His unfailing promises

Sitting in front of a large mirror was a girl wearing a dress that had the color of blood. It was a beautiful dress but the color was terrifying!

She had short red hair and clear brown eyes. She looked at her reflection and touched her hair.

"Is this my natural hair color?" She asked, no one in particular and suddenly, a hand was placed on her shoulder.

It was a white haired man with blood red eyes and a horn sticking out of his head on the left side. He was a demon! 

"It's not!" He said with a polite smile.

"You're...? "

"I haven't introduced myself yet but that's not what is important right now!" He looked into the mirror with her. "You don't remember anything yet, do you?" She shook her head. "Well, it can't be helped!" He let go and walked to her front, blocking her view of the mirror. "I'll help you remember, like I promised!" He smiled and pressed his index finger on her forehead. "This will take a while!"

************(Flash back)************

"Haah! Haah! Haah!" Susan kept panting as she ran through the endless and dark forest with only the moon to light her path.

She couldn't make out anything other than the fact that she was in the woods and something was chasing her.

She kept running because she couldn't stop. If she did, 'it' would catch her. But what was it?

What was chasing her? It had a formless dark figure with glowing red eyes. It chased her deep into the forest but had no thought of catching her.

It really felt like, it only needed her to run. Keep running and never stop.

'Why? Why is it chasing me?' Susan thought with tears gushing out her eyes and spreading with the wind.

She was scared and just wanted to get away from it, why was it so difficult to escape?

She got to a lake and stopped. The moon reflected it's rays on the lake, causing it to glow.

It would've appeared beautiful if she wasn't running for her life. She took in a few breath before daring to look back.

Her pursuer seemed to have given up but as soon as she turned her head towards the lake, she met it's bloody red eyes. Startled, she woke up.

Susan opened her sharp brown eyes but they didn't look so sharp. They looked scared and afraid.

She kept panting and grabbed her chest. Her heart was unsteady and her entire body was covered in cold sweat.

"It was a nightmare. Just a nightmare!" She assured herself and pushed the strands of black hair behind her ears.

She couldn't get rid of the fright that accompanied the nightmare, no matter how much she assured herself

Those bloody red eyes haunted her and she didn't think she could close her eyes.

"Get it together Susan, it's not real. It was just a nightmare!" She kept telling herself and sighed.

Her room was poorly lit but her windows were open yet, it felt like she was suffocating in her room.

She wasn't one to easily have nightmares and even if she did, she could always brush it aside by the morning but this time, it felt so real to the extent that she could still feel the branches from the forest, brushing roughly against her skin.

"What am I thinking about now? I shouldn't think too much, today's the day!" She flopped on her bed but didn't dare to close her eyes.

Susan, being a good daughter, agreed to get married to her betrothed. It was true that arranged marriages were uncommon in the present age and time but, some families still held on to it. Like her family.

They had her betrothed to a man when she was just 8 years old. She couldn't refuse as she concidered her family's condition.

Her father owned a small business and was in need of investors. This marriage would not only help his business out but would tie her family to a great family as the Esclairs, which had been in existence for decades. So it was more like getting sold.

Other than that, she still didn't know if her soon to be husband was actually still young as the rumors said or if he was actually a perverted old man.

"I'm going to miss you!" Katherina, Susan's younger sister, wailed.

She wore a pink floral dress just for the occasion of saying goodbye but, she couldn't stop herself from crying.

Susan had two younger siblings, Lucas and Kathrina.

Lucas was the first and only son while Katherine was the last.