Master (Chapter Three)

I'm here!! 

Dave was in the cafeteria getting a bottle of water for himself. In the café, he saw couples having coffee and other drinks. He felt a bit lonely and wanted a partner for himself. It also reminded him of his ex-girlfriend who broke up with him because he focused "a bit too much" on his studies. Dave took a sip of water and went back into the classroom.

The teacher had left after taking introductions because it was just an introductory class. One of Dave's classmates told him that the teacher had asked them to revise whatever they had learned in the past two years as a refresher. 

"The whole course, t-that's crazy!!", Dave thought. 

Dave came back to reality from the valley of memories, only to find out that Amy was not in her room.

He looked around the house and could not find her anywhere. Dave gave her a call on her cellphone and found out that she went out shopping for groceries. That gave him the house to himself for a while.

So, with that thing in mind, he quickly drafted some points for the first chapter of his novel. He was also managing a project and asked his best writers to put that on hold and start something new. He had a project Manager named Travis who was a teenager but he had always been good with writing and knew what he was doing.

End of Chapter Three

Master (Chapter Two)

To Paul: A loving Master (Part One)

David was driving his car and he saw something on the road. It was a weirdly-shaped creature and its body was dripping blood all over the place. He wanted to go out of the car to help the thing but it suddenly vanished. 

Dave was on his way to visit his Master's grave. On his tombstone was written "Paul Dawson, a teacher, master, and a father." The name of his teacher made him involuntarily fall into the ghostly memories of his past again. Paul was giving his first lecture when he asked Dave to go outside and grab himself a bottle of water.

The whole attention of the class now centered upon Dave because he was sweating all over his face. It was his issue. He handled the pressure that way. 

"I was just nervous because everything you're teaching me, including your style of teaching, is new to me."

"Good, so the rumors were true. You 'can' speak."

The whole classroom, including Dave, burst into laughter.

He quickly went outside to get a bottle of water from the cafeteria. 

On his way to the café, David saw many students. Some of them were his seniors and some his juniors, according to his suspect. While walking down the corridor, he saw a beautiful yet short girl. Dave quickly noticed her ear piercings. He fell in love with her, there and then. It was a moment of truth.

 

David came back from his memory strolling and called Amy, telling her to come to his favorite restaurant to have some ice cream because she loved eating sweet things and so did her husband.

Amy was waiting for Dave to arrive. She ordered a glass of wine but did not touch it until he arrived. She was anxiously waiting for him because he had never done anything like this before. As soon as he arrived, she tried to inquire him about where he had left off but Dave was not interested in having that conversation at that time.

He sat. Amy poured her husband a glass of red wine. 

"Wine...?"

"Yeah."

"Fine, I'll have it."

"So, what's up?"

"Nothing much. Wanna order your favorite ice cream?"

"We'll have it later. Right now I'm interested in just us talking and drinking our glasses of wine."

"You wanna talk? I will talk. Bring it on!"

"Do you?" Amy started to get a little serious now.

Dave burst into laughter. His laughter made Amy smile. Everything went back to normal.

"We did not need two glasses. We'll use this one glass. Wine is like love. It needs to be shared and divided amongst two lovers and drinkers."

"You don't need to flirt with your wife just to get what you need."

"Maybe it's the wine talking."

"Aw come on, babe. You just had one sip."

"And see where has it taken me."

"Your words, your poetry, and your smile. That was the reason why I fell in love with you. Stop using those things to come (at me).

"Again, it's the wine talking."

Amy sipped a glass of wine and demanded Dave take her home right away. He drove off with her. Amy was startled at what he had said because it had been quite a time since Dave talked sweetly with Amy. 

"What was the thing that has brought my husband back to what he was? Or is this a new phase in our lives? Does he even know who he was before?" Amy's mind was filled with questions like these. But looking at her husband's face got made her fall asleep. She fell asleep in an instant. Dave did not notice until he reached the gates of their home. He quickly picked her up from the car seat, took her to their bed, and placed her on it. 

"She looks so peaceful in her sleep, just like always." Dave thought.

  End of Chapter Two!

Succumbing to nature: A Short Story

 Succumbing to nature (Part One)

A sunny Tuesday greeted the town of Ruthville after two long, gloomy decades. The universal vitamin D source had rejuvenated residents with its reappearance on the blue roof over their heads. There were no clouds in sight trying to hide Sol’s glory. The happy miracle was all over the news. It was a joyous headline to all except one individual, Icarus, who was less than thrilled about this sudden turn of events, to put it mildly. 

He had specifically chosen this town to reside in to survive whilst keeping his identity hidden. Life as a vampire wasn’t easy; the sighting of the galaxy’s most important star in Ruthville skies again meant death. 

Changing his day job to a night shift would also be seen as peculiar by his coworkers, Icarus pondered. 

The weather’s now modifiable at will, the head scientist behind this recent development announced his team’s latest achievement in the evening press conference.

Icarus had chosen to spare human life and resorted to animals roaming the nearby forest for nutrition. Icarus had rebelled against his family and fought for human beings’ right to be safe from his clan and be allowed to enter the scientific research community but as he can see it now in hindsight, his ancestors had been correct regarding his immaturity and lack of foresight. Icarus knew his next move.

The following morning, the head scientist was found dead, with teeth marks on his neck that didn’t resemble that of any beast living in the nearby forest. 

- Ayesha Malik