Scarlett Rose

Scarlett Rose1

"Kayla...." He began lifting my chin so he could look into my eyes. His ebony hair covered his imperil jade green eyes; his lips were soft and tenderly kissing my forehead. 2

"Kayla...” He began again, "please, stay with me! Let me back into your life." 3

Shaking myself free of his grip I raised my head a little higher knowing that if I could parry his soft lips and imperil eyes, then I would be all right. 4

"Why should I?" moving away I walked over to the window and watched as the moon begin to rise. 5

"How can I be sure you won't hurt me again?"6

"Kayla, please..." 7

"Please what, let you back into my life? Let myself fall back in love with you? Let you rip my heart out and walk all over it?" 8

"Kayla. Please just listen to me!" He says as he strides over to me laying his hands on my shoulders turning me around. Lowering my head so my hair would fall over my face hiding the hurt, pain and the tears that I know was so plainly showing on my face. 9

He laid his head on mine, bringing me into a tight embrace. Holding me close running his free hand along my back. Lifting my head I looked into his eyes brushing his hair back from his face. 10

"My dearest love, you should know how much I love you. But letting you change me...?" sighing and running my fingers through his shoulder length hair, "I don't know." 11

"LOVE! Kayla. LOVE! Please I can't wait anymore. I got to do something. I can't wait for you to decide if you want to be with me or if you just want to be half vampire who no one will listen to." 12

"......" I stared into those imperil eyes of his and lowered my hood. Then lifting my hair. 13

"Go ahead. I will be with you forever!" 14

Laying his hands protectively around my waist I felt a sharp pain before I wrapped my arms around his neck for support. I could feel the blood leaving my body. I felt as if I was becoming weightless. After what felt like a century he stopped and cut his own wrist pressing it against my lips forcing me to drink. 15

"Kayla, love I promise never to leave you, or hurt you again." running his free hand through my hair he started to notice the change. My ebony hair turned silver, my crystal jade green eyes turned imperil sapphire blue, my skin a shade lighter then new fallen snow, my lips all color then regained their ruby texture as I continued to drink. Craving the taste of blood. A need that had to be fulfilled. 16

Finally having my fill I pulled away and looked at him a bit dizzy. 17

"What's going to happen now?" 18

Sighing softly I laid my head against his chest trying to hear a heart beat but nothing came from the cold but soft skin. No breathing. No heartbeat. Nothing. Sighing I pushed away longing to have him near me. I knew that he really wasn't there anymore. That was the last time that I thought that I could trust and love a man. But it wasn't Grevin’s fault. It was Jasmines. She killed the man I loved. She destroyed my life. I will never forgive her. 19

These were just some of the dreams that kept reoccurring. I normally find myself lying in bed thinking of the day Grevin told me he loved me, and would never leave. That was the best day of my life. I sat up and started to cry. Wrapping my arms around the child he gave me before his death I cried rocking her to sleep. My little Scarlett Rose. Oh how Grevin loved this little child. Even if she was a human and not a vampire like her father or her mother. He still loved her. Like I still love him. Sighing I laid my daughter back into her bassinet and rocked her softly. I was able to hear her heart beating her soft breaths as she slept. My daughter. My pride. Oh how I loved your father so. Laying back down in my bed I laid my head on the pillows. My thoughts drifted to the night that Grevin first asked me to let him change me. I still am not sure why I did, but it happened.  I guess I loved him. Is that what really happened did I love him. Or was I scared.  Hearing my daughter start to cry I knew something was wrong. Sighing I got up and walked to her. I passed in front of a mirror. Looking I saw the women that I had to become. Sliver hair with blood red tips, imperil sapphire blue eyes, and skin the color of the new fallen snow. Standing there I let my wings sprout. Fingering one of the black feathers, I started to think what if Grevin was still here. Would he still hold me? Would he stay true to his promise? Could I trust him to care for Scarlett and let nothing happen to her?20

Walking to my daughter's room these thoughts continue to attack my mind until I walk into the room and saw her smiling face looking for me. Walking over to her I lift her up and hold her close. She looked so much like her father it was a shame that he didn't get to see what she would grow up to be. Would she choose to stay mortal or would she stay immortal like her father and I. Well not immortal but not harmed by the normal things that would kill a human. Holding my daughter I start to think back on the times in which Grevin and I shared before Jasmine killed him. Smiling I lay back down with Scarlett and sang a song for her in vampiric. A song of love and happiness. Where there was peace and harmony between all living creatures. 21

“Goo”22

“Sweet little one how can I grant you all you want?”23

“Goo” this was the answer to my problem. Smiling I held my daughter close feeling her heart beat. That was something I missed. The sound of my own heart. I also miss Grevin she had his sapphire eyes, his smile nose and his dimples. She had my sliver hair with black tips instead of blood red. Wrapping a wing around myself and my daughter I knew some one was in the house. I got up and made sure she was hidden beneath my wings I walked out of her room and into the hall. Still not sure where this person was. Scared I started to walk towards my room. Holding my daughter closer now I started to smell blood. Why and where was the blood coming from? I started to think. I hadn’t heard Coca howl to let me know some one was in so it couldn’t have been someone she trusted. So I automatically ruled out Jasmine. Who else was there besides Grevin, Scarlett and me that she trusted? I sniffed the air again. Waves of memories came flooding back.  24

Falling slighting into the wall I waited for the memories to pass by but they didn’t. I started to see things I thought I could forget. I started to shake and tremble as the person walked forward and laid their hand on my shoulder. Shaking myself free I pressed my body as far as I could against the wall. I laid my hand on the shoulder the person had touched and felt the cool warmth of blood. Raising my hand to my nose I sniffed the blood. I knew that smell. It was Grevin. But how could it be. I thought he was dead. Raising my head to look up I saw his form disappear into the shadows of the house.25

Shivering I sat against the wall. Shaking as a little child would when frightened by a thunderstorm. Listening I thought I heard footsteps. I must have fallen asleep for when I woke up I was in my own bed and Scarlett wasn’t near me. I started to worry. Where was my daughter? Why wasn’t she in my room? Sitting up I realized that someone was in the room with me. Watching my every movement? Looking around I realized that the person was my husband’s best friend David. 26

“Um… Hello David. May I ask why you are here in my house?”27

“ Kayla. You fell into your wall last night and hit your head. I got here just before sun rise and good thing to because you were in front of a window.”28

“Oh god where is Scarlett?”29

Smiling he handed me my robe and I looked down. Blushing I pulled it around my body and lowered my eyes. I was so surprised by the fact that he was here and that he saved Scarlett and I from certain death. I let my wings sprout and I got out of my bed and made it. Pulling the sheer black silk across the canopy. I walked to my wardrobe and pulled out my clothes. I also gathered a bag for Scarlett. I was taking her with me. I couldn’t stay in this house when someone or something was stalking my house at night. I grabbed a cloak, my hooded robe for riding and for walking, my halters, boots, and skirts. I then walked into Scarlett’s room and gathered her basket that she sat in while we rode the horse, her clothes and her favorite teddy bear. I held the bear close remembering how Grevin looked when he gave the bear to her. I remember how proud he was to have a daughter. It was almost a year ago and she was only an infant when he was killed. But I wander if she would ever ask about him. Who he was and what he did? 30

Looking at my sleeping daughter in her crib I wondered why she hadn’t cried when David picked her up. She normally clings to me. I took my daughter out of her crib and dressed her in her riding habit and black cloak so the sun wouldn’t hurt her as it would since she had a vampiric mother and father the blood would dry up if she were to be out in the sun for to long. Looking softly into my daughters eyes I knew she was frightened. Smiling at her I start to sing. Watching her eyes slowly start to close. I know David is near watching and lurking. Turning ever so slowly as to protect my self and my daughter from his view I spread my black wings and sigh deeply. Laying my daughter back down and looking over my shoulder I notice he has left, but why do I still feel his presence?? Looking around, I walk to my bed room and continue to look for David. His presence is stronger in my room, but where is he?31

“Kayla. Kayla, come here love, come to your bed.” 32

Looking around I become aware of a sense of jealousy, anger, heated passion and even death. Again I smell blood but whose? Shivering I did as the voice said and proceeded to my bed. 33

“Who is here, and what do you want with me?” I ask shivering as I reach the bed side not sure of who is behind the curtain. 34

“Pull the curtain back and see!” the voice answers demanding and harsh.35

Pulling back the curtain I see David there laying in my bed under the blankets and covers some blood trickling down his chin. Patting the bed side he motions for me to sit next to him. Shuddering but remembering how good of a friend he was to Grevin I go, and sit next to him.36

“David, what are you doing in my bed?”37

“Kayla, dear don’t you trust me? Grevin told me to protect you.”38

“That doesn’t explain why you are in my bed.” Looking around I start to realize he was wanting something. What it was I couldn’t tell. But I could tell it wasn’t good.  Shivering I pull my cloak closer to my body as he moves in trying to read my face. 39

“Kayla, why do you hide your beautiful face. I know Grevin always talked about how fair you were. He always boasted about his beautiful wife. Always talked about how she would take care of him and how much he loved going home to her and how wonderful the sex was.”40

“H….He…. what?”41

“Aye. He always said how great the sex was, Kayla.”42

Shaking my head I look around and get up walking across the room I watch as the moon starts to rise. Getting out of bed David walked over and wraps his arms around my waist. Oh god how long it’s been since a man has wrapped his arms around me. Slowly he starts to lower my hood and slide his hands up to my breast. Biting my lip, I move his hand back down to my stomach and remove my cloak letting it fall to the ground at my feet. Smiling softly I turn around and face him. My silver hair falling into my eye’s looking deep into his eye’s I place a kiss on his cheek then walk over to the door and look back. I see David’s form slowly start to turn looking for me. I turn and walk back to him. 43

“Kayla, why did you just kiss me?”44

“David, I know you know it’s been a long time since a man has touched me and I do appreciate the caring but for now let’s leave it at a friendship.”45

Smiling he wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me against him. Holding me close letting his hands slide up my sides and to my breast.46

Shivering softly I wrap my arms around him letting him feel my breast. Wanting to feel more. Blushing I realized that I shouldn’t do that, stepping back I moved away not sure if I should go back into his warm embrace.47

“Kayla? What’s wrong love?”48

“David, I shouldn’t… I can’t it’s not right.”49

“Kayla don’t worry love.”50

Looking at David I wander if he was right. I decided to walk back over to him, and looks at him wandering if he really knew how I felt about Grevin. Steping away and into the wall I looked around. 51

"David...I can't... I still love Grevin..."52

"Kayla... Don't do this to me!!"53

Glareing I grip my arms tightly pulling at my shirt... "What do you mean don't do this to you??"54

Sighing softly I fall back into a form of memories...55

"Kayla..."56

"Yes... Grevin..."57

"I...love...you...will..."58

Standing I look at him. Smiling I start to giggle. Then walking to the window, I sigh.59

"Yes, Grevin?"60

Watching in the window I watched him walk toward me and then stop just a few feet behind me. Lowering my head I let a single tear fall down my face. I turn and face him. 61

"Grevin, what were you going to ask me?"62

Lifting my chin he kissed away my tears and held me close. "Kayla, listen you have had a hard life. I know you lost Nova and now your not sure if you can love me. I really got to know how you feel about me."63

"Grevin," stepping back I looked into his eyes and smiled. "my dear I love you with all my heart. You have shown me love and friendship. You stand by me and watch over me as I sleep. I have learned to fall in love with you. You have taught me love."64