CASSANDRA
VIII: THE CHOOSING
by
Anthonystjoseph
Tammy, Stephanie, and Steve as Cassandra’s
closest family sat in a small room and discussed the progress of Cassandra and
her memory returning. They were so happy
with her progress and Steve professed that Cassandra had felt their ancient and
familiar love immediately. Steve
couldn’t be happier with the return of his soulmate and no one in this room was
going to stop the two of them from getting back together again.
Steve looked around the room at his two
sisters, Tammy and Stephanie. He thought
about the centuries on top of centuries, rather, millennia on top of millennia
that they had returned to their family and rebirth after rebirth, he and
Cassandra had never forgotten their love.
The real truth was that they were all direct descendants of Eve and even
though modern legend referred to their kind as vampires as in the fact that they
lived forever; they had the myth very confused.
Only the dark ones in the family had chosen to get into the art or act
of drinking blood. Blood was never
necessary to their kind and never would be.
They actually lived forever because upon their rebirth into a new life,
or new body as Steve thought to himself was more aptly put, they remembered
their previous existence and always in some way sought out the family.
Ramon was the leader of the dark ones and
had become a comical, eccentric, caricature of his own minds creation. He practiced dark arts and embarrassed almost
everyone in the family with the way he used mortal humans for his own personal
amusement. He had developed a large
cultish following that believed he had special powers and granted, he did have a
few, but nothing compared to what he thought in his own mind. Stephanie in her longevity in her current
lifeform could wipe Ramon off the face of the earth at any time but they had
all vowed long ago to never destroy or harm one another so she let him live in
his fantasy world that he had created with his human castoffs.
They sat in the room waiting for Cassandra
to arrive and hoped she would once again choose the family and rejoin. Steve had no doubt she would walk through the
door. Tammy and Stephanie weren’t so
sure. A few, very few, had decided in
the past to not rejoin the family. Very
few had decided to leave what was known in the spiritual world as ‘The Eternals’.
Tammy had finally sat Cassandra down along
with Stephanie and informed her of the family and all that it meant. Cassandra listened as Stephanie as the leader
of the clan informed her of her ancestry and how as descendants of Eve they
lived forever through what she would know as reincarnation. Cassandra had known all along she was
different and had long ago accepted that she had lived before so it wasn’t as
unbelievable to her as one would think.
She listened as Tammy explained that the drug Chrystal Meth was just
used because it sped up ones thinking process but it was not a drug they
recommended or even used. Stephanie
laughed when Cassandra said, “Good, because I was getting tired of the stuff
and I saw how badly it has been affecting my friends.”
Cassandra jumped and looked startled,
“Then why do you sell it!?” Stephanie laughed
and responded, “We just did this as a temporary thing to bring out certain
family members who had recently been reborn.
We have found that speeding up the thinking process helps the rebirth go
a lot smoother. We have no need or
desire to be in the drug trade. You must
be able to imagine that money is no object of concern for us since we have been
around since the invention of the actual idea of money.” Tammy interjected, “Cassandra, all of your
money from your previous lives is in your own accounts that only you and your
soulmate know of.” Cassandra began to
cry as she thought of Steve… She
immediately knew that he was her soulmate and her husband and started to cry
even harder with tears of joy. Her
memory started returning at that moment.
She left Tammy and Stephanie and returned to her apartment in a fog of
remembrance. Although she was in a fog,
she had a new strength and conviction in who she was and the fact that all she
had felt her entire life was true. She
was different.
She left her apartment and knew that it
would be the last time that she would see it and its belongings. She had made her choice.
She walked up to the large home that she
remembered from her former life. The
butler opened the door and then she approached the study. She opened the door and walked in and there
he sat. She walked up to Steve in his
tuxedo and kissed him passionately as he returned the kiss with even more
passion. She remembered everything and
knew that she would not have to go through this situation again for hundreds of
years as their lifespan was longer than normal human beings.
She held Steve as she looked forward to a
life full of puddles and he held her as he himself looked forward to a lifetime
of making it rain.
They walked out of the house to leave the
city and return to their true home and that’s when they saw him. Across the street, there he stood. Cassandra screamed!
By
Anthonystjoseph
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