The sun rises. There's eventually a loud and annoying sound that wakes Cade up. He slowly sits up and turns the sound off. He yawns. He looks at me with a smile.

"Good morning. Breakfast?" He says.

I get out of the bed. "You should eat. I don't need it."

"What?? But we always eat together!"

"Then you better eat too."

"Geez... I will. I feel better today. You're a good pillow." Cade slides out of bed too.

I glare. "You call the almighty king of vampires a pillow?"

Cade only shrugs and leaves the room. I seethe in my anger before following. How dare he??

Cade makes breakfast. He goes to feed me. I just stare at him. He frowns. Then he gets food for himself and takes a bite.

"I'm eating. I didn't know the king of vampires cared about an insignificant human like me," Cade says, regaining his smile.

"I don't. I can't have you dying before you find a way to free me though," I say.

"Fine~" Cade continues eating. I only watch him. When he's done, he looks at me. "So do you want this food or not?"

"I don't care either way."

"Well I don't want it to go to waste. Can you eat it now?"

"...sure."

Cade feeds me. Then he cleans up. He checks his watch. As he does so, I remember what I wanted to mention about yesterday. Before the burglar broke in...

"Cade," I say. He looks at me. "Can I see the TV?"

"Oh! Sure. Sorry, I never remember to turn it on. It'll probably be more fun if you can watch TV." Cade goes into the living room and I follow him.

The TV is turned on. I stand mesmerized by the images and movement on the screen. With all the colors, it seems a bit pretty. I sit on the couch to watch what's happening.

"I gotta head to work! Bye!" Cade says. I barely notice him leave.

My eyes are stuck to the TV. I watch it and time goes by incredibly fast. Usually centuries can go by in a flash for me, so this is as if I've been teleported forward several hours. The next thing I know, Cade comes back home.

"Hey, I'm back! I thought of something I want to try," Cade says.

I have trouble tearing my eyes away from the TV. Cade notices because he turns the TV off. I blink and turn my attention to him. He holds up an axe. I stare at it, trying to understand what's happening.

Cade is smiling as usual. "I want to see if I can cut your restraints off!"

Cut them off? I can't rip them off with my strength. I doubt a flimsy axe will work. Has Cade finally gone crazy?

"Come on, let's at least try! I can't find a thing on the spell..." Cade says, at a loss.

"Are you sure you aren't just going to try and cut my head off with the axe?" I ask, eyeing it suspiciously.

"Of course not! I don't want to hurt or kill you. I want to help you!" Cade walks closer with the axe. "Just let me try it once."

I cautiously stand up. Maybe it'll be fine to let him try once. I know it won't work. Hopefully neither of us gets hurt when the axe bounces off. I lift up my arms so Cade can have better aim.

Cade lifts the axe. His smile doesn't help the weird situation. He brings the axe down on the restraints. These restraints look like leather with accents of metal. The axe does nothing to either leather or metal. Not even a scratch.

Cade puts the axe on the ground, disappointed. "I can cross that off my list I guess."

"You have a list? Of what?" I ask.

"Certain tools we can use to try and break the restraints!"

"Should I be worried about what's on the list?"

"Why would you be worried?? I know none of it can kill you."

"Could it kill you?"

"If pointed towards me, probably."

I don't feel good about this. Cade is set on trying whatever he can to get the restraints off. It's like something made him more urgent to help me. Was it the burglar that broke in? Or our talk we had after that? I feel like if it's related to our talk, his motivation might be bad... I don't know myself why yet.

The next few days, Cade takes me out of the house to try everything he can. He takes me to a place where we can borrow a chainsaw. I actually fear for my life when he points it at me.

"Hold on, Cade! That's dangerous!" I say.

"But it's the ultimate weapon! It has to do something! Let's give it a try!" Cade says. He looks like a crazy chainsaw murderer. His smile once again scares me.

"I haven't told anyone this, but if you cut straight through my limbs, they won't just grow back! Sure I can heal a cut that almost got cut through but is still attached... but once a limb is gone, it's gone! I don't want to lose my arms because of this!" I frantically explain.

"Trust me! I won't cut your arms off!" Cade says with confidence. How can I trust that? "Just hold still!"

I'm scared he'll cut my arms off if I try to move to stop him. So I reluctantly freeze and pray to a god that doesn't exist. I can barely watch as Cade brings the chainsaw down. I feel intense vibrations and a horrible sound as the chainsaw hits my restraints. Cade brings the chainsaw up, turns it off, and sees the damage. There is none.

"What??? This spell is way too strong! How is it so strong after so many years??" Cade asks.

I am so relieved my limbs weren't cut off. I want to fall to my knees and thank anyone, maybe Satan because he has to exist to have made me.

"I don't know..." I weakly reply to Cade.

"Geez... well, let's try something else."

"There's more...?" This seems like a weird kind of torture. I don't want to do this anymore.

"Of course there's more! I won't give up!" Then Cade drags me along for more chaos.

He somehow gets his hands on all kinds of frightening devices. He tries everything to cut my restraints off but there's still not a single scratch. He even shoots a gun at me in a shooting range with police. The bullet bounces harmlessly off my restraints.

At the end of the day, we go home and collapse on the couch. Nothing worked and Cade tried everything he could think of. Maybe I can just live a casual life with Cade until he dies. I'll forever be imprisoned by these restraints. Hopefully someone after Cade will pick me up and take care of me like he has. That would be ideal.

"...damn it..." Cade curses under his breath. I look over at him and he has a terribly pitiful expression. He's angry and disappointed. He's disappointed that he couldn't get my restraints off. He's disappointed that he... couldn't end our relationship.

It's like that chainsaw is thrust into my body. What does that mean? Why is his expression saying that? I was worried about it... but it has to do with our talk. He wants to finish helping me so he can move on. I'll be a good deed accomplished and he can continue on with his life. It seemed like he cared for an awful vampire like me... but maybe I was wrong. Why am I... sad?

Cade sits up. "Alright... I'll keep looking for something about that spell. Maybe I'll have better luck looking on the internet. I can even ask others on there if they know anything. There's still something I can try."

I don't say anything. Cade stands up to make dinner. When he calls for me once it's done, I don't move. He looks confused. He lets it go since I don't actually need to eat. He eats himself. Then he asks if I'm going to sleep. I shake my head. He goes to bed himself.

Why am I so disappointed? I got attached to the stupid human... How'd that even happen? He's weak and dumb. I don't need him. But he has been helping me in a way. He's taken care of me and shown me kindness. He cleaned me after so long. He created a shirt just to fit me. He feeds me without complaint. He's been showing me a variety of meals that I even find delicious. He's shown me the new devices of this day and age. I feel excited to learn about them. Even if it was a lie, he said he wanted to help me and hasn't given up. I started to find comfort in his presence. His body cuddled up next to mine was pleasant.

But it was all a lie. He did all this just to toy with me. He softened my heart just to rip it to shreds. How could I have let a human into my heart? I'm a cold blooded vampire. The almighty king of vampires. I've been turned into a fool so many times because of that dumb spell. I wish I killed all of those humans once and for all. Then this wouldn't have happened. I wouldn't have felt hurt for the first time in my life. All because of an insignificant human....

After that, I went back to sitting alone in my room. I didn't let Cade feed me or bathe me. I ignored him whenever he said anything to me. I'll go back to my original plan: waiting until he dies at the end of his life. Or maybe he'll actually find a way to free my arms. Then we can go our separate ways. I can live my life as the tyrannical vampire again. I can forget about Cade in a sea of blood as I tear humans apart with my hands.

One day Cade begs me to talk to him and let us continue the life we got comfortable with. I just tell him to go find a way to free my arms. He's irritated with my reply but also looks determined. He goes to continue his research.

Then weeks later, Cade comes back. He sits on the ground in my room with me. We sit in silence. Cade looks tired. I try to ignore him. He'll get bored and leave me alone, probably.

All of a sudden, tears drip from Cade's eyes. I'm startled. I've never seen him like that before. The heart he's warmed inside me wants to try and comfort him. But I hold myself back as much as I can.

"...what?" I harshly ask.

Cade sniffs. "...it's hopeless. I'm sorry."

I look away. "I told you that you couldn't find anything."

"I know... but I wanted to... now our relationship is ruined and I can't do anything for you. What happened? Did I do something wrong? Other than completely fail at what I set out to do when I brought you home with me?"

I'm quiet. I shouldn't say anything. I should continue to ignore him. He's a dumb little human and he doesn't matter if he's going to die before I do. Nothing I do now will matter when he dies and I live on for eternity.

Yet here we are. He's crying before me. My hands itch to reach over and wipe his tears. But my hands are bound and it's useless. I can't do anything for him. He even wants to get rid of me, so I shouldn't feel this way in the first place.

"Because..." I start. "You don't want to help me..."

"Huh? What do you mean? Of course I do! Why would I do all of these things if I didn't want to help you!" Cade moves closer, his eyes still wet with tears.

"I don't understand either. I don't understand anything about you. But I saw your expression. I saw your feelings clearly. You want to help me and then get rid of me. I'm just someone who will help you complete a good deed. Then you'll leave me like I was nothing to you."

Cade's expression changes to something like betrayal. "You don't even want to be here... you don't even like me... so what does it matter if I let you be after we're done here? Didn't you want to be free and on your own?"

"I don't know! I don't know what I want anymore!" I raise my voice. Then I try to calm down. "I did want to be free... I still do... but I'm not sure if I want to be alone anymore. You've shown me kindness. Something different than I've known my whole life. I only knew destruction and power. I didn't care about anyone. They all looked like things I could kill and manipulate. But now... I've realized that's a lonely way to think... Our domestic life was so much better than anything I've ever experienced before. And I've lived a really long time. So you can understand how shocking that realization is."

Cade doesn't say anything for a bit. He stares at the floor. "...even if you say that... you don't want to live with me forever..."

"I doubt anyone else is brave enough to live with a dangerous vampire like me."

"But... I'm not... a good person..."

"I don't understand that. You obviously are for going to such lengths to help me."

"I'm not!!!" Cade yells at me, angry. He looks truly angry. "You don't know me. You don't know what I've done..."

"Then what have you done? I won't understand unless you tell me."

Cade balls his hands into fists. "I'm a good for nothing... the lowest of the low... I was an absolute dumbass... I hurt the person I loved..."

"How so?" I provoke him. I want to hear his story.

"I fucking...!!!" Cade raises his voice. Then he's quiet. "I... was violent towards the person I loved... I deserve to burn in Hell..."

"Well, I've killed hundreds of humans. Join the club."

"You don't understand!!"

"Then fucking explain already!" I yell back at him.

We stare at each other, seething in anger. Cade drops his gaze. We both try to calm our anger.

"Fine... then you'll see why you can't be with me... at least not for too long..." Cade says.

Cade begins his story. "I've been in relationships before. But I wasn't too invested in them. I didn't find my true love yet. So things never went on for long. Then one day I really got on well with someone. We tried dating. For the first time I actually felt I was in love. I really liked them. Everything about them. How they laughed, how they said my name, how they cared for me. I felt like this was true love. I believe we both felt it. I never wanted to be with anyone else. I thought we'd spend the rest of our lives together. I could definitely see myself growing old with this person.

"But after years of our relationship, I felt something was off. I was as in love as ever with them. But they didn't seem to reciprocate it as much anymore. Can people fall out of love? I thought our love was true and nothing could ruin it... even in the occasional fights, they were resolved quickly. We went back to our amazing love. Yet this time our love seemed to dwindle. I wanted to know why. Why weren't they feeling the same as me anymore? I can admit it now. I was obsessed with them. I went too far trying to figure out what happened to our love.

"I stalked them and even snooped on their phone. I found out they were meeting someone I've never heard them mention before. I wanted to figure out who it was and what their relationship was. Then I stalked them to one of their meetings with this person. They ate together and had a lot of fun. The fun that we used to have. When they kissed by the end of it, I had to accept the fact that they were cheating on me. I mostly didn't understand why they didn't love me anymore. What happened? Did I do something wrong? How'd we end up like this? Weren't we going to grow old together?

"I approached them that evening for an explanation. They denied cheating at first. Then I admitted to stalking them and seeing who they were with. They were distraught that I would do that. They finally told the truth that they were cheating. I asked why. I asked what happened to us. They said they weren't feeling the love anymore. They had fallen out of love. It wasn't me, it was them. So they cheated because they couldn't bring themselves to break up with me. I was too kind to do that to. I felt betrayed. I felt horrible. I felt so sad. I couldn't believe this. It wasn't true love. It was all my own fantasy.