Bloods Gem (37 page)

“
What do you mean? You love me? You
don’t even know me!”

“
Yes, I do… I’ve known you for a long
time Faith but that wasn’t your name when we first met, it was
Leah”

What was he talking about? I didn’t know who
this Leah was. I think he was mistaking me for someone else.

“
I think your confused!” I yelled. He
laughed at me again. He placed his hand on my face. “I love you
Leah, let me show you something.” His hand went to my head, it
burned instantly.

I saw these images go by so fast, then they
suddenly started coming into focus. He showed me what looked like
me and him talking on a bench. Then he showed us making love. I
pushed his hand away trying to push the thoughts out of my
head.

“
What is this? Why are you showing me
this? That’s not me!”

“
Yes it is my Love. You were once Leah
in a past life. Your soul is inside of this body now, can’t you see
it?”

I was so confused. What he thought I was…
wasn’t true.

“
Listen Adrian, I'm not… this person
who you think I am. I have no clue what you're wanting from me but
these things your showing me--”

“
In time. Just be patient my love and
do what I told you to do. We will be together again,
eventually.”

I shook my head, he was a nut case, I
thought.

“
Oh and remember, don’t let Daniel
convince you to go back. He will be visiting you shortly, you must
stick to your story no matter how hard he tries. He will also try
to use his abilities on you. So, I'm giving you some training, and
a few of my abilities in the process. You will be able to keep him
out of your dreams and mind for good. When you wake, your abilities
will be effortless and you will know how to use them instantly when
you need to.” He grabbed me, kissing me. There was no pulling away
this time, he had control over me and I couldn’t move.

“
I love you. Please be patient and
wait for me to show you. the real you,” he said,
disappearing.

I suddenly woke up. I was drenched in sweat.
I clinched my chest. It felt like my insides was being ripped from
me. I started screaming. I ripping the covers off me and stood up,
knocking over the dresser. Chris quickly came in grabbing a hold of
me. “Faith, wake up, your dreaming!”

I opened my eyes and glanced at him. I had
to get myself together. I didn’t want him thinking I was a crazy
person. “Sorry, I was having a nightmare,” I mumbled, laying back
down and holding my chest.

“
Are you okay?” He asked, sitting down
next to me.

I nodded. “Yeah. I just don’t feel very
good. You mind if I just lay in bed today?” “Sure, whatever you
need. I'll go get you some breakfast,” he said.

“
Thank you, Chris.”

He kissed my head and walked out. I cried in
pain. I heard my phone go off between screams and grabbed it out of
my purse. It was a text from Daniel. I was scared to read it but I
couldn’t help it, anything just to feel him close to me even with
words.

Faith, my true love. I don’t know why your
doing this. Faith, I can't live… without you. I just cant let
you…go. I don’t understand. I know you're not you right now and I
don’t know why but I have a good idea. Your in trouble. I can feel
that you're hurting. I can still feel you. Just trust me, tell me,
even if your scared, try to communicate with me… whoever is making
you do this, just please. Faith come back to me because you know
me. You know I wont ever give up, no matter how hard you try to
hurt me. YOU KNOW ME FAITH!

He was right. He wouldn’t give up. And he
knew there was something wrong. The lie I told him made no sense,
out of the blue. He could read my every thought and emotion up
until Adrian got to me. And even a little now…somehow. He wasn’t
going to leave me alone no matter how much pain I inflicted on him.
didn’t know how else I could convince him I wanted to be with
Chris. Unless I let him read me. My thoughts. Making myself feel a
certain way even for a few minutes, just so he could feel it and
see it… It might make him believe. I knew Adrian was watching my
every move somehow and could hear and read me every second. There
was no way to get around him. Unless, I kill him myself.

I stuck to the plan Adrian had. There was
nothing I could do just yet. Months went by and Daniel was still
blowing up my phone, I ignored it. I knew he was coming to find me
soon and Adrian had been training my mind in my dreams to get me
ready.

He knew I hated him but that didn’t make him
less obsessed with me. He told me he would stop kissing me until I
asked him to and I told him he would be waiting until I was a
corpse in the ground. He thought everything I said was funny. I
amused him. He told me later I was to meet him somewhere in person,
so he could teach me to fight and fly in real life. I made up an
excuse, telling Chris I was going to see my Mom. He let me use his
truck and I set off for my meeting.

I turned down the dirt road. He was giving
me directions in my head as I drove. I couldn’t believe how strong
he was mentally. He must have a lot of training. Mentally, and
spiritually, he was a master. He even showed himself to me in
spirit once when me and Chris went out to eat. It freaked me out
and I started choking on my food as though I seen a ghost. I knew
there was nothing I could do to overpower him mentally. And it
bothered me knowing that fact.

I drove to the spot he told me to and got
out of the truck. He told me to run up this hill and he’ll be
waiting. I ran up as fast as I could and there he was. His back
facing me, looking up into the sky. “Thank you for coming Faith,”
he said, turning around.

“
Like I had a choice,” I said, shaking
my head. I folded my arms and kicked the dirt under me.

He chuckled. “That’s true. I wont be this
cruel forever you know. It’s just tough love for now,” he said,
smiling.

“
Whatever, can we get on with
it?”

“
Yes, first I must ask you. Do you
know how to fight at all?”

I laughed. “You tell me, can't you just read
me or something?” He narrowed his eyes, clicking his tongue.
“Alright… you want to be difficult? That’s fine. I don’t blame you.
Why don’t you use all this frustration built up and come at
me?”

I raised a brow. “You want me to attack
you?” I asked, hopeful. He smiled and nodded.

“
My pleasure,” I said, dropping my
keys. I thought of everything he'd done to me my anger turning to
rage. I screamed as I launched at him. I knocked him to the ground
and pinned him down, my hand to his throat, squeezing as hard as I
could. He tossed me into the air, falling down I landed in the
dirt.

“
Good girl… your quite strong but not
strong enough,” he said looking down at me.

I laughed and launched at him again with
everything I had. This time I had him in the air and we were taking
shots at each other. I punched him in the throat and he went down.
I jumped on top of him and continued to beat him, I didn’t want to
stop. He was bleeding everywhere. He grabbed me by my hair and
tossed me into a tree, hitting the back of my head, everything
around me began fading and I was out.

I opened my eyes, Adrian sat by the fire.
“Good morning sunshine!” He said happily. “What happened?” I
asked.

“
You gave me a good run. You were
pounding away at me, I didn’t think you’d stop so I knocked you
out,” he said chuckling.

“
Wow, thanks!” I said,
sarcastically.

He sighed. “I know you don’t quite like me
Faith. And I'm sorry for putting you though all of this but deep
down I'm a good person.”

I laughed. “Yeah, right…”

“
You know, it pains me, the way you
see me and it pains me hurting you but do you realize I have no
choice?”

“
There's always a choice Adrian.” I
said, crawling closer.

He shook his head. “If he didn’t find you
first. None of this would have happened. I didn’t know you would be
back.”

“
You realize I have no clue about what
your talking about? You never tell me exactly what this is all
about. So, if you want me to respond in a certain way, I think you
need to help me understand what you mean.”

He turned his head in my direction. “Your
right. Alright, I'll tell you the whole story then,” he said
smiling.

“
Great,” I mumbled under my breath,
wishing I would have kept my mouth shut.

“
A long time ago, I too had a gem, her
name was Leah. We were completely in love. I’d done the process and
we had a great life together. Soon she became pregnant and I knew
from the beginning she might not survive the birth, she knew it
too. She died quick. I didn’t even realize it, until it was too
late… I would have changed her if I knew this was going to happen.
She was like you only half human half shifter. I gave the child up
that she birthed and was angry for years. I wanted to die. I went
to the hunters to have them kill me but they just laughed in my
face. I tried killing myself by starving but some vampires took me
in and nursed me back to health. I cursed them but they grew
attached. They didn’t want me to die and they kept me safe. I grew
to love them like family. When I eventually went back to the
castle. I brought home some random girl saying she was my gem. I
could tell no one believed me but they didn’t question me either.
Through out the years Daniel was as happy as can be. I really
didn’t like him to begin with because I knew Father loved him
more.

Anyways, he found you. I followed him
curious. When I seen you I knew… that you were her. I often went
into your dreams tapping into your inner spirit and found Leah
there deep down in your soul. She told me what your telling me now.
She knows… who she was and who we were, once together. But she told
me to leave her alone. But I cannot, and will not give up. Yes he
found Faith first, but I found Leah first… And she’s my gem, your
my gem.” He started crying.

I shook my head. “It’s not the same Adrian,
so she’s like, what reincarnated into my soul somehow? But I'm
controlling my own soul, not her I'm not her and will never be. And
if she told you the same thing, why are you making my life
hell!?”

“
I don't know! I can't let her
go!”

“
Adrian, you have to. I mean, you know
there's no way I would ever… unless you--” He looked up at me.
“Yes, I know. And I didn’t want to have to resort to that. I just
hope you can grow to love me one day.”

I felt sad for him. He was all screwed up in
his head. I sat closer to him and rubbed his back. “Listen, you
know I belong with Daniel and I can’t force myself to love someone
truly. It will never happen.” He looked into my eyes and I couldn’t
look away. He spoke in a different language, chanting. I felt weak
and my body began floating, so did his. He held me close to him and
pressed his lips to mine. We embraced, I kissed him back. I wasn’t
Faith anymore, it was as if I was now Leah in this moment. The Leah
who loved him immensely, the Leah who was his gem forever…

I woke up on Chris’s bed. I looked around
the room and saw the light shining through the window. I stood up
and went to the bathroom. I looked in the mirror trying to remember
what happened last night but nothing came. All I remembered was
fighting Adrian and being knocked into a tree. I noticed a few
bruises on my arm but nothing I couldn’t cover up.

I walked downstairs and seen Chris cooking
breakfast.

“
Hey babe, you hungry?”

“
Um, yeah sure but would you mind
making me a steak? Remember my special diet?”

“
Oh yeah. Well, good thing these
steaks were dropped off on the porch this morning. I guess my dad
ordered them or something,” he said, pulling a steak from the
fridge. “Rare, please.”

“
Um, Okay,” he said, scrunching up his
face.

I was craving blood and meat. I didn’t
understand why all of a sudden I wanted blood. As he cooked the
steak all I could smell was him. I watched his blood pumping
through his veins. I slammed my fist into the bar trying to calm
myself as my mouth started to water.

“
Something wrong?” He turned around
and asked me.

I shook my head. “No, just hit my hand on
the bar, an accident.”

He turned back around and grabbed a plate.
He put my steak in front of me. He came around the bar and grabbed
me around my waist. He kissed my lips. I grabbed him tightly. I
kissed back hard and he tried jerking back. I held him closer, he
was scrambling to break free. “Faith your hurting me, Faith stop!”
He yelled.

I quickly released him. “I'm sorry,” I said.
I knew why I was acting that way. I wanted his blood so bad.

I scarfed up my steak to try to satisfy my
cravings.

“
Whats gotten into you Faith?” He
asked.

“
It’s nothing. I just want you so bad
sometimes. I over did it I'm sorry.” It was kind of the truth I did
want him but not in that way. He smiled. “Oh, yeah?” He said,
rubbing his shoulder, smirking as if he was hot stuff.

I smiled back at him. “I will try to
restrain myself from attacking you,” I said laughing.

“
Well, you know we have this house to
ourselves.”

“
Yeah we do,” I said, walking towards
him, thinking about my new plan.

“
But, I want to be married first. You
know, before we.”

His mouth flung open. “Uh, really? Wow, um
okay,” he said.