Forbidden Secrets

[wintr]

Forbidden Secrets

“I am not one to say but my heart is in so much pain, I watch them take him away. I pleaded with my father to spear his life, but my father only condemned me more. That night I will always remember, till the day I die, I promise I will one day feel his love again.”

Chapter One

The trees willow in the winds as night had fallen, darkness loomed all across the sky. I stood in my window looking out into the mist of darkness that was covering up the land. There he stood, calling out my name, I could feel him wrapping his arms around me once more. That is when I told myself it was only a dream. My father had taken him away from me, he ripped out my heart and step all over it.

“I forbid you to ever disobey me, or you will regret it.” he said as he locked me in my chambers.

I knew nothing of heartbreak until I met him, he was my world. We both knew we couldn’t be together but they way we both felt, it was electrifying. My heart would pound whenever he came near me, when he whisper in my ear, I could feel the shivers down my spine. I love him with all of my heart. But in a blink of an eye, he was gone, and my heart shattered into million of pieces.

Day was approaching, my father had insisted that I take a ride in the woods with him to clear my mind. I hated him but he was my father, what was I to do. I rode with him through out our kingdom, I wanted to ask my father he did what he did, but I was a coward. How could I love someone when I’m afraid to fight for them. I knew in my mind that I would never go against my father will.

“Cheer up dear, there will be other suitors one whom I will approve off.” he said to me as he patted my head.

“Why do you continually hurt me father.” I asked him as tears fell from my eyes.

“I am only looking out for you my child.” he said wiping the tears away.

“But why father, I love him.” I pleaded my case.

“I don’t want to see you get hurt they I did when your mother pass away.”

“What do you mean?” I asked him in confusion.

“One day I will reveal the truth to you.” he said as he rode off.

“One day my child the truth will be known to you and you will forgive me.” he yelled back to me.

My mother died years ago, no one had ever told me why, and I never asked knowing how much it had broken my father heart. I stare at her picture everyday as I walk into the main corridor. My father on his throne, proud and dignify. My mother stunningly beautiful, oh, how much I wished I could have met her. I would ask my nanny how my mother was, all I was told from her was that she was a wonderful woman, and that she loved me very much. I would try to ask her how she died, the only answer I got back was that it was not in my nature to know until it was time.

“Time for what?” I asked her.

“When it’s time for you to learn about your heritage.” she explain back.

I was confuse at all of the nonsense looming around, everyone act if my mother had never existed even though her photograph was everywhere. I was ten at the time, when I met him, the love of my life. A young boy from across the lake, his eyes blue as the day sky, his hair dark as night. He was handsome in my eyes, a fairly odd kid too. He was about thirteen years of age, I would see him walking about in the woods across the lake. I wanted to cross to say hi to him, but was forbidden. I asked my servant why but no one would tell him.

Everyday I would sit and watch him play, as the day grew so did he. I wonder if he had notice me, or notice that I have been watching him from afar. I tried to yell out to him, but it seems he didn’t hear me.

“Hello there.” I yelled out.

Still no answer back, so I yelled out some more, he never even look in my direction. As I kept yelling my nanny came over and told me to stop.

“What are you doing child?” she asked.

“I’m trying to get the boy attention over there.” I explain myself.

“What boy?” she asked me.

“Don’t you see him, he’s standing right over there.”

“Child don’t play with me, I don’t see anyone but the woods across the lake.” she look at me like I was day dreaming.

“Nanny Beatrice, he standing right there.” I pointed out.

“Stop the nonsense child, get yourself up and head to your room and refresh for dinner.”

As I pick myself up of the ground I turn my head back, he was gone.

 

[wintr]

Chapter Two

I sat at the table with my father, for some reason I didn’t have an appetite, I was hungry but not for the food that was serve.

“ I don’t feel like eating this.” I said to my nanny.

“But your highness, this is your favorite, you’ve been eating this food for the last ten years of your life.”

“I don’t crave it, I crave for something, but I don’t know what.”

My nanny then turns to my father and gave him a weird look. My father then excuse me from the table, which I didn’t hesitate to do so. The food look good and all but my craving for it wasn’t there. I later kissed him on the cheeks and headed up the stairs into my chamber.

“My lord, I think it might be time to tell her.” the nanny spoke quietly.

“It’s not time yet, she still have to learn how to stop her cravings first before I can open up the portal.”

“But my lord, she is craving for blood, soon she will be more curious to what she is craving for.”

“I made a promise to her mother, that I will not let her go outside these walls.”

“As your will my lord.”

I went to bed hungry but I told myself that I wasn’t craving for any particular food. My nanny later came up to my chamber and gave me a glass of this red liquid. The hunger stop, I was full, I then ask her what she had given me to stop my craving. All she did was smile at me and told me to go to bed. I close my eyes and dreamt of him, he was standing at a windmill extending his hand to me.

“Come my love.” he said.

I ran into his arms, he pull me inward closer to him, I could smell his scent. His hugged warm and tender, he then place his fingers on my chin and lifted my head. Our eyes met as he lean in to kiss me on my forehead. I then felt tears forming around the rim of my eyes. Why was I crying, was I sad or was I happy, that I got to be with him.

“Don’t cry my love.” he whisper in my ears.

I couldn’t stop, something was pinching my heart and making it hurt.

“Soon we will be together once again.” he said as he wipe away my tears.

He then fades away.

“No.” I scream.

The warmness disappeared and coldness blew across my heart as it tore apart. Who was he, and why did he say we will be together once more. What does that mean?

I woke up feeling wet around my face, it was tears, have I been crying in real life and not just my dream.

It was now my twenty first birthday, my father had thrown a ball on my behalf. It was alright I guess, coming to age was a big part of my heritage. The food smell good but I didn’t crave for it. Lucky my nanny had brought me some of the red liquid, since my first taste of it, I couldn’t remember when the last time I was hungry. Every meal time my nanny would bring it to me, and I would always ask her what it was. The same smile and she walk off.

“My child, what do you wish for on your twenty first birthday.” my father asked me.

“I wish for nothing.” I told him.

He laughed at me, “How could you wish for nothing, all princess wish for something they want.”

“Maybe I’m a different princess.” I said to my father.

He hugged me and told the orchestra to play.

As I walk around the room when I felt his presence, a young man then approached me and ask for a dance.

“ Your highness, may I have the pleasure of having this dance.” he said as he kissed my hand.

“You may.” I told him.

We dance throughout the whole music, the violin was my favorite instrument, the sound of the strings as the bow moved along the bridge. I then felt his presence once more, but this time it was more stronger. I excuse myself from the young gentleman and headed out onto the balcony.

A hand reach out for me, it was a warm touch, one that had been so familiar. I then felt both arms wrap around my body, I turn around and there he was, the man from my dream, the boy across the lake.

I look up at him, staring into his blue eyes, I wanted to ask him who he was and what was his name. As I open my mouth to ask, I felt a gentle tender kiss on my lips. I was stun, I never met him before, but the feeling was so familiar, like I had known him for a very long time. His lips so luscious, I didn’t want him to stop, he kissed me some more, he act like it had been years since he last saw me. Why can’t I remember who he was, why was my heart aching when he touch me. Gently he held me as we both stared into each other eyes.

“Where have I’ve seen you.” I asked him.

He didn’t answer, he just caress my face with his soft hands. As the ball was coming to an end, he said his goodbyes.

“Soon everything will be revealed.” he said as he vanish into the darken night.

There’s the pain again, why was my heart aching so much, who was he. I asked myself that question, I then walk back into the room and my father had thank everyone for coming and told the servants to escort everyone out.

“Did you have fun my dear?” he asked me.

“Yes father, thank you very much.” I said and kissed him goodnight.

Walking up the stairs and heading to my room, I felt he was there watching me, I look around be no one was there. As I approach my bedroom door, my head began to throb. Flashes of memories flicker back and forth. I then fell to the ground, when I later awoke, I was in my chambers with my nanny tending to me.

“What happen to me nanny.” I asked.

“You fainted in the hallway.” she replied back.

“I fainted.” I asked in confusion.

“I was coming to check on you when I stumble on you laying on the ground.” he said as she applied a cloth of cold water to my head.

“Sleep child, tomorrow will be a better day.” she told me as she tucked me in.

I watch her leave the room and fell sleep.

“How is she Beatrice.”

“She is fine now my lord.”

“Take good care of her, I saw that she had a headache that cause her to faint.” a voice said.

“Maybe her memories are coming back, my lord.”

“I’ve been hoping for that to happen for five thousand years.” the voice replied back.

“Five thousand years, I waited for her, all the lies we’ve been telling her can come to a end.”

“But my lord, if she remember what she had done to you, how could she forgive herself.”

“It wasn’t her fault, she didn’t mean too.” he said as he walk away from Beatrice.

I dreamt of him once more, this time I felt like I’ve known him all of my life. He held me in his arms, warm and tender to my skin. He place his soft lips on mine, the feeling was so familiar, like I had kissed him before. I laid my head on his shoulder as we both watch the sun goes down.

“Father, she is remembering.” a voice said.

“William, you have to remember, once she has all her memories back, she will try to harm herself.”

“I know father, I will be prepared for when that day will come.” William said as he sat across from his father.

“My daughter loves you will all her heart, and I’m not one to stop her. Her mother was human, and so your were once before that tragic night.”

“That night changes everything, I don’t blame her.”

“Thank you my boy, knowing that you love her only bring great joy into my heart.”

Day arrive in the kingdom, I woke up to see only dark mist surrounding the land, I was use to it day after day. As the sun came out as I rode my horse in the woods, I felt a burning sensation.

“Nanny, what’s going on, my hand feels like its on fire.” he look at her in pain.

My nanny then covered my whole body and called the guards to bring the horse carriage out.

“Hurry, hurry up men, the princess needs it.” she scream.

“Why am I in so much pain, it’s only the sun.” I asked her.

She didn’t answer back, she took me to one of the tall trees and told me to stay in the shadow. Not long the horse carriage had arrive and I was told to get in. My nanny then applied cold water to my wound, she then wraps cotton bandage around it.

 

[wintr]

Chapter Three

My headaches are more frequent as the days and night passes. After the headaches, flashes of more memories submerge from the background. I am beginning to remember who the man from my dream was, but it wasn’t that clear as of yet. The sun was finally setting, as I walk over to my old swing. I sat there looking across the lake, when I heard a voice behind me.

“May I push you.” the voice said.

I told him that he may.

I held onto the rope of the swing as he pushes me, he then place his hand on mines, the touch so familiar, the scent of his cologne brought warm feeling to my heart.

“I remember when you push me before.” I manage to say.

Where did that come from I thought to myself. I can picture him pushing me on the same swing, but I never swing here before with him. I can only recall that every time I came to swing I was alone.

“Just relax, don’t think to much, just feel the wind blowing across your face.” he said to me.

“I miss you William.” I whisper out.

He then stop.

“What did you say?” he asked me.

“I didn’t say anything.” I responded back.

I could feel the coldness running between us, as he step back into the shadow and disappeared. What did I say to scare him off like that. There goes the pain in my heart again, why is it every time I meet this guy I end up hurting.

“Father, she is getting her memories back, I can feel she is coming back to us.” William said excitingly.

“Soon we will have her back in our lives.”

The happy feeling turn sour, as they all remember that she will have to face what she had done. This might just take her back to where she had started, locking her mind away once more.

William had love her for all his life, he was a normal human until that night in the mist of rain and snow. The night that had change him forever.

As the months passed and then the years, the man in my dreams would keep telling me to wake up and face the truth. I wonder in my mind why he would keep saying that. But I couldn’t come to part. The more I dream of him, the more this man keep coming near me.

“Why won’t you tell me who you are.” I ask him.

“In due time my princess.” he responded back.

He gave me the feeling that I was being protected and love, a feeling that I once knew and I wanted back. I lost my mother at a very young age my father had always told me, but it seems that he was keeping something hidden. My hunger grew once more, this time the red liquid wasn’t filling my thirst. I wanted something fresh, what I have been drinking started to feel stale and not fulfilling anymore. I then felt my teeth, there were something wrong with them, as my tongue lick one of my tooth, I felt a deep cut. The taste of my blood felt so good, I wanted more, but not from me. My sense of smell liven up, I could smell the cook in the kitchen which was about three stories below my bed chambers. What’s happening to me, why do I thirst like this.

“Nanny, I am hungry.” I told her.

“Your highness, drink this.” she told me.

I tasted it, it was what she had given to me everyday.

“I am still hungry, I want more, I want it fresher.” I told her.

“Oh dear.” she cried out.

I watch my nanny run out of my room and headed down the hallway.

“Your majesty.” she said.

“What is it Beatrice.” he responded back.

“It’s Princess Annabelle.” she said in fear.

“Annabelle, what’s wrong with her.” he asked.

“She’s awoken.” the nanny said.

“Her thirst is back, she is beginning to remember my lord, what shall we do, she’s not ready.”

The hunger lingers, Annabelle stomach starts to growl, she was hungry. She called forth the servants to bring her everything they could find but the hunger wouldn’t stop, she then told the servant to bring her a rare steak, fresh from the butcher. As she sinks her teeth into the rare steak the taste of blood wipe away her thirst.

The kings then walks into the dinning room.

“What is wrong with me father.” I asked.

I then remember, I thirst for blood because I was one of them. Born from a human mother to a bloodline of vampires, then I remembered him, and what I had done to him. The pain return, as I remember that night, the night that I killed him. I scream in agony as the memories played over and over again in my head reminding me that I killed the only man I loved.

“What have I done.” I scream as tears fell.

“How long have I lock myself from these memories father. How long have you been lying to me?” I asked as I fell onto the ground.

“You were in so much pain dear, I didn’t know what else to do, so I place a spell on you to forget that night.” he explain to her.

I could remember that night, he came to see me before he was leaving, my father had forbid him to see me, because we were from two different realm. He was mortal, a human that lives on the outskirt of the kingdom. Human were to be only known as prey, meals to feed our hunger, but my father married my mother who was also mortal. He disobey my grandfather, and took my mother as his wife. But he then learn the true meaning of why my grandfather had forbid him. His heart is still in pain of losing her. That was then that my father learn about my grandfather one and only love. She was mortal, both were so much in love but she died of a sickness. He wanted to resurrect her, but it was forbidden by the law. From grandfather to great granddaughter, history lives on.

Now I know why my father had forbidden me from being with William, he was afraid that my heart would get broken if he died and I had live. Vampires are known to live forever, which means if William and I to be together I would only be in pain of watching him die. Living alone in a world without the one you love only hurts more each day and now I know how my father feels. But I saw William, how could I have seen him, he’s dead, I’ve killed him with my own two hands. I saw him laying there on me, how could this be.

That feeling is back, the felling of familiarity, the scent of his cologne. I turn around to see standing before my eyes, William, my heart felt like needles striking through it. Hot tears form from the rims of my eyes, as I start to walk near him, I felt only coldness. The warm touch I had once felt turn icy cold, his eyes were no longer the blue sky, but a gloomy gray. I stood in front of him, my heart pounding, then I heard his voice.

“I’ve waited for this day to happen.” he said coldly.

“What happen to my William?” I asked.

He lean in and touched me, he wipe away the tears, his hands cold as ice. His skin was no longer rich brown, but a pale gray, I no longer recognize my William.

I look to my father, wanting answer to what happen that night after he took William from me.

“I broke the law and brought William back to you. But before I could bring him back you were already in to much pain and I didn‘t know what the outcome would be. So I cast a spell so when the day due come, you won’t have to remember what you have done to him.” my father explain.

I didn’t know if I was suppose to be happy or sad, all I know was that I killed him, I can’t forgive myself for it and now that he has to spend eternity wondering this world watching his family members one by one past before him only bring pain into his heart. I can’t do that to him, but it had been done already and I can’t take it back.

“You must hate me for what I had done to you condemn you to a life of misery.” I said as I step back away from him.

He grab me and held me tightly.

“I have never regret a day, five thousand years I’ve waited for you, and thousands more I want to spend with you.” he said.

Tears fell even more, William wipe them all away, I no longer feel the pain. William and I are together once again, my promise has been fulfilled.

The end

 

[tastesweetlove]

OMG this was such a sad and sweet story. her father was only trying to protect her from that horrible night.
5 thousand years waiting for her to remember----true love.

thanks for this short story :wub:

 

[maichi]

wow good story but sad at the end. I don't like sad ending.!!!