Vampiress

Introduction To A Royal Pain In The Ass

"Excuse me?" I replied quite taken aback by what he had just said.

"You heard me, hunny. I asked you who the f**k you are." He said leaning closer in to him. I stood up properly instead of leaning against the wall and I straightened my shoulders and lifted my head up.

"I'm the f*****g Princess of the land on which you stand. Now who the f**k are you?" I spat.

He chuckled at my words, "easy girl. I didn't meant to offend you."

This man can't be serious. The most disrespectful person I have ever had the displeasure of meeting. He must have seen my disgusted thoughts of him through the disgusted look I had on my face.

"I'm Darius," he said licking his fangs, "you must be Cylena?"

I gave him one last look and turned to walk away from him.

"Oh my Soul!" Natalia said excitedly to me.

"What did he say?" Thiala asked me.

I stopped and looked at the both of them.

"You are both getting excited for a man with no morals or respect for any woman. He is literally the ideal explanation of a man not worthy of even thinking of having his name written in The Book." I said a bit too loud.

"Ouch." I turned around to see who said that and I saw him standing behind me rubbing the back of his neck. He chuckled again, playing it off. But I could see the hurt in his eyes. I actually hurt his feelings? What have I done? My mother is going to kill me.

******

As I was brushing my hair out for the ball, I couldn't stop thinking about Darius and the hurt look in his eyes. I also thought they were staying by us? I wonder why they didn't come unpack before going on outings to the city. I put a bit of make-up on and added 'Ladies Night' shade of lipstick to match my dress. I let my long black hair fall down and took a final look at myself in the mirror. Just then, I heard a knock at my door.

"Come in."

My sister opened up and had a small bowl of ice cream in her hand.

"I thought I would bring you some ice cream before we go down so you can feel less guilty about what you said and more guilty for eating this in your dress," she smiled as she said it, "and its your favorite. Choc-Blood"

I took the ice cream and smiled at her.

"Thank you, T. I really appreciate this"

She sat on the edge of my bed and looked around the room before adding, "he really is gorgeous though." I burst out laughing at the random comment and so did she. I finished up my ice cream and we both decided it was time to show our faces downstairs. Thiala couldn't stop playing with her dress, picking on it and pulling and tugging. I took her hand gently and smiled.

"It will be okay, T." And we walked down the stairs into the ballroom hand-in-hand. Everyone stopped to applaud our arrival. And as quick as the clapping started, it stopped.

"See? I told you it will be okay." I said giving her an I-told-you-so grin. She giggled at me and asked, "so what do we do now?"

"Well, we take some champagne and... Mingle?" I said with all the enthusiasm I could manage.

"Is it normally this old?" She said looking around noticing all the older people.

"Oh wait. It gets better. This is just the meeting," I said with a sly grin, "follow me."

I took my sister through a rushed meeting of all the Elders and once that was done we went down into the dungeons.

"Where are we going?" She whispered.

"Sshh. Just come with me." I lead her down the spiral staircase into the dungeon and I looked at her face as we reached the bottom of the stairs. Everyone's children were here. The music was blasting. The drinks were flowing and people were having a good time. Her face was priceless.

"We have had this in our house this whole time?" She asked, still unable to contain her excitement.

"Mhm" I said smiling. Natalia came up to me with Antonio on her arm. Her lipstick was already smudged all over her face and his.

"Having fun?" I asked her

"The Ceremony is going to be a good one this year," she shouted over the loud music, "I've already found a toy!" I started laughing at her choice of words. She handed me some tequila with 4 drops of blood swirling in it and we threw it back like water. Tonight was indeed going to be a good night.

The more the night went on, the drunker I got. The drunker I got, the more 'ceremonious' I felt. I got up to go to the bathroom and that's when I almost fell over someone's foot. Whoever it was caught me quick.

"Jesus, be more careful would you?" I looked up amd giggled.

"Hi Darius." I slurred. "Nice to see you."