I fell in love with him at the first glimpse at him. I know it was definitely wrong, however, I still did so.
My name is Julia. I visited Swan, the capital city of Aisville, with my mother in the spring of my sixteen years old. I was totally new here with everything fresh. Those magnificent architectures, busy streets, and pretty gadgets I never saw before, all these made me felt like in a dream.
The second day we arrived at Swan. Mother said she will introduce some of her old friends to me. There was slightly exciting showing on her face which was quite seldom since mother was a modesty lady. She recalled the precious memory of spring vacation which she spent in Swan twenty years ago, with her new noble friends--The Swan's rose.
I was a little curious when we knocked the door of Guise. It was said that the Guise family was the famous aristocrat in Swan. Nevertheless, other people, included the cart driver showed something astonishment and fluster with our visitation of the Guise's.
My mother did not noticed this with her whole heart memories. She led me step into the garden of Guise's. What a lovely garden it was! All the things of Guise's were surprising and enjoyable.
However, the moment she saw the friends she missed so much, she could not speak a single word but only transfixed.
I poked out my face behind her back, the beautiful siblings standing in front of us.
They were quite beautiful, in luxury dressing, with noble temperament. What's more, they were young. They seemed as the same age as me.
But they should know mother as long as twenty years!
"Oh, Marginate. So glad you visit us again. We always miss you." The sister Julia, as beautiful as rose, said to mother with a gentle smile.
Mother took a step back with fear. My heart was also beating faster. It was incredible! How could they still be young ? Mother was totally voiceless with her hand grabbing me tightly, trembling.
It was right at that moment, I looked up. My eyes contacted the eyesight which was just right looking at mine. The light blue eyes, with the sorrow beyond description, its owner -- Andrew·De·Guise, my mother had told me his name, was staring at me. A moment later, I heard his voice for the first time.
"Are you Marginate's daughter? What is your name?"
For a short second, my heart beated at a unbelievable speed. I was strook by the gloom charming eyes. My head was giddy. I spoke out without scruple of the warn eyesight of my mother. "My name is...is Julia Young".
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The things happened latter was not clear for me anymore. What still in my heart were the feeling of heart beating, the light blue eyesight and the pleasant voice.
My mother was all absent-minded that light after we back home. "They must be demoned, oh my, it must be!" She kept murmuring the whole night. After she got back her sense, she asked me keep distance with the gorgeous, but weird siblings again and again.
However, it was all too late.
I could not control my heart anymore, I must see him. Andrew, the one with charming blue eyes... I tried to know about them, as if I was crazy. But all I found was that all people of Aisville was afraid of them.
"The Guise's siblings must be demoned! They never get old. They may eat human, or suck human's blood to make a living,. It's quite horrible! People said, trying to convince me to keep me away from them. My mother did the same as well. However, I was just crazy. Oh, Andrew! I had to meet him. Even if he was as devil as everyone said.
One summer night with cicada singing, I sneaked out home, went to Guise's backyard garden directly.
I paced up and down outside their garden. The scene we first meet flashed in my mind. How crazy but ridiculous I missed him, Andrew!
It was right at the moment I was sure of my madness, the iron gate opened slowly. The man I missed appeared under the moon light, in front me, with smile on his face.
I thought I must be dreaming, but it was real. It was Andrew! He looked at me with gentle smile. After a while, he spoke: "I know you will come to me, dear Julia."
I cried out of exciting. How could he know my mind.
Was it affection? I thought it must be. I went to meet Andrew every night after that day. He always took my hand, kept smiling. We leant against each other, listening to the endless songs of cicada, in mottled shadows under the bright moonlight.
However, the secret was finally acquired by others. Father blamed mother indignantly for she knew such two monsters and what's more did not stop me from addiction. I was grounded. My father gathered the Chamber of Commerce in order to exile the monster siblings out of Aisville.
Later after that, strange things happened with the death of Chamber of Commerce member one after another. It was said their body were torn into pieces by something like a huge scythe. People were more scared with the rumour getting worse and worse.
"It's horrible. We can't live here anymore." my father made his leaving decision, which broke my heart. I knew I must meet him again.
Just one last meet. I was ready to give up everything to elope with him, if he was willing too.
I managed to get out again. This time, the gate was unlocked. I opened it without hesitation. All I want was just finding him, telling him everything that had happened.
When I entered the center of garden, I heard someone smiling behind me gently.
"So you are here, eventually."
I felt something thrillingness despite she's voice was gentle. Then I heard the steel rubbing against the ground. I shuddered and looked back. What I found was a girl, with black long hair, in a black robe. she was smiling at me with a huge scythe in tow.
Yes, it was Julia, with black hair. It was her. It was just the second time we meet, but I didn't expected her hair turned into weird black, her face, her whole body were looked so demon.
"How could you come here. Why not just leave with your father. I didn't want to kill you."
"Andrew must be sad if I killed you. That silly boy, he always enjoy fresh things. Believe me, he will lose his interest on you finally."
"Only me, no matter decades or hundreds years. It was always me, to be with him."
"We need each other ONLY. Time will always be quietude as long as we are together. It will last forever, and we will also be together forever."
"But how could you break us up!"
Suddenly, dark Julia stepped forward me with her voice sharped with the syche rubbing heavily against the ground. I trembled, but I couldn't move a single step. She just like a black rose with sharp thorns in dark.
Julia walked in front of me, with her syche hacking on me.......
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The next day when I woke up, I found myself in bed of hospital. I did not get hurt, just fainting. No matter what people asked, I just shook my head, and did not speak any word. People talked about the demon siblings disappeared from Aisville overnight, their luxury house was also dilapidated. As if all the prosperities were build by fantasy.
Mother did not mentioned anything about the siblings anymore. She thought I forgot all had happened.
However, I did not. I still remember what happened that night.
When Julia was about to kill me, my beloved Andrew showed up.
But he was not the Andrew I had been familiar with. He was expressionless, demon and also in dark robe.
"Enough, Julia." He held her hands. "You don't need to do that. I will not leave you."
"Are you serious?" Julia dropped her scythe, looking at him, with tears glittering on her face. She was like blackthorn under the moonlight. "You seemed serious with her. I'm so worry about that. She has the same name with me. But she is younger, and more lovely than me. She is normal human ..."
"Believe me, Julia" Suddenly he said with a pretty but coquettish smile. "We are one. We will never be apart. Forever is forever only we are together. Isn't it?"
I can't remember what they said later. All I heard was roar in my ear. I knew nothing but the truth he didn't love me. He did not even cast an eyesight on me!
I can't tell why I didn't hate him at all. All I remember was our sweet memory : his smile, his warm hands, in those cicada singing night, under the moonlight.
I left Aisville with my parents amd never returned there again.
The story about the siblings was also forgot by people with time goes by. Except the bedtime story by the aged.
There are two siblings, with huge scythe in tow. They walks in corner of the city, in the deep dark night. They are the blackthorns...
However, I know blackthorn also feel sorrow. Maybe, they are suffering by heart-broken mysteries memory, forever.