I FALL IN LOVE WITH THE VAMPIRE KING'S DAUGHTER

Chapter 2 - 2

The clock in the wall shows 11 pm which is not quite late for a city as active as New York City, and I slept for almost 3 hours even though it felt only for a moment. Thinking about the dream that I just had, made my sleepiness disappear completely. I tried to identify all the people I saw in my dreams because according to the theory in a book that I have read, everyone whom we meet in our dreams was a real person that we have seen in the real world so I believe if Carmen and Kieran are the real faces of someone which I've seen even though maybe their real names are different and now I've forgotten them. No matter how hard I try, I still can't remember someone who has the same face as Carmen and Kieran. I tried to divert my mind from that dream by watching television shows that were not at all interesting, it only added to my feeling of being bored in the room alone so I decided to go out for a walk as well to find something to eat.

I decided to take a shower before stepping out of my room to take a walk, the hot shower soaked my whole body and made me feels relax. Somehow, I suddenly remembered about Aunt Betha, remembered her touch when we showered together, even remembered the feeling when she rubs her body against mine. I immediately threw the memory away by finishing my bath as quickly as possible, I didn't want to fall into an endless cycle of lust again.

Nothing can match a fresh body after bathing to raise my mood to the highest level, I make myself ready and put on a thick enough jacket before leaving the room because I'm sure the weather is quite cold tonight. Exiting the room walking in the bright and quiet corridor made me, who didn't like the crowd, feel calm and this time I decided to go downstairs by using the only elevator in this inn. It is true what the man at the reception said, the elevator working just fine only the number 3 button was difficult to press, while the others functioning properly.

Exiting the elevator I saw a group of children with several adults entering the inn, each of them seemed to be carrying a large enough bag, I thought that they were a group of teachers and students. The narrow lobby atmosphere became noisy and quite crowded, I see that the students looked tired, it seemed they had just traveled quite a far distance, many of them just sat on the lobby floor, the other students, who were lucky enough, able to sit on the lobby chairs that only a few people could sit on it. I casually walked past them, some of the female students looked at me without taking their eyes off, I was confused why many women said that I was a charming man, I saw myself as normal just like other guys when looking in the mirror.

Leaving the inn I walk toward the New York City center which is in the right direction from this building, the streets are still busy with vehicles, indeed as I thought this city is never sleeping, always active for 24 hours. A taxi driver offered to take me wherever I went, I refused because I wanted to walk. Hunger led me to order a medium size pizza at "Pap Pizza", the closest pizzeria to my inn, even though this is my first time hearing the name of this pizzeria, it seems a lot of customers are enjoying the food inside, so without thinking I immediately decided to fill my stomach here.

My order has come and I eat it quite heartily, it tastes good too, although it's not as good as the famous pizza in Pawling. The medium pizza slice was still two but my stomach was full, I can't eat it anymore this time, I asked the waiter to wrap it instead of wasting it and the waiter did my request well. With a full stomach and curiosity I walked to Central Park, the most famous park in New York, I have never been there in my life, only seen on television or the internet. I opened the live maps on my cellphone to see the directions to Central Park from my position, I'm still far from there, about 25 minutes walk.

This time I walked fast so I could get to Central Park immediately, I know that it is late night and most likely no one in Central Park right now but I will keep go there, apart from curiosity, also because there is nothing else I want to do and I have also lost my sleep tonight. When I got there the atmosphere was already quiet, very different with the situation that I often saw on television where this place will always be full of visitors during the day.

Although Central Park has a lot of light which lined neatly, it can't completely eliminate the darkness of the night, some places still dark enough that people can easily hide in it without being seen. I keep going in and walking there lonely, no one else but myself, walking alone like this is not too bad and I enjoyed this quiet atmosphere. Unfortunately, the joyful moment that I feel doesn't last long because right now I feel someone is following me, I swept my gaze in all directions that I could see, there was no one besides myself there but I know if someone is following me, or something?

My feelings are getting more and more unease, my intuition tells me that something dangerous will happen soon and urge me to leave the place, but I tries to ignore it and keep walking. Sometimes human intuition is telling the right thing, like emerging out of empty air all of a sudden I saw there were two other peoples besides myself in here, one behind me and the other one in front of me, I calculate the distance between me and those people was about 10 meters. Bad thoughts immediately appear in my brain, now I remember the message from Dred, the caucasian man I met earlier, maybe he was right that I shouldn't be walking alone in a lonely place like this. They look strange, right now I am standing still and the two people are doing the same thing, there hasn't been any movement from them even though it's been almost a minute we stood still, what exactly do they want? I took the initiative to open my voice, hoping that they just wanted to chat or show hospitality.

"Hello, good evening, nice to meet you all. A calm and relaxing night, huh?" I try to make small talk in a friendly manner.

They didn't answer, but a moment later they both started running towards me. My intuition told me that they were dangerous, I had to run, without any further thinking I let my instinct take over to guide my next step, I ran off the track onto the short and neatly cut grass. I saw the two of them running in line towards my direction with a speed that doesn't make sense for humans, they almost caught me up if I didn't immediately increase my running speed to the maximum. I have strength and speed far above normal humans but I always try to hold it back in front of the peoples, and today it turned out to be very useful to help me in this situation.