Strings of Fate

7th String: Premonitions and Warnings

"See? I don't have to wear that slutty dress any--"

"Nope, you still have to, and it's a mini dress, not a slutty dress."

I gaped at her. What?! I thought it would change her mind about that dress! "But I thought..."

She smirked at me. "You thought I would give the mini dress up?" I shot her a pointed look, and to my irritation, she laughed. "What? No way. It would look totally good on you. Come."

I looked blankly at her. Where were we going? And why did she have that mini dress with her? Oh. My. God. Don't tell me she's going to take that home without paying?! My eyes widened at the thought. And as if reading my mind, she snorted. "We're going to the fitting room, stupid. Why would I steal? For Pete's sake, I'm not a shoplifter!" She said and pulled me to one of the fitting rooms, making me groan in irritation. This girl just couldn't seem to take 'no' for an answer.

She stops and shoved me inside, along with the elegant summer dress and the slutty slut dress (what).

"You must wear both of the dresses, you understand me?" She points her index finger at me. "Or you won't be able to get out of there until tomorrow."

I rolled my eyes at her. As if I would be scared by her threat. I could kill a whole pack of wolves singlehandedly and I wouldn't even break a sweat. Not that I'm boasting. Nor am I proud that my strength is given to me for killing. I guess I can think of it as self defense, but we all know that it's only for lessening my guilt.

Knowing that I'm going all drama queen again, I looked at Alex to divert my attention. I smirked when I saw her crossed arms and looking so smug. "You know very well that I can escape here anytime I want, right?"

She narrowed her eyes at me. "Don't you dare...."

I sighed. "Fine, I would try them both on."

Smiling, she said, "Great! I'm looking forward to seeing you in the dresses."

I looked at the slutty slut dress in disgust and scrunched up my nose. "You don't know how lucky you are to have a Vampire Princess follow your commands, ugh," I grumbled.

"Yeah, yeah. I'm the luckiest person on Earth because the oh so beautiful and flawless Princess Natalie is trying on the dress I suggested," she said rolling her eyes. "Just go and fit it!"

I groaned and entered the fitting room. I locked the door and threw my blouse off of my body, hanging it on the doorknob after. I started taking my jeans off, too. I examined my body on the mirror in front of me. I noticed that I had thinned a bit, but I was still the same.

...wait, what?

I saw something just above my collarbone, on my left shoulder. It was a tattoo... a weird one. I'd seen a lot of those things, like what my dad and all the other generals had. But this was weird. It had a simple pattern, a yin yang as the core, four fang-like parts surrounding it, and then another part covering it all. But that wasn't the weird part.

There were small symbols between the spaces, and they were moving. I watched in shock as the symbols started to run down my stomach, legs, and feet, even my toes didn't escape them. Holy... cow... I raised my arm and watched closely as the symbols stopped moving at the middle of the back of my hand, and formed another yin yang design.

I was about to be amazed by it, when extreme pain shot through my whole body.

God, what the hell is this?! I feel like I'm being burned alive! I let out a cry and sat down on the cold tiles of the small room. Dammit, what's happening? It felt like I was being grilled! I felt my fangs extend and my eyes burn with tears.