Rosa, Simon, and Laura eat dinner together in the dining room, heavy silence blanketed around them.
Simon stared at his daughter. She is indeed an adult already. The more he wants to insist on her what his decision for her, the more they have a conflict with each other. "Daughter...what is it that you really want for your life?" he asked her in a serious tone.
Laura stopped eating and looked at her father. "It's about time we will honor the deal, Father. No matter how I analyzed the situation, it all boils to one thing...you made a deal with those vampires a long time ago. This is the price we have to pay for resurrecting me from death. Let's face it...we owe those vampires a lot. First, for my life... then second... they give you gold nuggets that help improve our lives tremendously. We should just pay them back what we owe them...we can't keep running away from them and put our lives in danger..."
Simon and Rosa stared at each other for a few minutes trying to digest Laura's reasoning.
"Alright... since you already decided for yourself, we respect your decision," Simon finally said.
Rosa's eyes widened. "Husband, you can't just give away our daughter that way!" she protested.
Laura sighed. "Mother, I'm going to marry the vampire son. They are not going to kill me or make a slave out of me. There's nothing to worry about. Let me deal with vampires peacefully. It's only by agreeing to what they want...we can make sure our lives are safe. There's no other way, Mom," she insisted on her logic. She finally concluded the issue that has been bothering their minds since the vampires start appearing in their lives.
Simon addressed his wife. "Wife, let's respect our daughter's decision," he said.
Rosa sighed deeply, clearly not agreeing to her daughter and her husband's decision regarding the pressing issue that their family was currently facing. She will try to talk to her daughter in her bedroom later, after dinner.
"Let's continue eating..." Simon said.
They resumed eating in silence, no one dared to talk about the pressing issue again.
After finishing dinner, the family retired to their bedroom.
Laura continues on her last-minute preparation in her room. She paused for a minute and looked at the window. She remembered Luke all of a sudden. Her countenance turned sad. She missed him already....she sighed... tears welled in her eyes...she wiped the tears that fell from her eyes. She resumed her packing, she's almost done.
Tomorrow, her life will be changed forever.
A few minutes later, she was done packing. She lies in bed and buries her head on the pillow, feeling depressed. Although she already made the final decision and her father finally approves of it, she can't help but agonize over it. She's terrified of meeting her vampire husband! She has no idea how he will look like. Now that she has agreed to go with the vampires, she might not be able to visit her family for a long time.
These depressing thoughts troubled her a lot.
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Meanwhile, in the couple's bedroom.
Rosa walked towards the door, she's going to put some sense in her daughter's head. If she can convince Laura, they will start their journey towards South Pond Town tomorrow morning.
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