Where Life Meets a New Beginning

Chapter 5 - Sensations

When I awoke the next morning I just felt numb.

I felt like one part of me was missing and the other was almost gone.

I was beginning to feel like two different people were literally occupying my head.

I rolled over to search the bed for my things. Caleb was already gone, since he always had to leave for work so early. I was thankful for this today.

I couldn’t be around him just yet. I needed to gather my bearings and process the night that I’d had before.

Not only had I spent the whole night with Elijah the way I did, but my dreams when I got home- they were real. I mean they were dreams but I swear they were real. What was happening in them was fact to my life and I knew it. I began to recall it all.

Even just thinking back to the memory of the dream, I could replay it in my head as if it were happening in front of me over again.

When I fell asleep it was like I closed my eyes in this world and then they reopened in another.

I opened them to see Elijah directly in front of me.

“You’re smart. I know you can feel this. I’ve never heard of someone’s Solus Bond being as strong as ours. You know our spirits are dancing together right now, and that we are actually together. I know you do.”

I felt manic. This was all so much. What’s a Solus Bond? Actually together? What does he mean?

“Everything feels so crazy. I’m supposed to be asleep in my bedroom but somehow I’m standing here with you.” I pleaded to Elijah.

He had scooped me into his arms and I could feel them around me. I felt like I was liquid. The way I rested into his arms was as if I melted into them to fit perfectly.

We were on a balcony somewhere in the middle of the city. I recognized everything but I couldn’t focus enough to pinpoint exactly where I was.

“Calm down, Love. Just breathe. There is much I’ll have to teach you, and much faster than I thought I’d have to. Our souls are begging for each other. Like I said, I’ve never seen a Solus Bond as strong as ours. I know that doesn’t make sense to you now but it will soon. Very soon.”

I rested my head on his chest and tried to breathe like he told me.

At that point in the dream I’d closed my eyes to try to calm myself down and when I reopened them I was back here in my bed, waking up.

I still hadn’t quite made it all the way back to the present moment when I just about jumped out of my skin.

“Good morning, Salem.” Elijah said from across the room. He was sitting in my window sill. He greeted me so quietly and soft. If I wasn’t so lost in thoughts when he said it, I probably wouldn’t have even jumped.

I knew I should be raging pissed and weirded out that he was in my home (That he shouldn’t even know the location of!?) like he was some creep or something, but as soon as our gazes met I was completely relaxed.

“Elijah how did you-?” I just stammered. I didn’t even care that I was in nothing but underwear and a small tank top. I had made it to standing upright in front of him and my head was spinning. I felt so overwhelmed with emotions when just a second before I couldn’t feel any at all.

I was reaching out towards him, muttering sounds I meant to be questions when he grabbed my hand and pulled me close again.

“Salem. My Love. I know you are overwhelmed. I am so sorry for how much of a whirl wind this is all going to be for you. Please let me try to explain everything to you.”

I nodded as tears just started streaming down my face. I was so confused but I knew that being close to him was right. I just wanted to bury my face in his chest and never leave his side.

“What’s going on Elijah? I don’t know you but I feel like you’re a part of me and I can never be without you again. I’m so scared of all of these feelings.” I cried into him.

“I think we should sit down for the talk that we are about to have. It’s going to be a lot for you to take in.”

I nodded again and he just scooped me off my feet. He carried me over to the bed, and as respectfully as possible put a blanket over my lap. I quickly pulled my knees to my chest and curled into a ball with my back against the wall.

He sat next to me and put his arms around my tiny circular form. I rested my head on his shoulder and we sat in silence for just a moment.

“What do you know about the supernatural Salem?” He asked so soft, it was almost a whisper.

My response itself actually was a whisper. My cheeks were still wet from the tears. “I watch tv shows, and I read books, but real magic has never existed for me.”

“Real magic has always been inside of you Salem. You were born to be much more than you are now. The life that you had growing up doesn’t make any sense. I don’t know how you got here.”

I began to get overwhelmed once again. I just had so many questions. I went to open my mouth to ask one but instead I just started to cry again. What is he talking about?

“Shhh, I’m so sorry Love I’m going about this all the wrong way. Just let me talk for a little bit. I’ll tell you as much as I can about everything, and then you can ask me questions, alright?”

I figured this was for the best. I shook my head yes and pulled the blanket closer to myself then looked back up to him as if to say he could begin.

I didn’t even care that I was in the bed I shared with Caleb. The moment I saw Elijah in the room I knew that my whole life was about to change.

“Alright well. To begin, you are my Solus. It means one and only. The person with which I share the Solus Bond. It means that our spirits have been meant for each other since since far before anything we understand. We were made specifically for each other. We are meant to be two halves of one whole. That first day we met, I had come in because I could feel you inside. Whenever I was walking by, I heard your heart. It’s beat synced up with mine. It’s how one knows they have found their Solus. Because everything stops in that moment, and your heart beats become one since they are finally close enough to do so. You did not feel this though, and only I did. This is because of one reason alone. You have not activated the part of you that you were born to be. The only way that the two of us can share the Solus Bond is if you are descended from the ancient bloodlines-”

He was already speaking so slowly and caring, as if to let me soak up every detail, but he still paused a moment before he continued.

“The ancient bloodlines of vampire royals. The originals that we are descended from. Their were 12 of them.”

My eyes opened wide. I didn’t say a word. I just sat frozen in shock. This had to be a cruel joke that was being played on me.

As if he knew that I was going to come unhinged, he began to speak again.

“Salem I can feel your emotions. I know that you don’t believe me because I can feel your mistrust and how sad it’s making you. It is breaking my heart. I promise I would never lie to you, and I will prove it.”

He reached into his pocket and pulled out a small knife. He sliced his arm, but before the blood could even begin running down the whole cut healed.

I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I wanted to scream and freak out but for some reason I just didn’t.

“Why am I so calm right now Elijah? Why am I so calm around you? What do you mean I haven’t activated a part of myself? What is going on?”

I had relaxed into a more comfortable position now and I was facing him. I wanted to throw myself into his arms again.

“To find your Solus is to be truly at peace. The bond is said to be the core of all possible happiness for both of us. Even in the worst situation, you can never feel entirely unsettled if I am around you. And it is the same with you for me.” He said.

“Okay but that only answers my first question.” I was beginning to demand more. It was all hitting me so fast.

“I mean you haven’t died Salem. Like I have. The descendants of the ancient bloodlines are the only vampires in existence to be born this way. We are brought up as mortals, like a normal child would be, only in a surrounding more fit for whats to come. It’s a whole different world within the one you know. A whole different society. When you reach a time where the council feels you are ready to be a part of the vampire world, a ceremony is held. In this ceremony, you die. And when you reawaken, you have activated your full potential. You have ascended. You are then of the strongest vampires to walk the earth.”

Okay I was freaking out again, no matter how calm he made me.

How could any of this be true? There’s absolutely no way I’m descended from some line of vampire royalty. My parents are backwoods swamp drug addicts. And now I’m supposed to DIE? There’s just no way this is happening right now.

“Salem please. I am so sorry. It is not supposed to happen this way. I have always wanted to find my Solus. I have longed for you. But I never imagined that it would be in such a situation that would hurt you so badly.” Elijah pleaded.

When I first heard the words he said I didn’t process them right away. But when I did it was devastating.

“This is the last time I’ll ever be in this house, isn’t it?” I asked Elijah seriously.

He looked back at me, apologetically. “Most likely, yes. I have to get you out of here. It is dangerous for you to be so unaware of yourself. It could get you hurt. I am grateful that you have made it this far.”

“So this is it? I am to leave behind the life I’ve always known, all of the people I know and love, the man I know and love, to never be seen again for someone I just met and could be telling me nothing but lies?”

I could see pain flash across Elijah’s face. I even felt it a little.

“You know I am not lying to you Salem. You can feel all of this. Even though you shouldn’t be able to. Even when I visited you in our dreams, I couldn’t hold control over what was happening because you were too powerful and you didn’t even know it. You have a hunger for strength deep inside of you. It’s why you wanted to drain so many bodies. You are showing power that is beyond what it’s supposed to be. There’s no way you actually believe that I’m lying.”

And I didn’t. I didn’t believe that he was lying. I just also didn’t believe that this could be happening to me.

“You said that you’ve never seen a Solus Bond as strong as ours?” I changed the subject. I needed to hear more.

Elijah looked directly into my eyes before he began to speak.

“No one has ever found their Solus before they have both ascended until us, right now. But I know their has never been a bond like ours because the moment our heart beats became one, I fell to my knees. I felt like the earth was splitting in front of me and I was being swallowed by your existence when our lives intertwined. I believe we are destined to be together for the greater good of our kind.”

He was so close to me. It was only the third time I’d met this man in a matter of less than a week but it felt like I’d been spending my whole life trying not to kiss him and I just couldn’t hold back anymore.

I threw my arms around his neck, and pressed my lips against his. Our mouths opened together, crashing against each other in perfect unity as our tongues collided and electricity surged from my body to his and back. One of his hands were running through my hair that fell down to my waist, where his other hand was making its way to my ass. I still had nothing on but a small pair of underwear. He squeezed one of my cheeks and I let out a small whimper that was impossible to hold in.

My hands began to move down lower on him too, as our lips still were unable to lose contact and continued to smash together in the most passion I’d ever felt. I grabbed the waist of his pants and teased the skin right underneath with the tips of my fingers.

His skin felt like it was reaching out to me to keep going, to touch more.

He placed both of his hands on my ass and picked me up in one swift move, then gently placed me on the bed. He laid over me, continuing to kiss me, and softly rubbed is fingers over my c**t, outside of my underwear.

I cried out. Every touch between us was so intense I was almost in tears. I didn’t want it to stop. I wanted him inside of me so bad.

As if he could hear my thoughts, he moved my underwear to the side and slammed his fingers inside of me. I bit down on his lip in response, or else I was going to be screaming at the top of my lungs. He began to shove his fingers in and out of me, faster and faster. He was rubbing my c**t at the same time and I climaxed faster than I ever have in my entire life.

When he began to feel my orgasm contracting around his fingers, he slowed down and began to move at more rhythmic pace, moving his fingers around inside me more, as to make sure he amplified every part of the experience.

When I was done he pulled his fingers out and used his mouth to get off the mess I’d made of them.

I was breathless, but I wanted more. I reached down for his pants and began to unbuckle them.

He looked extremely pained to do so, but he grabbed my hands, then brought them back to his mouth and began to kiss them while pulling me close.

“Not yet. Not here. Our first time is special. I want you so bad. But our Solus Bond is solidified forever after we have s*x for the first time. I don’t want to do that to you until you completely understand the gravity of all of this. I don’t want to hurt you.” Elijah explained lovingly.

I looked him in the eyes and I whispered back to him. “I think I could follow you into a pit of fire and be happy about it.”

He kissed me again. It seemed as if we were about to start the whole previous moment over again when all of a sudden Elijah stopped what he was doing and sat up alert.

“We have to go.” His whole demeanor changed.

“What, what? What happened? What are you talking about?” I was asking nervously when I heard Caleb’s car door slam shut from the driveway out front. I turned white. I could feel a piece of me breaking apart.

The next thing I knew, Elijah grabbed a pair of my pants from the floor, then grabbed my hand and when we blinked we were somewhere else.

“WHAT THE f**k JUST HAPPENED? I know things are going well as of the last like couple of hours that we’ve known each other but what was that!? Where am I!?”

Elijah drew me back in close.

“Just breathe. It’s okay. I know that was sudden and you weren’t prepared but I had to. I’m so sorry. It would have been so much harder on you if he saw us together. I know you’re going to blame yourself for hurting him already.”

“Elijah, I love you. I know I love you. It’s like it is a part of who I am and I can feel it. But I love Caleb too. I’m sorry that I do, but it’s true, and it hurts. Why does it feel like there’s two people living inside of me?”

I was at least already calmed because of the Solus Bond.

Elijah looked pained, though. He grabbed my hand and led me over to a bed to sit down in the foreign place where I’d just appeared.

Although, before I could even finish sitting down I recognized where I was . He had had me here, which I’m assuming is his home, when we saw each other in my dreams. I could see the balcony from last night. We visited many other places while I slept, too. But we always ended up back here.

I instantly felt more at ease, although I’d technically never even been here.

“I’m glad you recognize where you are.”

I c****d an eyebrow at him, as to say he still wasn’t answering my question.

He cleared his throat. “You feel like there’s two people because you have two souls. The one from your mortal life, and the one from your vampire life. Only a vampire can have a Solus Bond and that’s one of the things that makes you so special. You can already feel yours. That being said, it is because your vampire side is already prevalent. This has literally never happened before. No one has ever manifested their vampire side before ascending since the dawn of our kind. Like I said earlier, those descended from the ancient bloodlines are also the only ones like us. We can procreate. Every vampire outside of our bloodlines can only be turned. They are not born this way and after being turned cannot procreate as we can. That is how I know you are royalty. It is also because descendants of the ancient bloodlines are only able to have Solus Bonds with others from the ancient bloodlines as to keep it pure.”

He paused. He looked like he didn’t want to say the next part.

“You are going to struggle with your mortal soul and the feelings it has until you have fully ascended. This means that you will still love Caleb and feel remorse over this situation until your death. I don’t know if solidifying our Solus Bond by making love will stop it or not because there’s never been one of us like you. And I don’t want to make things anymore complicated for you.”

I didn’t say anything. I felt like I couldn’t handle anymore. I hadn’t done anything all day but all of a sudden I was exhausted. I laid back on Elijah’s bed and he followed suit. He wrapped his arms around me, and we fell asleep as we just laid there in silence.