, with art in all its splendor thanks to the completion of the Baroque movement and the beginning of the Rococo movement. Basically it was a year of transitions.
And it was the year of transition for me too.
Living in a so powerful family as mine, I should keep a good status and therefore find a good husband, therefore, at that date I hadn’t been in any kind of relationship, but my social relationships with other families were going well.
I went to parties almost every week, and even had times where I was attending parties almost daily, between all these parties was where I met her…
Airin was beautiful and could attract the attention of everyone for the sake of reaching a place, move a little, or it could even for just being breathing, but her personality was completely closed, she didn’t spoke to anyone but she attended every party or gathering, and was always accompanied by a group of 5 men well dressed and behaved, that at any sudden movement or aggressive intention could kill you or leave you badly hurt.
Although you could say that being surrounded by those guardas was what prevented someone to approach her, it was quite the contrary, she was always surrounded by people, but she didn’t addressed to them a word or answer, it was occasional when that happened, and it was just as simple to say yes or no.
And she didn’t have reason to change, to be honest the persons who followed her was for being the richest person in the whole city and I knew that, so I could understand why she behaved like that, but everything changed in one of those parties.
It felt cold at night being the first days of winter, but being surrounded by people who only think about money can be just tired, so regardless of the cold of the night I went to the garden.
Among the moonlight that allowed me to see the beauty of the garden I could manage to see the figure of Airin sitting in one of the central banks, her eyes staring into the sky and her guards without making an appearance, but I felt as if I was invading her personal space by the mere fact to stand in the same garden in which she was, so I decided to just make my presence known.
“Mind if I’m here?” was all I could think to ask as I approached her to be in her field of vision, but obviously at a safe distance
Airin looked at me straight in the eye, and even if I have seen her so many times before was the first time I could see her so close, her gaze was empty, no brightness and her expression completely straight, which didn’t allow me even to try to understand what she was thinking.
With a smooth motion she nodded at my question to which I could only respond with a nervous smile.
Her haze had caused me a great impression, and although I was trying to ignore her, after seeing her eyes I couldn’t avoid giving furtive glances at her direction, as the time I was trying to cover them with the activity I was doing, which was observe all the garden flowers or those beautiful sculptures that adorned the beautiful view, but soon I had observed all the place so I started doing the same thing Airin was doing, I sat on a bench a little away to her and look at the sky, it was a clear night, that was only disturbed by the white light of a full moon.
The silence that had prevailed in all that time kept and only at the distance could be heard the music of the party and the voices of people who was in the great house of the host, but Airin broke our silence, a voice that I thought I would never forget.
“The sky is beautiful, as black as the soul of many people, if the moon wasn’t there it would be perfect” she said in her soft voice, surprised momentarily to hear her voice for the first time makes me to see her “Don’t you think?” she asked now looking into my eyes again.
“If as you say the sky is as black as is the soul of many people, then the moon that illuminates is twice beautiful by enlighten those souls, maybe in that way those souls can stop being so black as you say they are” I replied using the same metaphor and not even turning my attention elsewhere other than her empty eyes, and I could see after that an almost invisible smile spread across her face.
“Interesting answer, but you know what I mean, all those people there in is nothing more than a completely dark sky, which is not saved nor for a miserable star, that’s why you are here, right? out of all those people you’re different, as white as the moon and I’m the opposite of you, so dark that I should stay away from those who want to believe they are like me”
Airin was someone completely different to anyone I may have met in my life, I was left speechless because of her that I couldn’t do more than watch her and without realizing our conversation turned to all the things we knew, about those people who just wanted to be with us for what our family was.
Her form to view the things was so negative but at the same time so realistic that astonished me, for me it was all white or black, but black always could, somehow, at least turn gray, always looking for ways to see the positive side of everything, and airin was different, to her the gray was nonexistent and although she was cataloged in the black side by herself, I though she would suite better in the white side, her way of seeing things even it was always negative, had the sense of truth.
That night marked the beginning of a friendship between her and me, from that time I began to attend any party that I was invited because I knew that Airin will be there, once I arrived she was already there, and although at first I let her to call for me, with the pass of time it became customary to just walk to where she was.
That, of course, won that many people started to see me with envy and even seek to harm my family, but Airin always told me that everything would be fine, she would protect me because I was her only friend, although I knew she did hide something, that doesn’t mean that I didn’t trust her.
With the passage of time, I began to know more about her, and even I could met her house, it was big and imposing, the people who attended her were serious and their eyes gave the same impression that Airin, though not as impressive, and thanks to our close relationship I could ask her to teach me all about how to talk to those class of people who we hated, this of course, was because she said me that I was very innocent and anyone could take me for a fool and hurt me or my family.
Spending so much time at her side I realized that Airin was a young lady seeking to have attention, she lived surrounded by people who only was looking to take advance of her and because of that she built a wall around her so she wouldn’t get hurt.
That made me take more attention to her, her eyes twinkle every time I came to see her and to see that light in her made me smile, I was the only one who knew that Airin, the real one, which was like a little girl full of innocence.
But I didn’t know the consequences it would bring me, I didn’t knew what she was hiding, and although that was something I didn’t care at that moment, I was curious, I was curious to know about it, I just knew she had a unimaginable amount of money and hadn’t family, it was just her and all her servants with her four guards in who she trusted, and now also she trusted me, other than that everything else was confused and I could’t dare to ask about it.
Although my curiosity was very strong, I would rather not know anything…
We saw each other almost every day, so one day I get to her home and I was going to stay with her, my family would go on a business trip, it would take about a week to them to return and Airin was very happy to have me at her home during that time.
After dinner she apologized to me because she had to go and attend a business matter so she let me walk around the house doing what I wanted to do, I already knew every one of her servants and her guards were in different entries of the house, and I only greeted them when I was passing in front of them.
Although I knew very well her house, there were certain ways I had never taken, being bored and knowing that Airin will take long to be with me again, I began to explore the unknown parts, one of the corridors went to her office, I had never been there, so I couldn’t help but to see what was there, it was a place that resembled the office of my father, a big desk at the back with a chair that combined with decorations and paintings on the walls, many books everywhere, I knew that Airin would not bother to see me there, but I felt like if I was doing something wrong, so when I hear noise I ran to hide behind a curtain, which was long enough to completely cover me, I heard steps and looking a little for the side I could peek to see the truth that Airin was hiding.
Airin had a men by the neck, but what scared me was seeing how blood ran down the neck’s men, with my hand I cover my mouth to keep me from making any sound, but it wasn’t enough, I didn’t knew in that moment, but it was obvious that she knew I was there, Airin released the man who fell to the ground causing a loud sound from the impact of his body against the wooden floor, her eyes red as rubies and her mouth full of red blood of the man, her teeth like a beast that had only seen in books and paintings which talked about demons and evil beings, their fangs protruding from all others warning me of the danger in which I was, hidden behind the curtain I was waiting between fear and how was trembling every part of my body, that Airin moved the curtain.
Her steps so slow that every time they made contact with the ground, the sound echoed in my ears, the silence was horrible, made that everything like an slow motion and the sound of her footsteps at the same as my breathing, which for more than I was trying to control I couldn’t, were all it could been hear.
After seconds that seemed like hours I could saw the shadow of Airin through the curtain, she took the curtain with her hand and slowly moved it to look at me, her eyes with her normal color at the same her hidden fangs, but the blood was still adorning her face making me remember what I had seen a few seconds before.
“I didn’t want you to realize how dark was my soul like this” she said in a soft voice as she tried to touch my face with her hand, but instinctively I tried to take a few steps back
“Don’t touch me!” I yelled without realizing it, fear making my voice tremble and causing surprise in Airin which stopped the advance of her hand and watched me with a sad expression, her eyes showing her sadness but there was no signal of tears in them.
“I don’t want you to fear me… not you” she said in a whisper
But even though I knew she wouldn’t hurt me my body reacted differently, all I wanted to do was run away, get away from her, but I couldn’t do that, overcoming my fear I had to discover everything.
“Why you hide this? what are you?” I asked in a small voice, my hands shaking and my eyes who couldn’t see at hers.
“I’m a vampire, I think you’ve heard about them… Rena, you’re the only person worth having, you’re the only person in this damn world that I want to have at my side”
I accepted her, her lies, her love, I accepted to stay at her side.
I realized that maybe I loved her, maybe I was in love with Airin, no matter what she was, maybe I loved her.
But Airin had other plans, she was obsessed with me, it took short time to her to take me away from everyone I loved, even my family, I couldn’t socialize with anyone, especially with men, with the passage of time I was completely isolated and Airin controlled every aspect of my life, I could have everything I wanted, but without my family it didn’t matter anymore, my life was empty.
I tried to talk with her, but she refused everything and she bagan to behave more aggressively, shouting that I wanted to leave her and that if I wasn’t with her she preferred me dead, hear her talk like that maked me feel scared, I saw her kill a person once, I knew she could kill me at any moment without even allowing me to make a move.
That selvage me to try to run away, and that decision was the one that made my life change completely… Airin discovered me, among struggles and screams, something went wrong and I end up falling down the stairs of the house, causing to hit my head repeatedly and which could cause me the death… but there was Airin.
That day I was converted, she condemned to eternity.
But that would only bring more problems, Airin had planned to do this sooner or later but still she wasn’t ready to do so, her plans went ahead, taking advantage of my new strength I tried to escape again, I wanted to see my family, although I wasn’t the same Rena I wanted to see them, Airin knew about it and showed me how cruel she could be and how wrong I was to think that she was good… she killed my family, all my family and she said it to me with a big smile on her face.
“You don’t have a reason to run away now, I’m all you have now”
Those were the words she used, and are the words I will never forget, I remember them every time I have time to think about my past, every time I see a family living together happily, I remember them every time my mind is silent…
From that moment I couldn’t forget her, but I knew her intentions weren’t really bad, but her obsession with me was, to know me made her darker side show up, she wanted me only for herself and no one else.
She had already done me too much damage and it wouldn’t be the last thing she would do, I had to get away from her, even being what I was now…
“You will not stay away from me! never!” she shouted when I tried to escape again “You don’t understand? you are only mine, want it or not, you are mine!”
“I’m not yours!, I’m not from nobody, you will never have me or my love, I’m only an obsession for you and nothing more!”
The discussions became more frequent and also my attempts to escape, until one day it climbed to worst.
“Shut up fool! you’re mine!” Airin was furious, and without thinking she hit me so hard that sent me to fly a few meters, it didn’t kill me but the pain was amazing, her strength was monstrous and for the first time I was grateful that I wasn’t a human anymore, if it wasn’t for that I would be dead.
Blinded by the rage that gave me to be hit like that and ignoring the pain I lunged towards her, was then when I discovered my great speed, which Airin didn’t expected, and thanks to that I achieved to hit her face, although my blow was with all my strength, I could only move her face a little.
Airin took my arm and squeezed it hard, her face showed surprise, anger and disappointment.
“You will be mine always, maybe not now, I had gave you everything and if you need me to hurt you to realize it, I will, from now on you will live as you can and I wouldn’t do anything to help you, nor those of our own species or those humans who could know you and help you, at the end you will eventually return with me” she said as she pushed my arm, her eyes showing her power, and after that she turned and left.
After losing the protection of Airin I haven’t where to go, I hadn’t family, all the people believed me dead, Airin had taken from me all my life and happiness… what happened next is fuzzy, wandering aimlessly, avoiding people, because I knew that sooner or later I had to kill… everything was a mess until I met Yuka and Mieko, which saved me, taught me everything theres was to know about this way of life, helped me to keep going and thanks to them I could trust in someone again.
Airin is completely obsessed with me and having you at my side… she can repeat my story again and if that happens I think I will can’t stand to lose you, or lose what I love again.