A few days ago Alex had found a crystal necklace on the road. Just as she was picking it up a car sped towards her.
BANG!
She knew she was dead before she felt it and now this.
"I'm just a girl in the 21st century! Why did this strange thing happen to me?" She felt desperate and helpless. In the end she started to cry. After a while she realised the situation in which she found herself now; she was a princess and had a fiancee who didn't like her, he just needed power and wanted to control her. Alex didn't want to die again. She knew she had to play the role of Victoria and no one could know the truth.
If you can't change the things in your life, you might as well enjoy them and since she had died once she felt she should treasure this second chance. But first she had to find what was going on between Victoria and Vincent and what the real plan was.
"The altar!" she said. "I have to go to the altar!" She didn't know why but something told her she had to go to that place again but how? She didn't know where that place was.
"Servant!" she said imitating the voice of the princess she once saw in a film.
"Princess Victoria, what can I do for you?" a young bowed girl said as she came quickly into the room.
"I want to go to the altar to thank God I am not dead!"
"Yes your highness, I will prepare your clothes.."
"No, we must go now! And I don't want anyone to know but you. Can I trust you?"
"Yes, your highness." the servant said with a trembling voice, she could never refuse the princess.
"Lead the way!" said Alex climbing down the bed.
The servant was very surprised by this because the princess had been to the altar many times before but she was too afraid to ask the princess.
Once they arrived at the altar Alex felt the certainty that should find something very important here and there is was, the crystal necklace, on the ground. She knelt to pick it up and was instantly lost inside a dream. Victoria and Vincent's life unfolded inside her head.
"Victoria, are you alright? They told me you fainted again! I have lost you so many times already I don't want to lose you again. I love you no matter what." Vincent said as he leant over her.
"I know, and I love you too." Alex said with a smile.
Vincent was taken aback by Victoria's reaction.
"Can we have the wedding in two days then?"
"Sure" she said.
Two days later,they had their luxurious wedding. Alex was the happiest girl in the world.. On their wedding night Alex was in their room waiting for Vincent's big surprise.
"Are you happy today?"Vincent asked when he came into the room.
"Of course Vincent. And I want to tell you something."Alex didn't want to lie him anymore she wanted to tell him who she was.
"Shh.....Don't say anything now. It is time to party!!!"Vincent laughed loudly.
"What do you mean party?"Alex could think of what was going to happen.
"Alex!I knew you who you were when I saw you the first time!"
"What?!" she cried.
"I have no time to explain now.Give me your blood or you will died again!" he said wrapping his hands around her throat.
"Please.....stop...give me some..... "Alex throttled.
" You have no right to refuse me! But for your sweet magic blood I would have never laid eyes on you." His sharp teeth pierced Alex's white neck felt her blood being drawn out of her.
When she opened her eyes, he was there sitting on the bed beside her.
"Now I have what I want." he said. "Now I can live forever, Victoria's royal blood was the key to immortality, I read it in the sacred book.
And just for your information, I loved her too. I told her the truth about what I was and what I wanted from her and she didn't love me enough to grant me my wish...I didn't want to kill her, just replace her and this is how you came..but unfortunately...you need to die too."
Alex had no time to react;his dagger was much faster that her. she died without words.just after her eyes closed for the last time Vincent's body collapsed on the floor cold and rigid.
The truth is that Vincent was a lazy man. If he had gone into the trouble to read the book carefully and from page to page, he would have read this:
" ... to take her blood you are her are two parts of a whole. You must protect, and love her forever for her life is your own."
(painting by Sonya Fu)
