Deep Thoughts

Waiting for a destined lover for 500 years has never crossed my mind when I met Gregory from the other side. That was just yesterday and now, we're already married.

I've learned that for vampires, it's more important for them to have a companion. Our marriage is not exactly because of love like humans were trying to accomplish.

Vampires don't have to worry about the need to have children. All they have to do is to bite someone and give them their blood. That's how newborn vampires like me were created.

After the wedding, Gregory left me by myself inside the room where I woke up earlier. I'm not sure what I have to do now that I was left alone. After becoming a vampire, I already feel bored.

I'm not the type of woman who will just wait patiently for my husband. If I will live in this cathedral, I need to familiarize myself with it. I changed into my regular clothes and left the room.

This cathedral has already been abandoned. Just what I suspected, nobody visited this place of worship anymore. I wonder why Gregory chose to live in this place. It's a church and vampires are not exactly holy beings.

I know some stuff about vampires since I always wanted to become one in high school. But I never thought that it would happen to me. It was just wishful thinking from the teen romance books I've read before.

From those novels, the human girl and the vampire will share a possessive type of love. I always wanted that to happen but since Angel never left my side, I never had a boyfriend. Guys suddenly get scared on our first date.

I never even imagined that I could have a relationship with a guy. But now, I'm already a married woman to a vampire husband. I can't help myself but sigh as I walk slowly around this old cathedral.

Gregory just left me after marrying me! I should not be with myself for our wedding night. But here I am, walking in the darkness of these church walls. I feel more like a ghost than a vampire because of the ambiance.

Even the altar where our wedding was held is now empty. I wonder where the other vampires dump the priest's lifeless body. They just allow him to do the matrimonial ceremony. After that, they just attack the poor priest.

I don't want to become the same as those vampires. Even if I'm no longer human, there's no way I can cannibalize their blood. I'm just grateful that it's against Gregory's principle. He only hunts animals for their blood.

Now I wonder where he went? I was able to walk around the cathedral's interior. Maybe I can go out for some air. I'm just going to wait for Gregory to be back. This cathedral is a massive place for just one vampire.

The cold air greeted my face the moment I stepped out of the door on the side. It's too much effort if I open the main door. After all, it's a church with a huge main door. I'm not even sure if I can move it. But maybe it's possible now that I'm already a vampire.

But I don't feel like discovering my special abilities for now. As a human, I already have my third eye. It allows me to see other beings and even had a grim reaper to be my best friend for a long time.

I suddenly remember my moments with Angel. He appeared to me when I was in high school after the ouija board session with some of my classmates. Ever since Angel never left my side even when I ignored him after seeing his true face.

Although, he never lied to me about being my guardian angel of death. He told me the whole story when I got stuck on the other side. The moment he saw me before, he immediately knew that I was about to die in high school.

He told me that it will be a crime of passion. If he didn't scare the guys away from me, I would have been murdered by one of them. After saving me from my impending demise, he decided to keep on doing that.

I know that he loves me even way back then when I thought that he was a guardian angel. But he got content to just stay by my side. He thought that he had already predicted every possible way that I would die. But he wasn't able to predict that a vampire would bite me.

Angel doesn't have a choice but to leave me with Gregory. That's why the grim reaper just disappeared after talking to him. There's no soul that he can reap because it also belongs to the vampire. That made me realize that I'm not lucky to be in between life and death.

I'm not exactly dead, I'm not also alive. I can't go back to see the people I knew before. It's like living as a ghost who cannot be seen by anyone. But vampires are better at hiding compared to ghosts. I've never seen a vampire before but seen tons of ghosts around.

Now that I'm standing outside the cathedral, I noticed that I have night vision. I can see everything in the dark but in black and white. That's how vampires know if it's day or night because their vision changes.

After being able to think about what just happened to me, I suddenly felt sad. Gregory owns my body and soul. I can't even die or live my life the way it was. I have to live on his side forever. That's what being a vampire's wife or companion means.

I'm deep in my thoughts that I didn't even feel another presence. It happens to have another person in the darkness. Before I can realize who it was, I ended up face to face with the creature that seems to stalk me since earlier.