Monsters are not real, monsters are not real. I repeatedly told myself as if trying to convince myself of the goodness of the world. Do monsters really exist or not, I don’t know, let’s find out.

THE BEGINNING

Daniel and his older brother Nathan moved to the countryside for a fresh start, both their parents had passed away in an accident. Daniel had a twin sister named Sarah who was killed by hunters a few months back. Nathan was the kind and gentle brother who always saw the brighter side of life while Daniel was more of a rebel and after his sister’s death, he became aggressive. The two brothers are three years apart and have distinctive features, while. Nathan is blue eyed with dark hair, while his younger brother Daniel is green eyed with blonde hair.

After the tragic loss of their sister, they decided to move to start a new life and avenge their sister’s death.
A few months after the brothers moved to the countryside, they met Liam who introduced them to three of his friends, Marc, Neil and Tony. Nathan confided in Liam about what brought him and his brother to the countryside and that they needed a place that was cheaper than the one they were currently occupying, but he decided to keep the real reason to himself. Liam being a kind person he was offered Nathan and his brother Daniel a place to stay which he shared with his three friends.

Two years had passed Liam and Nate grew closer as friends, but even with the friendship they developed, Nate kept a big secret from his best friend, a secret that was bound by blood.

Nathan’s bedroom

Nathan kept on pacing up and down in his room to the annoyance of his brother. The thought of him keeping such a big secret from the one he calls friend started to keep him up at night, but the anger that filled his heart after the murder of his only sister made sure he kept mum. After all this was between Daniel and himself.

DANIEL: Will you quit your pacing, it’s annoying. Sit down.
NATHAN: ‘’ I feel bad that I cannot tell my best friend the truth about why we left our home and why hunters killed Sarah’’.

Hearing this made Daniel angry, it made his blood boil. Daniel could not comprehend the fact that his brother had a human friend and now he felt bad for not telling him about their secret? He wanted to lash out but kept his cool.

DANIEL: ‘’Nathan, remember why we came here, we came to avenge Sarah’s death, Sarah OUR SISTER, we are not here to make friends with humans. Remember that no matter how nice Liam is to you he is not one of us. Keep your head in the game’’.

Daniel said while exiting the room. Daniel was never a fan of humans to begin with, but after they murdered his twin, he hated them with passion, if it were up to him, he would kill every human in sight to avenge Sarah. Nathan stood there recalling how vampire hunters killed his beloved baby sister.

NATHAN: What do I do? Daniel has a point, but Liam was not amongst the hunters that killed Sarah, and he is a good person. Nate was conflicted.

Meanwhile in the living room Liam had called a house meeting. Liam has a baby sister named Riley who is still in college studying dramatic arts. Liam adores Riley so much because she reminds him of their mother who died after giving birth to her, the brother and sister are very close as they have no family and have each other to rely on.

The living room

DANIEL: This better be good

LIAM: Don’t worry everyone this won’t take long.

DANIEL: It better not, I have things to do, he mumbles.

LIAM: Okay is everyone here? Where is Nate? I can’t see him.

NATHAN: (Nate comes running down the stairs) Here I am sorry I took a while.

LIAM: It’s okay Nate please take a seat. Thank you all for coming, I have a request to make.

EVERYONE: Mumbles, request?

LIAM: Do not worry it’s not something serious, but it is important that I ask first.

MARC: What is it? Are you kicking us out?

LIAM: Laughs no I’m not kicking anyone out, but…

EVERYONE: But what?

LIAM: Let me finish will you, but my baby sister will be doing her final year in college next year and I would like for her to come and live with us for final year, because she has to do an internship and if she stays here, it will cut some of her expenses and help her save up some money.

NATHAN AND DANIEL: You have a sister? The brothers were shocked at the news.

NEIL: Yes, Riley and she is such a gorgeous girl…

TONY: Yes, and Neil has a crush on her, but she is not interested(laughs). She really is a bombshell, and Liam does not want any guy around her. That is the real reason he wants Riley to stay here so that he can keep an eye on her.

LIAM: Hey(laughs) there is nothing wrong with a brother protecting his sister from the dangers of the world.

NATHAN AND DANIEL:( Thinking about how Sarah was brutally killed) Yeah that is true.

NATHAN: Liam, you never told me you have a sister.

Nate and Liam have been close for a couple of years, but Liam never mentioned a SISTER!

LIAM: Yeah man I do, I guess a lot has been going on and it slipped my mind. So, do we have an agreement that Riley can live here with us next year?

EVERYONE: Yeah man there is no problem.
After the meeting Daniel stormed out of the room, with anger visible in his eyes. Nathan followed him outside to try and calm him down. Hearing Liam talking about his sister opened an old wound that refuses to heal in Daniel. The killing of his sister turned Daniel into a monster his brother could not control.

NATHAN: DANIEL! calm down what is wrong with you?

DANIEL: Calm down, calm down! Nathan why are you telling me to calm down, these humans killed Sarah, and you are telling me to calm down? I think it is time we set our plan in motion (he says fuming, his hands trembling as he pictured Sarah laying in a pool of her own blood, slaughtered like an animal).

NATHAN: There is no plan that will be set in motion here, Liam and his sister did nothing wrong to us.

DANIEL: I say we kill the sister as revenge.

NATHAN: DANIEL are you stupid? We are not killing anyone especially not Liam and his sister or anyone that did us no wrong do you hear me. Do you hear me, Dani? Get a hold on yourself before you blow our cover. Daniel’s eyes were glowing as fangs started to protrude. Nate held his trembling brother who was close to losing control to calm him down.

NATHAN: Why do you hate Liam so much that you want to kill him though he did you no wrong?

DANIEL: Because he reminds me of the man that killed Sarah, it is worse now he has a sister, and I don’t anymore.

NATHAN: Remember he is not the one, remember that.

A few months passed and Daniel managed to calm himself down, and tried to forget about the people that took his sister from him while also trying to build a friendship with Liam. The year seemed to be short and soon it was a new year and Riley is about to live with her brother and his friends. A week before Riley moved in with her brother, she decided to surprise him with a visit, but to her surprise that day her brother Liam had gone out on a date and only Nathan was at the house.

At the house

Knock, knock, knock as Nathan opens the door he is greeted by a young beautiful lady, with hazel brown eyes, long black curly hair wearing a short shoulder exposing baby blue, figure hugging dress. Nathan gawked with his lower jaw dropped. The girl looked at him, smiled and gently lifted his jaw. I’m looking for someone she said or am I lost she asked, but he lived here the last time I came.

What is his name? asked Nathan, Liam do you know him she asked. Liam of course stuttered as he spoke. He still lives here. He just went out, he said he was going to meet you at the restaurant since it is close to where you live. Nathan said thinking this is Liam’s date. The girl looks at Nathan laughs and says oh I see.

Thank you…Nathan, my name is Nathan, he said , stumbling on his words. Well thank you Nathan, the girl said. And your name is…? you will know when the time comes, just please let Liam know someone came looking for him, but not the one he went to meet at the restaurant. The girl said as she looked at him, smiled and said goodbye, what a goofball, poor man he thought I was. Liam’s date laughs.

He looked at her while she got into a car with her friend and he wondered who she was as he had never seen this girl in their area before, a lot of unanswered questions filled his mind. Liam and the rest of the guys come back in the evening to find a confused Nathan, ‘’Nathan are you alright’’ asked his brother, ‘’yes, I am okay just that something weird happened today, but don’t worry about it’’. Daniel, being tired as he was, just said OKAY so that he could get some sleep.

Daniel’s bedroom

NATHAN: Daniel, aren’t you hungry?

DANIEL: No, I’m not. I had something to eat with Tony after work.

NATHAN: Alright then.

NATHAN: I need to talk to Liam, and ask him who that girl is, could he be cheating? He thought to himself.
Nathan went into Liam’s room and found him fast asleep, he went back into his room to get some rest. The thought of that girl he saw in the afternoon did not allow him to sleep that night as he kept on asking himself who she was and why she was looking for Liam.

NATHAN: Is Liam cheating? but I know my friend well, he would never do such a thing. Why am I thinking about that girl so much? Just one smile and I was blown away, get your head in the game Nathan you can’t be falling in love not at this point, not with a human, not especially when you came here on a mission, don’t complicate things for yourself by falling in love. He said as if to convince himself not to fall for a human.

The next morning Liam rushed for work and Nathan did not have time to speak to him. for the rest of the week this was the case Liam had to leave early for work, and he came back late from work and would go straight to bed, Nathan forgot to tell him about the girl as a result, and since the girl did not come back, he thought it was not important to tell him about her visit anyway.

The weekend came and Liam left to go and get his sister Riley from their family home and took her to her dorm to get her things. After a few hours they arrived at the house, while they were in the driveway, Riley told her brother about her encounter with a strange guy last week.
The driveway

RILEY: I came over to see you last week.

LIAM: Oh really.

RILEY: Yes, but instead I met one strange guy, he said his name is Nathan.

LIAM:(Laughs) Riley what makes you say he is strange?

RILEY: The way he looked at me, his jaw literally dropped when he saw me, dear brother you have some weird friends.

LIAM: Nathan is not strange in fact he is one of the good guys left in this world plus he is my best friend so be nice.

RILEY: Well, I did not say he is not nice, he did seem like a good guy and good looking too I’ll give him that. Did he tell you that I came?

LIAM: No, strange but I was hardly at home last week because of work. Come let’s get you settled in.
After they had arranged Riley’s room she asked if she could freshen up and take a nap before she could meet her brother’s new friends. Liam agreed. Around 2pm Neil and Tony arrive from work then Nathan and Daniel follow.
The living room.

NEIL: So, has your sister arrived yet?

TONY: Come on Neil, a bit of patience won’t kill you.

DANIEL: Yeah, where is she?

NATHAN: She is probably resting, what is wrong with you guys?

LIAM: Yes, she is here, and she is in her room, she probably just woke up from her nap and is taking a shower.

NEIL: It’s been a while since I saw her, and I can’t wait to see…

RILEY: See me again. I didn’t know that you were obsessed with me(laughs) . I thought it was just a little innocent crush, but clearly, I was wrong(laughs).

Nathan realises that he had heard this voice before, but he couldn’t remember where he had heard it or whom it belonged to. He turned and saw Riley leaning against the wall and he immediately realised that the girl he thought was Liam’s date was actually his sister. Riley looked over and saw Nathan and said ‘’ hello Nathan, remember me?’’.

NEIL: (Surprised) You know Nathan?

RILEY: Yes, well not really but I met him last week and he thought I was Liam’s date.

NATHAN: Yeah, I did, but I see I was wrong, and you didn’t tell me your name.

RILEY: Turns out I didn’t need to tell you my name even today because you already knew my name. I told you, you would find out when the time was right. (she smiled)

DANIEL:(Looked at Nathan) I’m Daniel, Nathan’s younger brother. Nice to meet you.

RILEY: Likewise.
After three months Daniel confronted Nathan about a suspicion he had ever since Riley came to live with them. ‘’Nathan, are you in love with Liam’s sister?’’ he asked, “Yes I am” he answered, Nathan admitted that he had fallen in love with Riley from the first day he had met her, and that he and Riley have a secret love affair without anyone in the house knowing.

DANIEL: Why would you fall in love with a human when you know that that would complicate things.

NATHAN: I did not plan on falling in love, it just happened.

DANIEL: You need to break up with her. It’s too risky if she finds out what we are and that we seek revenge, she will expose us.

NATHAN: Nothing like that will happen, besides Riley would never betray me like that. She would never do something that would get me killed.

DANIEL: Nathan, open your eyes she is a human and we are not. Dump her and let us focus on our mission so that we can leave this place. We have wasted three years already.

NATHAN: I can’t hurt her like that. I love her too much.

DANIEL: Are you serious Nathan? We came here to find Sarah’s killer and not for you to fall for Liam’s sister. Think about your own sister for once.

Two weeks passed with the brothers going back and forth with each other, while the love and passion between Nathan and Riley grew stronger. One day while Daniel was looking for his brother, he noticed Sarah’s necklace that he had made for her in Marc’s room, he got angry and thought that he had found the people that killed Sarah. He rushed out to look for Nathan and told him that they had been living with their sisters’ killers all this time.

Nathan felt betrayed and felt like he let his feelings cloud his judgment. The two brothers decided it was time to get their revenge on the people that killed their sister, and they were not going to spare anyone, Riley included.
Riley, her brother and the rest of the guys were in the kitchen preparing lunch for everyone, laughing and having fun not knowing what was waiting for them.

Liam, Marc, Neil, and Tony took the serving plates to the dining table, went back to the kitchen and each took a bowl of fruit for the table. When they got to the dining room this time around the brothers pounced on them. When Riley entered the dining room, she saw the man she was in love with tearing her brother’s neck with his teeth, and he had a cold stare with no emotions whatsoever, her brother looked at her as he drew his last breath. She ran as fast as she could out of the house without making a sound because she knew that they would kill her too if they saw her.

Riley stopped the first car that drove by luckily the driver stopped and took her with him. The man, seeing how shaken she was, asked where she was going, and she said ‘’anywhere out of the country’’.
The poor girl could not attend her only brother’s funeral because she was running for her life. A month after the incident Riley found out she was pregnant with Nathan’s baby. Greg, the man that saved her life, fell in love with her and asked her to marry him and let him adopt the baby because he could not father a child, to which she agreed.

Five years passed and Riley was in a happy marriage with Greg she had a daughter that they named Lia Reign after brother. Though she had escaped with her life the nightmares were merciless. Every night the screams of her brother and his friends kept her awake for the first three years of her escape. The cold eyes of her lover staring blankly as he sank his teeth in her brother’s neck tormented her. Greg did not know what to do. He could only hug her in his helplessness.

Three years after Nathan and Daniel killed Liam and his friends the brothers went back home because they could not find Riley. One day their cousin Jeff told them about an incident that occurred a few days back when he and his friend were out fishing, they were attacked by the hunters that killed Sarah, but they managed to escape.

JEFF: Those bastards killed Sarah and took her necklace and sold it to some guy by the name Marc because they needed gas money. Nathan and Daniel looked at each other eyes glowing at the revelation that their beloved sister was killed for a few measly bucks. Then, the realisation that they killed innocent men who knew nothing about their sister kicked in. So, the brothers set out to find Riley and apologise to her. But how do they apologise to someone that witnessed her brother’s murder.

Paris, France
Two years after that discovery, the brothers went to Paris coincidentally Riley, and her family were there for a vacation. In front of the Eiffel Tower a young girl with piercing blue eyes with brownish blonde hair ran from her mother’s arms to her dad. She passed by Nathan who was smiling seeing how this young child was so happy seeing her dad.Something about this girl unsettled him, her resemblance to Sarah was uncanny. When he turned around the child’s mother nearly knocked him off his feet.

The young lady caught his attention, he never thought he would find her after so many years.

Reign! Reign! Riley called out to her daughter, wondering who her daughter was calling daddy because she could not see her husband.
Riley was relieved when she saw her daughter in her husband’s arms. For some reason her gaze shifted from her husband and daughter and met with Nathan’s eyes. She looked at him with no fear in her eyes.

She stared blankly at the man that killed her brother in cold blood. He smiled at her, yet she kept on looking at him while the thought that he had killed her brother lingered in her mind. He approached her and said…

NATHAN: I know she is my daughter; she has my eyes, and her hair colour is a mixture of my and Daniel’s. Besides she is half vampire, I can smell her.

RILEY: Who are you, and how dare you say my child is yours? How dare you claim my child.

NATHAN: Riley, have you forgotten me?

RILEY: Forgotten you? I never knew you. (she said as she stared up blankly at those blue eyes that could pass off as her daughter’s piercing blue eyes). The blue eyes that were once filled with love for her. Those same eyes that held a blank and icey look as the teeth sank down her brother’s neck.

NATHAN: It’s me Nate, your first love.

RILEY: I knew Nate he was the love of my life, but he died the same day my brother Liam died, and you Nathan killed both of them five years ago. I have nothing to say to you, you are nobody to me, you are a stranger in my eyes. Have you come to finish what you started 5 years ago? Are you here to kill me too?

NATHAN:What, no of course not, I would never harm you. You are the love of my life and the mother of my child.

NATHAN:Please forgive me Riley I made a mistake; my brother and I thought that Liam and the others killed my sister Sarah. Forgive us, we made a mistake.

RILEY: I saw the look in your eyes that day Nathan. You wanted to kill me too, it just happened that you couldn’t find me. That is the reason I’m still here. You know it, your brother knows it too.

You Nathan are a monster, you took away the two most important people in my life that day, and you denied my daughter the chance to know her uncle. You will never be able to fool me again. Never again. AND I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU FOR THAT. (she said as tears streamed down her cheeks).

NATHAN: I am truly sorry; I understand that you cannot forgive me but please do not deny me my child.

RILEY: YOUR CHILD! Which child?

NATHAN: Reign, I’m her father.

RILEY: Reign already has a father who loves and adores her, as much as she adores him. Reign does not need you; I do not need you. Leave me and my child alone.

NATHAN: I’m her biological father.

RILEY: The biological father of my child is dead. (she said to Nathan, she turned to leave but said her final words) and YOU KILLED HIM. (she said with tears rolling down her cheeks and she left Nathan with his brother drowning in their regrets).
THE END

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