Larten Crepsley - My story 04

Chapter 04

Dear Darren... I know exactly what you were going through when you spend so many hours locked inside of a coffin. I did too!
At first I thought Seba was joking, and I did not take it seriously at all. Not until I drank that horrible tasted potion that would make me appear dead and I landed numb on the ground.
Seba closed my eyes and carried me back to the town and drop me in the middle of the street. He placed a half empty bottle of alcohol in my hand (after he spilled some all over my body until I stank of alcohol). Everybody would assume that I had drunk myself to death... Just like my father.
When the sun was about the rise I could hear a door open not far from where I was lying. I could recognize the bakers heavy steps and his constantly sniffles. "What the..." I could hear his deep voice say. "Arg not again! One day that stupid lad's gonna end up just like his father!" He mumbled while he walked across the street towards me. "Hi kid, wake up!" He said, and pushed me to wake me up. "Mr. Vur, I'm talking to ya! Wake up I sa..." He stopped pushing me and laid a hand on my arm. When he realized that I was too cold a pale for a living human, he started to call for help. Not many minus later I could hear more and more people around me. They were mumbling to each others and I did not make much out from what they were saying.
I did not take the doctors long to declare me dead. (Remember, this was back in the 1800s. They did not need much more proofs than: no pulse, a little stank of alcohol and the bottle in my hand to declare me dead from drunk.)
I do not remember much he next couple of hours. I was moved from the street and back to the doctors small clinic where I spend many hours before my sister came.
I could hear her from the streets. She was yelling that it better be a joke or she would drag my back from death to kill me herself for being so stupid and irresponsible.
When she entered the room where I was lying she did not say a word. She stood next to me for a long time before she did something I had never expected her to do – She cried.
She hit me in the chest many times while she almost screamed at me to wake up. She kept telling me how sorry she was for yelling at me and for not being a better sister. She blamed herself for my 'death' and that felt like driving a old wooden stake right through my heart.
At my funeral I could hear her cry all the time. Sometimes she only cried a little, other times she sounded like she collapsed and she kept asking God "why?". It was a terrible way for me to go. I never thought that I meant so much to her and I started to regret what I had done. I wished that I had  said goodbye to her but now it was too late. I was a part of the creatures of the night.
When the funeral was done and they had buried me I waited for Seba to dig me up.
My whole body began to itch like crazy and it did not take me long after that to regain control of my body.
The coffin was made of pain wood so my back started to hurt. I was half afraid that Seba might had forgot all about me or that the coffin would collapse under the pressure of the dirt. I wished that they had left some bottles of alcohol with me. Just a little sip, and they could take away my worries.
I thought about my sister and my friends and my stomach began to twist in regret. I already missed them a lot.
When Seba finally dug me up, I had used up almost all of the air in the coffin so I was feeling pretty bad. While he covered the grave with dirt I had time to take a last look at the town where I had lived all of my life. I felt like crying but I did not want Seba to think that I had changed my mind. When he was done he called for me and with a heavy heart I joined the vampire.
My sister had arranged to coffin to lye between my wife and my daughter and with a small smile and turned my back to my town, my grave between the two girls that I had loved the most and to my life as a human.

I followed Seba without saying a word until we could no longer see the town. He stopped and looked right at me. "Have you regretted what you asked me to do?" He asked forward. I just stared at the ground hoping he did not expect an answer. When I realized he would keep staring at me until  I gave him an answer I nodded faintly. "I never thought she would cry that much" I mumbled. "I guess I was a bit of a selfish baster" Seba nodded "Yes you are, but there is nothing you can do about it now. It is easier for you to forget your sister and your friends and move on" That annoyed me greatly "A little sympathy would be nice!" I snapped. He ignored me and kept walking.
I started to curse while following my new mentor. At first it was a small mumbling but I ended up shouting and swearing about how stupid I was. At last Seba made a quick turn and looked my right into my eyes. His gaze frighten me and I stopped shouting. "This is very important Vur so listen carefully while I say this, for I shall only say it once." His voice was deep and it was clear that he was very annoyed. "What you did is past and I want you to let it go. I will never again ask you to LOWER YOUR VOICE while you accompany me. You are now my assistant and therefore you do exactly as I say, and I will NOT have you shouting and cursing without a VERY good reason while we travel because I worship silence. Did I made myself clear?" I did not say a word but I guess he could see in my eyes and I did not need him to tell me again. When he turned around I he walked a bit faster and I had a hard time following him. "Hey hey wait up! Wait for me! I can't walk- AV!!" I jelled and I would feel the tears filling my eyes. I covered my nose and cursed out of pain.
Seba stood right in front of me with a hair between his fingers - My nose hair! "And I will not hear you speak those hideous words ever again!" He said. "From now on you have to say I WILL, CAN NOT, DO NOT and I could continue for a very long time. I will not hear any of those composite words coming from your mouth, and every time I do I will rip out one of your nose hairs."
After a few sentence where he plucked out 3 of my hairs, I dared not say another word. So we started to walk again.
We took a rest on a cemetery where he had planned for us to sleep. He explained to me how he would turn me into a half-vampire but he wanted to do it when I deserved it.
"What do you want me to do?" I asked him not really sure if I wanted to become a vampire after all. "I want you to behave and get rid of that rudeness of yours. I can not turn you into a vampire before you learn how to earn some respect" He explained. Back then I did not understand what he meant, so I got angry and tried to start a argument, but he waved me away and got ready for some sleep.
"Do not attempt to run away, Vur." He warned me when I got up and told him I would go into the town nearby to stretch my legs "I have not turned you into a half-vampire yet, but you are still my assistant. If you run away I will hunt you and kill you." I did not doubt that he meant was he said, and I did not want to test fate. "Don't worry! I won't! AWCH!!!!" - Another two hairs was ripped from my nose.
Before leaving I turned around to ask him the last question until I would be dazing around to find a bar. "Where are we headed, by the way?"
He smiled grimly, laid down and answered: "To The vampire mountain!"