House of Night:

Chosen (alternate)

This is written in Zoey's point of view and set in Chosen (book 3) after Eric becomes a full adult vampyre.

Everyone had left and was I could feel the excitement that had radiated from Eric's transformation into an adult vampyre. I turned around and had to breathe in and out. Within seconds I was kneeling on the floor and crying. He had changed just when we where starting to be properly together. Now he would have to leave and we would break up. "Are you ok?" a voice said coming from the door. I couldn't answer because I was crying or even look up but the hands belonging to the voice helped me up. "Come on, let's go to my room and get you a nice hot drink of tea" the voice said in its lovely British accent. I knew at that instant it was Loren Blake, he must have known something was wrong when I wasn't jumping for joy over Eric becoming a full vampyre.

He led me up the spiral stairs holding my side to support me because of my crying fit. When we got inside his room he sat me down on a comfy light blue chair and went off to make some tea. His room was beautiful. The main colour theme was blue. He had beautiful furniture. His bed was right by the window but centre of the room was where I was sat. There where two chairs positioned wither side of a small coffee table (I was sat on one) and all over the walls where books looking both new and ancient. I noticed Dracula and smiled. It was my favourite book ever and he had it in his room. I went over to it and started to read and started to feel a little more at ease. "Here's your tea." He said handing me a hot mug of a golden looking drink. "Drink it. Back in England a lot of people think that a nice cup of tea is just what a person needs when they are upset." We moved back to the coffee table and chairs. The drink tasted sweet and really milky but I did not see how it could make a person feel better (especially how upset I was). "Tell me what's wrong. It will be between me and you."

"It's Erik. He's going to have to leave the House of Night now and I don't want that because that means he'll be leaving me." I said feeling the tears well up again.

"He might still care for you."

"I know but he'll meet and adult vampyre and forget about me or lose interest at the least. He's already paranoid with me and Heath because of the stupid blood-bond thing."

"How could he lose interest in you?" Loren said calmly. "Have you not seen yourself? You are blessed beyond what any vampyre has been in all of history. He'd be a fool to let someone like you go." Loren moved closer to me so our faces where only a few centimeters apart. "If I had you as my partner I would not let you even know these feelings of doubt." He said in a whisper.

What?

Loren moved even closer so our noses where the only things keeping us apart. He gently whiped away all of my tears with his hands and once he was finished I moved them away and kissed him gently on the lips. He returned the kiss first very gentle but then a lot more passionate. I didn't want him to stop and thank god he didn't as he was such a great kisser- Erik had nothing on him.

A few minutes passed. We had moved over to the bed and he I lay down underneath him. We had carried on kissing until he had lifted up my top. "What's wrong?" Loren asked kissing my neck seductively. I didn't know what to say to him. "We can stop if you want." I kissed him again and took off his shirt, the rest of our clothes did not even last seconds and where on the floor faster than I could click. I was underneath him and had given him everything. Once we where done he stayed on top of me. "We need to get rid off that blood-bond." He said kissing my forehead. He cut s small line on his chest with his fingernail and told me to drink which I did. I did the same and then we just lay next to each other.