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After what looked like an eternity, you finally get out of your head and come back to the present. Mattie is still looking at you with that entertained look she gives you all the time, even after you spent a good amount of time in silence thinking about what she told you. It was really rude to do that when she was trying to be nice to you but you couldn’t control, It took you by surprise. But after all that thinking, you knew you had to change from now on. You need to know more people; you need to get out of your bedroom more; you need to get out of your comfort zone. The problem is, you like comfort and normal, change is more difficult to you than to everyone else. But you need to try, otherwise you would go mad, if that’s even possible in your case. And you’re determined to start it now, being nice to the woman in front of you.
- Hm, sorry, Mattie. I zooned out for a minute – She grins at you and nods.
- No problem, dear. – you want to make sure you’re in a neutral place before you start you’re “meeting”, so you try to make sure your regrets are real.
-But that was ru.. – You try to redeem yourself but she doesn’t even let you finish it.
-That was nothing. You’re still getting used to this “life” – She points to the place around you. - It’s more normal that you think, honey. – “But it’s not that easy to do it”. She seems to notice your reaction, cuz she grins again when she handles you the menu. – I think we better do what I brought you here to do. Shall we choose our food?
You just nod and accepts the menu she was handing you. You start to read the menu and you get quickly impressed. If you were still alive, this meal would cost you your eyeballs. But the good part in this afterlife is: you don’t pay for your meal. You don’t pay for anything, actually. If this was a normal day, you would order the same as always: a latte and a lemon pie. Since this is obviously a not normal day, and since you decided a couple of minutes ago you needed to change certain things, you will change your order, radically. You look thru the window, it’s a sunny day outside, people are enjoying it the way they prefer. The children are playing soccer in the middle of the street, the teens are listening to music while chatting in groups, and the adults are enjoying the day to date with their afterlife beloveds. All of that while you’re on a meeting with your stubborn roommate. “What a day to be ali….hm…. Forget it”. After you had read the menu about 5 times, Mattie clears her throat.
- Have you decided what you want to eat, sweetheart? – You have not, but you nod anyway.- Good, I need my pineapple juice soon otherwise I will melt with all this sun. –“the sun still isn’t her best friend, huh? Typical Mattie, she’s not a vampire anymore but still have vampire habits”. Mattie does a sign with her hand to the waitress that was near the balcony. The girl was not much younger than you and much taller, she had her brown hair falling down her shoulders and she looked a little nervous. When she gets to your table, she turns to Mattie to ask for her order. – I want a pineapple juice and a shrimp pie. – She writes down Mattie’s order and turns toward you, but looking to the ground. You wait to see if she’ll look at you so you can say your order but she doesn’t even mention to change her position. You’re confused, you never saw this girl in your life, but she looks almost scared. Why would she look scared? You two never even met! You look at Mattie and she seems to notice the girl’s actions too, cuz she is studying her, as if trying to solve the mystery. You know Mattie well enough to know that, if the girl stays like this a little longer, Mattie will start to make comments, the not very nice type of comments she loves to make. So you just ignores the way the girl is acting towards you and starts to order.
- I would like some grape juice and a slice of chicken pie, please. – The girl blushes a deep red while nods at you. She finds courage to speak something.
- Anything else? – She looks between Mattie and the ground, but not at you. That’s when you get it. “How didn’t I noticed that before? Mattie knows her, it’s the only explanation”. Before you can say anything Mattie does a sign to the girl, sending her away. You turn to her, wanting to know more about what happened.
- Seriously? – She looks at you with a confused face. – What did you do to that poor girl? - She still looked confused af. – Don’t use that confused face with me, it didn’t worked when you were an ancient thirsty vampire, it won’t work now. – Her expression changed from confused to something lighter, amusement. You wanted to slap her so the amusement would get out of her face, but that would be anti-Perry. She was totally getting on your nerves. – Stop looking at me like I’m a Kardashian! I’m not your private reality show. – Ok, you’re letting your issues out. “Control yourself, Perry”. Mattie puts her hands up, on surrender.
- As hard as it might be to you, darling, I had never met this girl until now. – You frown. If Mattie never met the girl, why was she all nervous and not looking into Perry’s eyes?
- If you never met her, why was she so nervous? She was shaking, as red as a tomato and she didn’t look into my eyes even once. It was like if she knew you’re once an evil vampire and I was a… - She raises her brows – poor, hm, frightened girl who just wanted everything to be normal. – You tried to fix it the moment it got out of your mouth, but she raises her brow again, not buying it. “Awesome! All I needed was one more subject for her to mess with me.” She watches you a little longer, expecting you to say something. When you stay silent, she smirks and shakes her head, giving up. “At least for now I’m safe of her questions”.
- You staked a vampire, - “Witch Laf brought back to life. - ” you’re possessed by a God – “Yeah, I was. And it took me several months to realize that possessing was what was happening inside my head”. - , you DIED to protect your friends from said God – “And now I’m stuck with you until the end of days. Great”. - but you still can’t say when someone shows interest. – “What? Is she on crack?”. She smiles and look at you. – You don’t even have a clue, do you? – You shake your head. You didn’t noticed the girl’s interest in you, you thought her nervous way was because of Mattie’s presence, which you would totally understand. Mattie still freaks YOU out sometimes. You try to say something but nothing that makes sense leave your lips. – Even with all of those girls at Silas drooling over you, you have no idea how attractive you are. – It wasn’t a question, it was an affirmation. You never thought of yourself as an attractive person, and that’s why when people fancied you, you never noticed. That’s why you never said anything to Lafontaine, cuz you never believe they would want someone like you, with nothing special. You read in a book once, that we accept the love we think we deserve, and that applies perfectly in your case. You never believe someone would want you, someone would desire you, because you never felt like you were worth it. You hid the real you from your best friend, you never told them about your powers. You had a good reason for that, they are crazy about supernatural things, they would have loved to know that but you wanted them to want you for you and you only, not because of some cool spells you were capable of doing. And now, Mattie just said something that contradicts all of that. With a couple of words, she made you think again, reconsidering what you thought since you were a teenager. She finds you attractive, and she insinuated there are others that do too. You don’t understand why she’s saying these things to you, but you need to make her stop.
- I, hm, don’t know what you’re talking about, Mattie. – Not very good, you know that. But at least you were able to form words, which is an advance. She smiles again, amusement written all over her face.
- Oh, darling, you should really pay more attention to what happens around you. – She just confuses you even more. – You had a line of girls waiting for you to throw them a wink so they could date you. – “If Insanity is not possible in the afterlife, Mattie is the first case and I just witnessed it”.
- What are you talking about? There wasn’t any girl waiting for me to do anything, no one noticed me in that university. – She groans, showing all of her frustration.
- You don’t really have any idea, do you? – Her voice is louder than before. – All the Summer Society girls, your nerd little friend, even that curly haired one, what was her name again? – She was thinking, as trying to figure out the name. You started to think too, but the only curly haired girl Mattie knew besides you were… - Mel! That’s her name. – “What?”.
- What? Mel never… - she cuts you off.
- Yeah, she did. So did all of the others. They threw themselves at you, begging for your attention. Hoping they’d have a chance.- Her jaw was tense, she was angry. But why?- But you only had eyes for that creepy little gir.. – You cut her off this time, she doesn’t have the right to talk about Lafontaine.
- If they were so interested as you claim them to be, they would have looked for me and tried something, which they didn’t. So stop talking about what you don’t know. – Her eyes changed, they were darker, if that’s even possible. She
- Oh, honey, believe me I know what I’m talking about. I noticed the way they looked at you, all the sighs they gave when you walked by. It’s the same way….- She groans again. She was getting angrier and angrier, and you were scared and confused. She had no reason to be that angry with your oblivious self. - And you would have noticed all that too if you had just looked around to see what was right in front of you! – With that, she stormed out of the coffee shop, letting you more confused than ever. Her words keep coming back on an endlessly loop in your head, so you stand up and go after her. She really needs to explain you all that happened here.