i own none of kim harrisons characters

Chapter One

Ivy and I were stood at the front entrance to the church trying to make it look as tho we were having a casual conversation on are steps, really we were waiting to catch a glimpse of the person orpersons who where moving in next door toKeasley and Ceri.

The moving van had turned up last night and unloaded all the furniture we'd watched like a pair of curtain twitching old ladies who were nosey as hell but it can't be helped nothing like a new neighbour to get the street gossiping but hey at least they wernt gossiping about Ivy, Jenks and me for a a change.

Ivy turned tome to speak "cars coming up should be round the corner any secound now,maybe its the new neighbours"

maybe I replied as the car came down the street.

A faded black oldish looking convertable pulled up in the driveway next door to Keasley,On closer inspection I noticed the stickers on the inside of the windows mostly of rock and punk bands.

The drivers side of the door opened followed by a a long slimleg wrapped in black jeans and some serious ass kicking boots, vamp made at my guess but a bitmore bikerish.

The leg was followed by the rest of a womans body thin but not sickly vampires shadow thin plus she didnt have the pale grey looking skin of a shadow obviously this was a sun lover by the golden tan.

The woman walked round to the passenger side of the car long wavy black hair to her waist swaying as she went,as she got round to the door she caught sight of me and Ivy gorping at her and threw up a smile then went to the opening the door to pull out a couple of boxes that were on the seat.

Two Days Later

Ceri sat at the kitchen table drinking her usual cup of tea while Jenks flittered round her head talking to her about the baby, Ceris 3 month old son Elias was taking a nap with Keasley watching over him across the road.

The baby was looked just like his mother he had her delicate features her fair skin and hair and beautiful green eyes.

"So you talked to your new neighbour yet" Jenks asked pulling me back to their conversation.

Ceri soon filled us in about the new neighbour although she herself hadnt spoken to her she told us Keasley had spoken to her a few times when she'd been in the garden, according to Keasley her name was Eden DiNovi her farther had died a few months ago leaving her everything and she had moved here.

"she's a witch too rachel maybe you two could become friends" Ceri chimed

"Yer Rach the two of you spell together you could teach her some of Al's lesson"Jenks said flying up to my face so i could the gleam of humour in his eyes.

"oh yer i could see that working, Hi my names Rachel would you like come over and learn some demon magic" I shot back at him

"well Keasley said she seems nice he said she is quite shy tho"

After Ceri had left i was stood at the sink cleaning the dishes and talking to jenks

"you know maybe we should invite Miss DiNovi for dinner or something ya'know do the neighbourly thing"i said more talking out load tomyself than to the pixy

jenks snorted laughter hit my ears " yer Ivy would jus loove that"

"What would i jus love?" Ivy asked as she walked into the kitchen.

Damn I hadnt even heard her come into the church .I looked from the sink to Ivy who stood in the doorway in her usualleather get up her jutting round her jawline.

"I was thinking of asking the new neighbour for dinner or something"

"Yer sounds good, how about tomorro night?" Ivy said as she sat at her place in front of the computer.

I nodded in agreement to Ivy and then filled her with the new local gossip passed on from Ceri

After i had taken the trash out i walked over to the house across the street to invite our new neighbour for dinner . I walked up the porch steps and went to knock on the front door jus as it opened.

"Saw you coming up the garden, didnt mean to startle you..sorry" The girl who opened the door was the same girl Ivy and I had seen get the car just up close she looked a lot younger than I first thought she was.

"No problem, my names Rachel Morgan I live across the street with my room-mates" i said takingin her apprance she was around my hight, Up close she had perfectly tanned gold skin with not a mark on it and huge vivid blue eyes and the ebony curtain of hair really made them stand out, great stuck between her and Ivy i was gonna feel like the ugly duckling

"Eden Dinovi " she replied moving to shake my hand with her long thin one.

she smiled at me showing me a nice set of pearly whites she did seem kinds nervouse of to , well Ceri dd say Keasley had told her she was a shy one

"I was just coming over to see if you would tocome for dinner tomorro about seven meet the new neighbours and that" i asked her giving her my warmest smile

Se seemed to think over what i'd just asked her and after a moment her face broke into another smile "I'd really like that,thanks I dont have any friends here so some company would be nice .

After some small talk with Eden on the step she invited me into her home aplogising for the mess as we walked to the back of the house to the kitchen for some coffee. I stayed talking to the girl for almost an hour when I said i had to head off home.

When i got back through to my own kitchen Ivy and Jenks where at the table ready to question me.

"so whats she like Rache, She good buddy material or what?"

I saw the quick look of jealousy on Ivys face as jenks darted round my head asking me his question. I gave her a small smilethen focused back to Jenks.

"She seems nice quite tho, she'scoming to dinner I invited Keasley and Ceri aswell but Ceri and Elias have a previouse appointment with trent" no doubt at one of his secret bio labs i thought to myself as fineshed the sentence.

Keasley was first arrive for dinner , After Ivy invited him in he handed her the bottle of wine he brought to go with the meal "Ceri sends her aplogies that she couldnt make it" he said as he took a seat in the sanctuary by the pool table.

The door bell rang again and again Ivy beat me to it. The way she was acting you'd think she was even excited about to tonight which was strange she never got excited over anything.

"Hi you must be Ivy, Rachels room-mate" i heard Eden say from the hall

"Yer hi you must be Eden, come on in everyone is in the sancuary" Ivys voice followed Edens

The two of them walked into the sancuary loking like they jus walked out of some photo shoot. Eden came over to hand me a another bottle of wine and said her hello's to everyone.

"OOOHH your the newbie then, I'm Jenks nice to meet you"

Eden recovered well from the shock of Jenks appearing a few inches from her face and managed to stammer an hello to him.

"Well we all know who's now, dinner will be ready in about twenty so any wanna a drink and a game of pool while we wait" i asked.

Keasley helped me with glasses of wine while Ivy and Eden racked up and Jenks bombarded the poor girl with question after question.

As we walked back in I heard Jenks ask a question that made me mentally cringe

" So Keasley said your dad died and you moved up here what about you mom, got any other family?".

I relised what Jenks had been doing with all his question he was intergating the poor woman

"Jenks, Jesus she'snot an assin, you dont have to answers his questions you know" I told her as i walked back in the room a threw Jenks a nasty look

"Yer jus ignore him if gets on your nerves we normally do" Ivy pipped up from over her side of the pool table

"shut it or I'll pix you Tamwood" Jenks shot back at Ivy

Eden just grinned at the scene in front of her and said she didnt mind answering

" I dont have any other family well except for an uncle but he's a bit of a bastard...I mean well he's just not a nice guy"

Eden went red in her cheeks and forehead as swore in front of us

"And my mom died giving birth to me, so was just me and dad. We both knew he was going to die tho he'd been sick for quite a while"

eden spoke to us all as she potted the ball she liningup on the table

"So how come you moved to cinci?" i asked making polite conversation

"I'm starting at the university in september so i was goingto be moving here anyway and after died dad I wasnt to keen on satying in the house we had alone and he left his money so i bought a place here, I decided ifi dont like here after uni i can sell up and move" she told me while lining up another shot .

"Your just starting uni huh?, that makes you what twenty?" Ivy asked

"twenty one " Eden replied

Eden and Ivy carried on the casual banter Keasley and me joining in but mostly listeningand watching thier pool game, I was more intrested in watching Ivy tho. She was clearly checking Eden out watching her instead of their pool game, Du'h why i had i not noticed this Ivy actually agreed to have some one over for dinner and had been semi excited all day , Jesus she liked Eden. I tried to surpressed my grin to myself but Ivy saw and a looked from Eden to her and gave a her a wink and i swear to god i saw the woman actually blush .

An hour later we were all sat in the kitchen making are way thru dinner and talking mostly about Eden(who seemed to be getting a little drunk off the wine, proberbly because Ivy kept refilling the glasses evry time they were half empty). I decided I liked Eden the girl was funny and the wine she drank the more we noticed she had as much as a mouth as Jenks did, Eden told us she had a gotton a job ata bar downtown n said we should come down when she was working and she'd slip us drinks. Turns out she's been in cincy for two weeks looking at places to buy.

By the end of the meal i was really enjoying myself hell even Ivy was , but mostly i think because she had parked herself next to Eden and kepy accidently brushing her arm or hip, Eden didnt seem to mind tho I swear she even smiled a couple of times when Ivys arm brushed her own. Maybe there was something here or maybe it was the wine either way the evening was going great even Keasley was loosing up a bit .

Then it hit me the smell of burnt ember , Oh shiti said in my head as i turned to see the figure in the green velveteen coat stood at far end of my kitchen

"Evening Ms Morgan" a cold english accent drawled out

"Fuck is that goddamn demon" Eden said from behinde my turned head

Let me know what you think,sorry its kinda slow its my first story so do let me know what you think

cheers x