Thirsty for him

School is going so slow today, it’s like the universe is against me. I want and would know what he meant by this chapter twenty-nine. It must be important if he dares to get so close because he knows I could attack him at any moment, even though it would be stupid of me to attack him in broad daylight.

When the bell rings, I almost drop my things, that’s how fast I want to be gone. Daisy looks at me strangely, we still haven’t talked about what had happened in the house, but I have a feeling she doesn’t want to talk about it either. I let it rest for now.

As I walk into our little town on the way to my house, I notice that there is almost no one on the street, and it’s only 4 p.m., which is pretty strange. Did I miss something? Something is going on, I feel it, but I can’t tell what. When I’m almost home, an eerie feeling creeps up on me, a feeling of dread I haven’t felt in months, a fear that could break out into a panic attack I’ve had a few times before in my life.

I open the two big doors of our house and what I see makes my body shiver with fear, everything covered in blood. I want to leave, it didn’t feel good to be here. But I see my sister stumbling and falling down the stairs and screaming for me to go. I didn’t wait and ran, faster than I had ever done. What is going on? Why is my sister hurt, and why did I leave her there? I’m still the coward I used to be. I hated it, I didn’t want to be that coward anymore.

Furthermore, I run into town, where it is still quiet and chilly. Thinking of what I could do to help. Then I think of my father teaching history at the private school a few blocks away. At an accelerated pace, I run to the school where my father teaches. As I enter the school, I see a security guard who takes me to the office where a lady is sitting behind a desk. “Can I help you,” the lady asks me in a voice like she is a robot. I look at her and then at my hands which are shaking, she must see it too. “I want to know where Mr. Tuborn is?” I ask her politely, causing her to look at me again from behind the desk. “He’s in class, can it wait?” Says she again as if she feels nothing at all. I feel myself falling into a deep hole that I had to dig myself out of to be strong for my mother and sister, who are still in the house. “Seems like it could wait!” I shouted, I could have fallen through the floor, so scared of what they might have done to Mom when my sister was already so messed up. My mood dropped below zero, so furious I was starting to get from all the delay.

I had nothing to fear anymore, the worst had already happened. I felt I would lose my sister and mother if I waited any longer.

When she finally realized I meant it, she immediately told me what class he was in. “Class zero-zero-nine,” she said, and I stepped at a fast pace to the class she mentioned. I hear my father’s voice and knock on the door. “Come in,” he says, his voice already angry that someone dared disturb him. I wouldn’t have done it if I had another choice. “Father, can I talk to you for a minute?” I ask politely as I leave the door ajar, not wanting to show the class the state of anger and fear I’m in. He looks so angry at me. I don’t get it, this is the first time I have dared to interrupt him, and again he is angry and thinks it can’t be important enough.

He steps out of the classroom and closes the door behind him, wanting to give another one of his sermons. Before he could do that, I threw all the words I was holding; “They hurt Diana, father, everything is covered in blood. I don’t even know where mom is,” I say hopelessly with tears in the corners of my eyes. As I finish talking, I see my father’s face turn white. He yelled something to the teacher of the other class and ran away so fast that I had to run to keep up with him. “Come with me!” He came running towards me while grabbing my arm, and we ran off as fast as we could.

My father who is much faster than me dragged me along he even put me on his back to be faster because there was no one in town. No one would be able to ask questions, either. We are at the front of our house when I feel the air slipping out of my lungs from seeing all the blood on the door and the threshold of our house. Father next to me feels the same as I do when I look at him and when he opens the door, I hear him scream like an animal that is wounded.

We step into our hall, where we also see puddles of blood scattered throughout the hall, even more blood than there is outside. Father searches on the first floor and I walk onto the second floor, where I open all the doors. Until I reach the door of my parents’ bedroom, with a heavy heart, I open the door, looking at all the blood spilled on the walls. When my eyes go to the windows, I see my mother lying with her head on the carpet. Tears start rolling down my cheeks. Just as I begin to cry, the tears dry right up on my cheeks as they continue to come out of my eyes.

After the Shock, I step further into the room, straight to my mother’s body. I step towards her body with my heart pounding so hard in my chest that it almost comes out. As I get closer to her body, I see her covered in blood. I take her in my arms while I am still crying with her in my arms, father enters the room, completely out of breath. He takes her from me and for the first time I see my father crying, but the sadness quickly turns into hatred. “I will find them and I will destroy them. If I have to burn down this whole city, I will!” He shouted as he smashed everything in the room to express his anger. If at this point everything is not already broken, my father has done it.

Father retreated to his office and called everyone he knew. Meanwhile, I am cleaning to be able to get all this anger and sadness off my chest. I even almost forgot the book and the page I had to read from Varnic. Varnic! Did he tell his father about me and my family? If that is true, he is going to pay for this. Father didn’t show up again that night, he locked himself in his office all that night.

Diana, we didn't find or see in or around the house. I wonder if they took her hostage or if she was also able to flee for her life. I hope I can see my sister again. Okay, we were not that close, but she is my sister and I love her. I went to my room after I cleaned the first floor and my parent's room.

When I got to my room, I felt so tired I could fall asleep just by standing. Before I got into my bed, I had to lock my door, scared that they would come back. In bed, I look a last look at the book next to me on the nightstand before I fell into a deep sleep.

In the early morning, I shock out of sleep, straight right in my bed, again looking at the book next to me on the nightstand. I grab the book and flip through it until I reach page twenty-nine.

I look at the title of the page. Was it even there before? I don’t remember reading this before.

The marked ones; If there is a bond between the two families by a mark, they are bound together until one of them destroys the other. How did this bond come about? By giving just one kiss, you are destined for each other. You can fight it until two days after a full moon, then the fighting is done. Then something snaps and they can’t hold back. Never before has a bound, survived from a hungry Niocrat.

When I thought the page was at the end, there was also something written down in small letters. Of course, there’s a catch again;

You can break this mark by finding Merina and being able to get an antidote that undoes everything, but know that she only lives 100 years and then reincarnates in another form. Then she lives her 100 years again until she changes again. You can only find her once every 100 years on the day of her reincarnation because that is when she is at her weakest. Remember to make an exchange with her. And if you make a wrong move, you’re as good as dead.

This writer has a bad sense of humor. There is a way to break this sign. So does this also break our curse? Or just one of us and once every 100 years? When will I know it’s time to find her? I pull my phone out of my pants and look at the positions of the moon. Oh, no, a full moon is in two days. That means we have four days to find this particular witch.

Do I still want to save Varnic? If I find out he did all this to my family?

If he did this, I won’t have a shred of mercy for him anymore. That means I will kill him.