All About Love

Midnight Bliss

“Tick..tock..tick..tock………” the hour hand finally struck 12. It was finally midnight. He jumped out of his bed and reached the glass windows of his room as he silently opened them. With hands on the sill and eyes filled with anticipation, he gazed at the moonless night sky. The stars were twinkling with their faint light, covering the pitch black sky like precious gleaming gems.

Suddenly there was a tap on his shoulders that disrupted his entranced mind, making his eyes blink, erasing the reflection of the sparkling sky in his deep dark blue pupils. He turned around to meet a pair of crimson red eyes gazing at him with deep love. His lips curved up into a smile unconsciously.

In front of him stood a familiar gorgeous woman whom he had known since his birth. She was there beside him ever since he could remember. Always appearing when the clock reached perfectly 12 at night. Her young pretty look still remained as it had been.

Those eyes that left a deep impression on whoever saw them were his much loved feature. Her small mole beside those rosy pink lips of hers imbued a sense of seductive aura, alluring one’s heart to deeply kiss them and taste their irresistible feel, savoring their softness. Her skin, pale white, gave the illusion of the smoothness belonging to a fragile soft being, making one protect her. She stood there smiling at him, clad in a shining black sheath dress, making his heart beat beyond the normal rate.

He was now eighteen years old. He had just celebrated his birthday with his family but he had felt somewhat empty afterwards. It was like something was missing. Each and every birthday before his eighteenth one, the lady had been present beside him, singing him the happy birthday song in her pleasing and gentle voice at the midnight of his birthdays. But she hadn’t been present this year and he had felt a bit disappointed. Nonetheless, she, yet again, stood in front of him and softly wished him “Happy birthday.” Abruptly his heart was filled with sweetness. An overwhelming sense of joy enclosed his soul as his smile grew wider, showing his emotions of happiness and love.

He stepped closer and closer towards the woman, enchanted by her beautiful dazzling eyes. Trying to reach her and hug her in his warmth filled arms, he stretched out his hands. However, before he could touch her, she disappeared. He took a moment to react, trying to dispel his shock. Unknowingly his eyes fell upon the clock above his bed. !2:01. It was past midnight. Suddenly he felt a bit lightheaded and fell to the ground, unconscious.

Behind his unconscious body, on the window sill stood the same young lady clad in her shining black dress, smiling softly. However her gentle eyes were now glinting with hunger. An insatiable hunger. She gazed at the young adult who had abruptly fainted.

The time had finally arrived……
Licking her soft lips, she stood beside the boy’s unaware self and crouched down near his ears. Whispering in a magnetic voice she said, “You never had anyone since your birth except me…….” Her devilish smile widened as a pair of fangs glinted under the faint starlight of the deep night.

That night, frightened shrieks and screams echoed in the boy’s home. Blood was sucked dry from each and every family member, most of them seeing a pair of blood red vile eyes and a cruel smile plastered on a ghastly pale white face before their deaths. It was the Devil’s angel that had disappeared a thousand years ago but whose tales of evil still persisted in the minds of thousands, bringing a chill down the spine whenever thought of.

The legend told the tale of the Devil’s angel who would appear after each hundred years, every time preying upon people for their blood. Bearing the beauty of a heavenly angel with eyes resembling her desired blood, she roamed around for ten days, each midnight annihilating a whole family, sucking the blood of each and every member without leaving a drop behind. Afterwards she’d disappear for another hundred years leaving behind the terrible fear in the minds of those surviving.

What was unknown was that the family of the child, which was born on a moonless night and at the perfect time of 12:00 without a second passing, was left alone until the child reached the age of eighteen. The child was then taken as that woman’s spouse, serving as her blood bank, their blood adding to her already invincible powers. Such children would live for a thousand years.

As for the cause of her disappearance for a thousand consecutive years, that was of course because of the lack of need to hunt people down due the accumulation of a thousand blood banks or spouses in her harem. At the moment one of them had passed away, thus causing the appearance of the Devil’s angel yet again.

She needed one to fill that space now.
Despite the chaos, the boy slept deeply, peacefully living in his dreamland, unaware of the cruelty of the one for whom he had fallen. He was precisely the precious child born at perfect 12:00 on a moonless night and he had turned eighteen. Unfortunately, that woman’s spouse had died the day before and he had turned eighteen the very next one, thus, indirectly causing his family’s annihilation. And he would not even remember that his family existed once.

The lady leisurely walked into his room, with blood dripping from her sharp fangs that were revealed along with the never changing small smile. She gazed at the sleeping boy with a deep desire, her eyes trying to swallow him alive without a trace. She crouched down and reached near his neck, sniffing the scent of young and delicious blood. She couldn’t help imagining the taste as she swallowed her saliva. The very next moment, the dark room was empty with only the traces left behind on the sheets of the bed that held the last warmth of a person. The white curtains on glass windows fluttered in the calm and cold breeze of the moonless night as if waving in farewell.
Thus began the thousand years of his midnight bliss………