I used to be minding my very own beeswax studying {a magazine} on the subway lately after I observed all these teenage women watching me. They whispered to one another, giggled, and pointed. Lastly, I caught my reflection in a window and discovered the reason for the hullabaloo.
Robert Pattinson, the vampire dude from Twilight, was on the quilt of Self-importance Honest.
What’s the massive whoop? Certain, Pattinson is beautiful in a James Dean knockoff manner. However due to him, legions of grownup girls and their daughters are fantasizing about waifish boys flying down from the skies to fang them within the craw. Boggles the thoughts.
Perhaps the vampire factor doesn’t do it for me as a result of I’ve hassle getting turned on by eventualities that would by no means occur. Or possibly as a result of I really dated a vampire.
Ivan was a darkly good-looking Jap European I met in Spain. As a doorman at Madrid’s skeeziest dive bar, he was first in an extended line of dumb romantic decisions I made while below the Iberian moon. I had no stable proof Ivan was a vampire, although there have been tell-tale indicators. His hometown was proper subsequent to Transylvania. He slept all day in a room with the curtains drawn and solely lived his life at evening. He preferred meat cooked so uncommon it may’ve sung present tunes earlier than he ate it. He pronounced “I need” like “I vant,” as in “I vant to suck your blood.” Eerie, eh?
However the strongest proof of Ivan’s vampire-ness was how possessive he was, how his affections invaded my soul, and the way decided he grew to become to empty the life out of me and make me his endlessly.
He wanted to see me on a regular basis, wanted to select at each seam of my psyche, wanted to share all his demons with me. Ivan was an vitality sucker, a soul sucker. A bloodsucker.
Ivan additionally had a secret life which, just like the dweeb in Twilight, he knew would put me at risk ought to or not it’s revealed. And so, our love may by no means really be.
I assume the entire forbidden love malarkey is what will get chicks all giddy about this newest vampire story. Screw that. Have you learnt what’s romantic and horny? Falling head over heels in love with somebody and having the possibility to be with them with out continuously battling obstacles. Like werewolves.
Or mafias. This was Ivan’s secret. He was within the friggin’ mob. I discovered when he obtained a name in the course of the evening after which left to “do a job” that required brass knuckles and a crowbar. He form of admitted his mafia ties when different irrefutable proof introduced itself. And I used to be the numbskull who caught round for some time to benefit from the thrill of all of it.
We wish to imagine there are deeper layers to life, hidden worlds the place unimaginable ardour and hazard lurk. If we’re particular, the creatures inhabiting these different worlds will allow us to in, thus main us to our personal darkish and horny locations.
I lingered in Ivan’s world of intense ardor and hazard as a result of I needed to change into extra alive. With him, I obtained a tour of my very own depths and noticed how fiery my emotions are, and the way impassioned my soul can get. Ivan led me to my very own darkish and horny locations, however they had been mine to find. And I haven’t left them since.
I definitely wouldn’t advocate anybody go on the lookout for a mafia boyfriend with a purpose to self-actualize. However I do pose a dare to all these Twilight followers. Go somewhat deeper. Perhaps put down the guide and step out of the theater. Intestine-wrenching ardour, spine-tingling eroticism, and soul-stirring intimacy don’t should be consigned to fantasy. You don’t want a vampire to make your blood sizzling. You simply want somewhat braveness.
Alex Alexander is a pseudonym. The creator of this text is understood to YourTango however is selecting to stay nameless.
