I slowly make my way back to the cafe and order a coffee and a bagel. When my order is up, I get it and make my way to sit outside. As I sit outside d...inking my coffee, the same people I’ve seen the past two days walk past me. I sit there and countdown the hours until I see her again. The sun gets lower as each hour goes by. Soon it is the hour when she has showed up the two other times. She is nowhere to be seen. I sit there for another hour. but she never shows up. I take my time and walk. Yet at the same time, it seemed almost insane.For example, the visitors would be offered a beverage once they were inside the family home, and they must decline three times before finally accepting the fourth offer. That was considered polite and proper, and although both parties knew what the eventual outcome would be, they still had to go through the motions. That was just one of many such rituals that Satou would be required to participate in, it was going to be a long day... As the party. D walked out through the sliding door without either of us speaking another word. An an hour of so later, I heard my daughter yell out to me, “Dad, we are going to the store.” Then a minute or so later, I heard the sliding door close. My heart stopped, maybe from excitement, maybe from dread of what maybe about to happen. What if it were C? With her perfect young body, that perfect little ass. Maybe she knew I was watching her, maybe her brother D had told her? Maybe she was now coming in. ‘What awaits you and Alexis is beautiful and worthwhile. It is true you won’t be able to love as a human when you’re changed. In fact you won’t even be able to recall and understand the concept any longer, your memory of it is gone forever. Therefore you won’t miss it since to you, it never existed. When and if a human should try to explain it to you, you won’t understand it when you too will think it’s, ‘childish rubbish’. ‘Having a vampire’s marriage with Alexis should not be regarded as.