The Vampires forbidden obsession

Dream

After dinner, the family sat down by the fireplace and talked while laughing at jokes. Genevieve sat between her mother's legs on the floor as her mother weaved her hair.

"I swear Norllen is scared of fishes, papa," Genevieve told her father. "No I'm not," Norllen argued back. "Yes you are, if you're not tell me why you refused to swim with us the last time we were at the river," Genevieve questioned him, laughing. "It's...it's because I wanted you to have fun playing with the fishes and didn't want to scare them or step on them by mistake," Norllen came up with an excuse. "Yes, and that's because you're the fish gentleman," Nicholas teased his twin brother. "Talk about fishes, Evie is scared of anything that crawls including maggots," Norllen said, and everyone laughed at this revelation. "I'm not, it's just that they creep me out and are disgusting, I don't like them." She remembered the day one of their cows had died in the forest that surrounded their town, and one of the cows had gone out to graze but didn't come back. They didn't notice it that day or the next, but after three days, when they set out to find it, they saw the dead animal in the forest with its eyes, heart, and liver missing. It was obviously the witches' handiwork. They buried the animal as it had already started to decay and smell, with the worms crawling out of it. Just thinking about it gave her shivers. She'd cried that day because the cow was her favorite. She named it Ruth B. It was a fat cow and often didn't walk around too much. "Creepy slimy worm is coming to get you, Geny, ahhh," Norllen teased her as he crawled towards her. He moved his fingers in a wiggly motion to describe the worms, and Genevieve immediately threw a pillow at him before running away, and he chased her round the room. Nicholas joined them, and they ran till they fell on the ground laughing hard. Mr and Mrs Bellow couldn't help laughing at their silly children; they had grown into adults but still played like little children.

She imagined how lonely life had been years ago when they first arrived in Belmont and the town where they lived now. She'd been so worried that she initially didn't let her daughter come out of the house from fear of being discovered by the witches. Genevieve was already five years old, and she had no friends, but as time progressed she met the Gabriels and they became close, a second family. They were kind too, and after they died they vowed to take care of their children because of the kindness shown to them by the late husband and wife and because they loved the boys. The twins were around seven years old, and they had been Genevieve's first friends before she later made friends with another girl called Nuella. They grew up together to become inseparable.

When midnight came, everyone went back to their rooms, and Eve was the last to sleep as she had to blow out the candles. By the time she got to bed, she was physically and mentally exhausted, and she passed out before her head could fully touch the pillow.

She fell into a deep sleep, and as she slept she slowly drifted to the dream world. In her dream she saw fire, a lot of fire. Her house was on fire. She tried calling for help, but her voice didn't come out even as her mouth opened. Finally finding her way out of the house, she discovered it wasn't just their house that was on fire but every single house in the town. Everything was on fire, and she started feeling dizzy before passing out.

Genevieve woke up the next morning with the sun up in the sky. She had woken up late as it was close to noon. She felt like she was forgetting something, but for some reason she couldn't remember what it was that she couldn't remember. She tried remembering it, but she couldn't, and it only made her head hurt.