Salighayan; A Taboo Love Story

Chapter 5

~ Mike’s PoV

I woke up suddenly with a start, sweating profusely and gasping for air, ever since Jenny died and I had tried to follow a couple of times, I kept having nightmares of how she got hit by the car and her last words to me before she died, the nightmares got worse as they showed my own attempts at dying too.

Vampires don’t dream, not even pure breeds like me who were virtually half human, vampires don’t dream so why am I having nightmares?

I tried calming myself down, I got up, went to the kitchen and drank water but I wasn’t calm yet, my mind felt really disturbed.

I really missed her, but then I was trying to get over that so I can continue with my life only because she herself had appeared in my very first dream to tell me she was coming back to be by my side forever.

I finished water and went back in to try to go back to sleep but the nightmarish images kept appearing whenever I closed my eyes, the images seemed to have been burned to my subconscious.

I realized I needed fresh air to clear my mind, I intended to get some so I walked back to the sitting room.

I really don’t think I can ever get these images off my head, Jenny had meant everything to me, so I guess that is why this was happening, I don’t think I can ever be capable of love again, not if it meant going through this hellish experience should something bae happen again. It was better to avoid the nightmares altogether.

Only one place came to mind to get the kind of fresh air I needed and that was the beach, at least now I was going with a better purpose, not a suicidal one, so I put on my shirt, got out and drove myself to the beach.

I got there and sat by the mountain close to where I had been on my first day here, I looked into the ocean, my reflection was fading or maybe it was just the moonlit ocean playing tricks. Why am I even here again? Oh yeah right, fresh air, but it was a still and gentle night tonight, the breeze was almost none existent.

I laughed at myself for the kind of rotten luck that seemed to follow me about these days, but then what do I do?

I again suddenly started to remember a memory of the last time I and Jenny had gone to a beach not so unlike this one, she had teased me about being scared to enter the water to swim alongside her.

Vampires don’t do that well with water either, swimming isn’t a strong suit for our kind, was my reply to her but she still chucked it all to me being scared, we had quite a laugh.

I signed heavily ‘I miss you Jenny’ I said in a loud whisper.

I had a lot of if only statements going on through my head, but I knew none where of good reasoning and would only further get me depressed.

I felt a slight disturbance in the air around me, then I heard soft splashing, was someone or something in the water?

I turned my gaze to the other side towards the ocean and to my surprise I actually saw someone waving at me from a little distance off, I tried looking sternly then my vamp vision kicked in to reveal a lady with long black hair and she was stomach deep in the water amongst the boulder not too far from where I stayed the first time I was here.

I actually got scared for the lady because I knew that part to be deep and treacherous, I couldn’t see her entire body but I knew she was floating really well, also she had a wide smile on her face.

I was puzzled and curious as to why she could be in the water by this ungodly hour if I may use that word, so I tried to move across the boulders to get close to her, I looked towards where she was and yet she still smiled and waved at me, I waved back at her and made the gesture for her to wait.

I got to spot where she can't see me an then in a zoom I had pounced from boulder to boulder using vamp abilities and then I got to where I had stayed that faithful day, I looked up to check on her but then she was gone without even a ripple to disturb the surface of the water.

I started to doubt that I had even seen her, could this be another side effect manifesting? Hallucinations? That really wouldn’t do well, I acknowledged.

I stayed a bit hoping she would surface again if she was real, at least no human or supernatural he knew of could breathe underwater, or wait could she be one of the fabled merm...?

‘Now, now' I said to myself, stopping myself from thinking about it too deeply, surely my case couldn’t have gotten as worse as believing in fables and myths now.

I stood up at that point and pounced back towards land heading straight for my car, I guessed the fresh air I had hoped for to help didn’t do any good after all and in fact all it did was cause more problems in a sense of speaking.

I got back into my car and drove straight back home.

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~ Princess Mylie’s PoV

I got lucky today, so today is literally the happiest day of my life, I went to the human world this time not even in search for my human crush but just because there was a beauty to the kind of peace there was in the human world at night, so sometimes I just go to experience that peace.

I got spooked at first when I saw one of their moving vehicles approaching with such bright lights so I hid as my curious nature wouldn’t let me run back into the deep.

It was then that I got rewarded after my days of searching as I saw him get closer then deciding not to miss my chance this time I waved at him.

Nothing could compare to how glad I got as he waved back, but then I saw him coming towards my direction.

Uh oh, I have to go, I can’t let him discover that I am a mermaid, I quickly dove back into the water and headed straight for the deep, immensely satisfied with what I had been able to achieve today even though not planned.

I exited the surface and went into the deep but not before I saw how he moved with such unnatural speed as he moved across the boulders, now more questions arose in me.

Was that how humans move? Besides something told he me that he must not have really meant for me to see that moment of his movement, probably he had thought it was a blind spot for me but I saw it perfectly.

But then, getting to see him started to overrule all other thinking in my head.

Now even after seeing him another request took over my body, more like an urge that I had no control over; ‘I really want to see him up close and not from afar, so I really need to find a way to get this pearl from the spirits, that way I can appear to him as a fellow human.

I really need to find a way, I thought to myself contentedly as I swam back to my palace in the deep.